The School helper, 1943 - 1944

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Walter Johnson

Mary Baker

Gertrude Hixson

Patsy Baker

Carlton Huff

Mary Frances Bates

Louis Keaton

Frances Bartlett

Etta Lee Kilgore

Louida Benson

Catherine Langel'

Eva Bragdon

Willene Letson

Maudene Bridges

Olin Love

Tom Byrd . __.

Friedson Odom

Boyce Carson

Mack Padgett

Pauline Childers

A. D. Ray

Ulysses Collins

Vera Reeder

Ruth Cook

Bobby Rose

Bobby Davis

Carlton Scurry

Bobby DeLoach

Joyce Sellers

Alton Dominey

Roscoe Singletery

Hope Ellis

Albert Lee Smith

Alice Edmonson

Wylodean Spells

Billie Ethridge

James Sharpton

Herbert Fuqua

Edward Stanford

Joseph Gillespie

nlattie Suggs

Ralph Gentry

Elizabeth Thompson

Mary Godwin

Louise Walters

Bobby Gorman

Jewell Wilson

THE SCHOOL HELPER

Volume 44

CAVE SPRING, GEORGIA, OCTOBER, 1943

No. 1

Post..War Employment ot the Deaf

GEORGE LAVOS M.A.

Guidance Director, Michigan School, Flint, Michigan

N o ONE will question the fact mentally this is not the question of industry, the public will take every that the rolls of the deaf em- whether we shall have full employ- step to prevent large-scale, simul-

ployed in industry are steadily :nent in the United States after the t:mcous termination of employ-

mounting. From all sources corne war, it is not whether we shall ment but different segments of the reports of deaf men and women have production to meet pent-up population will be unemployed

finding their places in the program consumer demands, or whether we from time to time as the plant in

of production for victory. News- shall see the growth of new indust- which it was employed converts to
papers of schools carry longer and tries. * These questions are for the peace-time production. Individual

longer reports of placements in the economists, the statesmen, and the plant shut-downs seem unavoidaircraft industry, the tank industry, industrialists to answer. We who able although large-scale un-

the rubber industry, and so forth. work with the deaf have our own employment can be averted.

Reports of the various state voca- questions to ask and our own ways

This period of temporary

tional rehabilitation services in- to seek answers to them.

unemployment, a period which

creasingly indicate a greater number Our fundamental question is: seems unavoidable for individuals

of rehabilitations into war produc- Will the present gains in breaking in war production, is very impor-

tion. Private and public employ- down objections to hiring the deaf tant, for it may mark the exit of

ment agencies announce increasing be maintained after the war? To numbers of deaf workers from tb.: placements of the handicapped, present an answer to this question, ranks of tbe employed. Certainly

including the deaf. Manufacturers an answer limited by our present it is hoped that these conversion

in their periodicals report "experi- knowledge, misguided by our fears, periods will mark the exit, from

ments" in the successful use of deaf and inflated by our hopes, we the immediate, post-war labor

and other handicapped persons. should analyze post-war employ- market, of many of the women.

Our popular periodicals carry ac- ment for the deaf and for other of the older people called from re-

counts of "rehabilitation clinics" handicapped groups.

tirement, of young people called

designed to find new manpower

POST-WAR EMPLOYME T

from the schools. But we do not

for the f~ctories fr0f!l the ranks of

Just as there was a period of want it to mark the exit of the

the phYSically ha~dlcapped.,

conversion to war production, it deaf from the ranks of those whom

No data are avatlable companng will be necessary to have a conver- the employers will considerately pla~emen.t records of the present ~ion to peace production. Pleasure and impartially weigh for hiring. penod wlth.that of the first World cars, radios, lipstick, silk stockings Jn fact the theme of these rellect-

War. Certamly our schools and cannot be made with the same dies, ions is the steps we can take to other agencies are better geared to patterns, and tools which pro- prevent their ever entering the post-

serve the demands of employers duced war material. Assuredly war labor market.

for manpower. 't!ndou,btedly our attempts. at pub~lc enl~ghtenment arc ~eanng fcult. ~lthout any questIOn t~e deaf are Just as eager
to serve their country as workers as they w~re be~ore. We. can forget
compansons III the hght of the

steps will be taken to prevent the post-war conversion from developjng into a depression by staggering plant conversion periods, contracting for post-war armaments,
governmental financing of the retooling of industry, dismissal

Coincident with the change-over to peace-time production, patriotic pressures to usc all possible manpower will be considerably reduced. Our life-and-death struggle
will be over and, just as after any evere emotional experience, there

fact that. the deaf a!e accepted. wages. retention of a standing i a let-down in feelings,' The almost without question, as cap- army, industrial preparatory steps rnemy without is vanquished; old

able workers at present.

by manufacturers' associations. fears, dislikes, and prejudices reas-

Probably lur~ing in the back- These steps and the many others ume their former sttengthS,

ground of the mlllds of those who which will be taken will not ob- Sellers of products will have to assist the deaf into war jobs, or uiate the need for each plant to go shift from a stead 5' government

Ihos.e who. know ,of deaf persons indiuidually through a conuersion market to a dormant public marfindlllg thel: own Jobs, .or the deaf "criod. The government. private keto People may not plunge"intt>

themselves IS the question: What *"From War to Work," Survey J buying spr e to make up for the

will bappen after the war? Funda- Graphic. 32 :149-243, 1943.

'",ants of hree or four rationed

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October, 1943

years fearing a return of the depression of the '30's.
Not only will the sales market of the manufacturers be in an unsettled condition but the labor market itself in which the deaf will have to compete for jobs with other handicapped and with the physically normal will be in a turmoil. There are several groups who will compete for Jobs with the deaf who suffer lay-offs in conversion. The demobilized armed forces will be one. The government will assuredly plan demobilization to coincide with industrial plans; however, plans in the aggregate do not always help the specific individual. Pressure groups among the former soldiers will arise, if past wars are any criterion. Employers feel obligated toward former members of the armed forces not only to re-hire their former workers but to employ others as well. While the government will probably gradually terminate its ordnance production, there will be at anyone time many demobilized war workers. Retraining and then employment will be needed for these. There will be the normal increment in the labor market, our present high-school freshmen and sophomores. The workers who migrated from adjacent countries will either have to return or remain and compete with native Americans for jobs. There may be a residue of women and younger workers who left school, a residue which finds work more attractive than housework or the resumption of studies after the taste of indep{:ndence through a job. There will be those who have seniority dating from pre-war days.
And finally, the deaf who are being placed now in war work will have to compete with the handicapped-to-come. These future handicapped persons are the disabled members of the armed forces, those disabled at present in industry, those disabled by diseases brought about by the war and its strain, and possibly civilian defense workers permanently injured in air raids. And the regular causes of deafness, of blindness, of crippling conditions are not less. They

will continue to con tribute their quota. While the deaf have their own liabilities and assets, in the employers' eyes they are often regarded as members of the larger group, the handicapped. This fact of public attitude, not the wishes of the deaf, their true capacities, the ideas of workers serving them, must be remembered. And so it will be necessary for the deaf to compete for jobs with other handicapped people as well as with normal people. Competition with other handicapped will be made even more keen by the fact that many of the latter may have got their defects in the war. "Sorry, but we already have our share of the war disabled" may become a common expression.
In the midst of these forcesretooling, demobiliz'ation. refinancing of industry-the deaf will be laid off for conversion periods. Will they, when peace-time production returns, be re-hired in competition with returned soldiers, men with seniority rights of long standing, war disabled. the normal increment in the labor market?
STEPS TO TAKE
What are the steps we can take so that the deaf can continue to hold their own in competitive work after the war? What can we do now to keep the door open after the war?
One.-First our guidance, in whatever form it takes, should concentrate on providing workers for essential civilian occupations. In the rush for the glamor of working on tanks, guns. and planes the lowly shoe, the grimy underside of a car on a hoist. the loaf of bread in a home-coming shopper's bab the worn workclothes in the plant locker that need replacement, the dirty dishes in the hospital kitchen must not be forgotten. They need making, repairing. service. care; they are as much a part of war as the bomb sight: maybe not so important singly but in the aggregate they maintain our workers In the war effort. The deaf have worked in these and similar occupations; they should continue.
The importance of essential
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livilian jobs is well testified to by recen t changes in Selective Servic~ Regulations relative to agricultural workers. Guidance into essential civilian jobs rather than the
purely war production job will maintain the flow of services.
Surely it is vital to maintain properly the fourteen to fifteen
men who are now needed to supply
the soldier on the battlefield. By securing and holding essential ci-
,'ilian jobs. the deaf are demonstrating their capacities in jobs
which are a normal complement of
the every-day working world. The
Jobs they hold in civilian production do not require any special
handling which is sometimes the case with production in connection
with the war because of the relatively inexperienced work force.
The deaf, too, then may have jobs that will continue through the
conversion period into peace-time production without interruption.'"
Two.-In the definition of vocational guidance. selection of a job objective is the first step. We have
discussed the desirable type of selection for post-war security. The
step which follows closely upon a vocational decision is training for
the job selected. How can we in nur vocational training help the deaf though conversion to a per-
manent status in industry? I t is easy today to place the
young men and women who leave
our schools. The ease of placement may tempt us to send some of our
*Manpower needs differ greatly in different parts of the country. In some there are shortages; in others, adequate supplies. Our specific guidance must be tempered by local needs. Where choice exists, counseling should be along the lines of developing skills on jobs that are likely to continue after the war. The fact of possible similarity of duties in the purely war production job and the essential civilian job must be integrated into the guidance program. Schools for the deaf- and especially those with vocational training program- cover states, not narrow localities. Some parts of the state may be critical areas, others not. Counseling in terms of the community in which the youth is to live is the key. It must be remembered that what is presented here are general principles. not specific recommendations for John or Mary.

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October, 1943

pupils out on jobs comparatively early in their vocational training. Drop-outs of the less successful increase and we do little or nothing to get them back into school. though we know their vocational skills are limited.
Discussing post-war emplo~' ment in the metal trades Mr. A. F. Hinrichs, chief of the U. S. Bureau
of Labor Statistics. states: *
It is in these trades that the largest net shrinkages are to be anticipated in industrial employment. Under these circumstances the man who will be well equipped in the metalwerking tl'ades is the journeyman and not the person who has learned to work a drill press or a turret lathe or to perform some simple operation. The single operation individual will be enormously handicapped.
And we may add doubly handicapped if he is also deaf!
We should not let down the standards of completeness in our shops. Required sequences should still be required. Efforts must be made to hold students to completion of basic training. Up-grading of teachers, of equipment, of curricula, and co-ordination with industry should continue.
We have toyed probably with the idea of adding to our vocational curricula courses in plastics, prefabrication, and the other envisionings of futuristic production. As one commentator puts it: They are "pencil dreams" of post-war products. Pseudo-intellectual newspapers and magazines Larry spreads about our postwar world-with the years after the termination of hostilities conveniently excluded, that period which is crucial in the continued employment of the deaf. The first car off the assembly line after peace will be close to a '42 model. The demands will be too great, the tools and gigs too convenient, the public too unprepared by advertising, the servicemen too untutored in new parts and motors for manufacturers to make any radical departures from earlier patterns. Not only will the products in the immediate post-war world
*Hinrichs, A. F.. "Labor Supply
Problems Affect Post-War Planning," Occupations, 21 :c41-c45, 1943, citation on page c44.

be similar to the '41 and '42 models but the general pattern of work opportunities will not be widely different in the immediate post-war period from the pattern in 1941 and 1942."* Thus we need not fear that the required pattern of vocational training should be greatly changed after the war. Our vocational courses should be strengthened, not changed.
Three.-Several schools are taking an active part in placing graduates and drop-outs. Specialists for the deaf are appearing in the various state vocational rehabilitation ser-
ices. Some of the state departments of labor have special diviions for the deaf. The focus of their programs is placement, placement in a job in industry or business.
What kind of placements should be made? Where should we seek
ur openings? We get many calls f rom employers. We try to fill the more desirable of these calls, the more necessary. Besides wages, hours, stability of company, need for a placement in that particular shop, requests on the part of our clients for jobs, we have three other gauges to use:
1. Is it a job in the war effort ~ 2. Is it an essential civilian job? 3. And finally, how easily can its production program be converted to peace-time uses? Some plants nave not converted their equipment to war production: they have merely changed buyers. Clothiers, canners, medical suppliers and many others merely increased output and changed from public to governmental buyers. Other industries converted by removing all equipment leaving only the walls, the hoists, and the heating system. The differences in the post-war conversion periods are immediately apparent. We should place in those industries with a minimum of conversion to peace-time production. This will lessen the chances of having our deaf people laid off into a labor market crowded with
*Kirkpatrick, F. R., "Realism in Post-War Thinking," Occupations, 21 :605-07, 1943, citation on page 607.
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competitors for Jobs. Unionism with its rules on who
can hold a job should enter ou'r thinking about placement. If we place into highly unionized industries. we "face the problem of getting the deaf into the unions. A t present we do not know of an y difficulties but there may be-when jobs are scarce and war pressures removed. Furthermore, seniority ru(ings mean that the recently hired in a plant are the first discharged and the last recalled.
It may be that the company is only temporarily relaxing its phy, sical standards: in a way the placement is experimental, temporary until a "more desirable" labor is available.
Four.-Our young man or woman, adequately trained as an all-around worker, is safely placed in an essential civilian job. The conversion problems of his plant will be limited. Do the services we can render him for his post-war security cease? Have we done everything?
Follow-up to insure satisfaction to employer and employee is as much a part of our program of insurance for the future as an y other service we render . We gain nothing if the youth quits, if the employer fires him within a few days. And assuredly the two principal characters lose. Following up our placement is a necessary policy because a separation of worker and employer is a blow against our war effort. just as much as guidance into a non-essential job. Placements must stick a reasonable time.
Follow-up is not only insurance for the youth we served but for those who follow. A personal relationship has been established between an employer and a representative of organized effort to place the deaf. This may be helpful in the periods to follow.
And Some Final Steps.-These are some of the services that we can render our deaf youth in following through the vocational guidance steps of deciding upon an occupation, preparing for it, entering upon it. and making progress
Continued on page eleven

From the Prilnary Department

The baby class was the center of interest on the day school opencd and everybody was peeking in to see what they were doing. The general opinion seemed to be that they were exceptionally wel~ behaved for beginners, and t~IS made it possible for us to begm actual school work even more quickly than we expected.
The beginners spent the first few days working with sensetraining material which has the happy faculty of being work without the child's having an idea that he isn't playing games. At first all the new pupils worked together. There was quite a roomful and we two teachers were kept rather busy. We were interested in noticing which material each chIlJ selected as his favorite "toy."
Mary Alice Jones, Jimmil Screw, and etheara Mobley eemed to prefer the cy linders Raymond Murkerson. an:! Catherine Smith enjoyed strlngmg beads. Willis Joe Knott, Curti Askew, and Terrell Leverett liked to make designs on the pegboards. Doris Jones Jean Barrett, and Betty Ann Chadwick selected geometrical designs to draw around an~ ((Ilor. B ttie Ruth Baxley, Katie Ma(: Rogers, and Mary Lee Johnson chose matching pictures and charts. Ronald Bell, Brooks Blanken;,hip, and James Pope were good at jud~ ing the weighted balls. Wonl11e McCoy could build tbe to~ers very quickly, and Joan Allen liked weaving best of all.
Shelva Jean White has had trouble with her eyes and we will have to wait a little while to find out just what she will enjoy most.
Emma Lee Highno!e's Class Jim Jew/')S Class
Cecil Cox is in the dormitory upstairs this year. Dean Green is his supervisor.
Dan Jones likes to help in the classroom. He passes the paper and pencils.
Clara Stapler went to town with her class one Friday. She bought a candy bar.
Marshall Harper is the first in
his class to celebrate a birthda r

this year. His birthday is Septema 22. He had a birthday cake with Landles on it.
Franklin Dyess bought a tablet and pencil when he went to town one day.
Jewell Henderson can dust nicely. She dusts the desk and chairs in the classroom.
Grace Roberts is good in school. he wants to learn fast.
Jean Rentz and Louise 1runt like to go to town on Fridays. They watch the calendar and count the days from Monday till Friday.
-Ruth Forbes's Class
The children in our class are happy to be back in school. The brightest spot in returning to the classroom was having desk chairs instead of the small chairs they bad as beginners. We have a new room, too.
The class is composed mostly of boys, Rube Collins, Junior Galloway, Bobby Davis, Andrew Lee Harrison, William Langford, Jerry Nix, and Gary Yassney. There are three girls now. Dorothy
nderson came Friday, and the other two are Betty Pharr 'and Sarah Christopher.
-Mabel Fincher's Clas~
We went to town Friday morning. Neal, Daisy, R. T., Ford, Virginia, Dorothy, Jerry, and Claude bought some candy.
Claude. Roy, and Jerry got haircuts Friday afternoon.
Virginia got a card Monday morning. Daisy got a card, too. Virginia got a letter and a box from her mamma and daddy Monday afternoon. She gave us some little cakes.
Virginia got another box Wednesday morning. She got some cake, some cookies, a box of marshmallows, and some funny books.
Tarver and Fleming like to clra wand color.
-Gladys Clark's Class
Two new pupils have been added to our class this year. They :Ire Eugene Forrest and Clarence Rainwater.
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Clarence got a letter Tuesday. Shirley got a letter, too.
Cynthia got 'a card Thursday. Eugene got a card, too.
Harold got a card Friday. -Miriam Minter's Class
We went to town Friday. We bought some candy. Anne bought a pencil.
Saturday was Guy's birthday. He got a birthday card from his mother.
Tuesday was Gene's birthday. He got a box from home.
Betty got a box, too. Louise got a card.
Gail got a letter from home Wednesday. Her daddy sent her twenty-five cents.
Wynell pulled her tooth Thursday.
We went to the hospital. Miss Payne weighed us
-Frances Little's Class
The children are all happy to be back in school and are now ready to start the new term in earnest. Frances Tatum, Juanice Dukes, Frances Cox, Vivian Turner, Fay Johnson, Rosemary Smith, Ann Thompson, Louise Murphy, and Martha Maxey feel as though the most important thing in their lives has just taken place. They hav~ been moved upstairs to the big girls' dormitory, and do they feel grown up. As Louise Boyd was older, she moved upstairs last year.
Robert Wooten didn't come back to school until last Sunday. Up until that time Eugene Baggett was the onl y boy in our class.
This is Mary Ann Durrence' ~ first year in our school, and we ar~ \"ery glad to have her in our class.
-Jessie Jones's Class
Billie Jean, Ruth, Mary Ann, Edna, Jene, Marvin, and Vinton returned to school with unusual eagerness this fall.
Dorothy and W. C. did not come until Sunday.
Jene left us Monday. She is now in Mrs. Carpenter's class.
Mary came Thursday. Ralph
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From the Intermediate Department

Mary Godwin visited her aunt and
uncle in Valdosta the sixth of June. Charles Stokes worked in the mill
in Lindale, Ga. all summer. He worked seven days a week.
Pauline Childers visited her aunt in Atlanta. She enjoyed her visit there.
Bobby Davis went to work at the Merita Bakery in Atlanta the seventh
of June. He worked six nights a week
until the thirtieth of August. Lewis Tucker didn't come back to
school last year because he worked on a farm to help win the war. Last Bummer he picked cotton and
peanuts. He is glad to be back at
Bchool again. Clarence Highfield likes to read.
He read ten stories last summer. He
chopped wood for his family, too. Wylodean Spell's cousin went to see
Maudene Bridges one day in August. Billy Adams worked in a print
shop in Decatur for six weeks last
summer. He lived with Elliott James-
on during that time. Carlton Huff went to see Loraine
Kicklighter one Friday last month. Lorraine lives on a large farm. He looked at the peanuts, cotton. corn,
tobacco, and the other crops. Another time he visited Jannie Smith.
James Vickers's grandfather, Mr.
J. W. Vickers. Sr., came to see James during August. He went around
the farm and looked at all the farm
animals. Doyle Norris plowed and harrowed
with a mule on his grandfather's farm last summer. He helped work
in the tomatoes and cabbage, too. Mary Moon's Aunt Dorothy came
to visit her the eleventh of September. They went to see Mary's grandmother who gave her a quarter. She
told Mary to write to her. Gertrude Hixson went to Tybee
,"ith her aunt's friend one day last
lsummer. Gertrude can swim and she f:njoyed the ocean. She liked to watch the waves break on the sand.
Mary Baker met her cousin,
Louise Baker. in Atco, Ga. one afternoon last summer. Lo.uise said
that Mary was a great big girl. Wilma Whaley and two of her
isters went to see Jannie Smith one day last summer. They went to the
show together. Duwayne Dukes drove a tractor
,~ith a disc harrow for his daddy many times last summer. He liked
to drive it. James Hattrich went swimming
with Elaine Pannal one day last summer. They had a fine time in
the water. Frank Tyndall was a painter last
summer. He worked in Macon. He earned forty-two dollars a week. He went fishing sometimes, too.
Hope Ellis worked on his father's
farm last summer. He went to 'the

movies every Saturday. He went swimming, too.
Brinkley Smith went to Athens in July to visit. After thai he went to Commerce. He did not know Joseph Gillespie's address, After he went heme, his father told him that he \ 'ould try to find the addres .
Mrs. Brannan and her family went to visit Sue's Aunt Barbara and her cousin. They stayed there two \veeks. One day they had a fine picnic.
Grace Sharp vi ited her cousin in Jacksonville, Florida during August. ~he bought several new kirts and blouses there.
The twenty-second of August Georgia Hargrove went to see her sister's new baby. It was a cute little boy. Later Stella brought the baby to Georgia's home for a visit.
Alton Holman visited his aunt in Eirmingham in June. The rest of the summer he delivered gl'oceries for Mr. Griffith in Cave Spring.
Junior Culber on came back \,0 school this term. All hi friends were glad to see him. He enjoys school better than staying at home because he has many friends here. He was ill in Atlanta for three years.
William Bell worked in the cannery at Cave Spring all summer. He went home for a visit before school
opened. A. D. Ray went to Savannah to
see his cousin. One day he aw an airplane drop a bomb. It scared l:im. Six soldiers were killed.
Thelma Holloway went to see her sister in Cincinnati, Ohio in July. She wanted Thelma to go to chool there, but Thelma did not want to do it. She returned to Moultrie the
thirtieth of August. George Vaughn visited hi cousin
in Franklin, Georgia the twentyeight of August. He enjoyed his vi it very much.
Beth oblitt's family went to heI brother-in-Iaw's funeral in 'lacon. He was killed in an automobile accident in Spencer, Massachusetts.
Raymond Baker enjoyed his summer at home. He helped his family
and had lots of fun, too. Last winter Jack Calloway's father
moved to Manchester. Jack liked his new home very much. One day he saw Roscoe Dukes who was surprised to see him. Jack's father gave him a little brown and white puppy. Jack named him Bobby and played with him every day.
Herbert White enjoyed his vacatic.n very much. He learned about many new things. He likes to read,
too. Mary Roberts went to Perry to see
her aunt one day in June. She wanted to see Betty Sue but she could not find her.
John Hanell' brothel' is a soldier.
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He was horne on a furlough in June.

He gave John one hundred dollars.

His father put it in the bank for

him.

Beecher, Spence went swimming

and fishing'-last ummel'. One day

he caught two very large fish in a

big river in Alabama. Then hi

family had a big fish dinner.

John Mock went swimming every

day last summer. The boys tried to

c'tch him, but he got away und l'

the water. He played that he wa

an alligator. It was lots of fun.

Billy Hayes's family went to

Dothan, labama in June to see his

grandmother. They stayed with' her

for two days. Billy went fishing and

caught four fish.

Wylodean Spells and her family

went to ashville, Georgia to ee

her aunt. uncle, and cousins. They

all had some homemade ice cream.

Janie Elder took a trip to South

Georgia with her aunt and uncle.

They had a fine time. They spent

one night with her aunt's sister.

Her Uncle Edgar gave Janie orne

ice cream. Later Janie saw Virginia

Ray in Atlanta.

Bud Little stayed in Atlanta with

his Uncle John and Uncle Frank for

t.hree week. Boe, Jack, and Bud

went swimming in the pool. Some

boys and girl lost some money in

the water. Boe dived and found

forty-five cents.

I got a box from Mother this

morning. She sent me a coat.

-Tom Byrd

We went to town Tuesday aft 1'-

nOon. I bought some icecream and

candy.

-Pat y Baker

The girls practiced volley ball

yesterday afternoon. The boys prac-

ticed football.

-Alice Edmonson

Lester was sick yesterday. He went

to the hospital. He is well today.

-John Pate

We played in the yard yesterday

afternoon.

-Loi Martin

Lois and I went to town one after-

noon. I bought some stamps.

-Elizabeth Thomp on

The boys took exercise yesterday

afternoon.

-Lester Smith

Mattie Sugg came back to school

Wednesday. The girls were glad to

'ee her.

-Louise Walters

I got a card from Mother yester-

day. Tom got a card from his mother.

too.

-Bobby Gorman

I like to work on the farm.

-Edward Morri'

We played football ye terday after-

noon.

-Lindbergh AI'mour

We pitched hay yesterday after-

1,00n, vVe carried potatoes up to "he

hay I ft.

-Phillips He ter

I go to school in the morning. I

work on the farm in the aftem on.

-Albert Lee Smith

I work in the machine shop every

.,fternoon.

-Ellinson Smith

THE SCHOOL HELPER

October, 1943

THE SCHOOL HELPER
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Vol. 44

OCTOBER. 1943

No.1

CHANGES IN OUR STAFF

the work at the Georgia School for the Deaf both pleasant and profitable.
The prospect of opening school with a large percent of our experienced teachers leaving us and a group of young women new to the work coming in to fill their places gave us a few restless nights, but now that school has started and they are becoming accustomed to the work we are surprised at the readiness with which the change was made. The new teachers express surprise and gratification at finding the deaf work very similar to public school work. They have adjusted themselves quickly and satisfactorily.
We were most fortunate in finding a group who are deeply interested in the new type of work they are undertaking. They came to us highly recommended and are already proving their worth. They were successful public school teachers and we feel that it is not too early to predict that they will make successful teachers of the deaf.

LIKE every other school in the country the Georgia School for the Deaf has suffered many casualties in our personnel and when school opened in September a number of new faces were seen among our faculty. The new teachers, whom we are pleased to welcome, include Mrs. Dorothy Henderson and Mrs. Frances Little of Cornelia. Ga. Mrs. Mary P. Turner of Temple, Ga., Miss Polly Shahan of Lafayette, Ga., Mrs. Maude Welch and Mrs. Miriam Minter of Cave Spring, Miss Stella Steele of Summerville, Ga., Miss Viola McMichen of Hiram. Ga., and Mr. and Mrs. Olaf Tollefson recently of Florida. All of them with the exception of Mr. and Mrs. Tollefson and Miss McMichen, have been engaged in public school work prior to training during the past summer for teaching the deaf. Mr. Tollefson was connected with our school for several years but last year went to the Florida School. Mrs. Tollefson before her marriage had a position at the Alabama School. Miss McMichen was graduated from the Berry Schools in June.
Those who have left us to seek other work are Miss Katharine Casey, who has been appointed supervising teacher of the primary department in the Arkansas School. Miss Kathryn Watson and Miss Juliet McDermott, who left us to teach in the Missouri School, Miss Margaret Paris, now teaching in the Minnesota School, and Mrs. Gladys Carpenter, who resigned to accept a position in the Cherokee County School system in Alabama. Mrs. Carpenter has been substituting during the first weeks of school while her school has been closed, in the place of Miss Elise Sawyer, who is at home because of illness. Mrs. Fern Parks, Mrs. Gladys Caswell, and Mrs. Mary Alice Mathias have resigned to be at home this year.
To those who have left us, we wish you good luck and much success. We hope that the "greener pastures" may prove just as alluring at close range as they appeared from a distance. And to those who come to take the places left vacant, we hope that you will find

TO THE PARENTS
WE ARE continuing our policy of sending a copy of the first issue of the School Helper to the parents of each child in school. We hope by this means to better acquaint you. especially those of vou who have a child hera for the first time, with our school and the things we do here to make not only a good school but a good home for your child.
We would like to call the attention of the parents to the importance of notifying the school immediately of any change of address.
The School Helper is published each month during the school year. We endeavor to vary the contents to cover all activities of the school and to include news of local interest concerning the pupils. If you care to subscribe and receive the Helper each month the subscription price of 50 cents may be sent to the Editor or to Mr. Hollingsworth.
THE SALE OF WAR BONDS AND STAMPS
A L THOUGH we had been in session only two weeks at the time the Third War Loan Drive closed the Georgia School for the Deaf was able to report a total of $1,262.15 in bonds and stamps after our chapel program on September 30. Much credit is due the freshman class in the High School department who sponsored the drive. They personally contacted every teacher and officer on the campus for pledges. \Vith their teachers they decorated the chapel beautifully with bunting and flags and invited the postmaster, Mr. Sewell, to be present and sell bonds and stamps.
The response was very gratifying with a large percent of those present in chapel buying to the best of their ability. The little boys and girls who came for~ard with their dimes and quarters were doing theIr part Just as much as those who were able to buy bonds.

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Superintendent's Corner

Perry Lakes OLDTIMERS

around Cave Spring will be interested in the announcement that the State Board of Education

has leased to Mr. A. W. Ledbetter of Ledbetter-Johnson Contractors, Rome, Georgia, the old Perry Lakes, together with a small adjacent acreage, for development

purposes. Mr. Ledbetter is owner of the adjoining farm and under his directions extensive improve-

ments are already under way in the lake area. Many will rejoice in witnessing the restoration of this old landmark that for natural scenic beauty can hardly be excelled by any other spot through-

out Nothwest Georgia.

The Perry lakes are located approximately two miles from the school campus on the back side of the farm. As situated, they are somewhat inaccessible to the school and are not of sufficient practical value to justify their upkeep. We

feel that it is fortunate that these lakes fit into the general improvement plans made by Mr. Ledbetter in developing the wonderful potentialities of this section of historic Vans Valley.
We welcome our new neighbor and may fine success and great joy be his in all his undertaking..

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A Visit With THROUGH

Patrons

design not

altogether rooted in unselfish motive, we took on ourselves the task this past summer of visiting the homes of applicants for enrollment, cover-

ing an area of about forty counties in the central and southern parts of the state. The major purpose of

the visits was to determine the eligibility of these new applicants ;:.nd through the medium of the home, neighbors, county welfare, health and educational agencies, disseminate pertinent information regarding the Georgia School for the Deaf. While assuming these

responsibilities we took great pride in improving ourselves and found sheer joy in meeting new deaf children and talking with pro-

spective patrons. But as afore suggested, there was another hidden motive-the appealing allure of Georgia's coast country beckoned like some mysterious siren of the sea. You inlanders might not understand this emotion. Nevertheless, be it said if you take one from Georgia's coastal area and pin him up-state (:1' too far inland, there sooner or later develops a yearning to return to the environs of his first experiences. To one who has lived Sunday School picnic distance from the coast, an occasional tuste of the sal t and odor of the marsh, not to mention hunger for sea foods. become a part of his very being. Perhaps, vice versa, you can best understand these feelings by envisaging the plight of a man of the hills too long denied the scenes of his mountain homeland. Our good friend, Dr. David Reynolds, describes how a move from the mountains of northeast Georgia to the flat lands of Mississippi, too long prolonged, almost blighted his life. It is Dr. Reynolds' further wont to say, "The majesty of a soul can only attain perfection when embodied in a man that has yearned and lived in the sight of rugged physical mountains." It must be all according to where one is reared for certainly, to many, the billowing sea can thunder, or whisper melodiously sweet, messages, just as sublime as those that come down from towering hills. Many have followed Sidney Lanier in his "Song of the Chattahoochee", "Out of the hills of Habersham, down through the valleys of HalL I hurry amain to reach the plain," etc., and felt that the song grew more charming as his Chattahoochee approached the irresistible lowlands. And many are those who believe that "sweet singer ot the southland" reached the apex of his power of beautiful expression in that classic, "The Marshes of Glynn."
However, be that as it may, we must hurry on our trip or we Ehall never get back. In the early morn of August 4 we headed

South in our trusty Ford. J. A. (Professor) Elrod, nightwatchman, and son, Harold. Florida bound for their vacation, accompanied- us the first leg of the journey. The initial stop was at \Varrenton. Mrs. Vivian K. Jordan, Director, Warren County Department of Public Welfare, was interested in an applicant. She was kind enough to accompany us to Camak where we first met Joan Allen, eight years of age. Joan was lightly crippled and totally deaf as a result of the ravages of spinal meningitis. A fine little girl she has proved to be, fully capable of acquiring a common school education which would have been cruelly denied her had not someone been interested and had not the state of Georgia afforded her this opportunity. Thank you so much Mrs. Jordan.
Thence to Godfry. Mrs. J. A. Sellers, seemingly of her own accord. had sent in an appeal regarding her fourteen-year-old daughter Joyce. This young lady proved of bright and happy disposition and a lover of outdoor sports. She had progressively grown too deaf to make progress in the local public sc.hool. She shared her mother's enthusiasm abc;>ut entering the G. S. D. Her only concern was the fact that she might have to go to school before her brother, a University graduate and a Lieutenant in the Army Air Corps, arrived home on leave. The brother came on the 12th, in time to accompany his sister as far as Atlanta on the 14th. Joyce seems very happy and is making good progress at school.
From Godfry we were Gibson bound and while betwixt and between, on a dusty country road in the middle of the afternoon during one of the longest and most severe hot spells in more than a dozen years, bang! we had our first car trouble. Before the vehicle cCould be stopped a perfectly good innertube was thrice torn in twain. Here Elrod and Son cheerfully paid their fare in dust and sweat while we, admittedly on the side line, fretted and fumed. Nine miles fur-
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"

From the Advanced Department

Billy Peace and his mother visited in Hampton, Florida during the month of July. Billy had a good time. He went swimming in Hamp-
ton Lake which is a mile and a half wide.
Mack Padgett went to see his
Illother and father in Chattanooga. After his visit home he got a job
with the Fox Manufacturing Company
in Rome. Carlton Scurry worked in a shoe
factory at Waycross for two weeks in June. He then went to Brunswick and worked in the shipyard for two
months. He expects to go back there when school is out.
Carolyn Gunnell's brother from
Macon visited his family this summer. Carolyn and her sister and brother
went to see Willene Letson. Frances Hoy spent the month of
July in West Palm Beach, Florida. She visited Mary Taylor at Mystic,
Georgia for two weeks. She, Mary and Dorothy Young went to Tifton one day.
James Galloway spent his vaca-
tion working in the Pacolet Mills at
Gainesville. Frances Bartlett's old friend. Mar-
garet Perdue, came to see her one d:ly in August.
Ned Palmer went to Brunswick thL summer to work in the ship yard.
He could not get a job there but he did get a job at a shoe factory in Atlanta. He saw Olin Love in Bruns-
wick. Louise Calloway kept house for her
father during vacation. She went to the show almost every day.
Mary Frances Bates enjoyed being at home with her little sister, Barbara. In August her two aunts came
to see her. They had their pictures taken together.
Olin Murphy worked at a peach packing house this summer.
Elaine Pannal spent a few days
with Vera Reeder. They had a good time going to the movies. Vera went back to Savannah with Elaine. They spent a day at Tybee Beach. They
got badly sunburned. Jewell Wilson worked in a beauty
shop in Rockmart for awhile. She spent the last part of her vacation
at home. Billy Ethridge was very sick in a
hospital for two days. He was late coming back to school.
Boyce Carson went to Gaines-
ville with her sister this summer. She saw a great many airplanes there.
Carlton Huff and Parram Youngblood went to Toomsboro one day.
They visited Loraine Kicklighter, Elaine Pannal. Jannie Smith, Sue Brannan. Mary Smith, and Jackie Hallman.
Louis Keaton and his mother spent
six weeks with Mr. Keaton in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Louis visited in

Davenport, Iowa during August. Hulet Hawkins expected to go to
Washington this summer. but his grandmother was very sick and he could not leave. He hopes to go next summer. He is happy because his brother is going to send him ten dollars every month.
James Sharpton and his brother Jack went to Greenville, South Carolina in June to see their brother Ted before he went to Australia. They have heard from him and he likes Australia very much.
Bobby Rose wanted to visit his grandmother in Chattanooga this summer but transportation was too difficult.
Marvin Harrell helped his father on the farm during his vacation.
Etta Lee Kilgore received a card from her family Wednesday. They told her that her home caught on fire the day she returned but very little damage was done.
During the summer Willene Letson worked in the bleachery at Experiment, Georgia. She liked to work there but she missed her friends.
Some of the boys practiced football last week. C. G. Turner's team "on over ed Palmer's. The score was 27 to 2.
Bill Nelson's mother and aunt were in an automobile wreck Tuesday on their way home from Cave Spring. Two drunken Negroes ran into their car and crushed their fender.
Jackie Hallman worked in a peach packing plant during June and July. In August she spent a few days in Miami, Florida. She saw some real Indians there.
Catherine Langer's family have moved from Savannah to Valdosta.
Jane Murphy went to see Eva Bragdon this summer. They had a good time swimming and skating.
Ruth Cook is delighted because she ie in the Junior Class. She hopes to be able to graduate next year.
Roscoe Singletary went to Radium Springs one day last ummel'. A crowd of people were there, and hc had a good time.
Olin Love worked in the office of "The Coffee County Progress" at Douglas during his vacation.
Walter Brown worked for tht! Columbus Manufacturing Company as a welder. He hopes to go back there after he finishes school.
Alton Dominey's brother has joined the navy. He is stationed in Pensacola. Florida.
Joseph Gillespie is glad to be back in school. He is working in the print shop. He hopes to graduate this year.
Bobby DeLoach made crates this summer. Tomatoes were packed in them and shipped to Wa hington and New York.
Ed Stanford worked at a shipyard ill Savannah. He went fishing and
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swimming many times during his vacation.
Friedson Odom's brother-in-law got him a position with the J. A. J ones Construction Company i. Brunswick. Friedson wanted to work at a shipyard and tried hard to show the company that a deaf boy could do good work.
Eva Bragdon had a good time at Statesboro. She hopes to visit there again next summer.
J~yce Sellers visited in Miami, Flol'lda. She had a good time horse back riding and swimming.
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Blue Jays Down Bremen

On Friday, October 1 the "Georgia Blue Jays" played' their ~rst game of the season, against
Bremen Wildcats." The Blue .Jays piled up a score of 14 to 6.
The "Bremen Wildcats" fought bravely but were unable to do anything except make one touchdown in the first quarter.
In the second quarter, Captain
Odom made a kangaroo leap and scored a touchdown. He then broke through right tackle and scored another touchdown. Odom and Brown made extra points.
,The "Blue Jays" and "Wildcats" l'attled back and forth during the Ir:st two quarters.

G. S. D. Vs Caue Spring

On Friday afternoon, October 8, a large crowd witnessed an exciting football game between the "Yellow Jackets" and "Blue Jays."
G. S. D. scored once in each of the first three quarters and twice in the last quarter. Captain adam, a fast quarterback, scored three of
G S. D.'s touchdowns while Palmer and Padgett made one each. G. S. D. failed to m!lke any extra points.
C. S. H. S.'s only score was made ill the fourth quarter by Holsomback,
who had been Cave Spring's best player throughout the game.
Only three penalties were given during the game, two for off sides and one for wrong formation.
Officials were: Prim, referee; Walden, umpire; Hackett, headlineman; and Hanson, field judge.

Our 1943 Football Schedule

Oct. 1 G. S. D. 14 Bremen

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Oct. 8 G. S. D. 30 Cave Spring 6

Oct. 15G. S. D. 27 Rockmart 0

Oct. 22 G. S. D. Collinsville

Oct. 26 G. S. D. Bremen

ov. 5 G. S. D. Open

Nov. 12 G. S. D. Rockmart

Nov. 19 G. S. D. Cave Spring ..

Nov. 27 G. S. D. Alabama

Among the Staff

MRS. Clark and little son spent a month with her mother and brother in Atlanta. In August they visited her sister who lives on a farm near Carrollton. Mr. Clark spent most of the s mmer in Cave Spring.
Mrs. Kennard spent the summer in Cave Spring.
Mrs. Fincher spent a few days with her brother, H. L. Lipham, in Louisville, Kentucky this summer.
Mrs. Irwin visited relatives in Lexington, Georgia this summer.
Mrs. Minter spent a few days with relatives in Hampton and Barnesville, Georgia. During the first week in September she attended a retrea tat Wesleyan College.
Miss McMichen spent a very pleasant summer at her home in Hiram, Georgia.
Mrs. Little spent the summer in Richmond, Virginia with her husband, Sgt. Little, who is stationed at the Air Base there. I Mrs. Emma Henderson spent the summer at home in Cave Spring.
Mrs. Highnote pent the summer in Ozark, Alabama with her husband who is stationed at Camp Rucker.
Mrs. Gibbons was at home most of the summer with the exception of one week which she and Mr. Gibbons spent with their son, Wheeler, and family in Decatur, Alabama.
Miss Payne spent the first part of the summer in Atlanta. She spent the month of August in Macon.
Mrs. Forbes spent the summer in Cave Spring.
Miss Louise lontgomery spent several days at Vcro Beach visiting Ensign Lucile Casey, a former teacher at the Georgia School for the Deaf.
Mr. Ryle visited his sister in Augusta for two months during the summer.
Miss May Clark spent several days in Atlanta this summer with hel sister, Mrs. Gentry.
Mr. Dillard worked in Atlanta most of the summer.

Mr. Teddy Waters visited friends in Akron, Ohio this summer.
Mrs. Ellen West spent the ummer at her home in Cave Spring.
Mrs. Perry spent ten days with her son, Roy Perry, in Knoxville, Tennessee.
Mr. and Mrs. Ware spent most of the summer in Cave Spring. Mrs. Ware visited her sister in Tuscaloosa, Alabama for a few days in September.
Mr. Caswell was at home most of the summer with the exception of one week which he and Mrs Caswell spent in Roopville with their parents.
Mrs. Turner attended the University of Georgia for three weeks this summer. She taught at Temple, Ga. the latter part of the summer
After finishing the trall11ng coursc, Mrs. Dorothy Henderson spent the remainder of the summer in Summerville and Cornelia, Georgia.
Miss McDaniel spent tcn days visiting relatives in and near Columbus, Georgia.
Mrs. Barnett visited her two daughters, Mrs. Dick Wright of Knoxville. Tennessee and Mrs. J ames Lewis of Milledgeville, Georgia during the summer.
Miss Steele was in Cave Spring most of the summer She visited hcr brother in Birmingham thc first of September.
Mrs. Montgomery spent four weeks with her family in New York, Philadelphia, and Wyoming, Delaware. She also spent a week at Ocean City in New Jersey.
Miss Shahan spent a week at Sitton's Gulch as a councilor of 4-H Club Camp. The remaining time was spent with her family at Lafayette, Georgia.
Mrs. Jessie Jones was at home in Cave Spring most of the summer She spent two weeks in Atlanta in August with her daughter, Miss Margaret Jones.
Mrs. Tollefson spent June and July enjoying the surf and ocean breezcs at St. Augustine, Florida. The rest of the summer was spenl
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at her home in Alabama. Miss Brown spent most of thl':
summer at her home in Maco~, Gebrgia. -She visited in Indian Spring during the summer.
Miss Brantley was at her homc in Mayfield, Georgia all summer.
Mrs. Chapman spent the first ix weeks of the summer in Gainesville, Florida. The remaining time was spent at her home in Cave Spring.
Mr. Tollefson spent the first part of his vacation working in a lJarge yard at Jacksonville, Florida. In July a windstorm blew down orne buildings on his father's farm in North Dakota. Upon learning this, he and Mrs. Tollefson left St. Augustine and came to Cave Spring. They then went to Mrs. Tollefson's home in Alabama and Mr. Tollefson went on to North Dakota to help his father rebuild and to help with the harvest. It was rather cold in North
Dakota and he was glad to get down south again around the first of September.
We welcome the new members of our faculty. Mrs. Turner, Mrs. \Velch, Mrs. Dorothy Henderson, ..1rs. Little, Miss Shahan, Mrs. Minter, Miss Steele, and Miss McMichen attended the training class at the Georgia School for thc Deaf this summer. We are glad to have Mr. and Mrs Tollefson, Mr. Tollefson being a former teacher.
With the exception of a fcw business trips to Atlanta and other places, Mr. Parks spent thc summer in Cave Spring.
Mr. Hollingsworth spent a busy su mmer in the office keeping the ..machinery oiled." During Aug-
l st he and Mrs. Hollingsworth attended a reunion of the Hollingsworth family in Statesboro. Later in the month Mr. Hollingsworth made a field trip through South Georgia securing a number of ncw pupils for tbe school.
Friends of Mr. and Mrs. Wheeler Gibbons of Decatur, Alabama will be interested to know that they enjoyed a ten day visit to
upt. and Mrs. John L. Caple at the ArJ...ansas chool in Little Rock
recently.

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October, 1943

ther in a filling station at Gibson, after glibly ordering the tire mended and a new tube, we had our first personal unhappy experience with priorities, ration boards, et al. Did we know the war was on ?-No tube that size nearer than Macon, etc. Consternation reigned supreme. Wasn't there fifty miles more of dirt road before pavement was reached again? The prospect of clnother blow-out without a spare threatened the success and even the -:ontinuation of the journey. Our morale was at a very low ebb. Our feelings were further ruffled by the fact that the detour to Gibson had proved of no avail. The parents of Bobby Heath, without our knowledge, had moved some distance away. The board of strategy deI ermined to bypa th Sandersville, Tennille, Harrison, and Wrightsville, head straight to U. S. Highway No. 1 at Wrens and then direct south to Swainsboro that night before we stopped rolling, if possible. There we claimed acquaintances and friends galore, people who would assist and cooperate in our every problem. We arrived after nine p. m The Elrods made a quick bus connection to Florida while the John C. Coleman Hotel afforded us a brief respite.
The next morning we beat W. O. Coleman, an old neighbor and chairman of the Emanuel County ra tion board, to his office. Very soon all was rosy and the sun was shining bright in old southeast Georgia! Mrs. Maxwell T. Durden, Emanuel County Welfare Director, proved most solicitous and helpful. She volunteered her service and that of her car. Early in the afternoon we backtracked twelve miles on the route of our approach the evening before. Very soon little Jimmy Screws was accepted as all eligible applicant. Jimmy is getting along fine in school at the present time. A trip eight miles from Swainsboro in another direction to see and advise with a former student proved fruitless.
By late afternoon a "chinfest", as of yore, was being enjoyed at the bus station in GraymontSummit with Hoke and Hap Durden and Leonard Roundtree.

We declined their kind invitation for an evening repast to join "Uncle" Morgan Scarboro and Emmet Smith in a fish supper at the latter's pond. This was the selfsame E. L. Smith, whose pond ten days later yielded a catch of 15,000 pounds of trout, bass. and bream. Plans for a draining and fishing of this lake had received much advance publicity and a news reel made of the scene carried a pictorial story to movie goers all over the country.-Those who have not enjoyed fried fish and "hushpuppies" as served by Mrs. Walter Durden at Smith's pond, have missed one of Georgia's most delectable epicurean delights.
Two hours after the memorabh evening with our friends at Graymont, we registered at a little hotel ~t Claxton, 12: 30 midnight. Although close enough to the coast to catch an imaginary whiff of sillty spray, unusual hot weather still r.revailed and the comfort of the balance of that night was nothing to brag about.
The next morning it was our good pleasure to becoml:: acquainted with Mr. and Mrs. Geo. T. Durrence and their charming little deaf daughter, Mary Ann. Mr. Durrence, principal of the Claxt01! High School, and Mrs. Durrencr had expended many anxious hours of concern, and liberally of their worldly goods, in an effort to find some redemption of their child's handicap. We sincerely hope that our school at Cave Spring will be the answer to their prayers. Mary Ann seems very happy and is making unusually good school progress.
It was Mr. Durrence that told us about two boys in his school similarly afflicted. Fifteen-yearold Bobby DeLoach was promoted to the tenth grade in June. He was not only bright in his studies but possessed a pleasing personality and was a leader in social and extracurricular activities. Bobby was striken with spinal meningitis July 2. Although the duration of his illness was short, he was left totally deaf and with the vision of one eye completel y gone. He was naturally profoundly perplex-
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cd and greatly stunned by this unfortunate incident. In his dark bours of first realization, Bobby's most understanding friend proved to be none other than a schoolmate. Edward Stanford. Edward knew bow to sympathize. He, too, was extremely deaf. He was failing in his grades and everyday finding it more difficult to adjust himself to normal surroundings-Now life is taking on much happier aspects for both these boys. They are rapidly adjusting themselves to their new surroundings and new opportunities. The two of them are getting along well at school and are displaying most promising development in every respect.-We thank you, Mr. Durrence.
Anon to Savannah and Tybee Island.
(To be continued)
FROM THE PRIMARY SIDE
is the only one of our class who has not yet returned.
-Viola McMichen's Class
There were only six pupils in our class the day school opened. Jackie, Roscoe, Billie, Evelyn, and Patsy. Later Mrs. Kennard brought Hinton Stone, Jene Pritchett, and Thomas Rucker to our room. Alma and her brothers came Sunday, and Ruby came back Thursday. Now everybody is here except Wilda.
Ruby went to sleep in class the da y she got back. She was on the bus all night the night before.
We enjoyed looking at Jene's year book that she had in the Alabama School last year.
Hinton spent his first few days here with the little boys. He moved upstairs to the big boys' dormitory later and he likes it much better.
We weighed Thursday, September 23. Billie was disappointed because she didn't weigh quite fifty pounds. Laura lost three pounds while she was at home.
Now that the school has start-
ed, Evelyn stays in the dormitory
and misses playing with Barton.
-Gladys Carpenter's Class

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October, 1943

PostWar Employment of Deaf who have had limited opportun- specific traits to be developed.

ities to hear adults discuss jobs in Developing them is not only a

in it in these war times. They are not the end of our present possibilities for post-war security for

the depression and still less chance to experience joblessness in a family circle because they lived at school)

program of naming and defining them but also living them. To be ,ble to name and describe good

the deaf. If there is ever a time to educate
the employing public to the possi-
bilities of the deaf it is now. Some of the companies arc even getting

leave our school without occupational information. we are only preparing the way for disgruntled deaf people after the war. While it is true that mere presentation of

habits doe not necessarily mean the carryover into living them.
Strengthening education by broadening the base is a step which all can take to prepare deaf

the jump on us for a few of the periodicals of manufacturers'

facts about Jobs does not guarantee against discontent at future re-

youth for today's and tomorrow's labor market. Or should it be

associations have carried accounts duction of wages, at least ideas worded :-for today's labor mar-

of the successful use of the handicapped for the benefit. ~f other members of the aSSOCiations. A
step which we should now take-. if we have not already taken It
by the time this goes to press-.is the development of a defimte

are sowed. With proper cultivation they may become useful to the individual. If we are teaching for thinking. for reasoning. not merely recall, the facts will be used to understand the probable reduction in wages and the changes in other

ket in order that he will not be on tomorrows.
Educators today know that the gap between school and job is not easily bridged. New habits must be formed, new personal relationships established and skills, devel-

program of public education. Such
a program is advertising or propaganda. It does not contain e1emen~s

factors in the evaluation of a "good" job. The probable postwar economic imbalances will at

oped on certain machines, adapted to later models. The demands are made, therefore, for links between

of exaggeration or untruth. It IS least have a link with the facts s.:hools and shop. The fact that

merely an appeal to reason through taught earlier. Facts will enable the full-time placement is so easy is

facts. Facts about the efficiency of youth to interpret properly the nc reason to lessen our efforts to

deaf workers should be brought forces that will play upon him. establish part-time arrangements

before employers-and kept on His emotional reactions may be with industry. Just as training for

their desks in the post-war period. If manufacturers and governments

altogether improper and unhygienic but until character and person-

the armed forces is made as realistic as possible today, so too must deaf

have found that informing the ality education reaches a par with youth get first-hand experiences

public is an important part of filet education not much can be in shops. One technique to achieve

selling themselves, we too can use done to prepare our youth for the this and yet keep the youth under

that means to secure the cause of
the deaf. *
Within the school we can take

emotional let-down in the post-war
world. We know today that vocational

supervision (and hence <Idjusr ment) is a part-time "apprenticeship" program with industry. We

steps to improve our products so that they can better sell th.emselves in the post-war world. ASide from

skills on specific machines and a knowledge of job facts are not enough to insure good workers.

thus develop a better worker for war production and. at the same time give him the attributes which

instruction in the basic ski lIs and as many of the broader subjects

They are necessary conditions but not sufficient in themselves to

may lead to his being retained after the war.

as possible. there is the meeting of the needs of our pupils for occupational information and for char-
acter aDd personality development. To allow our pupils to leave with their only concept of wages th~ inflated one of today's industry IS to

produce efficient workers. Research on the question why people lose jobs show that jobs are not lost because the workers do not have the necessary vocational skills but because of character and personality defects. A sense of responsibility

Along with this is the need for making plans now for our part in the public-works program which the government may reestablish after the war. If it is found lJccessary to set up a C.C.C., an N.Y.A., or a W.P.A., should there

lay the seeds of discontent in the post-war world. If our deaf youth

sufficientl y well established to have the workers report on time, work

b~ discrimination against the deaf? Dr. Bjorlee cites his difficulties in

(who were beginning to master without undue response to inter- getting the deaf on the rolls ?f

language during the depression and ruptions and diversions, leave his public-works programs. * Whde

*It is willingly admitted that el!'!- job in working order for the next we do not look forward to such

ployer prejudice against the deaf 115 day must be assured. Dependence programs nor consider them

not based on facts about the deaf upon others even for such a little necessary for the deaf, the fact

worker. Its nature has been discussed elsewhere (Lavos, G., "Objections to Hiring the Handicapped," to ap-

thing as getting up in the morning should be outgrown. A personality

remains that to hold life and body together, to give needed job experi-

pear in Journal of Consulting Psychology). It is our hop~-and one .of the hopes we are fightmg to reahze -that facts can counteract prejudices and lead to more favorable behavior.

that can get along with others is meded on all jobs.
Our modern texts on personality development are replete with

ences. recourse to such agencies may
Bjorlee, I., The Deaf in Industry llnd Their Greatest Handicap, 1943, pp. 8-9

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October, 1943

be necessary in the post-war world. Kow is the time to lay our plans and, if such agencies are reestablished, to approach them on the status of the deaf in their programs.
Schools for the deaf can help their youth meet tomorrow's problems in the world of work by the education of industry and public agencies and by strengthe~ iug within their own walls then programs of education as living ;J nd experiencing.

those of the training officer for the deaf in the West from those of the interviewer in the North. All these and the several between their fields of work, gear their programs to victory. Without victory in the war many of our special services for the deaf may go. But without security in the post-war world the victory will be an empty one-in fact more than merely empty. It will be dangerous to our way of living because of the discontent that may ensue.

RETRACING OUR STEPS
The United States is diversified and the schools feel the impact of war differently. Yet the problems of the field agent for the deaf in the South are not basicly different from the problems of the placement secretary for the deaf in the East,

While some or all of the ideas suggested may be rejected, the fact r~mains that now is the time to plan. Needs for war workers and the needs of our deaf youth may
demand modification of one dictum or another. It may not be to the best interests of our nation to

guide into essential civilian jobs because of a local critical shortage of workers. training periods may have to be curtailed, placement made in a plant that will have to scrap every machine and revamp procedures after the war. But at the S3me time opportunities may exist to follow one or another of the ideas.
Thinking about our post-war problems and the steps to take now should start now. Workers in the vocational adjustment of the deaf, vocational principals, and ,uperintendents should express their ideas. Can we have a common program adapted to meet local needs? Can we start now on the program for the post-war rroblems of our deaf youth?

Introducing our New Arrivals

CHILD'S NAME
Joan Allen Jean Barrett Betty Ruth Baxley Brooks Blankenship Betty Ann Chadwick May Ann Durrence Eugene Forrest Mary Lee Johnson Doris Jones Mary Alice Jones Willis Joe Knott Wonnie McCoy Netheara Mobley Raymond Murkerson James Pope Clarence Rainwater Katie Mae Rogers Thomas Rucker Jimmie Screw Catherine Smith Hinton Stone Shelva Jean White

PARENT'S NAME
Mrs. John Allen Mr. Norman R. Barrett Mr. Olen J. Baxley Mrs. Oolie Blankenship Mrs. T. L. Chadwick Mr. Geo. T. Durrence Mrs. Addie Forrest Mrs. \V. H. Tanner Mrs. Myrtle Jones Mr. J. C. Jones Mr. Sanders Knott Mrs. Lee Owen McCoy Mr. Clea Mobley Mrs. R. M. Murkerson Mr. Leon M. Pope Mr. W. M. Rainwater Mr. Olin S. Rogers Mr. T. H. Rucker, Jr. Mrs. Irene Elton Screw Mr. G. H. Smith, Sr. Mr. W. H. Stone Mr. Boyd White
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ADDRESS
Box 44, Camak Box 202, Ocilla Box 194, Baxley R t. I, McDonough Cha ttahoochee Claxton Rt. 1, Jasper Rt. 2, Nicholls 26 Mt. View St., Dalton Rt. 1, Pelham Rt. 4, Carrollton Tennille Rt. 3, Glennville 513 Fletcher St., Thomasville Rt. 1, Hartsfield Villa Rica Rt. I, Franklin Rt. 5, Statesboro Rt. 2, Kite Rt. 1, Sparks 3430 Rainey Ave., Hapeville Rt. I, Bainbridge

State of Georgia
ELLIS ARr ALL, Governor
Gcor(Tia cbool for the Deaf

STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION 1\1. D. COLLI. S, State Superintendent of S<lhools

f\DMINISTRATION

C. H. Hollingsworth, 1\-1. A. Superintendent

Jewel Pendly, Secretary O. W. Haney, Stewart Lelia H. Barnett. Dietitian
Katie Payne, R. N.

J. C. ('onnor, M. D. W. S. Wat~on, D. D. S. G. W. H. Cheney, M. D.

INSTRUCTORS

Roy G. Parks, M. A., Principal

Primary Department

Intermediate and Advanced Department

l\Iarie S. Kennard. B. S. Supervisor
Mable L. Fincher Jessie F. Jones Gladys B. Clark Ruth D. Forbes Frances A. Little Viola McMichen, B. A. Emmalee J. Highnote Miriam B. Minter

Tell A. Gibbons, Supervisor
Edythe D. Montgomery, B. S. Dorothy L. Henderson, B. S. Pauline J. Shahan. B. A. Ila S. Sewell, B. S. Barton Clark, B. A. Frances 1\1 Tollefson, B. A. Sur"h F. Ware
Olaf L. Tollef on, n. A.
Maude M. Welch, B. A. Mary D Turner, B. A

Vocational Department

R. R. Caswell, B.S.A., B.A. .

.

Agricultul'al Training

Olaf L. Tollofson, B. A..... Printing

A. May Clark

Arts and Crafts

:L.ouise l\Iontgomery . Beauty Culture

nnie McDaniel

Sewing

J. R. Ware

Carpentry

Earl Cox

1achine Shop

Colored Department

Quinton Gordon, Principal

Mattie Dayis Henrieta Bailey Lucille McCullogh

Jame: Rich Georgia McHenry Cynthia Strange

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PUBLISHED AT THE GEORGIA SCHOOL FOR ~ THE DEAF, CAVE
SPRING. GEORGIA
NOVEMBER 1943

VOL 44

NO. 2

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THE SCHOOL HELPER

Volume 44

CAVE SPRING, GEORGIA, NOVEMBER, 1943

No.2

To The Teacher of The Deaf Child
NINA VAN OSS Reprinted from Buff and Blue

W HA t' constitutes a good teacher? This is a big question, and a vital question, when it comes to teaching the deaf,
Is it the ability to hold an audience spell-bound by fluent oratory in
the sign-language? Or is the ability to talk in an ordinary manner in a clear, concise, calm and logical
manner more valuable?
I have known of teachers whose oratory was so "smooth" that their audience was conscious only of the beauty in the signs and finger spelling and absorbed almost nothing on the context. On the other hand I have seen teachers who had charming smiles and possessed the ability to talk to their pupils in such a manner as to make the pupils feel that they were "at home" enjoying a conversation with their parents.
The pupils felt as though they were actually (and were they not?) taking part in their learning and that their ideas were respected. The teacher was one of them; a mother or a kindly father.
In teaching the deaf, hearing
teachers have the tendency, with a few exceptions, to talk way above their pupils' heads. It behooves them to come down to a simple and direct level and employ words within the pupils' comprehension in explaining something to a child. Once I asked a teacher point-blank what was the idea. She replied that the vocabulary of deaf children is too limited, and the way to enlarge their vocabulary is to use big words. What good are big word~ i ( the pupils can not understand them? Pupils have not time to "jot-down" words to look up later, and even if time permitted, the words would not always make sense because words are built

around groups of words.
Is the above teacher an exception to the rule? I wonder. I have associated with the deaf a great deal; I have lived in dormitories; and I know from my own conversation with the deaf just about what are the limits of their vocabularies. Children t ink as children. Adults think as adults. Teachers must concede that and hence speak accordingl y. As time passes, children will "perk-up" and their vocabulary will increase.
The fault of a child's retarded growth is not entirely his. What about the teachers he had in the past? What kind of teachers will he have next? I wonder how man y teachers ever take the time and trouble to ask themselves such questions? Even here at Gallaudet I have witnessed more than one instance where a student was called "dumb." When the student explained that his past training did not prepare him for this or that, the professor started in on the student and said that was no fault of the college. Then, was it the student's fault? The student does not manage his school for the deaf. A student may be below "par" with college requirements, he may appear "slow on the uptake," but in the end he may be the very one who retains the most of his acquired le'aming.
In my own opinion, a student should be taught with this aim in mind: What he learns from books should be learned in such a way as to give him a working knowledge of what he has studied, and transfer what he has learned to meeting life's problems-hence acquire the most happiness from life.
Examinations and tests are ne-

cessary to a certain degree, but grading a studennt solely on his ability to quote matter direct from the textbook is a poor indication of lea ring. Psycholgy warns against close adherence to text matter in examinations, and in grading upon test results. Yet, even in the very schools and colleges where psychology is taught there <lre some teachers who still adhere to the old staid rule of "rote" learning, grading their students on the results of their tests. Let the !'tudents try to exercise their own reasoning powers or form their own opinions and there are teachers who quickly quench them. A teacher is older, that is true and therefore, no doubt should be the best interpreter of the ide'a of writers-yet, how will the deaf children develop their reasoning powers if they are not given a chance to practice in school and college? It is common knowledge that no two minds react alike and who is to judge that the author's idea or purpose has been ably interpreted? As a result of all this teachers conform so rigidly to direct quoting from text books, that the children can do nothing but develop a high degree of memorizing ability, and what benefit will they receive from all these facts when they go out into the world and start to make a place for themselves?
There is only one sure way of teaching the deaf children to express themselves in clear English 2nd that is through writing. It they can read and can use good, clear and simple English they will be able to hold their own anywhere. Instead of merely teaching
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From the Primary Department

Our class is off to what we hope is a good start even though most
of the children are very young. etheara Mobley, Cathenne
Smith, and Shelva Jean White had birthdays in October. Parties were held for each in our classroom. The birthday cakes with lighted candles were very interesting to Mary Alice Jones, Raymond Murkerson and Willis Joe Knott. Little Jimmy Screw liked to hold
blowout the candles. When the first birthday of the
year comes, the teachers of the beginning classes make much of it in order to get across the idea of birthday. At that time a picture of a little child with a birthday cake is shpwn and each child's birthday is marked on the calendar: as Jimmy's birthday. By this time
the children can usually read their
names and enjoy turning the pages of the calendar and pointing out their b~rthdays to every one who comes In.
On the first day of every month the teacher has a new weather calendar ready with an appropriate drawing over it. She calls attention to the birthdays to be celebrated during the month. cake having the number of candles to correspond to the child's age is drawn on the correct day and labeled. Every day the children's attention is called to the calendar and much
pleasure is derived from this exercise as the days go by and their birthdays draw near. Each child's birthday is celebrated whether
always adds greatly to the occasion but one from Mama and Daddy
Miriam Minter's Class
Our class has finished the sense or not be receives a box from home, training material. and we are getting down to regular school work. \Ve have found writing to be quite interesting. How we do beam with satisfaction when 'Ie realize that we have produced "a reasonable facsimile" of the teacher's copy.
Would you like to know how we start writing? First, we just make long sweeping strokes from left to right. This is done so that we can learn to manage a piece of chalk easily, and also to get us

into the habit of looking from left to right in reading as well as in writing. Next we trace lines and designs drawn by the teacher. Later. she makes a design and we copy it exactl y, in direction as well as in form. Soon the designs take the form of lines, circles, and curves. In another day or so, these appear between lines, and we find that it is very important to stay within them. When the lines, circles, and curves begin to take the form of the elemen ts and words that we are studying, we suddenly realize to our great surprise that WE CAN WRlTE, and then we are realy "thrilled." Very soon we begin copying our own names. When we can actually write our names at the end of our papers, we feel that we have made great progress.
Our abilities in writing show up as definitely as in other studies, and it is in teresting to see which of us likes a certain thing to do. Wonnie McCoy and Joan Allen give quite a "flourish" to the sweeping strokes. Jean Barret, Brooks Blankenship, and Katie Mae Rogers make very "sedate" curves and circles that stay within their lines quite nicely. Mary Lee Johnson, Bettie Ruth Baxley, 2nd James Pope like to write elements such as wh, th, and m ,but Ronald Bell, Betty Ann Chadwick, and Doris Jones much prefer writing their names.
Jim Irwin's Class
Cecil Cox and Eugene Forrest arc good friends. They are glad to be in the same class now.
Dan Jones likes to write. H~ bought a tablet when he went to lawn one Friday.
Jewell Henderson pulled her tooth one morning. She brought it to class to show her teacher.
Gary Yassney got some picture puzzles recently. He let his classmates enjoy them.
Louise Hunt hulled some walnuts one afternoon. Her hand~ ,""'ere stained.
Clara Stapler enjoys having her sister's picture in her classroom. Shirley Whitehead has some new
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classmates now. She likes Jewell Jean Rentz looks forward tc
Friday and tries to be good so shp can go to town.
Marshall Harper is very carefu: when he helps clean the classroom. He can dust well.
Ruth Forbes's Class
Our review work progressed nicely. As the children were so young and immature it took us about six weeks to finish everything we had covered the first year in school.
Much work has been done with wha t we ca II the drill verbs. See, 1'3 w, and love are the only ones the class has had. and they are doing good work with them. The new ones to be taken up next will be have. has, like, and likes. Jerry. William, Andrew Lee, and Rube especially like to write and speak the exercises done with these erbs.
We have a new classmate. He i:- Marcus Kemp.
Betty, Dorothy, and Sarah are excited over Hallowe'en. They are pager to make masks to wear to the Hallowe'en party October twenty-ninth. Junior and Bobby arc thrilled with the expectation of bobbing for apples at the party.
Mabel Fincher's Class
October is one of the children's favorite months. When the first day of October came, the children could hardly wait to begin cutting out pictures of witches, owls, ~hosts, and black cats for our classroom decorations.
Quite a few new nouns come up at the Hallowe'en season each year. Pictures are put in a Plymouth chart, and the children place the corresponding printed word under cacho
After the class had learned tc label the pictures correctly, I asked each child which one he preferred to make. It seemed that most of rhem tried to choose the one they thought to be the most horrible.
Jerry Presnell and Tarver Holmes wanted to make masks for they. were looking forward to " eating some to the Hallowe'en

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party.

the splendor of autumn.

permissions and questions.

Fleming Bloodworth cut out a

Frances Little's Class

Seeking diversion from cla~

bJa~k witch on a broom and put " bIg orange moon behind it.
Daisy Smith cut out a black cat with a big tail up in the air and pasted it on a brown fence.
R. T. Holmes, Ford Hughes. and Neal Crews together drew an awful looking skull and cut it out. It nearly frightened us away when we first saw it.
Virginia Hardeman was delighted over the jack-o-Iantern that she drew and colored.
Dorothy Hughes cut out a big black cat's face with sharp teeth and pasted it on yellow paper.
Roy Hqlmes and Claude Fuqua made a great many bats for our border.
The class was very proud of their accomplishment and admired the decorations very much.
Gladys Clark's Class
With the coming of autumn my class has seemed to sense the change of the season with unusual interest. Each child has been filled with the desire to get outdoors and enjoy all the glories of nature.
On our trips to town every Friday the children have looked for trees that were turning and noticed the changes in the coloring of the leaves from one Friday to the next.
Barbara Ann was the first to discover a beautiful yellow maple. Betty and Guy picked some of the leaves to bring back with us. Cynthia, Harold, and Maybellenc noticed some red maple trees and picked some red leaves. Louise and James liked the orange ones.
After our trips each time the

All the children seem to enjoy the autumn season. They have noticed the changes of Mother Nature from week to week and have been especially interested in the beautiful coloring of the leaves which is unusually brilliant this year.
The children like the long brisk walks to town on Fridays and the other planned trips to various points of interest around th, chool. We are now looking forward to a trip to the farm which is about a mile from the ~chool. It will be the first time most of the children have been to the farm. There will be many interesting things on the way ther~ as well as the animals at the farm. Juanice, Frances, and Louise want to make the spring our first stop on the way. They are always interested in the ducks. Eugene, Robert, and Gene want to stop at the lake and watch the fish. Vivian, Fay, Wynell, and Rosemary have already asked if they might look for nuts on the way. Many pecan and hickory nut trees grow along the road. Mary Ann is excited over the whole trip but seems to be more interested in the different animals. Martha and Ann can hardly wait to see how many baby calves they will find at the farm.
We hope that nothing will happen to prevent us from making this trip and we are already looking forward to making many mor.? this year.
Jessie Jones's Class
This is station G. S. D. The

room activity, the girls vie with one another to see who can be the first to ask "May I water the plants?" Ruth usually heads the
regiment that attacks me with this question. In quest of extramural pleasures. the boys are equally competitive about "May I empty the wastebasket?" AI though it is a "mouthfuL" Marvin usually
I:lakes the initial attempt. Louise Boyd likes to ask if she might sweep. Mary Ann and Frances pr~fer "May I mop?" Mary and VlOton gladly render their assist"nee when they have obtained permission to erase the boards.
Nor are the children slow to ask "Have I a letter, a card, or a box?" when the mail isdelivered.Recently, thinking that "turn about is fair play", W.e. required that J ask "Have I a letter?" before he would give me my letter.
The entire class takes great deItght in participating in the speech reading games in which we use attractive pjctures taken from
magazines. The children are so interested in this phase of our ~ork that they sometimes bring pIctures to class for our use. Billie Jean, Louise Wilson, and W. e. like to prompt me when we are having these games. Dorothy and Edn'a think it real fun to lemember who has the picturc~ I name.
To all of you loving parents who are "Ii~tening in" at this hour, we send thIS earnest request-that when the children are with you, you cooperate with us by talking to them and requiring them to use the speech of which they are capa-

children were given paper and pencil and told to write what they
SaW.
During one Sunday morning period the children cut out various shapes and sizes of leaves from bright colored construction paper. They especially enjoyed cutting them out as they were to be used to decorate our classroom.
Most of all we have enjoyed the beautiful view from our window. We can look across the

time is October 29, 1943. The theme of this evening's program is speech and speech reading.
It is quite encouraging to note the way in which the children are responding to the speech and speech reading program. Having had a long rest, they seemed a bit reluctant about making the effort to speak, and speech reading appeared to be a monstrous task. Nevertheless, they are now quite enthusiastic about saying the

ble.

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We are now "signing off" with

bright hopes for the future speech and speech reading of "our little

deaf children."

Viola McMichen's Class

October the twenty-eighth was

a big occasion in our lives. We
celebrated Thomas Rucker's birthday by h~ving our first evening party. WIth Hallowe'en parties

already planned, we had to have

valley to a rolling hill that has all familiar expressions and asking

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Among the Staff

W HEELER Gibbons, Assistant Flight Commander at South-

ern Airways Training School.

Decatur, Ala. and a friend,

Mr. William Stewart of Hartselle,

Ala. were the guests of Mr. and

Mrs. W. S. Gibbons Sunday

October 24. They flew from

Decatur in Mr. Stewart's plane.

Miss McMichen spent a week-

end with her parents recently.

Mrs. Irwin spent Saturday,

October 31, in Rome.

.

Miss Polly Shahan spent the

week-end of October lOin

Atlanta and La Grange. The week-

end of October 23 was spent with

her parents Mr. and Mrs. J. H.

Shahan at Lafayette.

Mrs. Minter's father, Mr.

Barnette, spent a week-end with her recently.
Mrs. Highnote spent the weekend of the 23rd with her motherin-law, Mrs. H. G. Highnote in
Buena Vista. Sgt. Highnote joinpd her there.
Mr. and Mrs. Howard Sturgis.
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Herron, and Mrs. Jeff Scott, all of Atlanta, were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Olaf Tollefson Saturday, October 30.
Mrs. Forbes's daughter, Mildred, spent the week-end at home
recently and attended the annual Hallowe'en Carnival at the Consolidated school.
Miss Steele and the Home Economics girls made about four

hundred doughtnuts for the Hallowe'en parties October 28 and 29.
Mrs. Fincher spent the week-end
in Bowdon recently with her brother, who was home on leav. from the Navy.
Mrs. Little spent a week-end in
Decatur with her sister. Mrs. Ivie, recently.
Mrs. Jones was the guest of h~: recently.
daughter, Margaret, in Atlanta Mr. Homer L. Turner Sr. an(~
Miss Mary Ann Turner of Atlanta were the guests of Mrs. Homer
Turner Sunday, October 31. Mrs. Dorothy Henderson spent
the week-end of October 23 in Cornelia with her father, Mr. T. H. Little.

From the Advanced Department

Etta Lee Kilgore's brother wrote
her recently that their family was going to build a brick home to replace
the one that was burned in Septem-
ber. Frances Hoy got a letter from her
mother one day last week saying that she plans to take Frances to California next summer. Frances is looking forward to the trip with a
great deal of pleasure. Bill Nelson's brother-in-law has
written him that he expected to get a furlough sometime in January.
Bill hopes that he can pend a week
at home at that time. Jackie Hallman's father is working
in orfolk, Virginia and plans to come home for a month soon. He wrote Jackie that he would bring
her some lovely gifts. C. G. Turner's mother wrote him
that his father would kill two hogs soon. C. G. is happy because he likes meat and will also save some stamps
in his ration book. Billy Peace is looking forward to
November 27 when the football team will play against the Alabama School. Billy wants to work hard so
that he can play on the regular team. He enjoys football and wants to
l:ecome a professional player. October 27 was Roscoe Singletary's
birthday. He got a big box of cake from his mother and enjoyed sharing it with his friends.
Frances Bartlett was happy to get a letter from her mother recently. She told Frances that she had seen
Virginia Ray. Mack Padgett hopes to win all the
football games. He wants to get the

nine stripes which are given if a team wins all the games of the year.
James Galloway has heard from his brother Walter who is stationed !>omewhere in the South Sea Islands
ed Palmer will be glad when November 27 comes because he will go with the football team to Talladega, Alabama. He hopes to go home after the game.
Mary Frances Bates is expecting her uncle who is in the army to spend Christmas with ber family.
Joyce Sellers's motber will meet bel' in Atlanta Thanksgiving and they will visit friends in Macon before going on home.
Carolyn Gunnells had a pleasant surprise one day last week when she received a letter from her friend, Christine James. She enclosed a snap shot of her baby and said that they might move from Atlanta.
Louise Calloway is looking forward to playing basketball with other teams this year. She remembers what good times they had last year.
Olin Murphy is planning to go home after the football game with Alabama.
Ruth Cook had a letter from her brother recently saying that he would come home on a furlough soon. She has not seen him in several months.
Willene Letson hopes to spend the week-end of November 27 with Ruth Cook. Willene has never been to Ruth's home and is counting the days until Thanksgiving.
Edward Stanford's mother came to see him about two weeks ago. Edward hopes that he can go home Thank giving or that his father can
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come to Cave Spring.
Bobby De Loach was delighted to see his mother recently. She will come again Thanksgiving if Bobby does not go home.
Friedson Odom received a letter from his brother saying that he had gone overseas and was stationed
"Somewhere in England" He asked Friedson to write him all about the football games.
Walter Brown was disappointed when Mr. Parks told him he would not graduate this year. He thinks now that it will be very nice to come back another year and play football.
Eva Bragdon is expecting her brother from Miami Thanksgiving. She thinks he will enjoy seeing the cave and spring.
Alton Dominey likes to play football and hopes that he can be on the team next year.
Jose~ Gillespie \vishes that his home town football team could play the Georgia School for the Deaf. Even though Jo eph does not play football he is a great booster for our team.
Jane Murphy is disappointed she cannot go home Thanksgiving. Her family has moved to Savannah.
Vera Reeder had a pleasant surprise the other day when Jackie
Hallman showed her a letter from Pauline Pendergraft.
Marvin Harrell received a box from his grandmother Sunday. She sent him some cookies, apple and brownies.
Elaine Pannel had lots of fun at the spring .the other day. She laughed
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Superintendent's Corner

M Fall Colors

ANY homespun natural-

ists maintain that when nature

gently offers some unusual or

exotic display it is a forerunner of

a more awesome phenomenon to follow. If this is true folks in this

county can look forward to something to wonder about. Let us hope

that it can be nothing worse than J winter to go down in the record

books. In the twelve years that we have lived in north Georgia never

before have we witnessed a more

.vivid and breath taking display of fall colors. Nature has splashed the whole landscape with colors of

such hue and intensity that lovers of the great outdoors are everywhere admiring and commenting.

The most inspiring and memor-

able indulgence that we enjoyed came almost as an accident. It

was during an early morning

drive to Rome en route to Atlanta.

Vans Valley and the nearby mountain range was enveloped in

low lying clouds and misty rain. As the rising sun brightened the

early morning the range of hills paralleling the highway lifted up

. and cleared through the haze. The

banked up display of beautifUl fall colors became prominent to the

extent that even the douds and the misty atmosphere took on tht>

aspect of a colorful hue. Brighter and brighter it grew-a profusion of red from brilliant to purplish blue. Flaming yellow, orange and

lemon to a greenish hue. A blazing glow of color fold on fold

that the green of the pines seen:-
ingly tried, but in vain, to separate.
As the trail swerved into a m~)Untain pass the closing in beauty almost took our breath

away and we seemed to be enveloped in a brillance that was only

enhanced by the fog and rain.

Was this an illusion? Was it :1 phenomenon of weather and setting? As the road came out into the open a look in the other direction disclosed every thicket and hedgerow making a beautiful pattern stretched out over tbe valley. Off in the distance across the river Mt. Alto defied the clouas and rain to

,eiI its display that came shining

through to mist. Yes, it was real. The fall colors this year are

wonderful to behold. Whatever il

presages, we do know that God is displaying His handiwork. To feast on this great beauty spread

out over hills and dales inspires us to wonder with David, "What is man that thou art mindful of

him? and the son of man, that thou uisitest him?

THE ~

A Visit With

arrival in

Patrons (Continued)

Savannah on Friday was

too late in the day to contact

the District Rehabilitation people,

officed in the American Building. It had been through the medium of

this office that most work in the immediate area had been "cut and dried." We repaired immediately to

our bt:other, Tom's, house on Siler

Avenue. In this home quiet and

peace reigned supreme. In fact, it

had become almost too quiet since

practically all of the male element had gone to war. The change was noticeable. A grim quietness, im-

pregnated with subdued anxiety

and withal a flavor of resolute courage and patriotic pride, per-

meated the premises. Such is the

average American home of today for which we are proud!

Early the next morning Wi! greeted A. J. Hargrove and E. K.

Bell, Rehabilitation Directors, in their connecting offices. As coin-

cidence would have it, Jimmy was a freshman with us at Mercer, in 1910, while E. K. was our class-

mate at the State Teachers' College twenty-one years later. These

fellows cooperated not only

through a sense of official duty but

also through a sense of personal

regard that each of us held for the

other.

What a task was this Savan-

nah work! There was a score or

more pupils, past and present,

working in war industries in this

city as well as two or three new

applic.ants to be located and

examined. Mr. Bell rode with us

throughout the morning. Two

applicants, hard of hearing, had

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tried out public school. On their teacher's recommendation and our acquiescence they were left to' continue this plan for the time being. Miss Mildred McLauchlin, Savannah Family Welfare, was. very much interested in one applicant, a six-year-old negro girl. She accompanied us away out in West Savannah on Church Street to examine this child. Miss McLouchlin shared the parents, Cora and S<im Campbell's delight in the consideration given and the knowledge that the State furnishes the same educational advantages to .both white and colored deaf childrenElise is a bright child and it is regretted that she did not enter school.
As afore suggested, the biggest problem in Savannah w.as occasioned by the fact that a considerable number of un.dergraduates, deaf boys and girls, were very profitably employed here. One senior, plying the trade of electric welding that he learned in our shop, was being paid .. a fabulous wage far in .excess of that paid his instructor who taught him. It is needless to say that all these students could not be induced to return to school.
Up to midafternoon Saturday it had been all work and no play in Savannah--you guessed it, Tybee's tanalyzing beaches were "calling me". There was a hurried loading of all belongings in the car 'and a hasty adieu that could hardly be termed polite. Out Victory Drive we scurried. Scooting across the marshes on that beautiful drive bordered by oleanders and palms our spirit was exuberant with anticipation of two days of lavish enjoyment. Just ahead was that for which our spirit and body was starved: ocean breeze, refreshing surf, fresh sea foods and the all day all night roar of breakers on the shore to lull to perfect relaxation-We defy any hillbilly to conjure up a situation more conducive to restful and healthful vacation.
Five hours later we turned U1-;
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November, 1943

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Published monthly during the school year in the printing department of the Georgia School for the Deaf.

Entered at the post-office at Cave Spring, Georgia as second class matter November, 1889. Acce}'ltance for mailing at special rate of postage provided in Section 1103. Act of October 3, 1917. Authorized October 31.
1918.

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C. H. HOLLINGSWORTH _ _ NELL A. GIBBONS __ __ __ _
MARIE S. KENNARD .
OLAF L. TOLLEFSON

Superintendent

._

Editor

Associate Editor

Printing Instructor

Vol. 44

NOVEMBER, 1943

No.2

FOR the past four years, reading has been s~res~d in the primary department. We have tned.m our articles in The Helper each month to give the parents and friends of our pupils an insight into the work done here, and, at the same time, have hoped that other teachers of the deaf might derive
some good from our experiments. It would not have been possible for us to have
accomplished what we have. had it not been for the cooperation of the art department in making the Plymouth charts and illustrating the Mother Goose rhymes, for the painstaking work of the boys in the print shop for printing the hundreds of flash cards and sheets for the news books, and for the untiring efforts of the teachers in prep.aring the work sheets. story books, and other kinds of materials which add variety and interest to our reading program.
The process of learning to read does not necessarily. have tc be a laborious, difficult. and unpleasant task; however, it should be developed along very definite lines. Children are ready for a simple gradual. concrete approach to reading much earlier than they would be to a formal and abstract approach. We think that we have worked out a satisfactory method of teaching reading along
systematic lines. Our sense training period of five or six weeks each
fall affords us the opportunity of making a study of the "whole child." We must be sure that our deaf children are ready for reading since reading is a complex process involving the physical, sociaL emotional, and intellectual responses of the individual when interpreting written language. Experience as well as scientific investigations show that the children who enter school represent a wide range of abilities. Some children of good native abitity have not acquired the social adjustments necessary to work effectively with other children or have not developed the habits which enable them to apply themselves attentively to the various activities and mental processes required in

reading. Some are mentally immature for reading; some have special difficulties in visual discrimination; while others have had good home training and arc ready and able to begin reading early their first year
in school. Training in visual discrimination is begun in which
we work from the concrete to the abstract. The children match and sort real objects, pictures, silhouettes, and outlined drawings.
We teach the children to direct their eyes from left to right in preparation for reading and to dr'aw series of lines on the blackboard from left to right making a clean sweep to the line below so as to make more impressive the direction of the movement. It is most important that we develop proper eye-movement habits of left-to-right sequence.
The children learn to note differences by finding the totally different unit from among a row of units. They are called upon to pick out one that does not belong in each group. At first, no language is involved only the method is taught. They learn to note likenesses by finding from among other units all like units or iust one like unit similar to a given unit. They learn to notice differences in direction. Silhouette and profile cards are used. In one set all the units except one are turned in one direction. The children find the unit turned in the opposite direction. In another set of silhouettes we have pairs of units each of which is turned in the opposite direction. The children sort the units in two piles, those facing left and those facing right. Further training in observation is brought in by learning to complete units with a missing part or parts.
The children are taught to reproduce a number of units, being careful to do exactly as the teacher. These exercises are first done with beads, pegboards, shoe pegs, colored slats. etc. and later at the blackboard with chalk reproducing lines and circles in preparation for the reproduction of written symbols.
These preliminary steps are the key-note to the recognition of words as a whole. If these steps have been learned the various clues of recognizing words should not be difficult, but they should be taught properly and used together as they are needed. A child properly taught will soon learn to pick them out. The length of the word is the first clue. If there are several long words and one short word, it is very easy to pick out the short one. The general configuration of the word is the most important clue. Some words are very much up-and-down words, while others are decidedly stream-lined. Some words go up in the middle and down at the end or down in the middle and so on. Another clue consists in certain minute details of a word; as in monkey, pig, and dog because of the tail at the end. If we can insure the mastery of word recognition on the part of young children, we have solved a large part of the problem of reading; however, teaching a child to read a number of isolated words can make of him a "word reader" for life. We do not read individual words

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but groups of words which present to us mental pictures. The needs and interests of the children direct us in our selection of words to form a basic vocabulary. Very soon these basic words are combined with number, color. adjectives. possessive nouns, and prepositions to form phrases.
A most essential point in any reading program is a thorough mastery of the skills and abilities involved in word recognition and in the comprehension of phrases. sentences, and paragraphs. There is no reading unless these symbols are interpreted in terms of meanings. We read literally with our own experiences. We read with what we have seen and heard and smelled and tasted and felt. Reading means interpreting in terms of our experiences these symbols, and without the recognition and interpretation of those symbols. of course, there is no reading.
Over and above the problem of word and phrase recognition is that of interpreting the meaning of sentences. Interpreting a sentence is largely a process of reasoning. Each word must be given its proper meaning in relation with other words in the sentence. and there is a rational process of figuring out the meaning of this combination of words that is not involved in the single word.
We are convinced that much repetition can be brought in in a very interesting way by using the basic vocabulary in a variety of ways. After a child has mastered a comparatively small vocabulary, be can do a great deal of reading which be enJoys and which gives him the practice be needs without stopping often to figure out new and different words. "Nothing succeeds like success" is an old saying and we feel sure that this one factor is going to bring about a great improvement in the teaching of reading. Just the fact that children can get into the reading of sensible material so early and can read so much of it with interest and satisfaction will mean that they will improve their our reading habits. In order to insure masteFy of the skills involved in reading and to bring about the results that we want we must consider individual differences more in the future than we have in the past.
It is possible to teach small deaf children to read far beyond what we have attempted here, but there are a great many other experiences which are needed

more than re'ading. They need experiences In social adjustment, in working with materials and experimenting with growing plants and animals. and taking care of pets. They need a great many experiences in dramatic play, interpreting in their own way aspects of life they see around them. other things more important have to be crowded out when we make reading the primary objective of very young children.
It is possible to so organize the reading materials that all language constructions may be presented first for comprehension in reading, taking advantage of the psych?logical moment whenever possible, graded accordIng to difficulty and need in relation to the children's ages, interests, environment, and the experiences which can be provided.
We have tried to devise ways to make our speech reading program more interesting so that there would be a better balance between the children's reading and speech re'ading vocabularies. We have found that their fuller comprehension through reading has helped to a marked degree to get more and better language comprehension through speech reading.
The Alcorn symbols have been used here successfully for the p.ast fifteen years in our speech work. We have found these symbols also quite helpful in bridging the gap between the spoken and reading vocabularies. After the babies have learned the meaning of the words and experiences in reading an~ are soon to use them in speech, the teacher wntes the Alcorn symbols underneath the corresponding printep form on the flash cards. This idea is carried on in various ways in the other classes in order to enable the children to be selfreliant. in saying more of the words, phrases, expressIOns and so on, of which they already know the meaning.
. We have found cur work in reading most interestIng and the reports from the children in the intermediate department who have had this systematic training are gratifying. We hope that each year the children who are promoted to the intermed.iate department will be better prepared to do the requued work than those of the preceding class.
-Marie Kennard

FOOTBALL

Georgia School for the Deaf vs
Alabama School for the Deaf

November 27

At Talladega
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8:00 P. M.

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from whence we had departed slightly crestfallen and only half happy. The old adge, "Anticipation is better than realization", had been made doubly manifest. Tybee Island, with the exception of the expansive stretch of the Atlantic, was untenantable. In fact, the only elbow room to be had was some fifty yards or more off shore. No overnight accommodations to be had, no abundance of good food. Just soldiers, sailors, civilian workers. high prices and push. This was not the Savannah Beach that we had been thinking and dreaming about, It took two solid hours in th~ foamy undulating surf to bring exultation back to body and mind again-the half empty house in town, far from the maddening crowd, again proved to be a quiet haven of rest.
The next afternoon, Sunday. our sister-in-law, Helen, her youngest son, Guyon, and sister, Oscar, did the honors. TheIr patience was stretched thin as their wait on the broad walk extended almost an hour longer than the usual time for a swim. However, they did very kindly and considerately realize that we were salvaging the cream of the week-end anticipation-the twenty mile trek back to town with slacks over wet sticky swimming trunks only added to the glamour and enJoyment of the occasion.
The final fling came in the even. ing. Helen, on ascertaining what
good packed on top of good might prove the most palatable finale, came up with a bounteous dish of fresh crab meat. The delicious stew, together with deviled crab, literally mounded on the shell, went a long way toward satisfying the remnant of our craving. Helen's brother, William, and his wife came over, not so much to partake of the feast but to see the starved well fed. Tom, in from his work and hungry for food, was no match for his gluttonous brother.
The next morning, Monday, at the crack of dawn we were awake and raring to go. It is no~ known whether it was the prick of conscience chiding us for the

from midafternoon Saturday to the Monday morning week-end recess or the extra calories we took on at supper that made us impatient to get back to work. Anyway, our travel conveyance was parked at the closed door of a repair place long before the opening hour. This proved a good move for soon it was hemmed in ide, front, and rear. The necessary repairs would nev~~ have been made that day had we not been first in line. Mr. Bell's car was again impressed into service.
The early morning mail brought in some letters and dispatches from Cave Spring. Among these was an urgent application from Statesboro which sli;ghtly changed our intinery for the day. Early afternoon we arrived at th(' metropolitan little capital of Bulloch county.
Right here we pause to apolo. gize to our readers for diverging into so many sidelights in our Visit With Patrons. John Ruskin once said, "The more I think of it, I find this conclusion more impressed upon me-the greatest thing a common soul ever does in this world is to see something and tell what it saw in a plain way". In poor fashion, yet in humble imitation ot this august English fcribe we cannot refain from expressing these additional impressions made by the things we saw and experienced while making the trip.
We found the parents of little Tommie Rucker in possession of recommendations furnished by twe distinguished Bulloch County citizens-two old patriarchs who had not only witnessed the town and county's history in the making for more than half a century but for the past fifty years they had definitely helped make that his tory. The one prominent as a law'er and a legislator. the other as 2 business man and an educator. Colonel Albert M. Deal is prpbably Georgia's oldest living representative in the State Legislature, oldest both in age and term of service. Mr. J. E. lcCroan, as a public spirited citizen and 3 board member. has fostered the
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development of the local college from its early inception as a high school to its present position as Georgia's prideful State Teachers' College. These good men's stamp of approval of the Ruchrs gives
little Tommie a heritage that he can be proud of all his days. Although such recommendations are not necessary for admission it was good to read these letters from these two highly honored .Bulloch county citizens. Tommie is livir,g up to all that was expected of him at the G. S. D.
We paid our sister, Mrs. l::
E. Brannen, a hasty call and was benefited by two bits of pleasing news. Bertha told us that our oldest sister, Isabel, had been taken to the hospital in Augusta for some much needed treatment. AlsQ she lela ted news of a planned surprise birthday party honoring our oldest brother, Linton, on his seventieth birthday. The honoree is an old bachelor and the oldest of. the clan. We wished so much that we could have attended this family. ~vent.
From Stateboro we hastened south thirty or forty miles to
Glennville, then ten or twelve miles on toward Ludowici. It was' here in palmetto and pine studded Long County that we founc;l little Netheare Mobley. The nome was but a veritable Qut in. tbe. wildwoods. Mr. and Mrs. Mobley. both seemed very appreciative of' this opportunity for their little sevenyear-old daughter. Neheare, who had bolted like a wild animal Qn our approach, was soon coaxed into an attitude of complet.~ friendliness. Mr. Mobley said he had never seen her "take to a stranger" so readily. She is making rather remarkable progress in ~chool. We are so very grateful to Miss Ruth Zorn, Director, Long County Department of Public welfare, for her kind interest and help in this case.
Following an uneventful night spent in the hotel at Glennville. we headed west by south to Nicholls. After much driving and constant inquiry we finally located Mary Lee Johnson in the interior of Coffee County. This orphan child was the charge Of

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Superin ten dent' sCorner
some relatives, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Tanner. She proved to be of sound mind and body but had been neglected in that she was eight years of age and without previo,,"s schooling. The good folks responsible for her were glad to know about the school at Cave Spring. We reported our findin~ to Mrs. R. Hearn, Director, Coffee County Department of Public Welfare, Douglas, Georgia, whc was first interested in the cas~. Mrs. Hearn cooperated in getting Mary Lee prepared and delivered to the school. She is now making appreciatable progress and seemingly is very happy. Just as in Long county we are sorry that time element did not allow us an opportunity for a personal acquaintanceship with these helpful county officials.
We failed to contact the Baxleys at Baxley. Georgia, but lit~le Betty Ruth was later accepted in school and it is believed she shows as fine promise 'as did her cousins, .Frankie and Hazel who are honor graduates. the former in 1941 and the latter last June.
We arrived at Brunswick where war industries 'and a population suddenly mushroomed fro rn 15,000 to 50,000 souls created problems comparable to those encountered in Savannah. A quick contact with the welfare office helped organize and direct plans for our efforts in this locale. A good portion of the afternoon was spent in trying to find a place to sta y overnight. The Anchorage out on the Savannah road. facing the marshes made renowned bv Sidney Lanier, proved our final refuge. From the veranda of this little tourist hotel the famou.. Lanier Oak under whose shady boughs the "Marshes of Glynn" found birth. was in full view.
(To be continued)
DON'T FORGET
NOVEMBER 19

To The Teacher-Continued sec that they understand what is

children to memorize passages or lines from a poem or story requiring them to remember by whom it was written, why, when and where, why not put more emphasis on explaining in their own words what they think of the lines; what the lines mean; and to illustrate how they can apply those lines to life situations that may confront them? For example: "Alas, we do not appreciate our blessing till we have lost the gifts we once enjoyed"-Platus. What may those lines mean? How may they be applied to real life? Answering the first question, we may not appreciate the things we have until someone takes them from us or we lose them. Or, Johnny may have 'an electric train. He has yet to learn the value of proper care of his things. Johnny in carelessness, wrecks his train. If his parents handle the situation wisely, he will learn that if he wants to keep things he must take care of them, and thereafter he will be more cautious. Explaining such lines from poems in this simple way to the children will help them through practice and the good example set before them by their teachers.

going on.
Being deaf i no disgrace. I am deaf and am not ashamed of it! ; lost my hearing in my late teens, but I know this. in spite of my ability to speak quite normally, [ do not wish to be "restored" to a society upon which I will be 'I burden. Have you noticed a deaf rerson in the company of a group of hearing people-at a party for instance! Does the deaf person look happy? Does he look at ease? Does the hearing friend seem (0 enjoy standing or sitting on the .. sidelines" slowly repeating some thing that has been said or taken place? When a deaf person is with one or two hearing friendshis deafness will not be a handicap, whether he can read lips with ease or not. But in a group, it is an entirely different matter.
Right here I wish to make a ple'a that the teachers of the deaf adapt a method to fit the child. The best method seems to be the combined system-oral and manual. In this way the deaf person not only understands what is being said, but develops his ability to read lips to a high degree. After ail, the great aim is to have the child learns things and as quickly as possible Before taking a strict

Another factor that stands out oral attitude: before adopting the

like a "sore thumb" in the teaching theory "Restore the deaf child to

of the de'af is the method used. society," stop and ask yourself.

Parents, teachers and friends mean .'Does the child want to be restor-

well, but is it wise to adhere to pure ed? What is the best and quick-

"oralism" ? The theory of the est method in getting things a-

"oralists" is: RESTORE THE cross to him?"

DEAF CHILD TO SOCIETY. The theory of oralism is beau-

How many of these well-meaning people have asked themselves this question: "How do the deaf feel about being restored to society?"

tiful-as a theory, but in practicz it falls short: it defeats itself.
This has been written in behalf of the deaf children in the United

I am deaf and know the limita- States, and those teachers who have

tions of lip-reading. I know that it is not a substitute for hearing and that lip-reading alone can not restore the deaf to society. I have seen many who have grown up under pure oralism. Are they happy?

"gone through the mill" themselves, who know and understand the problems facing the deaf after leaving school and who realize what a blessing the "com bined system" is in teaching the deaf.

No! They are ill at ease in the hear-

ing world and totally lost in the

deaf world. Their hearing friends

DON'T FORGET

must "kindly" (as a friend of mine put it) make allowances for them,

NOVEMBER 19

and must make a speCial effort lo

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Primary Department
our party a few days early. All of us helped decide the time
and place for the party. There was much discussion about the time and we finally decided that seven o'clock was mo t convenient. Mrs. Highnote's was unanimously chosen as the place. When Mrs. Highnote came for us, we were all waiting impatiently dressed in our best, and looking very nice.
The living room was decorated in Hallowe'en colors. Card tables were set up and the first gaII1e played was "Old Maid." Billy Wood was the "Old Maid." Alma Wooten was very good when it came to ringing the peg. Bingo was the most exciting game of all. There were two prizes given and Roscoe and Jackie Dukes won them.
The climax of the evening came when Hinton Stone brought the cake with ten lighted candles into the room and put it on the table in front of Thomas. Everyone

sang "Happy Birthday" as Thomas blew out th'e candles. Faye Nelle Evans, Billie Wood, and Jackie Dukes passed the ice cream. Jean Pritchett and Evelyn R.obinson helped Mrs. Highnote pass the napkins and spoons Thomas asked Ruby Suggs to pass the cake as he cut it.
After the refreshments were served. everyone sat in a circle before the open fire and toasted marshmallows
About nine o'clock Mrs. Highnote brought us home. We wer~ a tired but happy group. all looking forward to November the thirtieth which is Laura Pope's. birthday.
Emma Lee Highnote's Class
Advanced Department
at Catherine Langer because she was afraid of the ducks and jumped up on the rocks to get away from them.
Boyce Car on has had two nice surprises lately. Her cousin. J. C. Warley sent her a dollar, and her

mother wrote her that she was expecting her home Thanksgiving.
Nimrod Phillips is enjoying school and is working hard to make up the work that he missed.
Billy Ethridge amused his classmates one day recently by telling them some of his childhood experiences.
Bobby Rose's mother came for him not long ago. Bobby enjoyed the trip home in the car as well as the pleasant week-end with his family.
Jewell Wilson was called home recently on account of the death of her grandmother. She had been sick for only a month, and Jewell was <:hocked to hear of her death.
James Sharpton will always remember the good time he had at the Hallowe'en party. He dressed like Tom Sawyer. He did not get a prize but everyone thought he looked very funny.
Louis Keaton visited his aunt in Atlanta not long ago. They went out to the Georgia Military Academy to ee his cousins, Jerry and Johnny. Louis thought they looked nice in their uniforms.
Hulet Hawkins received a box of gum 'fr6m his brother Hershel and ten dollars from his brother James.

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News Foto Flash: The above IS a loyal G. S. D. supporter who has just read the news on page eleven of this issue. Read it and COME TOO.
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HOMECOMING DAY
FOOTBALL

GEORGIA SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF
vs.
BREMEN HIGH SCHOOL

Cave Spring Georgia,

Friday, November 19,

2:30 P. M.

THER E WILL BE A BAND AND A PARADE

Come out and enjoy this hotly contested game and Other Festivjties

Admission

$.30 and $.55

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State of Georgia
ELLIS ARNALL, Governor
Georgia School for the Deaf

STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION
1. D. COLLI S, State Superintendent of S~hools

ADMINISTRATION

C. H. Hollingsworth, M. A. Superintendent

Jewell Pendley, Secretary O. W. Haney. Steward
Lelia H. Barnett, Dietitian

J. C. Connor, M. D. W. S. Watson, D. D. S.

Katie Payne, R.

INSTRUCTORS

Roy G. Parks, M. A., Principal

Primary Department

Intermediate and Advanced Department

Marie S. Kennard, B. S. Supervisor
Mable L. Fincher Jessie F. Jones Gladys B. Clark Ruth D. Forbes Frances A. Little Viola McMichen, B. A. Emmalee J. Highnote Miriam B. Minter

ell A. Gibbons, Supervisor
Edythe D. Montgomery, B. S. Dorothy L. Henderson, B. S. PaulineJ.Shahan, B.A. I1a S. Sewell, B. S. Barton Clark, B. A. Frances M Tollefson, B. A. Sarah F. Ware Olaf L. Tollefson, B. A. Maude M. Welch, B. A. Mary P. Turner, B. A.

Vocational Department

R. R. Caswell, B.S.A., B.A

.

Agricultural Training

Olaf L. Tollefson, B. A..... Printing

A. May Clark

Arts and Crafts

Stella E. Steele Home Economics

Loui e Montgomery. Beauty Culture

Annie McDaniel

Sewing

J. R. Ware

Carpentry

Earl Cox

Machine Shop

Everett Ryle

Barbering

Colored Department

Quinton Gordon, Principal

Mattie Davis Henrieta Bailey Lucille McCullough

James Rich Georgia McHenry Cynthia Strange

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DECEMBER, 1943

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Volume 44

DECEMBER, 1943

No.3

L. P. F. Exchanges

Ed. note -
For the benefit of those of our subscribers who are not familiar with publications of the various schools for the deaf over the country we might explain that L. P. F. means "little paper family." Since there has always existed &uch a feeling of unity and closeness among the schools that we consider ourselves one big family it is fitting that we refer to our papers as the family paper-a sort of round-robinb as it were.
The following is clipped from The New York Journal of the Deaf.
MISGUIDED AFFECTIO
MISG lDED affection on the part of a doting parent may prove disastrous to the future welfare of a deaf child. In this day of free education for children and youth there is no excusable reason for a congenitally deaf child to be pampered, growing up at home without mental education and a training for some useful industry. Almost every State in our country has made liberal provision to supply pr\Waration for children who cannot hear.
Our attention was recently called to a case in point. At a certain school for the deaf, prepared in every way to give service, an application was received for a deaf youth nearly twenty ye"ars of age. Looking over old applications the Superintendent discovered the case referred to a deaf child for whom an application had been made ten years earlier. At that time he was accepted and the parents were advised to place him in school. Then it was learned that the parental affection for him was so great that it prevented separation from his family. When he bad almost reached manhood, another application for admission to the

school was made and he was allowed to enter.
He had to be placed in a class of little children in his first effort in learning to read and write. He is said to have shown superior intelligence and, with earlier training, might have become an accomplished scholar, had his parents overcome their selfish love and given him the opportunity to receive the proper education at the right period. Probably there are instances of this kind, which would indicate that parental affection may do much to ruin the future lives of the children they love.
FIELD TRIPS
We enjoyed reading the interesting account of the field trip taken by the Superintendent of the Georgia School for the Deaf. Some schools have field agents. while others do not. More superintendents should have this experience It is educational. inspirational. and in a way relaxing. It is decidedly different from the daily school routine. Certainly no better way can be found for a superintendent to learn to know county welfare officials, county superintendents. school nurses, and just folks in general. We expect cooperation from these sources. It is well to know them. Then to meet the parents in their own homes is a real experience. It has been our pleasure to do this work for the past eleven years, with the exception of two summers. -Sup't. Elstad, The Minnesota Companion.
DEAF MUTES HAIL SHIP
LAUNCHING
amed for the famous educator of the deaf, the S. S. Thomas H. Gallaudet today had been launched at the Wilmington yards of

California shipbuilding corporation, while 250 deaf mutes cheered in sign language.
Pearl S. Buck, Nobel prize winning author, sponsored the ship. Deaf mute welders burned away the plates which held the vessel to the ways as Miss Buck christened the ship.-Los Angeles paper.
The above is one of the several press clippings finding their way to us regarding the naming of a Liberty ship in honor of the founder of the first permanent school for the deaf in the Western Hemisphere at Hartford in 1817.
The suggestion for this namp. was made by the American Federation of the Physically Handicapped with headquarters in Wash-
ington, D. c., and acted upon by
various governemnt agencies until it was carried out. Another recent newsworthy event about which the October issue of the American Era car~led a two-column writeup, was the presentation of three "Clubmobiles" to the National Red Cross for the entertainment and benefit of men of the armed forces in the field. The money for this eminent contribution toward the war offort was raised by the deaf of the country under auspices of the National Association of the Deaf and an inscripton to that effect adorns the side of each.
Possibly it is to be regretted that no member of the Gallaudet family nor person closely connected with the education of the deaf at this time was present to make the launching speech. but with ships practically racing each other dowll the w IYS out where Henry Kaiser has been showing how to do it, it is not difficult to understand that ceremony has little to do with getting such ships into service. Miss Buck is reported to have made very glowing reference to the work of
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Co--Curricular Activities

Several years ago Hobby Clubs were introduced into our scho I and they proved most interesting and instructive to our pupils. In the stress of other activities the clubs have been left off for the past
year or two but this fall Me.
Hollingsworth and Mr. Parks realizing the benefits the pupils derived from them requested that they be reorganized. There are nine clubs functioning at present with the prospect of others to be organized later, as follows:

Club

Sponsors

Knitting Club

Mrs. Tollefson Mrs. Ware Miss McDaniel

Rummy Club

Miss Clark Mrs. Sewell Mrs. Clark

Campfire Girls Miss Shahan Mrs. Henderson

Dramatic Club

Mrs. Turner Mrs. Minter Miss McMichen

Glee Club

Mrs. Montgomery Mrs. Fincher

Woodworking

Mr. Ware' Mr. Tollefson Miss Steele

Red Cross (Boys) Mr. Clark

Red Cross (Girls) Mrs. Jones Mrs. Welch

Dancing Club

Mr. Caswell Mrs. Highnote Mrs. Little

The Knitting and Dancing Clubs meet every Monday night; the Rummy Club and Boys' Re d Cross on Tuesday night; the Glee and Dramatic Clubs on Wednesday night; the Campfire Girls and the Woodworking Clubs on Thursday night. The Girls' Red Cross meets Monday afternoon after school.
Following is a short account ot each club-just a little something of what we are doing and what we expect to do.

GLEE CLUB
The Glee Club, one of the hobby clubs, has its meeting in the chapel every Wednesday evening at

seven thirty. Three cheer-leaders were chosen from the Glee Club to lead the cheers at the football games. Loraine Kicklighter, James Hattrich, and Bud Little are the cheer-leaders A part of each meeting was taken up with practicing the school songs and yells.
A number of folk songs and other songs have been learned this term. The pupils enjoy singing Old Black Joe, Home On The Range Shortenin' Bread\, and other universal favorites.
A few hymns and patriotic songs have been learned. The pupils enjoy "There's A Church In The Valley" most.
The Glee Club will furnish the sacred music for the Christmas pageant. The rest of the meetings before Christmas will be spent in learning and singing about ten of the most familiar Christmas carols.
-E. D. Montgomery

DRAMATIC CLUB

The Dramatic Club held its

first meeting of the year in October.

The following officers were elected:

Willene Letson - President

Ruth Cook - Vice President

Carlton Scurry

Secretary-

Treasurer

Since it is as important to

develop a person's body as it is to

develop his mind a reasonable

amount of time will be given in

the club to a combination of deer
breat~ing. relaxation, and physical exerCises.

Our aim in voice culture is to

improve the quality of tone by

giving volume not through loud-

ness but rather through fullness of tone.

Since memory depends upon

securing vivid first impressions

which come through interest into

concentration we hope to train

the memory by cultivating the

habit of being interested.

The language of the body will

be developed through pantomimic expression.

Interpretation and imagination

will be stressed, as the proper

rendition of even the simplest

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selection requires a perfect comprehension of the author's thought and the exercise of the student', power of imagination.
Through various activities selfassurance will be developed which results in poise.
Parlimentary procedure will be closely observed in the meetings of the club thus preparing the student for club activities in later life situations.
Once a month the club will have a social hour providing an opportunity to guide the students in every day etiquette.
-Mary P. T umer
RED CROSS
The Girls' Red Cross Club has eighteen members. It meets every Monday afternoon after school. Mrs. Jones and Mrs. Welch are in charge. The girls are making many bandages and are happy to do their part in winning the war.
-Mrs. Welcr.
In this school there are different Hobby Clubs to which boys and girls belong according to their preference. The Red Cross group is one of them. Eighteen girls and fifteen boys are members of this organization. Thus this necessitates dividing them into two groups, one of which is composed of girls and the other, the boys. The girls meet every Monday afternoon whereas the boys come every Tuesday night. Mrs. Welch and Mrs. Jones supervise the feminine group. I have been chosen to be responsible for the boys.
Since most of the students have brothers and sisters participating in the war activities, it took almost no persuasion to get the pupils to come to the Red Cross room. It is really surprising to see how much they like to do it and are enthusiastically increasing their output.
The Red Cross room is al ways under the careful eyes of Mrs. Hollingsworth and Mrs. Parks whose responsibility it is to see that the bandages are properly folded before they are shipped. Not only so, but their genuine willingness

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to aid us in making the dre sings i very helpful.
Our sunervising teacher. Mrs. Gibbons, is always interested in wa tching the children's progress every week. She just said that up to date they had made 380 dressings. So it is excusable for us to fecI a pride in this worthy accomplishment.-Barton Clark
RUMMY CLUB
The Rummy Club meets every Tuesday night at 7: 30 for or.!! 11 Ut occasionally running over a short time in order to finish the game. The Club is composed entirely of boys. They were given the opportunity of learning Bridge but they seemed to prefer Rummy. They have 3 and sometimes 4 ta bles and they all seem to enjoy the game very much. They are learning one or more of the different Rummy games and how to keep score for them. Miss Anni~ McDaniel. who is an expert Rummy player, has been helping th" ponsors get the club started.
-A. May Clark
KNITTING CLUB
There were about 25 applicants for membership to the Knitting Club (including several boys), but due to the fact that this sort of hobby requires much individual instruction, only 10 girls were finall y ad mi tted. The instructors in charge may arrange to take in 1110re mem bers as soon as the pres ent group masters the principl~ knitting stitches. At present, after three lessons, the girls have become fairly proficient at casting on, knitting, and purling.
The aim of this club is to do Red Cross knitting. First, afghan quare will probably be knitted and finally sweaters and more difficult projects. After the war. when knitting yarn is again plentiful and cheap for civilians, the girls can use this knowledge to make various knitted garments for themselves.-Frances Tollefson
CAMP FIRE GIRLS
Mr. Parks has great ideas for the girls' work this year. Early in September he began making plans

for a girls' organization similar to the Boy Scouts. It was decided to organize a Camp Fire Girls group under the leadership of Mrs. Fein Parks, Mrs. Dorothy Henderson. and Miss Polly Shahan. The girls were permitted to choose their own hobby groups and to our urprise every girl in the advancer! and intermediate departments selected the Camp Fire Girls as on.: of her hobby groups!
Since this was a new organization at G. S. D. we began our work with a very brief history of the Camp Fire Girls: The Camp Fire Girls were first organized in March. 1912 and today there are more than two million members, thousands of guardians (Camp Fire Girls Leaders), and man l' rna ny interested friends.
Our watchword is WOHELO :; d is composed of the first two letters of the words work, health, and love. These three things are the center of life itself. We believe them and try to follow the Law of the Fire: "Seek Beauty, Give Service. Pursue Knowledge), Be Trustworthy, Hold onto Health, Glorify Work, Be Happy."
A Camp Fire Girl has the priviledge of selecting an Indian name and symbol which express her ideals. One Girl chose lightning as her symbol because of its beauty, quickness. and power. Others have been selected for similar
rea~on5.
To be a true Camp Fire Girl each girl must pay annual dues of one dollar. Only a few of our girls have paid up to the present time, however, we want each girl to share the happiness of this group and permit them to come to our meetings just the same. As soon as enou.gh of the girls have paid, we will register with national headquarters and get our charter.
If a visitor should come in to observe one of our weekly meetings it would be hard to distinguish who is more interested the girls or the leaders.! Never have I seen uch eagerness and cooperation as is displayed here. Both groups look forward to our meetings with great anticipation. This being the ke}-
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note f successful Camp Fire Girls work, I feel sure that G. S. D. will be ju tl y proud before the year is gone.-Polly Shahan
FACULTY NOTES
MISS Shahan's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Shahan of La Fayette. spent Thanksgiving Day in Cave pring. Miss Willie Maude Shilhan. who is attending Shorter College, also came down for the day.
Mr. Hollingsworth, Mr. Parks, Mr. Caswell, and Miss Steele were in Atlanta two days this month attending a conference of the State Board of Education and the State Supervisors of Education.
Miss Della Russell of Cedartown spent Thanksgiving Day with Mrs. McDaniel i1nd Mi ses Edna and Annie McDaniel.
Miss Emma Pettis and Me-. Gaines spent Thanksgiving Day with Miss Clark.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Jones of Carrollton spent the day with Mis Annie McDaniel on NO\ ember 14th.
Mrs. Minter attended the meeting of the Annual Methodist Conference in Atlanta on ovember 19th.
Miss Viola McMichen spen~ Thanksqiving at Berry with her sister.
Mrs. Highnote spent the weekend in Columbus with Sgt. Highnote.
Mrs. . C. Lipham, Mrs. J. C. Lipham, and Mrs. Dan Watts or Bowdon spent Thanksgiving with Nir. and Mrs. R. W. Fincher.
Sgt. Tudor Jones of Camp Reynolds, Penn. pent two weeks
in o\ember with Mrs. Jesse F.
Jane. iss Margaret Jones of t1i1nta also came for a short visiL.
isMay Clark received word recently of the death of h cousin
rs. J.P. Edwards, which occur ed at her home in Dallas Texas. October 15. Mr. and Mrs. Ed'ward were esidents of Cave Spring for evera! years and have a larg..: circle of friends here. Mr. Edwards died a year ago.

From the Primary Department

At the beginning of the school year the parents of the children who entered this year were asked to send pictures of themselves and their families. Naturally, the children come to us unable to recognize names, and if we have pictures it is very easy for them to understand from whom their boxes and letters come.
Later the words Daddy and Mama are introduced. Thes<: words mean much more to the children when they realize that the words refer to their own parents and not Just to any man and woman. It is also more interesting if each child has his parents' pictures to put up on the board set aside for pictures of their families.
When the parents write to the little children or send them boxes, it is a great heIp if the word Mama or Daddy is printed over the return address.
Willis Joe has pictures of his mother, father, sisters. and brother as well as his uncle and aunt who send him boxes often.
Netheara and Mary Alice take great pride in showing all who come into our room their pictures of Mama and Daddy.
This week Jimmy Screw received a picture of his mother and little sister along with some money. Little Jimmy knew exactly who had sent the money when we showed the picture with it; otherwise, he would not have understood.
Bettie Ruth has a picture of her sister.
Raymond, SheIva Jean. and Catherine do not have pictures. but they enjoy looking on as the others have a "picture visit" with home folks each morning.
-Miriam Minter's Class
Whenever our work is discussed, someone is sure to ask, "How do you get the children started on their speech work?" We start so slowly and work in new things so gradually that it is hard to say just how we do start, but we will try to give you an idea.

At first our teacher has us do all sorts of exercises using our arms and legs and then our fingers. After awhile we start moving our heads from side to side, then roIling our eyes. Finally we begin doing queer things with our tongues, and by this time we have learned to pay such close attention to movements that we can make our tongues do lots of things, just as our teacher does. After that. we learn to place our hands on our teacher's cheek and on our own and hum. Soon through this same vibration, we learn to babble, which is saying bububu and lalala, etc. From these sounds we work slowl y into others, first learning single sounds and then putting these together to form words. All of us can say bububu now but it wasn't so easy at first. James Pope said pupupu for awhile. and Mary Lee Johnson said mumumu, but they know better now.
You should see Doris Jones or Katie Mae Rogers "lead the singing." They like to get the pointer to use for a baton while all the rest of us keep time with our hands and sing lalala. Then Jean Barrett or Betty Ann Chadwick will direct while we hum and pretend to rock the baby to sleep. Joan Allen especially enjoys this. because she has a new baby brother that she plans to rock when she goes home.
For the last few days we have been learning to say arm, thumb, and mouth. Wonnie McCoy, Brooks Blankenship. and Ronald Bell like tha t better for they feel that they are really beginning to learn to talk.
-Jim Irwin's Class
The whole school enjoyed the Home Coming events November 19, but the primary children got the biggest thrill I think because they were allowed to go to the football game.
We didn't go to town as usual . on Friday morning, and the children were greatly concered about not having their money to spend. I took their money to the ball
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game and let them buy peanuts and coca colas just like the older children did.
Cecil bought both peanuts and a coca cola and so did Dan.
Jewell, Louise. Shirley, Gary and Marshall bought coca cola. Jean. Cynthia. Clara, and Maybellene bought peanuts.
They all enjoyed the drills and the game. Things like that create a school spirit that will last through the years.
-Ruth Forbes's Class All the students enjoyed Home Coming Day Friday. November 19 but J think the children in our class enjoyed it more than the others. if that was possible. Rube, Dorothy, and Jerry together with Mrs. Kennard showed the visitors how we begin teaching the children to talk. Junior was to heIp, too, but his mother came for him Friday morning. They looked very nice, the boys in their white suits and Dorothy in her fresh red checked gingham dress. Mrs. Kennard said they talked nicely and the visitors thought they were very smart. The high point of the day was the football game in the afternoon. The children were happy sitting on the bleechers. and although they didn't understand the technique of the game, there was enough happening all around them to keep each child interested every second. William. Bobby, and Betty especially liked the Bluejay skit between halves. Sarah, Lee, Marcus, and the others named above all carried money and bought peanuts. It was 'an event that will be remembered for a long time. All are anticipating the time when they will be older and advanced enough to take part in the school yells. Rube and Betty can almost do some of them now.
-Mabel Fincher's Class The children are already beginning to express their wishes for Christmas. They were asked to draw what they wanted most. The Continued on page eleven

From the Intermediate Department

George Vaughan was disappo:nted because he could not go homc Thanksiving.
Sue Brannon hasn't heard frord her brother for a month. He is in the avy in San Francisco, Calif. She has written to him several times. Sue knows that sailors ar~ very busy, and she will continue writing to him although he hasn't time to write to her.
Brinkley Smith will spend the Christmas holidays at home. His mother has sen t him the money for his ticket. He expects to enjoy seeing his family. He hopes that his family will be fine when he sees them.
James Vickers is a Boy Scout. He helped at the football game with Bremen. He sold peanuts. They were five cents a bag. He old a lot. Raymond sold coca colas. They were five cents each, too.
Robert Davis did not go home for Thanksgiving, but he wen~ to Talladega, Ala. to play football the twenty-seventh of November.
Pauline Childers received a letter from her brother, November 21. He wrote that she could come home for Thanksgiving.
Mary Godwin received a government check for ten dollars from her brother who is a soldier. Mary also received six dollars from her father. She is planning to buy some shoes and new clothes for herself. She will get ten dollars every month from the government.
Mary Moon was very sorry to hear that Mary Baker's gandmother died. She missed Mary while she was away from school.
James Hattrich got a letter from his father November 19. He sent him two dollars. That was the first time that he had heard from his father in a long time.
Sunday afternoon, November21, the girls went to the spring. A few took some pictures of Olin Murphy. Jannie received a letter from her mother that day. She wretr that someone would drive to school to get Jannie, Patsy, and Rose

Mal y for Thanksgiving.
William Bell helped Mrs. Gibbons, Mrs. Sewell and Mr=-. Montgomery to can sweet potatoe at the cannery one a ftemoon in November.
Clarence Highfield and two other boys raked leaves for Mrs. Montgomery all Saturday afternoon.Clarence was the boss of the crew. The lawn looked lovely when the boys finished. Mrs. Montgomery said that the boy~ were fine workers. She paid them seventy-five cents each.
Maudene got a letter from her mother Saturday. She said thar Duwayne could walk now. Maudene is very happy.
Hope ElIis went to Rome one Saturday with the boys. He went to the movies.
Loraine Kicklighter likes to be a cheer leader. She wants OUr team to win every game.
Loraine Kicklighter received a letter from her brother-in-I aw in the army Sunday morning. She was glad to hear from him. He told her that he would write her often. He will get a furlough to see his wife. She is glad that he will come home soon.
Homer Benson got a letter from his mother November 23. She sent him some Christmas seals. He will try to sell them to help people who have tuberculosis.
Homer Benson, Clarence Highfield, and Jack Callaway worked for Mrs. lontgomery ne Saturday afternoon. The raked leaves and cleaned up for her. Jack earned fifty-five cents. Mrs. 110ntgomery bought stamp~ for him with some of the money.
Mary Baker's daddy came to gct her Novemb r 16. Her grandmother died that day about half past twelve. Her grandmother wa', buried Thursday at twelve o'clock Her Aunt Eula spent four days with her.
Raymond Baker got a letter from his brother last Sunday morning. He wrote him that Edward was pcrated on two weeks ag for appendicitis. Ray
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hopes that his cousin will soon be well.
Wylodean Spells's mother wrot~ to her recently. She said that her father would come to Atlanta to meet her when school was out for Christmas. She also said that all the family were eager to see Wylodean.
Georgia Hargrove's cous111 , Woodrow Perryman, has been home on a thirty-day furlough. Her mother wrote and told her about it. He has gone to North Carolina where he will spend a month. Then he will go back to the Panama Canal. He missed seeing Georgia and she was sorry to miss seeing him, too.
Thelma Halloway's mother has moved to a new place. She wrote and told Thelma that their new home had seven nice rooms. Thelma also had a letter from her sister, Mildred, November 22. She sent her a dollar.
Mary Robert's sister, Helen, is very eager to see Mary. She will come by airplane to see Mary November 28. Mary's mother wrote and told her that.
Junior Culberson went to Atlanta, Ga. with his daddy the tenth of November. His doctor took an xray of his leg and showed it to him. Then he said that he didn't want Junior to walk with crutches any more, but he wanted him to walk with a cane. Thp. doctor said his leg was a little better. Junior is very much delighted that his leg is so much better. The doctor said that he was going to send Junior his cane and shoes soon.
Grace Sharpe received a box and a letter from her mother Novem ber 19. Mrs. Sharpe told her that she would send her a new winter coat and some money soon. She want~ Grace to come home for Christmas.
Janie Elder's mother, brother. two aunts, and an uncle came to see her Sunday morning, ovember 2 I. She was surprised. Her Aunt Berta gave her some nuts. apples, and peanuts, a h,1nd-
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December, 1943

THE SCHOOL HELPER
AIl communications should be addressed to the School Helper, Cave Spring. Georgia.
Published monthly during the school year in the printing department of the Georgia School for the Deaf.
Entered at the post-office at Cave Spring, Georgia as second class matter November, 1889. Acceptance for mailing at special rate of postage provided in Section 1103. Act of October 3, 1917. Authorized October 31, 1918.

and bandaged representatives of all the schools that they had defeated this season.
We were especially pleased with the performance of the "Pep Squad." Never have the girls and boys entered more whole-heartly into the yells, the Victory song. and the Alma Mater. We contend that hearing pupils could not have cheered more enthusiastically and lustily than this group of deaf children. Much interest was centerd in the primary children as they added their yells to our support.

Subscription price is fifty cents for eight issues.

All in all the day was a distinct success, thanks to the cooperation of everyone concerned. and we hope

C. H. HOLLINGSWORTH NELL A. GIBBONS __ __ _
MARIE S. KENNARD
OLAF L. TOLLEFSON _ _

Superintendent Editor
_ _ Associate Editor Printing Instructor

that there will be many more such happy occasions. Among the guests present besides Dr. Collins, were
Mr. J. Roy McGinty, Mr. Aaron Cohen. and Mr. Bruce Hall of the State Department of Education; Mr. C. M. Reed, Superintendent of Vocational

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Education, and Mrs. Reed; Mr. O. W. Passovant. No.3 State Purchasing Supt. and Mrs. Passovant; Mr. J.
R. Hornaday, Editor of the Rome News-Tribune;

HOME-COMING DAY

Mr. J. J. Medlin, Supt. Floyd County Schools; Mr.

J. Scott Davis, Chairman Floyd County Board of The annual Home-Coming Day to which we had . Education; Mr. R. H. Hogan, Supt, Cave Spring

been looking forward for several weeks was celebrated High School; Mr. A. D. Littlejohn, Chairman

at the Georgia School for the Deaf Friday. November 19. There was some disappointment that the guests were un"able to arrive at the scnool at 10.30 as an interesting tour of the buildings, grounds. farm,

House of Representatives Committee for G. S. D.; Mr. John M. Graham, Mr. Henry Pyne, and Mr. William DuPre from the Rome Chamber of Commerc, and Mr. Josh Tumlin, Mayor of Cave Spring.

dairy" and colored department had been planned at

that time which would have given them a clearer picture of the school as a whole. However at the luncheon, which was served at I o'clock. the guests had an opportunity of seeing a little primary classroom work demonstrated by Mrs. Kennard and a group of children who have been in school several
months.
Mr. Hollingsworth who presided over the luncheon introduced Dr. M. D. Collins, State Superintendent of Schools. and a number of other prominent visitors who expressed pleasure at being able to visit the school and note the improvements which have been accomplished in the past few years.

Professor Irving Fusfeld, for 23 years Editor of the American Annals of the Deaf. has resigned because of other duties. He m"aintained a high editorial and professional standard throughout his editorship. His place has been ably assumed by Dr. Ignatius Bjorlee.
-The Arizona Cactus Professor Fusfeld will be sadly missed from the Annals. The two have been inseparably linked for so many years that it is hard to think of one apart from the other: However, under the able guidance of Dr. Bjorlee, we feel sure the Annals will maintain its same high standard-Ed.

Th high-light of the day was the football game

The Best Team

in the afternoon between G. S. D. and Btemen High. Again the G. S. D. Bluejays chalked up "a victory by defeating Bremen 33 to 0, making seven victories in a row for our team and leaving them still undefeated for the season thus far.
Between the halves the girls and boys staged a peppy drill which was splendidly executed. The girls' costumes consisted of white shirts and blue skirts, ties and hairbows and the boys wore white shirts, blue ties. and dark trousers. Favorable comments were heard on every side concerning the neat appearance of the children and the splendid training they hao received in order to perform the drill so .accurately.

Somehow we feel that the only really worthwhile football team of the year was the one at Cave Spring, Georgia. There the Georgia School for the Deaf organized a team which had a magnificent season, losing only one game.
With a squad of only 19 men. the team played a full schedule. Unable to hear the whistle or signals. the team met and mastered six teams of boys who possessed full use of their hearing. Lacking vocal support from their cheering section and their fellow players, they nevertheless had great spirit and. incidentally, a lot of fun. They got a great deal out of the game, such as more confidence and poise. It is

A clever skit was also put on at this time in which an all-Georgia team and, we think, the team which

one of the boy dressed in a Bluejay costume represent- has accomplished the most during the season.

ing the football team drove from the field the batterd

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Superintendent's Corner

OF Do you laue

course you do,

your child?

but attention is

called to an ar-

ticle entitled, Misguided Affections

appearing on the exchange page

of this issue of the Helper. Perhaps

at Christmastide more tban at any

other season we are imbued with

the spirit of Christ when He says,

Suffer little children to came unto

me and Come unto me all ye

who are heauy laden and I will giue you rest. That pa~ents'

affections are misled and misdirect-

ed at times. there can be no

question; particularly can this be

applied to their concern regarding

their deaf boy and girl.

The article referred to tells

about the "too little and too late"

educational advantage accorded

boys and girls kept out of scho~l

until their teen age or later. To this

neglect can be added that of the

parents who allow their child to

drop out of school too soon or

miss much time by unnecessary

absenteeism. For the teacher of the

deaf each day must be a planned

da y. Each lesson or drill is so

important that if missed becomes

a day to be made up. Thus, an

added sacrificial burden is placed

on the teacher or else, the individu-

al pupil is sorely neg~ected.

Both situations are conduciVe to

dire results. When one child of a

class is absent a week or ever a day,

the machinery of the whole

organization is thrown out of

smooth and efficient functioning.

This situation is deplorable even

with normal children-how much

more so with the deaf where the

problem of educating is so much

more intricate and difficult. Parents

remember this and let your affec-

tion for your child be a wise and

truly lovable one.

AS ~

A Visit With

luck would

Patrons

have it, Mr.

(Continued)

and Mrs. J.

M. Hargraves lived in a govern-

ment housing community only two

blocks from The Anchorage where

we were stopping. Wesley was

located and examined latt the first

afternoon of our arrival. However,
the Hargraves had just recently planned to move to Jacksonville and consequently they were more interested in information regarding private schools in that city and regarding the State School at St. Augustine. As best w~ could. we gave them the informatiOn deslfed. The next morning we learned that Mr. and Mrs. Claude Beavers had already moved to we know not where. - Doubtless all schools for the deaf are finding that the transitory and unsettled c~nditioIl;s of working people dunng thiS time of war upheaval presents problems in the education ?f. the exceptional child more difficult than that found in the provision for the normal boy and girl.
Our fears regarding Friedson Odom and Carlton Scurry, two bright youngsters employed at the J.A. Jones Construction Company in this city, were soon dissipated. These two were both promoted to the Junior class in the spring and we were confident that it was to the best interest of them both to continue in school. In this case again the lure of attractive wages was something for the school and parents to be concerned about.
The next afternoon we premeditatedly slipped off fro~ lab?r to St. Simon Island. In fact, if all was well, we entertained hopes of several days of leisure under conditions as conducive to rest and recreation as that our imagination had let us believe would be found the week before on Tybee Island. The spirit of bygone lore completely possessed us as we headed out the causeway leading to the Golden Isles. Historic St. Simon and the small adjacent Sea Island are important landmarks. English settlers in 1736 found decadent orange and olive groves that had been set out by Franciscan frairs almost two hundred years before. Since the occupation of St. Simon by white men four centuries ago it had been successively under the dominion of Spain, England, the United States, Confederate States
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of America and again the United
States. There are ghosts on thesl
isles - congenial ghosts to those
who love history. Spirits of Spanish monks must certainly dwell there, of James Edward Oglethorpe, of John and Charles Wesley, of slaves and of plantation owners. Then there was Fanny Kemble, the beautiful and talented English actress wife of Pierce Bu~ ler whose rather tragic life and published diary did more to stir up international opposition to slavery than did Harriet Beecher Stowe's, Uncle Tom's Cabin. Yes, there is inescapable glamour and glory in the history of St. Simon. There Southern plantation life found its inception. The only home (Orange Hall) that Oglethorpe ever owned in America was on St. Simon. He loved the place. The Island's virgin forest furnished timber for the first United States Navy, including the frigate Consititution (Old Ironsides). And considering the Spanish influence the oldest white culture of the origional thirteen colonies was founded on this island.
Well, history is history and the past is gone. We had to forcefully pull ourselves from this historic musing to face the pleasant realities of the day. Suddenly as inspiration hit us, kerplop,-Mr. J. D. Compton, manager of the fashion'able Cloister Hotel, had sometime previously requested that when we were in this vicinity to drop by for a conference relative to a special training program in hotel work for deaf boys and girls. Here were exciting possibilities aside from the mere business at band. The more we toyed with these possibilities the more excited we became. That we might be invited to spend the night;, in this millionaire stop-over between Sandy Hook and Nassau, was within tbe realm of reason. We had always wanted to experience a ~ 25.00 per day hotel extravaganza. What was it like anyway? The more we played with the idea the more fanciful our thinking became.

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Perhaps magnifying the business might elicit an invitation covering several days. Maybe there would even be a suggestion that the wife j in us for the interim. \Ve had worked up to such a dither that as we parked outside this magnificent hostelry we found ourselves feeling disdainful to such a lowly approach. We tried to exploit the effect of this fanciful evolution as we, with feigned dignity" inquired for Me. Compton. Then came an array of disquieting information. as: Mr. Compton is in the army. The new manager, Mr. So and So. is on the golf links. Is there anything I can do for you? I don't think we are interested. You might ee Me. Miller, the steward, etcThings were not working just right some way. There was a sense of rather rapid deflation of pride and ego. It didn't help any to be shown to the kitchen-neither WJ:; the situation helped when over the kitchen telephone Mr. Miller intimated that he was resting and not to be disturbed-but what was our business? He finall y said. "Stay where you are and I will be there presently". There in the midst of hurrying waitresses and humming mechanical conveyers a regeneration of ego was tried but not to any great avail -Mr. Miller seemed not to be interested in deaf employees and knew nothing of the former manager's request. Just a few moments later after being shown out through a side door, we were experiencing difficulty in finding our way through a labyrinth of wings, annexes and out buildings but finall y found the original point of entrance. Then to cap the climax, horror of horrors, there stood the Ford all a flat tire. A man's endurance can stand just so much. Was this the breaking poi 11 t or a time f r heroic sel f assertion? "Man or mouse," "man or mouse" kept racing through our befuddled brain. Finally, with
houlders squared and head snapped up, we tightened our belt and rolled up our sleeves. Yes, we knew how to change a tir.e :lnd was man enough to do it! Uniformed servvants who would have sneered at a

dollar tip for such a service were completely ignored. The car was parked on the aft side from the shore line and away from the breeze-W A S IT HOT. The local Chamber of Commerce would not want it said but the wheel rim had sunk into the asphalt pavement as though it were putty. We will wager the impression of the Jack is still on that surface that was practically boiling. Soon we were as wet with "honest sweat" as if we had been dipped into the nearby swimming pool. Our tie hung a limp rag, salty sweat burn d our eyes and smeared our glasses: but nothing deterred us as we methodically and with neat dispatch performed the task at hand. What a man! Never was a spirit more purged nor a body more comfortable than ours as we went sailing through the breezes that so refreshingly chilled our wet cloth ing. Several false starts on road~ that terminated in dead ends or bridle paths, did not weaken our spirits. Coming to a bus stop we wheeled into the curb and astonished two would be passengers by saying, ''I'll take you ladies where you are going if you will show me how to get off this island." These two hesitated but then sensing the humor of the situation, laughingly suited action to assent and we were on our way. The passengers divulged that they were wives of coast guardsmen located on the island. Their destination was just a few blocks from where we desired to go.
Soon we were registered in a little hotel facing the beach where over the room door was plainly posted "$3.50 a day single, O.P.A. regulations." Glory be, we were back in our own element again! In just a few minutes we were splashing in the surf happily disdainful of anything the Cloister could possibly offer a weary traveler. The sun went down and the moon came up and yet Il was with great reluctance we finally tore loose from the embrace of the semi-tropical Atlantic. Later it was a sea food dinner, "fit or a king" and sleep such as can come
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only to a comfortably tired and well fed body. In the early da wn we had all the surf and expansiw beach to ourselves almost an hour before some other hearty souls, impelled by a desire for a before breakfast swim, came straggling in. Following a midmorning breakfilst we decided that since vacation was coming in such big doses, we could afford to move on. The fact that there was a young mother with her baby (another wife of a soldier) in the lobby, tired and weary from a fruitless search of a room, probabl y helped in making this decision. One hour later we were in Brunswick waiting for that inglorious tire to be mended. Another snatch at a vacation was over.
Arrangements had been previously made whereby Mrs. John K. DuBose, Child Welfare Consultant, Waycross, would see and examine Hartwell Rhone, colored applicant at Kingsland. This point was directly south near the Florida border. The map disclosed that more than 100 miles would be saved by avoiding that leg of the journey. \Ve are grateful indeed to Mrs. DuBose for this extraordinary service. That it was well done is attested to by the fact that Hartwell is eligible in every respect and is getting along fine in school.
It was about 3 :00 p. m. Frida, August 13, when we pulled out of Brunswick, headed for Doug] as, about 75 miles distance. We picked up a hitchbicking sailor, and luckily for him he was going directly to his home at Douglas on furlough: luckily for us he possessed a driver's license and drove most all the way.
Douglas is in the heart of the tobacco belt. A score or more buyers were stopping at the hoteL Buying had been brisk that day and prices were good. That night it was very interesting to sit around and listen to the buyers and warehousemen swap yarns. Occasionally a planter would drop in to discuss the day's sales, prospect.> for the morrow, and otherwise pass the time with the hotel group.
It was about 11:00 o'clock Saturday when we arrived at
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"The Best Team"

SUMMARY OF THE SEASON

G. S. D. vs Bremen (At Bremen) Odom garnered the extra point on

Bremen kicked off deep into
G. S. D. territory. Singletary receiving fumbled and recovered but was tackled on the ten. Odom
made five through tackle. On the next play G. S. D. fumbled and Bremen recovered. Three play~ later Bremen hit paydirt but
failed to get the extra point.

a fake buck through center. Bremen opened the second half
with a passing attack that quickly fizzed. Odom returned the Bremen punt from his forty to the Bremen thirty-five. A line plunge by Padgett gained five. Padgett, Odom, and Palmer alternating took the ball to the Bremen twenty. Here Bremen stiffened her

G. S. D. received again, Odom defense and for three downs held

and Palmer alternating carried the G. S. D. to no gain. On the fourth,

ball to Bremen's forty. Here a Odom broke through left tackle

reverse was thrown for a loss and and cut sharply to the right. Catch-

Odom punted out of bounds on ing the Bremen secondary off

Bremen's twenty. The remainder balance he raced into the open and

of the first quarter was an exchange crossed the goal with none near to

of punts, neither team getting deep hinder. Again, Georgia converted

in the other's territory.

and the score stood 14 to 6 in

In the last of the second quarter, their favor.

Odom swept around the right end For the remainder of the game

and evading Bremen's secondary Bremen tossed long passes, none

crossed the goal standing up. of which was successful. They

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did connect on one or two short passes but never came close enough to seriously threaten the G. S. D. goal line.
G. S. D. 30 Cave Spring 6
Cave Spring proved no opponent to the G. S. D. Odom scored once in each quarter. Padgett intercepted a Cave Spring pass and raced 60 yards for a goal in the tbird quarter to round the score out. The placekick~ went wild and no extra points were scored. Cave Spring's lone tally occurred in the fourth period when G. S. D:s substitutes were c ught flat footed on a long pass. Cave Spring failed to convert.
G. S. D. Vs Rockmart at (Rockmart)
G. S. D. received the opening kickoff. Odom leading the charge

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as usual, they picked up fir t down ::l fterfirst down, advancing to the Rockmart twenty. Here they were confronted with a twenty yard strip of mud since here the grass had been worn off the field and a recent rain had soaked the ground. Palmer took the ball through tackle but slipped and made no gain. Padgett slipped in a lire plunge and the drive bogged down, Odom punting out of bounds on the Rockmart five on the fourth down. Rockmart punted and again G.S.D. advanced easily to the twenty yard line where General Mud took over.
In th second quarter, Rockman made its first threat and advanced to the G. S. O. thirty. Here the recovered a fum b I e and the field being reversed, they had no General Mud to contend with mashed their way to paydirt, Odom covering the last fifteen yards in a corkscrew dash around right end.
In the second half G. S. D. kicked off to Rockmart with the mud at their backs. The G. S. D. line smothered Rockmart's running plays and forced them to punt. Starting from their forty, the Bluejays hit paydirt in exactly five plays around alternate ends, Odom and Palmer totin' the ball approximately ten yards at a c1ipOdom going over from the fifteen. Rockmart then unleashed a passing attack, passing on every down. An intercepted pass gave the ball to G. S. D. on their forty but a fumble gave the ball back to Rockmart on their 35 as the quarter ended.
In the final quarter, Rockmart continued to pass on every down. They made two first downs, then Singletary intercepted for G. S. D. and the parade started over again. This time the muddy end proved no barrier and Padgett crashed over from the five.
Rockmart received and started another passing attack. Again an interception gave the BlueJays the ball. Coach Tollefson sent in every sub he had on the bench but still the march went on. the subs playing like veterans. Taking

he ball on the Rockmart thirty, Od ill raced into the open, straight ned out for the corner of the field and outran all 0] p Sltl n to score the final counter. e.G. Turner. tackle, madt the placekick and the score was 27 to 0 in G. S. D.'s favor.
G. . 0 13 Collinsville 6
On October 22, Collinsville, who had upset Rome High School in the early part of the s'ason, was it elf upset by a band of fighti ng BI ueja ys from G. S. D. Early in the first quarter Collinsville stopped G. S. D.'s running attack . nd took over with an attack of their own. Advancing teadil y, they smashed across the goal linoe from the five. Their place kick for extra point failed.
G. S. D. received and advanced to their forty-five only to be forced to punt. Odom punted out of bounds on Collinsville thirty. Then the G. S. D. line settled down to business and though the Collinsville running attack gained yardage, the drive could not be maintained and Collinsville punted. From then till the last of the second quarter both teams were unab e to make much headway. \\ itb fifteen seconds remaining of tbe econd quarter, Odom took the ball on tbe G. S. D. forty and sta rted off througb left tackle. Two Collinsville tacklers were tbere to meet him but a corkscrew twi t and a stiff arm proved too much for them and our own Friedson was out in the open bound for a goal as the whistle blew. The Collinsville safety tried desperatel)T to tackle but from somewhere Odom found the strength to put on a final burst of speed to elude Lim and continued to the goal. Odom converted and the Jays walked off the field, leading by a single point at half.
Collinsville put on a sustained drive in the opening of the second half that took them to G. S. D.'s five. There the G. S. 0 line dug in and got the ball on downs.
Odom punted and again Collinsville drove to the shadow of the goal posts only to have an
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end drop a touchdown pass in th~ end zone. In the fourth quarter G. S. D.'s line seemed to grow stronger while Collinsville seemed to give up the ghost. The G,_S. D. running play began to click and Odom soon carried the pigskin to the Collinsville five. From there Mack Padgett hit center and kept going till the last white line was crossed. Odom failed to convert. but Collinsville was beaten and the final whistle found G. S. D advancing toward another counter.
G. S. D. 26 - Rockmart 13
Rockmart scored early on a pass and the Bluejays quickly evened things up when Odom took the ball for a jaunt through left tacklt. The Bluejays took the lead with a single point. In the second quarter G.S.D., with e.G.Turner running as fullback and Odom and Palmer alternating through tackle and around end, marched to the Rockmart thirty. Here they lost on a fumble and Rockmart started an advance of their own that struck G.S.O. paydirt and then the Blueja ys pinned up their tailfeathers and reall)' went to town. Odom hitting the jackpot three times more on runs of 30, 20, and 40 yards each before he was replaced when Coach Tollefson cleaned the bench. Rockmart again fell back on their passing attack with negative results and the final score was 26 to 13
HOMECOMING GAME.
- G. S. D. - BREMEN
G. S. D. received and went to Bremen 30. There they lost the ball on a fumble. Bremen took over and advanced to the fifty where they were forced to punt. Capt. Odom then took over and advanced for a touchdown, making it via a spurt around right end, and also made the extra point.
In the second quarter Ned Palmer raced around left end on a ten yard jaunt to paydirt. Full back e. G Turner did yeomanly service ir setting up this counter carrying the ball through center on several ten yard jaunts.
Bremen started passing in the Continued on page twelve

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following suggestions will help the parents select their gifts: Dear Santa Claus,
I am good. I want a ball, a gun, a football, a tie, an airplane, a box of candy, and a toy car.
I love you. Claude Fuqua
Dear Santa Claus, We are good boys. Please bring
us a ball, a bat, a football, three pairs of pants, three watches, three handkerchiefs, and three ties.
We love you. R. T., Tarver, and Roy Holmes
Dear Santa Claus, I am a good girl. I want a pretty
dres&, beads, shoes, socks, a comb, a toothbrush, and a bottle of perfume.
I love you. Daisy Smith
Dear Santa Claus, I am a good boy. Please get me
a football. a ball. a gun, a watch, a toy truck, a tie, and a box of candy.
I love you. Franklin Dyess
Dear Santa Claus, I am good. Please get me a big
horn, a doll house, a scooter, a bicycle, and a toy car.
I love you. Neal Crews
Dear Santa Claus, I shall be good. I want a big
toy bus, a blue tie, a football, a gun, socks, shoes, a drawing book, an airplane, and a doll.
I love you. Fleming Bloodworth Dear Santa Claus, I am a good boy. Please bring me a big box of candy, two ties, boots, a gun, a watch, a drawing book, a ball, two handkerchiefs, and a bicycle.
I love you. Jerry Presnell
Dear Santa Claus, I shall be good. I want a big red
ball, a pretty dress, a watch, socks, and a big box of cand y.
I love you. Virginia Hardeman
Dear Santa Claus, I am good. I want a doll, <1
pretty dress, socks, shoes, beads,

and a box of candy. I love you. Grace Roberts
-Gladys Clark's Class
For the past few weeks I ha ve tried to vary the work done during the inspection period so that it will not become a matter of routine but will create in each child a desire to be clean and neat in appearance.
At first the children learned to recognize the printed questions. In order to bring in more speech reading I ask, "Did you wash your hands this morning?" "Did you clean your nails?" They answer orally or write the corresponding statement on the board-I washed my hands this morning and I cleaned my nails this morning.
Occasionally I let the children play teacher and select one to do the inspecting. He holds up the printed card "Did you wash your hands this morning?" After the answer is given he writes the corresponding statement on the boadAnne washed her hands.
Each child is eager now to have clean hands and nails. For the past few days they haven't waited for the inspection period but wanted me to see their hands and nails before we marched into the classroom.
The other health questions are presented in the same way.
When we go to lunch or when fruit or cookies are served before recess, they try very hard not to drop food or soil their clothes. We have talked about clean clothes, clean shoes, the care of the hair and teeth until each child is conscious of cleanliness and has a desire to look nice and clean.
-Frances Little's Class Fridayv November 19, will long be remembered by the children in our class. It was Home Coming Day and all of us were allowed to go to the football game that afternoon. We marched from the dormitory to the ball field waving our school colors. We had special grand stand seats. It was the first football game for most of us. It wa an exciting game and we enjoyed it immensely in spite of the

fact that we didn't understar.d
every thing about it.
We felt quite important as we
had our own cheer leaders and
yells. Vivian Turner was one of
the four cheer leaders and she
certainly did her part well. Frances Tatum almost stole the show when she lead some of the yells by turning cart wheels. Juanice Dukes, Rosemary Smith, Martha Maxey, Ann Thompson, Wynell Godwin, Fay Johnso'l. Louise Murphy, Mary Ann Durrence, Gene Lanier, Robert Wooten and Eugene Baggett were big supporters in the yells.
--Jessie Jones's Class
We have started a new hobby in our class, and the children are certainly enjoying it. We are keeping scrap books.
We had a good time making the covers. Mrs. Kennard gave u~ some green cardboard. We cut out letters from scraps of cloth that Mrs. Highnote brought to school and pasted them on, forming the words SCRAP BOOK. The covers are very attractive with such a variety of letters in striped, checked, and plain material.
We are collecting poems, songs, and prayers. We try to group our work around certain thoughts. For example, all we have taken up recently has been about Thanksgiving. Next week we shall start thinking about Christmas. We want to add the Story of the Life of Jesus written in very simple form and a few Christmas songs and poems. We have already started looking for Christmas pictures that we might use in our scrap books.
Jackie Dukes~ Billie Wood. Alma Wooten, and Jene Pritchett are interested in the songs we collect. Roscoe Dukes, Thomas Rucker, Laura Pope, Faye Nelle Evans, Evelyn Robinson, Ruby Suggs, and Ruth Owens enjoy the poems. We are all getting a lot of pleasure from our scrap books and will keep adding to them all year.
Emmalee Highnote's Cla's5

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FOOTBALL
Cf uartcr with some success till Hugh
McLeroy swiped one and Odom
and Co. took over again. This time
Mack Padgett cut loose from Bremen's thirty and waltzed arou nd right end for the tally. Turner converted. From then to the final whistle Bremen passed nearly every down. The G. S. D. backs were alert and the line rushing the passes so that none connected excepting one short fIatzone pass. Twice more Ga. got the ball rolling and behind perfect blocking Odom made touchdowns running only at half the speed he was capable.
SUPTS CORNER
Ocilla. Mr. Norman R. Barrett, a former student at the Cave Spring Institution. had applied for admission of his seven-yearold daughter. She is one of the brightest and most attractive little girls in school. Mrs. Cross, Irwin County Welfare Director, and Mr. A. T. Fuller, employer, were very helpful by encouraging the parents and in assisting in the preparation and in the getting of little Jean off to school.
The arrival in Moultrie in the afternoon was too late to contact Mrs. Mary Knapp, Colquitt County Welfare Director. The applicant she was most interested in had been previously turned down as ineligible and one unable to profit by attending the Georgia School for the Deaf. The director and other county officials had requested another examination. Sunday morning we contacted Mrs. Knapp at her home. An examination was arranged for
the afternoon. v..,re are very grate-
ful to Miss ChJstine. a teacher in the North Carolina School for the Deaf and who lives at Moultrie, for assisting in this examination. We very regretfully had to support the findings of the previous examination of this child.
Little Shelva Jean White, another applicant, was accepted and like her brother, Herbert, now in the intermediate department, i:;

apparently very bright and promising.
Monday morning we were Thomasville bound.
(To Be Concluded)
L. P. F. EXCHANGES
Dr. Gallaudet and the excellent effort being made by the deaf in war production. We understand that several hundred deaf workerE' are employed by the company which built the S. S. Thomas H. Gallaudet and no doubt considerable amount of their work found its way into the construction of this vessel. It, therefore, represents a monument in more ways than one to the foresight and devotion of this early friend and benefactor of the deaf.-G.
The American Era
INTERMEDIATE DEPT.
kerchief, and some socks. Her Aunt Cleat gave her three lemons. Her mother told her that her soldier brother would come here next week. perhaps. She was glad. She hopes that he can come. Her mother, aunts, and uncle gave her some money before they left.
Raymond Baker and Bud Little are pals this year. They both enjoy playing baseball. They are eager for spring to come so that they can play baseball every day.
A. D. Ray attended the Fair in Macon with Mr. Caswell and some other boys. He enjoyed it very much.
John Harrell received a letter from his sister, Ruth, November 17. She told him tha t his brother hoped to be home for Christmas. He is a soldier and is stationed in Idaho now.
Tom Byrd and Herbert White skated for a long time one Saturday afternoon. They both like to skate. Herbert tried to skate very fast and he fell down. He skinned his knuckles badly.
Louida Benson got a letter from her brother and sister-in-law, Ralph and Ruth. She will write to them soon. Homer worked and earned some money Saturday, November 20. He gave Louida
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some of it that evening: There was a meeting of the
Dancing Club Monday evening. November 22. Seven girls and fifteen boys we1J.t to it. Alton Holman said that he enjoyed dancing very much.
Beth Noblitt had bad luck Sunday afternoon, November 21. She was playing with some of the girls out doors. They pushed her down on the ground in fun. The ants crawled all over Beth and bit her face, neck. and arms. Beth scratched and scratched. She had to go to the hospital for Miss Payne to put some soda on the bites.
Billie Ethridge and Billy Hayes pIa yed football Saturday afternoon, November 20. They had a very nice time.
Duwayne Dukes played football Saturday, November 20, and he enjoyed it. Then he played again Sunday and he was so tired that he rested for a little while. He had a grand time.
Some of the girls went to the cave Sunday afternoon, November 21. Joyce Avery gave Gertrude Hixson a vanilla ice cream cup. Some of the girls were afraid of the ducks. Gertrude was not afraid of them.
Doyle Norris went home for Thanksgiving. His shoes were worn out. He wanted Mr. Clark to repair them for him. Mr. Clark told him that he had too many shoes to mend. So Day 1 e had his shoes repaired at home.
Lewis Tucker's brother, Edgar, is a soldier. He has been in several camps. He was near Atlanta first Then he was at Fort Bragg, N. C. for five months. Now he is in New Orleans, La. Lewis has not heard from him since October. He said then that he was having good luck.
John Mock hopes that he will get a letter from his brother, Marvin, next week. He hopes that his brother is an officer by now. He has been in the army for four years. John has not seen him in four years. He wants to see him agam.

Sta te of Georgia
ELLIS ARNALL, Governor
Georgia School for the Deaf

5 TATE BOARD OF EDUCATION 111. D. COLLINS, State Superintendent of Schools

ADMINISTRATION

C. H. Hollingsworth. M. A. Superintendent

Jewell Pendley, Secretary O. W. Haney. Steward Evelyn Scoggins
Katie Payne, R. N.

J. C. Connor, M. D. W. S. Wat on, D. D. S. Lelia H. Barnett, Dietitian

INSTRUCTORS

Roy G. Parks, M. A., Principal

Primary Department

Intermediate and Advanced Department

Marie S. Kennard, B. S. Supervisor
Gladys B. Clark Mable L. Fincher Ruth D. Forbes Emmalee J. Highnote Jessie F. Jones Frances A. Little Viola McMichen, B. A. Miriam B. Minter

1 ell A. Gibbons, Supervisor
Barton Clark, B. A. Dorothy L. Henderson, B. S. Edythe D. Montgomery, B. S. Ila S. Sewell, B. S. Pauline J. Shahan, B. A. Frances M Tollefson, B. A. Olaf L. Tollefson, B. A. Mary P. Turner, B. A. Sarah F. Ware Maude M. Welch, B. A.

Vocational Department

R. R. Caswell, B.S.A., B.A. .

.

Agricultural Training

Olaf L. Tollefson, B. A..... Printing

A. May Clark . . . . . . Arts and Crafts

Stella E. Steele, M. A. .... Home

Loui 'e Montgomery. Beauty Culture

Annie McDaniel

Sewing

J. R. Ware

Carpentry

Earl Cox

Machine Shop

Everett Ryle

Barbering

Economics

Colored Department

Quinton Gordon, Principal

Henrieta Bailey Mattie Davis Lucille McCullough

Georgia McHenry James Rich Cynthia Strange

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"It is undoubtedly the duty of all persons to serve the country they live in, according to their abilities; yet I sincerely acknowledge, that I have hitherto been very deficient in this particular I now take up a resolu..tion, to do for the future all that lies in my way for the service of my countrymen." -- --Benjamin Franklin

The Soul of a Child
The soul of a child is the loveliest flower That grows in the garden of God.
Its climb is from weakness to knowledge and power To the sky from the clay and the clod.
To beauty and sweetness it grows under care Neglected, 'tis ragged and wild;
'Tis a plant that is tender but wonderously rare The sweet, wistful soul of a child.
. Be tender, Oh gardener, and give it its share Of moisture, of warmth, and of light,
And let it not lack for thy painstaking care To protect it from frost and from blight.
A glad day will come when its bloom shall unfold. It will seem that an angel has smiled,
Reflecting a beauty and sweetness untold, In the sensitive soul of a child. -Copied.

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No.4

L. P. F. Exchanges

Pearl Buck

launching. In tbe United States she

"THE had known Helen Keller and in language of signs I found China had occasionally met deaf

very interesting: I caught persons but she knew of no schools

myself trying to follow the inter- or organization for the Deaf in

preter but he was too quick for China. She had this interesting

mthe~r"

said Pearl Buck, noted in an interview-by-mail

aufor

theory:" indeed I don't believe there are many. It may be the

the Silent Cavalier recently. Miss children succumb more easily to

Buck had been the christener of illness there through lack of proper

the Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet care so fewer deaf people grow

at the launching on October 21: up."

this was her first contact with any

Miss Buck's general impressions

group of deaf persons.

of the deaf: My impressions of the

Miss Buck found the contact deaf from the brief contact at the

with the deaf not at all difficult. launching, was that they were not

A factor might have been her different from anybody else. At

concern to make a good, big splash first, of course, it seemed strange

so that no skipper, looking over - that the room was silent when it

the "bottle picture" would feel the ship was jinxed. Bad luck w~!1

was so fuil of lively young people. But then I saw that they were all

not follow the Gallaudet for: I talking together 'and soon they be-

made my splash a good one."

gan to laugh, and there was plenty

In reply to questions as to Of':' happy' noise. People commun-

possible difficulties in making her- icate in various ways and by means

self understood by the deaf, Miss of various languages. It seems to

Buck s.aid, "No I felt no misgiv- me that the deaf language is simply

ings as to making myself under- one of many others. That it hap-

stood. There was a very intelligent pens to be spoken by the hands in-

interpreter but besides that I could stead of lips is, I think, immater-

see that the general level of intelli- ial."-The Silent Cavalier.

gence of these deaf was very high.

I found no difficulty in com- Repetition is Valuable to Deaf

municating with the deaf persons I met. They seemed quick to catch one's meaning. ,.
When asked her opinion of

The Teacher of the Deaf Must Voluntarily Endure Constant Repetition

Thomas H. Gallaudet, Miss Buck After all, "genius is but the in-

replied, "I only know Thom~s finite capacity for taking pains."

Hopkins Gallaudet through his And one of the pains that teachers

work for the deaf and through of the deaf must voluntarily en-

brief biographies. My opinion on dure is that of constant repetition.

him therefore, can only be that he We must take nothing for granted.

was a very good man, single-mind- The hearing child has facts,

ed in purpose. What is extraordin- language, information of all kinds,

ary is how a life, touched by an repeated to him in innumerable

apparently small incident, through forms. Much of this he absorbs al-

a development of an interest, can most unconsciousl y through the

produce such great effect for so ear without any deliberate attempt

many people."

on the part of those around him

Miss Buck had had few con tacts to convey these few ideas. The

with deaf persons before the little deaf child gleans his know-

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ledge through the eye alone, admittedly a slower channel of communication to the brain than the ear, and the eye must depend largely upon the conscious effort of those who love the child sufficiently to speak directly to him. He loses all chance repetitions. We must make up to him in school. We must explain constantly, and repeat our explanation even at the risk of being tiresome. How often we hear the inexperienced teacher exclaim: "Johnny Jones is so stupid! I taught him that very thing last week, or last month or even last year, as the case may be-and now he can't remember it!" Is it not rather the teacher who is stupid, when she fondly thinks that one explanation will suffice for all the time? The very simple things are the biggest stumbling blocks to the deaf child because the teacher takes it for granted that he understands. Ask questions about the lessons. Make it alive. Be enthusiastic yourself, and you will create enthusiasm in your pupils. Incidentally drill, drill, drill-but don't let them know they are being drilled. Let the constant drops of repetitions sink in, and eventually you may hope to open the way for the spontaneous fountain of Language.-Dr. Elizabeth Peet.
Jobs Versus School
Many pupils are yielding to the temptation to quit school and cash in on the high wages paid in industry. The present acute manpower shortage makes it possible for almost anyone to find a job.
We want to caution boys and girls to think twice before they give up their education in exchange for a temporary position in a war plant. The pupils should keep in mind the fact that there will be a

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big turnover in labor and industry after this war, just as there was after the first World War. Competition wiIl be keen. Those who have an education wiIl have an advantage when it comes to getting and holding a Job.
The government does not want you to leave school before you are trained to take your place in the world. The government wiIl need weIl-trained men and woman after the war just as she needs them now.
A wise pupil wiIl sta y in school and get the training necesary for doing a job weIl in times of peace or war. This is not only patriotism it is also common sense. -Waldo Cordano, "The M ichigan Mirror."
Newspaper Advertisements
AIl newspapers print advertisements of jobs. If a man wants someone to work for him and does not know where to look for a person, the man puts an advertisement in a newspaper under the heading "Male Help Wanted," or "Female Help Wanted."
A man who does not have a job should look in the paper under the above headings, and if he finds a job which he thinks he can do, he either goes to the address or writes a letter.
Here is the way a "Help Wanted" advertisement looks in the paper. Look for these advertisements when you are looking for a job. (See foIlowing ads).
COLLECTOR 25-30; car necessary; local route; good earnings to hard worker; must furnish bond and reference. Apply 708, Nat!. Bank Bldg., 1333 G st. nw.
Must furnish bond-Must have money or have someone who wiIl stand behind you with money.
BARBER wanted; young American; must be sober and first-class. Yates Barber Shop, 1431 Fst.nw.
Must be sober-Must not drink.

WANTED-Two men, 40 yrs. or over, with sales experience, to work with district nationally known electrical product. Rapid advancement and DRAWING ACCOUNT to men who qualify. Apply 724 lIth st. nw., 8 :30-11 a. m. only.
ORAWING ACCOUNT-Money wiIl be furnished for expenses.
SOUTHERN young lady des. pos. as compo or child nurse; expo ,refs. Box 305, post.
des.-desires or wants pos.-position or job comp.-companion
exp.~xperience
refs.-references
SALES WOMAN, expo for better dresses and coats. For dept. store. State age, expo and salary expected. Write 15888, Sun.
Dep. store-Department store
GIRL (white), reliable, gen'l housework, assist (2) children. Live in. Private room Tux. 5549- W after 11 a. m.
Gen'l housework.-general house work
COOK, (white) for smaIl tourist home. Clean cooking. $7 wk. room ~ meals. Phone Elkridge 34.
Wk.-Week
CHAMBERMAID (white) and assist with nursing. Gentiles. Refs. 17688, Sun.
Gentiles-People who are not Jews
WHITE or colored for g.h.w. living in vicinity BaIlston. W.A. 9034-R.
g. h. w.-general house work
CYLINDER-PRESS FEEDER, must be A-Ion color and-register. Apply AMERICAN GUILD, 1207 Court square Bldg.
A-I-Very good or an expert in his line

PRESSER-Experienced on ladies' and men's work; none other need apply. 5018 Conn. ave. nw.
Presser-Worker in a laundry or dry cle.aning establishment
MAN, middle-aged, quiet, for farm chores and family garden. Fond of horses; board, room and laundry; smaIl salary, permanent. Write 17040, Sun.
Middle-aged-Not too old. around 45

When you answer any advertise-

ment do it the day it appears in the newspaper. If you gO to the address

-go early. Many times the first

man to arrive gets the job. If you answer an advertisement

by letter always teIl all about your-

self. REMEMBER-The employ-

er may be a busy man, so do not

write a long letter.

In order to save money and

space, the man who puts the adver-

tisement in the newspaper tries to

make his ad as short as possible.

Therefore. sometimes abbreviations (short spelling for words)

are used. The foIlowing are some

abbreviations with their meanings

which you might find when read-

ing the "Help Wanted" advertise-

ment.

comm.

commission

oppr.

opportunity

expo

experience

sal.

salary

refs.

references

mid:aged middle-aged

perm.

permanent

pos.

position

ed.

education

des.

desires

spee.

special

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wanted

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colored required

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department

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tin. Reprinted from the Lone tar.

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From the Advanced Department

Bobby Rose enjoyed having

Carlton Scurry and Billy Adams

spend a few days with him during

the holidays.

Vera Reeder found a great many

presents when she got home. She

had a good time going to the

picture show. The picture she liked

best was "Behind the Rising Sun".

Billie Ethridge spent two weeks

of his Christmas vacation with his

grandmother in Macon. She had

fallen down the steps and hurt her-

self.

James Sharpton was very happy

when he got home Christmas and

found that his brother, Troy, was

there. He thought that he was in

the army but he was working at

Robin Field at Macon.

Carlton Huff had a wonderful

time at home. He got quite a few

nice presents. One was a real leather

bill fold with a zipper.

Hulet Hawkins had a good time

during the holidays. He and Louis

Keaton went to see the picture,

Northern Pursuit.

Frances Bartlett got more

presents this year than she had ever

received before. She spent the holi-

days visiting at Center Hill and

helping her mother at home.

Jewel Wilson spent the holidays

at home. She received a great many

lovely gifts and Christmas cards.

One of her most appreciated gifts

was a large picture of her brother

who is in the Marine Corps.

Elaine Pannal received more

gifts than she had expected Christ-

mas. Her father, mother, and

brother gave her twelve dollars.

She had a good time shopping

with Catherine Langer. Elaine said

this Christmas was the first time

she had ever seen snow in

Savannah.

Marvin Harrell's mother and

father gave him a blue suit, a green

zipper jacket, and a blue sweater

for Christmas.

.

Louis Keaton is very proud of

the fountain pen and eversharp

pencil which his mother gave him

for Christmas. He enjoyed visiting

Hulet Hawkins. They went to the

Fox Theatre several times

Joyce Sellers had a good time

at home riding horseback This is her favorite sport.
James Galloway is happy to be back in school. He had a good time during his Christmas vacation. He spent a great part of his time with his friends, Paul, Clark, and Day Strickland.
Mary Frances Bates had a quiet time at home. The weather was too unfavorable to visit very much. Her mother had influenza and Mary Frances acted as nurse.
Ned Palmer missed his school mates during the holidays. He was kept busy helping his father cut wood.
Olin Murphy went to see Roscoe Singletary. They met William Massey and his wife. Olin also visited in Tifton and saw Janie Smith and Walter Wade.
Carolyn Gunnells was sick with a cold during the holidays. She does not like winter weather and she said she almost froze to death every time she went out of the house.
Olin Love's mother and father gave him a twenty-five dollar bond for Christmas. He had a good time at home but was glad to get back to school.
Bill Nelson worked for a week just before he came back to school. He made sixteen dollars but he did not like his job.
Joyce Avery's cousin, Zoe Ellen Owen visited her Christmas. They had a good time shopping. Joyce went home with her and spent a week.
Carlton Scurry did a lot of visiting Christmas. He went to Waycross and Hoboken. He had a good time going to tnt: show with his niece, Marion Thompson.
Billy Peace helped his father on the farm the first part of his vacation. He then visited his aunt in Atlanta.
Catherine Langer got a great many nice presents Christmas. She spent her time helping her mother.
Frances Hoy had two nice long trips during her vacation. She went first to West Palm Beach, Florida then to Richmond, Virginia. She found the Florida weather very
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nice and warm and Virginia very cold.
Jackie Hallman received among many other gifts a twenty-five dollar bond. She enjoyed going to the movies while she was at home, but she said she was happy to get back to school.
e. G. Turner had a nice trip
home through the country. During his stay at home he helped his sister in the post-office. He also went hunting and to the movies several times.
Etta Lee Kilgore was glad to see her new home. She likes their new house better than the one that burned after she came to school last year.
Roscoe Singletary worked all during the holidays. He enjoyed his work but he was glad to get back to school.
Alton Dominey had quite a
long vacation. He went home on December 6 to see his brother who was at home on furlough.
Josepq Gillespie thought the time ~Iipped away rather rapidly during his vacation. He went to the picture show almost every day. He saw his fri~nd Roy Herbert who is a former student of G. S. D.
Hugh McLeroy worked in Fred Jones's shoe shop while he was at home.
Willene Letson's oldest brother came home for the holidays. He surprised Willene with a lovely wrist watch.
Jane Murphy worked in a beauty shop for three weeks. This was the first job Jane had ever had. She had a good time going to the skating rink and visiting her friends in Savannah.
Eva Bragdon spent most of her vacation at home helping her mother. She went to see Jane Murphy several times.
Friedson Odom worked during most of the Christmas vacation.
Edward Stanford helped his father in his office quite a bit while he was home.
Ruth Cook spent a very pleasant Christmas at her home in Rome.

Faculty Notes

Mrs. Kennard spent a day in Rome during the Christmas holidays.
Mrs. Irwin visited relatives in Rockmart.
Mrs. Minter spent the holidays with her mother and father, Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Barnett of Hampton, Ga.
Mrs. Fincher's sister, Mrs. J. C. Lipham of Bowdon, visited her during the holidays.
Mrs. Little spent the Christmas holidays in Richmond, Virginia with her husband.
Mrs. Jones's daughter Margaret of Atlanta spent a few days with her. Mrs. Jones was called to Atlanta January 4 by the death of her mother-in-law, Mrs. J. H. Jones.
Mrs. Forbes spen t the Christmas holidays in Cave Spring.
Sgt. Highnote spent the first week of Christmas in Cave Spring with Mrs. Highnote. She accompanied him back to Camp Rucker.
Miss McMichen enjoyed th? holidays with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Z. C. McMichen at Hiram, Ga.
Mr. and Mrs. Wheeler Gibbons and daughters of Decatur, Alabama were the guests of Mrs. Gibbons Christmas Day ~nd Sunday.
Mr. Homer L. Turner, Sr. and Miss Mary Ann Turner of Atlanta were the guests of Mrs. Turner Christmas Day. Mary Ann spent the entire holidays with her mother, returning to Agnes Scott College January 1.
Mrs. Dorothy L. Henderson spent the Christmas vacation with her husband in Gaylesville, Ala-
bama. For two weeks Miss Shahan
was the guest of her sister in Virginia and Washington, D. C. Much of her time was spent in sightseeing, but she enjoyed most of all the trip to Gallaudet College. The rest of her holidays were spent at Lafayette with her family and friends.
Mrs. Welch spent Christmas at her home in Cave Spring.
Mr. and Mrs. Tollefson had

as their guest Mrs. Tollefson's mother, Mrs. John May of Ashland, Alabama for a week during the vacation. Later they visited in Alabama and also in Atlanta.
Mrs. Montgomery had a very un welcomed guest during the holidays, a bad case of flu. However she was 'able to report for work at the opening of school.
Mr. and Mrs. Barton Clark spent a week in Atlanta visiting their relatives during the latter part of the Christmas vacation.
Ensign and Mrs. Hillis Hollingsworth of Pensacola, Florida were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Hollingsworth for a week during tbe holidays.
Mr. and Mrs. Caswell spent the holidays back and forth between Roopville and Cave Spring. Mr. Caswell was a victim of flu and was confined to his home several days.
Miss Stella Steele is recuperating from a severe case of influenza and has gone to her home in Summerville until she is able to resume her work.
Miss Clark spent most of her holidays ill with flu. Much to her regret, she missed all the parties during the vacation. She recovered, however, in time for her school duties January 13.
Mr. and Mrs. A. W. David of Tuscaloosa, Alabama were the guests of Mr. "and Mrs. Ware Christmas. Mr. and Mrs. Ware went to Newnan on Christmas Day.
Mrs. Barnett spent the holidays in Milledgeville with Mr. and Mrs. James Lewis. She was accompanied home by her daughter, Mrs. Dixon Wright, Mr. Wright, and Lewis Wright who spent a few days with her.
Mr. and Mrs. O. W. Haney spent Christmas Day with their daughter and her family in Cartersville.
Mrs. Emma Henderson spent a week-end in Atlanta during the holidays.
Sgt. and Mrs. Wallace R. Stanz of Camp Sibert, Alabama were
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guests of Mrs. Ruby D. Perry. Mr. Harry Dickerson of Detroit, Michigan was also here ten days with Mrs. Perry and other relatives.
Mr. and Mrs. Francis McDaniel and their daughter Joan of Atlanta spent the day of December 26 with his mother and sisters, Mrs. Mamie McDaniel and Misses Edna and Annie McDaniel.
Miss Annie McDaniel was hostess at a dinner party December 20 in honor of Mrs. Olaf Tollefson's mother, Mrs. May, of Columbus.
Miss Annie McDaniel went to Talladega, Alabama January 5 and visited friends at the Alabama School for the Deaf.
Miss Louise Montgomery spent several days in Elberton, Georgia with friends.
We are happy to welcome Walter Wade, an ex-student of our school, back on the campus as basketball coach and older boys' supervisor.
The many friends of Connor Dillard sympathize with him upon the death of his mother who died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Butler, in Dalton during the holidays.
Miss Polly Shahan was called to her home in La Fayette recently by the death of her grandmother. We extend sympathy to Miss Shahan and her family.
Watch Party
A happy occasion during the holidays was the Watch party which was given by the Faculty Club at the Scout Lodge on New Year's Eve. Most all of the members brought guests and the first part of the evening was spent in pleasant conversation around the cheerful open fire. A really sumptious feast was served by a committee consisting of Mrs. Jones, Miss McDaniel and Mrs. Fincher after which square dancing was enjoyed until the ringing of bells announced the arrival of the New Year.

TilE SCHOOL HELPER

January, 1944

THE SCHOOL HELPER
All communications should be addressed to the School Helper, Cave Spring, Georgia.
Published monthly during the school year in t.he print ing department of 1Jhe Georgia School for tqe Deaf.
Entered at the postoffice at Cave Spring, Georgia as second class matter November, 1889. Acceptance for mailing at special rate of postage provided in Section 1103. Act of October 3, 1917. Authorized October 31, 1918
Subscription price is fifty cents for eight isues.

C. H. HOLLINGSWORTH NELL A. GIBBONS
MARIE S. KE NARD
OLAF L. TOLLEFSON __

Superintendent Editor
Associate Editor _ _ Printing Instructor

Vol. 44

JANUARY, 1944

No.4

ONE OF the most outstanding occasions of the pre-Christmas season was the Christmas tree
-and lovely party given on Friday night, December
tenth, by Mrs. Ellen B. West for her forty-two inter-
mediate and advanced girls. A beautiful tree with attractive decorations had
been installed in the living room of the girls' dormitory. Large red candles and pine sprays were used in the
windows and a large spray of pine and holly with an immense red satin ribbon bow decorated the room and made everything look like Santa Claus would soon make his appearance. Many gifts placed under the tree were in evidence.
The s:!irls entered from the rear stair-case ringing little silver bells and singing "Jingle Bells." Mrs. Montgomery was asked to be in charge of the musical program and many of the familiar carols were sung around the tree after which Mrs. West welcomed the honor guests of the occasion, Supt. and Mrs. Clayton Hollingsworth and the Reverend and Mrs. Eldon Dittemore. Mr. Dittemore led the Christmas prayer after which "Silent Night" was sung softly by the children. Gifts were then distributed by three of the girls.
The girls grouped themselves around the tree and enjoyed the refreshments which consisted of a plate of assorted candies, raisins, cakes, and mixed nuts in indivi9ual cups. Favors consisted of sugar bells, wreaths and Christmas trees in the Christmas colors of red and green.
1 Irs. West m<lde the announcement that it was through the kind generosi ty of the J. Regenstein Company and its President, Mr. Meyer Regenstein, of Atlanta that she had been enabled to give this beautiful entertainment for the girls. The announcement was greeted by sincere applause.
A most pleasant evening was enjoyed by all present and we hope that we will have many similar celebrations in the future.
We thank the J. Regenstein Company and Mr.

Meyer Regenstein for their kindness and generosity to our girls and wish them all a very HAPPY NEW YEAR.
T HE PUPILS returned from the Christmas holidays January 12 and school opened the following day. All of the boys and girls who returned report a happy vacation with their families and all have reentered enthusiastically into the school program. Due to illness or other causes a large number of the students have not returned, some of the older boys secured jobs and a few remained at home to help on the farms, but we expect the attendance to be about normal within a short time.
We have noticed through years of work with deaf children their delight at returning to school after a long or short absence. Any normal child longs for home and parents, which is natural and as it should be, and he eagerly looks forward to going home for vacations but, as a rule, he is Just as eager to get back to the place that is home nine months out of the year. He is happy to see his companions, teachers, supervisors, and friends which is evidenced by his smiling countenance.
A deaf child lives in a world all his own, a world in which no sound enters to enable him to better understand his surroundings. Even his parents who love him devotedly and care for him tenderly cannot always understand the child nor be understood by him. Is it any wonder then that our pupils are anxious to get back to school where they move in 1>urroundings that are especially planned for their comfort, their happiness and their well-being.
We try in every department to anticipate any needs that might arise and it gives us pleasure to note that pupils appreciate our efforts and are always glad to ceturn to us after an absence.
PATRIOTISM
It is advisable to place in every school-room some bust, portrait, or something distinctively American, as a sort of patriotic sentiment; either a group of flags, coat of arms of a state or the United States, or a bust of some eminent American statesman, soldier, or patriot. This might be called the focal point, and is quite as important as placing a flag on the outside of a building.-Selected
FOR Praises the Deaf
President Roosevelt saw and took special note of the deaf at work on war planes in the Tulsa Bomber plant during his visit there on April 19 and it is an equal certainty that the deaf returned the compliment. Always interested in the physically handicapped, President Roosevelt is reported to have said during his very brief remarks to the employees in the plant "I am glad to see that the Douglas company is employing the deaf and other physically handicapped people."
-The Hawkeye.

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Superintendent's Corner

School

I N READING J. Flourney, an honored deaf bought a beautiful Bulova wrist"Noted Deaf citizen of Jackson County, was, watch with savings from his

Founders

Persons" in the in truth, a founder of the Georgia $36.00 per month corporal's pay.

December issue School for the Deaf.

Corporal Chastain had divulged to

of The Hoosier (Indiana School

me something of the girl, of the

for the Deaf) as reprinted from The Frat, it is very interesting and enlightening to note the great numbers of schools for the deaf in the United States founded by deaf persons. Of special interest to Georgians is the credit given J. J. Flourney for being the founder of the Georgia School for the Deaf.
In 1943 Miss Esther Cathy, a student at Emory University, for her Master's thesis submitted A History of the Georgia School for rhc Deaf. We quote this accepted I he is, opening paragraph, chapter two. as follows:

THE A Visit With

name

Patrons

Chastain in

(Concluded)

Thomasville

had a very familiar ring. Mo-

mentarily, we could not get the

connection. Then it all came back

and gradually there appeared a

clear mental picture of Harvey L.

Chastain, erstwbile corporal of a

squad of green recruits in another

world war. The time was 1917

and it was in Headquarters Com-

pany, 118th Field Artillery,

31st Division, Camp Wheeler,

Macon, Georgia.

fact that they were on the verge of marriage, of his doubts, ;lnd that he had wired his father to come to Macon for a conference in regard to the matter. As we stood there watching and thinking of the past, for some unexplainable reason, we hoped and believed that he hadn't married the girl about whom he talked to us. Also, without exactly knowing the cause, we were made glad a few moments later when he related he was happily married to a Thomasville girl with whom he had gone to school and whom he had known all his life.
"Corporal" Chastain did not

"The first legislation in behalf of the deaf in Georgia came about as the result of an appeal made by a deaf man of Jackson County, Georgia; and may be found in the official proceedings of 1833. A petition from John J. Flourney 'praying the establishment of a suitable

Yes, Corporal Chastain was from Thomasville. He was of tbe old National Guard outfit that had seen service on the Mexican border. He was a rather nice refined kind of a fellow which qualities made him stand out as one apart, from his more common rougb-type contemporaries. Wbat a flood of

recognize us immediately. Finally,
as the dawn of recognition lighted his face, he countered, "Oh yes; you are the fellow who was always so very conscientious about everything, yet was always in 'hot water. '" "Correct," we replied. "and I'm still living up to myoid reputation."

institution for the deaf and

memories assailed us!

Mrs. Chastain, of the Thomas

dumb' was presented to the

Turning again to Mrs. Louise County Department of Public

senate and a select committee

S. Chastain, director of the Welfare, was very much interested

appointed to consider same. Thomas Coun ty Department of in her county's applicants as well

The committee on December

Public Welfare, we inquired, "Do as in this meeting of two old

20, 1833, submitted a resolu-

you happen to know a Harvey L. comrades in arms. She assisted in

tion referring the problem 'to Chastain, soldier of the first World finding and examining little Ray-

his Excellency the Governor,

War, who lives in these parts?" mond Murkerson. She also called

for the purpose of obtaining the She replied, Why, he's my hus- in Miss F. C. Meyes, healtb nurse,

information necessary to a full

band's first cousin;" then indicat- who in turn accompanied us into

investigation of the subject, by the ensuing General Assembly."

ing a jewelry store directly across the rural section of the county to the street, "That is his place of examine J. W. Thomas, colored.

While some might argue that business and he can be found there Both these applicants were

this deaf leader's petition was not right now." We demurred as sbe accepted.

the actu'al founding of the Georgia started to telephone him and ad- It is hardly fair to leave Thom-

school it was the entering wedge vised that it would be more to our J ville without suggesting that tbis

tbat brougbt about a succession of liking just to walk in, which we is the home of the widely advertis-

legislative resolutions and enact- did. There stood "Corporal" ed Rose shows. These shows at-

ments that led fifteen years later to Chastain solicitously attending to tract thirty thousand or more vis-

the official opening July 1, 1848, the wants of a customer. His once itors annually to this little city

of the "Georgia Asylum for the auburn hair was streaked with where "the telephone poles are

Deaf and Dumb", "the tenth gray and he was ali ttl e thicker covered wi th Paul's Scarlet roses

institution of its kind in the Unit- through the midriff but, without and the streets are lined with Red

ed States,"

a doubt, it was the same old boy. Radiance." Here flowers grow al-

Perhaps we should concede, even As he removed a watch from tbe most throughout the year and

though he did not live to see th.~ showcase, we thought of the time hunting and fishing are the pop-

fruition of his dream, that John twenty-six years earlier when he ular sports. The surrounding

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January, 194.,f.

countryside abounds in preserves and palatial homes belonging to northern capitalists attracted by the climate, the virgin forest and the otherwise unspoiled wildlife ranges, and the numerous good fishing lakes. Thomasville, founded in 1826, ran Thomaston, 1825 a close second in being named for General Jett Thomas who built the State House at Milledgeville and who served with distinction in the War of 1812. This little city of 12,000 population, because of its strategic location at the focal point of three state highways, and because it is a commercial distributing center, possesses the style and appearance of a much larger city.
In the afternoon we journeyed to Cairo where Miss Mary Louise Maxwell, director of the Grady County Department of Public Welfare, took time out from her manifold office duties to help locate Charles Wilson who was adjudged eligible to attend school. In fact, this hearty and seemingly bright youngster should have been in school two years earlier. Here is another sad caSe of unwarranted parental interference. How discouraging it is to have a "bill of goods" to sell, where desperately needed, and then be thwarted by stubborn and ignorant parents under the guise of parental love. In such instances, the only "balm in Gilead" is the knowledge that these county officials understand and will carryon where you leave
off.
In addition to the semi-tropical climate, fertile soil, and culture of its people, one immediately thinks of Cairo and Grady County as the Georgia home of pure sugar cane syrup-the aristocracy Qf syrups, notwithstanding the counterclaims of the maple and sorghum adherents. Cairo is the largest shipper of cane sypup in the nation. It also supplies ninety-eight percent of the world's collard
seed. Mrs. J. C. Jones, Rou te I,
Pelham, of her own volition, corresponded with the school regarding her little deaf daughter. In this tidy little country home

was found the girl who this fall won the title "School Baby"-this title usually goes automatically to the youngest and cutest new pupil each year. In this humble home we had a sweet experience not to be forgotten soon. At times on the trip, our heart had been heavy on having to refuse some distraught parent and, on one occasion, we had been threatened bodily harm by a parent for merely offering an opportunity for his deaf child, but, in this home. we sa w a bed-ridden mother hysterical with sheer joy in the hopes that our appraisal of her child was correct and that she would be admitted to the School for the Deaf-Little Mary Alice's happiness and splendid development during the fall term are the just deserts of two doting parents.
It was here in Mitchell County that we experienced two extremes in parental attitudes, the one so highly commendable, the other so pitifully at fault. It is needless to say we greatly appreciate the aid and assistance given us in this county by Mrs. Jackson, director of the Mitchell County Department of Public Welfare, and her assistant, Mrs. Jones.
Although we have several pupils from Albany and environs, there was only one applicant to see there. This small colored child, Annette Williams, had been recommended by Miss Pauline Hall, public health nurse. Mrs. Alma H.Hilsman, worker in charge, and Miss Frances Knight, child welfare worker both of the Dougherty County Department of Public Welfare, displayed unusually fine interest in the work of the Georgia School for the Deaf. Miss Knight assisted in locating the applicant who, with her mother, was visiting in a rural community in the county. Mrs. Hilsman promised to help inaugurate an annual testing of the hearing of all public school children of Dougherty County as a public school requirement. We hope these plans will materialize and that this progressive city and county will take the lead in this forward movement.
It was just out of McRae,
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Georgia, in the afternoon of Wednesday, August 18, that we ran into a rain squall that marked the breaking of one of the longest and most severe hot spells the State Weather Bureau has ever recorded. Throughout the trip, covering a period of approximately three weeks-it was now only two days frem the end-there had been little relief from the discomforts of traveling in south Georgia during unusually hot weather. The Fred Roberts Hotel in Dublin that night afforded rest, thanks to the weather change, that can be compared with that of only three other nights, the two spent in our brother's house in Savannah and the other on St. Simon's Island.
The next evening found us at Sandersville, seat of Washington County. This little city of three thousand population was established in 1796 as an out-post of Georgia's earl y white settlements. Like unto the other Georgia towns along the old stagecoach route from Savannah to Louisville, Sandersville is "pleasantly oldfashioned" and still carries the mark of the state's earliest interior culture.
We had work to do around Sandersville, thanks to the interest and activities of the Honorable Jno. R. Irwin, retired. We had wanted very much to meet this kind old gentlemen due to the fact that, over a period of the last few years, he had been instrumental in getting several children in school and otherwise displayed a keen interest in the education of the deaf. It was our pleasure to ride with him through the greater part of the day. To say that this was a fine experience is putting it mildly. Whatever might have been his faults, one cannot help but interpret the friendly, "Good morning, Mr. John" coming from men, women and children, from the very poorest to their more fortunate kin, as a worthy benediction to his life. Yes, little Wonnie McCord, whom we couldn't find at Wrightsville, was on Mr. Irwin's list: so was Roseva
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From the Primary Department

January 13 was a happy day for the boys and girls in our class as that was the day we started back to school after our Christmas vacation.
Netheara and Shelva Jean had a good time telling us the things they received for Christmas.
Willis Joe and Catherine had not forgotten any of their words and were interested in reading their charts over and over.
Little Terrell Leveritte, who entered school in September but had to go home for medical treatment, returned in January. We are glad to have him back with us. Jimmie is taking special interest in showing Terrell how we do different things.
We all miss Mary Alice and Bettie Ruth and hope they will soon be back with us.
-Miriam Minter's Class
Some time ago we began to find the postmarks on our letters and packages interesting. Not long after that the word "home" became very important because it was almost time to go home for Christmas. One day our teacher placed all of our chairs in a row one behind the other. She told us that this was a train and we were going to play that we were going home on it. She drew a long railroad track on the blackboard and ten stations each having the name of one of our home towns on it. She started down the track with a picture of a train. Doris Jones got off at Dalton, waved good bye to the rest of us and went home. The train moved to Chattahoochee where Betty Ann Chadwick lives. She also told us goodbye and left the train. Brooks Blankenship got off at McDonough and Wonnie McCoy at Tennille. Joan Allen went to Camak; Ronald Bell to Toccoa: and Katie Mae Rogers to Franklin. Then came Nicholls where Mary Lee Johnson wanted to get off; Hartsfield, where James Pope pretended that his father was at the station to meet him; and at the end of our railroad was Brunswick, where Jean Barrett

lives. We soon came back to school and located our hometowns on an outline map that had only the ten towns on it and on a road map of Georgia. Corresponding flash cards were placeci in a chart beneath the printed question, "Where do you live?"
After we knew what the map was and what those tiny words printed on it meant, we drew another railroad and a BIG station for Atlanta. Then we drew our different railroads from there following the direction they took on the map. In that way we understood why we were not all on the train together when we started home from Atlanta.
Since our first lesson in geography we have all been able to go to the chart and to the m"ap and point out our homes for any one who asked, "Where do you live?"
-Jim Irwin's Class
The boys and girls in our class are slowly returning to school. There were only four present the first two days-Rube, Bobby, Betty, and Sarah, but we found plenty to do getting our classroom in order. The second day we were sufficiently organized to do quite a bit of individual work on speaking and writing the words learned before the holidays.
The spirit of the Home Coming football game last fall still prevails in the children's minds and presents itself when they do work on combinations. The parents would be amused to see the youngsters group themselves, keep time with their fists saying as in the ball game:
far, far. far,
foo, foo, foo,
far, foo, far, foo,
I love you.
They also like to pretend that t~ey are telling one another somethmg and say these same combinations over and over appearing to be telling some very interesting bit of gossip. In this way we try to en-
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courage fluency and naturalness in their speech and they love it.
Those of us who have returned to school will be happy to see the other children-Jerry, Junior, William, Andrew Lee, and Marcus when they return. Dorothy came Friday after school with her mother and uncle.
-Mable Minter's Class

After a long Christmas vacation we are ready to get back to school work again. Some of the children were not back when school began but we are hoping that all of them will come soon.

Only six little girls showed up in my class the first day. They

seemed glad to be back and had

much to tell about.

Jean Rentz is quite proud of her corrective shoe and likes to show how much better she can walk.
Cynthia and Maybellene got

kerchiefs for Christmas and like to bring them to class. Shirley has

a pretty white scarf which she likes

to wear. Louise seems quite happy

to be back and has a lot to tell about her vacation. Clara is always

a little homesick when she first comes but soon gets over it and is

quite happy with her school mates.

She keeps pictures of her two sisters

in the classroom and looks at them frequently.

My four boys, Gary, Dan,

Marshall, and Cecil did not come back the first day and Jewell Henderson didn't come either. It

is so much better for all the class

to get started together as they all need all the time they can get in

school.

-Ruth Forbes's Class

Welcome 1944. With resolutions in our hearts and minds we are entering this new year, hoping to accomplish more than we ever have before. We feel that the new year has good things in store for us and we want to take advantage of all the opportunities that come our way.
Since coming back to school, we have enjoyed talking about

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January, 1944

the Christmas holidays. Each child has been given an opportunity to tell what he did and what Santa Claus brought him. That, of course, brpught in new language.
The first two days of school were spent in reviewing. A few things were forgotten during the long vacation but after several lessons everyone remembered. That makes us realize how important it is for each child to be in school and to attend regularly.
Eugene Forrest and Barbara Ann Ashworth have not returned. We miss them and hope they will come back soon. Harold Pope burned his hands during Christmas. We are glad he is able to be back with us. Anne Brigman is enjoying some pretty boots that Santa Claus brought her. Guy Jones was glad his father could bring him back to school. Betty Brown and Louise Smith have pretty new dresses. Gail Martin is thrilled over 'a sewing kit she got Christmas. James Faulk said he enjoyed riding the horses at home during
the holidays. A few of the children were
homesick at first but now they seem happy to be back in school and eager to get to work.
-Frances Little's Class January 12 was a big day for Fleming Bloodworth. He had a good time riding on the train all the way from Macon to Atlanta. He is proud of his new soldier uniform, shoes, ties, and trousers. Ford Hughes still talks about
his horse at home. He likes to ride horseback and brags that he has
never had a fall. Dorothy Hughes delights in
showing off her new brown coat, gloves, socks, cap, and dress.
Daisy Dean Smith looks as if she has grown an inch taller. She is proud of the nice gifts Santa Claus gave her.
Franklin Dyess had bad luck with the skates he got for Christmas. He had a big fall at home while he was skating and hurt his knee and arm. He is still limping but is eager to skate again when he gets well.
Claude Fuqua saw Santa Claus

in town several times and shook hands with him.
January 17 was Virginia Hardeman's birthday. Her mother came and brought her a pretty birthday cake. She had a party. \Ve had a good time.
Jerry Presnell, Neal Crews, and Grace Roberts have not returned yet.
-Gladys Clark's Class
01' Santa did'nt forget a single one of us. It would take page after page if we named everything we got, so we'll mention only a few. Frances Tatum's pride and joy is her little blue cap. She wears it down the hall to school every day. J uanice got a pretty plaid jacket. Vivian, Louise, and Fay all wore their new dresses the first Sunday. Gene has a real live pony and it must be very pretty from what he has told us. Wynell's new sweater is pretty.
Ann's favorite Christmas present was different from ours and came a few days late. It's a ne\\' baby sister. Speaking of babies Eugene saw his baby brother, Bill for the first time and that was the best part of Christmas for him. Rosemary has been busy since she came back telling us about her trip to Florida. Martha was at home longer than the rest of us and she has so much to tell us. We are sorry that Robert was sick during the Christmas holidays.
Mary Ann came back a few days late. We missed her and are glad she is back.
Jessie Jones's Class
During the Christmas season we added several new words to our voca bula ry. There were bracelets, lockets, rings, perfume, and powder for' Edna, Billie Jean, Louise B., Mary Ann, Louise W., Frances, Dorothy and Mary. While window shopping Marvin, Hinton, Vinton, and W. C. found whistles and sleds very attractive. We each had to learn the names of one another's selections as well as review the words we had learned last Christmas.
Frances, Dorothy, and Mary have not returned but we hope that
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Santa was as good to them as he was to the rest of us.
-Viola McMichen's Class We're glad to be back in school after a nice long vacation. Santa Claus was good to all of us and we had a grand time at home in spite of a few colds and flu. Ruby Suggs is the only one in our class who hasn't returned yet. We started the New Year off with birthdays. January the fifteenth was Jene's and Faye Nelle's birthday. Each was eleven years old. We celebrated them Friday the fourteenth. Since the weather wouldn't permit us to go out, we had the party in our classroom. After singing "Happy Birthday", we had cake and candy. Then we played games for' awhile. Roscoe and Thomas won the Bingo game. Jackie, Faye Nelle, Thomas, and Roscoe played Parcheesi while Alma, Laura, Ben, Evelyn, Billie, and Ruth wove baskets. Everyone enjoyed the party very much.
We are glad to have Ben Godwin as our new classmate. Roscoe and Thomas seem especially glad for two boys with nine girls do get rather henpecked. Ben is from Atlanta.
-Emmalee Highnote's Clas~
General Electric Values the Deaf General Electric, in the Sche-
nectady plant, have just realized the value of employing the deaf. In a newspaper release, a Schenectady paper pictures Mrs. John Koeper, of Schenectady, who, although she has not worked outside her home in many years, has proven a valued worker. She assembles with deft fingers brittle nickle tubes from delicate pieces of mica and porcelain. Plant officials say her well-developed senSe of rhythm and touch keep breakage of scarce materials surprisingly low. Her husband, John Koeper also deaf, has been with the American Locomotive Company for many years and holds a responsible position as Diesel engine inspector. He formerly was a patt en maker with the same firm.-Empire State ews

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Superintendent's Corner continued
Canady, colored, at Harrison and littl'e black Parris Lew is, his caddy, at Sandersville; and Gracie Roberts at Tennille. He carried us straight to these deaf children and then saw that they were properly provided for and sent to school. Thank you, Mr. Irwin, for your help and fine encouragemen t.
The work in the Sandersvill~ area represented those towns bypassed on the first lap of the journey on account of tire and rationing troubles.
This completed the entire itinerary of visits as originally mapped out. That we stopped over in Atlanta and saw the Crackers win a thrilling night game, four to three in ten innings, from th~ Nashville Vols is not really a part of the story. Our arrival in Cave Spring, Saturday, August 21, completed the journey begun August 4, the final analysis of which convinces us that the visit to patrons was very much worthwhile and that we were personally greatly benefited.
News from an Ex-teacher
Miss May Clark recently received a letter from Miss Hattie Harrell who is now making her home in Los Angeles, California and is supervising the work of the Spencer Tracy Clinic for deaf and hard of hearing children.
Miss Harrell wrote in a very interesting manner of her work which includes parent education, also weekly classes in child psychology and in speech.
In addition a correspondenc~ c1<iss is conducted for the benefit of mothers who live at a distance explaining to them how they can begin teaching and training a little deaf child in the home. Over 100 mothers scattered all over the United States, two in Canada, two in South America and one in Australia are taking advantage of this course.
Mr. and Mrs. Spencer Tracy

have a deaf son nineteen years of age who is in college with hearing boys and girls. It was through their son's affliction that they became interested in the education of the deaf and thus established this clinic.
Miss Harrell was a beloved member of our faculty for a number of years and we hav~. followed her career with interest since she left us. In this new work which she has entered we wish her success and the very best of luck.-Editor
adorn Honored
Friedson adorn, captain and quarterback of the Georgia School for the Deaf Football Team, won a place on the "big twelve honor roll" as announced by John (Red) Davis of Lake City, Florida, chairman of the AllSouthern prep selection board.
adorn, a native of Leesburg, is a junior at the Cave Spring institution and, in addition to being an outstanding ball player, is adept in speech and speech reading to the extent that normal communication with officials and other hearing people also attracted considerable attention.
-The Atlanta Constitution
That Backward Student!
Getting back to the war, well it has shown us that the pupil considered dull from an academic point of view usually has what it takes to fatten the pay check. We have in mind one of our boys at the Douglas plant. He left school with a smattering of an eduation if a smattering it was at all. He wouldn't have received a single vote from faculty as "the one most likely to succeed." Yet this very boy was made ground leader over approximately ten others, deaf and hearing. His supervisor and leadman knew his educational limitation; but they also knew the skill that was in his sure hands. He was so advanced at assembling huge radio control boxes that hardly ever was one returned as

rejected; those that had to be reworked, it was specified by the inspectors that he should be one to do the work.
His wants were few and very simple, and this meant money in the bank for him.-Ted Griffing in the Deaf Oklahoman.
SKILLED SIGN PAINTER
Every war worker in Oakland and San Francisco, especially those in the inner departments holding responsible positions is carefully investigated. The writer has received ~nqu'iries from the authorities concerning the status of certain deaf workers. So far there have been no adverse reports, which is a credit to the deaf as a class and the good training they received in their respective school.
One of these war worker is a skilled sign painter stationed at Oakland outer harbor, where it is difficult to gain admittance. He is Clinton Moore who learned his art while a pupil of the late Theophilus d"Estrella of the California School. He paints all sorts of signs for distribution at army camps, hospitals and war locations and departments. Some of the signs are works of art. At the late Golden Gate International Exhibition on Treasure Island, San Francisco bay, he exhibited a map of the United States in colors which was displayed in a prominent place and attracted much attention.-Runde in J.O.D.
There was once a man who agreed with nobody. Finally he took a trip in the South Seas and was shipwrecked. He fell among cannibals . . . . and agreed with them!
Why worry because your hair falls out? Suppose it ached and you had to have it pulled out like your teeth.

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State of Georgia
ELLIS ARNALL, Governor
Georgia School for the Deaf

STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION M. D. COLLINS, State Superintendent of Schools

ADMINISTRATION

C. H. HOLLINGSWORTH, M. A. Superintendent

Rebecca S. Crowe, Secretary

J. C. Connor, M. D.

O. W. Haney, Steward

W. S. Watson. D. D. S.

Evelyn Scoggins, Sec'y to Steward

Katie Payne, R. N.

Lelia H. Barnett. Dietitian

INSTRUCTORS

Roy G. Parks, M. A., Principal

Primary Department

Intermediate and Advanced Department

Marie S. Kennard, B. S. Supervisor
Mable L. Fincher Jessie F. Jones Gladys B. Clark Ruth D. Forbes Frances A. Little Viola McMichen, B. A. Emmalee J. Hiirhnote Miriam B. Minter Jim Irwin

Nell A. Gibbons. Supervisor
Edythe D. Montgomery, B. S. Dorothy L. Henderson, B. S. Pauline J. Shahan, B. S. lIa S. Sewell, B. S. Barton Clark, B. A. Frances M. Tollefson, B. A. Sarah F. Ware Maude M. Welch, B. A. Mary D. Turner, B. A. A. May Clark

Vocational Department

R. R. Caswell, B.S.A.. B.A. . .....

Agricultural Training

Olaf L. Tollefson, B. A

Printing

A. May Clark

Arts and Crafts

Louise Montgomery Annie McDaniel J. R. Ware Earl Cox

Colored Department

Quinton Gordon, Principal

Beauty Culture Sewing
Carpentry Machine Shop

Mattie Davis Henrietta Bailey Lucille McCullogh

James Rich Georgia McHenry Cynthia Strange

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SPRING. GEORGIA

FEBRUARY, 1944

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Associate yourself with others of good quality if you esteem your own reputation, for it is better to be alone than in bad camp.. any.
Give not advice without being asked; and when desired, do it briefly.
Think before you speak; pronounce not imperfectly, nor bring out your words too hastily, but orderly and distinctly.
Let your recreation be manful, not sinful. Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.
...... George Washington

Honor Roll

The following pupils have received no demerits

for the past month:

Etta Lee Kilgore

Louis Keaton

Mary Moon

Herbert Fuqua

Edward Morris

Joseph Gillespie

Friedson Odom

Jackie Hallman

Billy Peace

J. W. Harrell

A. D. Ray

Hulet Hawkins

Carlton Scurry

Phillips Hester

Joyce Sellers

Pauline Childers

Roscoe Singletary

Ulysses Collins

Janie Smith

Ruth Cook

Wylodean Spells

AIton Dominey

Edward Stanford

Duwayne Dukes

Mattie Suggs

Alice Edmonson

Elizabeth Thompson Homer Benson

Mary Baker

M'ary Frances Bates

Herbert White

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SCHOOL HELPER

February, 1944

No.5

Production versus Vocational Education

In high schools and colleges, hitherto showing very little interest in vocational education, rapid strides are being made to correlate academic subjects with vocational lines. Special courses in mathematics, engineering, drafting and a host of others, are being offered students in an effort to speed up their training for military and industrial purposes. While it is quite obvious that there is little chance for the deaf in military training, there is still the industrial world and the deaf are invading it by the thousands as more and more manufacturers look for draft-exempt workers. It is not difficult for our school graduates to find employment now, but there will again be a time when they will have to depend upon the vocational training they receive at the schools for the deaf for knowledge of a trade, whereby they may earn their living.
Every day new questions confront vocation'al teachers in schools for the deaf. Are the schools as a whole keeping up with today's trend? Are they so training their students that they can be absorbed into the modern industrial world? Are the students receiving full benefit from the vocational courses they are taking in their respective schools? After the war, what?
It is quite apparent that some schools are fully and competently equipped to give their students the best possible vocational training. However, it is doubtful if this holds true for the majority of the schools.
"For a great many years, schools for the deaf have been leaders in the field of trade and industrial educa~ion. Years ago

the equipment in our schools was first class and up to date: however, we have not kept it to date and the presen t emergency has found some of our shops attempting to teach a trade with
1915 model machines. . ." * This
is not an isolated instance, but a condition that actually exists in many other schools. And why does such a condition exist? Various reasons can be offered that would give unsatisfactory explanation. Possibly the first and most stressed would be that the finances are lacking to improve the shops. If we assume, however that there is a possibility of obtaining funds for shop improvements and still these appropriations are struck from the budget by well-meaning but noncomprehending legislators, then the schools should take the responsibility of acquainting their respective legislatures with the importance of the request for these funds.
There is still a second answer why such conditions exist in the shops. This answer is offered with no idea of criticism, but rather to bring to light a prevailing condition whose significance is not generally appreciated. The answer stems from a discussion which the writer remembers in the Senior year at college.
"What was the motive behind establishing of vocational training in the schools for the deaf?" the professor asked one day. It is too much to attempt to go into the detail of the long discussion that followed as each member of the class offered his or her opinion. It should be stated here that every member of that class had attended a school for the deaf for some time, a.nd that these

schools are spread over Ameri-
ca: therefore, they knew of ex-
isting conditions in their re-
spective schools. To come back
to the question in mind, the stu-
dents seemed of one opinion-
that schools for the deaf had
established vocational trades to
enable the deaf to master a trade whereby they might earn their living.
The machines first mentioned above are really all the school needs in order to carryon its producton. Why should the school obtain a casting block when it has no use for it; a power cutter, when a hand cutter does as good a job of cutting paper; set up a photo engraving department when it is much cheaper to have a commercial firm make all the cuts it needs; have a mitering machine when a greater part of the school's forms require no precision borders: why have a Model 31 or 14, or a "Blue Streak" Linotype when a Model 8 will do; why have precision machines when the school is not inclined to set up advertisements? Yet, when the student leaves school, he faces all these problems and possibly more. For example, let us take the case of a fellow who graduated from a school for the deaf and then secured employment on a weekly newspaper. When the war came along, he was the first to go when the plant had to economize. He then obtained employment in another plant through influential channels. He lasted one week. Reason given-too slow. Through the same channels he again secured work in another plant and again was politely, but firmly, told
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L. P. F. Exchanges



Reading Helps in the
LeaMling of Language
Through reading. and reading alone, can you get that repetition of words necessary to enable the deaf child to master the English language.
A deaf child can read in a couple of hours more words than a hearing child hears in the course of ,a whole day. Just think of that and what it means to us. It is reading, reading, reading, that will give our pupils the mastery of the English language.
If you look upon the history of our schools, I think you will recognize the fact that the successful pupils under any method of instruction have one and all been great readers, and I begin to suspect that this reading habit may have been more responsible for success than the particular method of instruction employed in their education.
In stimulating the reading habit in our pupils, what sort of reading matter will prove most useful? Much reading is what we wish to encourage. and for our purpose quantity is more important than quality. Then we want language to be presented in colloquial style. We do not wish our pupils to acquire mere book-language. but the language of ordinary conversation.
The books that will be most useful for our purpose are the books that interest children of like age. For old~ pupils, the society novels that ordinary people love to read, and that are not usually to be found in our school libraries, are the very things that would give our pupils the language of everyday life.
If you can get a child to curl up in a corner with a book and read it through at a sitting, you need no longer worry about his advancement in language. A novel absorbed in this way will teach him more language than all the exercises we can give him in a school-room.
In novels we have the language

of conversation; questions are asked and answered in 'a natural way; and this is perhaps the most difficult part of language teaching to get deaf children to ask questions and to answer them as we do.
Silent reading should form a regular part of our school exercises. The cultivation of the reading habit should be one of the important aims in the education of the deaf and this, I think, can best be accomplished by setting apart a regular time every day for silent reading upon subjects that would naturally interest the child.
It would not take up much of your school time, and I think it would pay to get the child to spend say a quarter of an hour or half an hour a day in reading from the pages of a book. The object is not so much to get the sense as to get the words.
The exercise takes the place to the deaf child. of the partially unintelligible conversation that the baby hears going on all around him.
He hears his father talking about stocks and bonds, or his elder brother describing the mysteries of football and baseball and what does he know about stocks and bonds or about football and baseball? He gets words and expressions. however, that impress themselves upon his memory by their constant repetition.
At a later period. it may be years afterwards, the full meaning may come to him; but in the meantime he has already acquired the idiomatic phrases used by his father and brother and has made them his own.
We usually postpone the presentation of reading matter in the form of books and so forth until after the child has acquired the English language in order to read books. I would have him read words in order to learn the language.
Now if the deaf child spends a short time every day in reading a story from a book, his mind will be exercising, wondering all the

time what it is all about. He gets the words and phrases certainly and may perhaps have some glimmering conception of the nature of the story especially if it is illustrated by pictures. and it would be a good plan to reward him for having gone through the drudgery of reading what he does not fully understand by afterwards making the meaning clear and definite in his mind. This could of course be done in various ways as, for example, by acting the story out in a play; and in this way we could sugarcoat our language pills.-Dr. Alexander Graham Bell in the Wisconsin Times.
Social Skills
Being deaf is not an excuse for being unmannerly. Quite to the contrary, deaf people need good manners more than the average hearing person does.
In order to educate a deaf child. in an academic sense, both the teacher and the pupil must put forth special efforts. The social education of the deaf is equally as difficult, and calls for special efforts from the p.arents, the teacher, and the pupil himself.
A deaf child going out into the world is under severe handicap because of his physical defect. Insufficient training in social conduct adds to this and places him in an extremely disadvantageous position. The deaf, simply because they do not hear. often do not realize that they are doing things that are not done in the best society. They can gain this priceless knowledge only through practical experience in the social world. In order that they can profit from the experiences they have, it is necessary that the defects of their conduct be brought to their attention. An undue amount of noise made while sitting down at the table, disgusting noises made while chewing food, or other noises that do not fit into the occasion, brand the deaf as unrefined and give them two handi-

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caps to work against instead of one.
The deaf should awake to the necessity of acquiring social skills that will win them friends and welcome them in the best social circles. This is a social and economic asset that every deaf person needs.-W. Cordano Mich. Mirror
Hearing Aid.
The parents of deaf or hard of hearing children are faced at one time or another with the question of whether or not they should buy their child a hearing aid. Many are
talked into buying one by a
smooth-tongued salesman who makes great promises but cares only for his commission. Parents should seek advice from an otologist and the school before making the purchase.
A child may put on the new aid and be able to hear the radio and other sounds, but this does not mean that he will be able to understand speech. The salesman may tell you that it is very simple to teach the child to use it, but learning to use an aid may require months of training for some children. If a child has been hard of hearing since birth and does not talk, a hearing aid will not help him until he has had some special training.
An eight year old child who can not talk came into our school recently. As far as we can tell she has very little hearing, if any. A salesman sold this child's parents a he'aring aid and told the mother that she could soon teach the child to use it and she would learn to talk. After three months the child and mother were both very discouraged and the parents decided to bring the child to our school.
This mother had very good intentions and thought she would have time to sit down every day and give some help to her child. There were other children in the family and when the mother finished all of-her work there was really very little time to devote to helping this child. The parent's money is gone. The aid is of no value to the child, and she lost

three months of school. Several inquiries have been re-
ceived from parents regarding the possibilities of heaing aids for their children. It is pleasing to the school that we are able to give this service and we hope that all parents will get the facts before buying.
The school owns five individual aids and ten group sets.
Every child who is interested and might benefit from the use of an individual aid will have an opportunity to try one. Several points which must be taken into consideration before a pupil is permitted to wear an individual aid are his ca re of property, his desire to hear, his effort in school, and his ability to hear and interpret what he hears. It is ridiculous to put an expensive instrument on a boy who will not accept the responsibility of taking care of it.
We are giving training in the use of individual aids and when we feel that your child is benefited by its use we will recommend that you purchase one.
We are not in a position to recommend any particular make of aid. One that is satisfactory for one pupil may not suit another pupil at all. We are able to test a pupil to tell if he can interpret what he hears. This is the most important test that can be made. Be sure your child has such a test before you spend your money on an individual hearing
aid.-M. B. c., Oregon Outlook.
N. A. D. Preaident Represent. Deaf On Nat'l Council
Recognizing the deaf as a distinct group of the physically disabled citizens eligible for service under the provisions of the expanded rehabilitation program, Paul V. McNutt, administrator of the Federal Security Agency, wherein the representative of the deaf of the placed, has invited Dr. Tom Anderson, president of the National Association of the Deaf, to serve on the National Rehabilitation Advisory Council as the rehabilitation service has been

United States. "There are many important pro-
blems which will affect the plans for the expanded program on which we need advice from all groups concerned with the welfare of our handicapped citizens," says Mr. McNutt in his letter to Dr. Anderson. "To have a group available for continuing advice and support, I have established the National Rehabilitation Advisory. Council. I am writing to ask if you will accept membership on this Council.
"I recognize that the pressure of your own work in these days may make you hesitate to assume additional responsibilities. We do not anticipate that the Council will meet frequently, and we will be as considerate as possible in the matter of calling its members to Washington for meetings. However, we do need urgently to rely on your counsel in planning the program and on your support in the community. I sincerely hope that you will find it possible to accept this invitation.
Representatives from over twenty groups of physically handicapped citizens have been named on this Council. It is anticipated that their recommendations and advice will materially affect the success of the program for physical restoration, vocational guidance and training, and placement in employment, made possible by the 1943 Amendments to the Voc'ationa1 Rehabilitation Act expanding the Federal program of grantsin-aid to the States for service to the handicapped.
Dr. Anderson has worked with the Texas State Vocational Rehabilitation division closely since coming here in 1942 as Placement Agent for the Deaf, and is well versed in both theory and practice of rehabilitation as the program applied to the deaf. He was for twenty years principal of the vocational department at the Iowa School for the Deaf, and has been president of the National Ass'n. since 1940. He has indicated that he will accept Mr. McNutt's invitation.-Lone Star.

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From the Intermediate Department

Duwayne Dukes will be glad
when spring comes because he can
fly a kite then. He hopes that his 'kite will be good enough to By
and hopes it will fly higher than
any other boy's kite.
Mary Moon and the other girls went to see Mrs. Turner with
Mrs. West Sunday afternoon, the
sixth of February. Mr. Turner
gave Marya funny paper. Then
the girls went to the spring. Some of the girls were afraid of the ducks. This made Mary laugh because she is not afraid of tbem.
James Hattrich certainly is glad that he goes to the Woodworking Hobby Club every Wednesday evening. He can make anything that he wants to in the woodworking shop. He has made a bird feeding tray and some valentines recently.
Raymond Baker's father will go to the Army soon. He will go to the camp the twelfth of February for his physical examin'ation. Raymond will miss his father.
Janie Smith received a letter from her mother February ninth saying that her father had gone to Atlanta the Tuesday before for his physical examination. Janie surely will miss her father if he has to go to the army.
Homer Benson's father got a job in the cotton mill near Palmetto early in February. Homer is very glad that his father has a good job.
Gertrude Hixson and the other girls went to the spring one Sunday afternoon. Joyce Avery gave Gertrude a vanilla ice cream cup. Gertrude looked at the ducks swimming in the creek.
Loraine Kicklighter is worried about her brother-in-law who is overseas. They have not heard from him in a long time. Loraine hopes that, when tbe war is over,

be will c~me borne and never go away agam.
Mary Godwin enjoys working in tbe sewing room. During her vocational class on tbe tentb of February, Mary bemmed her brown skirt by hand and then pressed it.
Hope Ellis and some other boys practiced playing basketball by tbemselves one February afternoon. Tbey had a nice time.
James Vickers played cards with Duwayne Dukes Febru'ary 7. They played for a long time after they finished studying their lessons.
Mattie Suggs and some of the girls went to town Friday afternoon, February 4. Mattie bought some ice cream. She gave some to Maudene because she is ber pal. Tben Maudene bought a large cookie and gave Mattie half of it.
Louise Walters likes to sing. Sbe enjoys the chapel programs when everbody sings. She had a good time singing for our three visitors tbe eighth of February.
Parram Youngblood helped saw wood at the farm February 9. He enjoyed the work. He likes to see the big saw cutting through the wood.
One evening during story hour Mr. Tollefson told the story of The Pit and the Pendulum. Pauline Childers liked the story, but she got very nervous before he finished telling it.
Thelma Holloway and Beth Noblitt wrestled with eacb otber in fun one night. Thelma pretended to hit Beth. They had lots of fun. Tben Thelma pushed Beth down on the bard floor. Beth did not hurt herself, but she pulled Thelma's hair in earnest.
Doyle Norris saw three visitors at school February 8. Doyle enjoyed the chapel program which was held that afternoon. He knew Mr. Jeff Scott, one of the visitors.
Mary Baker and Mary Moon
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are good friends. Mrs. Baker made
red dresses, that were alike, for
them. Mary Moon's dress was a
little too tight. Mary Baker made
it larger for her. Sometimes the
two Marys wear tbeir red dresses to school the same day.
One night Mary Godwin and Louise Walters thought they saw a ghost in tbeir bedroom. They ran screaming to Maudene's bedroom to tell her about it. Both girls were very much frightened.
Clarence Highfield is helping to refinish a desk for Mr. Parks. February 8 he varnished it. He is also helping to refinish a dresser for Mrs. Parks. He varnished it Fehruary 10.
George Vaughan works in the woodworking shop. February 10 he helped Clarence rub down and varnish a dresser. He cut his finger on tbe rough sandpaper. He ran to the hospital and Mrs. Waller bandaged it for him.
Sue Brannon went to visit Mrs. Turner with tbe rest of the girls one Sunday afternoon. She was surprised to see Mr. Turner. She shook hands with him.
The boys' and girls' basketball teams went to Coosa February 4. Mr. Wade drove the boys in tbe station wagon and Mr. Parks and Mr. Ware drove the girls in cars. The girls played first. Tbeir score was 61 to 15 in Coosa's favor. Bobby Davis felt very much discouraged. Tben the boys played. Two of the Coosa players were big and tall. The score was 38 to 21 in Coosa's favor. It was a sad day for G. S. D. with two defeats.
Georgia Hargrove and some of the girls played in the chapel Wednesday afternoon, Febru'ary 9, because it was raining outdoors. They had a good time playing horseshoes.
Elizabeth Thompson went to the hospital February 9. Dr.
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February, 1944

THE SCHOOL HELPER
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Published monthly during the school year in the printing department of the Georgia School for the Deaf.
Entered at the postoffice at Cave Spring, Georgia as second class matter November, 1889. Acceptance for mailing at special rate of postage provided in Section 1103. Act of October 3, 1917. Authorized October 31, 1918.
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C. H. HOLLINGSWORTH NELL A. GIBBONS _ MARIE S. KENNARD OLAF L. TOLLEFSON

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Vol. 44

FEBRUARY

No. 5

T HE department for the colored children of the
. Georgia School for the Deaf is a mile from the main school. There are two modern buildings conveniently located on the farm owned and operated by the school. There are fifty-five children ranging in age from six to twenty-five, a principal who teaches half time, four teachers, a matron, and two super-
visors.
I was asked to take over the supervision of the classroom work in December. 1942. As the course of study and methods were to be identical with those used in our primary department, arrangements were made for the principal and teachers to spend several days observing our materials and ways to use them. Printed flash cards for labeling the nouns, number and color phrases, and for asking questions, making statements, and giving directions were provided for each class. The teachers immediately went to work to collect the hundreds of necessary pictures. The flash cards and pictures could not be used without Plymouth charts so these had to be made. A great deal of material was collected in a short time, and progress was soon obvious.
The teachers were given instruction in planning their work. They were required to ha.nd in detailed week~y plans stating the method of presenting each exerCise.
I spend one day a week at the schooL varying my work according to the needs of the teachers. Someti~es I teach while all the teachers observe me; again one of the teachers demonstrates for the others. After finishing she is shown how to impove her methods, how to add variety to her work, and how to correlate one subject with another. I go around to each room to make suggestions and answer questions pertaining to individual problems. In this way I come into direct contact with each boy and girl. I enJoy

noting their progress from week to week, and they
enjoy showing me their good papers. In the La t two years we have put forth a greater
effort than ever to eliminate signs in the classrooms and to stress speech reading with the young beginning children. We find among our colored children, as among the white, some who had learned to talk before they lost their hearing and others who have [esid al hearing. It means a great deal to these boys and girls to be able to understand language from reading the lips of others and to carry on a conversation by means of speech and speech reading. While we do not try to develop speech, we feel Justified in the time spent on speech reading. We find our colored children just as smart as our white children, and they are quite .adept at speech reading.
Every two or three months the colored teachers observe our work and are thus able to compare their progress with ours. Each time they go back with new ideas and a renewed determination to make their classrooms more attractive and to do more for their boys and girls than ever before.
We think that our department for colored children has the distinction of being one of the few, if not the only one, in the United States where the Fitzgerald method is used. We feel that with such a good start we are well on the way to having one of the best schools for colored children in the country .-Marie Kennard
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Fourth War Loan Drive

The report for the Fourth War Loan Drive for the Cave Spring District is most gratifying in that, while the state of Georgia at large lacked something of fulfill ing its quota, until the eleventh hour the district quickly over subscribed. As a matter of fact,

the Cave Spring District subscribed more than the quota set for Floyd County outside of Rome. Mr. Hollingsworth as chairman of the drive in the district

is very much gratified at the splendid results and the

cordial response from all persons contacted.

Following is the report:

Cave Spring District .. _

$23,389.00

G. S. D.

._ ._ _ _ 2,984.75

Total

__.. .__ _ $26,3 73 j 5

-Nell Gibbons

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Stamp Contest

As a11 incentive to boost the sale of war saving stamps we have three beautiful victory banners one for each department, which are passed each week to the classes buying the most stamps. Each Friday results of sales for the week are announced in the chapel and the banners passed to the winning classes.
Th competition is quite keen and the response from the children is splendid.
\Ve shall report in each succeeding issue of the School Helper the record of sales and the winning classes.

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Superintendent's Corner

M Patriotism Plus

OST of the government-span-

sored drives

and demands made of the public,

under the pressure of war, serve as

excellent mediums for good

citizenship training in schools for the deaf. So persistently apparent is this advantage that, to say the least, any school is remiss in its

duties that does not exploit this advantage by driving home valuable impressions to deaf students. After all, this is an allout war. It is'a 4-Fs war just as

surely as it is anybody's war.

It is not enough to teach th, boys and girls to have pride in

a developing spirit of patriotism through purchase of war saving stamps and bonds. Certainly, they have a right to be proud of this. The students and teachers at G. S. D. should be proud that there was 100 percent participation in the Fourth War Loan

Drive, and in the fact that the school and the Cave Spring district quickly exceeded its quota. But the object lesson must be

expanded to include traini!lg in habits of personal CONSERVATION and THRIFT, and a new sense of DUTY to the state and nation. Those principles which will safeguard their future must be a part of the larger lesson. The development of attitudes and

aptitudes which will make of them better citizens of tomorrow should be a major consideration if we would use the medium to its greatest advantage in training the deaf.

School Visitors

I N recent weeks the Georgia

School for

the Deaf has had the good fortune

and privilege of entertaining a

larger number of important vis-

itors than usual. These people

from the State Department of

Education and other agencies, here

in the interest of better acquaint-

anceship and to lend' assistance to

extending and improving the

school program, augur well for the future.
Among the visitors were Mr. J. Dean Rogers. Director, Commod it i e s Distribution; Mr. William R. Watson, Jr., FDA Area Supervisor: Messrs. Jarrel.
W. H. Morris, and Alfred L.
Davis, Directors, Division of Rehabilitation. Coming within the next ten days will be Mr. W. E. Pafford, State High School Supervisor; and Mr. T. Jack Lance, member of the state High School Accrediting Commission. Also here the past week-end was that eminent divine, the Reverend Robert C. Fletcher of Birmingham.
We welcome these visitors and the causes they represent.
"The right training of a single youth is a greater accomplishment than the taking of a city; for when the fame of the great struggle shall have passed into myth or tradition the influence of one well-trained brain and heart will be going on and on, contributing to the uplifting and redemption of this planet." -Melanchthon-In The West Virginia Tablet.
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Spending Money
As Dean of Boys I have noted with increasing amazement the amount of money first one boy and then another has to spend. This cash is in the form of "manna" that literally falls from the skies in the form of a money order, check, or cash. Young boys judge the value of money in returns of candy, gum, coca colas and invariably spend the whole sum of their windfall on such "items. - - I do believe that boys should have a certain amount of spending money-money to save as well as to spend. I do not believe they should have so much it will be squandered wastefully.
The deaf as well as the hearing must learn to live within their incomes. When OUr pupils learn to regard money as a windfall to be spent with the most alaricity possible, they are forming a habit

or predisposition that will most likely lead to bitter experiences when they are out on their own. The first pay check will to them be the same as the usual allotment from home and will be treated in a like manner. When it is all spent, they will still have to live and eat till the next payday and not having the school dining-room to have recourse to, they will have to borrow until the next check comes and so forth.
I have this suggestion to make to the parents of our boys; treat him as you do his hearing brothers and sisters. Work out what you consider a reasonable allowance for him. Send this allowance to him at weekly intervals, or send the lump sum to our supervisors with instructions 'as to how much the weekly allowance is to be. Then, hold your child rigidly to that allowance, encourage him to put aside part for the purchase of war stamps and make him to understand that he will have only so much to spend and when it is spent, he will get no more till the next allowance is due. This, I believe will make them Judge more closely the value of each purchase they make. It will also form in them valuable habits of thrift and better still they will learn early to plan their expenditures so as to get the greatest value possible in return. It would be educational to them in that from an allowance they will more easily take the next step, that of receving a weekly paycheck and planning their expenses accordingly.
For an example, were a parent to send four dollars a month to child in a lump sum, it would probably be spent in the first week or two. Sent as an allow'ance, it would not be spent more than at the rate of a dollar a week. That is a large sum when considered on a weekly basis - - twenty-five or fifty cen ts a week should be sufficient for the needs of most of our boys.
Lets have the boys and girls
learn while spending.-O. L. T.

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From the Primary Department

When we first started work on the weather calendar, we noticed that our teacher looked out of the window and drew something in squares on the blackboard, but we were not sure that we knew what it meant. She seemed to notice that we didn't understand, for she soon drew seven squares on another blackboard and wrote the days of the week in them. Then she drew a table over the square marked Sunday because we come back to Sunday school every Sunday and do some handwork at our tables.
(Every Monday a small sketch of the handwork done on the preceding Sunday is drawn over the picture of the table. The handwork has settled a number of disputes about which week a particular thing happened.) She drew a semi-circle of chairs over the five school days, with a little group of children going to town in the corner of the space over Friday because we look forward to our trip to town every Friday. A bed over Saturday told us that we were to stay in the dormitories instead of coming to class on that day. If someone's mother wrote that she was coming or if we were going to have a party during the week, a car, a jack-a' -lantern or a valentin\? drawn in a particular square helped us to know just when such things would take place.
The teachers marked off yesterday's square every morning, and when the week was finished a new set of squares was drawn. We soon saw that we did the same things on the same days of the week. We also learned in a remarkably short time how to count the days that had to pass before Friday came again. We understood better the big weather calendar. We all like to go to the window and look out and then select a picture from a group that is kept on our window-sill to show what should be drawn on the weather calendar.
We have a set of cards with

the names of the days printed on them that we can arrange in order in a chart, and we are learning to point to the calendar to show when something happened. We feel that our small squares have helped us so much that they have been well worth both the time and the blackboard space they have taken up.--Jrm Irwin's Class and Miriam Minter's Class
Teaching is interesting work because of the varied personalities that are grouped together in a class. Some children want approval and will work much better if given it.
Clara and Jean try to do their work well and are very happy when it is approved.
Dan is very methodical and wants his work to be just right which, of course, is an excellent trait.
Gary is quite generous and enjoys getting boxes more for the privilege of sharing with his classmates than for what he likes himself.
It is encouraging when children try to use the language presented to them day after day. Shirley, Cynthia, and Maybellene use the language they know.
Jewell seems to be a favorite with both the girls and boys. She doesn't take advantage of this and deserves approval.
Cecil is a little older than the others in the class and seems to feel a certain responsibility for their behavior. He is obedient himself and wants them to be, too.
Marshall likes to tease but he is an affectionate child and is easily controlled by kindness.
Louise is just shedding her teeth and likes to have her hair curled. In spite of being the baby in the class, she remembers what is taught better than the majority.
From this list of individual characteristics it is easy to see that a teacher has a great responsibility in developing the characteristics that are desirable and trying to eliminate the undesirable ones.
-Ruth Forbes's Class

The brightest spot in the children's week is the trip to town on Friday mornings. For various reasons these walks have been discontinued for a few weeks, but we are having good times just the same.
A short time ago the children asked me to buy them some story books with part of their money. I selected six books which I'm sure will give much pleasure not only to the boys and girls but to me, also. These books are The Gingerbread Boy, Little Black Samba, Tell Me About God, Ten Little Colored Boys, Three Prayers, and Unhappy Rabbit. They belong to Rube, Jerry, Andrew Lee, Dorothy, William, and Junior. Little Black Samba is the favorite so far. We talked about the animated pictures and dramatized the story. There will be other books for Betty, Marcus, and Sarah.
We've made quite a few valentines and Mr. Fincher bought each child ten in Rome. The Valentine party will be Friday and the children's anticipation is mounting daily.
Too, we're looking forward to Jerry's birthday the twenty-third. His mother is sending him a cake and a bracelet.
With so many interesting things happening in February, we won't miss the trips to town very much. By the time we go again spring will really be on the way and there will be new things everywhere to see.
-Mabel Fincher's Class
We have handwork in one form Or another every day. We always bring in as much language as possible. Simple directions are written on the board or a variety of work sheets previously prepared are given out. For example:
Draw a valentine.
Color the valentine red and white. Cut it out. Paste it in your scrap book.
After carrying out the directions each child writes what he has done in the past tense. In this way the

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The School Helper

Febru rlj, 1944

teacher brings in new vocabulary and the children get pleasure from reading and doing.
Good habits can also be taught. It is necessary that the directions be followed carefully, tha t the child does exactly as directed and does not do things he is not told to do. Neatness, accuracy, and good penmanship are stressed at all times.-Gladljs Clark's Class
The results from the mental development period that I have included in my daily program have proved most satisfactory.
Memory games are enjoyed by all the children. One of the first we used was, "Touch an object, add an object." A child touches an object in the room. Another child touches the same object and adds another. The third child touches the first two objects and adds another, and so on until every child has participated.
Other mental games that we have enjoyed are:
Place as many as eight objects on a table. Remove and let children place in order.
Pass an object to each child. Take them up. A child passes them out as before.
Write a word, phrase or sentence on the board. Erase and have child reproduce it. Use language they understand well and increase in difficulty as they develop. This helps later in copying from the board. The child is able to grasp the meaning of the word, phrase, or sentence and be able to reproduce it as a whole instead of letter by letter or word by word.
Hand a familiar object to each child. Children hide them. Have one child show in the Plymouth chart a picture of the object each has.
Give the children a certain letter and have them write all the words they know beginning with that letter. Teacher designates whether \Vho or What words.
Number stories and true and false statements are used effectively, too.
All these games help develop the

child's reason and judgment and help to meet the particular need of each child. -Prances Little'S Class
The children have been taking a great deal of interest in our nature study class and are beginning to notice the changing of the season. They realize that spring is almost here and can hardly wait.
There is one particular maple tree they look at every Friday to see if any tiny buds have begun to put out. They first noticed this tree one day last fall on the way to town. It was covered with beautiful yellow leaves. We stopped on the way to town and on the way back to admire it. In a few days we had a heavy frost. The children were very much surprised when they saw the tree the next Friday. There wasn't a single leaf on the tree. At first they thought the tree was dead. Their attention was called to other trees that had only a few leaves left on them. It was explained that the leaves would put out again and the tree would grow. They know it won't be long and they are eager to see the very first bud.
The supervisors have been taking the children on long walks in the woods. This has been an aid to our work on nature study. They have noticed that a few trees stay green the year round and that trees 'and plants have names. Some very interesting things have been brought in and many new words learned.---Jessie Jones's Class
This is a new and in teresting era in the history of our class. Heretofore we have been content to commemorate the birthdays of famous men by cutting out representative silhouettes and pictures for decorations in our rooms. This year, however, we have begun to learn a little about the lives of these men who made the world a better land in which to live. Illustrative pictures and short, simple topics enable us to see that these people were great not only in world affairs but also in daily living.
The recent study of the life of
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Lincoln inspired us to try even
harder to be good boys and girls.
worthy citizens of tomorrow's
history. We want to be kind, to
be smart, to read lots, and to work
well.
We have two other splendid
topics for this month. We are eager
to learn about the good will of
Saint Valentine and the greatness of George Washington.
-Viola McMichen's Class
The children have never seemed so interested in their work or more eager to learn than they are now. The hours in the classroom aren' t quite long enough for all the interesting things they want to know about. Every minute is filled. A few children asked if they might take work to the dormitory to study in the afternoon after play. The idea became popular and all began to ask for work. The supervisors offered to supervise the children in study hour.
The plan has proved to be a great success. More work can be accom~lished in the classrooms. because much of the drill work can be done outside. Poems, songs, and nursery rhymes are presented in school and memorized during study hour. The me'aning of a word is taught in the classroom and extra drill is done outside. New thoughts and ideas have been brought into the classrooms by the children.
The older children carry story books from the library to read after they finish their wrtten work. All written work is brought to school the next day and corrected in class.
The children have begun to realize that learning does not stop when they leave the classroom. Work has been carried over into play and vice versa. The biggest JOY of all is that the children thoroughly enjoy the outside work and look forward to it every day. We teachers greatly appreciate the cooper~tion of the m'atran and the superVisors.
-Emmalee Highnote's Class

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February, 1944

Watson filled four of her teeth.
Junior Culberson fell down,
and hurt the side of his
face and his wrist. One of his eyes
was swollen almost closed. It was
purple.
The basketball teams went to Coosa February 4 to play basketball. Grace Sharpe Was one of the players. The girls played Coosa High School first. They lost. The score was 61 to 16. The boys' team lost, too. The score was 32 to 21. Mrs. Ware gave the players oranges 'and apples and Willene gave Grace some candy after the games.
Thelma Holloway had a sore heel. It hurt very badly one evening. She went to the hospital with Mrs. Barnett. Mrs. W'aller made her stay in the hospital for one day. Thelma was not allowed to walk Or run.
A. D. Ray has learned to drive the truck. Now he can get a driver's license to drive cars and trucks. February 10 Mr. Caswell wrote to Atlanta for A. D. 's license. A. D. passed his test in driving for Mr. Caswell.
Mr. Tollefson, our printing teacher, took his morning class to Rome to the Caldwell Printing Company. They saw a Kelly press and a Kleuge automatic job press. Billy Adams was very much impressed by one printer. He said that the printer did wonderful work on the automatic press.
Alton Holman bought eggs, rolls, cookies, and Spam in town. Sunday afternoon he fried the eggs and made some coffee on his electric stove. Olin Love, Olin Murphy and Alton had a delicious lunch of fried eggs, potted meat, rolls, fig preserves, cookies and coffee.
February 5 was Brinkley Smith's birthday He received a nice box of things from his mother. There was a large fruit cake in the box. The next day Brinkley

wrote a long letter to his mother thanking her.
Sunday afternoon, February 6, Jack Callaway, Billy Hayes, James Hattrich, and Bobby Gorman played behind the basketball court. They made a new road on the side of the hill. They got the little wagon and cleaned up the leaves for a while.
John Mock's brother, Marvin, is going to send him one of his pictures soon. He just had some taken in his soldier uniform.
Beecher Spence was in town one Saturday. He bought some candy and a comic book. Then he saw Allan Parks. They talked for awhile. Then Beecher went to the spring and bought some more candy.
Herbert White likes hard lessons. He enjoyed the hard lesson Mrs. Montgomery gave them about Georgia Day. He hopes that he can soon have a history book.
Louida Benson likes grape juice very much. One Sunday afternoon she was lucky. She went to the spring. Mr.Purdy had some grape juice. Louida bought a bottle and some peanuts.
Billy Hayes received a box from his mother February 6. She sent him some nuts, some marbles, a handkerchief, an airplane, and a small silver G. S. D. button. The button came from a boy's suit who came to G. S. D. a long time ago.
Bud Little read the poem, Abou Ben Adhem, in chapel Monday, February 14. Loraine Kicklighter signed it for the pupils at the same time. It was part of the valentine program that day.
John Harrell received a letter from his daddy February 9. He wrote that John's soldier brother would fly to China by airplane.
One Saturday Janie Elder bought four tomatoes, a loaf of bread, and some Ritz crackers. Sunday afternoon the girls went to
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the spring. Mary Moon and Janie ate their lunch there.
Mary Roberts had bad luck. She fell in the dormitory one Saturday afternoon. She was walking down the steps. She slipped and hurt her arm. She sprained it. Monday she came to school with her arm in a sling. It was swollen and very sore.
The girls go to the spring almost every pretty Sunday afternoon. One Sunday Wylodean Spells and Grace bought some cookies and pe'anuts.
Boy Scouts Reorganize
Although we have had a Boy Scout troop in our school for several years it has been some time since we have been very active. We have a beautiful lodge where we have our meetings 'and have been anxious for some time to reorganize our troop and put new life in it.
With this in view the Scouts were called together recently to discuss plans for a wide-awake, active troop. The first business was to get the names and ages of the Scouts. Some of the boys present had belonged to the Scouts before and some were new members. After this our principal, Mr. Parks, selected three boys to become patrol leaders. They were Carlton Scurry, Billy Peace, and Edward Stanford. They took turns picking out the boys and then they named their patrols.
Walter Wade is the Scoutmaster and Dean Green was named assistant Scoutmaster.
We will begin by studying the scout laws and intend to learn all we can about scouting so that some day we will be able to become Eagle Scouts. A number of boys who had never been Scouts before are now interested and are anxious to become members.
Mr. Hollingsworth is very much interested in our reorganization and has promised to help us and get us off to a good start.
-Billy Peace

The School Helper

Febn/ary, 1944

FACULTY NOTES
Mr. and Mrs. Hollingsworth had as their guests recently Mr. Hollingsworth's brother and his wife, Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Hollingsworth. of Sylvania.
Mr. and Mrs. Parks had a supper party at their home February sixth in honor of Supt. Hollingsworth and his family.
Mr. and Mrs. Rolfe Kennard were the dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Powers recently. Mrs. Woodruff, a former teacher of the Georgia School, was also their guest.
Mrs. Gibbons and Mrs. Montgomery were h 0 s t e sse s to the Campus Rummy Club February ninth at the home of Mrs. Montgomery. Miss Brown and Mrs. Barnett won the prizes.
Mrs. J. H. Weems of Dearborn, Michigan was the guest of her cousin, Miss Nathaleen Ritch February first.
Mrs. Fincher went to Atlanta one Saturday recently.
Mrs. Minter enjoyed having as her guests recently the Rev. and Mrs. B. Frank Pim of Rome.
Dr. and Mrs. Harold C. Jones of Berry School visited Miss McMichen Sunday, February sixth.
Mrs. Irwin spent one Saturday in Rome recently.
Mrs. Barton Clark and little son had an enjoyable trip to the country one Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Bell visiting Mrs. Clark's oldest sister.
Mrs. Emmalee Highnote spent the first week-end in February in Columbus with friends.
Mrs. Jessie Jones visited her daughter, Miss Margaret Jones in Atlanta one day recently.
Sgt. Frank Little of the Richmond Army Air Base spent the first week of February with Mrs. Little and his sister, Mrs. Dorothy
Henderson. Miss Mildred Forbes, who is
a student at West Georgia College, spent the week-end of February eleven with her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Fred Forbes. Mr. and Mrs. Render Caswell announce the birth of a d.aughter,

Rhonda Maxine Caswell on January 28. We are happy to welcome little Miss Maxine into our official family.
We were indeed glad to welcome as a visitor in February, Mrs. J. C. Harris, who for the past year has made her home in Berkeley, California with her son, Lieut. Commander James C. Harris and his family. Her apartment in Berkeley was located only a few blocks from the California School for the Deaf and while there Mrs. Harris made the acquaintance of Supt. and Mrs. Stevenson and members of the faculty. Commander Harris has been transferred from the west coast and is now stationed in Philadelphia. Mrs. Harris will visit friends and relatives in Rome and Cedartown before going to Athens where she will spend some time with her sister, Mrs. R. A. Denny, before joining her son's family in Philadelphia.
Mr. Parks spent several days this month in Atlanta where he was assisting the directors of the Rehabilitation Department in securing positions for a number of deaf people at the Bell Bomber Plant.
Mrs. Kennard and Mrs. West were hostesses to the Cave Spring Garden Club at the home of Mrs. Kennard February 14th.
Production versus
V ocational Education
Continued from page one
that his services were no longer required. The reason this time was that he could not set up advertisements on the linotype. If this boy had received training on upto- date machines, he would have a steady job today. One cannot expect an operator on a linotype to obtain speed on a machine that acts like a Model T Ford. The operator spends half his time tinkering with the machine as something is constantly going wrong with it. If it is something serious, then the student must

stand by while the instructor
tackles the job of getting it in
running shape again. More time
lost. It is a source of irritation
to an operator to have the dis-
tributor constantly stopping. In
this case, he spends half his time
getting up from his chair and
going around to the back of the
machine and starting the flow of matrices again. And the whole trouble is due to worn-out parts, in fact a worn-out machine that should be on the scrap heap. In the course of three or four years the school can easily spend, on replacement parts, an amoun t equal to about half the price of a new machine.
The vocational departments have served production these many years. The combined amount of funds the school through its own vocational production should run well into the thousands. Is it not time for Vocational Education to take its rightful place in the school system and Production dropped to matters of secondary importance"? -Virginia Guide.
Examinations
Examination time is here again. Examinations are always about the same headache for the pupils and the teacher. In many cases the pupils can do splendid work, but when they are asked to write what they have done or expect to do, that same old language difficulty confronts them. Some person could make himself famous if he would invent some practical means of getting deaf pupils to ask questions of their intructors relative to language pertaining to the trade they are endeavoring to master. The normal hearing child literally asks thousands of questions. Is the deaf child up to par in that line? We are inclined to have Our doubts. If our doubts are a reality, we urge all instructors to encourage quesLions, questions, and more questions.
-The Minnesota Companion

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State of Georgia
ELLIS ARNALL, Governor
Georgia School for the Deaf

STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION M. D. COLLINS, State Superintendent of Schools

ADMINISTRATION

C. H. HOLLINGSWORTH, M. A. Superintendent

Rebecca S. Crowe, Secretary

J. C. Connor, M. D.

O. W. Haney, Steward

W. S. Watson, D. D. S.

Evelyn Scoggins, Sec'y to Steward

Katie Payne, R. N.

Lelia H. Barnett, Dietitian

INSTRUCTORS

Roy G. Parks, M. A., Principal

Primary Department

Intermediate and Advanced Department

Marie S. Kennard, B. S. Supervisor
Mable L. Fincher Jessie F. Jones Gladys B. Clark Ruth D. Forbes Frances A. Little Viola McMichen, B. A. Emmalee J. Hi~hnote Miriam B. Minter Jim Irwin

Nell A. Gibbons, Supervisor
Edythe D. Montgomery, B. S.
Pauline J. Shahan, B. A.
Dorothy L. Henderson, B. S. Ila S. Sewell, B. S. Barton Clark, B. A. Frances M. Tollefson. B. A. Sarah F. Ware Maude M. Welch, B. A. Mary D. Turner. B. A. A. May Clark

Vocational
R. R. Caswell, B.S.A., B.A. . ..... A~icultural Training
Olaf L. Tollefson, B. A...... Printing A. May Clark .. . . . . Arts and Crafts

Department
Louise Montgomery Annie McDaniel J. R. Ware Earl Cox

Beauty Culture Sewing
" .. Carpentry Machine Shop

Colored Department Quinton Gordon, Principal

Mattie Davis Henrietta Bailey Lucille McCullogh

James Rich Georgia McHenry Cynthia Strange

;CHOO . i

PUBLISH D AT TH GEORGIA SCHOOL FOR . THE DEAF, CAVE
SPRI G, GEORGIA

MARCH, 1944

VOL 44

NO.6

HONOR ROLL
The following pupils have received no demerits for the past month:
Mary Baker Mary Frances Bates -Frances Bartlett Ulysses Collins Alice Edmonston Herbert Fuqua Joseph Gillespie Phillips Hester Loraine Kicklighter Etta Lee Kilgore Elizabeth Noblitt Friedson Odom A. D. Ray Bobby Rose Grace Sharpe Edward Stanford Herbert White

THE SCHOOL HELPER

Volume 44

March, 1944

No. 6

How to Secure and Hold a Job

Sound Advice to the Deaf Who Seek Work

(Note: the following long article. considered of great practical value to young deaf boys and girls, but also of value to those who may have been out of school for several years, is being reprinted for wider distribution. from the Convention Vocational Bulletin. The editor of the Bulletin, in offering the article to his readers, explained that it was made up. or rather put together, from a number of sources, so the name of the writer of the article cannot be given. We feel indebted to the editor of the Bulletin, and to all whose contributions were used, for the use of the article. \Ve are asking our deaf readers to study it with care, to save it for future reference and study.-Editor. the Lone Star.)
Perseverence (Do not give up too quickly)
To succeed one must persevere. Just because something goes wrong the first time it is tried it is no reason why it should be given up. I have noticed in school many of the pupils, when something is a little hard, they make a face. and want to quit. This attitude will never get anyone any place in the world.
Where would our athletic teams be if they wanted to give up every time the going got a little tough. You can all remember the first year in football, when we lost all of our games, did the boys give up and quit? No. Now if we all took that slant on things when we are working we would get along just fine.
Too many boys and girls quit a job before giving it a fair trial. Many times you will not like a job when you first start to work but

that is no reason why you should not give it a fair chance. If you continue working and working hard it will not be long before you will become used to your work and then will grow to like it. Don't forget one who often changes jobs has a harder time to get .0!le. The employer will be
SUSpiCIOUS.
Loyalty to Employer
When you work for someone you should "stand by" him and be loyal to him. Do not go around talking behind his back. This is a trouble that many people have. They "bite the hand that feeds them." That is they get paid by an employer and then go around saying mean things about him.
Do not tell any secrets about your work that the employer might not want other people to know. That is. if something happens where you are working that does not apply to the people on the outside, the thing to do is to keep quiet about it. This is especially true of girls who work in private homes. Do not tell your girl friends or other people the things that might happen in that home.
Promptness
"Be on time." This is a slogan that all should remember. It never hurts anyone to be a little early on a job. It is always better to be too early than too late.
Many times you have heard the proverb, "The early bird catches the worm." What does this mean? The one who is on time is the one who is going to succeed and get ahead. If you :ue late the other fellow is going to get ahead of you

and then what chance will yOll stand?
Cooperativeness
All too often the deaf lose their jobs simply because they do not cooperate with the employer or their fellow workers. No one can expect to go in a large factory, where there are hundreds of workers, and expect to do what he wants. All must work together to get ahead.
Do what is asked with a smile. Many times an employer will ask you to do a little more or work a little later than you are accustomed to. This should be done with willingness. Do not always expect extra money for every little thing that is done. That seems to be the trouble with a large group of people who expect to get paid for every little thing they do.
Do not waste time. Do things the quickest way and not the slowest or easiest way. Some people are so lazy that they want to sit down and work all of the time. One can't be lazy and expect to get any place in life.
Thoroughness
What you do, be sure to do well. When any deaf person secures a position, he should make his work so excellent that it will pave the way for the employment of other deaf persons. They must establish a reputation for good workmanship and loyal service. We cannot change the business world, so the deaf must build their own place in it with a reputation for doing the job well. You ma y be deficient in hearing, so all
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From the Advanced Department

Olin Murphy received a letter urphy made some coffee and was operated on early in February.

rrom his mother one day last cooked some bacon and eggs.

J ewell Wilson thinks tha t she

week. She said that Olin's father Carlton Scurry enjoyed his visit might work in Alabama this would go to Atlanta soon to take to Mr. and Mrs. Caswell Sunday summer. Her sister has been try-

his physical examination. Olin has aftcrnoon. He thougbt their new ing to get her a job there.

an uncle in England and his mother wrote him that another uncle who is stationed at a camp in California might go overseas very soon.

baby was very sweet and pretty.
Jacqueline Hallman was happy ~ast week when her mother wrote her that she had a new puppy for her. J acq ueline has decided to

Elaine Pannal has been expecting a letter from her brother. He had written her that he had been called to Atlanta for a physical examination and would wnte

Carolyn Gunnells got a letter call it "Skippy,"

her whether or not he passed.

from her sister-in-law recently saying that Carolyn's brother had joined the Army. She invited Carolyn to spend Easter with her.
Mary Frances Bates was glad

Bill Nelson's mother wrote him that she hoped he could work in Atlanta when school is out. Bill likes to make money so that he can buy his own clothes.

Marvin Harrell's grandfather sent him some money the other day. Marvin was happy because he had been wanting to buy some defense stamps.

to hear that her aunt had a new baby. The baby's name is Ima Jean. Mary Frances also had a letter from her uncle. He told her that he was stationed at Phoenix,

Billy Peace is looking forward to the basketbaJil game against Coosa High School. He hopes that G. S. D. will win this game. He does not like basketball so well 'as

Billie Ethridge was bappy to get a long lctter from his father. He had not heard from him for some time.
Bobby Rose enjoyed his visit

Arizona.

football.

last week. His mother came back

Joyce Sellers' mother wrote Frances Hoy had a good time to school with him and stayed

her that she had heard from her Wednesday afternoon when Mrs. about two hours.

brother who is in the Air Corps Barnett took her and Elaine Pan-

Carlton Huff got a letter from

in England. His plane received nal to town. They went to the bis sister telling him that his

forty-eight shots in a raid, but he post office and to the drug store. nephew had been wounded some-

was not wounded.

Etta Lee Kilgore is planning to where in Italy. Carlton hopes that

Ned Palmer hopes that he can go home for a visit Easter. Her the war will soon be over. He

get a job through the summer at brother who is in the Navy will feels sorry for the soldiers who

the Bell Bomber Plant.

be home at that time.

have to fight.

Frances Bartlett had a letter Roscoe Singletary had a big Jane Murphy thought Mrs.

from her mother one day this surprise the other day when he Sewell's nephew, Mr. Harry

week. She told Frances that she found that his mother had sent Camp, looked handsome in hi~

would send her a picture of herself him a box of good things to eat uniform. He will soon go overseas.

soon. Frances is eager to get it.

for a Valentine. He divided his

Ruth Cook had a big surprise

James Galloway has been very cake with some of his friends.

in January. Her brother wbo is

busy in the shop for the last few

Catherine Langer has been stationed at Camp Haan in Cali-

weeks. He helped make some shuf- having lots of fun trying to scare fornia came home on a furlough.

fle boards for the boys and girls. the girls when they go down to She went home to be with him

He also made a blackboard for the basement. Saturday morning and had a good time, but she hated

the teachers. Next week he will she and Patsy Baker tried to scare to see him leave.

refinish the bookcase in Mrs. Janie Elder but they did not suc-

Alton Dominey has received a

Turner's room. James is a good cced. They were disappointed.

letter from his mother saying that

worker and is always happy to fix

imrod Phillips went to Rome his brother had left the camp

an ything for the teachers or stu- with Mr. Caswell and Mr. Haney where he was stationed in Florida

dents.

Friday, February 25.

and had gone to New York. Alton

Joyce Avery can hardly wait

era Reeder's uncle wrote her is afraid that his brother might

until summer. Her friend, who that he had passed his physical have to go overseas soon.

used to live in Texas but now lives examinaion and was now station-

Joseph Gillespie is glad that ex-

in Alabama, has invited her to ed at Fort McPherson.

aminations are over. He studied

visit her this summer. Joyce also Louis Keaton's father has join- hard and made good marks in all

got a letter from Betty Nichols. ed the Navy. Louis went home of his studies. He likes algebra

She wrote that she might come to for a visit February 25.

very much.

Cave Spring in April.

Hulet Hawkins was glad to get C. G. Turner was surprised to

Olin Love had a good time un- a letter from his father in Akron, gel a lett r from one of his friends

day night when he, Carlton Ohio telling him that his brother who is stationed at Fort Bragg

Scurry, Alton Holman, and Olin James was getting better. James

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From the Primary Department

The children have their first health lessons in the form of daily inspection. The supervisors in spect them before they leave the dormItory, but the classroom inspection lets them know that the teacher expects them to be able to answer Yes to all the questions.
Pictures are used to make the ideas clear while the teacher asks the questions orally. The children are given Yes and ro cards with which to answer. Later printed questions are presented to correspond with the pictures and the children answer orally.
Getting the children to wash their ears at home is a big Job, but when the question "Did you wash your ears?" is asked, all are eager to show their clean ears.
Clean hands are necessary for good health. The children realize that they must clean their nails before they can get full credit for having clean hands.
The little girls especially like to answer, "Did you comb your hair?" Other questions are, "Did you wash your face? Did you brush your teeth? and Did you take a bath?"
When the children come into the room so fresh and clean the teacher sometimes thinks it is not necessary to ask the questions, but the day has not started right for them until inspection is over.
-Miriam Minter's Class
Until recently we have been satisfied to let the matching of pictures and printed cards take up most of our reading period. During the past few weeks. however. we have seemed to realize that it takes more than just our noun cards to say what we want to tell. The news items that our teacher has been printing on the blackboard since school started have a fuller meaning now. At fir t she drew a stick man on the blackboard when someone fell. laughed, or cried to show us what action had taken place. Later. the tick men were drawn on cards which were plac d in a chart with

the past tense of the verb beneath the card. We have added to our list until our chart is almost full. We now use laughed, cried. walked, ran, lost, found, picked, came, went. got. felL gave, bought, and made. ~ e don't like to use them often. but we have had occasion to add uch verbs as scratched, pushed. and pinched.
When our news is written on the blackboard. the verbs are written in colored chalk, and we enjoy picking these out on the chart and finding out for ourselves what they mean. Since We started this exercise we have found our news much more interesting.
-Jim Irwin's Class

One important phase of school

life is training in citizenship.

From the first day in school the

child should be taught how to

work and play with other children

and to recognize the fact that all

have equal rights.

The deaf, especially, are apt to

be humored when they are little,

and it is sometimes hard to make

them understand that there are

rules of conduct that apply to all.

It takes patience and under-

standing on the part of the teacher

to instilI lessons of obedience.

truthfulness. honesty, self-controL

generosity, and other qualities that

make good citizeFls. If these virtues

are nourished in little children

there is more chance of their be-

coming good citizens.

The children in my class range

in age from nine to twelve and

I find that all of them have a very

good understanding of right and

wrong. They don't always do

what is right, which is quite na-

tural. but it isn' t hard to make

them understand that there is re-

ward in doing right and they real-

ly try to be good most of the

time.

-Ruth Forbes' Class

From the beginning of a little dea f child's school life an attitude of reverence toward things of a sacred nature is fostered. At first the bowing of heads and folding the hands for a few moments of
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prayer each morning is as much as can be expected.
As soon as possible We help tbem to realize that God creates. all the beautiful things around us and that he gives us the sunshine, the rain. the birds. the flowers, and many other things too numerous to name.
Before long a part of their first pra yer is understood and as soon as their speech is developed enough, they speak it. The prayer as a whole is:
I love Mama. I love Daddy. I love God.
Amen
Our class can say this prayer, which they repeat every morning, with the children taking turns standing before the class and holding the Bible.
We have learned to speak four Bible verses. These are:
God is good. God is love. We love Him. He loves us.
On Sunday mornings we teachers meet the children for a fortyfive minute period of Sunday school. In so doing we hope to instill the habit of attending Sunday school somewhere every Sunday whether at school or at home. The beginners all meet together and do hand word, which is usually coloring and cutting out flowers, birds, or animals. All these are the pictures of some of God's creations whiLh the children understand.
The girls and boys in my class will soon learn the second prayer:
I love God. I want to be good. Amen.-Mabel Fincher's Class __
Five of my pupils had birthdays in February. Before the birthdays came around we planned the parties and tried to organize the games we wanted to play.
Each child had the privilege of planning his own party and of acting as host or hostess and seeing that everyone had a good time. He got a gr at kick out of his party, realizing that it was his

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March, 1944

own and that he could more or less do as he wanted to do.
The parties which the children like best are the ones they have planned or helped plan themselves. Little children can learn gradually to assume responsibility and really enjoy more the things they have taken part in.
If the boys and girls are to be able to conduct themselves correctly in social situations after they leave school. they should be getting practice throughout their school life. They should also learn that in order to have friends they must be friendly and that a gre'at deal of pleasure comes from living happily with others.
Our purpose in celebrating the children's birthdays is three-fold, to give recognition which they naturally crave, to give opportunities for new language as they develop from year to year, and to create natural situations in which they will have practice in the social graces.-Gladys Clark's Class

The boys and girls in my group are always glad when we have number stories. They like to dramatize the problems that are given by the teacher. The stories are introduced as reading and later given as a speech reading exercise.
The teacher makes problems using verbs in the following way:

had

ate

A boy had five apples.

He ate two (apples).

Then he had

apples.

The teacher ometimes writes the story in the Key or lets the children do so. This helps toward visualization.

Before the number stories can be presented the children must understand had, so that had five apples will give the intended mental picture. This part cannot be dramatized. There will be numerous opportunities to pave the way. For instance, James may have a penny this morning, but by tomorrow it may be gone. The children would be led to see that

we said, "James had a penny yesterday."

The teacher suggests verbs and the children originate their own problems for others to solve. They especially like to dramatize the

verb bought. They enjoy the sto-

ries involving playing store and it

helps them to visualize money val-

ues. Trips to stores must precede

the pretending to buy. Real mon-

ey is always used. Playing store

also gives an opportunity for

more language. How many -3

1 want

.. Thank you

and various other expressions can be used.

The development of judgment is considered a most important part of the work with number stories. The stories offer splendid opportunities for new vocabulary and for practice on the vocabulary supposed to have been already acquired.-Frances. Little's Clas:;

Up until this year our idea of Sunday was a day on which we put on our prettiest clothes, went to the classrooms for a short time, had a good dinner, and played the rest of the day. Our Sunday school work consisted of drawing, coloring and cutting out.
Now we look forward to Sunday as a very special day. We understand that it is God's day, that the church is God's house, and that the Bible is God's book. Each of us has a Bible in which to look up references. We are learning Bible verses and listen interestingly to simple Bible stories.
Around Chistmas we began the story of Jesus's life told in very simple language and illustrated by pictures. Until this time our knowledge of Jesus was only as a baby. We have followed His life as He grew to be a man. We are looking forward to Easter and know that it will have a much clearer meaning this year than last..
Jaunice, Mary Ann, and Gene have their Bibles here at school. Frances. Robert, Wynell, and Martha have Bibles at home. Louise, Eugen!!, Rosemary, Fay, and Vivian hope that they can have their own Bibles before long.

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Ann Thompson has a book of Bible stories.
--Jessie F. Jones's Class
"Happy Birthday to You," whenever it is, and may you enjoy it as much as we do ours.
The week of February the sixth was filled with thrills for us. In addition to tbe Valentine party, we celebrated two birthdays, W.
c.'s on the sixth and Marvin's on
the tenth.
It seemed that our excitement at the second party was even greater than that at the first. After we had sung "Happy Birthday" to Marvin, he, Frances, Billie Jean, Ruth, Edna, and W. C. became absorbed in a game of bingo. To his delight, Marvin won the first game. Jene, Louise, Hinton, and Vinton preferred an interesting card game. Hin ton was the first champion of this group.
The highlight of the two parties was a lovely white cake that Marvin's mother had sent him. At dinner time the children at nearby tables looked on enviously while Marvin blew out the candles. Both the winners and the losers of our games shared alike in the enjoyment of the delicious birthday award.
>--Viola McMichen's Class
Our class have become very much interested in the war. Although they have been in school only four years their understanding of the wra and the conditions it has brought about is remarkable.
Pictures and simple news items pertaining to the war are brought in by the teacher and put on the bulletin board. These are discussed, questions are asked and the countries mentioned are located on the globe. Most of the children are able to take from lipreading the important countries in the war and find them on the globe.
lmost every child has someone close to bim which makes his interest even more keen. Evelyn Robinson's father is in the Navy and is now serving overseas. Alma Wooten's brother-in-law is also
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THE SHCOOL HELPER

March, 1944

THE SCHOOL HELPER
All communications should be addressed to the School Helper. Cave Spring, Georgia.
Published monthly during the school year in the printing department of the Georgia School for the Deaf.
Entered at the postoffice at Cave Spring, Georgia as second class matter November, 1889. Acceptance for mailing at special rate of postage provided in Section 1103. Act of October 3, 1917. Authorized October 31, 1918.
Subscription price is fifty cents for eight issues.

C. H. HOLLINGSWORTH NELL A. GIBBONS MARIE S. KENNARD

___ Superintendent Editor
_Associate Editor

Department of Education has taken more than common interest in placing the graduates of this school in good jobs. Several large department stores in Atlanta are employing large groups of our boys and girls and we frequently receive word that the deaf workers make splendid employees. One complaint arises from a number of employers, however, and that is the tendency on the part of the deaf to change from one job to another. The pasture across the road seems just a little greener to them. Sometimes it is a few dollars more in the pay envelope, sometimes more attractive hours, and sometimes they move for no apparent cause whatever. This tendency unless curbed will in all probability effect the employment of deaf workers in the future.

OLAF L. TOLLEFSON

Printing Instructor

Vol. 44

MARCH

No.6

Moving From One Job To Another
Under the present period of high wages there seems
to me more and more people changing jobs. Daily
papers, weekly papers, and school papers continually
carry articles about people who have changed jobs.
,Some changes are necessary but too many accounts
tell of the same person moving from job to job.
Today jobs are easy to get, but most people are anticipating a let down soon after this war is over. The people who are jumping from job to job should realize this too. This applies to all types of workers.
Deaf workers should be doubly careful about changing 'as they; carry with them some of the responsibility for the deaf as a group. Employers generally are growing more favorable toward the deaf workers and this attitude can easily by changed by a few deaf people who are poor workers.
Generally there are three types of work periods, so called, normal times, depression and boom times. Disregarding physical handicaps the following facts are usually true: during boom times almost anyone can secure work regardless of their ability or ambition: during normal times the better workers are sure of jobs and poor workers have jobs part of the time; and during a depression only the good workers hold on and some of them lose out. This brings the conclusion that most good workers have jobs all of the time and the way to hold a job during a depres~ion is to be a good worker all other times.
-Oregon Outlook
We have been thinking along this line for some
time and intending to write an editoral when along comes someone and writes it for us.
The Rehabilitation Department of the Georgia

We wonder if we are failing in the classroom to teach our boys and girls some of the things so necessary to their happiness and well-being as they go out to meet life-things that will mean more to them than any lesson printed in a text book.
We have been under the conviction for some time that we should spend more time in a citizenship program teaching the principles of right living and right thinking. the importance of good manners, dependability, courtesy, and the ability to get along with people. These things are so important that time spent in teaching them is well spent and might be the means of making better and more dependable workers of our pupils when they leave us.
-N.G.

Suggestions To Deaf Employees

The fact that it is easy to get a job nowadays doesn't prove mat employers are eager to hire deaf people because they are deaf. It simply means they must have people to turn out production. After the war. as in normal times, the average employer won't be as much interested in helping the deaf as he will be in making money with the least expenditure of time and effort.

Your best insurance against what will come after

the war is to save money; to stick to your job; to

do your work better than your hearing co-workers

if possible: to obey your superiors, whether you like

them or not: to refrain from ta Iking while at work

because signs are so noticeable; to improve your Own

skill or to prepare yourself for a trade more in

dema nd after the war; and to so conduct yourself

in shop and out that people will like you, respect you

and your capabilities and be impressed with the fact

thal deaf workers DO make good and are reliable.

It is time to begin thinking seriously about the

future.

-A. G. Leisman in W. A. D. Pilot

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Superintendent's Corner

T T ahe a Tip from
Tndustry

HE topic was sug-

gested by "listening in" on a discussion and

a comparing of notes by the

principaL tbe nightwatchman, and three alumni of the Georgia

School.

It was at the end of the fourth

week of intensive training in

preparation for jobs as seed-fore-

men of deaf workers at the Bell

Bomber Plant in Marietta. Said the principal "I have my master's

degree from one of the country's great universities with a major in

education: I have taught the deaf

fifteen years, during which time I

have attended many conventions,

vocational clinics, etc.; but I have

learned more about practical teaching technique and about the vitalization of subject matter the past two weeks than in all Of eighteen or twenty years of

preparation and teaching that

went before." That is a rather

compelling statement coming from

one of such long experience.

The nightwatchman, a keen

individual, but limited in educational advantages countered. "If

this course was for sale at $50.00

per week and I was otherwise

denied the privilege, I would go

into debt to the extreme limit of

my credit to continue the course.

It is the finest schooling I have

ever had."

.

The first alumnus intimated th,n he didn't learn arithmetic

well in shool since the teachers "never taught me the reason why". "Necessity for quick skill

in the fundamental processes was

not sufficiently impressed upon

me. The classroom teachers knew

too little about shop mathematics

and other applied uses of what

was being taught. My shop teach-

ers had learned what they knew

more or less by the 'hit or miss'

method and seemed to think that

practice, unaccompanied by skilled

instruction, was the shortest and

best way to perfection."

So it went with the fourth and

fifth members of this industrial

class as they expressed regrets over lost opportunities, and their unbounded enthusiasm for th~ methods employed by their new instructors-methods and skills that were awakening hitherto ~ndiscoveredpotentialities and givmg them that chin-up and chestout feeling.
These testimonials were possibly embellished by the exuberance of new enterprise and by war fervor -but methinks there is more there than meets the eye.
Had these conferees stumbled on something new? Has industry reall y something to offer the schools? Do they have "something on the ball" that the profession has lost? Or has industry, under the duress of the emergency and for practical and accurate results, found our school plan and method out-moded? If this be true, is the capit;tlistic system systematically robbing us of our best teachers and setting up better schools? If all, or any, of these questions can be answered in the affirmative, it is prima-facie evidence that the formal school may be lacking in execution of purpose, and that some of the expense and skill of proper instruction is, through force of necessity, being directed into new channels. . To sa y the least, there is enough 111 the argument of these trainees to make us have uncomfortable misgivings regarding the finesse of our educational accompishments. Let's take a look at a plain 2~ X4 inch card of instruction that the Bell Born ber Plant "professor" wears in his vest pocket as permanent and relevant material:
(front)
How To Get Ready
To Instruct
Hu(}e a Time Tablehow much skill you expect him to have, by what date.
Break Down the Job-
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list important steps. pick out the key points. (Safety is always a key point.) Have Everything Readythe right equipment, materials, and supplies. Have the Workplace Properly Arrangedjust as the worker will be expected to keep it.
Job Tnstruction Training
TRAINING WITHIN INDUSTRY
BUREAU OF TRAINING
WAR MANPOWER COMMISSION
KEEP THIS CARD HANDY
(back)
How To Instruct
Step I-Prepare the Viorher Put him at ease. State the job and find out what he already knows about it. Get him interested in learning iob. Place in correct position.
Step 2-Present the Operation Tell. show, and illustrate one IMPORTANT STEP at a time. Stress each KEY POINT. Instruct cleary, completely, and patiently, but no more than he can master.
Step 3-Try Out Performance Have him do the job--correct errors. Have him explain each KEY POINT to you as he does the job again. Make sure be understands. Continue until YOU know HE knows.
Step 4-Follow Up Put him on his own. Designate to whom he goes for help. Check frequently. Encourage questions. Taper off extra coaching and close follow-up.
If Worker Hasn't Learned. the Tnstructor Hasn't Taught
Perhap there may not be anything new in this abbreviated
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Topics From The Classrooms

Fun in the Dormitory

The boys have plenty of fun

in their dormitory. They have games to play inside and they play

ball outside, too. They are glad that Mr. Ware and his boys made some shuffle boards on the third

floor. It rained and rained in February. The boys wanted to play

all the time when they had no

lessons to do. Some of the boys like to read
but sometimes the other boys bother them. Then Mr. Dillard

or Mr. Wade sends those boys to the third floor to play. They all

like to play games and they hope

that nobody will ever take the

games away from them. One of the boys has a football

and the other boys enjoy playing

football. There are always two or three boys playing football near

the dormitory. The boys hate it

when it rains because they can't play ball. Mr. Wade has taught

the boys how to play soccer and

basketball, too.

You see the boys have lots of

fun playing shuffle board, foot-

ball, cards, and other things like

that.

--James Hattrich

A New Experience
Some of us boys are ralslOg some chickens at the farm. Mr. Caswell went to Atlanta one day last week. He bought about four hundred and fifty baby chickens and brought them to the farm. Then he chose four boys to take entire care of them. He chose A. D. Ray, Parram, Homer, and me.
Friday Mr. Caswell told me that I would watch the chickens all that night. That evening I went to the farm with A. D. and two men. I stayed awake all night by myself without anybody else there. I was not nervous. I watched the chickens playing and eating. I watched the temperature of the brooder very carefully. I did not want it to get too hot or too cold. I did not let it get up to 100 or down to 60 degrees. I kept it between 80 and 90 degrees.
About two o'clock I got sleepy

and so I went to sleep. The light came on and woke me up. I fixed everything. Then left the chickens and went to help the men milk. I came back to school about seven o'clock. I was late for breakfast.
I enjoyed watching the chickens and I hope I can go back next Friday night. I was a little sleepy all day Satutday because I stayed up all night. --Duwayne Dukes
Our Valentine Party
The intermediate boys and girls had their Valentine party in the chapel the night of February fourteenth. We were going to have our party in the Scout Lodge, but it rained very hard that day. The road up there was too muddy and wet for us to walk on. The chapel was very pretty. There were red and white paper streamers from the lights and between the lights. too. There were strings of large and small hearts on the wall, too.
We played several games. First we played Going-to-Jerusalem. We always think that is fun. Jack Callaway won the prize for that. Then Mrs. Montgomery sprinkled cut-up hearts all over the floor. We worked and worked putting them toegther. Raymond and Gertrude put the most hearts together because they worked the hardest. After that we played a heart and arrow game. We were blindfolded and the teachers turned us around and around. Then we tried to pin our arrow in the middle of the large red heart. Three of the boys and girls got prizes.
Then we had refreshments. We had punch and cookies. The punch was very good. It was full of ice. After the refreshments some of the boys and girls danced, but a few of us girls heiped Mrs. Tollefson and Miss Shahan wash tbe dishes while the others danced. After we came back, we watched or danced some ourselves. The party was over about nine thirty. We enjoyed it very much.
Miss Shahan's sister came to the party and she went with us to
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wash dishes. She left before nine o'c1ock to catch a bus to Rome.
--Janie Smith
Studying Electricity
The A Class in the advanced department has been studying a unit on electricity. Before we started this unit it was necessary for us to study magnetism becaus~ electricity is always connected in some way with magnetic waves.
Two magnets, some iron filings, nails, and coins were brought into our classroom for demonstration. The first thing we did was to observe how the nails and iron filings were attracted to the magnet. Then we used a quarter, a dime, a copper penny and one of the new lead pennies. The quarter, dime, and copper penny were not attracted to the magnet and magnetized, but the new penny did respond in a favorable way to the magnet.
A frer we observed the reaction of the nails and iron filings to the magnet we decided to see how the magnet would affect them through very thin paper. It was interesting to note that the nails and iroH filings followed the course of the magnet through the paper. This showed that the paper would not hinder the power of the magnet so we decided to see what would happen if we tried the same demonstration using glass instead of paper. When the glass was used, we found out that the nails and iron filings were not magnetized through the glass.
In our study of magnets we also used a compass and observed that the magnetic needle always points north.
After our study of magnetism we decided to make static electricity. We had learned that this is electricity which remains in one object and can be made by simply rubbing a rubber comb on wool Or by rubbing a glass rod on silk. If these are rubbed for a few minutes static electricity is made and both the comb and glass rod

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will pick up tiny bits of paper. Itwas fu 11 to make this.
Now we are studying about machines. I t was surprising to learn that a screw will lift an automobile. In this case the screw IS the common auto Jack.
-WillenI' Letson -Mrs. Henderson's Class
The annual Valentine party for the advanced department was held on Friday night. February 11, in
the chapel of Freeman Hall. The
Valentine motif was beautifully carried out with gay red and white streamers and paper he'arts completely disguising the room.
First, a series of contests and games, all relating to St. Valentine's Day, took place. Since these were quite new to the participants, keen interest was shown in all of them. Around nine o'clock a delicious fruit punch and cookies were welcomed by the thirsty and tired players.
Then came the grand march. Since the boys and girls had learned this in the Dramatic Club, they went through it almost without a flaw. With two local colored fiddlers furnishing the music and Mr. Parks as caller, the group tben formed a large circle and started a square dance. Several variations followed this, and before anyone realized it, eleven 0' clock and time for the good-nights to be said had arrived.
The Merchant of Venice
As an introduction to the study of Shakespeare, the A class of the advanced department entertained the advanced and intermediate department at chapel February 18 with a dramatization of The Merchant of Venice.
To the utmost of their ability the cast gave the audience a few hints and little foretastes of the great pleasure which awaits them when they come to the rich treasures from which this dramatization was taken.
The following students made up the cast.

Antonio

_ Walter Brown

Shylock

_ Friedson Odom

Bassanio

C. G. Turner

Portia

Willene Letson

Gratiano

Hugh McLeroy

Terissa

Ruth Cook

Jessica

__ Jane Murphy

Lorenzo __ Alton Dominey

Judge

__ __Joe Gillespie

Messenger _ _____ Ed. Stanford

Lyceum Club Notes
The purpose of the Lyceum Club is to give its members poise and assurance in public speaking.
The boys and girls of the intermediate and advanced departments elect officers for the club at the first meeting of the year. The officers for this year are: Friedson adorn, president, C. G. Turner vice-president, Bill Nelson secretary, and Ned Palmer sergeant-
at-arms. An inspiring meeting of the club
was held in Freeman Hall on Sunday evening, February 27. The following program was given by the A Class of the advanced department assisted by Billy Adams of the intermediate department.
The Life of Geoffrey Chaucer Willene Letson
The Prologue to the Canter bury Tales
Friedson adorn The Knight Story
C. G. Turner The Pardoner's Tales
Ruth Cook Dialogue
Billy Adams and Bobby Rose

HOW HEAT 1 RAVELS Materials: candle, matches a pin-
wheel attached to a piece of string. and a piece of cardboard.
Procedure: The candle was lighted and the hands held above and to the side of
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the flame. The pinwheel was held above the flame. Then thE' cardboard was placed at the side of the candle and the hands held behind the cardboard. We then held our hands in the sunlight coming through the windows. The results of each test were recorded.

Results:

I. It was warmer above the candle flame. 2. The pinwheel turned a ro u n d a s the hea t pushed upward. 3. The heat did not pass through the cardboard. 4. The h eat cam c through the windo"" glass.

Conclusion: From this experiment we learned that h eat rises. We also learned that it is cool in the shade because heat does not pass through some objects.

In the A Class in the intermediate department we have been studying heat and methods of securing heat. We did a simple experiment to show how heat travels and to explain why it is cool in the shade. We enjoyed doing this and were surprised at the new discoveries.

New Editor
Congratulations are extended to
Me. Carl F. Smith upon his
assumption of the editorialship of the Convention Vocational Bulletin. Too often, work of the sort which he has accepted is helpful articles and suggestions during the period of its existence. and we can think of no better way for people in the profession to express their thanks that to provide the new editor with a shower of live articles that will relieve him of the necessity of hunting material.
-The Oklahoman.

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March, 1944

Faculty Notes
MRS. Minter's little daughter, Ann, spent two weeks with her grandparents in Hampton,
Ga. recently.
Miss Scoggins and Miss McMichen spent a night recently at the home of Miss Scoggins' aunt
in Rome.
Mrs. Dorothy Henderson spent the week-end of March 3 in Atlanta with her sister, Mrs. H. A. Goodwin, Jr.
Mrs. Fincher and Mrs. Forbes have been serving with a committee of teachers from the Consolidated School as assistants to the O.
P. A. in checking prices in Cave
Spring. Mrs. Highnote spent a week-
end in Atlanta and Columbus
recently. Miss Shahan's sister, who is a
student at Shorter College, spent a week-end with her recently. She visited the school and liked it very much.
Mrs. Little visited her mother and sister in Decatur one week-end in March.
Mr. and Mrs. Hollingsworth and Mr. Tollefson spent February 28 in Atlanta.
Mrs. Jones visited her daughter, Margaret, in Atlanta recently.
Mr. Parks is spending most of his time in Atlanta these days but he comes in for the week-end and we get a glimpse of him. We will be glad when :he can be here
regularly. Pvt. Wright Hollingsworth,
who is recuperating from an injured foot, was the guest of Supt. and Mrs. Hollingsworth the latter p'art of February. He returned to Duke University, where he is a senior, February 28.
Mrs. Elizabeth Parker, Personnel Supervisor of Rich's in Atlanta, was an interested visitor to our school recently. Mrs. Parker is in close contact with our deaf boys and girls who are employed at Rich's and gave very favorable reports of them and their work.
Mrs. Irwin spent a week-end

in Birmingham with relatives teaching you the truth. We are

recently.

fighting so that each of you may

Mrs. Kennard went to Atlanta choose the lifework you like. We

one Saturday in March.

are fighting so that the good things

Friends of Mr. and Mrs. John of this country may be yours and

Welles of Rivers, Arizona, former your children's. We are fighting

members of the faculty of the so you and your children may

Georgia School for the Deaf, will worship God as you wish.

be interested to hear of the arrival econd, love your country morc of a little daughter in their home than ever before. Study your

on January 25. The little girl has nation's past. Study the world

been named Deborah Lee Welles. today . You are not too young

Mrs. McDaniel Passes

and you are not too old to learn

The many friends of Miss Annie McDaniel sympathize with her and other members of the family upon the death of her mother, Mrs. Mamie McDaniel, which occurred Thursday, March 2, at a hospital in Rome following a brief illness.
Mrs. McDaniel had made her home for the past eight years in Cave Spring with her daughters, Misses Edna and Annie McDaniel and had attracted to her by her quiet charm and sweet personality a wide circle of friends who are saddened by her passing.
Funeral services were held in the chapel of the Jennings Funeral Home in Rome Saturday morning at 9: 30 and the remains were taken to Geneva, Georgia, her former home, for burial. Six of Mrs. McDaniel's nephews acted as pall bearers.
War Message to

about America's place in the world of today and to learn from the Ie sons of America's yesterdays. Third. it is your job to keep calm. You will hear much talk about the war and of course you will talk about it yourselves. But you cannot do your part if you become excited. You should also try to help other people to keep calm. One of my sons has just returned from England. He tells me that the schoolboys and the schoolgirls of England have stayed calm. Fourth, part of your job is to help with war work. Save your money. Buy defense stamps. Help with the Junior Red Cross. Learn about first aid. Learn to save paper and pencils and books. Learn to do without things so that the work of our men will go to help our army and navy and our friends in other countries. Fifth, do today's work well. Your

Children

work in shool is to study and to learn. You must learn from books

Our country is at war. From but you must also learn to work

the Philippines to Iceland your and to play with other pupils and

brothers, uncles and friends in our with your teachers. When peace

armed forces are on guard. You comes, you will be stronger if you

school students, two and a quarter have done today's job well. Make

million of you, are close to our every minute count. Our country

hearts. For you America gives helps our schools to live. Our

battle.

schools help our country to live.

Our President has told us that Our schools are one of our lines

the war may be long. Each of you of defense.

and each of your 82,000 teachers I f we all work together-and we

has a Job to do. In this message will-the day will come when

I am going to try to tell you what our beloved country, under God,

that job is.

shall have "a new birth of free-

First. be sure that you know what dom."

we are fighting for. We are fight-

ER EST E. COLE

ing so that you may go on having

Former Commissioner of

free schools. We are fighting so

Education

that your teachers may continue

State of New York

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M rch, 1944

Primary Department-Cont. overseas and writes to Alma often. Thomas Rucker has just heard that his uncle, who is in the Navy is somewhere in the Pacific. The other children have cousins, uncles and brothers-in-law in service here in the States or across.
The children are eager to do their part to help win the war and are working together to save paper, pencils, and other school supplies; they are wasting no food, taking care of their clothes, and buying defense stamps. We attended the bond rally in the chapel not long ago and each child bought stamps. Now, instead of spending money each week on candy, cakes, and other unnecessary things, they buy defense stamps. Most of them have to be discouraged from putting all their money into stamps. Each one is trying to fill his book first. At present, Billie is ahead with Roscoe, Jackie, Laura, and Faye Nelle close behind. Ben has two books and can't decide which to fill first.
-Emmalee J. Highnote's Class
Advanced Department--Cont.
North Carolina. He wrote C. G. that he would send him a box of gum.
Friedson Odom has not heard from his brothers Tom and Herbert for some time. They are overseas and Friedson is worried about them.
Hugh McLeroy heard from his sister in California last week. She and her husband are planning a trip to Georgia in May. Hugh is very happy because his brotherin-law has always been good to him.
Walter Brown is still thinking about football. He hopes that :mother football season will soon be here and that the Blue Jays will make another good record.
Willene Letson's sister has written her that she hopes Willene can come home for a visit
Easter. Eva Bragdon got a letter the
other day telling her that some friends from Miami, Florida whom she had known when she

was a little girl, had visited her home. Eva was disappointed that she did not get to see them.
Edward Stanford is expecting his father to make him a visit soon. February 12 was Edward's birthday. He had a party and invited some of his friends.
James Sharpton has been saving his money to buy defense stamps. He is trying to help win the victory banner for his room.
Superintendent's Corner-Cant.
"teacher's bible," but it is worthy of study. The study should be followed by a critical analysis of our curriculum content, our pedagogical practices, weighed with that of the results obtained. It certainly would not do any harm to lend candid reflection. The Rushmore Beacon (South Dakota School for the Deaf), in the February issue under the capion "Current Comment on Education," has this to say:
"Big business has spoken FOR education. It's the news event of the year in the field of learning. The capitalistic world thru FORTUNE MAGAZINE has done more to straighten out the thinking of the upper classes as it pertains to schools than could the nation's million teachers administrators speaking in union. Under the heading "Fermen t in Education," FORTUNE MAGAZINE (July 1943) representing big business declares, "Our country is not going to be any better than our school system we pay for. We need more schools and better teachers. " Yes, "we need MORE SCHOOLS and BET T E R TEACHERS," Properly train au, boys and girls to successfully meet life's situations and the process will be cheap at any cost. Thank you, fellows, for the imprint of your valid and infectious enthusiam. We agree with you that industry on the job can offer good rips for our future educational planning.

How to Succeed and Hold a Job-Cant.
the more you must be proficient in something else to make up for what you lack.
Remember the business world is not going to change to suit the deaf person, but the deaf person must do the job extra well, and gain a reputation for good work. Just getting by, or doing the work the same as the hearing person will not help, but do the job a little better than the other person. Harmony: Between Employees
and Employer There must always be good feeling between the employer and the employee. Workers must understand that it is necessary for them to do what the employer asks. If there is grumbling on the part of the employee, he is not going to hold his job very long. Correct Attitudes The following things must be remem bered at all times. 1. Dependability
a. Don't try to get by or take things easy.
b. Do a good job, whether the boss is around or not.
2. Fairness. a. If you make a mistake, do not be afraid to admit it. Do not blame something on the other fellow if it is your own error.
3. Respect. a. The foreman, employer etc, must all have your respect.
4. Willingness to accept suggestions. a. Too many of our deaf think they know it all. b. You must realize that the employer had the right to have his own ideas and you must follow them.
5. Try to improve: do not be satisfied to stay in the same rut illl of the time.
-Reprinted from the Lone Star
Time spent on sharpening and polishing one's tools gives as good returns as does time spent on solving cross word puzzles.-P. N. Peterson. lvlinnesola.

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State of Georgia
ELLIS ARNALL, Governor
Georgia School for the Deaf

STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION M. D. COLLI S. State Superintendent of Schools

ADMINISTRATION

C. H. HOLLI GSWORTH, M. A. Superintendent

Rebecca S. rowe, Secretary

J. C. Connor, M. D.

O. W. Haney, Steward Evelyn Scoggins, Sec'y to Steward

W. S. Watson. D. D. S. Katie Payne, R. N.

Lelia H. Barnett. Dietitian

INSTRUCTORS

Roy G. Parks, M. A., Principal

Primary Department
Marie S. Kennard, B. S. Supervisor
Mable L. Fincher Jessie F. Jones Gladys B. Clark Ruth D. Forbes Frances A. Little Viola McMichen. B. A. Emmalee J. Highnote Miriam B. Minter _ Jim Irwin

Intermediate and Advanced Department
ell A. Gibbons. Supervisor
Edythe D. Montgomery, B. S.
Pauline J. Shahan, B. A.
Dorothy L. Henderson, B. S. Ila S. Semlll, B. S. Barton Clark, B. A. Frances M. Tollefson. B. A. Sarah F. Ware Maude M. Welch, B. A. Mary D. Turner. B. A. A. May Clark

Vocational Department

R. R. Caswell, B.S.A.. B.A. . .....

Agricultural Training

Olaf L. Tollefson, B. A

Printing

A. May Clark

Arts and Crafts

Louise fontgomery Annie McDaniel J. R. Ware Earl Cox

Colored Department

Quinton Gordon, Principal

Beauty Culture Sewing
Carpentry Machine Shop

Mattie Davis Henrietta Bailey Lucille McCullogh

Beluah Gibson James Rich

SCHOOL

PUBLISHED AT THE GEORGIA SCHOOL FOR
THE DEAF. CAVE SPRING, GEORGIA

APRIL. 19-'"

VOL.....

NO.7

Books
"There is no frigate like a book To take us lands aways, Nor any coursers like a page Of prancing poetry" -Emil Dickinson.
Take great care of books. Always remember when using a book:
1. To use it with clean hands. 2. To open it carefully. 3. To turn the pages from the corners. Don't wet
fingers. 4. To use a book mark and not a thick pencil or
turned-down page corner. . 5. Never leave an open book page downwards. 6. To keep it fresh and dean without marks or
fingerprints. 7. To carry few books at a time so that you won't
drop one and break its back. 8. To wrap books when you carry them in the rain. 9. To keep books on tables and shelves and not to
leave them on the floor or on a hot radiators. -Selected.

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Volume ......

April, 194...

No.7

The Importance of Reading
I nUt he
Education of the Deaf

Helen Thompson, Ph.. D., The Clinic of Child Development, Yale Univ.

I N general, educators of the deaf place prime emphasis on the teaching of oral language, especially in the first few grades of school. The natural voice must be preserved; the art of lip-reading is so difficult that the deaf child, if he is to be expert, must begin early to master that art. As a result, the child, immediately on his entrance to the school, is faced, in lip-reading, with a task which many adults find too difficult to accomplish. He is in some schools forbidden to communicate with others by signs. This constant thwarting of man's unique trait, communication with others, frequently leaves Its mark in the emotional life of the individual. It is welL I think, to consider these present objectives criticall y, to free our minds from traditional thinking and to see if there are not other more important values which are being neg-
lected.
The emphasis on orai work
arises in part from a desire to make the deaf child just like the hearing child. This aim is open to question. When we know a child is not capable of the abstract thinking required for college work we advise education along other lines; when we know a child possesses a special musical talent we do not try to reduce his accomplishments in that respect to the level of the average; when a child is deaf we should face that {act, consider rather his positive lj'ualities and shape them 10 that

development which will enable him most effectively to receive from and contribute to the environment in which he lives.
By directly attempting to teach the deaf to "listen" and talk like the hearing child, we necessarily neglect other aspects of education thereby making the deaf child even more unlike the hearing one. The deaf. with great effort, may b~ taught to be somewhat versed in oral language, but test:; have shown that under this method he does not attain, on the average, a comprehension of written language greater than that of an eight- year-old hearing child. The direct approach to a problem is frequently not the one which solves it. The surveyor may be baffled in directly measuring the distance between two points but by measuring certain angles and other more available distances he solves his problem indirectly. The very young child frequently engages in futile efforts to sit down on a chair after walking up close to it and it is only when he finally turns around to sit down that the solution is found.
Reading and writing are two forms of communication even more important than hearing and talking. By oral language we are able to' communicate only with those with whom we come within speaking ~istance, but with the written language we come into contact with not only our contemporaries remote from us, but with those of the past and future

times. In this changing world, adequately to master the written language is of increasing value.
Most education comes through
reading; its importance cannot be overemphasized. Indeed this Congress has considered the printed record of these meetings so important that t~ speeches are being printed in full while only ten-minute abstracts of them are being delivered orally. The permanence of the written record as opposed to the transitoriness of the oral one is significant. The effect of radio speeches given today will have little weight ten years from now. This greater permanency permits more thought during reading than we can accomplish during listening. We may read slowly, read and re-read agalin. Facility in reading is of paramount value to all mankind and especially to the deaf. Writing is, indeed, slow and laborious but what is written is usually better thought out than is extemporaneous speech, and certainly the art of conversation, lamentable though the fact may be, is almost. a lost art even among the hearing.
Since reading and writing are so fundamental for contact with the environment we may well inquire concerning the deaf child's endowments for accomplishments in this field. The deaf have good visual acuity. Gates and Chase established that fact in 1926. It should be possible therefore to develop an understanding of language by a purely visual method.

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April, 1944

However, at the age when a deaf child enters school. he IS almost totally ignorant of oral language while the hearing child at this same age possesses a know1edge and facility in this field developed by early training. The deaf child is apparently under a serious handicap. Can early training otherwise compensate? Dalgarno in 1680 said, "I conceive there might be successful addresses made to a dumb child, even in his cradle. when he begins risu cognosf=ere matrem, if the mother, or nurse, had but as nimble a hand as commonly they have a tongue. For instance, I doubt not but the words, hand, foot, dog, hat, etc., written fair, and as often as presented to the deaf child's eyes. pointing from the words to the things, and uice uersa, as the blind child hears them spoken. would be known and remembered as soon by the other." Bell in 1789 used such a method in teaching a deaf child as young as four years. The venture was remarkably l'uccessful. Bell held that such a pro cedure was not only feasible but essential. He said, "Commencing with oral language impeded the progress of the congenitally deaf. Written language should be the basis of instruction." He believed so firmly in this plan that he started a school in Washington to tryout his scheme, but due to a law suit concerning his invention of the telephone, the school was
abandoned.
Nine years ago, in 1925, the Improved Instruction of the Deaf speaker, at the Institution for the Deaf in New York City began an experiment to see if it were possible to devise reading material by taught reading without the aid of speech. Silent reading for the hearing child had long been advocated because it was found that oral reading impedes comprehension; that f;requently the child is so absorbed in pronouncing the words that the meamngs are quite obscured. Then too as the child grows older, he mu!>t suppress oral speech for psychologists have found that reading is ~e-

tarded to the extent that it is ,. cal. If adults wish to become very r('pid readers, they must comriously inhibit saying to themselves what they are reading. Our perceptive and associative are more rapid than our resulting moto mechanicisms. I shall not describe the reading material employed for if you are not already familiar with it you will find, illustrated with samples. a full exposition of the techniques used, in my publication, "An Experime'ntal StudT)' of the Beginning Reading of Deaf-Mutes." The results or the experiments ,were highly significant. Not only was it found that a reading curriculum can be devised which is independent of oral language but we found that, taught in this manner, the deaf children achieve in one year of reading. This surely indicates of the achievement of a normal hearing class in their first year of reading. This surely indicates that the deaf child's inexperience in oral language, up to the age of school entrance, is not quite as serious as it would at first seem. Beginn.jng even at this late age, it is possible to approximate normal progress in reading if the method of instruction is adapted to the child's capacities; that is if a purely visual method is used.
Not only were outstanding advances mad in reading ability but excel1ent attitudes toward reading and independent individual work were established. the children found great pleasure in being able to recognize wOifds, phrases, '01' even sentences in any primer which they might pick up. At school, they entered the room eagerly and quickly settled down to work. The feeling of self reliance and confidence which resulted were fully as important as the scholastic achievement.
We were fortunate in conducting the experiment in Dr. Taylor's school because he, in his characteristical1y open-minded and forward thinking manner, fostered our plan. His teachers continued the experiment and revised the
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n~adin(T material. Others have used it and found it effective. If educa tors wish so to direct their time, energy and ingenuity, the deaf child can be given adequate reading abili ty.
To emphasize training in reading need not mean Ie s eventual development' of speech and lipreading abilities. Certain experiments recen tly conducted in the field of animal and child psychology show that learning is definitely limited by the stage of development of the organism. It may be that the rapidity of learning at certain stages of development is so great compared to that possible earlier that there is little to be gained by the early teaching, I think it is very possible that a child, whose formal training in lip reading does not begin until he is ten, might attain practicall y as great skill as one whose training begins when he is five but who, at that time, has very little knowledge of language. Certainly in tbe interests of the science of educiltion sucb an experiment should be undertaken, not in the drastic manner suggested, but first 'by finding the effects of one year's delay in lip reading training and then, if handicap does not result, of two year's delay continuing the experiment until the optimum time for the introductiolY of,lip reading is discovered. On the other hand, it may be that lip reading training should be begun as early as Dalgarno suggested that reading shoud be taught. Experimentation could also indicate the worth of this suggestion. Certainly different approaches in education should be made according to the need and the abilities of the individual could help in determining what educational (procedure would be best suited to a given individual. We need to know what is the best educational scheme for the cbild not simply to theorize about it.
It is granted that an early training in speech is essential to preserve the natural voice but at the expense of training in reading, should iL
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From the Intermediate Department

Janie Smith went home March J 8 because her father was going ;'0 the Army. He had already passed his physical examination. Janie's daddy and her family had a very nice time while she was at home. Mr. Smith left for the Army March 22. Janie came back to school on the train early the same morning. Mr. Smith went on the noon train. He is stationed at Fort Me Pherson now. One of his brothers is already overseas and another will be in the Navy in a few days.
Mr. and Mrs. Moon and their family came the nineteenth of March. Mary was surprised. They had a picnic at the spring. They left that afternoon. Edna Pope, from the primary department, was at the picnic with them.
A. D. Ray will go to Pooler, Geor~ia next summer. He hopes to get a job in a shoe shop or on a farm there.
James Vickers wants to get a job at the Goodyear Mill in Cedartown next summer. His father works in the mills every night from twelve to eight. James wants to work with his father. He hopes that he will earn a lot of money.
Herbert White received a letter from his mother April 2. He hopes that he will get a new bag and some new clothes soon.
Jack Callaway's father sent him some new clothes. Jack got the box April 3. He got a new belt. wme shorts, a shirt, a pair of tan pants, and a tie. He lik.es all of them. He also received a letter. Louise wrote that they were sending him some more clothes. She also wrote that she would send Jack a dollar every week.
John Mock hopes that school will be out in May so that he can go home and go swimming. He likes to play games in the water. He thinks that it will be fun to learn some new games.
John Harrell received two dollars from his sister March 3 1. She

wrote that his soldier brother would go aboard to fight.
One of Billy Hayes's cousins has joined the Army. He is in a camp in Mississippi. Billy wishes that he could see his cousin. David.
Elizabeth Thompson expects a big box before Easter. She wants a dress, a blouse, and a skirt.
Thelma Holloway's trunk was lost when she came back to school in January. She was very much worried because she thought that it was lost forever. She was very much delighted to get her trunk the middle of March. Her clothes were all right.
Sue Brannon received a nice surprise before Easter. Her mother sent her ten dollars to buy a dress for Easter. She also wrote that she had sent Sue two dollan. and a half the week before. Sue never got the money. She does not know where the letter is. It did not come to Cave Spring.
George Vaughan received some money from his mother before Easter. He enjoys his mother's letters.
Grace Sharpe got a new dress and shoes for Easter. She was glad the sun shone so she could wear her new clothes.
The A Class were very sorry that Junior Culberson had appendicits. They wrote him letters several times while he was in the Harbin Hospital in Rome. They visited him one afternoon after he came to the school hospical.
Georgia Hargrove watched Me. Tollefson washing his car by himself April first. The car was clean and bright. Mrs. Tollefson told Georgia that she was glad that the car was clean again.
Wylodean Spells received a box from her mother the sixteenth of March. She received two dresses for school and a pretty skirt and blouse for Easter. She liked them very much.
Louida Benson enjoyed the revival services held during the week of April third. She thinks that
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the Rev. Mr. Gardner IS a very fine minister.
Mary Roberts's sister came to see Mary the ninth of April and spent Easter with her.
Alton Holman has new glasses. He and his father went to Cedarlown on .the bus April first. The doctor examined Alton's eyes. He got his glasses the next Thursday.
Clarence Highfield painted five porch chairs and the porch swing for Mrs. Montgomery Saturday, April first. He enjoys paintin'g.
Robert Davis went he me the sixteenth of March because his grandmother was ill. He came back the twenty-seventh of March although his grandmother was no better.
Brinkley Smith was sorry that he could not go home for Easter but his home is too far away. His mother wrote that she was sending him a new suit. a shirt, and some money for Easter.
Billy Adams was very glad to see Mr. Parks when he came to school the second of April. He will miss Mr. Parks very much.
Patsy Baker and some of the other girls had a nice walk one spring Sunday afternoon. She likes to see the pretty trees and flowers.
Loraine Kicklighter and Mary Moon work in the laundry every Tuesday and Wednesday afternoon. They enjoy helping Mrs. Perry.
James Hattrich's mother and father came to see him March 24. He was glad to see them. His little brother came, too. They brought him some new spring
clothes. They asked Me. Hollings-
worth if it was all right tor him to go to Rome with them. They stayed in Rome for three days. James was sad when they left Sunday afternoon.
Mr. Parks has gone to the Bell Bomber Plant now to help the deaf workers there. Raymond Baker misses him very much.

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April, 1944

Duwayne Dukes got a letter Monday, April 3.

TREASURE HUNT

from his mother April 1. She told

Loraine Kicklighter is happy

We Camp Fire Girls went on a

him that his brother in the Army because we shall have Field Day Treasure Hun ton e Thursday

had his leg hurt when he was run the fifth of May. She hopes that afternoon. First we went to the

over by a large bus. Duwayne she will win some events. She chapel and Mrs. Parks, Mrs.

knows that if his brother cannot hopes that we shall have a great Henderson, and Miss Shahan, our

walk for a long time, they will deal of fun Field Day.

leaders, showed us how to inter-

bring him home. He wants to see

The boys and girls w~t to pret the clues. The clues were some

him. He hasn't seen him for a church every evening from April directions which told us where to

long time.

second to April sixth. The Rev. go and what to do. Each clue was

Mattie Suggs w~nt to Rome Mr. Gardner preached each time. written on a small piece of paper

with Mr. Haney and Mrs. Barnett Gertrude Hixson enjoyed his and hidden in queer places so we

recently. The doctor examined her stories from the Bible very much. would have a hard time finding

eyes. She will have new glasses Beth Noblitt was sorry to hear them.

soon.

that Mr. Parks was going to the We were given the first clue in the

Mary Godwin went to Rome Bell Bomber Plant to work. She chapel and then started out to find

in the station wagon the twenty- knows that the boys ;and girl'S our treasure.

fifth of March. She bought a will miss him a great deal.

1. Look on the door of the

pretty new dress, a red and white

place where doors are made.

flowered skirt, and a pair of white sandals. Then the next day Mary's A Trip to the Mill

2. Look under a brick on the porch of the hom e 0 f

sister-in-law came to visit her. She One day not so long ago Mrs.

BE PREPARED

was glad to see her.

Henderson brought a small water

and there find - - - - -

Pauline Childers enjoys the pump into our 'classroom, She.

3. Go to the front door of the

socials every other Friday even- showed us how the valves let the

red house that used to be the

ing. She likes to play games with water into the pump and out

home of the BLACK.

the boys and girls.

again.' ,We learhted a great deal

4. Follow the road that goes

Hope Ellis went to Rome with about the pump.

down the hill till the road

the other boys the first of April.

\Ve also went to see an old

turns to the right. Look for

He bought some candy.

mill with Mrs. Henderson. We

TWO rocks; ONE rock on

Parram Youngblood is still learned about the overshot water

top of ONE rock with a

helping with the young chickens wheel and what it did. We learn-

MESSAGE between.

on the farm. He likes to take care ed that when the wheel is turned 5. Look on a tree that stands on

of them. They are growing bigger the corn is shelled and then it is

the left of the ROAD that

and bigger.

ground and made into cornmeal.

goes by the school.

Louise Walters made a green The man knew we wanted to learn 6. This is the treasure I have for

and white dress for Easter. about the water wheel so he turn-

you - - - - but you must seek

Mary Baker helped her She ed it on for us and took us up

farther for this is a clue. Go

wore it Easter. Her moth- two stories to watch the wheel

now to the ROUND TOW-

er sent her some white shoes and work and how the corn was made.

ER near the piles of COAL.

socks, too.

There was an elevator mnning

7. At the end of a HOSE there

Maudene Bridges saw a big from the top to the bottom floor

is always a NOSE. Look in

snake on a tree Sunday afternoon taking corn in it. Corn dust was

the NOSE of the HOSE in

April 2. Dean Green saw the everywhere. It looked pretty

the HOSE HOUSE.

snake in the water Sunday morn- spooky up there, but we didn't 8. Go to the building like a T

ing. He killed it and hung it on mind one bit because we were too

, nd there you shall see - - -

the tree at the spring. The girls much interested in the work.

DOORS; ONE, TWO,

were afraid of it.

After learning how cornmeal

THREE. One at the CEN-

Doyle Norris's sister came to see was made and all about the over-

TER, One at the RIGHT.

him the twenty-sixth of March. shot water wheel, we went to the

But the ONE at the LEFT

His sister wanted to see J u)nior spring. We watched the pump in

IS RIGHT.

Culberson. Doyle told her that the cave at the spring pumping 9. On a distant hilI top stands

Junior was in Rome in the hospi- water in and out. It taught us a

a shiny tank. You might calI

tal. She was disappointed that she lot about how water runs.

it a bank. Tho not for silver

could not see him.

\Ve enjoyed our trip to the old

or gold 0 r even coins with

Mary Taylor and Dorothy mill. We are in terested in

heads and tails. Look. my

Young came to visit their friends science as it will teach us many

lassies by the ladder that

at school Friday morning, March things we need to know. We are

goes up to the water for a

3 1. Homer Benson was very glad eager to learn more about it.

clue to take you farther.

to see them. They went back home

-Eua Bragdon

Continued on page ten

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From the Primary Department

The boys and girls look forward to Friday which is set aside as the day for going to town or to some other olace of interest. What we see on th~se trips is very useful in our teaching program. One Friday we went to the park where we saw the ducks and squirrels. Later the children saw a horse and a mule. Thus four new words were added to our vocabulary.
On our way back from the walks the children who have money are permitted to spend as much as ten cents in town. At first the beginners always wanted to buy ice cream. It is interesting to note what each child likes to buy. Jimmie, TerrelL and Mary Alice still want ice cream more often than anything else. Since Wonnie likes to write he buys pencils and tablets. Netheara and Mary Lee find it difficult to decide between ribbons and candy, but most of the time it is candy. Catherine and Betty Ruth usually buy candy.
Each child i s given his own money. He chooses what he wants to buy and pays for it himself. These trips are both profitable and enjoyable.
-Miriam Minter's Class
We did not think that we would ever be used as guinea pigs for other people to practice on and like it, but we certainly have found that to be true this term. Our older girls are offered a course in beauty culture and the girls from the primary department are given permanents, shampoos, and finger waves under the d'irection of a teacher. Almost every day someone comes around to the classrooms with slips of paper to tell us which girls are to go and at what time th,ey are wanted You should see the expectant look on the faces of the girls in our class when one or twO of these slips are placed on our teacher's desk. The lucky girls whose names are there never give the teacher a chance to forget the time, either.
The supervisors and matron keep the names of the girls as they are sent and in that way every

one is given a chance to go. If one of us is fortunate enough to be going home or expecting guests, she usually gets "shampooed and set" for the occasion.
The beauty course is one thing taught in our schOOl that we heartily approve of, and if giving the "sets" is as much fun as getting them, We will all take the course when we are old enough.
~im IrUJin's C:lass
Pictures aTe indispensable in teaching the deaf, and we have hundreds of mounted pictures for use in every phase of language work.
Recently the primary teachers have worked together cutting out and mounting new pictures and I was forcibly impressed with the variety and the possibilities of creating interest.
Number work is not particularly interesting so I try to make it more enjoyable by using attractive pictures. Nearly all the children
have pets at home and like to tell about them. For our lip reading exercises in n umber work we are using pictures of different numbers of animals and birds and the children really enjoy it. I put pictures of different numbers of animals in the chart and ask a child to show me two puppies, five kitt~ns, a lamb, two goats, and so forth.
Of course we use other devices for teaching numbers but I find this exercise really enjoyable.
-Ruth Forbes's C:lass
April is a favorite month with each child in our class, for with it comes Easter and their beloved friend, the Easter Rabbit. They count the days every day and are really happy to see the time going by so rapidly. Although these children have been in school oniy a year, they remember the egg hunt they had last year and are expecting another this year. The hunt is to be the Monday following Easter Sunday. Betty is especially happy at the approach of Easter because her parents plan to visit her. She hasn't seen them since returning after Christmas. Every child is
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expecting an Easter box from home and I know by the end of the week our c!.assroom windows will look like store windows with the rabbits, baskets, and eggs the children are certain to receive.
We are glad to have Mary Ann Durrence in our c!.ass now. She is a quiet, studious little girl and from all indication is a good student.
-Mabel Fincher's C:lass
Every morning the teacher stands at her door to greet her class. As the children's comprehension increases the greetings are changed in order to get in a variety of language. After the greeting the children quietly march to their places and say the prayer together and then salute the flag.
Calendar work is a very necessary and interesting part of our work. The children are trained to be close observers and to notice changes in the weather. They must understand the meaning of time in order to understand the different verb forms that come up later. In spring no two days are alike so it is very interesting to observe and make the daily weather reports.
We take advantage of every opportunity to teach nature study. On our trips outdoors in March we saw daffodils, violets, and other spring flowers. We saw new buds and leaves and noted their growth from one trip to the next. We saw robins and tadpoles, too.
One day in March we especially enjoyed a trip outdoors. The wind was blowing so hard that the kite flew high in the sky. Then the s t r i n g broke and the kite flew away until it was out of sight.
The boys usually have marbles in their pockets. After our school work is finished, the girls Joir. them in a game of marbles. It is fun to watch them have such a good time.
-Gladys Clark's Class Too much stress cannot be given to question work in teaching the deaf. We are often impatient with children for being so inquisitive,

THE SCHOOL HELPER

April, 1944

but dea f children should be en-
couraged to ask questions and a
great deal should be made of the
slightest inclination to do so.
The little children like to play
games and enjoy those which in-
volve questions.
We start early in reading with
the questions, Have----? Has----?
ArL_? Is ? Was-- _? Do Y<1U like? and Can----? The children answer orally. Later, as they learn to talk questions are asked by them. As their com,preMnsion of language increases we gradually get away from the idea of asking questions by means of games.
The teacher points out in the Key the questions that she asks and emphasizes the key-word for the missing thought. The Key gives the correct form and pictures the reason for asking the question. It is invaluable in preparing for the thought side of question work. If it is used properly from the beginmng in connected and technical language, the thoughts behind such key-words as How many, What color, Where, and When will gradually become clear to the children and these words will stand our as the words with which to begin questions.
Not only does the teacher have to think to ask worthwhile questions, but she must also teach the children to do so. We must remember that questions -are to find out something that we do not know. Not a question should be asked by a child, the answer to which he knows.
-Frances Little's Class
We have recently begun having demonstrations once a week. These are held in the afternoon after school with a different teacher in charge each time. The teachers are getting an insight mto one another's work and into the school program as a whole. New and different ways of presenting the work are shown and each teacher is able to see more clearly how her part of the work is con-

nected with what has gom before and what is to come after.
Our class is getting very much excited as it will soon be our time to show how much we know.
-Jessie Jones's Class
Jn our work with Stories and Rhymes we have been having a good time combining study with play.
One story is written on the blackboard each week and dramatized. \Ve have attractive pictures to guide us in our acting. Our performances are usually comparatively accurate and are always entertaining. Of course, Goldilocks did not actually break Baby Bear's chair, nor did Jack break his crown. Neither was there any possible way for the four tigers to melt into a pool of butter, but Black Jumbo pretended to gather a bowlful of butter from around the dead tigers and to take it home to eat with Black Mumbo's pancakes.
Besides the stories suggested here, we have had Peter Rabbit and Little Red Riding Hood.
Our other rhymes are Little BoPeep, Little Boy Blue, Little Jack Horner, and Little Miss A/urfet.
After each story or rhyme we ask a number of questions to see if the children understand the story, and to give them drill on question forms. We find that this question work helps us in our other lessons.
-Viola McMichen's Class
All the children look forward to going to town from one Friday to the next. About t\Vo weeks ago we had a special treat. After our trip td town we went to Mrs. Kennard's to see her garden.
We had heard quite a bit about the garden as Roscoe and several other boys had been working after school. They were glad of the opportunity to work outdoors and to really plant something and, of course, boys can always use extra spending money.
Roscoe very proudly volunteered to be the guide. After caution-

ing us just where to work. he led us through the garden roin ting out the different vegetables. There were lettuce, onions, turnip greens, beets, carrots. and radishes. An abundance of rain and a few warm days had made them grow so fast that it was hard to realize the seeds had been planted such a short time.
-Emma Lee Highnote's Class
Treasure Hunt-Cant.
10. If you look around, my lad and lass, You'll find a house of glass. Where once grew flowers for lad and lass. FIND what grows there now.
11. Go down the hill, beware of the stump, And go to the house where lives a PUMP.
12. Between the place where boys and girls eat And the place where girls sleep- - - There is an iron pipe that holds what we need When there is a fire. DIG deep and don't sleep.
13. To the pump house by the creek Take a good PEEP For here is the TREASURE you seek.
At last Betty Sue Brannon found the TREASURE a big box of COOKIES. She gave some of the cookies to all of the girls. Everyone enjoyed the TREASURE HUNT and hopes that there will be another soon.
-Betty Sue Brannon
Mediaeval stationers of the 1200's made fortunes by lending books at exorbitant prices Sometimes they separated the books into sections and rented out the sections.
The works of Pica Mirabula, printed at Strassburg in 1507. probably set a record for number of errors. The errata for a single volume occupied 15 folio pages!

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FACULTY NOTES
W HEELER Gibbons who has h~~n located at Southern Aviation Training School in Decatur. Ala. as civilian instructor for the past two years, has been accepted in the Army Transport Commi.~sion and reported to Memphis, Tenn. Ap~il 1st for training. Mrs. Gibbons and little daughter, Kitty are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Gibbons for the present.
Mr~. Rufus Hollingsworth of Savannah and Mrs. Julian C. Lane of Statesboro were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Hollingsworth the first of April. Mrs. Hollingsworth invited some friends in to meet her visitors Friday afternoon, March 31. Miss Pauline Camp entertained at bridge in their honor Saturday afternoon and they were the luncheon guests of Mrs. J. C. Connor on Saturday. Sunday the group was entertained at dinner by friends in Rome.
The Reverend Robert C. Fletcher of Birmingham visited our school Friday, M"rch 24. He spoke to the student body in the chapel that night.
Miss Shahan spent the weekend of April 1st at her home in La Fayette.
Mrs. Montgomery was ill with pleurisy the latter part of March and had to be absent from school for several days.
Miss A. May Clark had another round with "Old man Flu" recen tly but we are glad that she is again able to be in school.
Mrs. Turner spent the weekend recently in Atlanta with Mr. Turner.
The Reverend J. W. Gardner spent the first week in April at the school and held a series of revival services each evening in the Baptist Church. Several of our older pupils united with the church during
the meeting. J. R. Ware and Mrs. Alva
Parris motored to Newnan Sunday, April 2nd, to spend the day with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Ware.
Mr. and Mrs. Barton Clark

and little son were guests of friends and Mrs. Clark's mother in Atlanta one week-end recently.
Mrs. Forbes and family visited her daughter, Mildred, in Carrollton. March 19th.
Mrs. Irwin spent one Saturday recently in Rome.
Miss Margaret Jones spent the first week-end in April in Cave Spring with her mother. Mrs. Jessie F. Jones.
Mrs. Highnote spent the Easter holidays with her mother-in-law, Mrs. H. G. Highnote, of Buena Vista. Ga. Staff Sergeant Highnote ioined her there. . Miss McMichen visited her parents and sister one week-end in March.
Staff Sergeant Frank Little spent a three day furlough in Cave Spring with Mrs. Little 10 April.
Mrs. Kennard went to Rome with Mrs. Minter one afternoon recently. They went to see the picture "Madam Curie."
Mrs. H. M. Barnette of Hampton. Ga. spent a few days during the Easter season with Mrs. Minter and family.
Staff Sergeant Tudor Jones of Camp Reynolds, Greenville, Pa. spent a few days with his mother, Mrs. Jessie F. Jones.
READING
Continued from page 2 be the time consuming performance that is. I'nstruction in speech is
necessarily individual work. It
could occur at a different time for each pupil in the class while the 0, the r 05 worked independeIlJtly teaching themselves. The reading material which has been devised could well be used to advantage during that period. The excellent systems of speech training which tcachers of the deaf have developed are fully appreciated; their art is greatly admired, but the value of oral instruction to the deaf is more, I believe, in his achieving some appreciation and understanding of the oral experience of others rather than giving the deaf a real tool with which they can communicate with others. In my work
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at The Clinic of Child Development at Yale I have had the pleasure of contact with a graduate of one of your best colleges for the deaf. His speech is as (food as that of any deaf person, yet when we carryon any but a very simple conversation we must write our mess'1ges to avoid misundelstandings: his oral expression is too inadequate for me to Interpret. Even his simple expressions are not understood by those with whom he comes in frequent contact The ultimate speech of the deaf is at best a very inadequate tool-instead of attempting the impossible, its perfection, why not ins/cad emphasize the more possible, the mastery of reading and writing? Adequate written language facility should greatly stimulate learning in other branches and should afford the deaf great satisfaction in accomplishment.
Reading with ease and complete understanding the daily newspaper and articles in magazines, of which We have such a prolific number, would do much toward bringing the deaf into close contal:t with the affairs of individuals and groups of individuals in the social organizations around him. It would give him a feeling of being at one with the world and this 'would help his emotional adjustment-an important consideration in any educational program.
The blind spend years learning the Braille system so that a very small sample of the world's literature will not be lost to them and yet the teaching of reading to the deaf is permitted to be delayed and given only secondary place in the curriculum. Certainly the philosophy of educatlion of the deaf needs new goals, goals which will render to the teaching of reading the emphasis which it obviously deserves. To meet this changing world, the deaf child needs to be able to establish close communicaion with the world in which he lives. The written language is for him the natural and possible medium for the communication.
-The Deaf MiSSIssippian

State of Georgia
ELLIS ARNALL, Gonrnor
Georgia School for the Deaf

STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION M. D. COLLINS, State Superintendent of Sehooll

ADMINISTRATION

C. H. HOLLINGSWORTH, M. A. Superintendent

Rebecca S. Crowe, Secretary O. W. Haney, Steward Evelyn Scoggins, Sec'y to Steward

J. C. Connor, M. D. W. S. Watson, D. D. S. Katie Payne, R. N.

Lelia H. Barnett. Dietitian

INSTRUCTORS

Pri..ary D.partt

l.t.rlD.diate a.d Ad.anc.d D.partmt

Marie S. Kennard, B. S. Supervilor
Mabel L. Fincher Jessie F. Jones Gladys B. Clark Ruth D. Forbes Frances A. Little Viola McMichen. B. A. Emmalee J. H~hnote Miriam B. Minter Jim Irwin

Nell A. Gibbonl. Supervilor
Edythe D. Montgomery, B. S.
Pauline J. Shahan, B. A.
Dorothy L. Henderson, B. S. I1a S. Sewell. B. S. Barton Clark, B. A. Francel M. Tolleflon. B. A. Sarah F. Ware Maude M. WelM, B. A. Mary D. Turner, B. A. A. May Clark

Vocatio1 D.part....t

R. R. Caswell, B.S.A., B.A. . .....

A~icultural Training

Olaf L. TollefSon, B. A

Printing

A. May Clark .. . . . . Arts and Craft.

Louise Montgomery Beauty Culture

Annie McDaniel

Sewing

J. R. Ware

Carpentry

Earl Cox

:.. Machine Shop

Color.d Dartt Quinton Gordon, Principal

Mattie Davia Henrietta Bailey Lucille McCullogh

Beluah Gibson Jamel Rich

HONOR ROLL
The following pupils have received no demerits for the past month:
Mary Baker Patsy Baker Mary Frances Bates Frances Bartlett Louida Benson Ulysses Collins Ruth Cook Bobby Davis Billie Ethridge Herbert Fuqua Joseph Gillespie Walter Johnson Hulet Hawkins Billy Hayes Phillips Hester Gertrude Hixson Alton Holman Carlton Huff Louis Keaton Loraine Kicklighter John Mock Friedson Odom Bobby Rose Roscoe Singletary Janie Smith Edward Stanford Mattie Suggs Elizabeth Thompson James Vickers Louise Walters Herbert White

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