The School helper, 1947 - 1948

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

VOL. 48

NO. 1

THE SCHOOL HELPER

Volume 48

OCTOBER, 1947

No.

Sports Review

PRE-SEASON FORECAST
Nineteen boys, eager for the coming football season, reported at G. S. D. on Septem'ber 2nd for early grid practice. In spite of the heat wlave which occurred here throughout the week, some light workouts were held in the forenoons and a heavy one each afternoon. The candidates, sweating under the broiling sun, fought for positions on the first team, and by the time school opened the'lineup was more or less decided.
Roscoe Dukes is to fill the vacancy of the wingback position of speedy Hulet Hawkins who graduated last May. Doyle Norris, last year's end, will probably take over tl:]e trials and tribulations' of the blocking back slot. Raymond Baker, a triple threat, will retain his old berth at fullback, while Herbert White has won the nod for tailback position. Bud Little, a capable pass receiver, will play left end and Eugene Whittle, despite his weight and size (that is to say, the lack of both) has shown promising abiliy at right end. Jack Callaway, the indestructible, will continue to hold the fort at center after the fashion of Vaughn Mancha while Mock and Byrd who turned in a fine performance last year will continue stopping offensive threats at tackle. Left guard will be veteran John Harrell and George Vaughan has won over all competitors for running guard. Georgie has shown much promise but needs a few games to season him properly. Billy Hayes shot up like a weed this summer and will probably be a continuous challenge to Callaway at center. Pate will be alternate tackle and reserves at other positions are more numerous than last year.
Coach Van Cott's boys face' a heavy schedule. In fact, they ought
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JAYS TOP LAFAYETTE
IN 7 . 6 UPSET
It was, all in alL a bright day
for Georgia even though the Bull-
dogs of Athens did go down before North Carolina. The Yellow Jackets of Tech waltzed around, through and over Tennessee and the Blue Jays of G. S. D. upset a LaFayette High eleven that was backed to beat them by at least two touchdowns. The Blue Jays, however, played headsup fooball, took quick advantage of breaks, refused to be discouraged when things did not go right and walked off the field in triumph. The biggest factor in the Blue Jay win was the field generalship and ball toting ability of Raymond Baker. He kept the LaFayette backfield on their toes to stop his passes, drew them in to stop a through the line offense and then crossed them up with another pass timt and again.
The game started with a bang. The Jays received, tried three plays and punted, recovering the ball on LaFayette's 49 when the safety dropped the punt. The Jays were again forced to punt but on the first play LaFayette tried they again fumbled and Whittle recovered on the 29. Baker picked up seven around end, Dukes two thru tackle, and after an incomplete pass, Baker went around to the 18 for a first down. Another end run failed to make any gain and then Whittle broke loose on a razzle dazzle, "who's got the ball?" play and went all the way to the goal without being touched. Joy quickly turned to sorrow when it was nullified by a holding penalty. From here on to the' intermission it was a see saw affair. LaFayette twice threatened to score but the plucky Blue Jays put up determin-
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JAYS TROUNCE DALLAS
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The Blue Jays won the toss and
received. After making one first
down on their 44, they were tossed
for a loss twice in a row. Baker
got off a 'low lively punt that
seemed destined t,o bounce out of bounds on the Dallas 40, The ball, as footballs often do, had ideas of its own and bouncing at an angle took off down the side line like a scared jackrabbit and rolled all the way to the 12 where the Blue Jay ends covered it perfectly. This fine punt kept the game in the Dallas end of the field the whole first quarter with both teams .feeling each other out.
In the second quarter, Dallas put on a drive that carried them to the G.S.D. 40. Here their ground attack bogged down. Dallas punted out on G.S.D.'s 21 and Baker and Co. took over, going all the way for the first marker. Baker went over from the Dallas 14 and also garnered the extra point. In this 79 yard drive, Baker carried the ball 47 yards in six tries and passed to Dukes for 21 to get the Jays in scoring territory on the Dallas 15.
In the second half th~ Blue Jay line tightened up with Calloway. Harrell and Capt Mock repeatedly throwing the Dallas backs for loss. A Blue Jay drive was stopped by a penalty in the third quarter but with the opening of the 4th period they really went to town. Starting from their own 45 they went over in exactly seven plays, Baker and White sharing honors. White made two beautiful thru tackle slants, one for 14 and the other for 10, and Baker started the parade with a 15 yd. run from his own 45 to Dallas' 40. Baker went over from
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Faculty Notes

V lOLA McMICHEN

The Convention We feel it was extremely for-
tunate for our school that the Convention of American Instructors of the Deaf was held in nearby St. Augustine last summer. Our staff members were able to attend 'en masse' and profit from the fine program that was offered. We were honored by having a part in the program tendered to members of our teaching staff and are proud of the reception their efforts received. Miss Casey gave a paper, Supervising the New Teacher During Her First Two Years of Teaching, that was well received and highly commended. Mrs. Tollefson was asked to give a demonstration on teaching arithmetic in intermediate grades. Her demonstration, and the four pupils she took from our school to appear in it was one of the high lights of the meetings of the section for deaf teachers. Mrs. Turner was to give a series of demonstrations on 'Exploring Literature with the Seventh Grade' but was unable to attend because of her husband's illness. Mr. Tollefson served on a panel discussion of vocational education in the section for the deaf and was a member of the resolutions committee.
Those attending the Convention from Cave Spring were:
Mr. Hollingsworth, Mr. and Mrs. Kennard, Mrs. Gibbons, Mr. and Mrs. Tollefson. Miss Casey.
r. and Mrs. Cox, Mrs. Forbes, Miss Forbes, Mrs. Montgomery, Mr. Dillard. Miss Shahan. Mr. White, Mr. Van Cott, Mrs. Minter, Miss McDanieL Miss Clark, Miss Latham, Mrs. Johnson, Mr. Ryle. Mr. Ware, Mrs. Irwin, Mrs. Fincher, Mrs. Wright, Mrs. Jones, Mrs. Casey, Miss Chapman. Mrs. Glenn. Mr. and Mrs. Highnote, and Miss McMichen.
For a good many of us it was the first Convention of Instructors for the Deaf we had ever attended. We returned with the impression that the school at St. Augustine is one of the loveliest in the country and we are sure that Dr. Settles

and his staff have no equals as hosts.
Summer Activities Mrs. Glenn spent the month of
August with her daughter, Mrs. Leo C. Stine, in Urbana, Illinois.
Mrs. Casey attended the Cherokee County Horse Show in Centre. Alabama September 12.
Mr. and Mrs. Wright attended an insurance agents' convention in Savannah in September.
Mr. and Mrs. Minter spent a week at Camp Glisson, near Dahlonega, where Mr. Minter taught a course for young people.
Mrs. Highnote made several trips to Atlanta and Columbus.
Due to an automobile accident the last of July, Mrs. Jones was forced to spend the remainder of the summer at home.
Mrs. Irwin visited relativs in "9awson and attended the wedding of her nephew, Mr. W. R. Cox. in Shellman.
Miss Arnold visited friends in Atlanta after summer school.
l\bs Chapman visited friends in Birmingham, Athens, Atlanta, aJ~d Rome this summer.
Miss Cauthen spent most of the summer in Rome taking care of her little niece, Ladean Williamono
Mrs. Chapman spent a week in Birmingham.
Mrs. Fincher visited relatives in Bowdon and Atlanta during her vacation.
Mrs. Kennard taught summer school for five weeks. Then she and Mr. Kennard made a short trip to Arkansas to see his mother.
While Mr. Caple was in summer school at Fayetteville. Arkansas. Mrs. Caple visited her family and friends in Little Rock and Benton. She also supervised the building of their house and put up a great many cans of fruits and vegetables.
Miss Ritch visited her brother, Mr. Ed Ritch, at Shannon and her niece, Mrs. W. R. Fricks, in Cedartown during the summer.
Mr. and Mrs. Tollefson spent

a week deep sea fishing at Panama City Beach. Mr. Tollefson spent part of the summer doing printing for the State Department of Education.
Mrs. Forbes spent most of the summer in Cave Spring.
Mrs. Montgomery's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Dixon, were with her all summer.
Mr. Dillard spent a week at Panama City in August. The rest of the summer he stayed with friends in Atlanta.
Miss Casey spent part of the summer visiting Lt. Comdr. and Mrs. Lecklider in Norfolk, Va. and the rest of the summer in Cave Spring.
Mr. Hodges attended the G.E.A. banquet for the Georgia Teachers College Alumni in June.
After going to school for five Wieeks. Mi~s Forbes :spe-nt 'two weeks visiting in Chic~go and Kalamazoo.
Mr. White spent the greatec part of the summer in Hazlehurst. He attended the N.F.S.D. banquet in Atlanta at which Dr. Elstad spoke. He also spent a week on the beach at Panama City.
Miss Shahan visited the T 01lefsons in July and went to Panama City with them.
Miss Latham spent a week at Daytona Beach. Returning to Cave Spring she took a two weeks' course in vocational training.
Miss Clark was glad to have as her guests during June relatives from Miami, Atlanta, and Rome. She later visited other relatives in Chattanooga.
Miss McDaniel spent a week in Jacksonville with Mr. and Mrs. Barton Clark. She took the two weeks' course in vocational training in July.
Prior to the convention in St. Augustine, Mr. Van Cott spent a week with relatives in Lake Worth, Florida. He spent the remainder of the summer in New York with his parents.
Mr. Ryle visited friends in Atlanta. Macon, and Augusta the
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From the Advanced Department

Sue Brannon attended a banquet given for the deaf at the Ansley Hotel in August. She went with Janie Elder and they enjoyed meeting so many of their old friends.
Billy Adams helped his mother can during the first part of the summer. They have about onehundred seventy-five cans of beans, tomatoes, corn, pears, peaches, blackberries, apples and figs. Billy visited friends in Atlanta twice during the latter part of the summer. He was very happy to get back to school. This is his Senior year. and he hopes that it will be his best year.
Alton Holman worked at Barron's Studio in Cedartown for three months during the .summer. He developed 72 7 rolls of film. He expects to work there again next
summer.
George Vaughan's brother-inlaw was killed on August 2nd. George's friends at school were very sorry when they heard this. The man who killed him will have to stay in jail twelve years. .
Clarence Highfield visited Mr. and Mrs. James Bech in Macon during the latter part of the summer. When he arrived home on September 2nd, he found that hi. father was in the hospital because of low blood pressure, and would have to remain there for several weeks.
Georgia Hargrove gave several friends a permanent wave during the summer. They were pleased with her work and several more friends wanted her to fix their hair but she had to come back to school.
Lorraine Kicklighter had such a good time visiting Elaine Pannal in August. They went to Tybee Beach to the circus, to Daffin Park, to town to do some shopping, and to the hospital to see Lorraine'l brother who had had his tonsils removed.
Mary Moon spent a week with Mary Baker in July. Mr. Baker took them for a visit to the Smoky Mountains. They had a wonderful time and they thought the

scenery was perfectly beautiful.
Gertrude Hixson had a good time swimming in the ocean during her vacation.
Mary Baker went with her father and mother to Florida in June. She saw a great many beautiful places and she would like to go back next summer.
Doyle Norris was happy to get back to school. He enjoys his lessons and is going to study hard so that he will be ready' for the Senior Class next year.
James Hattrich enjoyed his vacation at home. He had a good time riding the Nancy Hanks back to Atlanta and he hopes that he can ride it again when he goes home.
Lois Watkins did a lot of different things during her vacation. She worked, went swimming, sewed, visited, practiced shooting with a 22 rifle and learned to drive a car.
Janie Smith attended the wedding of Nellie Moore and Olin Love in Atlanta, June 21. She thought it was a very lovely wedding and that Nellie and Olin looked quite happy.
Russell Royston spent a most enjoyable summer at his home. He had a good time going swimming and meeting his old friends. but he is glad to be back at school.
Eugene Whittle is happy to be back at school and to know that he has not forgotten how to study. He hopes that all his classmates are as glad to be back as he is.
Duwayne Dukes was called home on account of the death of his grandfather recently. All his friends at school were sorry that this sadness came to Duwayne.
Raymond Baker thinks that he had a very happy vacation. Most of the time he worked at the Georgia Power Company in Atlanta, but he did have a short visit with
C. G. Turner at his home in Me-
Caysvili.
. Herbert White is enjoying playmg football. He hopes his team will win their first game which

will be with LaFayette High
School. John Harrell went to see Herb-
ert White in August. They had lots of fun seeing baseball games and going to places of interest.
Bud Little enjoyed his visit to Jack Callaway and George Vaughan in July. Duwayne Dukes went with him and Jack and George were mighty nice to them..
Thomas Rucker thinks that the most interestiing part of his vacation was his trip back to school on the Nancy Hanks.
Maggie McGahee spent a nice quiet summer at her home in Soperton. She enjoyed going to church and meeting so many of her old friends.
Louida Benson went to see Janie Elder several times this sunun~r. They had some mighty good times together.
John Mock worked at the Rushton Company in Atlanta this summer. He enjoyed his work because he met so many deaf boys and girls whom he had known.
Janie Elder visited Sue Brannon in August. They went to a banquet at the Ansley Hotel and met quite a few of their deaf friends.
Billy Hayes was happy to get back to school. He believes that his football team will play some very fine games this season.
Fred Waters went to Coleman Lake for a week this summer. He had a good time, but he did not catch many fish. He helped hit father haul cotton to the gin when he got back home.
Sara Crisp spent a very enJoyable summer at her home. Laura Pope visited her and they had some good times together. Sara misses Mary Frances Bates who finished school last year. She hopes that Mary Frances can visIt her many friends here sometime soon.
Evelyn Robinson was very pleasantly surprised when she
foun.d. that J.ackie Dukes was going to VISit her m June. When Jackie finished her visit, Evelyn went home with her and spent a week.
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From the Primary Side

Hello ! We are greeting you from the youngest class at G.S.D. but a very wide awake and lively
class. Two of us will be five years
old in November; the rest are already five, six, or seven. Our weights range from little thirtypound Nan to forty-five pound Russell and our heights from fortyone inch Margaret to forty-seven and one half inch Russell.
Our names and horne towns
are: Barbara Anderson, Gainesville,
Ga. Russell Bynum, Meigs, Ga. Barbara Jackson, Franklin, Ga. Larry Lemming, Rome, Ga. Nan McAlum, Glennwood, Ga. Fulton McDowell, Austelle, Ga. Herman McKinney, Cordele, Ga. Jackie Reid, Augusta, Ga. Barbara Sue Strickland, Carters-
ville, Ga. If you read this space every month you will see the things we are doing. To you they will seem very simple but to us they will be "big" because we are such "little" people.
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Our class has got along nicely this month, even though all of us are in school for the first time. You should see how quickly we have learned to line up and march to our classroom and to the dining room. We understand much better than at first what we are expected to do about all the school's activities, and that makes everything more fun.
We would like to tell you who we are and where we are from. Our three girls are Sarah Jackson from Rockmart, Ann Mobley from Columbus, and Jane> Parrish from Chicamauga. There are seven boys in our class. They are Billy Brumbelow from Aragon, Joel Center from Ringgold, Henry Daniel from Columbus, Billy McCullough from <;::ovington, Robert Hancock from Reynolds, Delmar Shealy from Tallapoosa, and Larry White from Acworth.
You will be hearing from us

each month as we learn new things Lennie came from Mrs. Ware's

to tell about, and we think that class. and Rowena Heath is a new

you will be surprised to see how pupil this year. We are glad to

much we will know before very have them in our group.

long.

--Jim Irwin's Class Vle have been reviewing to be

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sure that we have not forgotten

Having been in school a year much before taking up new work.

makes a difference. We know all We enjoyed hearing about how

the ropes and feel quite grown up, our classmates spent the summer.

especially when we notice the baby All of us played a bit, but we

class that has just come to school worked some. too. Beatrice, Joe

for the first time. We know how Anne, Rowena, Essie Mae, Marie,

they feel since we were the "baby" and Shirley washed dishes. clean-

class last year, but we are sure it ed house, and did other things to

won't be long before they find help their mothers. The boys were

themselves, too.

busy, too. Henry, James, and Ed-

There are riine of us. four girls . win helped in the field. Franklin

and five boys. The girls are Rosa- helped his mother while the others

lie Nastasi, Joyce Madden, Jean worked in the field. Lennie helped

Wiggins, and Geraldine Taylor. in the dairy, and Jadie spent most

The boys are Johnny Chandler, of the summer riding his bicycle.

Vincent Gray, Jimmie Fender, Vir- We went to the hospital one

gil Ward, and Danny Wilson.

morning, and the nurse weighed

We are looking forward to a and measured us. All of us have

profitaHle )school t~rm and are grown taller and gained a few

eager to acquire all the skill and pounds. We hope to eat. sleep, and

knowledge that we can.

rest as we should and to play a

-Mildred Wright's Class little, too. Then we will be so

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tall and fat when we go home in

There are eleven children in our May that our friends and parents

class this year, seven boys and four will not know us.

girls, whose ages range from six to

-May F. Glenn's Class

ten. All have been in school one

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year with the exception of Kenneth Corry and Mary Ann Welch who are new this year.
The children are Jimmie Bryant of Cross Keys, Bobby Cannady of Graymont, Jeanette Hair of Brun-
swick, Donald Johnson of ColQuitt, Janice Lee of Waycross, Jo ce Mattox of Alma. Inez Pol-
lock of Pelham, Barbara Winters of Jackson, Ann Lynch of Exper-
iment. Kenneth Corry of Robinson,. and Mary Ann Welch of Rome. -Mabel Fincher'~ Class
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We'"'are all very glad to be back in school after a pleasant summer at home.
Last year our class was made up of Avus DeLoach, Patsy Sims, Margene Bruner, Joe Ann Edwards, Charles Wilson, Jimmie Parker, James Owens, James Chapman, and Terrell Leverette. Sandra Baker and Sandra Pike came from Mrs. Shipley's class and Glenda Brooks came from Mrs. Davison's school in Atlanta. YVe are very glad to have them in our class.

Summer has come and gone, We are enjoying rhythm and

and we are glad to be back in look orward to it. We are learn-

school again after a very pleasant ing to keep time, march, tell the

vacation.

difference between high and low

We have a new classroom, and notes, and to tell how many high

a few change., have been made in and h'w many low notes we

our class roll.

hear. We are also working on

Our old group is composed of accenting and phrasing. Later we

Beatrice, Joe Anne, Jadie, Edwin, hope to learn a few little songs Henry, Marie, Franklin, and EsI~ and dances.

Mae. Shirley, James Pope, and

--Jessie F. Jones's Clas.

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October, 19-1-7
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Even though the summer has candles with one breath. We then and Betty Sizemore chose the ele-

passed and the school year has sang "Happy Birthday" as we phant. Katie Mae Rogers stroked

begun, our thoughts still turn to danced around the table where the zebra while Jean White made

things outside.

Marshall sat. Everyone was inter- friends with the camel. Marcus

We have two pretty African ested in helping open the packages. Kemp preferred the horse. an ani-

violets in our classroom windows. Oneal and Bobby rushed for the mal with which he was already ac-

We like to watch them grow. and scissors while Barbara, Eva Nell. quainted. Mary Ann Durrence

each day we look closely for new Jean, Louise and Clara grouped liked the bear, and Willis Joe

:Fri- leaves and blossoms. On our trips to town ~very

around for the grand opening.

Knott thought that the monkey

As a calm settled upon our was the cutest of all. While Wayne

day we see many interesttn~ thmgs group, we considered playing sev- Edwards played with the tiger,

that remind us of somethmg we eral games. One was Who Has the Brooks Blankenship walked off

did or saw at home this summer. Thimble. Another. which was with the lion. Andrew Lee Har-

For example. last Friday we saw most enjoyable. was played with rison was interested most in the

the fish in the pond. and some of our relaxation directions.

seal and its juggling act.

us were immediately reminded of One child left the room and per- We are hoping to learn the

the beach.

formed an action such as running, names of all these animals and

On our way back. Patricia and bopping, skipping, and Jumping. others before the close of the

Stella picked some pretty yellow. When he returned, another went to school term.

brown, land o~nge leaves and the blackboard and asked questions

-Viola McMichen's Class

brought them to the classroom. W, to find out what he had done

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compared them with some pict~re. using "Did

?" Each child We began this school year in

of leaves in a book on our reading was allowed to ask three questions a new classroom and with a new

table.

about a certain action and if the teacher. We also have a new class-

With the turning of the leaves action had not been guessed by mate. Jo Anne Hornsby came to

we realize that our vacation ha~ that time he was asked the final us from Mrs. Davison's school in

ended and that we must settle question, "What did you do?"

Atlanta. We are glad to have her

down to another school year. So We had so much fun that every- in our class.

far we have accomplished a great one has marked a ring around his \Ve are very proud of our new

deal toward settling down to or her birthday on our classroom Maico hearing aid. It stays in our

work.

calendar, and we are eagerly await- classroom and we use it every

We have been weighed and ing the next.

morning when we work on speech.

measured. and some of us havt

--Geverna Chapman's Class We use the vibratube also when

grown taller while others have

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working on individual speech. We

gained weight.

In our class this year are Clarene find'the group aid especially help-

Our daily s~hedule is becoming King, Carol Smith, Alvin White. ful in getting more fluent speech.

familiar to us, and it seems natural Milton Saunders, J. D. McCloud, Several of the rooms have been

to be in school again.

Claude Butler. J. M. Thacker. and equipped with new Maico aids.

We are looking forward to being Dickie Taylor. With such an inter- aI)d we hope soon to have one in

with our friends and learning many esting and cute group of young- each classroom. Not only can the

new things. We feel that this will sters. it seems that there should children hear the teacher's voice,

be a very successful year.

be no difficulty whatsoever in find- but the aids are equipped with

-Bettye Arnold's Class ing something abQut which to microphones so that they can hear

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write. However. we haven't been their own voices as well as one an-

The birthday party that we in school but two short weeks. and other's.

had September the twenty-second after the long summer vacation. it'~ With our new aid to help us, we

for Marshall Harper was the first no easy matter for some of us to hope to strive even harder for

outstanding event on our class cal- settle down to paying close at- better speech.

endar.

tention and having good order.

-Emmalee Highnote's Class

The morning of the twenty- We're really hoping to accomplish

second was most eventful and full a good full year of work, but we'll Preseason Forecast

of suspense. Marshall's packages let you hear more about that later.

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were hidden from view and his

-Polly Casey's Class to be called the Ramblers like the

cake was wrapped for extra pro-

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. great Notre Dame team of 1930

tection from peepers.

Won't you come to our circus? that traveled hither. thither and

After recess a table was set for As we are supposed to learn yon to play on opponents' fields.

the occasion. A large pink cake quite a "zoo" of animals this year, G.S.D. will ha.ve seven games away

with blue candles and some inter- our teacher brought us a cardboard from home. Several opponents that

esting looking packages caught the circus. Each of us selected an ani- we humbled last year will be out

eye of everyone. Marshall was seat- mal to tend. Daniel Reagin took for revenge. Two. LaFayette ,and

ed in the place of honor from the rhinoceros as his pet. Louise especially Spaulding are exception-

which he tried to blowout the Hunt adopted the hippopotamus. ally strong this year.

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THE SCHOOL HELPER

October, 1947

THE SCHOOL HELPER

All communications should be addre88ed to the

School Helper, Cave Spring, Georgia. Entered at the post office at Cave Spring, Georgia,
.. second class matter November, 1889. Acceptance for mailing at a special rate of postage provided in Section 1103. Act of October 3, 1917. Authorized October 31,

1918. Published monthly during the school year in the print-

ing department of the Georgia School for the Deaf.

OLAF L. TOLLEFSO

Editor

MARIE KE ARD

Associate Editor

OLAF L. TOLLEFSON......... Printing Instructor

Mrs. Gibbons Retires
Even though our opening this year was a very happy. one. our entire school family missed some familiar faces of former friends and comrades.
For over forty years the charming personality of Mrs. Nell A. Gibbons pervaded our school faculty. The many friends of Mrs. Gibbons throughout the United States will be interested in the announcement of her resignation as supervising teacher of the intermediate and adva'nced departments.
Mrs. Gibbons has a very enviable record in her

VOLUME 48

October. 1947

NO.1

THE SCHOOL HELPER'S PLATFORM

For the Promotion of all State Aided School.

For the Deaf

1. Improved recognition as educational institutions with control in the hands of education beards.
2. Sectional and national associations with accrediting authorities and approved measuring- rods and standards suited to each association, terminating in the highest requirements for membership in a national lUI80ciation for schools for the deaf.
3. A greater Gallaudet College serving the interest!!> of all the states with special emphasis on research fmdings openly arrived at and freely disseminated in promoting the educational interests of all the schools.
4. A full utilization of services that can be rendered by the U.S. Office of Education in keeping with the spirit and purpose of its creation.
6. Federal equalization aid for education that will ~uarantee equal opportunities for deaf boys and girl~ in all states.
6. Utilization of a full time state Field Agent and Placemen'; Officer (or both) to locate and enroll deaf children in State Schools for the Deaf and to work with the Rehabilitation Department in job placement l'.nu vocation'll rehabilitation of ex-pupils and graduates.

Mrs. Nell A. Gibbons
work with the deaf where she has served in many capacities.

In 1904 as Miss Nell Adams she came to Georgia

NOTICE TO PATRONS _

and Cave Spring to follow her chosen profession of

Please let me call your attention to the fact that teaching the deaf. With the exception of the years a school regulation prohibits the visit of parents and from 1912 to 1917, she had seen continuous service relatives of the pupils or a visit of your child home since that time.

morc than once each month.

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hours at the school will be on Sunday

to 5: 00 p.m. You may have your

boy or girl from Friday afternoon to Sunday after-

noon. Do not a k for more than one of these privileges

during a month. You may visit on a week-day dur-

ing the year for the purpose of inspecting the school

but do not have your child out of class. . We ha~e a wonderful health record. Do not spoil

it by sendmg boxes of food to the children. We have

plenty of good food for good health. Send toys and

.terns of clothing instead.

I am sure you will cooperate with us in these

matters. Thanks.

C. H. Hollingsworth, Supt.,

Even in her childhood days she became interested in the deaf and their problems. Her home was in Fulton. Missouri where the school for the deaf of that state is located. Her uncle. the late D. C. McCue, was 'assistant superintendent of the Missouri School and it was through him that she first became interested. After she was graduated from Christian College, Co.lumbia. Missouri, she entered training for work With the deaf at Fulton. While training, she served as su?stitute teacher gaining valuable experiwee. The fast year after completing training, she taught a private pupil living in the home of the deaf child's family in Durant, Oklahoma.
.After teaching at the .Georgia School for eight years, MiSS Adams was marned to Mr. W. S. Gibbons of

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Oftober, 1947

Cave Spring. For several years Mr. Gibbons had been on the staff of the school. later going into the machinery business. He is now one of the leading implement dealers of northwest Georgia. Following their wedding in 1912, Mr. and Mrs. Gibbons lived in Rome for five years. Then came America's entry into World War I creating a shortage of workers along all lines. Mr. Harris. who was the superintendent at that time, induced her to again consider a place in the institution as her contribution in the emergency that existed. Since that time her work had been continuous.
Mrs. Gibbons had the distinction of being one of two teachers who had served under three superintendents, the late W. O. Connor. the late J. C. Harris, and the present superintendent, Mr. Hollingsworth.
Mrs. Gibbons had another distinction which few can claim. For more than twenty years she served as associate editor of the School Helper and for the past five years as editor.
Mrs. Gibbons possessed a rare combination of culture. graciousness. charm, intelligence, friendliness, sympathy, and cooperation. Her work was characterized by outstanding leadership, constant inspiration. cherished ambitions for the schooL and sympathetic understanding of and friendly interest in every child and everything that pertained to our school life. Her intelligent effort to carry out the high ideals and aims of the Georg'a School for the Deaf have succeeded in helping to bring to our school scholastic recognition and well-deserved honor to herself.
We shall miss this friend and shall ever cherish the fond memories with which she is so closely associated.
We hope, as the years pass, there will be a source of recurring pleasure to her in recallitlg memories of friends, activities. and interests during the years she spent with us.-M.K.
Our New Principal
Upon taking over as editor way back in '4 J, it was our first duty and a sad one, too. to make the announcement that our Mr. John L. Caple wa$ leaving us to take over as superintendent of tne Arkansas School for the Deaf in Little Rock. We left Georgia ourselves the next year to return a year later and in the meantime the editorship of the Helper had been placed in the capable hands of Mrs. Nell A. Gibbons now retireck In charge of the Helper again after a lapse of six years. we find our first write up dealing with the same subject, this time happily in the reverse. It is indeed a pleasure to welcome Mr. Caple back to G.S.D. as principaL and to greet again his attractive wife. Janice, and daughter Suzanne.
Mr. Caple served as superintendent of the Arkansas School for four years from 1941 to 1945,. After that he was instructor in Machine Shop Practice in the Arkansas Public Schools for two years, teaching at Little Rock Tech High, Little Rock Jr. Co1Lge. al,d

for the Veterans' Administration . Duri.lg 1Lis time he also served on a five man committee sponsored by the State Department of Education, the University of Arkansas, and the Veterans' Administration to draw up a course of study for veterans. Ml. Caple w:as Shop Practice expert of the group.
We are fortunate indeed to have secured a man with such- wide experience and proved ability, doubly so in that Mr. Caple needs no introduction or orientation as to our school and its problems. To make it a triple play, Mrs. Caple has consented to fill the vacancy of matron-dietitian of the primary' department--Superintendent Hollingsworh may rightfully
Mr. JoOhn L. Cap!~
and proudly boast that he killed two birds with one stone when he persuaded John and Janice to ,return to Cave Spring.-O.L.T. Staff Members Retire
Mrs. Lelia Barnett retired as' matron this fall after twenty years of faithful service to our school. Mrs. Barnett began her work at G.S.D. as a supervisor of the small boys. She was later asked 1"0 ;l'd ;>nd soon to head the home economics department. When a vacancy occurred for matron-dietitian she was asked to take this position and in this capacity served until her retirement.
Though her presence will be missed on the campus, her many friends join in wishing her many years of ~se and content which to her are justly due.
Miss Luella Brown was for a number of years a teacher and later a ,supervisor of the small boys. She found great happiness in teaching these children that they could be happy and enjoy life with even simple things. She never tired of planning surprises for ,them or of sharing in their little joys and sorrOWi.
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Superintendent's Corner

Ex - GOVB,R OR
It's The People Chase S. Os-

That Count born of Michigan

was at his best,

when speaking of the advantages

of Georgia as a place to live, he

said, "if one is rightly constituted

as to philosophy and morals. peo-

ple must always be the first consid-

eration." It is so often true that our sense

of values becomes warped, or per-

haps has never developed, to the

extent that we do not put the

friendship and undersanding of

people above all else in our eval-

uation of the things that count in

this world. The Atlanta Consitution recent-

ly spoke editorially of Georgia's

distinguished adopted son as fol-

lows:

.

"With the possible exception

of Franklin Roosevelt, no other

adopted son has endeared him-

self to the people of this State

as has Chase S. Osborn.

A former governor of Mich-

igan, this beloved person, now

87, has for years been spending

the winters at Possum Poke, his

15-acre esfate in Worth County.

And now out of his love for

Georgia and her citizens has

come a decision to will his

Worth County holdings to the.

State for development into a

park. a use for which they seem

admirably adapted.

The people of Georgia ap-

preciate his generosity, knowing

t 1:1 it stems from a man pos~ sed of a seldom-equaled sense

of values. 'Ther~ is a tranquil cha.rm

",., ('auty that scarcely eXists

. " 'here: he once wrote in ex-

planation of his decision to make

Georgia his home. 'It is one of

the healthiest regions 0f the

earth. There is none of the en-

ervations of a warmer climate

nor any of the dangerously ex-

acting rigors of the Northern

Winters, Just a perfectly bal-

anced condition that keeps one at

his best all the time. First of the

advantages of this section are

its people. And if one is rightly

constituted as to philosophy and once called "Skywater' , by the

morals, people must always be Creeks, flows from an unknown

the first consideration. 1 found depth at a rate of 70,000 gallons

them with an honesty and real- a minute and remains at a constant

ness and grace that 1 had not temperature of 68 degrees F-

seen elsewhere or since or before just a little cliilly on a hot after-

in all the earth. There was no noon. The Indians believed the

pretense, nO pose, no frills, no waters of this spring had curative

'dog'-just plain, honest-to- qualities. To their belief 1 am

God people.'

willing to subscribe following my

The people of Georgia liked swim and a hearty dinner.

thao.

Before this begins to sound to

They like a man who can be- Dr. Collins, my boss, too much

come as much at home among like a pleasure jaunt, I want to

us as has this illustrious former tell you something of my work

governor.

the two preceding days. My first

Possum Poke, or Chase Os- stop--day before yesterday-was

born State Park as it will be- at Rockmart to see and examine

come, will serve as a lasting re- young Stephen Earl Carroll. Little

minder of a great Iruln who "Sonny," as he is called by the

never lost the common touch. family. appeared to be a little

Our sectional differences would frail and highly nervous. It seems

have long since been forgot that he had not developed physi-

were there but more of his stat- cally and mentally commensurate

ure."

with his five and one-half years.

1 promised that we would accept

him on trial. Mrs. Carroll seemed

Albany, Ga.

June 12, 1947

DEAR Hazel: Well. I arrived here about five

o'clock p.m. I first sought over-

night accomodations at the New

Albany Hotel, but no dice. I then

went to the Gordon Hotel and

iStill no ropm.

St, Augustine What can a poor

Convention. fellow do on a job

Travel To like mine when

and From

he cannot tell ex-

actly where night-

fall Iruly catch him? However, my

fortune was not so bad after all.

The desk clerk at the latter hotel

did apologetically offer me a room

at their Lodge five miles out at

Radium Springs. He needn't have

acted the role of offering a second

best, for I was like Brer Rabbit

being tossed into the briar patch

- I was right where I wanted to

be.After driving out and register-

ing. it seems in nothing flat, I

had donned my swimming trunks

;lnd was headed for Radium

Sprinlls swim'ming pool. Why

to be very cooperative and otherwise a fine mother very much interested in the future welfare of her little son, 1 certainly have something to talk over with the powers . that be regarding deserving little children who are not eligible for admission to the Georgia School for the Deaf. I see so many of them sorely neglected. One of the answers is, take the deaf out of the speech correction schools and replace them with these other unfortunates whom they are better prepared to handle. 1 have special reference to spastics and aphasics who can hear.
From Rockmart 1 headed for Newnan, Georgia, Ex-Governor Arnall's home town. To show how we can get our information sheets mixed up at times, Dr. Charles W. Farmer, Jr., of Newnan had coresponded with us about little Barbara Jackson~Also, Miss Vesta Jackson, a nurse at Newnan, so I had ridden through Franklin, Georgia, where Barbara and her parents live, and it was not until

should I worry, this is one of Mrs. McCasley, case worker in the

Georgia's most popular resorts,' County Welfare Department, was

This bowl of clear blue water,

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From The Intermediate Department

Howard Ledford worked for his father on the farm last summer. He went to church all morn-
ing every day. too.
Gene Lanier worked at home last summer. He washed clothes. l.oy and he played with a gun.
Marvin McKoy rodc his bi(ycle. He went to see his sister in
tbe mill. Jewell HeIiderson helped her
;nother last summer. She washed dishes. swept the floor. mopped. and made up the beds. too.
Dan Jones worked and played
at home. Billie Jene Smith went fishing
with her family one d.ay. Her grandfather caught f/)u~ big fish.
Margie Ledford kept house all s'Jmmer while her mother went to work. She cleaned. swept. moppe<1. and made up the bed.~
Louise Murphy stayed at home all summer. She went to church 1>cvetal times.
Betty Brown helped her father in the field. She worked hard.
Guy Jones worked on the farm. He picked peanuts.
Franklyn Dyess rode a calf one <1inrnoon. The calf threw him off.
Fain Guffin worked last summer. He picked cotton.
Faye Johpson's dog is named Brownie. Last summer he caught three wild pigs. Brownie got a prize for doing that. Faye's family were surprised and proud.
Tom Byrd saw an airplane race at Alma last sUmmer. He saw a boat race at Johnson Lake, too. He went swimming and had a wonderful time.
Martha Maxey visited Vivian Turner during the summer. Vivian and Martha had a very nice time together.
Louise Wilson had a fine time with her family and relatives. She went to see her sister. Ruth who had a new baby.
Dorthy Sil"l1'S hettped on the
farm at home. They planted seeds. raised vegetables. and sold them. She went to see her Aunt Bessie
in Atlanta. Bob Pennington enjoyed swim-

ming with his brother, David. He went to the Dalton County Club on the Bus by himself every day.
Jack Calloway visited Louise a week. He was very proud of their twin 'babies. He helped Louise with the housework.
Jene Pritchett and Louise Walters went to see Evelyn Robinson on her birthday August twentyfirst. They had a nice time. Jene played baseball with her girl friends. too.
Mary Suggs ~nd Rose Lee went to a farm near Sale City, Ga. They helped gather tobacco aad picked flowers. They only stayed a week but they had a fine time.
Faye Nelle Evans saw Margie Ledford in Trion. She went to her home there. They went to the movies. They saw Margie's friend there.
Harry Owens went to Boy Scout Camp. He saw a big lake. There were many snakes under the rocks. His arm got sore from poling a boat. Charles and he fell out of the boat. The water was very dirty.
Frances Tatum went to Tybee Beach every Sunday afternoon. She ate cotton candy and snowballs. It was fun.
Eugene Baggett went to a fair Septem ber 5. He bought some peanuts. A monkey stole his peanuts. He saw three lions, five ~lack tigers. two cobra and fifteen elephants.
Mary Ann Pate visited her father at the hospital in Chamblee. One day she went to ride On the swinging bars. She was afraid, but she had fun.
Juanice Dukes went to see her sister graduate from high school. She went to w~rk at Warm Springs. She helps the people who cannot walk.
Ann Thompson spent two days at the beach. Her daddy caught two big fish. Her mother bought three goldfish. Apn likes them very mu{;h. She fed them at home.
Laura Ann Brigman went fishing with her sister and her boy friend. They caught several fish. Laura Ann went swimming for

three hours. Wynell Godwin helped her
father work in the tobacco. She went to Moultrie when her father sold the tobacco.
Jack Watkins went fishing with his father in the river where the big fish live They caught a hundred nine of them. They caught an alligator about five feet long.
Martha Maxey visited her aunt and uncle in Thomsville. She went to Florida with them and her parents. They caught a lot of fish. They came home at the end of a week.
Robert and W. C. Wooten climbed trees and played tag last sU?1mer. They went frog gigging wIth some boys. They went to skate at Durr's Lake. They went to a barbecue on the Fourth of July.
Rosemary Smith went to Valdosta twice. She saw three deaf boys and talked with them. She went fishing. too. but she only caught little fish.
. Inez Smallwood had a good tIme at home. She went swimming every Sunday. She went to the beach once an pi k' sza shells.
Louise Boyd h.,d visitors J'me 29. Elaine. Mrs. Pannal. Gertrude, James Hattrich and his family came. They all had a picnic supper.
Edna Pope went to Talladega. Alabama to the School for the Deaf there. She and her sisler arld brother-in-law enjoyed seeing the school and their deaf friends there.
\V. C. Wooten weet ~ 'ating at Durr's Lake. He skated at the rink. It cost thirty-five cents. James Clements went with him. Ja es fell once. but W. C. fell three times.
Frances Cox and her family went to her grandmother's on her birthday. She was seventy-six years old. They had a. big dinner for her and she received many gifts.
Ruth Owens went to the circus with her family in July. She rode on the Ferris wheel five times.
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[HE SCHOOL HELPER

October, 1947

Staff Members Retire
(Continued)
Because of her constant cheerfulness, she set songs singing in their hearts and made the whole world brighter for them.
Miss Brown was never too busy to stop to do a kindness for her friends and acquaintances. She found real joy in putting forth effort to make others happy. She had a love for growing things and took great pride in beautifying the grounds and providing pot plants for the dormitory. Our class trees stand as a memorial of her constant care for and interest in the beautification of our grounds.
We shall miss her cheerfulness and her many acts of kindness.
Although Mrs. Maude Welch was not connected with the school many years, she endeared herself to both the faculty and students. She impressed us daily with her friendly dignity, cooperative attitude, and lasting patience. All her activity was marked by that sincerity, simplicity, and intellectual integrity which brought her the real respect and admiration of every one.
Additional Staff Changes
Miss Katharine Casey is another
returnee. She left our school in 1942 to assume the position of supervising teacher of primary grades at the Arkansas School for the Deaf in Little Rock. She served i.n this capacity until 1945 when she moved to Jackson, Mississippi, to become supervising teacher of the academic department of the Mississippi school. We are indeed glad to have Miss Casey take over the direction of our intermediate grades. especially because of her experience in and knowledge of speech training and the use of hearing aids. We add with pride that at the meeting of the Convention of American Instructors of the Deaf at St. Augustine this past summer, Miss Casey was chosen as second vice-president of the group.
Mrs. Lawrence F. Warren has

assumed the position of matrondietitian of the main dining hall.
Mrs. Shipley and Mrs. Ware have been granted leaves of absence and Miss Bettye Arnold, of Cave Spring, and Mrs. Highnote, returning from a leave of absence. will take their places on the primary teaching staff.
Miss Cauthen and Miss Fox of Lindale are new supervisors in the primary department.
Mr. Hugh Hodges, of Savannah a graduate of Georgia State Teachers College. who lost his hearing through illness after teaching in public schools several years is taking training as a teacher of the deaf.
Mr. L. F. Warren, vocational agriculture instructor, has been granted leave of absence to attend the University of Georgia in Athens where he is studying for his masters degree.
Jays Upset LaFayette
(Continued)
ed goal line stands that cut them off both times.
LaFayette received to begin the third quarter and kept the ball almost the entire period. Taking advantage of their greater weight and many reserves they pounded their way slowly from their own 40 to a first down on the G.S.D. 2. Here, after 2 tries, they pushed across the first touchdown of the game but missed their try for extra point. When the Jays received, and couldn't get going, it seemed in the bag for LaFayette. The Jays did not agree to that, however, and if LaFayette dominated the third period. Baker and Co. completely took over the fourth.
Alternating passes with running plays the Jays moved from their own 35 to LaFayette's 11 only to loose the ball on a fumble. E en this could not dampen the Blue Jay fighting spirit. LaFayette punted and Wlhite returned it from the 38 to the 26. Baker passed to

end to be back on tht eleven when they had been a few minutes before. After an incomplete pass. White picked up two and Whittle five to make it a first down on LaFayette's four yard line. Here Baker took the ball and fought his way across to tie the score. On the all important try 'for the extra oint, Baker faked a pass and went over without being
touched. With only two minutes to play,
Lafayette tried a desperation pass which Norris intercepted on the Blue 45 and ran it back to the LaFayette 43. As the Jays went into a huddle the whistle blew. The game was ours, 7 to 6.
Intermediate Department (Continued)
pool with his brother every ~ay. Myrtice Soles had a good time
at home during the summer. Sht helped her mother keep house.
Barbara Ashworth visited her grandmother and grandfather in Canton during the summer. She had a good time.
Ralph Gentry studies very hard. He wants to learn many things.
John Pate's baby nephew died August 28th He was sorry.
Raymond Potts hasn't seen his mother for one year. She ij; now in Chicago.
James Clements's family moved to Brunswick in June. He missel his old friends in Macon.
Bobby Gorman is happy that Mr. Dillard gave him a pair of shoes because they are too small for M. Dillard.
Herbert Fuqua stayed at Cave Spring all summer.
C~cil Cox loves to play football this fall.
Claude Fuqua is happy to be in Mr. Dillard's class this fall.
Roy Holmes is happy to get some new clothes. He is a state pupil.
Clarence Rainwater was glad to get a letter from home September the 14th.
R. T. Holmes loves to work at Mr. Wart's home sometimes on Saturday.
Cynthia Aspinwall is glad to come back to school this fall.

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THE SCHOOL HELPER

Octpber, 1947

Superintendent's Comer
(Continued)
contacted that I knew some back tracking was in order. Mrs. McCasley knew about the case (although Barbara lived in another county.) She was interested and proved very helpful. She went with me to the Newnan Hospital to help locate Miss Jackson, Barbara's aunt.. Although Miss Jackson was on night duty and resting at the time, she, on learning that it was some one from Cave Spring to see her little niece, dressed immediately and came over to the hospital. Miss Vesta was very kind to go all the way to Franklin and back t() direct the way and to expedite the business at hand. Her little niece, Barbara Jackson, proved to be a very precious child. totally deaf, but bright and chippyas a lark. I am sure she will make a fin~ -little pupil. It does one good to meet people like the Jacksons. They are, as Ex-Governor Osborne of Michigan said of the people of Worth County, "just plain honest-to-God people."
Also, I want to tell you that ~ranklin, and Heard County, are Just as pretty as you and Dorothy depicted it. This is Mr. Caswell's home county and I must have passed near his home when I came through in the morning.
I was about to forget to mention that the ever reliable County Welfare Office saved me another trip out from Newnan by informing me that one other applicant in that county was not deaf but quite a problem child who had already been committed to the Boys' Training School at Milledgeville. You can readily see the necessity of examining and investigating each applicant before accepting him as eligible for admission to the Georgia School for the Deaf.
From Newnan I proceeded on as far as Warm Springs by eventide. Here I spent the night at the Warm Springs Hotel in the Georgia home of the late Franklin D. Roosevelt. What another fine spot in which to find myself! You will recall I spent three weeks at this hotel in the summer of 1935

while buying watermelons for L.E. Holloway and Company: I was somewhat at home about the place. I was very anxious to see Mrs. Ruth Stevens, author of "Hi-Ya Neighbor." I had met her before and liked her very much. She became a close friend of Roosevelt, and was dubbed by him "The Duchess of Meriwether County." Following the publication of "HiYa Neighbor" Mrs. Stevens is experiencing some of the joys of notoriety which she accepts with charming grace. You can imagine my chagrin in finding her absent. And, of all things, she was right up near home at Cedartown making a talk to one of the service dubs-just my luck. Anyway, I am going to buy her book and have my and Roosevelt's mutual good friend (I got a bang out of that) autograph it for me.
I left Warm Springs early this morning en route to Columbus. There is always work to do and new applicants to see in Columbus. There will always be just as long as Mrs. S. P. Wright is living and able to navigate. You will recall she was up for commencement and has visited the school a number of times. I do not know how the First Baptist Church, the deaf, and parents of the deaf children in Columbus could get along without Mrs. Wright. To relate how she first became interested in the deaf would make a good story of itself. Suffice it to say here, they all look upon her as their Patron Saint, and so she is.
I can see now that r can't even
bring myself up to my present domicile- The Lodge at Radium Springs-in this letter. I shall try to catch up with my travel news on a stop further down the road. Until then, with love,
Clayton
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Jays Trounce Dallas (Continued)
the 6 and also garnered the extra point.
In the closing minutes of the game Baker touched off another drive by going from his own 16 to the 27. From there, Whittle, White, Baker and Dukes alter-

nated for consistell.t short gains to the Dallas 39 stripe. From then on, the Blue Jays quit knocking and started coming in right through the door. Dukes made 14 on a thru tackle slant to put it on the 25, Baker picked up 9 around end, and Wihitle hit tackle for 10 more to put the ball on the Dallas 6 for a first down. White picked up 3 and Baker 2 more to put the ball on the 1 while Dallas desperately tried to close the door. On the next play. the whole G.S.D. team seemed to concentrate on opening a hole at guard and little Herbie White trotted over for the final marker. The try for extra point failed.
In offensive play, White, Whittle and Dukes showed great improvement while the defensive play of Calloway, Mock, Harrell was brilliant at times.
Adanced Department (Continued)
They had lots of fun at both places.
Jackie Dukes enjoyed her trip to St. Augustine, Florida. She made some new friends and saw a great many places of interest.
Laura Pope visited her aunt in Tarpon Springs, Florida early in September. Laura had not seen her for almost nine years and at first did not recognize her. They were very happy to see each other.
Patsy Baker spent a week with her aunt in Pensacola, Florida in July. She had a good time playing on the beach and looking for shells.
Ben Goodwin will never forget the good time he had at the beach this summer. He saw James Clements and Lester Smith in Brunswick one day and they enjoyed a nice long visit together.
Louise Walters visited Evelyn Robinson in August. Evelyn's mother gave a birthday party for Evelyn while Louise was there and she met a lot of friends and ha~ a .good time playing games, eattng lce cream and throwing ice.
Alma Wooten can hardly wait to see her family in November. They will bring her new nephew to see her and W. C

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THE SCHOOL HELPER

October, 1947

Faculty Notes (Continued)
first part of the summer and in Jacksonville the latter part.
After the convention in St. Augustine, Mrs. Johnson went to Daytona Beach for a week.
Mr. Tumlin spent a shorr vacation in Florida.
Mrs. Jolley spent most of her vacation in Mississippi. This was the first time she had seen her new granddaughter.
Mrs. Nathanson visited in Toledo, Ohio for a few weeks during her vacation.
In July Mr. and Mrs. Cox took an extended trip through Florida by way of St. Augustine, \\!est Palm Beach and Fort Myers.
Mr. Ware visited his father and 'iister, Mrs. H. S. Paris, in NewnJn this summer.
Mr. and Mrs. Aiken spent a week on Saint Simons Island and a week in Athens.
Mr. and Mrs. Warren visited the following places of interest during the summer: ColuIT: bus. Savannah. Jacksonville. Tallahassee, and Daytona. They also made a special trip to the marble quarries at Tate.
Mrs. Perry spent the entire summer with her sisters in Cave Spring
Mrs. Griffith spent a week-end at her sister's cabin near Rockmart this summer.
Mrs. Henderson visited her son and his wife. Mr. and Mrs. John
enderson, in Atlanta.
New Facts on Origion of Football Huddle .
The Atlanta Journal Magazine of Oct 5. 1947. carried an article on the origin of the football huddle written by Ole Timer. The author of this article refutes the assertion thet the huddle was originated and first used by Pop Wa!ner and gives credit for its origination as a standard practice to sch~ols .for the deaf. Feeling that thiS Will be of great interest to our readers. we reprint this article in part:
Did The Football Huddle Originate In Atlanta? By Ole Timer
It is written in the records that not

only the forward pass but also the to be run off without any signal ex-

huddle had their birth in Atlanta 52 cept the signal for the first play

and 51 years' ago respectively and which indicated the series."

that this parturition occurred in It was this use of a surprise snap,

games in which University of Georgia and several sets of series-plays that

was playing.

fooled the contemporary reporters

The assertion as to the forward and kindled Fuzzy's imagination.

pass is true .... That as to the huddle is incorrect.
On page 592 of Dr. L.H. Baker's encyclopedic "Football: Facts and Figures" you will find notation that the first huddle was used by Georgia in a game with Auburn in 1896. Dr. Baker bases the statement on a paragraph from Fuzzy Woodruff's ac-

The great Glenn Scoby Warner, now in his 77th year, has written me from Palo Alto. Calif., what is complete corroboration of the recollection of his players. It was that game which gave him his first national recognition. for he defeated the already famed John Heisman.

count of that game in his "History of Southern Football," written 32 years after the event.
Fuzzy-peace be to the ashes of that princely man and brilliant writer --took his facts from contemporary newspaper accounts and illuminated

Pop writes: "I remember the game vividly because of a series of three plays which enabled Georgia to win. I had scouted Auburn personally and I saw that on receiving the kickoff Auburn had only one ma:n 10 yards from the ball, the other players being

them with his sparkling imagination. This was his story:
In this game for the Southeastern championship, played at Brisbane Park on Thanksgiving Day. 1896, Auburn was holding the powerful Ge~rgia team helpless, Woodruff explalned.
"Tichenor seemed to know Georgia's 'Signals and called out to his men where each play was going." (Tichenor was Auburn's captain and quarterback.)
Finding themselves thus thwarted

scattered far down field. I planned a short dribble kickoff and, if we were successful in getting the ball. two more plays were planned without a signal.
"Georgia kicked off in the second half, the score being 6-6 and Georgia being outplayed in the first half. The . kick was dribbled to the right and Georgia was lucky enough to recover it Ileal' the right sideline. Quickly and without a signal the whole Georgia team lined up to the left of the ball l\ind the center lateraled it to a back

Woodruff proceeds: "The Georgia players went into the first huddle that was ever seen on a football field and at the conclusion of the conference sent their playoff without sig-

well to the left and he ran for a gain of about 25 yards. That brought the ball near to the left sideline and the same play was quickly used to the right and went all the way for the

nal. Auburn was caught flatfooted. Again the whistle sounded, again Georgia lined up and leaped into the fray without a number being called, while Auburn stood wondering w}.at

winning touchdown. For all those three trick plays to work perfectly was almost a miracle and that is why I remember the game so vividly.
"I do not believe any coach or col-

it was all about. And so Georgia went on to win, 12 to 6."

lege can claim to have been first to use the huddle system. It was used
every once in a while by teams ever

The author goes on to relate since the game started for an occas-

how he had seen this game himself and that he had contacted living members of the Ga. team to get their testimony as to what happened. This testimony follows:

ional play and just gradually came into use for all plays."
So that's that. The huddle was not invented by Pop Warner and first used in Atlanta as a planned maneuver.

These men agree that there was no planned systematic use of the huddle Hatton Lovejoy's version is detailed and is confirmed by others.
"Whether Auburn anticipated our plays or caught on to our signals, I .do not know," he writes. "Reynolds TIchenor was quarterback and Billy
IT Williams a halfback for Auburn and
they were two smart fellows. we went into any huddle, it was merely a spontaneous gathering of some of our t>layers to discuss the situation.
"Prior to the game Pop Warner hll:d tau~ht us one play to be run without signals and also a series of playtl

I think I know where it originated as a standard practice throughout the games. Schools for the deaf have played football ever since the game became popular. Naturally the boys could not use vocal signals called from formation. They decided the play in a huddle. Columbian Institution for the Deaf, popularly known as Gallaudet, had a very fine team at the turn of the century, which won some notable victories. Incidentally one of the players a Mr. Andree. ~oached Georgia T~ch in 1902 and turned out a clever and scrappy team.
-Atlanta Journal Magazine

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I

State of Georgia
K. E. THOMPSON, Governor

Georgia School for the Deaf

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

ADMINISTRATION

C. H. Hollingsworth, M.A., Superintendent

,John L. Caple, Principal
Hattie S. Aiken, Secretary Julian Tumlin, Steward Myrtle A. Johnson, Sec'y to Steward

Charles E. Owen, D.D.S. J. C. Connor, M.D. Sarah Griffith, Nurae

INSTRUCTORS

Primary Department
Marie S. Kennard, B.S., Supv. Teacher Bettye V. Arnold Polly Casey Geverna Chapman, B.S. Mabel L. Fincher May F. Glenn Emmalee J. Highnote Jim Irwin Jessie F. Jones Viola McMichen, B.A. Miriam B. Minter Mildred B. Wright

Intermediate and Advanced Department
Mary P. Turner B.A., Asst. Supv. Teacher, Advanced bepartment
Katharine Casey, Asst. Supv. Teacher, Intermediate Department. Connor Dillard Ruth D. Forbes Mary Forbes Edythe D. Montgomery B.S. Pauline J. Shahan, B.A. Fra~ces M. Tollefson, B.A. Damel Van Cott, B.S. Ralph H. White, B.A.

Vocational Department

Olaf L. Tollefson, B.A., Supv. Teacher

Olaf L. Tollefson, B.A.

Printing

Lawrence F. Warren, B.A Voc. Agri.

J. R. Ware

Carpentry

Earl Cox

Machine Shop

Connor Dillard

Shoe Repair

A. May Clark. B.A. . .. Arts & Crafts

Gladys L. Latham

Beauty Culture

Annie McDaniel

Sewing

Everette Ryle .. Barbering & P:ressing

David Pledger

Farm Supt.

Colored Department

Mildred K. Daniels Rose Anna Gibson Cynthia S. Hannah

Lucille McCullough, Supervising Teacher
Hattie S. Menifee Henrietta B. Reynold. Mattie D. Sams R. H. McAffee, Vocational Instructor

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Volume 48

NOVEMBER, 1947

No.2

Famous Deaf Dry Point Etcher

Triumphs Again

FROM THE O. A. D. NEWS

Cadwallader W'ashburn has tri-
umphed again. For the greater part
of his 80 yea r s as an unrivaled
amdassador plenipotentiary of the deaf. Dr. Washburn has been roaming the face of the earth rubbing elbows with princes and potentates without losing his common touch and proving to the world that the deaf can and do lead charmed lives. Not so lon~ ago hearing society once more threw wide open its arms to embrace the world's No. I dry point etcher. even though he is shy of speech and could qualify for the dunce's cap in lipreading work.
Springing from an illustrious Maine ancestry immortalized in American politics, by the slogan .'As goes Maine so goes the nation" Dr. Washburn was wined and feted by Bowdoin College during :l'ts' commencement exettises last June.
At the alumni banquet to his right sat Han. Horace Hitdredth, Governor of Maine. who the year previously had delivered a stirring historic state paper during the Lincoln Day dinner lauding the Washburn family for it~ momentous infuence on Abraham Lincoln. At Cadwallader's left was seated Dr. Sills. president of Bowdoin College who with his wife some months before had paid homage to the celebrated deaf artist at his birthday party and who later conferred upon him an honoray doctorate degree for having acquired fresh laurels as an artist while a resident of Maine -an achievement which brought a glcw of pride to the cheeks of the

citizens of Maine. Cherished college ties had attracted other Bow~ doin luminaries to this alumm festive board.
All eyes were 08 Cadwallader
Washburn. who is a polished dip-
lomat for the cause of deafdom.
delighted all his companions with
his keen wit and his wide knowledge of men and of world affairs derived from extensive reading and global travels. Cadwallader made all marvel at the manner in which he conducted his conversation via pad and pen-something which he had no need to blush over. It was a right royal lesson to the assembled savants that lack of powers of speech and serviceable lipreading do not necessarily ostracize the deaf from society as propagandized by rabid oralists. Bowdoinites observed that Cadwallader was stone deaf but that he had been helped to superior education by the combined system. They s'!w in the example of this diginified adopted son of Maine that lip-reading-like music-was an art mastered by few. They understood why someone with a scientific turn of mind like Cadwallader spurned 1ip-reacl,ing 'which was n~thing more than educated guesswork fraught with perils of missunderstandings and unhappy human relaionships. Because Cadwallader t!Jok his d,eafn~ss gracefully he won many friends by his genial personality and exuding optimism. It was a supremely happy occasion for the snow-haired artist who all his life symbolized deafness as a mere inconvenience- a

spur to greatness 1D his chosen
calling.
No sooner was the happy Bow-
doin experience laid away in his
treasury of memories than a new
one took shape on the campus of
Cadwallader's alma mater--Gal-
laudet College. Only two weeks
separated the double events.
Cadwallader's forefathers gave tremendous lift to the constantly worried Lincoln and it was Lincoln who signed the charter which enabled Cadwallader to spend five profitable. cultural years at the only college for the deaf in the world. How strange the threads of destiny run! Cadwallader returned to the scene of his undergraduate days after an absence of 30 busy years to revel in the 20th alumni reunion last June.
The speech which Cadwallader made--short, sweet and in piring- rendered in graceful sign language which he had rarely used in his 30 years of global wander'ings--shook the rafters of the Chapel Hall-also known as the Gallery of Heros where Cadwallader's choicest pictures hang. He had brought his latest masterpieces which were specially propped up on the platform hallowed by the immortal Gallaudets and legendary figures of Kendall Green. Cadwallader was one of the few surviving members of the Old Guard photographed and featured in the deaf press. It was a grailid homecomin'g for Gallauder's Grand Old Man who was an honorary guest of President

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November, 1947

Elstad in No.1. house on Faculty Row.
Canadians will always remember the Washburn Collection at the Toronto Art Gallery, happily included with the diamond jubilee convention of the Ontario Associahion of the Deaf in July, 1946. But if Cadwallader took Toronto by storm how much more was the staid old Boston stirred he same autumn when he exhibited a new batch of paintings in oil and etch ings a the Robert C. Vose Galleries. Robert P. Bellany, a well-known art collector of the Union of Bo stan, wrote: "I have gone 0 the Voses and what a brave arry of Cadwallader Washburns."
Charles Hovey Pepper, listed in "Who's Who in America," an art connisseur of long standing, who authored a book on Japanese Prints, exclaimed in still an other flock of admiring letters:
"I went yesterday and had a grand time. 1 think your show is tops. You can paint and you can etch. 1 think it one of the best shows Boston has had this year. Congratulations. "
Another visitor to the gallery got lit up and effused: "I enjoyed seeing your fine paintings. 1 like "The Man With The Green Shawl, "also" Boothbay Harbor," "The Farmhouse," all are exellent. But your etchings are superb. You are a mastercomparable to the old masters. You are a great man and a gifted artist. Though you have deprived of your hearings, God has more than compensated you when he endowed you with such an abundant, and bounteous gift. Such favors are bestowed upon a very precious few, and you are among the chosen few. This must have brought you a great deal of happiness."
EW "LANGU GE" IS INVENTED FOR THE DEAF
From OHIO CHRONICLE
The following article, clipped from an Akron newspaper and sent in by Walter Krohngold, would be humorous if it were not so tragic.
England has, for many years, outlawed the use of the sign language in the education of the deaf.

The system has been held up to us as a model, and only a year or two ago we had rapt audiences listening to an exposition of the "British" system of education. which is actually as old as the pyramids, and not something new, as the rediscoverers would have us believe.
While this system may succeed in giving the British deaf an education, perusal of British publications, mostly for and seldom by the deaf. make it evident that most adult deaf citizens are little better than the wards of benevolent and charitable societies. The variety of occupations they are allowed to perform is limited not so much by their ability as by what it is felt by people, themselves not deaf, they can best do and at the same time perpetuate the hold over them and their ways of life by the benevolent societies.
Once a system is well established. it is only a question of time before someone will seek to attack it and to tear it down.
Anyone who has done a little research in the field the educatio~ of the deaf knows that pure oral instruction is not new. There are recorded cases of the success of the method with talented individuals going back to the time of the Pharaohs. The fact remains that the first successful permanent school made use of the sign language as well as the oral method. thus taking into account the individual d~fereince of the pupils.
owhere other than in the United States (where free interchange of information a man g different schools throughout the country by mean of our school publications. our teacher association, and our
ational College, Gallaudet, has shown us the wisdom of not adhering to a single approach to all pupils but rather of adapting the method to the needs of the child) have the adult deaf approached the independent. self sufficient statu ~ of complete unhampered citizen"hip and civic responsibility we find here today.
Much credit for placing the deaf in this enlightened position must go to the utilization of the

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sign language. Although there were a number of isolated successful attempts to teach the deaf orally and a number of school, were established to live out a brief and unsuccessful span, most of these successful attempts were with individuals, rather than with groups. Even today. while we have a number of really good pure oral schools. the most successful of these have what may be t,ermed a ,selected group of pupils. We know of no instance where such a school has shown exceptional success with an unseleceted group. Usually those who show liittle aptitude for oral instruction are either branded as unintelligent or. if the school in question is more enlighten~d, transferred to a combined school where they may have the benefit of varied approaches to their understanding.
To go back to the article below. there is little doubt but what the new "discovery" will set up a new school of thought in the education of the deaf in England. Attempts will be made to show that the "new" method will succeed where the "old" method has failed.
Those disappointed in progress of children by the pure oral method will flock to this marvelous new discovery-the sign language. Pupils will be put on exhibition, visitors will "oh" and "ah" at the progress being made. Those of us who have been through the mill, have seen the products of all types of schools and all systems of education of the deaf will have the feeling. "This is where I came in." All right, London, take it away. Here we go again.-R.M.G.
NEW "TONGUE" IS DEVELOPED FOR DEAF
London ir Richard Paget. 78-year-old British la wyer and physician, has developed a new system of hand gestures whereby, he ays. "the child deaf from birth will think and express himself in terms of words produced by the gestures."
Sir Richard, who has spent 13 (Continued on page ten)

Sports Review

G.S.D. UPSETS McHENRY second half and won the game, They put on another drive from

Thursday evening. October 13. 19 to 13.

their 43 to score a second touch-

our advanced and intermediate pu- Trion's fumble early in the first down. but missed the point, to

pils went to Rome to attend the quarter was recovered by a G.S.D. make it 19 - 13. Then. with the

G. S. D. - McHenry game at lineman on their 23 yard line. tim~ running short. the Jays won

Barron Field.

However. the Blue Jays gained the ball on downs at their own 23.

It was an exciting game from only nine yards in four downs Two penalties put the ball on our

the very beginning. In fact, to and Trion took possession of the II and a fumble was recovered by

judge by the way McHenry backs ball. In the next few plays, Trion Trion on our 8. With their backs waltzed around with the baH in again fumbled and G.S.D. again to their own goal. and minutes to

the opening minutes of the game. recovered. Once more the Jays were play, the Jays dug in and again the Jays certainly were in for a stopped one yard short of a first Trion found those last five yards

shellacing. The Jays were held and forced to punt. The punt was partially blocked and it was McHenry's ball on the Jay 20. Their first play fizzled but the second.

down and it was Trion's ball. The Jays threw Trion for a 5 yd. loss to their five yard line and they punted out to the thirty. At a long last, Baker and Co. began to

too tough to cross. Calloway stOpped them on the first down for a one yard gain. On the second he threw the runner for a 4 yard loss. On the third. Trion passed to

a reverse. carried all the way to click. A pass. Baker to White put the Ga. 4. Dukes pulling the recei-

the goal. The kick for point was the ball on the eleven and two ver down. On the fourth. Callo-

wide and the score stood 6 to O. plays later. Baker went over from way again was a fifth man in the

not in our favor.
The Jays, however. were not discoti:raged and proceeded to prove it was only a fluke. They took the kickoff and marched to the goal line and nothing McH. could do could stop them. The try for point was good and we were ot in front by a single point.
McHenry did not stop trying but the Jays were not fooled again. For the rest of the game the Jay forward wall kept McHenry out of scoring territory save for once in the third quarter when McH. penetrated to the 15. This drive was stopped by a pass interception by Bud Little.
The Jays scored again in the 2nd and 4th quarters. Baker bearing the brunt of the offense. The final score was 18 to 6 in our favor.
New papers in the Rome area were lavish in their praise of our triple threat, Baker. He was called one of the best backs to appear in the Rome area. "He can run. pass. and kick and do all extremely well. He was also tops on defensive play. McHenry's defeat is a one word story. the word is BAKER."

the one. Trion now received. couldn't
get going and punted on the 4th down. The hard charging Jay line blocked the kick and again it was our ball on Trion's 33. The Jays quickly took advantage of this break and the drive ended with a pass from Baker to White in the end zone. Baker made the extra point and we were in the lead with a 13 - 0 margin.
Late in the second quarter another Trion punt was blocked and recovered on their 16. The Jays again took to the air and a pass from Baker to White put the ball on the four. Two running plays were tried for no gain, then. Baker ran wide to the right and tossed to White in the end zone. White made a beautiful diving catch and the whistle at half found the score
19 to O. In the third quarter. Trion took
over on their 26 from a Blue Jay punt. and put on a drive that did not end till the Jays led by the fine defen ive play of Calloway hrld them for downs on the Ga. one foot line. It was a magnificent goal line stand. The Jays punted

Trion backfield and had the play stopped almost as soon as it began. The ball was ours. Two plays later the final whistle blew.
A stellar performance was turn-

ed in by Calloway in this game.

It was his lightning charge that

threw confusion into the Trion backfield, causing fumbles, block-

ing kicks. and repeatedly throwing them for losses. In the last goal line stand. Trion actually tried three passes, one of which connected to the Ga. 4. On the other two. Calloway was on the back before

he could get the ball off. in fact.

before he even had time to look for a receiver.

Score by quarters:

G. S. D. Trion

6 13 0 0 - 19 0 0 7 6 - 13

Lady luck who smiled on our football team so warmly during the first four games. completely deserted us in the last three. Perhaps it was the rain. or there may have even been some one in the stands putting a triple whammy on our boys. Whatever it was, we lost our final three games.
Spaulding broke Our winning

out to their twenty and Trion took streak to the tune of 3 1 to O. Then JAYS DEFEAT TRION 19-13 to air. scoring on a long pass to Cartersville followed suit. down-

Saturday night. October 18th. the end zone. They made the ing the Jays to the tune of 20 - O.

marked the fourth straight victory point and the score stood 19 - 7. In our final game with Tennessee.

for G.S.D. when the Jays success-

The final quarter found Trion the Jay were put to route 34 - 6.

fully stopped Trion's drives in the roaring down the home stretch. Record: won-4. lost-3. tied-O

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From the Primary Side

There are many adjustments to be made by the beginning children each year. It is very essential that every boy and girl live in the widest possible sense, both mental-
ly and physically.
Even though we are the baby class, we are no longer babies. We must learn gradually that we are one of a group, and that each has to take his turn as it comes. We are taught to take only one piece of candy or one cookie instead of as many as we want; to take our place in line and to wait our tum in leading.
We have the most fun when the period comes around for blowing pinwheels, feathers, pompons, and bubbles, and for using the vibratube. Of course, everyone cannot do these things at one time, and this period gives another op portunity to practice taking turns cheerfully.
All the things we learn to do in our classroom that help us to adjust ourselves in working and playing together also help us in living together in the dormitory and on the playground. When we get along well with others, we are happy, and when we are happy. we can do better school work. We feel that the time spent on socializing the children is well spent.
-Miriam Minter's Class

on which we play in the dormi-

tory.

Those spaces also help us to

know when something special is

going to happen. A group of chil-

dren walking or even a sketch of

an ice cream cone makes it fan to count the days until Friday. Last

week a jack-o'-lantern over Thurs-

day told us to be ready for our

Hallowe' en party on that day.

Sarah, Larry, and Joel were de-

lighted when Friday came, because

three tiny cars over that day had

been reminding them all that they

were going home.

We have a big calendar on an-

other blackboard which we like,

too. We find that it is fun to go

to a group of pictures and select

the one that shows what the

weather is like outside. This is

then drawn in its proper space on

our big weather calendar.

Since we are a class of rather

young beginners, we feel that these

are quite important accomplish-

ments.

-Jim Irwin's Class


Perhaps some of you wonder

what your young child does in a

residential school. For the benefit

of those parents who have not had

the opportunity of visiting our
school, r hall try to give you

briefly some idea of our pro-

gram.

is off to a good start. The children are happy among their friends and are improving in their class-work
daily. October was ideal for many
thinps. but especially for the walks on Fridays. On one of our recent walks we found some hickory nut tree:;, and the children were delighted to find lots of nuts on the ground. \Vhen pockets and laps were filled, we came back to school anticipating the fun we would have eating them. Mrs. Chapman gave Glenda a box to carry her nuts home in.
Another nice thing that has happened to us this fall was the big box of Hallowe'en things Barbara Winters's mother sent her and her classmates. There were perky little colored caps. black masks, and crickets for each. not to mention the candy corn', pumpkins, and
suckers. The box came the morning before the Hallowe'en party. so we Fe t that we were the best dressed people there.
-Mabel Fincher's Class

Last week was certainly a full
one for us. We went to see The Yearling Tuesday afternoon and en ioyed it very mu h.
Thursday afternoon we went to the Hallowe'en party in the boys' playroom. We had lots of fun playing games and bobbing

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Our school day begins at 8: 30 for apples.

Weare finding several things in the morning and ends at I: 15. Friday mornin!1: at eleven o'clock

very interesting in our class right During this time we follow the we went to the carnival which was

now and would like to tell you prescribed outline for our partic- soonsored b the senior class. We

about one of them.

ular group. At 11: 00 we have ~rere not frightened by the old

Our calendar where omething rece s and refreshments and lunch .,itch fo~ we knew who she was.

is drawn to make us remember at 1 :30. Our teacher serves as hos- \Ve are all hard at work now.

what happens on each day is one t ~s for this meal. At all our meals lonl! with reviewinq ilnd rememthing that we all enjoy. This cal- we arc given instruct.on in correct berin~ what we have alreadv learn-

endar has seven spaces which are table manners. After lunch, we pd and the new things that come

drawn on oUr blackboard each have a thirty-minute rest period 11 every day. we are kept very

Monday. We start our happenings if we are to have an extra-curri- busy.

by drawing over the space marked cular activity. These activities in- We were happy to have good

Sunday a sketch of the handwork clude rhythm. finger painting,and reoort cards to send home and

that was done on the preceding folk dancing.

r.oo<> our fathers and mothers were

clay. Our semi-circle of chairs over the next five days tells us that we will come to the classroom on these days. Usually a tiny sketch of a bed over Saturday is enough to

Your child is busy and is also happv. because he is doing thin~s that he is keenly interested in.
-Mildred Wright's Class

T'~Ot d of tK Weare goin!! to try
. '. . to have good report cards each
time. -Mall F. Glenn's Class One of our recent projects has

make us realize that that is the day November is here and our class been to improve our penmanship.

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NoverrfJer, 1947

We have been especially interested in learning to write the full names of our classmates. Since we have done so well in remembering these long names, probably you would like to know what they are.
There are ten of us, four girls and six boys. Our names are Patricia Edwards. Betty Ruth Baxley. Stella Mae Gaxaway, Mary 1\lice Jon'es, Bobby Posey, Larry Thompson, Wilburn Dukes. Terrell Leverette, Gene Dominy, and Roy Alexander.
October was a busy month for us. We had the Hallowe'en party in the playrooms and were invited to the carnival in the basement of Freeman Hall.
We enjoyed playing "Going to Jerusalem" and other festive games and especially bobbing for apples.
Many of us got horns, masks, hats, and candy from home. Those who did not receive Hallowe'en things from home made hats and mash; however, those who did, shared them with their friends.
The carnival was most enjoyable. The witch greeted us, and we went first to the country store where hot dogs, Glndy. gum. cookies and ice cream were sold. Some of us fished, while others pitched pennies for prizes or played with the ball and pens. Gene Dominy won a prize pitching pennies.
It was such a pretty day to be outside that we went for a nice walk after the carnival.
We are looking forward to the Thanksgiving holidays now.
-Bettye Arnold's Class
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We have had so much fun and excitement over our Hallowe'en carnival that it is hard to settle down especially, when we now have Thanksgiving to look forward to and so many of us are planning to spend the week-end at home.
Thanksgiving means more to us since we are older and are beginning to realize and talk about the many things that we have to be thankful for.
We can find in our Bibles several verses pertaining to Thanksgiving. One is Psalms

a 118 1- give thanks unto the
Lord; for He is good. With our hearts full of Thanks-
giving. we would like to say: My heart is truly thankful Lord. For homes, fer friend', for love
that's true, For great, wide, beautiful fields,
and skies; But most of all -for You.
- Jessie F. Jones's Class
In addition to the special events such as birthday parties. Hallowe'en festivities and the great expectation of the Than sgiving holidays. our Elson-Gray readers afford us much daily pleasure. The pirttlrp' a r? ~o co J ~r' ful and true to life that it i ard to resist turning through the page~ to enjoy their beauty.
The story that we read today was Fun with Little Quack. Everyone in our cI ~o foJlow~ the events in the life of Dick and Jane with a great deal of interest. Yesterday's story was about their trip to the farm where their grandparents live. Their grand father gaove them a duck and today's. story is about the little duck.
Everyone la ghed to see the picture of Little Quack swimming in the puddle of water af e the rain. Someone mentioned having seen the ducks swimming on the la e at the spring which was a nice beginning for a nature study lesson. The first thing we did was to find ducks in our book on animals then to write the information on the blackboard. Acros the page from the picture of a pretty yeIlow duck was the following:
I am a small fowl. I have a big bill. I have two webbed feet. I like bugs and fish. I like corn and grass,too. I can swim. I can fly a little.
On completing these lessons we have some new verbs and adJectives to add to our vocabularv booRs. We will not soon forget these new things we have learned for Friday morning we shall walk by the spring to see the ducks and renew our lesson.
- Geverna Chapman's Class
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If all parents realized how very much pleasure and happiness each letter from home brings. I feel sure there would be more mail arriving daily for our children.
The mail reaches our department during the recess period. As the children come in from recess, each one is excited over the prospect of getting a letter, a card, or a box and immediately deluges the teacher with questions, "Have I a box?" "Have ~ 1 card~' or "Have I a letter?" until he satisfies him elf as to whether or not any mail is in store for him.
In our class, most of the children hear regularly from home. elarene King and Carol Smith receive some sort of m"il every few days, and Alvin White gets a box almost every week; but. there are some few who don't hear from home very often.
-Polly Casey's Class
Our class made a small jack-o'lantern for the Hallow,,' en pilrty.
Katie Mae washed the pumpkin and Betty dried it. Then Andrew Lee carefully cut out the top. Louise and Marcus undertook the unpleasant task of cleaning the in -ide. When Brooks and Wili is Joe had "opened" the little fellow's eyes. Wayne fashioned his nose. To Mary Ann and Daniel, however, "Jack" owes most of his charm of
expression, for it was th y who gave him four teeth and a cheerful lift to the corners of his mouth. With the aid of a lighted candle. Jean gave him the final touch that made him a Iiving personality.
- Viola McMichen's Class
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We are learning abotH some famous paintings in our reading class now. We find them very in-
teresting and attractive. The first one that we have
taken up is Baby Stuart. painted by Van Dyck. We have learned that Baby Stuart lived in England long ago. His father was a king, and his mother was a queen. He has on a pretty blue dress in the painting and a dainty white lace cap. We learned that all baby boys wore long dresses like that long ago. Baby Stuart was a very
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THE SCHOOL HELPER

Nouember. 1947

THE SCHOOL HELPER

All communications should be addrelllled ~o the

School Helper, Cave Spring, Georgia.
a. Entered at the post office at Cave Spring, Georgia, second class matter November. 1889. Acceptance for mailing at a special rate of postage provided in Section 1103. Act of October 3, 1917. Authorized October 31,

1918. Published monthly during the school year in the print-
ing department of the Georgia School for the Deaf.

OLAF L. TOLLEFSON

Editor

MARIE KE JARD

Associate Editor

OLAF L. TOLLEFSON......... Printing Instructor

VOLUME 48

November, 1947

NO.2

THE SCHOOL HELPER'S PLATFORM
For the Promotion of all State Aided School.
For the Deaf 1. Improved recognition as educational institutions with control in the hands of education boards. 2. Sectional and national associations with accreditmg authorities and approved measuring rods and stana ards suited to each association, terminating in the righest requirements for membership in a national u!lociation for schools for the deaf. 3. A greater Gallaudet College serving the interesQ d all the states with special emphasis on research finaings openly arrived at and freely disseminated in pro moting the educational interests of all the schools. 4. A full utilization of services that can be renderea by the U.S. Office of Education in keeping with the spirit and purpose of its creation. 6. Federal equalization aid for education that will ~uarantee equal opportunities for deaf boys and girl/' in all !ltates. 6. Utilization of a full time state Field Agent and Placemen~ Officer (or both) to locate and enroll deaf children in State Schools for the Deaf and to work with the Rehabilitation Department in job placement ..nd vocation'll rehabilitation of ex-pupils and graduates.

by an appropriation of $4,500 to be used as an "experiment for the purpose of establishing an institution for the education of the deaf and dumb." This department of the Hearn School opened in a log cabin on the Hearn Campus on May 15, 1846 with four students. In 1847, the legislature provided for a new campus and the fir t building (Fan nin Hall) \'.ras dedicated June 29. 1848. The "Georgia Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb." began its legitimate operation as a state-owned and state-supported institution for the deaf July 1. 1848, the tenth institution of its kind in the United States.
The original Fannin Hall has been remodeled and enlarged time and again. Additions were made, a third story added. and finally, some of these additions torn down to make way for the new girls' dormitory. Despite all this and the ravages of time. the original building still stands, an almost 100 yearold heart of our school. The following inscription was taken from the cornerstone of this building:
O. P. FAN TIN DORMITORY
Erected 1848
Contractors Chapman S. Shields. Samuel R. Hartsfield. Simeon Hamil, James W. Geer
Board of Trustees Dr. C. D. Phillips. Habersham Co. Dr. S. N, Culbertson. Floyd Co. S. J. Johnson. Floyd Co. Dr. Leonidas Mercer, Lee Co. O. P. Fannin. Floyd Co.
President of the Board Dr. Isaac N. Culbertson Secretary and Treasurer
Seaborn J. Johnson

OUR HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY 'Today, the first day of November. 1947. finds

Principal of the School Oliver P. Fannin

our school exactly 99 years and four months old.

Except for a period of about five years during

Actually. education of the deaf in Georgia began the War Between States, OUr school has seen contin-

orne 15 years prior to the opening of Our school uous operation. It has grown from one building to a

here in Cave Spring so that the history of the edu- $600.000 plant. from an enrollment of four in the

catiop. .)f the deaf in Georgia covers a period of first classes held in a little log cabin on the Hearn

115 years.

campus to a present day 283. It is, however, more

The first legislation in the behalf of the deaf than a plant worth so many thousand dollars. It is

in Georgia was in 1833. Three thousand dollars WdS more than so many children attending school, taught

appropriated to be used in financing the education of by so many teachers. Here is an institution that has

our deaf at the American Asylum at Hartford, Conn. taken a hundred years. six superintendents. and an

Successful local experiments in teaching the deaf untold number of teachers. staff workers and pupils

began in 1843 at Cedar Valley Academy in Paulding to build. It is a choo!. dedicated to the education

County (now Po!k) and at Hearn Manual Labor of the deaf, and to the e pupils. be they four or four-

School at Cave Spring in 1846.

hundred. will the entire effort of eery employee of

This beginning in Cave Spring was the actual the school be directed. As their needs change or vary

origion of the present institution and was support d

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Superintendent's Corner

Waycro:ss, Georgia

June 14, 1947

DEAR Hazel: In my last letter I brought my

travel itinerary up to Warm

Springs and was heading out for

Columbus. I arrived mid-morning.

As usuaL I

The ConlJention, checked both

Travel to and the county

from-Can't

and city wel-

fare agencies

to see if they had any information

on children whose applications I

had in hand, or others not pre-

viously reported whom I should see

while in that town. I do this for

two main reasons: (1) to acquaint

them with school and service the

school is rendering: and (2) to fa-

miliarize those offices with pupils

we have from their city and county

for future reference when there is

need for help with indigent cases.

The welfare offices could not

offer much assi~tance, neirl-,er did

t hey know we had several deaf

boys and girls from Columbus al-

ready in school.

Then I called the old reliable,

Mer. S. P. Wright. You will re

call I told you in my last letter

about how Mrs. Wright was a

real missionary to the deaf in Co-

lumbus. Anyway, Mrs. Wright's

maid told me she was at the church

that morning and gave me the tele-

phone number. It did not take

more than a minute or two to get

think I asked her but have forgat-

her on the 'phone. I don't know

what she was doing at the church

this week-day mid-morning. I

ten. Anyway, she stopped right

away and was over to the Welfare

Office in a jiffy. She insisted that

I leave my car and get in hers. I

had the addresses of these children

but without Mrs. Wright's help

I would have been in Columbus

all day finding them. It was just

a matter of a few minutes before

we were interviewing Mrs. H. C.

Daniel and her little son, Henry

Curtis Daniel. "Bubba" proved to

be a fine little fellow, bright,

healthy, deaf, and in every respect

eligible for admission to the Geor-

gia School for the Deaf. Mrs. Daniel seemed to be deeply appreciative of the opportunity offered her son. I know she will make a cooperative patron and that her little son will prove to be a fine little pupil.
From Mrs. Daniel's home we IJeaded for 1036 Nineteenth St. Little John Wesley Reid was at home and so was his father, Mr. E. C. Reid. This was another fine little deaf boy for whom we did our best to sell the parents on the idea of sending him to school in September. I say "sell the idea" because these parents seemed to be a little reluctant to send their child so far away from home at five years of age. It was just the reverse in the case of Betty Bruner whose sister is already in school. Mr. and Mrs. Bruner were very much in favor of sending Margene's younger sister whom we had to reject on account of the fact that she was not quite four and one-half years of age;
They all knew Mrs. Wright and seemed to appreciate her great interest.
I insisted on Mrs. Wright ha ...ing lunch with me in down town Columbus. I enjoyed this additional visit with her. There won't be any complications like the time while at Gallaudet I wrote you how nice Miss Elizabeth Peet had been to me. You will recall Wright saying, "Mother. T don't bel ieve Miss Peet is as old as Daddy makes like she is."
Early after noon I headed out for Albany, Georgia. The highway skirted the fine little city of Americus. I stopped at the highway 'unction and called Marjorie Joyner's home but there was no answer. I felt like writing a little note as she did to me one time saying, "why don't you stay home some time?'" (For the benefit of other readers. T will say that w" came to know Marjorie through the medium of our pastor and his wife. Dr. and Mr . Grant who live on the Shorter College Campus. They often brought some o( the girls down to services at Cave
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Spring. In this they were ably abetted by our young Marine son who was on leave for a few weeks in the late spring before proceeding on orders to China. Wright always was a great hand to bring his dates down to see the "old folks." We all became very fond of Marjorie. She is now Assistant Director of the Voluntary Religious Association at the U niverity of Georgia)
The story of my arrival and fine experience in Albany was related to you in my last letter. From there I proceeded early to Camilla. I had known Mrs. Bertha Jones, Director of Public Welfare, since away back when she was a case worker. It was fine seeing her and her staff housed in Mitchell County's beautiful new court house; one of the most beautiful in the state. I am sorry I did not jot down the name of the case worker assigned to go with me to find and examine the cases listed: I always like to thank them again in those letters regarding field work. It was ten miles out to Glenda Burford's home. I knew before starting that Glenda was a year too young to enter the Geor-
gia School for the Deaf but r
thought I could see and examine this case and save the trip next year. Little Glenda seemed eligible in every respect and is listed for admission next year. She also has a little deaf brother. Mrs. Burford seemed to appreciate our visit very much and I believe she is looking forward to getting both her children enrolled at Cave Spring. Two other applicants were visited and examined in this county who did not prove to be eligible for admission to a school for the deaf.
From Camilla I proceeded to
Donaldsonville where I spent the night. A year previous Mrs. Rupert Sheffield had asked for some information about the school. The next morning I learned that shr was now living in Iron City. T finally located Mr5. Sheffield but her little deaf daughter was not at home. She was in Atlanta at The
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From the Intermediate Department

October 14 was Netheara Mobley's birthday. Her mother sent her a birthday cake. She was happy.
Clarence Rainwater was glad
that his parents came to see him in October.
Jame Clements spent a pleasant
week-end with Culton Huff 10 Macon in OctobeJ.
Cecil Cox can hardly wait to
go home for Christmas. Bobby Gorman is surprised to
know that his father is going to buy a new car soon.
John Pate hopes that he can go home for Thanksgiving holidays.
October 25 was Cynthia Aspin-
wall's birthday. Her mother sent her a new bill fold. She was happy.
Raymond Potts was surprised to know that his mother had married again. She is now in Chicago.
Ralph Gentry was very excited when he heard that he could go to the Tennessee School for the D::>af November 15.
R. T. and Roy Holmes were glad to hear from their mother in October.
Myrtice Sales got five dollars from her mother in October. She was happy.
Fleming Bloodworth is happ.' because his mother told him that he could go home for Christmas.
Dorothy Hughes was glad to get a box from her mother in October.
The Girl Scouts played Goingto-Jeru alem one afternoon. Billie Jean Smith enjoyed it.
The Boy Scouts meet ever Monday afternoon. The new boys got scout pins. They are wearing them up ide down now. Howard Ledford wants to do a good turn so he can wear his pin right.
Harry Owens's mother bought him a small gold pen and nenc' set in Atlanta one week - end. Harry's sister drove the car and Harry went to a show. His bar friend went to the fair at the Boys' Club.
Marvin McKoy will go home for Thanksgiving November 26.

He will go by bus at 1:45 p.m. Some of the Boy Scouts will go
to Dalton November 15 for a track meet. Guy Jones hopes that they will have a good time.
Dan Jones's mother and sister sent him two boxes for Halloween. Dan liked them.
Franklyn Dyess had a good time at the Halloween Carnival.
November 4 the small bo:ys played football. Gene Lanier's team won. He was happy.
Fain Griffin liked The Yearling. We saw it October 28.
One Monday afternoon the Girl Scouts went to the chapel. Some of the new girls worked in the yard. They raked leaves and put them in a big box. The yard was nice. They picked up some nuts, too.
October 31 Jewell Henderson went borne. She had a fine time that night.
Maybe Louise Murphy will go to Jene Pritchett's home for Thanksgiving. Jene invited her. She hopes that she will ha"e a nice time. She is very happy.
Frances Tatum liked the Halloween Carnival. She wants another one soon.
Eugene Baggett got a letter from his sister-in-law. She said that he would go home on November 25. She will give him something then.
The boys went to the hill near the lJlill one Friday afternoon. They swung across a little creek on a rQpe. It was lots of fun.
Our team played football with Spalding at Griffin, Ga. Juanice Dukes's family drove to Griffin to see Roscoe play in that game.
November the first was Martha Maxey's birthday. She had a part' Friday afternoon. Her mother sent her a cake. a red purse, and a pen. Her brother, Herschel sent her a box of Indian weaving and beadcraft. It was a fine birthday.
Wynell Godwin was glad to get a letter from her cousin in ovember. She wrote that she had a good time in Rome.
Ann Thompson is sorry that Rose Mary's arm is sore. She
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thinks that her arm will be well

soon. Jack Watkins is glad that he
works in the print shop. He thought that the work would be easy, but it is hard working on

the papers. The boys in the print shop are printing some things for

Atlanta to save the state some money.
The king and queen for the Halloween Carnival were crowned October 3 1. Rose Mary Smith was

in the program. She wore an evening dress. The program was pret-

ty. Mary Ann Pate received a letter,
a box of candy, and two dollars from her parents November 2. She and John will go home by bus for Thanksgiving.

Laura Ann Brigman will go home with Ann for Thanksgiving. she expects to have a good time there. Her mother wrote that she would send her a red overnight case.

Dorothy Sims's mother wrote

that her brotber's knee was swollen and sore. She is sorry about it.
Vivian Turner enjoyed the colored slides and the floor show in the chapel at the Halloween Carnival. She got three prizes. She had a wonderful time.
Jack Calloway was in the floor

show at the Halloween Carnival. Roscoe and he pretended that tbey

were riding in an old car. They

made people laugb and laugh.

Inez Smallwood's little nephew

Danny Ellis Martin won a $24.00

prize in a contest in Jefferson. Ga.

He was the prettiest baby in the

contest.

.

Ruth Owens thought that the chapel was beautiful October 31. She saw Mr. Holman take some pictures of Georgia. the queen. Alton, the king, and all their attendants.

Louise Boyd got a pink evening dress from her father and mother. It was too long. So she fixed it. She was an attendant of the queen at Halloween.

Vinton Troup Ii es football. (Continued on page ten)

Faculty Notes

MABEL FINCHER

The Faculty Club ha elected

the following members of the fac-

ulty as officers to serve this school

year:

President _ Mrs. Tollefson

Vice-President

Miss Latham

Sec-Treas ..

Miss McMichen

Publicity Chr. _ Mrs. Casey

Corresponding Sec. Mr. White

Mr. and Mrs. Quinn Shipley announce the birth of their third daughter. Prudence. on November fourth. Mrs. Shipley is a former teacher in the primary department.

MASTER WARE-Mr. and Mrs.

J. R. \Vare announce the birth of

a son, Robert Ri15don Ware. Oct-

ober 28. at Harhin Hospital, Rome

Georgia.

-

Ir. and r. Ware, Sarah and

J. R.. are both members of our

teaching staff. J. R. in the voca-

tional department as instructor in

woodworking and painting. and

Sarah an in,tructor in the primary

department.

.The entire school rejoices with

them on this happy occasion. We

are somewhat dubious over the

latest l1eport r-eceivdd from che

beaming pop, however, that of

young Robert's refusing to eat his

meals unless a shotgun is propped

up nearby and a bird dog come,

in to point at t.h..e food.

IIrs. Aiken sp:!nt a \Tee -end in

her home in Athens.

Mrs. Hillis Ho*llings\\'orth and

children visited Mrs. Hollings-

worth's parents, Mr. and Mr.

Adam Robinson, in Macon recent-

ly.



Mr. and Mrs. Highnote visited

relatives in Buena Vista recently.

* Miss Arnold visited friends in

Rome one week-end in October.

* Mrs. Turner's daughter. Miss

Mary Ann Turner, spent a Sunday

with her recently.

* Miss Shahan spent a week-end

in the mountains of North Georgia and North Carolina recently.
...
Mr. White spent a week-end in Chattanooga in October. He visited Lookout Mountain and Ruby Fa11s.
...
Mrs. Forbes had as her recent weekend guests two teachers from
Model School. ... Mr. and Mrs. H. w.. Fortson,
Cynthia, and Carol of Macon, visited Mrs. Minter one week-end in October.
* Mrs. Fincher's mother, Mrs.
Loyd C. Lipham of Bowdon, visited her during the month of November.
* Mrs. Irwin spent an afternoon
in Rome a few days ago.
* Miss Casey and her father at-
tended the Southern Fair in At-
lanta with Mr. a...nd Mrs. Hughes.
Mr. Hodges has attended all the football games this fa11.
* Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Bruce of
Atlanta were recent guests of Mr. and Mrs. Wright.
* Mrs. Glenn spent the day in Rome recently. ...
Mr. and Mrs. Tollefson made a p~asure trip through Nort'h Georgia and North Carolina one week-end in October.
* Miss McMichen's sister, Mrs.
C. A. Lawson of Atlanta, spent a recent week-end with her.
Mrs. Jones had as week-end guests her daughter, Miss Margaret Dukes and Miss Clair. all from Lawson Veterans Hospital in Atlanta.
* Miss Chapman visited friends
in Rome recently.
* Mr. Caple and Mr. T ollef 0n
accompanied the boys on their
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trip to the Tennes ee School for the Deaf at Knoxville. They reported it a most enjoyable and b~autiful trip, especially so at this time of the year when trees everywhere are a riot of color.
* Mr. Hbllingsworth and Mr.
Cape spent a week-end during Oct. in Knoxville attending a three-day conference of representative of the Reh'abi1~tation Departments and Schools for the Deaf and Blind of the southeastern states.
* The children of the primary
department surprised Mrs. Kennard with a birthday cake at lunch November 12.
'*
Miss Fox visited her family 111 Lindale in November.
...
Mrs. Leila Barnett, a former employee of the Georgia School for the Deaf, made an extended visit with her daughter, Mrs. James Lewis of Milledgeville, during October and November.
* Miss Cauthen made a recent
visit with her family near Rome.
* Mrs. Nell Gibbons visited the
primary department rercently.
* Mrs. Chapman and Mi s Ritch
shopped in Rome recently.
PRIMARY SIDE
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plump little bqy with a round little face and chubby little hands. His rosy cheeks and red lips made him very pretty. He is holding a big red apple in the painting. We learned that Van Dyck gave him the apple to hold his attention and to help keep him still while he painted the portrait.
There are several more paintings that we wi11 learn about this year. \Ve hope to be able to recognize them anywnere and to know the artists who painted them.
-Emmalee Highnote's Class

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SUPT'S CORNER (Continued)
Davison School of Speech Cor-
rection. Mrs. Davison and I were
one time in agreement when she
said that she had children (deaf) that should be at Cave Spring. and that we had some (spastics and aphasics) at Cave Spring that belonged in her school of speech correction. From all the information I could obtain, little Brenda belongs at a school for the deaf for best results. Mrs. Davison and I will argue that point some day later. Mr. and Mrs. Sheffield are tremendously interested in the future welfare of their fine little daughter. They are certainly doing their part but a state plan and authenic guidance is sadly lacking in a case of this kind.
From Donaldsonville I was early in Thomasville the morning of June 13. Mrs. Louise S. Chastain is another of the county directors of public welfare who always has work cut out for me, and furnishes a case worker to help locate the children whom she bas referred. Miss Anne Alday was very efficient and pleasant. I enjoyed talking with her about Hillis and Harold with whom she was in school at Mercer. The three calls were made in short order. Howard Bailey (colored) was accepted on trial. The other applicant (colored) was rejected as being a very low feebleminded case. A call was made at the home of Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Harrison whose son ran away from school last year and did not return. The parents displayed a very fine spirit of cooperation and I am sure Andrew Lee will re-enter school in September. Late in the afternoon I headed out for my present destination. By writing a rather lengthly letter it has brought my travel up to now at Waycross, Georgia.
Plenty of work here tomorrow Next you will hear from me at our convention site. St. Augustine, Florida. Love,
Clayton.

INTERMEDIATE DEPT. (Continued)
He hopes that he can join the foot-
ball team next year.
W. C. Wooten hopes that our
team will beat Cartersville November 7.
Frances Cox enjoyed the dancing at the Halloween Carnival. Th~ seniors gave Mary Ann Pate and James Clements pen and pencil sets because they were funny.
Edna Pope liked the floor show at the carnival. She laughed at the boys pretending to be negro girls. They were funny with their faces all black. Tneir dancing was wonderful.
Mary Suggs's sister and brotherin-law will go to Jacksonville. Florida soon. Mary wants to go with them. They told her that she could visit them next summer.
Bob Pennington will go home in their car for the Thanksgiving week-end. David will go home on the train. Bob will ask his father if a doctor can fix his ears.
Faye Nelle Evans and Margie Ledford went home October 17. They rode on many funny things. The swings made them sick. They went in a funny house. They were afraid in there. They saw some monkeys in a tent, too.
Louise Wilson went home October 12. Her family and some friends came there for dinner Sunday. Louise's mother baked two cakes and her sister brought one. Louise bought two pans for her mother's birthday and her sister. Arlene, bought two bread pans.
Mrs. Byrd will go to Florida soon to see her brother and sisterin- law. Tom wants to go with her to see his aunt and his uncles.
Jene Pritchett's girl friend is glad that she will be home soon. Her brother will leave for the Navy before Jene goes home for Thanksgiving. So she wants to see Jene.
Faye Johnson liked The Yearling very much. Some of the girls cried because the little boy ran away from home and floated down the river in a boat. They thought he was dead.
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EDITORIALS (Continued)
from time to time, so will our efforts vary in tune and the building go on for hundreds of years to come. That is the moral that lies for us in the hundred-year-old heart of Fannin Hall. Almost a century has passed since its erection and though alternations. additions. and the passage of time have wrought changes in the outward view, there are still bricks and mortar that have remained the same. They have served and continue to serve that one purpose. one that we serve and will ever continue to serve-The Educati~n of the Deaf.
Plans are being drawn for a gala occasion this coming June to celebrate this all important anniversary. As they become more complete, announcement will be made in the Helper.-O. L. T.
NEW "TONGUE" (Continued)
years compounding his new sign language for the education of children born deaf, a task involving the study of primitive gestures in many parts otthe world. demonstrated ISO of the 3.000 signs in the vocabulary to the anthropology section of the British Assoc ia.tion for the ;advanceme* of sCIence.
With the hands. fingers and arms moving slowly, he spoke in the signs sentences which he said a child of four could express in the new system:
"We all went to the animal enclo ure at the zoo. The monkeys made us laugh. The keeper fed the sea lions with fish. I wish you could have seen it,"
Sir Richard annouced he was proposing to try the experient of educating a small group of children deaf from birth, now aged one and a half to two years, by habitually speaking to them in the sign language. which is totally different from finger spelling. Instructors will encourage the deaf children ~o spe~k themselves in the system. III whIch every sign is the equivalent of a spoken word.
-Akron Beacon Journal

State of Georgia
M. E. THOMPSON, Governor

Georgia School for the Deaf

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

ADMINIS TRATION

C. H. Hollingsworth, M.A., Superintendent

John L. Caple, Principal

Hattie S. Aiken, Secretary Julian Tumlin, Steward Myrtle A. Johnson, Sec'y to Steward

Charles E. Owen, D.D.S.
J. C. Connor, M.D. Sarah Griffith, Nurse

INSTRUCTORS

Primary Department
Marie S. Kennard, B.S., Supv. Teacher Bettye V. Arnold Polly Casey Geverna Chapman, B.S. Mabel L. Fincher May F. Glenn Emmalee J. Highnote Jim Irwin Jessie F. Jones Viola McMichen, B.A. Miriam B. Minter Mildred B. Wright

Intermediate and Ad.ancecl Departm_t
Mary P. Turner. B.A., Aut. Supv. Teacher, Advanced Department
Katharine Casey, Asst. Supv. Teacher, Intermediate Department. Connor Dillard Ruth D. Forbes Mary Forbes Edythe D. Montgomery. B.S. Pauline J. Shahan, B.A. Fra~ces M. Tollefson, B.A. Damel Van Cotto B.S. Ralph H. White, B.A.

Vocational Department

Olaf L. Tollefson, B.A., Supv. Teacher

Olaf L. Tollefson, B.A.

Printing

Lawrence F. Warren, B.A Voc. Agri.

J. R. Ware

Carpentry

Earl Cox

Machine Shop

Connor Dillard

Shoe Repair

A. May Clark. B.A. . .. Arts & Crafts

Gladys L. Latham

Beauty Culture

Annie McDaniel

Sewing

Everette Ryle .. Barbering & Pressing

David Pledger

Farm Supt.

Colored Department

Mildred K. Daniels Rose Anna Gibson Cynthia S. Hannah

Lucille McCullough, Supervising Teacher
Hattie S. Menifee Henrietta B. Reynoldl Mattie D. Sams R. H. McAffee, Vocational Instructor

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Christmas In Other Lands Wise Men are supposed to fill the children sleep, he comes and fills

No other time in all the year children's shoes with gifts.

the shoes or baskets of each good

brings so much happiness to many In Mexico Christmas begins on child with gifts and the shoes of

people and no other holiday is ob- December 16 and ends on Christ- each naughty child with switches.

served by as many nations as is mas Eve. The people carry images In Germany the happy time is

Christmas-the birthday of Jesus of Joseph and Mary from house Christmas Eve when the family

Christ. And yet, Christmas is dif- to house and sing carols. Tbe gather around the Christmas tree

ferent in almost every country. children receive their gifts on Jan- [0 sing "Knstlieders," the Ger-

In England every home has mis- uary 6. A big red jar filled with man word for carols. After the

t1etoe hanging over the door and presents is hung from a lighed tree songs, Kriss Kringle arrives with

a Yule log on the fire. Christ~as and the children blindfolded try his sack full of gifts. In some parts

Day there is particularly a child- to break the jar with a stick. when of the county. Christmas pageants

ren's day and on Christmas Eve the jar is broken. all children pull are given all along the road curing

every English child ex- rr==============================================1 Christmas week.

pects a visit from Fath-

In Bethlehem. the

er Christmas, as Amer-

Christmas Everywhere

little town where Jesus

ican children look for

was born, the people of

Santa Claus.

PHILLIPS BROOKS

the village and other

In France at Christmas time, almost every Everywhere, everywhere, Christmas tonight!

people from different parts of the world come

family has its manger Christmas in the lands of the fir-tree and pine,

to attend Chrismas Eve

scene. In every village Chrismas in the lands of the palm-tree and vine,

service at the little

the children carry a Christmas where snow peaks stand solemn and white, church which is built on

little candle - lighted Chrismas where cornfields stand sunny and bright. the very spot where

manger through the Christmas where children are hopeful and gay,

Jesus was born.

streets while they sing Christmas where old men are patient and gray,

-Mary Moon, Duw-

carols and gather pen- Christmas where peace, like a dove in his flight,

ayne Dukes, and James

nies which have been Broods o'er brave men in the thick of the fight;

Hattrich.

thrown them. At night they put their wooden shoes by the fire and

Everywhere, everywhere, Christmas toniglftl I I
For the Christ-child who comes is the Master of all;

The Origin of Christmas Seals

Bonhomme Noel fills No palace too great, no cottage too small.

Some years ago there

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and other good things.

a post office in Den-

In Italy, the children visit the the blindfold off and rush for the mark who felt sorry for some poor

homes and recite Christm:ls poems gifts.

, . little children who had tuberculo-

and men with bag pipes sing carols In Brazil. Argentina and Peru. sis and could not get the care they

Christmas Eve.

Christmas comes in the summer needed, because their mother and

Flowers are used instead of evergreens for decorations, and an old woman dressed in rags and riding a broom stick is supposed to leave ashes in the shoes of naughty children and gifts in those of children who have been good all during
the year. In Spain. Christmas Eve is al-
most like a carnival. Little oil lamps are lighted in every home. The men and women dressed in their gayest clothes and carrying guitars and tambourines push through the merry crowds to see the gayly lighted sbQps. The Tbxee

time. Carnivals are held in the streets and everyone has a jolly time around a big tree covered with electric lights.
In Holland and Belgium. the older people gather in the small villages and sing carols on Christmas morning. The children's Christmas begins on December 6, when Saint Nicholas comes to each house to ask if the children have been good during the year. Then the children put on their wooden shoes in the windows or fire place or perhaps put baskets where Saint Nicho!as GaA fiJu1 them.Whik the

father were so very poor. He often wished that he could build a hospital where they could go without money and be cured of this dreadful disease. One night at christmas time, when he was working late. cancelling stamps on the many Christmas packages and cards that were being sent to every part of the world. he thought of a good idea. He turned to one of the men who were working with him and said "If every person who sends a package. a letter Or a card at christ-
mas time. would buy another special stGliAop GDd let the SODey be

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used to help those who have tuberculosis. there would be enough money to build plenty of hospitals
where those who have tuberculosis could go and be cured." When the
people in Denmark heard of this idea. they went to the man and offered to help him. Soon the first christmas seals were made in Den-
mark. and everyone became interested in selling them each Christmas.
Mr. Jacob Riis. a wealthy man in New York, received a package
with a christmas seal on it. from a friend in Denmark. He was so delighted with the idea that he wrote a long article about it in a popular magazine. Miss Emily Bessell. a lady in Boston, read the story and became so interested that she asked some friends to help her get people in America interested in doin~ the same thing that the people in Denmark were doing. In 1907 they had the first Christma~ eals in America.
Now Chrismas seals are printed is every state in the United States and in a great many foreign countries. There is always a double barred cross on each stamp and people all over the world -know that the money from the seals helps the fight against tuberculo-
sis. In our state. there are a great
many people who have this dreadful dsease. They can be cured if they have the proper care and treatment. but it takes money to do the work and we who are strong and well hould be happy to buy seals. They cost only one cent each so we can all help bring health and happiness to people who have tubercu-
losis.
-Janie Smith
The Story of Christmas Carols
"I hear the bells on Christms Day The old familiar carols play. And wild and sweet, The words repeat Of peace on earth. good-will to men. "
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow One of the things that make
Christmas beautiful is the singing of songs which we call carols. In France they are called noel; in Italy they are called pastorelles,

and in Germany they are called ord and music to this beautiful

kristlieders. This custom is said Chritms hymn was born in Eisle-

to have been started by Saint Fran- ben Germany in 1483. His mother

cis of Assisi on Christmas Eve of and father were very poor but they

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tried ard to help their son get an

Some of OUr best loved carols edrcat'on. so that he could help

are: Silent Night. 0 Little Town poor people get more out of life.

of Bethlehem. The First Noel. Martin Luther loved to read

and Away in a Manger. Each one of these has an interesting story of how it came to be written.
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Silent Night

the Bible and sing songs of praise to God. He beame a great preacher. and pea Ie cme from miles around
to re him tell stories from the
Bible. He wrote a great many

It was almost Christmas and hymns so that the people in his

the little organ in the church in the church could learn to sing. He

village of Oberndorf was broken. ho ght that children should learn

and all the people felt sad because to sing too, and he often invited

they would not be able to have any them to come to his home and

Christmas music. The man who sing with his own children. One

played the organ was Mr. Gruber Christmas in 1530 his little son.

who was also the school teacher of Hans. asked him to write a song

the village. He knew how dis- ,about the little Lord Jesus so

appointed the people would be if that he could sing it for his little

they had no music at Christmas friends when they came to see him.

time. He went to the good priest. Martin Luther sat down with

Josef Mohr. and told him that if Hans on his knee and wrote

he would write the words to a "A ay in a Manger." Today all

Christmas song. that he would over the world children love to

write the music to it. He thought sing this gentle cradle hymn.

that perhaps a new song would make the people forget about their broken organ and help them to be happy at Christmas time.

-Marl} Baker
The First Noel

The good prieSt sat down and This carol was written Or com-

tried to think of a song that would posed by uneducated people who

be pretty without an organ. At lived in England after it was conlast, the word of "Silent Night" quered by the orman in 1066.

came to him. When Mr. Gruber Thy loved the story about the

heard the words he thought they birth of Jesus. and they wanted to

were so pretty that he immediately compose a carol about it. "Noel"

wrote the music to them. The tune is the French word for christmas.

was so simple that he could play it After the orman conquest, the on the violin, and on Christmas Engli~h people used a great many

morning the people came to the French words. so it is not strange

little church and listened to the that this quaint old English carol

sweet music of the violin and sang should have a French name. For a

the beautiful words of "Silent long time this carol was not sung

Night."

very much in America, but now

For a long time this lovly carol was sung only by the people of Oberndorf. but one day an organ builder came to fix the broken organ and he heard Mr. Guber play the sweet hymn. He liked it so much that he learned to play

peop e are singing it as much as an r other carol. It tells in a simple way the story of the birth of Jesus.
-Duwayne Dukes

o Lit Ie Town of Bethlehem

it himself. Soon people in every village were singing Silent i ~ht.
-Lois \Val~ins


This beautiful christmas carol was written by Phillips Brooks. one of America's famous preacher. He was born in Boston in

Away In A Manger

1835 and preached at Holy

Marten Luth who wrote the (Continued on page eight)

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From the Advanced Department

George Vaughan is looking forward to doing his Christmas shopping in Rome. He enjoys making his friends happy at Christmas time and since this is his last Christmas in school he hopes that it will be the happiest one he has ever had.
Sue Brannon is beginning to think how much she will miss her teachers and schoolmates next year. She is a Senior this year and 1>he thinks the time is passing rapidly and that it will not be so very long until school will be closed and she will ha~e to say good-bye for the last time.
Alton Holman was pleasantly surprised when he found OUt that he and Georgia Hargrove had been chosen King and Queen of the Carnival. He thought the girls looked beautiful in their evening dresses and that their coronation dance was .the prettiest he has ever seen.
Clarence Highfield was called home on account of the illness of his father recently.
Georgia Hargrove enjoyed the walk to the Cave Spring cemetary a few Sundays ago. She thought the autumn leaves were beautiful.
Billy Adams was so happy that he could go home for Thanksgiving. He always has a good time then, because he sees so many of his friends, and his family have such a good dinner together.
Duwayne Dukes plans to go hunting and fishing when he goes home Christmas. His brother, J.W, will go with him, and they will have lots of fun roasting rabbits and squirrels.
Mary Baker is looking forward to seeing her uncle and aunt who liw in Atlanta. She has not seen them for almost a year and she knows that they will make her have a good time.
Eugene Whittle had a grand time when he went to play football in Knoxville but he was glad to get back to G.SD. He enjoyed his school work and is studying hard.
Mary Moon thought the "Yearling" was one of the best movies

she had ever seen. She was so glad that all the boys and girls could see it.
Lois Watkins was so happy when she found out that the boys and girls were going to the parade in Rome during Education Week. She enjoyed it all and thought that she had never seen so many beautiful floats.
Lorraine Kicklighter hopes that she can work in Cedartown during the Christmas holidays. She has been offered a job in a beauty shop there and she thinks the experience would be very helpful.
Janie Smith is studying hard. She knows that the Junior year is very important and she wants to be readY, for her .Senior work next year. She enjoys studying and is very happy when she sees the good grades she has made.
Russell Royston will be happy when Christmas comes. He can hardly wait to see his sister's new baby.
Doyle Norris had to spend several days in the hospital in Rome recently. He was mighty glad to get back to school because he is a Junior and he did not want to miss so much of his work.
James Hattrich had a wonderful time in Knoxville when he went to the football game. He met a lot of new friends and he hopes that he can go back sometime.
Gertrud'e Hixon thQught the "Yearling" was the best movie she had seen in a long time. She learned a lot of new things from the picture and would like to read the book from which the story was taken.
Louida Benson visited her brother Ralph, the latter part of October. She spent the day at his home and in the afternoon. they went to see their parents. They were very much surprised to see Ralph and Louida, but they were very happy and they all had a mighty nice week-end together.
Bill Hayes was so glad that his mother and sister met him in Griffin when his team played football there. This was the first
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football game his mother had ever seen and she thought our boys played very hard.
Thomas Rucker had a good time when he went to Knoxville to play football. He is sorry that some members of his team will not play next year.
John Harrell went to Atlanta with Doyle Norris on October 24. They saw a big football game and had a good time meeting old friends.
John Mock can hardly wait for Christmas to come so that he can visit his family and friends at Rocky Ford. He has not been there in a year and he is planning a good time hunting and fishing.
Ann Green likes school very much. She was lonesome when she first came, because she did not know anyone here, but now, she has a lot of friends and has a good time.
Herbert White hoped that his team would win when they played the Tennessee School for the Deaf, but even though they lost. he still thinks they played a good game.
Janie Elder was so glad that Evelyn Robinson could go home with her recently. They went to the football game in Griffin with Mr. and Mrs. Baker and had a mighty good time. They enjoyed wearing the sport caps that Janie's mother made for them.
Maggie McGahee enjoyed het trip to North Georgia in October. She passed through a great many towns that she had nev~r seen before and was so glad to see her brother and sister. She had a birthday while she was gone and her friends made her have a mighty good time.
Bud Little had a nice visit with his aunt when his team played football in Griffin. After the game, he went home with her and met one of his friends who made him have a mighty good time
Laura Pope thought it was very nice for the Girl Scouts to sell poppies on Armistice Day. She
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THE SCHOOL HELPER.

THE SCHOOL HELPER
All communicationa ahould be .ddr~ SO \be School Helper, Cave Spring, Georgia.
Entered at the post office at Cave Spring, Georgia, AI lecond class matter November, 1889. Acceptance for mailing at a special rate of postage provided in Section 1103. Act of October 3, 1917. Authorized October 31, 1918.
Published monthly during the school year in the printiDe department of the Georgia School for the Deaf.

\ a.. hiti with green bur ap an pine In'a ches, anti flay C0101'eu au Ullin leaves WU;holu Ule ueCOratlon. .Lilli 9"'raae as hela m a a '1Z-,ung ram Lnat playea a& vC wltn Lne crepe paper Hoats, ou <Juri callie Llll'ough wltnuu" lUI)' WilUage. J.he 10 CIlUlll 1li now UOillfl ierV1ce ~ a Uou nou::;e on Ultl pnmary glltS ptaygrouna aua Wtl au;: K~epUJg the map 10 lU ure use aua reLol,'tlnc~.--v.l".J..
l..Uk C'ION In the ovember is~ue of the lielpel', It wa;, "taL~l1
u at the present day, value 01 our IIll;tltuuon s ~u"",vvv, ActuaUy, the value u; nearer ~ I (lV,VliV. '~<l .l.auel.l loU "'c. e ecent additions and improvements.--U.L.'1'.

OLAF L. TOLLEFSON

Editor

MARIE KENNARD .,

Associate Editor

OLAF L. TOLLEFSON......... Printing Instructor

VOLUME 48 December 1947

No.3

THE SCHOOL HELPER'S PLATFORM
For the Promotion of all State Aided Schools
For the Df
1. Improved recognition as educational institutions with control in the hands of education boards.
. 2. Sectional and national associations with accreditmg auth.urities and approved measuring rods and standards SUIted .to each association, terminating in the hIghest requllements for membership in a national association for schools for the deaf..
3. A greater Gallaudet College serving the interests ~f all the states. with special emphasis on re earch im mgs openly arrIved at and freely disseminated in promoting the educational interests of all the schools.
4. A full utilization of services that can be rendered by the U. S. Office of Education in keeping wIth the spirit and purpose of its creation.
6. Federal equilization aid for education that will guarantee equal opportunities tor deaf boys and girls in all states.
6. tilization of a full time state Field Agent a d Placement Officer (or both) to locate and enrol deal children in State Schools for the Deaf and to work with the Rehabilitation Department in Job placem fit and vocational rehabilitation of ex-pupils and gradua es.

OUR FLOAT

CHRIS'l AS RES N S
'i ~ WLSn 0 exteud to Lhe luethouu;t and .l:Sapti:st vIHU<..nt;::; OL ",av~ i:>pl'lng OU1' thanKs lor a uel,gntrul "l.l.l.'pru;e - Lhe vW'lstma.s present lUI' eaCh enua III the ,wwrmealate anu the Aavancea lJepartmellts OJ. the u org1a School lor the lJeaf. Ihe generous g~::;LuI'e OJ. Wtllltl small churches stretchmg th u buagets Lv 'UClUU~ uur upils is appn:clated not unly uy Llle S"UUtlHIo:i, lJUlo geUl a speclal thank from the entlle school xamuy.
l'hese two Churches m the commuUlty h... e D~en ery help ul ana cooperatlVe m the SChuOl s reuglvus lJ,ogram. At the begmnmg 01 the school year It wa.; eClded tor a number of reasons that all of the Intermedlate and Aavanced pup1ls Should attend ::)unaay bcnoot III he local churches, lUstead ot havmg tneir lessons at :school. he lessons tollow a school tllble course 01 stuay and are the same in both churches .lhey are non-denommatlOnal and are taught by our teachers of the deat. it was felt that the children would absorb a great deal nom the church atmosphere of reverence and WOrshIP, and would bring our children more into contact wIOl
community life. For a number of years the older pupils have attend-
ed Sunday School at the churches and the entire student body has been present at the ethodist and Baptist l.:hurches on alternate Sundays each month. ow that the Intermediate children are allowed this privilege they feel very grown-up and are grateful to the churches for providing adequate meeting places and blackboaras
for them.
Again, dear Church Friends, we thank you for l' membering us at Christmas time and after a brief whirl to our homes for the holidays, we will again be in our places with you for our Sunday School lessons. -- K.C.

During Education Week in November, an Education GIRL SCOUT CANDLELIGHTING SERVICE

Day parade was held in Rome, with nearly all schools

in Floyd County participating. he theme of the parade

was, 'The Schools Are Yous," each school fixing up a

float emphasizing some phase of ilchool work such as

School Lunch Program, etc. We decided it was

Ho an

nor System opportune ti

Visual me to

Educat correct

itohn~

idea so many have that this is the Cave Spring chool

for the Deaf, a local or city interprise rather than a state-

supported institution, serving the entire state. The

theme of our float was, "One Hundred Years of Education for the Deaf in Georgia." Using a stake body truck we built a log cabin replica of the cabin that served as' our first school way back in 1846. In addition to this we made ~o large maps mounted back t? back, with strings run-

Forty-nine of our Girl Scouts went to Rome Sunday evening, December 13 to attend the annuai Candlelighting Service at the First Methodist Church.
This was the first time our troop had attended a Candlelighting, and we thought it was a very beau-
tiful and impressive service.
Each Girl Scout troop in the county hal! selected a young patient at Battey State HosJlital to whom they gave a Christmas basket filled with fruits, candies, nuts and presents. Because our troop is so large, we i!lected t 0 patients, a boy and a girl. Our baskets were bf!autiful and we were so happy that we could share in this joy. We also carried one hundred and fifty cups, which we had made, to be used on the table at the hospital Christmas

nmg from the home of each pupIl to Cave Spring. (Note: Day.

for this latter idea credit must go to Griffing and Rhodes

We th~nk ~t was mighty nice of Mr. Hollingsworth to

of Okla. We read the account of fixing up a float for arrange thIS trIp for us and we appreciated Mrs. Turner
.. their school in the Deaf Oklahoman.) The truck chassis and Mrs. Nathanson's going with us. -- Lois Watkins. ()

Superintendent's Corner

1i S WE figuratively gaze in the

\.crystal ball and try to read the

future of the education of the

deaf in America. the brightest

Gallaudet College

star in the firmament, transcending all else. is the

Greater Gallaudet College nOw in the making.

It was our privilege in recent

months to examine approved plans

in the way of physical enlargements and VO hear Dn. Elstad tell something regarding aim to-

ward enlarged enrollment, meet-

ing accrediting requirements and

broadening the scholastic and

training program to actually meet

the full needs of the deaf. The

horizon that circumscribes tbe col-

lege has been widened. and in our
way of thinking, Dr. lstad has

the ability. fore ight and judg-

ment. to execute. in a big way. the

job to which he has been assigned.

Before thi great expansion pro-

gram was formulated. a survey

of the college was made. dir cted by Dr. Harry Best one of the

foremost authorities on the deaf

in the United States. Question-

naires were widely distributed and

practically everyone interested had

opportunity to offer suggestions.

An advisory commitee of leaders

in the profession and experts from

Federal Agencies. including the U.

S. Office of Education, and The

Federal Bureau of Budgets. worked with tpe survey committee

throughout the study.

Long live and prosper Gallaudet

College!

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St. Augustine. Florida

June 17. 1947

DEAR Hazel: I believe I told you in my

letter from Waycross that I ar-

rived there about dark Friday. Sat-

urday morning I headed out to

the County Welfare Office. I had

previously contacted the office and

had g i v en The Convention, them all tbe

T rauel To and data I had

fl.rqm

with the re-

que s t that

they aid in this C;J8e. Here is

anotbtr one of those human
tragedies that we encounter so
much in this work. Ten-year-
old Nell Woodard had been in-
duced to enter school in 1946.
The mother brought her daughter
on opening day but left late in
the afternoon taking Nell with her without as much at a .'how-doyou-do," "good-bye" or anything. A fine little girl, bright, attractive, and deaf, just growing up in ignorance. Several people in W aycross had written me about the case. Well. just before noon, Mrs. Lylburn Booker, director, took 0 portunity to visit the Woodard home with me. The folks were cordial and both of us did the best we could to convince them that Nell should be in school. However, I came away dejected. There should be a law! Mrs. Booker was kind enough to go with me in the afternoon about ten or more miles to visit another home and an applicant, Kester Walker. The young boy was a spastic and not deaf at all. Well, I had done my chores at Waycross but it looked like nothing was accomplished. One pitiful case not eligible and one lovely child being neglected. I repeat that about a law, and one with teeth in it.
I kept my reservation at the Ware Hotel with the decision to stay over till Monday and then head out for St. Augustine--that fabulous city of legend and folk lore. You remember me telling you how Pop Connor snorts with derision when one says St. Augustine was the first white settlement in our country. He contends it is Santa Fe on the old Santa Fe trail up out of Mexico. You know. I was almost tempted to believe him when we visited the first adobe house built north of the Rio Grande.
Believe it or not, I had my Saturday night bath early and hit the hay. The next morning, Sunday, I was awake early. It being Sunday and a few days vacation on tap, I put on my best "bib and tucbr" that I had carried all week
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banging in a bag. What with this fancy Parks-Chambers' suit, my $3.00 bow tie and Panama hat, 1 was some sport-maybe. I came down into the lobby and whom should I see first? M. R. Little. dis-
trict supervisor, when I was at E.
c.I. I had forgotten M. R. was
with Rehabilitation and located at Waycross. He asked me to go to the First Baptist Church and hear Dr. Walter Moore. What do you know? I had forgotten that Walter had recently moved to aycross from Cedartown. Of course we knew him best at Dover and Coop-
erville way back. Well. r did walk
down to the beautiful First Baptist Church just half a block away. I enjoyed Walter's sermon. Atter the services who should come hurrying down the aisle to meet me, Cousin Rosa and Mable. Being balf Dixons, all of us, we did have
to hug and kiss and hold a family reunion, unmindful of others in the aisle wanting to pass. You know momentarily I had forgotten that the Williamsons still lived at Waycross. Walter and Miriam joinecl us at the door. Then along came M. R. and Mrs. Little. Hf said.
. I wanted to introduce you
around but it looks as if you have as many friends, and more 'kis8ing kin,' than I have here.
They all invited me to lunch with that proverbial touch, "We won't have much but Wll. will be glad to have you."
I told them I was going to do just what I knew they wanted to do, go home, turn on the fan. and make myself as comfortable as p0ssible. I think that is what all did.
It was awfully hot. Walter did
come around later and we visiu:d in the lobby. I called Cousin Rosa and we had another chat over the telephone. It sure was a surprise
and a delight to run up on these folks.
The next morning, yesterday, I was Flordia bound. I couldn't realize I was out of Georgia's flat woods until within the environs
of Jacksonville. That is a beau(Cont-inued on page eight)

From the Primary Side

This month we are going to be very personal and tell you what each boy and girl in our class likes to do best.
During our clean-up period each day, Jackie has become very helpful and enjoys dusting and straightening the things on our work table. Fulton is the only one "big" enough to get water for our plants without spilling it. Russell is very carreful when taking up the trash and replacing the dust pan and broom. So you see ,we have some very good helpers.
Modeling things of clay is good for developing the muscles in our hands and arms. Larry and Barbara Jackson have had birthdays recently, so their favorite models are birthday cakes with candles. Sometimes the number of candles is not right, but with a little help that is soon straightened out.
When it comes to building with blocks, Herman heads the list. Sarah and Barbara Sue enJoy stringing beads better than anything else we do. They make all kinds of designs according to color first and then with the 01, .c..n, shapes, too.
When the relaxation period comes, Barbara Anderson ge,s quite excited. She enjoys all the exercises but best of all she likes to hop like her three rabbits at home.
We enjoy our work so much more when it seems like play.
-Miriam Minter's Class
We think the little stick men that can be drawn on the blackboard very qu:ckly are among the best friends we have. They make so many things easier for us to understand. We have a row of these little fellows across the top of our blackboard, and for some time they were used just' for exercise when we became tired of sitting still. Our teacher would point to each of them, and around the room we would go walking. running. hopping, skipping. or

marching as the little man was doing.
Later, words were printed beneath them like that for several days, and at ~lmost any moment someon would get the pointer and suggest that they be used.

Every person is stlrnng, not exactly to rule.
Santas are tacked on the blackboard borders with care,
To keep the children happy until St. ick is here.

We feel quite grown up now because our relaxation exercises are just printed cards, and we have quite a few of them, too. We still keep our little men for a "dictionary," but we enjoy reading these cards and do not have to refer
to the pictures very often. It is
easy to go from this to the study of verbs, but we will tell you about t at later.
-Jim Irwin's Class

This is the spirit pervading the whole department and it is good to s~e s? many happy people antiClpat~ng the Christmas hohdays, e peclaUy the youngest children.
Joyce. Ann, Barbara. Jeanette, Mary Ann and Kennetn went home for Thanksgiving, but Bobby, Donald. Inez, and Jimmie didn t go. So, naturally. their excitement over Christmas is just a little keener, if that could be

possible. Near the calendar is the

most intere ting place in our class-

Wit~ the Thanksgiving holidays Just over and Christmas
right around the corner, we are
an excited group.

room, for it is there the children ~ather the first thing every morn-
109. to. LOunt the remaimng days until time to go home.

Jimmie. Janice, Joyce, and Vincent went home for Thanksgiving. Since the rest of us live such a great distance from school.

My pupils and I wish all you pare.nts and friends a Happy Lhnstmas.
-Mabel Fincher's Class

our parents thought it best for

us to remain here until the Christmas holidays.
Danny got two boxes and did not mind staying at school. He gave his friends some of his candy.
Jean gOt a letter from her mother saying that she has a new baby sister. She is eager for December the nineteenth to come.
Virgil got a letter from his mother. She told him that she was planning a birthday party for him when he gets home.

The Thanksgiving holidays passed very pleasantly. Joe Anne, Rowena. Shirley, and Jadie went home. The rest of us had a good time even though we didn't go home.
Mrs. Caple had turkey and all the "fixings" that go with it for our Thanksgiving dinner. It was delicious and we think she was very nice to have fixed it for us.

Geraldine's mother sent her four pretty dresses recently.
Jimmie brought some nuts back to school and divided them with Johnny as he didn't go home.

We are all going home for the Christmas holidays. Every day we count the days until we can go .We think they are passing rather slow-
ly.

\Ve are all looking forward to We are trying to keep our minds

a visit from "ole" Santa and a on our school work, but it is cer-

Merry Christmas at home.

tainly a hard thing to do.

-Mildred Wright's Class Even though we are thinking

about going home, we are learning

new things every day. We can add

numbers and take them away with'Tis three weeks before Christmas, out using our fingers to count
and all through the school with.

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THE SCHOOL HELPER
Wishing one and JIl a Merry Christmas.
-May F. Glenn's Class
About half of the children went home for Thanksgiving. Those
'!'I who stayed here got boxes, letters,
o~ ~ards. I.' had a lovely ThanksglVmg dmner with turkey and all the trimmings.
Larry and Stella got pretty cards. Roy gOt a nice box of candy.
Bobby, Patricia, Mary Alice, and Wilburn went home for Thanksgiving.
We are looking forward to December the twenty- fifth. With the coming of December, we know to expect Santa Claus.
Bobby and Gene want footballs fe~ Christmas. Patricia, Mary Ahce, Stella, and Betty Ruth "vant dolls. All of us want color books and crayons.
We are going to be good so that Santa Claus will remember to bring all these nice things.
V(e wish you a very Merry Chnstmas and hope Santa will remember you, too.
-Bettye Arnold's Class
With the coming of autumn my cla~s seemed to sense for the first time the change of the seasons. All the children enjoyed the autumn season and noticed the changes of Mother Nature from week to week. They were especially interes ed in the beautiful coloring of the leaves which was unusually brilliant this year. Each child was filled with the desire to get out doors and enjoy all the glories of nature.
On our trips to town every Friday the children looked for trees that were turning and noticed the changes in the coloring of the leaves from one Friday to the next.
Patsy, Avus, and Sandra Baker were the first to discover a beautiful yellow maple. Sandra Pike and Joe Ann picked some of the leaves to bring back with us. Margene, Jimmy, and James Chapman

picked some red ones. James Owens. Alton, and Charles liked the orange leaves best.
M<;>st o~ us have enjoyed the beautiful view from our window. We can look across the valley to a rolling hill that has had all the sp endor of autumn.
Now that winter has arrived, the children are looking forward to our first snow.
--Jessie F. Jones's Class
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Have you heard? There is an art department in the primary building. Mrs. Glenn. Mrs. Irwin, and Miss Chapman supervise an art class each Monday afternoon. In case you are wondering where we have our classes, some Monday afternoon just pass through the basement. You will find a spacious room occupied by a group of bright-eyed boys and girls concentrating on how to put their thoughts into lines and color. So far we have worked with fingerpaint which never ceases to fascinate all who participate. Have you ever tried it? It is a great experience and not so infantile as you might think. Of course, you cannot keep your fingernails and hands free from paint. That was our first problem. The boys and girls did not feel at ease with the paint all over their hands. The questions seemed to be, "What can I do with my fingers?" "How can I draw without a pencil or crayon?" "I Just can't."
We did, I can gladly say. Our first attempt showed a display of talent for drawing trees, flowers, and houses. The favorite color seemed to be red. All who chose a more delicate color wanted to change upon seeing the red on display.
Our latest interest is Christmas cards for our parents. Some of our cards will look like mere lines and dots, but to us they mean a new and exciting way to express ourselves.
--Gevema Chapman's Class
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Among those fortunate enough to go home fqr Thanksgiving
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.December 1947
holidays were Clarene King, Carol Smith, J. M. Thacker, Alvin White. and Dickie Taylor. From all reports, they had a grand time with their families.
The children who remained at sc~ool had a lovely turkey dinner With all the trimmings and enjoyed not having to go to class, I'm sure.
Claude Butler had a card from his father and one from his brother wishing him a pleasant Thanksgiving.
Milton Saunders was most happy to receive a Thanksgiving box from his family.
J. D. McCloud has been enjoying some pictures his mother sent him recently.
The children are excitedly talking about Santa Claus and what they want him to bring them and eagerly counting the days until the Christmas holidays begin.
-Polly Casey's Class
In Sunday school our class recently studied the story of the good Samaritan. In order to get the most out of the story, we dramatized it.
Marcus assumed the role of the man who was going along the road, and Brooks and Wayne volunteered to be the bad men who attacked him and almost killed him. Jean, Louise, Betty, and Katie Mae passed by, apparently without sympathy. Then Daniel came along and stopped to help the dying man. He put him on his camel (Andrew Lee. Willis Joe, and a chair) and took him to an inn. He gave Mary Ann. the innkeeper. some money and asked her to take care of the sick man.
After the dramatization, we had questions on the story. Everyone had enjoyed it and, hence, understood it.
-Viola McMichen's Class
We Wish You A MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR

THE SCHOOL HELPER

December 1947

ADVANCED DEPARTMENT CHRISTMAS CAROLS

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was surprised when she found out

that they earned over fifty dollars.

Alma Wooten's family visited

her in November. They brought a

picnic lunch and ate it over at the

spr'ng. They invited James Clem-
ents to eat with Alma, w.e, and

Robert. Her brother-in-law took

some pictures of them and they

all had a good time.

Evelyn Robinson worked hard

selling poppies on November 11,

She was so glad that the Girl

Scouts could help and she thought

it was lots of fun.

,

Fred \Vaters would like to visit

his aunt Mary and her family

Trinity church in Philadelphia for
a numoer or years. 1 he peupie or hiS Lhurch surpnsed h mane ay by teumg him that w y were gOIng ro give nim a tup to t e nOiY Lana. Oecause wey .lUlew that. tor a long urn. ne nad wanted to go ro tne place where Jesus was Oorn. tte maUl:: HI:; v,ad':> so he would get to ~ethlehem on Chnstmas t:.ve. it was a very u aUtiful moonlight n,ght. and he could see the shepherds WatChIng their sheep In the qUiet vaHey near Bethlehem, just as they aid the
night Jesus'Was born. tte went to the little church In the Village and

who I:ve near Lindale. They have heard the people pralsmg God lor

built a new lake and he would glvmg Jesus to we wona and

like to see how big it is.

sIng,ng carols In memory at tbe

Ro:coe Duk2s is interested in little oaOe who was Dorn tllere

making model airplanes, Since the long ago. He thought ~ethlehem

football season is over. he hopes was a very beautlIul little town

that some more of the boys will and that he would ne er ror~el the

become interested too.

Christmas Eve that he spent near

Louise Walters had a good time the place where Jesus ChnSt was

eling poppies on Armistice Day. 'born.

S e and Louida Benson worked ,I When Mr. Brooks returned

together and they tho'lght it was home he wrote a poem about the

los of fun.

little town of Bethlehem an a

Patsy Baker was so happy when fnend of his, Mr. Lewis ti. idner,

her family came to see her recently. wrote the music for it. Mr. Brooks

They took her to Rome and she taught the song to the children bought a pair of ~hoes. a hat and at his church in Philadelphia. and

a lot of other thmgs. She had a they sang it for the rirst time on

wonder full time while they were Christmas morning in 1868. Since

here and she hopes that they can that time. children all over the

come back again before very long. world have sung "0 Little Town

Ben Goodwin went to Atlanta of Bethlehem" and now it is per-

when Georgia Tech played Citadel haps the best loved of aU the

He had a good time and would Christmas carols.

like to see a big game often.

-Lorraine Kicklighter

Sara Crisp worked hard seIling

poppies. She and Patsy Baker went CHRISTMAS IN THE HEART

together and got mighty tired. but they were happy that they
could help in ths way. Jackie Dukes is studying hard

It is Christmas in the Mansion Yule-log fires and silken frocks;
It is Christmas in the Cottage.-

this year. She is a Freshman and Mothers filling little socks.

she would like to have good grades It is Christmas on the Highway,

all through high school.

In the thronging busy mart;

Mary Roberts had to stay in But the dearest. trueSt Christmas

the hospital one day but she does Is the Christmas in the Heart,

not like to miss school.

Anonymous (8)

SUPRINTENDENT'S CORNER
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tiful town to me anyway. You
remember us rolling up on the
bridge over the St. John's one time
with Hillis driving? There was a school of porpo:se rising up out of the water and down again. It was the first he had seen. He yelled so and became so excited I had to take over the wheel.
Well. I must hurry on, I was terribly tired and nervous when I was finally fixed up at the Monson Hotel. It was past mid afternoon, and I wanted a swim more than anything, About that time Dr. O'Connor of New York, Mr. Boatner of Hartford and Wistar Wood of Philadelphia checked in and we all had the same notion. They had already registered at the School but I hadn't. But that didn't phase me. I went for the swim. That was the first one. We later learned we were foolish paying for the swim and a dressing room. We didn't any more. We donned our swim trunks in our hotel rooms and came back to the same place to get out of them.
Well, still nat having been out to the school to register. I headed for the City Auditorium. (Shame on fabulous Florida; it was not air conditioned) where the first general sessions of the Convention were held. Out of all those 5.000 people who should I walk right up behind - a bunch of Georgia teachers, and they were talking about me at that, I heard, "Now, where is Mr. Hollingsworth? He had a dozen fits trying to make us all come to the Convention. and now he hasn't shown up!"
I'll declare there has lots happened here in the past two days but I must close and then pick up again where leaving off.
Love.
Claytan

State of Georgia
M. E. THOMPSO ,Governor

Georgia School for the Deaf

STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION M. D. COLLINS. State Superintendent of Schoola

ADMINISTRATION

C. H. Hollingsworth. M.A., Superintendent

John L. Caple, Principal

Hattie S. Aiken, Secretary Julian Tumlin, Steward Myrtle A. Johnson, Sec'y to Steward

Charles E. Owen, D.D.S. J. C. Connor, M.D. Sarah Griffith, Nurse

INSTRUCTORS

Primary Department
J:lalie S. Kennard, B.S., Supv. Teacher ilettye V. Arnold Polly Casey Geverna Chapman, B.S. label L. Fincher ay F. Glenn Emmalec J. Highnote Jim Irwin Jessie F. Jones Viola McMichen, B.A. Miriam B. Minter Mildred B. Wright

Intermediate and Advanced Department
.fary P. Turner. B.A., Asst. Supv. Teacher, Advanced Department
Katharine Casey, Asst. Supv. Teacher, Intermediate Department. Connor Dillard Ruth D. Forbes Mary Forbes Edythe D. Montgomery B.S. Pauline J. Shahan, B.A. ' Frances M. Tollefson. B.A. Daniel Van Cott, B.S. Ralph H. White, B.A.

Vocational Department

Olaf L. Tollefson, B.A., Supv. Teacher

Olaf L. Tollefson, B.A. .

Printing

Lawrence F. Warren, B.A Voc. Agri.

J. R. Ware ..

Carpentry

Earl Cox

Machine Shop

Connor Dillard

Shoe Repair

A. May Clark. B.A. . .. Arts & Crafts

Gladys L. Latham

Beauty Culture

Annie McDaniel

Sewing

Everette Ryle .. Barbering & Pressing

David Pledger

Farm Supt.

Colored Department

Mildred K. Daniels Rose Anna Gibson Cynthia S. Hannah

Lucille McCullough, Supervising Teacher Hattie S. Menifee Henrietta B. Reynolds
Mattie D. Sana R. H. McAffee, Vocational Instructor

CHOUL

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

JANUARY

Vol. 48

No.4

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THE SCHO OL HELPER

Volume 48

JANUARY 19~8

No. ~

ROBERT C. FLETCHER
From the Cedartown Daily Standard, Tuesday. January 20. 1948 This 'n' That By Roy Emmet.
"Overcoming handicaps is a good thing for humanity. The person who holds his chin up and smiles and works and lives a clean life can make a success."
The man that wrote those words for me yesterday is a living, interesting, enthusiastic proof of the truth of what he wrote. He left me feeling a bit better mentally and spiritually and with the conviction that I had the privilege of visiting with one of the finest, strongest characters I'd met in many a long day . . . and with dl thought, too, that I would, as best I can in words and type, pass along a bit of his personality and inspiration to those of you who, as don't we all, feel too sorry for
ourselves sometimes. The man is Rev. Robert C.
Fletcher of a Birmingham address. He is strong in body, handsome in appearance, dressed in the accepted manner of an Episcopal minister
-which he is. He is stone deaf and completely
blind in one eye-but unusual as it is he could "talk" clearly and strongly. On his way to Cave Spring to "talk" at the School for the Deaf, he stopped by the Standard Office for an all too brief visit waiting for a car to come over to pick him up.
T aJking casually with pencil and paper on my part and with his answers by voice or pencil, he quickly became one of the most interesting of individuals. He was born normal as to hearing and speech. When he was four years old, he was struck by lightning which destroyed both ear drums. At 10, while playing with his mother's scissors, he ruptured the pupil in his right eye.
Enough to get most folks down, he has gone on from there (0 become the ... General Missionary to

the Deaf of the Protestant Episcopal Church with a parish that includes all the southeastern arta bounded by Virginia and the Mississippi River.
He speaks to congregations with normal hearing in a normal manner, even though he can not hear. He speaks to the deaf-his principal interest, it seemed by fingers. But above all else, it seems to us, he was most concerned about those who were both blind and deaf and to the&e bring words of comfort by hand contact, speaking to them either by printing word, letter by letter, in the palm, on the back arm or anywhere the nerve senses are most acute.
Of those last-the blind and deaf-he told of many cases of veterans in various hospitals whom he visited-men whose sight and hearing had been blasted away in Europe and the Pacific. With a shining, happy face, he told of visiting them, talking with them, encouraging them. I can well imagine that a man with the outlook on life which is exemplified in the words in which I opened this column is a welcome visitor wherever he may go. bringing to all a message of cheer and happiness with the promise of a better world where suffering aDd handicaps afe unknown.
What a better world it would be for all of us if we could, individually, believe and live as does fhis man who is devoting his life to bringing the messages of Christianity to those who are handicapped.
Report From The Country Ralph M cGil!
Atlanta Constitution
Amity Road. Wilkes County - I wish, witb thi& articl. fannally to put in nomination before what ever organizations ma., be thinking of nominating the outstanding young Georgian of the year the name of my candidate.
He is Nelson W. Harper, of

Amity Road. Wilkes County. The old Harper place is a cool-
looking, two-story house which
sits beneath some beautiful big water oaks. When we drive up. there was a tractor pulling a mowing blade in the pasture to the left.
"That," said County Agent AI!mon Carter, "is the boy we were telling you about."
We stood there in the shade of the trees until he saw us. We had to wait until he saw us beceause he has been deaf all his life. He was at the Georgia State School for the Deaf at Cave Springs, Ga. from 1922 until 19H.
He saw us at last. Agent Carter motioned for him to go ahead and cut the small square remaining. By this time his father, R.G. Harper
came up from the back with another son, William.
"I know you from your picture," he said, "and I want to let if my boy won't, too."
Nelson Harper finished mowing, drove the machine up to tbe fence and climbed through to join us . He is a tall, fine-looking boy and he was grining as he came up. "He recognizes you from your pic-
ture, too." said the father. Agent Carter wrote down the
questions I wanted asked, and a few minutes I had seen the answer.
I want to put it down just like it was.
In 1934 Nelson Harper came home from Cave Springs School for tbe Deaf where he had made a fine record. He had studied carpentry as his chief trade subject.
When he got bome-in the middle of the depression-the farm was having it bad. It was a cotton-and-corn farm. He started in on that.
But he saw that while some cotton and some com were fine, the old days were gone.
In 1939 he bought 50 baby chicks, out of which he got 23 layers.
Since that first purchase he baa (Continued On pages ten)

"

From the Primary Side

Since we are such a young group of boys and girls, learning to read has been a slow process.
The first step, of course. was matching. We matched pictures that were noticeably different, then ones that we had to look very closely to see whether they were alike or different.
In our class this year. we have three Barbaras whom we designate as Barbara Sue. Barbara A. and Barbara. As all the names start with B, work on exercises to stress internal differences was immediately taken up. We used pumpkins with eyes, noses. and mouths of different shapes and sizes cut from paper. These were arranged in various combinations.The children noted the combinations and arranged theirs accordingly. Christmas trees with attractively colored toys were used in the same way and also houses with windows. doors, and chimmeys.
After having had our attention called to these exercises, we were then ready for matching words. We used the children's names to note differences as:
Larry Larry . Herman Larry We then used unfamiliar words
as: mud mud mug mud The children were taught to ob-
serve closely and remove the word tbat does not belong in each group.
Now we are matching the printed form of a few words with objects and also pictures.
We feel that we have made progress and are now ready to go much faster since the foundation has been laid.
-Miriam Minter's Class
Now that Christmas is over. we'll all settle down
To learn more about everything -verb, adjective, and noun.
We'll learn about the calendar, the weather and such
-You'll be surprised that we know so much.
We'll study our numbers and answer 'most any
Question you ask that involves "How many."

... : (That is, if you'll remember Christmas, They are late returning

that we are quit~ small

on account of sickneSi.

And won't ask questions too

-Mabel Finchtr'i Class

hard for us all.)

We'll, 'learn about colol's' and

,be able- to read ' ,

'.

Things ~ike "Color tbe bal!

red," and put the word into

deed.

With speech reading, and speech

and learning to spell-

Reading :the news. and writing

very we'll,

Doing "classroom directions"

and relaxation cards. too,

You can see that we really have

plenty to do.

. -Jim Irwin's Class

We were very happy that we
all could go home for tbe Christ-
mas holidays and almost as happy to get back to school and tell our school mates what we got for
Christmas.
Marie, Shirley, James. Jadie, Franklin, and Lennie came 'back Sunday. Edwin, Rowena and Joe Anne came Monday morning. Henry. Beatrice, and Essie May have not come back yet.
Essie Mae has the measles. Marie and Franklyn were sick when they

Mond;Y, January the fifth' was

our year.

fiArsnt

school of us

day of the new except Geraldine

and Jean got back' on time. Ger-

aldine has measles and won't be

back for a week or two. We have

were home Christmas. Shirley and
Mary Lee had bad colds. We will work hard so that the
time won't seem so long until we
can go home again. -May F. Glenn's Class

not heard from Jean. We hope she isn't sick, too: We were happy that Rosalie Was able to return after two months' absence. .
After a happy time at home and discussing with our friends what' we did and the gifts we re~eived, we. 'are ready to settle down to our school routine.
-Mildred Wright's Class
The. childr~n seem happy: ,to:be

Santa Claus was very good to Ui this year. He brought Wilburn some shoes, a pin, a football,a tricycle, and a clown. He brought Stella a doll, a ring, a dress. a doll dress. a tea set. a tricycle. and a necklace. He brought Mary Alice a dolL a necklace, a tricycle. a pocketbook, and a ball. He brought Roy a football a tricyle, and a
clown. He brought Betty Ruth

back" in. school after being with a doll two bracelets, some shoes, their faIl}i1~es d,uring' the holidays. a dress. and a bicycle. He brought

They had such a good time telling Gene a footbalL a gun, some shoes,

.one another what Sa,nta brought. some socks, a shirt, a comb, a

Donald and Barbara got new bi- tricycle, and a kite. He brought

cycles. Mary Ann ,Lynch, Mary Terrell a tricycle, some boxing

Ann Welch, and Inez have. their glove, Ome pants, and a football.

hands full .mothering.. their new

].Ie had a good time at home.

dolls. Mary Ann Lynch has some but some of us ate too much candy advantage over the other, . little and C~r.istmas goodie. mothers as she has a new carriage ' Pat~'lcla has mumps. W~ hope

to keep her babies happy. Jimmie he wdl soon be well and able to

is very proud of his new boots return to school. Larry has not re-

and hopes he can soon wear them turned and we miss him, too.

to class so we can all see them. ,We have now settled down to

Kenneth happily howed us his new .w?rk and .hope the New Year

wrist watch and imni.edately cup- wIll be a bnght and happy one for

ped his hand around its face to aB.

--Bettye Arnold's Class

show 'it has' a himinous'dial. We're

eager to hear what Jeanette and

frer a long Christmas vacation

Bobby have' to. tell about their we are ready to get to school work

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again. Sandra Baker, Sandra Pike. Joe Ann Edwards, Jimmie Parker, and Charles \Vilson were not back when school began but we are hoping that all of them will come soon.
Patsy Sims, Avus DeLoach, Margene Bruner, James Chapman, Alton Shirey, and James Owens were here when school opened the first day. They seemed glad to be back and had much to tell about. \Ve have enjoyed talking about the Christmas holidays. Each child has been given an opportunity to tell what he did and what Santa Claus brought him. That, of course, brought in new language.
We welcome 1948. With resolutions in our hearts and minds, we are entering this new year hoping to accomplish more than we ever have before.
--Jesse F. Jones's Class
With so much excitement and plea~ure created by our going home for Thanksgiving and such a short time in between the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays, we just couldn't seem to settle down to intensive work during that period for thinking about home and aU that home stands for.
We were hoping that we could make up for lost time as school was resumed . but two of our class mates have not returned. We are sorry to know that Clarene King developed a case of measles while at home. We miss her and hope that she will soon be able to return.
We haven't heard why JD. McCloud has not come back. but we are looking forward to bis return and trust that it won't be too long before he is with us again.
We bave a great deal of interesting new work coming up. but until Clarene and J. D. return. the rest of us will have an opportunity to strengthen our weak points. With some of us it will be number work on which we'll drill: with some, it will be a chance to improve our speech; and with others. a chance to develop further our speech reading ability.
-Polly Casey's Class

Our Christmas holidays were delightful and the new year promises to be a most happy and busy one for all of us.
The many gifts we received for Christmas have been displayed with pride. Among those who are proud possessors of new watches are Oneal and Ronald. Their watches have awakened a new interest in time telling. Every event of the morning is timed as it is much more interesting to refer to one's own watch.
Marshall has a new Bible which he can bring to Sunday school every Sunday to look up Bible verses. Clara and Bobby have new pencils. Bobby's pencil has a lead which he enjoys taking out every few minutes. Clara has been using hers for brushing up on her arithmetic.
Barbara and Eva Nell have some new jewelry. Barbara's bracelet has been admired by all of us. Eva Nell also got a new purse and shoes. Louise has a new blouse which he is very proud of.
Jean likes her new perfume and , ath salts. She is eager to use the perfume. but it looks so nice in th bo' that she hates to disturb it.
James has a lovely billfold which contains many pic.tures of friends.
These are only a few of the many gifts we received. It would take pages to tell about all of them.
-Gevema Chapman's Class
Menu work is one of the most interesting pbases of connected language.
We began our preparation for it during our first year in school -when we learned soup, meat, bread, ice cream, and milk.
As we progressed in school. we added many edibles to our vocabulary and wrote short sentences about the things that we liked.
Having written the menus for us last year, our teacher now lets us write them. Each day at noon one of us records the menu before we leave the table. On the following day another member of the
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class writes it on the b~ckboard in this manner, "We had chicken, rice and gravy, English peas, rolls, ice cream, and milk for dinner yesterday." Being held responsible for these reports, we have a keener appreciation of our meals. At present we are having a little contest to see who will be the first one to learn the names of all the fruits, vegetables, and other foods listed in our course of study. Some of these, such as cantaloupe and asparagus, are somewhat difficult.
We are very much indebted to Mrs. Caple, our matron, for her efforts in this study. Her daily printing of the menu on the dining room blackboard is an invaluable aid to all of us . The teachers of younger children refer to it at recess and bring representative pictures and printed forms to the table so that comparisons can be made. Especially grateful are we older children wbo make class records of the menus; for, although we try to write them without referring to the blackboard. we can depend on it in an emergency. Adding to the attraction of this helpful blackboard, Mrs. Caple periodically has someone paint a seasonal scene just above the menu.
-Viola McMichen's Class
I wish each one of you could visit our rhythm class. We meet twice a week and look forward to it from one class until the next. We especially enjoyed the Christmas songs. We learned 'Round and 'RQund the Christmas Tree, .L\way In a Manger, and Jingle Bells. In the fall, we learned the Fall Song and three verses to Jesus Loves Me.
The children love each song and live them as they sing them. It was most interesting to watch their expressions as tbey sang 'Round and 'Round the Christmas Tree. Their faces glowed and their eyes danced as happy thoughts of Christmas trees, drums, trumpets, and guns ran through their minds. Their expressions completely
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From the Intermediate Department

December 21 st Edna Pope went to Atlanta with Ethel and Fred. her sister and brother-in-law, to the church where the deaf people go to see the beautiful Christmas tree and Santa Claus. There were many deaf people in the church. It was full. She had a wondet'ful time there.
New Year's Eve Inez Smallwood went to see a bonfire on Barner Street in Savannah. They started the bonfire at midnight. It was a very big fire. They had over twenty-two hundred boxes and over six hundred tires under the boxes. The fire was over at 2:30 A.M.
Robert, Clifton, and W.e. Wooten went to the Y.M.e.A Building in Ma."Con December 23rd at 7:30 P.M. They went in and bought tickets for fifty cents each. They went to the second floor. They watched two men wrestling. W.e. doesn't want to be a wrestler when he grows up because it is awful.
Robert Wooten and his brothers went to Durr's Lake Friday night, January second, at 7: 30. They skated and fell. They went home on the bus at 11: 15. They had a very good time.
Dorothy Sims stayed with her brothers and sisters at home for two weeks. She worked and helped her daddy. He was fine.
Faye Johnson went and chopped down a Christmas tree near her home. Then she trimmed it. It was pretty. Her family were very happy because Santa Claus came to see them.
Bob Pennington had a fine time at home. He and his family went to Atlanta December 23rd. He and his mother went to Rich's to buy some shoes. Bob's new shoes cost $1 4.95.
Rosemary Smith's father gave Mrs. Smith a new electric refrigerator. Rosemary's mother was glad to get the new refrigerator. When Rosemary's mother went to work, her aunt helped her clean the new refrigerator. It looked nice.
Billie Jean Smith got a box of

stationery from t1:1 Baptiat Churcll December 18th. She liked it very much. She got some pearls, some pajamas, a pencil, some socks, some perfume, some bath soap,and two sweaters. She liked them very much.
Vinton Troup will study hard. He hopes that his teachers will pass him next May. He wants to be a Freshman next September. He wants to be graduated in 1952.
Frances Cox and all her family went to her Aunt Mary's Wednesday night, December 24th. They went to see the Christmas tree. Santa Claus came to see them and some of the children were afraid of him. Some of them helped him give out the gifts. Frances got some gifts. She got a pretty pearl necklace, some nail polish, a hair comb, a red hat, a pink skirt, some shoes, a dresser set,and one dollar. She liked them very much.
Ann Thompson went to see her grandmother and grandfather Christmas Day. He gave her $5.00. She thanked him.
She went to sec re~ ,~unt Ruby and Uncle Sunday afternoon. She rode a bicycle and fell and hurt her leg. She did not cry. She had a good time at home Christmas.
Martha Maxey, her Aunt Martha Skeleton, her Uncle Jimmy Skelton, and Martha's family woke up about six o'clock Christmas. They got many gifts Martha got a suitcase, white fur gloves, a manicure set. a compact. an apron, a box of powder, rouge. and lipstick, a dog pin, some dark blue socks, some pearl beads, a box of powder and soap. a funny book, a handkerchief, a story book, and a box of stationery. Martha had a very good time at her home.
Margie Ledford had a good time December 23rd. She sang Christmas carols and her brother sang with her, too.
Margie got two watches for Christmas. One at these watches was from her brother and stepfather and the other was from her big brother. She let her mother have one of them to wear. Her big
c..-)

brother gave her a pren y dresser set, too.
Jack Watkins is interested in bird hunting. He wenl bunting with his father. He got two quail and a rabbit. It wa good, but it was bard for him to kill them. He shot with a 410 gauge shotgun.
Jene Pritchett worked al home every day during the holidays. She did not get out to play wirh the other girls.
Betty Brown's grandpa was very slck. He died December 27th. Betty's family and some friends drove to Alabama. They lept at their friend's home.
Juanice Dukes's sister was married in Manchester December 20th. Then she went home co see her mother and father.
Juanice rode a bicycle Christma; Day and fell. She hurt her elb w. but she did not cry.
Rose Lee McLeemore and Mary Suggs baked three cakes for Christmas. James Howell' family, Rose Lee, and Mary ate the cakes. They were good.
Tom Byrd's si ter has a cute baby girl. She was glad.
Tom Byrd and hi- brother helped their father kill three hogs.
Vivian Turner's family got a few gifts Christmas morning. Then they went to see Vivian's grandmother and grandfather. Later they went to see her (lUnrie's family at noon. Vivian's grandmother and grandfather tayed at home.
Faye Nelle Evans's family picked cotton for one week during the Christma holida). Faye back hurt.
Her mother went to Summer-ville December 24th. Shc bought ome Christmas gifts [or the family.
Loui e Boyd's father wa working on their farm December second and the tractor caught him and tore hi clothes off him. He was unconscious for one hour and then he came to again. Her uncle took him to the hospital and the doctor ewed up the side of his head and

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January, 1948

face. It took twenty-nine stitches. Ruth Owens is happy because
she will go home for Easter. She will go to Atlanta with her sister. They will buy some things for her.
Laura Ann Brigman got a new bicycle for Chrismas. Christmas morning she found the bicycle and many pre ents under the Christmas tree. She rode the bicycle all
over
Mr. and Mrs. Pate, John, and Mary Ann Pate went to see their Aunt Martha, Uncle J.B., and cousin Sunday morning, January fourth, at nine o'clock. They went back home about 6: 15 P.M. They
had a good time. Frances Tatum was happy be-
cause Santa Clause gave her a big teddy bear. She likes it. Jean and Frances saw Santa Claus in the city of Savannah December26th.
Wynell God win went to Thomasville to see her grandma Christmas. Her mother made two cakes. They were good. Wynell got three gifts that afternoon at two o'clock. She had a wonderful time at Thomasville.
Eugene Baggett likes to go hunting in the woods. He shot a rabbit and an opossum. His brother shot three rabbits and two bobwhites. His other brother shot a bobwhite. They had a wonderful time.
Jack Callaway's family had a great time on Christmas Day. He was very much surprised that his father gave him a new dark blue suit. He was very happy. He had a wonderful time at home.
Louise Wilson's family were surprised that Edward Wood was killed January 3rd. Somebody threw him in the pond near Cedartown. James Wilson, Louise's brother, was a friend of his. They were sorry.
Mr.. Wilson, Arline and Louise went to Ruth's Christmas Day. They ate dinner with her and Jimmie. She had a nice time at home.
Teeny and Guy Jones played ball Saturday morning, December 20th. They went to see their friends aand walked with them the next day.
Louise Murphy gOt a perman-

ent the day after Christmas at time there.

8 :30. Then she and he'r .broth~r .. Saturday I went to meet my

went to the movies. They saw Roy Rogers. Then they went

gang and friends. We played foot-

back to her daddy's store. When' ball at night. When we finished,

they got back home. Louise was we met another gang. We 'all

tired.

fussed at one another. So we de-

Harry Owens's boy friend, cided to throw firecrackers at one

Buck, had a birthday cake and another. One boy's pants were

blew out all the candles on the torn up. So they gave up. I won.

cake at once.

I got myoId cap torn up. It made

Gene Lanier bought some fire- me angry. I like red devils and

works. He had a good time. He skyrockets best.

shot them off. He worked hard Sunday morning I went to aunt

and picked peanuts after Christ- Mildred's. She had a beautiful

mas.

Christmas tree. I liked it as much

Marvin McKoy's brother and his wife came to Marvin's home at midnight December 24th. He woke up at 12:45A.M. and saw them and then he went back to sleep. They all went to Nashville, Tennessee December 28th.
Santa Claus gave Franklin Dyess two pairs of socks. a wallet, a watch, a bicycle, a towel set, and some cand y. He rode the bicycle a lot, and had a lot of fun.
Jewel! Hel\derson helped her mother at home. She washed dishes very morning. She and her sister went to see Bobbie one morning. Bobbie gave her some firecrackers.
Howard Ledford's friend, Forrest gave him some fireworks at church December 24th. Howard likes to shoot off firecrackers.
Fain Griffin enjoyed being at home. Now h misses his family

as I liked my presents. Monday morning I went hunt-
ing with my father. I got two quail and a rabbit. It was fine.
Tuesday I went to Waycross to buy some presents. After buy109 the presents, I went home and wrapped them up. Wow! What a busy time we were having! I laughed because Dawny, my eat's head, popped up from the paper seals and scared sister
away. Wednesday we went tree hunt-
ing. We found a small cedar tree. It would have been pretty. but oh! that cat tore it up. So we fixed it back again, but it was no use. So Christmas morning I got a watch, a football, some hair tonic. a bow and arrow, a tie, a balloon a box of candy, a toy gun, and a popgun.

very much,

I had a good time during Christ-

*
Editor's Note: With some hesitation, we publish the article below. It is a bono-fide composition by a little boy

mas Day. I thought of Jesus so much because it was his birthday.
Friday morning the gang came again. They said that school start-

in our Intermediate Department.
What impressed us is that he has the priceless gifts of ima~nation and initiative, that being deaf has made him no outcast, and that he did not

ed. I felt sorry for them, but I thought they should go to school because they like the girls in school.

run to mommer but stuck at the firing line, even in the face of fire-

Saturday I helped mother wash

crackers.

clothes and clean up the house.

It i a 'comp' written by a redblooded young' American. One who
needs, now and then, a restraining
hand, but in all a fine bright boy--the kind that makes a teacher forget

When I finished, I went out to shoot off a three- inch firecracker
to call the gang together. I taug~t them a bad trick: to put

the shortcoming of the profession. a wire across the door.

My Christmas Holidays
W had two weeks at Christmas. I went home. I had a good

From Monday to Friday was all the same to me. January 6,1948
Jack Watkins

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THE SCHOOL HELPER

January, 1948

THE SCHOOL HELPER

to attend. If you miss this one, you'll have to wait a hundred years for tbe next! - aLT.

All communication should be addressed to the School Helper, Cave Spring, Georgia.
Entered at the post office at Cave Sprin(, Georgia, as second dass matter ovember 1889. ~cce~tance !or mailing at a special rate of postage prl?vlded In SectIOl'l 1103. Act of October 3, 1917. AuthorIzed October 31,
1ll18. Published monthly during the school year in the print-
ing department of the Georgia School for the Deaf.

V O L.U_M-E- -4-8

January. 1948

NO.4

THE SCHOOL HELPER'S PLATFORM

For the Promotion of all State Aided Schools For the Deaf

1. Improved recognition as edu.cational institutions with control in the hands of educatIOnal boards.
2 Sectional and national associations with accrediting authorities and approved measuring rods and standards suited to each association,. te~inatin~ in the h~gh.est requirements for membershIp m a natIonal assocIatIOn for schools for the deaf.
S. A greater Gallaudet College s:rving the inter~sts of all the states with special emphas~ on .researc~ fmdinRS openly arrived at and freely dIssemmated In promoting the educational interests of all the schools.
4 A full utilization of services that can be rendered by the U. S. Office o~ Educat.ion in keeping with the spirit and purpose of Its creatIon.
6. Federal equilization aid for education that will guarantee equal opportunities for deaf boys and girls in all states.
6. Utilization of a full time state Field Agent and Placement Officer (or both) to locate and enroll deaf children in the State Schools for the Deaf and to work with the Department in job placement and vocational rehabilitatiol'l of ex-pupils and graduates.

CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION
At a recent joint meeting of the Executive Committee of the Georgia Alumni Association of the Deaf, and a group headed by, Supt. Hollingsworth, representing the school, a definite plan was decided upon for our centennial celebration.
1. The date will be June 4th, 5th, and 6th.
2. The first of these three days will feature the graduation exercises preceeded by a historical pageant depicting the 100 years history of the school. This will be the "Pupil's Day" in the series.
3. The second day, Saturday, will be "Founder's Day." The program for the entire day will be sponsored and directed by the Rome Chamber of Commerce.
4. The third day, Sunday, will be "Old Timer's Day." The program for this day will be in the hands of the Alumni Association.
Mark these days on your calendar and make plans

COLUMNIST HOLLINGSWORTH
We have been following. with great interest. Superintendent Hollingsworth in a new role. He is now a columnist, writing a column titled "Folksy Letters" for several weekI y papers in the vicinity. His most recent column was especially interesting, it concerned the deaf and employment.
hile it is nothing new to members and readers of the J.p.f., the general public is often dumbfounded to discover that the deaf are capable of making a living. Even more so surprised to find so many of them doing exceptionally well at it. We believe Mr. HoHingsworth has found a fertile field in the realm of public relations and that the deaf in general and our school in particular will profit therefrom.
We are indebted to "Folksy Letters" for the story of Nelson J. Harper, reprinted in this issue. We admit to having been caught with our hands in our pockets, letting a good story go by. --OLT
AUDIO.VISUAL AIDS PROGRAM
Room No. 2 in the ba.sement of Freeman Hall is being converted into a room for Audio-Visual Aids. \Vhile the school has used visual aids for many years. this is the first attempt to collect all the material in one place. Perhaps the purchase of a 6mm. Sound on film projector was the main cause for this decision since this equipment is too heavy and complicated to move from classroom to classroom. There are many advantages in having a special room for this purpose. A teacher can save time by having all the material she need~ in one place. Also by having the equipment already set-up. In addition to the 16 m.m. sound projection, which is complete with a two-speed turntable for recordings, we have a 3 ~ X 4 Keystone slide machine with a large Collection of slides. a S.V.E. projector for 2X2 .~lides and film strips. and an old style opaque projector. We hope to use some of the old hearing aids that have been discarded from class rooms to make our sound equipment more usable for the pupils.-JLC
It is our pleasure to announce that the teachers of the Georgia School for thl:' Deaf have a 100 per cent membership record for this year in the Convention of American Instructors of the Deaf.
Good Will Ambassadors For The Deaf The two articles that appear on the first page of
this issue are thought provoking. They bring home to u the fact that every deaf person is a good will ambassador for all the deaf.
While we bemoan the assertion that many people judge all the deaf by an adverse impression received
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Superintendent's Corner

Honors for the most unusual editorial style in the L.P.F. without question go to Superintendent C. H. Hollingsworth, of the Ga.
School for the Deaf. His Superintendent's Corner in the School Helper has for the past few issues been in the form of letters addressed to .'Dear Hazel" and ending in .. Love, Clayton."
We assume that Hazel IS Mrs.
Hollingsworth. The letters are of general interest in telling about the summer travels of Mr. Hollings' worth. The style is. however, so unusual that we feel it merits our editorial comment.
-The Companion.

~~~

This corner Jppreciate 1be

above editorial comment as it ap-

pears in the December issue of the

Minnesota COM-

The

PANION. The L.

L;ltll' Paper P. F. referred to

Family is the sum total of

all exchange pub-

lications by schools for the deaf

throughout the United States, out-

lying possessions and the Prov-

inces of Canada; also, all independ-

ent and special publications. To

illustrate the latter, the American

Annals of the Deaf, founded in

1847, is the official organ of the

Conference of Executives of Amer-

ican Schools for the Deaf and the

Convention of American Instruc-

tors of the Deaf; the Volta Re-

view, founded in 1899 by Alexan-

der Graham Bell, is the official or-

gan of the American Association to

Promote Teaching of Speech: and

The Cavalier, the National Inde-

pendent Newspaper for the Deaf,

is what the name implies. These re-

present just a few in the latter

category. Withal there are more

than fifty papers pertaining to the

deaf that cross our desk monthly.

To say that each is rapidly scan-

ned is about as much effon in that

direction as the average superin-

tendent can boast. Of course, there

are occasional stops tor additIOnal

"look-sees" and a more thorough

chewing of something that catches

the eye. The fact that there are so many of these publications explains Editor Wesley Lauritsen's statement" for the past few issues" wherein the "style" referred tQ has been in vogue for several years. This also explains a reprint last year in another state paper of one of our editorial efforts that appeared in the Helper five years earlier. (I do not know how it happened to be lying around that long.)
It is well for our readers to keep in mind that the publication of a school for the deaf paper has two primary objectives. First it is a product of printing -instruction used as a kind of information medium and a contact between the school and patrons; second. it is a professional exchange of ideas, information, news, etc., between the schools. Some keep a fair balance as pertains to these obJectives; others lean one way or the other. However, all schools have their publication. The School Helper was welcomed into the "Little Paper Family" in 1899. Volume I, No. I, came off the press April 4 of that year. Whatever else might be said of these papers, they have become traditional. and on the whole. serve a commendable purpose.
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St. Augustine. Florida. June 19, 1947
DEAR Hazel: I believe I left off my last letter JUSt Q11 our arrival at the opening session of the Convention at the city auditorium. "Our arrival" is right since I did not come alone and therein lies a pleasing incident worth telling.
When I came The ContJenllOn down into the T :-atJel To and lobby of the From - (Cont'd.) Monson it was
with the hope I could find omeone to ride with me. I wanted to favor someone and then I wanted someone to favor me by directing the way. My (rar was parked just outside. There was Mrs. Poore. of Tennes-
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see, at the desk 'phoning for a
cab. I said, "Hang up. I am taking
you over to the auditorium," This
situation pleased me no end. I can
hardly think of anyone whom I
had rather find away from home
in a "damsel in distress" situation than Mrs. Poore. Why? Well. I put her above any other as a builder of social indebtments. She is a hostess par excellent. Those who visit her school in Knoxville are aware of a charming hospitality that is reminescent of the Old South; alas and alack. a kind of hospitality that has became legendary with too many of us. As I had opportunity to do Mrs. Poore a favor I was thinking. too. of the time Dr. Settles and I inconvenienced entertainment plans at Knoxville by stopping at a downtown hotel instead of staying with the rest of the fellows OUt at the school. Mrs. Poore had a right to grumble. Instead, as busy as she was, she took it upon herself to drive in for us for practically every session of OUr meeting. It made me feel kind of poorly.
Yes. you can bet I found pleasure in doing Mrs. Poore a favor. That is not saying anything of the favor she was doing me. But, what do .you know? In the confusion of the general milling around and speaking to people Mrs. Poore had to come remind me that I was her escort and that she expected me to find places and be seated with her durng the program. Do you think I shall ever learn?
The first general meeting was a huge success, presaging in a big way the tempo of the four- day session just ahead. Dr.J.J. Tigert, president of the University of Florida and former U.S. Commi ~oner of Education, w~ principal speaker. Dr. Settles. as host and as the Convention president, presided in a most excellent manner, really in style to beat the band. Several dignitaries, including the mayor of St. Augustine. most lavishly bade us w kome. The
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Faculty Notes

Mrs. Turner spent the Christmas- holidays in Atlanta with her daughter..Mary Ann.

.Miss Casey and her father visit-
ed Lt. Cmdr. and Mrs. R.P. Lecklider of London Bridge Virginia, during the holidays, and admired the newest addition to the family, Little Nancy Gwen Lecklider, who arrived December 18.

Mrs. Forbes enjoyed having her daughters at home for the holidays, and also other visitors.

Miss Forbes visited friends in Atlanta during the holidays.

Mrs. Minter's son, John, repre-
sented his church at the International Youth Conference in Cleveland, Ohio. There were ten thousand young people present who were from all countries of the
globe.

Mr. and Mrs. Tollefson spent a few days in Waycross during the holidays, and while there enjoyed
trips to St. Simon's Island and to the newly - opened Okefeenokee Swamp Park. They also enjoyed seeing a showing of the Ballet
Russe de Monte Carlo in Atlanta on the following Saturday.

Mr. Dillard spent the holidays with friends in Atlanta.

Mr. White V-isited his parents in Hazlehurt during the holidays. While at home, he enjoyed taking part in several duck hunts with friends.

Mr. Hodges spent the holiday with his brother and sister.

Mrs. Fincher's brother, Mr. Harold Lipham of Atlanta, visiter her during the holidays.

Mrs. Glenn was the guest of her family. in Urbana. Illinois during the holidays.

Mr. and Mrs. James Lewis of Milledgeville spent the holidays with Mrs. Wright.

Mr. and Mrs. Hubert Forbes of Atlanta. Mr. Tudor Jones of Macon, and Miss Margaret Jones spent the holidays with Mrs. Jones and Mr. and Mrs. Highnote.

Miss Shahan spent the holidays with her family and on January 3rd had the pleasure of visiting the Freedom Train in Chattanooga, Tenn. She says that it was a grand experience and was quite thrilling to see the famous flag that was raised on Iwo Jima.
*
Mr. Venable Allison of Athens was the 'guest of Mr. and Mrs. Chapman and Miss Chapman during the holidays.
*
Miss Gertrude Cox was the guest of Miss Arnold during the holidays.
*
Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Lawson of Atlanta were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. McMichen and Miss McMichen one week-end recently.
*
Miss Cauthen, Miss Mary Alice Fincher, and Miss Fox spent a recent Sunday with Mrs. Paul Fox of Lindale.

Miss Ritch spent January 18th with her sister. Mrs. Charlie Cox.
*
Mrs. Montgom~ry ~ent the holidays in Cave Spring. Miss Ida Montgomery and Mr. Walter Montgomery spent Christmas with the Montgomerys.
*
Mrs. Irwin visited friends 10 Atlanta during the holidays.
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PRIMARY SIDE (Continued)
changed when they softly sang of the Baby Jesus, asleep on the hay.
We are learning Just Like Jesus now, and the children are trying very hard to be good like Jesus. The line "He all of God's rules did obey" appealed to the children. After listing familiar Bible verses that might apply to God's rules, we made a list of our own "school's rules". The children are trying very hard to live up to them. I really can't think of a better song to begin the New Year singing.
-Emmalee J. Highnote's Class
BASKETBALL SCHEDULE
January 14, Armuchee, there.
January 16, Mt. Berry, here.
January 2, Cave Spring, here January 23, Lyerly, here
January 30, Lyerly, there
February 4, Mt. Berry, there February 6, Open
February II, Coosa, there
February. 13, Armuchee, here Week of Feb. 7, Tournament
February 25, Darlington B, here
February 27, Taylorsville. there
SPORTS REVIEW
At the termination of the football season, as our crippled varsity players were given a long rest, there started an intra-mural touch football league composing of five teams of midgets and varsity substitutes who had not played enough football. For the month of December the five aggregations battled each other in a race for the mythical title. One of them. named the Wildcats, went through undefeated and, as a result. earned first place. The Cardinals and the Dod gers tied for second place. The Apes and the Bulldogs went down into the cellar.
Ralph Gentry. leader of the Wildcats, paced them to the championship as team mates. Harry
(Contnued on page ten.)

THE SCHOOL HELPER

January, 1948

JUNIOR CLASS PARTY
Christmas has com~ and gon~ and with iu going the Junior Class
add~d 1I gala fv~nt to their book
of school memories. This event
wa the traditional Christmas
Party given by Miss Shahan in honor of her homeroom class. The Scout Hut was dressed up in its original arrangements of the holiday decoration. One table was very festive with a big bowl of nuts surrounded by a ring of luscious red apples and pine twigs. The beautifully decorated tree was place near the big fireplace and claimed the center of attraction with its array of interesing and amusing packages.
The group entered int~ several aame~. contests. and dances, and then the gifts were investigated. They proved fascinating as they ranged from a toy alligator who e mouth and legs moved and a mouse that ran to a penny bank and canned pinach. Christmas carois. led by Mr. Caple. were sung. the group sat around the crackling fire. As the last carol was being sung. the modem electric lights, eXLept for those on the tree, were turned off and the entire Scout Hut was aglow with soft candlelight. The table with its arrangement of tall candles and the plates with thier little souvenir candles all brightly gleaming made a lovely picture. The gue ts were served and seated in a semicircle around the fire and the joys of true fellowship and friendship were enriched with gay conver-
~ation.
All too soon the group realized that it was way past bedtime and that they had long trips to make the next day. With a cherry "good night"' and a shout of "Merry Christmas to you all". the group departed.
Those invited to share this trea ured occasion with the Junior Class were Mrs. Gibbons, Mr.t1 Mrs. Caple. Rev. Robert C. Fletcher. Mr & Mrs. Tollefson, and Mr. White.
Now is the time for all good men to JOIN THE MARCH OF DIMES!

SUPERINTENDENT'S COR.
(Continutd)
city wai ours-at a pric~. Ouch!
Following this formal opening with all the necessary preliminaries in getting things started, there was an intermission for refreshments, It was the most delectable stuff 1 ever drank-some kind of iced orange punch. I have never tasted anything better-just perfect for that steaming hot meeting place. "Might I of Jove's nectar sup, I would not change for thine," etc.
Our host might want to borrow lOome of this phraseology for loan to the local Chamber ot Commerce-but he would most certainly do some deleting. One can't picture a werI-bred Floridian admitting that it was ever uncomfortably warm in the peninsular state.
But wait, it was not aU over. There followed a floor show with real professianals. How did that man work up such an extravaganza. Auyway, it was all y ry very fine. Pleasure for the moment was taking precedence over busine s. That suited us-if it just had not been, shall we say. for the humidity. Anyway, we still had the beach to think about.
1 am not going to burden you with too many details relative to the program other than to say the whole agenda was well balanced, but perhaps too much of it. There was liberal educational enrichment for alL but difficult to decide what one would like best to hpal and see. I was proud of Georgia's contingent. Mr. Mobley, recently back from Germany, made a hit, both in a general session and in a panel meeting. Mr. Cummings, Atlanta, area director of the Federal Rehabilitation program, was superb as usual. We are all proud of M.rs. Tollefson's demonstration each morning in teaching arithmetic. It couldn't have been better. Mrs. Turner's absence was a sore disappointment. I was so anxious for her, who had had such a fine teaching career in the public school
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fi~ld, to demonstrate he same technique in teachiQg literature to deaf students; and show the clear! y discernible results shf was getting. Of course, we were shocked and saddened on hearing of Mr. Turner' worsened condition. I placed a telegram in the Convention secretary's file for him to endorse and dispatch, but I believe it was never sent.
Oh, yes, I must tell you something about Mrs. Spencer Tracy. I have heard her on several occasions, but we became pretty well acquainted on this trip. She is a most charming person and one can never doubt her beautiful sincerity. Now there I go about to get glamorous. Whoever heard me say beautiful Sincerity before! But,hers is, anyway. I didn't talk glamorously to her, however. I quote, "Mrs. Tracy, you should get that big lug of a husband of yours to help you with the training and education of John." She laughingly replied, "I am going to tell him just what you said and try to remember the language you used. " I was emboldened a little and then said, "Spencer Tracy has alway been my favorite movie actor, but tell him I say he cannot touch you with a forty foot pole."
Seriously, I think the Georgia School for the Deaf has lots to offer John Tracy. I believe our chool and OUr situation could augment and complement what he has already gotten in the way of a well-rounded education. Now, this is giving due consideration to all the wond,erful opportunities that have been his. This may s~)U!1d a little audacious and egotIstical, but I believe I am right.
I am checking out and heading back into Georgia tomorrow, but, "chile", I am not through with news of the Convention yet-more anon. Will write next from somewhere in Georgia.
Love,
Oayton
Now is the time for all women
TO JOIN THE MARCH OF
DIMES!

THE SCHOOL HELPER

January. 1948

EDITORIALS
(Continued)
through contact with one, we often forget that people are just as prone to form an high opinion of the deaf thrugh one contact with one fine deaf man or woman.
It is so easy for the deaf to make a good impression. They need only be pleasant. well mannered, law abiding. friendly. and be capable of making a go of supporting themselves to win praise from the general public. Why. then, need any deaf person ever make and leave a bad impression with an employer or anyone else?
The plain truth is this. There are a certan number of Tom Fools among the deaf who continually make trouble for themselves and sometimes for others who are also deaf. This is true of any group of people of any classification. At the same time, there are. thank God, a far greater number of Robert C. Fletcher's and Nelson W. Harper's going ther waYs quietly, winning admration of others in high places and low.-O.L.T.
NELSON W. HARPER
Continued
not spent a red cent except that which he earned from the chickens
This is what he has done. With his own hands he built the first small growing house. It is still there. In 1940 he built a large laying house. In 1941 bought 300 baby chicks and built a brooder house. He got 150 layers out of the 300 and sold the cockerels.
In 1943 he built five "live and grow" brooders and grew out 200 layers. These added to his others, from which he had culled 50 poor produce11S, gave him a flock of 300 good layers.
The next years, 1944, saw him build two 500 capacity brooder houses and voe big 20-by-30 laying house.
By 1946 he needed more room; so he built a larger layer house with room for 550 layers.
That is his present building setup. an even dozen poultry build-

ings, all strongly and cleanly built.
He keeps an average laying flock of from 300 to 500 birds. He has 360 layers now, with 500 new pullets comin~ on. The old ones will be culled out and sold.
He grows all the grain they eat and buys only a little mash.
The fine Georgia boy, who is an asset to the State. has not let his handicap handicap him. Life has a great deal of meaning and pleasure for him, and he ges out of life, I guess, a lot more than the average person who can hear and speak. Most of the words spoken are pretty dull anyhow. and he hasn't missed too much.
Last year he grossed $3,500 from his poultry. I don't know what the net was. It must have been somewhere around $2.000. Nor do I know what his share out of the farm would be.
. His brother. William. is milkmg 10 cows a day and selling 20 gallons of milk-Grade A, too.
The father frankly admits his two boys have pulled the farm out for him.
SPORTS REVIEW
Continued
Owens, Ray Potts, Fred Waters Robert Wooten, Roy Holmes. and Claude Fuqua, cooperated in their maneuvers in making important scores and in holding their opponents to a ?eadlock. The players of the Cardmals are Captain Bi1lly Hayes. James Hattrich. Vinton Troup. Eugene Baggett, Jack Watkins. and Dan Jones. The Dodgers, led by Thomas Rucker included John Pate, Ben GoodWin' Franklin Dyess. Marvin McKoy: and Gene Lanier.
* Georgia School for the Deaf has
recently started the basketball season. Now they have lost three games so and yet have to win one. However. in spite of these defeats. our cagers show some improvements in their team play and are better now than last year. In two games,. the opponents beat us by a margm of only three points. Bad luck came to us in the third game
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when our standout was penalized
four times in the fiI:'lt quarter and had to be ben'ched' most 'O{-the
game to save himself for :the important last quarter. Had he
played throughout the game. the score would even be in favor of the Blue Jays.


Georgia 25

Armuchee 28

Whittle White (II) Baker (8) Little (2) Byrd (4)

F Chastam (2) F Hicks (9) C Hyde (8) G Bailey (4) G Bailey (I)

Substitutions: Gergia - Hattrich. Callaway; Armuchee - Spain (4). Scogin
Score at half: Armuchee 14 - Georgia 13


Georgia 22

Mt. Berry 36

Whittle (4) White (8) Baker (5) Little (4) Byrd (1)

F ~arnett ( II ) F Phili~ (6) C William (12) G Butler (5)
GMcNullen (I)

Subst~tution: Georgia-Calla way, Hattnch, Hayes; Mt. Berry-Brad-
ford. Langston (1).

Score at half: Mt. Berry 21 Ga.13

Georgia 16

*
Cave Spring 19

Whittle (4) White (3)
Baker (3) Litt~e (3) Byrd (2)

F Acker ( I ) FHuckaby (12) C Gladney (2) G Smitherman G Tucker (2)

Substitutions: Georgia-Callaway, Hayes, Hattrich (1-) ; Cave SpringBeck. Buford (2). Robinson. Score at half: Cave Spring 12
Georgia 10


JUNIOR VARSITY Georgia 22 Armuhee 4 Georgia 18 Mt. Berry 19 Georgi~ 26 Cave Spring 23

A 17 year old youth of Las Vegas, Nev: "I went to Sunday School for I 0 years to learn Christianity and to the Boy' Scouts for 10 months to learn how to use it.

State of Georgia
M. It THOMPSON, Govwuor

Georgia School for the Deaf

STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION M. D. 'COLLINS, State SuperintendeDt of Behoo.

ADMINISTRATION

C. H. Holling'llWorth, M.A., Superintendeut

John L. Caple, Principal

Rebecca S. Crow.e, Secretary Julian Tumlin, Steward Myrtle A. Johnson, Sec'y to Steward

Charlell E. O,..en, D.D.S. J. C. Connor, M.D. Sarah Griffith, Nor-

INSTRUCTORS

Primary D.partmeDt
Marie S. Kennard, B.S.. Supv. Teacher Bettye V. Arnold Polly Casey Geverna Chapman, B.S. Mabel L. Fincher May F. Glenn Emmalee J. Highnote Jim Irwin Jessie F. Jonel Viola McMichen, B.A. Miriam B. Minter Mildred B. W~bt

IDtermediate aad Ad.aacecl Depart__
Mary P. Turner, B.A., Alat, SUP'Y. Teacher. Advanced Department
Katharine Cuey, Asat. Supv. Teuher, Intennediate Department. Connor Dillard Ruth D. Forbee Mary Forbes Edythe D. Montgomery B.S. Pauline J. Shahan, B.A. ' Fra~cel M. Tollefson, B.A. DanIel Van Cott, B.S. Ralph H. White, B.A.

V_doaal D.part

Olaf L. Tollefson, B.A., Supv. Teacher

Olaf L. Tollefson, B.A. .

Printing

J. R. Ware

Carpentry

Earl Cox

Machine Shop

Connor Dillard

Shoe Repair

David Pledger

A. May Clark, B.A. . .. Am .. Crafta

Gladys L. Latham

Beauty Culture

Annie McDaniel

Sewin.

Everette Ryle .. Barberinlr II: Pre.in.

Farm Supt.

Mildred K. Daniell Rose Anna Gibson Cynthia S. Hannah

Colored Departmeat
Lucille McCullough. Supervising Teacher Hattie 8. Xenifee Henrietta B. B.epolda Mattie D. Sama
R. H. Kc:.A!fee, VoeatioD&1 Inltructor

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:CHOOL

PUBLISHED itT THE! GEORGIA SCHOOL. FOR
THE DEAF. CAVE SPRING. GEORGIA

FEBRUARY

Vol. 48

No.5

THE SCHOOL HELPER

Volume ..8

FEBRUARY 1948

No 5

The Deaf In A Normal Society

ERNEST c. HERRON. President
Georgia Association of the Deaf

EDITOR'S OTE The following paper was delivered at the February meeting of the Faculty Club of our school. Additional comment on this meeting wi(( be found on the editorial page.
Mr. White has given us a most interesting picture of the social life of the students here at school. In fact the picture is an inspiring one, and. if it were not for the experiences I have had on the outside, I would certainly believe that the future of these boys and girls was secure insofar as social advantages are concerned.
But the uncomfortable fact is that the life they are experiencing here at school where everyone is friendly and anxious to help, and the !.ife they will experience in a cold, busy, and often uncomprehending world, are entirely different matters as I will try to show you tonight.
I believe that one of the greatest drawbacks to the progress of the deaf is the limited social life to which their handicap subjects them.
The world is run almost entirely by hearing people and we must of necessity look to them for OUr educational opportunities, our jobs, and in fact almost everything on which we depend for OUr existence.
It would appear that the more hearing people who know about us, understood us and were interested in us, the greater would be our opportunities for success. But do we as a group, or as indviduals, attempt to bring this about? I am afraid that we do not.
The majority of us who are making good at their respective occupations. buying homes, raising families and otherwise leading

suceessfull lives, and who could make a genuine impression on the public mind are prone to stay to ourselves while allowing a compartive few panhanders, card pedders and loafers advertise us to the world.
The natural quetion then is "Why don't the deaf associate more with hearing people"? The difficulties of a normal social life among hearing people are many. We will examine some of them tonight.
But first let me say that the deaf are very active part of the individual economic and political life of their communities. They produce a share of the world's goods. They earn, wages and contribute a full share of the taxes that go to pay the costs of government. They own homes and raise families. They read the news of the day and form opinons. They go to the polls on election day and cast their ballots as free men in a free country should. Their everyday lives differ little from those of their hearing neighbors up to the point where work ends and social Iife begins.
The deaf, in trying to lead a normal social life among hearing people, have to combat a great deal of misunderstanding and misconception about the deaf. I am afraid that the general public still looks upon the deaf as a separate class of people, rather than as normal people who have lost just one of their senses. Rqcently while searching the filies of the Atlanta public library for a certain book about deafness that I wished to read, I was shocked to see that the cards which explained the subject matter of books referred to "The Deaf and Dumb" and "Deaf and Dumb Asylums and Educ tion".

Librarians are a very highly informed group and to find that they still associate deafness with dumbness, and the education of the deaf with asylums shows just how badly the deaf need improved public relations.
These misconceptions which hearing people often unconsciously show and which the deaf instinctively feel, make the deaf person hesitant about thrusting his friendship upon hearing people, and at the same time makes the hearing person s10w about approaching the deaf. Perhaps each feels unconciously that he might be stepping into deep water.
The basis of all social intercourse is conversation by which we exchange ideas and share experiences. Here the deaf ar~ at Ol decided disadvantage when in the company of hearing people. They do not have a ready means of rapidly communicOlting and their conversation is apt to be slow and tedious, often caried on by means of a pad and pencil. The deaf person who is fortunate enough to have speech and to be able to read lips will have little trouble in conversing with one or two friends who will take the trouble to include him in their conversation by speaking directly to him, and most deaf people do have a few such friends.
The trouble is that not all deaf people can speak well enough to be understood, there are many who never acquire the knack of reading lips.
Peoples lips are almost as different as their fingerprints. Thre are people with large mouths, and people with small mouths. Some with thick lips and some with thin lips. Some have gold bridge-wol'k and some hOlVt moustachu. Some have

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Februarfi, 1948

good lip movements and some speak with no movement of the lips. Each new set of lips pose a new problem for the lip-reader and he is usually under a certain amount of pressure which detracts from the pleasure of conversation.
Dr. Leonard Elstad, Presdent of Gallaudet College has correctly defined lipreading as "Educated
guess work." No deaf person would deny
that lipreading and speech training are a great help to those who are able to master them, and I believe that they should be part of every deaf childs education. But thy do not, cannot, and should not be expected to take the place of hearing. The most expert lipreader will
be lost in a crowd. Let us suppose that a deaf per-
son has been invited to a party where all the other guests are hearing people. They may all be friends of his and he may anticipate a very enjoyable evening. Arriving at the party he is ushered into a crowd. Greetings over, he sits down and looks around. Everyone is busy talking and the conversation goes from one person to another so fast he is never able to even get an idea what it is about. After awhile some one may turn to the deaf person and explain what they have been talking about, but by the time the explanation is finished the others are hot on another track and it is too late for the deaf man to add his two bits worth. He begins to feel like a wall flower. Perhaps later someone will play the piano and the others will sing popular songs. Or they might decide to play the latest records. Not being able to hear the music, he doesn't know the difference between the Blue Danube and the Boogie-Woogie. It isn't long before he begins to wish he had had the good sense to stay away. And after a few such experiences he does stay away.
The deaf have the same natural desire to express themselves and to converse with their fellows that any normal person has and, failing to find an equal footing with their hearing friends, the natural result is that they seek the company of

other deaf people. The, in a mea sure accounts for the claaishness for which the deaf are well known.
In the company of other deaf people who share a common bu~ den, and speak a common language, the sign language, the deaf person finds himself. He loses the feeling of being different, his tenson dispears and he feels at ease. He conver es readily. He can tell stories and crack jokes. He can argue politics and discuss a variety of subJects, and where there is a pretty :,.,irl around he can manage the sort vf "wolf call" she will understand.
This grouping together of the deaf has led to the forming of a number of organizations to promote thier interests. The character of these organzation is both state and national in scope. I would like here to say a few words about the two which are most active in Georgia, and which play an important part in the social and economic life of the deaf citizens of the state. I refer to the Georgia Association of the Deaf and the National Fraternal Society of the Deaf.
The first named is an association of deaf citizens of Georgia. most of them former students of this school. banded together to promote their common interest. help those in need of help and to combat di crimination againt the deaf.
We realize that future progress of the deaf depends upon a good educational program and, therefore the chief interest of the association is in promoting better educational opportunities for the deaf.
In our zeal for this cause we may be tempted at times to question some phrase of the school's management. Or it teaching policies You her at chool may say
hat right have those fellows to question or criticize? They are not teachers and know nothing of our problems.
You may be right. but permit me to draw a parallel.
In modern warfare the range of artillery is so great that the gunner never sees his target. He aims his gun by means of radar,

gadgets. But even though his range finders and other scientific computations may be exact in theory he never knows wheather or not he is hitting the target. So they send up an observer who flys over the target area in a plane and reports by radio the results of the shots. He may advise the gunner that his aim is a linl!' too far to the left or right, or that he is undershooting or ove~ shooting the target. The gunner can then make the necessary allowances. The observer may know nothing, about aiming a cannon and the gunner may know nothing about flying a plane, but when they cooperate they begin to hit the target on the nose.
In the words of the late Dr. Schuyler Long - "The place to test an educational system is not in the class room nor in conversation over the socia tea cup, bt out where men social and earn ther daily bread". We in the market place are in a position to observe the success of your work and what we are trying to do is to tell you whether your shots are hitting the mark or falling as duds on life's battlefield. We trust you will not resent that.
The second organization of which I spoke, The National Fraternal Society of the Deaf, is, . as its name implies, a fraternal order. Its purposes are to unite all deaf men in a brotherhood far mutual help and to pay insurance benefits to its members and their beneficiaries. It had its origin in the fact that insurance companies formerly considered the deaf to be unsafe risks and refu ed to issue policies to them. In less than fifty years this fraternity has grown to the point where it i considered one of the soundest fraternal organizations in the country. It operates under the laws of Illinois, has division in 38 staltes and Canada, over 9,000 members, and assets close to $3,000,000. It is an out-
tanding example of what the deaf can do when they get to-
Continued on page ten.

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From the Advanced Department

Alma Wooten is going to try to all his friends at school. He hopes

stud y hard so that she can be grad- that he will get a good job when

uated in 1951. She would like he finishes school.

for her family to be proud of her.

Clarence Highfield had a good

Ben Goodwin was surprised time when the snow was on the

when he found that the ground ground. He and John made a sled

was covered with now recently. and had loads of fun slidng down

He had lots of fun sliding down the hill.

the hill and having snowball bat- Sue Brannon thought the Kid

tles with the other boys.

Party in Chaple recently was quite

Roscoe Dukes hopes that he a success. She hardly knew some of

will have enough money left. after the girls and boys because they

he has bought his suit. to buy a looked so different with kid cos-

large toy airplane. He has a large tumes on. She thought that the

one and he thinks he could have judges made a wise selection when

lots of fun with another one.

they gave the prizes to Gertrude

Patsy Baker had hoped so much Hixon and Billy Adams.

that her mother and father would Billy Adams is eager to get a

come to the Faculty Club program good job when he is graduated in

on February 2. She was in some June but he knows that he will

of the dances that the boys and miss all the friends at G. S. D. He

girls gave on the program and she has been here a long time and it

thought her parents would enjoy will seem strange not to come back

. eeing them.

in September.

Mary Roberts thinks that per- Georgia Hargrove enjoyed work-

haps her sister and brother-in- ing on the costumes for "Mac-

law will visit her this month. She beth". She and Clarence Highfield

hopes nothing will happen that were stage managers and she

will prevent their coming.

thought it was lots of fun getting

Sara Crisp is looking forward ready for the play.

to her trip home Easter. She hopes Raymond Baker was so happy

that it will not be cold then so that his parents and brother and

she can visit a great many of her sister could come to see the pro-

friends who live near her home. gram which some of the boys and

Jackie Dukes will be glad when girls had for the Facuilty Club on

Easter comes, because her sister February 12. He was in a Spanish

and brother-in-law will visit her. dance and a ball room dance. and

She thinks that they will enjoy he was so gad that his family saw

seeing our school and meeting the the beautiful dances that were given

people here.

Ann Green was thrilled when

Evelyn Robinson was eager to she found that she could go home

go home on February 13 for two on February 13. This is her first

reasons. first. because she wanted year at G.S.D. and she likes it here

to see her nephew and then be- very much but she enjoyes a trip

cause Louise Walters was going home too.

with her and she knew that they Janie Elder's brother, Tom has

would have lots of fun.

built a new home in College Park

Alton Holman's uncle and aunt and she can hardy wait to make

have moved from ew Orleans him a visit and see how she likes

a Chattanooga. His uncle is his new house.

Superintendent of a bakery there.

Bud Little had a mighty good

Alton hopes to visit them this time at the dance on January 30.

summer. He remembers what good He likes to dance and he thinks

times he had when he visited them that all our girls are good dancers.

In ew Orleans.

Louise Walters can hardly wait

George Vaughan is happy be-. for the time to come when she can

cause he will be graduated in June. go home with Evelyn Robin on

but he knows that he will miss for the week-end. She has visited

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Evelyn before and she remembers what a nice time she had.
Laura Pope wishes that it would snow again. She had so much fun sliding down the hill in the snow recently. It was the first time she had done this. and she thought it was great sport.
Fred is very happy because his father is well again. He had to spent some time in the hospital before Christmas. but he is back home now and Fred hopes that he will not have to go back.
James Hattrich had a mighty good time when the snow was on the ground. He made a sled and thought it was lots of fun sliding down the hill. He likes winter, but he will be happy when the weather gilts warm enough for him to go in swimming.
Lois Watkins received two boxes from home on her birthday in F bruary. She enjoyed eating some of all the good things especially the home-made candy. She was happy because she shared her boxes with her friends.
BUd Little had a mighty good time at the dance on January 30. He likes to dance and he thinks that all our girls are good dancers.
Thomas Rucker is eager for spring to come so that he can go out to play without having to wear so many coats.
Herbert White thinks that basketball is a fine game and he enjoys playing, but he would like for his team to win all the games.
John Mock can hJrdly wait for the baseball season to open. The weather has been so pretty for the last few days that he thinks spring will soon be here. and the baseball team will get bus~-.
John Harrell would like for all the boys who are on the football team this year to play again next year, but some of them will be too old. He thinks that next year's team will miss these good players, but he hopes that the new team will win all the games.
Bill Hayes enjoys playing basketContinued on page eight.

From the Primary Side

"We are starting our garden ions we had on our faces the first senior class and by seeing a movIe

early this year." Yes each of us afternoon that it rained just before now and then.

has planted some grass seed. For we were to go. You probabl y

Birthdays have also added ex-

several weeks we bave enjoy~d would have laughed again at the citement to our being weathered

watching new leaves come out and quick changes we made when the in.January brought Jeanette's sev-

grow on our pot plants but this school bus drove up to the door enth birthday and Donald's ninth.

miniature grass plot will be our to take us to the theatre. Now, we Valentine's Day wiJl be Mary Ann

very own.

rather hope sometimes that it will Lynch's seventh and on the twenty

One morning when we came to sprinkle a little at just the right seventh Kenneth will be ten years

our classroom we found on our time so that the bus will be put old. Joyce will celebrate her elev-

big table halves of egg shells in a into us again.

enth birthday on March the sev-

carton, some soiL and some grass Of course. our trips to the enth and her patience is almost

seed. Soon we were all filling our movies are for pleasure. but they exhausted waiting for the day to shells with the soiL sprinkling in give us something to think about arrive. Her parents have promised

a few seeds, and last of all a little and to imitate. For the older boys her a cake with one or two tiers.

water. We had the possessive form and girls it means something dif- Joyce's birthday is the last to be

of our names ready and into the ferent for their news items and celebrated this year.

carton went our shells and names. Our attention has been called
to pictures of grass and now we are anxiously waiting to see whose seed will be the first to come up.
Just as we have to drink wat~r

more enjoyable language for them to learn.
Jim Irwin's Class
Speech, speech reading, and reading are our most important

Springtime will be most joyfully welcomed by all of us so that we can go outside and work and play.
Mabel Fincher's Clas

every day and play in the sunshine as much as possible in order to grow up and be healthy boys and girls, so must we water our seed and give them sunshine if they are to come up and grow properl y.

subjects. We were so little when we first
entered school that we had to be given an intensive course in reading readiness. This work has also been continued this year. In add-

The weather has been very bad but our supervisors and teachers try to make our lives indoors pleasant. The mail adds a great deal to our happiness.

Miriam Minter's Class ition to reading readiness, our ob j-

\Ve have seen two large snows

jectives have been vocabulary recently and have enjoyed watch-

Our class leads the line from building and the creating of a de- in~ the snow fall. Since we have

the dining room at noon, so we sire for reading by the use of at- not been able to go out doors we

are usually the first to learn "the tractive pictures with the printed have made many valentines.

news."

and written forms. We feel that Patricia missed two weeks of

When Mrs. Kennard stands at we have a grand start in both chool work but she is trying hard

the door and starts counting as we reading and speech reading.

ro catch up with the others.

marcb by, we know that we are When school started, we bowed We are looking forward to the

going to town to tbe show. We our heads each morning while our Valentine box Thursday morn-

would like to go more often than teacher said our prayer:

ing and the party Friday after-

we do, but the pictures that we go

I love Mama.

noon. We think we are lucky to

to are ones that have been selected

I love Daddy.

have so many nice things planned

as suitable for us to see. Since that

I love God.

for us.

is the case, we do not have a

Amen.

Betty Arnold's Class

regular day to go; however, that We are now able to say the Even though the weather has

makes Mrs. Kennard's "one, two. first two lines and by the end of been so bad that we could not get

three, four" even more exciting the term will be able to say all of outside we have managed to have

than it would be if we went acco- it.

something interesting for the news

rding to a schedule. She counts us

Mildred Wright's etas>; each morning.

to be sure that she knows just how

It is fun to tell what happened

many are in school that day. Then Isn't it terrible? The weather, the afternoon and evening before
one person takes the money for r mean. The children have been and in the morning before we came

everyone's admission. This saves to town only once since Christ- to class. \Ve are finding that the

lots of time, since someone would mas and have almost stopped ask- Key helps us get our language

be sure to lose his money, and we ing if we are going. Their dis- straight. Little did we realize that

would have to look for it.

Jppointments have been compen- the numbers we have been lea-rning

You would have laughed if y u ated somewhat by buying candy could mean a much. When we

could have seen the doleful express- h re at school on Friaay from the had so many things and lost a few

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or ate a number of them, we began to see that these numbers really meant something. We find the Key helpful in number stories, too.
The news and number stories provide exercises in speech reading <lnd each day we find we understand better by "listening" more closely.
May F. Glenn's Class
The weather has been so cold and rainy that our trips to town have been discontinued for a few weeks, but February is so full of interesting things that we won't miss our trips too much.
\Ve are all excited about the Valentine party and are spending many enjoyable rainy afternoons making and addressing valentines. Mrs. Sims sent Patsy a lot of valentines for us to make. They are lovely and we are having a great deal of fun.
The seventeenth will be Patsy's birthday. We are keeping our fingers crossed and hoping that it will be a pretty day so that we might play some of our games outside.
We shall study about Abraham Lincoln and Washington. Until this year they were only picturelo and silhouettes put up to decorate the classroom. We shall observe their birthdays this month by learning little stories taken from their lives.
Jessie F. Jones's Class
We are very sorry that Mrs. Casey has been ill and hope that she will soon be back with us. During her absence Mrs. Gibbons ha<; been teaching us.
Here are a few news items from our class:
CIa rene gets several letters from her mother every week. She got a pretty valentine. from her Aunt Mary and Uncle Tom.
Carol thinks that she will go home February the thirteenth. She hopes that her daddy will be there.
Claude wants his sister to send him lots of valentines.
J.D. wants his mother to send him a tablet and some pencils. He

would like to have some envelopes toe.
Dickie Rot a box of candy cherries one day. He passed them to the class. They were very good.
Milton got a box of candy bars. He passed them in the dining room.
Alvin wants to go home soon. He thinks that a friend will come for him in a car.
James went home January the thirtieth. He stayed at home several days.
Polfy Casey's Class
Due to the numerous changes in the weather we have had an excellent opportunity to study the seasons.
Each month a new sce,ne is drawn above our blackboard calendar and other seasonal pictures are displayed.
The following are among the questions we are now studying:
In which season do birds build nests?
In which season do we go swimming?
Tn which season do we have watermelons?
In which season do we see red and yellow leaves?
In which season do we have snow?
These questions help to keep us aware of the changes of nature and also the passing of time.
Later we will have questions such as the following:
Which season comes before winter?
Which season comes after spring?
Which season comes between spring and fall?
Now that we have experienced the snow and ice of winter, we are looking forward to the budding trees and colorful flowers of spring.
Geverna Chapman's Class
Won't you step into our parlor? We hope that you will be pleased with our furniture arrangements. We are rather proud of OUr recently acquired knowledge of the names of various
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rooms and their furn,ishings. A delightful aid in this study is
our new social science reader. "Home Is Fun." It has very interesting pictures and readng perfect for our enjoyment. Here. as we discover in which room each item of furniture belongs, we mentally put it in just the right place. It's lots of fun to help this nice family "move in."
In addtion to studying about rooms and furniture, we're learning other very worthwhile things. This family makes such a game of living and of helping one another that we are hoping to be better citizens because of having known them.
Viola McMichen's Class
February is an exciting month for us. Besides studying about and observing the birthdays of two famoul; men, Abraham Lin.coln and George Washington, we have two birthdays of our own to celebrate-Jerry's and David's. David will be ten the twenty-first and Jerry will be eleven the twentythird.
We also have Valentine's Day to look forward to. We shall have our Valentine box on Thursday and the party Firday afternoon.
Then to top it alL Jo Anne's father came to see us the other day. It was the first time he had visited our classroom. When he left. he gave Mrs. Highnote some money to take us to a show. We shall have popcorn, candy and everything that goes to make a picture show party fun. It will be our first evening party and we can hardly wait.
So you see February is a full. busy month for us.
Emmalee Highnote's Class
Sharply varying altitudes in a non-pressurized plane caused permanent deafness in her right ear and partial loss of hearing in her left ear. Wendy Lehrman. 26. a teacher in New York City. charged Oct 15 in a $150,000 damage suit filed against Transcontinental :md Western Air Corp. Inc. Washington Times-Herald.

The School Helper

February 1948

THE SCHOOL HELPER

FACULTY CLUB The program for the February meeting of the

All comm~ic.tion Mould bddr....d to the Schoel

Faculty Club was unique in that it presented a "before
and after" view of a problem in education of the

Helper, C.ve Sprinc, Georci

.

. deaf. Our Mr. Whit delivered a/paper on QCial,~nd

Entered s second

at the post claa matter

oNfofviceeDl.bterCn8a8v9e.!S~pcrclne.l.?taenocreg~loar

Character Training in our school. This was

ollow-

mailing at a special rate .f PQltq. prOVided t~n S,eC}lOJl cd by a demonstration showing what our child,r:tp arc

1103. Act of October 3, 1917, Authorize~ October 31, r' taught in dancing as ar means of social training.

111P1u8.blished monthly during the Ichool yeaJ r i~n the pn,nt-

Mr.Herron. presidem of the Georgia A o;ociation

ing department of the Georgia ScHool for the Deaf.

of the Deaf and an alumnus of,our schqol then gavc

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a paper "The Deaf in a Normal Society." We found

OLAF TOLLEFSON MARIE KENNARD

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it interesting to compare the two paper and note how far we are going towards better preparing our

OLAF TOLLEFSON., .. ,., 'r" . P~i.till' ~Il.truetor children for the future ,where social and character

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I NO.5 dev,eJopmen~ are concerned, El ewhert in this i sue we have C'.rin1ed both

THE SCHOOL HELPER!S PLAliFORM

these papers in full, believing thtly wiLl be of interest

I, For th. PromotioD of all' Stilt. Aid.d Sch_l.

For th. D. .i l ;.

IJ

7" 1. Improved recognition

edu,cational qnstitutions

with control in the hands of edueiLtlOnal boards,

to members of the I.p.f. The writer does not entirely share Mr. HeJ;OOn's
alarm at the seemingly laok of a sense of civic duty among the younger deaf. It is only natural for youth

2. Sectional and national associations with accrediting to look to age for guidance and leadership and, to

authoritiea and pproved mea8uri~g ~ods anji,sta;t.dards feel ,unsure of taking on such /resppn ibilitYllitself.

suited to each asao~)atioJl .~~matm~ ll\ilth,erlh~b,!latll It,i,s .also true that there is so much bickering feuding.

requirements f or ICb00II f 0

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.k I I. ,IIChina. with the Marine Corps. won his chance when

The schools for ~he d~af ,'l-.n;d blindland rpeople 'J';\W eliminatIon mee was held in tnat ection.'

generally 'nterested 'n the "h;mdicapped in Region

Wright won about everything but the General's

III. comprising seven soutreasA~rn states and Puerto ,. star. He was then returned to the states via plane and

Rico. have lost a great friend and benefactor in the i now ~ork;ng out at Annapoli wj.th the Olympic

passing of Terry C. Foster, Dece.mber 27.

tryout team and is expected to carry our nation's

Mr. Foster. at the,tim~f,his death, was assistant colors in_the Decathlon in London this SlJJllmer.

regional representative of Vocat\onal Reh.abilitation.

This new wa not surprising to his dad nor:, to ,hi

Federal Security Agency.covering this. extended terri- friends. They remember how Wrigpt/W9n" tate track

tory. Only recently he had been serving a$ technical honor while a highschpol ,pugH with u~ the.benefit

advisor to the southeaste.rn C<;>nference on Integration of coaching and also that hi cQach, ,If .~~ke U~iver

of Education and R~haqjljtation of the Deaf and the ity long ago prophesied that Wright w iU\5hrn<\ke'the

Blind. Throug,h this tl}.~dium he became well x:nown Olympic team.-OLT.

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,,/readipg up on the celebration of Our 50th anniversary.

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T he situation in Ohio whue~n over the list. We would call our the Governor and heads of schools purely: educational ins i-

June 204, 19"7 Perry, 'Georgia

various State agencies are ttving
to solve the problems of the edu-
cation of the
Stewih g In Our deaf n their Own Juic'f! state pres~nts a v e r y familiar
pattern. It is a picture of coHfusing proportions alid one very difficult. for those outside the immediate profession, to analyze or understand.

D tutions. yet they are still dnge'[ ~rhe

EAR Hazel:

control of private board's~ chari~y.

boards, ~Ieempsy'nary iQ tiCtion

t

f

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When I told you in my last letter tbat I was heading out for Geo{gia the next day. I didn't

boards, welfare boards, and in ;one 'think tHree 'days would elapse be-

state. not to be outdone, the fore I wrote again.' Nbther did

chool is under the board control- I think I would be as far up the

ling the university sy)5tem. Ol)ly State as Perry. Tomorrow I in-

three states, four at tbe most-, ,have tend leaving here early and veering

their schools under the regularly off to the left to call on Miss

constituted education boards oper- Lula Wall, county welfare director

ating the state departm~fits of edu- at Butler. then toJ see youn'g Rob-

It is not that there has not {&een cation.

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ert Hancock at Re' noHis. ,If can

good work done in the education

Without a division '6f1 specIal make these contacts and luck, is

of the deaf in Ohio. A:dvocates of

both the residential and the day

schools can justifiably claim mel'it

in their system, method, or' what

have you.

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But ItheIcfon"u'Slon ar.ise,I nd' st

from the fact that there are no

recognized standards fJr measuring

rods in which to evaluate a school,

a method. or a system. 4'here- is 110

way to make scientific comparative

analyses among schools. We justj,fy

oUfselves bY' saying it tannot be

'done. We say this despite thel fact

aU that in

other educ~tionctl eR-

deavors there are understandable

measures~ven of abs~ract quali-

ties and values..In the ge9~.ral Jield

I of e9uca.tion. this is ,done to ,tre e~tent that measures and standa~ds

required of secondary s~hoo~,s and

cqlleg~s (all types) dO,nof recog-

nize state lines. There are s,tate, ~c-

, tional. and American associations

. with definite accrediting' require-

ments. progressively more strin-

gent and exacting Not so with

schools for the deaf. This is a

fault. a sin of omission and a

grievous one at that. This neglect

has gone to the extent that we are

beginning to "stew in our own

juice." We are considered a queer

lot by educators in general. For a

long time, we have had to take this

sitting down- I e haC! no defense.

education withi'n a state to control ~nd direct all' state-sup orted facilt ies ~ for educating I the tleaf.

there is bound to be chaos 'and (on-
/\1 ion. ,BX, tq~ sam,e token, ,~nter-

tate cooperative end aga.m' st an II. mpasse w

havenonr

IS
'/r(\
10 r

up pe

state ~he school operates wtfblO

and is directed by it depirtniept

of education while in tbe otner

it operates under and is direc d by a sJ?ecial ~olitical board whose
functiorts" e fo e g'n g'i te

educational endeavor in that state.

D"esp'.i(te'r all rc1la.ims ~rary. the educatio

t~oI of

tI he t, hJ e

Ir.d It cdoertna-f

tl?rogran{e, as a na~ional ~nitJ ,like

Tops)! 'iu~t growed.' Who. w'lI

h deny it ~
atteJinq

Wm#j.aitkhe1'1s0

a ,t

ra e

trshtea(rtec~onra-fn.lu..uJlsr.l1Ofag-

moq.g the states?

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. Wiben COM-roit is unified with-

in the states and among tbe states, the education of the d~af program in the United States will have made a great step for'Y~d.

When that is done, all these 19wer things shaH be add~d; <;haos ~pd

confusion r,Ml;ill sQpside,and ,we will

00) longen, have to ta!:s;e the jibes
and Uts\dts th~t are heaped upon us .The educational isolationist

wjll have .l;ome out from behind

his "iron curtain" and the educa-

tion of the deaf in America will

have at long last come into jts own.

with me, I am going to beat this

letter home. When I turn towards

home I am like a l'ennessee mule plowing a long corn furrow ~ad

ing towards the barnyard at high

noon. That mule will naturally

w~lk you to I deat1;l, oq th~~ last

row. So it is with m rwbeo", I

really get homeward bound. I just

cao,'t ~ove fast ~q.ough I did not ,get a}V~y frQm St.

Augustine hnti1 afternoon Satur-

th: # -TRIM. (~ay
out and

Mos
(;>t~-,

tl II ~e )fh id

other Y

some even tbe nlg

fQlks got t ~#oreg.,

Lo and behold, I had to go out

,to th ?Fpool or the Deaf, tp get
a cbec cashed beforer,! CQUld get
my car out of that dollar-a-day

P'\r~ipg ~ot f.~d)pay my,(botev bill. N3 ur~II'y liJ<.e a lot of other fo~ks.

I,miscalculated a a week's'stay in

falibtutJlou:0'A~Ii/QwrQidaat

would be. It sur.ely does make

me lov,e old Cave Sp ing. Ijhave

concl udec! IweJ are w.etty well fixed t.i)E;fe' but J we ,.certaIIl~y, fWouId. be

small potatpes in Florida. )

) )sPX th ,night ip, {aycrpss.

s~ ~ t.~ 0lIt 'fl/the/;rai~JSqpd;ty
morning, f couldn't help remem-

ber having been there tbe Sunday

b fOlie. IWas sorry I could not see

our folks again, but like that Tenn-

essee mule, I was headed for borne.

and how I enjoyed riding in that

cooling r,cain! 'II

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Ohio and 0~her states' second But not until our progratyl is My first stop was at Hazelhu~st

trouble-a twin evil of the first- ao.reast ;Qfj and coordinated w~th to see Mr. and Mrs. Corbin Ganey

is the rather crazy quilt pattern [he general education prog~m and [0 examine their SOIl- C9rbin,

of control of the education of the an wer laim our deaf children -are Jr. This little fellow, I decided.

deaf in the several states. Just look reaping their, just desserts. ,

Continued on page nine.

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Faculty Notes
Jessie F. Jones
We are happy to report, although Mrs. Casey is still a patient at Harbin's hospital in Rome, she seems to be improving now and we hope that she will soon be able to be back with us.
*
Clark Fincher, who is student at Georgia Teachers College in Statesboro, visited his parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Fincher one week end recently.
* Mrs. Minter's mother and fa-
ther, Mr. and Mrs. Barnette of Hampton, Ga. visited her February 14.
* Mrs. Irwin visited relatives in
Rockmart one week-end recently.
*
Miss Latham spent the weekend in Atlanta recently.
* Mrs. Highnote attended the
Turner-Edwards wedding 10 Atlanta, January 23.
* Mrs. Jones visited relatives in
Atlanta one week-end recently.
* Mr. Dillard went to Atlanta on
January 23 to ~ttend the wedding of Mrs. Turner's daughter. It was a beautiful wedding.
* Mr. Caple was accused of trying
to get too young during the recent snow. After falling off a bobsled several times, he was in bed for more than a week. The doctor came to his rescue by calling the
trouble pleurisy. Mr. and Mrs. Forbes made a quick trip to Atlanta Friday, January 1.3.
* Miss Arnold spent Saturday in
Rome.
* Miss Chapman visited friends
in Rome recently.
* Mrs. Glenn spent the week-end
in Rome recently.

Mr. and Mrs. Kenion E. Edwards, Jr. were the guests of Mrs. Turner SundQy, February 15. Mrs. Edwards is the former Miss Mary Ann Turner whose wedding was an event of January 23.
* Mr. Hodges has enjoyed the
work of supply teacher for some of the faculty who have had to be absent.
* Miss Clark was called to Rome
recently on account of the illness of her brother.
*
Miss Forbes attended the TurneJ.1-Edwards wedding tn Atlanta on January 23.
Mr. and Mrs. *Tollefson, Miss
Shahan, Mrs. Caple, and Mr. Dillard greatly enjoyed attending the initial showing of "Holiday on Ice for 1948" in Atlanta on February 6.
ADVANCED DEPARTMENT (Continued)
ball. He is sorry that his team can not win every game.
Louida Benson hopes that her father will soon be allright. He had an operation and has not been well for some time.
Maggie Me Gahee will be glad when she gets her new glasses. She likes to read and since h~r eyes have been giving her trouble, she has had to stop reading so much.
Lorraine Kicklighter was \) happy to see her friend. Mrs. Williams. on February 9. Lorraine thought Mrs. Wlliams's new car was beautiful. She could not stay very long with Lorraine because she feared that the water might kee.p her from getting back to Cedartown. When she gets to be a Senior, she hopes that she can work with Mrs. Williams on week-ends.
Eugene Whittle enjoys playing basketball, but he likes footbaIl better. He is eager for spring practice to start so that he can get some good training for next year.
Russel Royston would like to get a job in Cedartown next
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summer. so that he can earn his own money to buy his class ring next year and to pay other expenses that will come in his senior year.
Janie Smith enjoyed being on the program at the Faculty Club February 12. She thought all the dances were very pretty and she hopes that she can be in other programs during the year.
Mary Moon was called home On February 3 on account of the death of her grandfather. She misses him very much.
Duwayne Dukes went home recently. His brother, Cecil. will go to Germany February 15. and the family wanted to be together before he left . They visited another brother, J.W.. who lives at the Rock Georgia while Duwayne was at home.
Mary Baker was very much surprised when her parents came to see her on her birthday in February. They brought her some lovely gifts and in the afternoon they took Mary Moon and her to Center. Alabama. Mary drove the car for a short time and can hardly wait For summer to come so that she can drive often.
Doyle Norris was happy to get back to school. He was sick and had to stay at home for some time. He hopes that he can soon make up all the work he missed while he was away.
Gertrude Hixson has enjoyed studying "Macbeth." She would like for her class to dramatize the play in Chapel some time.
Greatest Fan Game
Basketball, American's only original major sport. attracts more paid admissions than any other sports. The game was originated by Dr. James A. Naismith while he was physical director of the Y.M.CA. in Springfield. Mass., in 189 I, bu t the first real game was not played until January 20. J 892. which day is considered the birthday of basketball. Dr. Nai mith later became J professor at University of Kansas.

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Februrry 1948

SUPERINTEDENT'S CORNER
(Continued)
was not developed mentally nor physically sufficient to enter school. I plan to see him again next summer. The Ganeys are very nice folks. Mrs. Ganey is Ralph White's sister. In fact, I found Ralph at her home. He inisted that I stay for lunch, but I felt that time was too pressing, o off I headed for McRae, Ga. From that point, I had to veer off to the right from my direct route in order to visit and examine Nan j lcAlum who had been referred lo u by Mrs. Annie Lane Sharpe of Brewton-Parker Institute. It was till raining, but, believe it or not, del ightful travel.
I checked in at the Harris Hotel a little late for Sunday dinner. I asked permission to go back in the kitchen to ee about it. You know, those good old south Georgia
egroes are right down my alley. Just a little palaver and a quarter tip each to the maid and cook \ orked like magic. The hotel clerk c;rme back to see what all the talk was about and found us whipping l'.p a dinner even better than he had had. That man knew right away that I wasn't a Yankee, nor even a north Georgian, but just a plain south Georgia cracker and out of the black belt at that.
Just now I am reminded of a letter from Dr. Leonard M. Elstad, president of Gallaudet College, but who, at the time was superintendent of the Minnesota School, wherein he complimented my articles regarding field work. He said, "Keep it up. You seem to find lots of interest in your travel and enJoy the work that most of us concede to be drudgcry." ow how can one help enjoying work when there is a good story every turn you make? For instance. who was this clerk and general manager of the Harris Hotel? He was none other than Spencer J. Joyner, Sr., the father of a celebrity, young twenty-two month old Spencer J. (Jimmy) Joyner, Jr. We saw Jimmy's pict ure in The Atlanta Journal more than a year ago at which lime he was only eight months old. There

was quite a story about his "whistling for food". Jimmy entertained The Journal reporter and everyone in the restaurant with his remarkable ability to whistle many tunes. His favorite was "Rinso White." Now just think. only eight months old.
It was Jimmy's proud maternal grandfather, the muchly beloved Reverend W.F. Buford, pastor of the 'Adel Methodist Church, who had taught him all these tricks. It must be admitted, however, that he had a wonder kid with whom to work. Jimmy is quite a boy and it was a real privilege to become acquainted with him and his dad.
Well. it was Sunday afternoon all right, but I sallied forth again. It was still raining and I was on Highway 30 leading to Mt. Vernon. At Alamo I stopped to inquire the way to the home of Mr. and Mrs. Willie McAlum, c/o Mr. Dennis Cox, Route I, Glenwood. Georgia. Strangely enough, it was a Joyner who came to my rescue. Mr. O. H. Joyner had some faint idea as to where these people could be found. He did more than just try to tell me. He got in the car and stayed with me until we found little Nan in the home of her grandparents. Before we finished traveling here and there inquiring as we went, we were back near Lumber City within a mile of the highway that I had traveled in the morning enroute to McRae. Nan proved to be a fine little girl, totally deaf and needing to be in school. I did not locate the father, but the grandparents, the mother and the mother's sister, Fay Cox. were very much interested. It was good knowing Fay. She is one of
liss Annie's pupils at BrewtonParker Institute. That fine young lady is already imbued with some of the qualities that characterize her noble teacher whom we know it nd love so well.
How in the world am I going to fin ish this letter in the allotted space? Here I am at the Perry Courts, two days away from McRJe. Yet, to leave out several hours \P 'Ill Jt the hom f Rev rend and
Irs. A. G. Heath would not be right. They have a very pleasant
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all home and an inte,resting family.
But the finest thing of was that they were convinced that Rowena should be returned to school. Being out four years is nothing short of a catastrophe, but we are all going to do our best to rectify the error.
This afternoon Miss Louise Houser, out of Houston County Department of Public Welfare, was very kind in helping me find Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Hutto and Marvin, Jr., age six years. It wasn't an easy job since they had moved a couple of times. I would have given up, but you can't beat the persistence and determination of a welfare worker. Little Marvin was wild as a bat (maybe it was because of moving around so much), but he is altogether eligible for admission to the Georgia School for the Deaf. All honors to Mrs. Aurelia
C. Evans, director, and her most
efficient worker, Miss Houser. Yesterday I was in Hawkinsville.
1 did not get there until late afternoon, so I enjoyed a night's rest in one of the finest smalltown hotels in the State. (I hope the coffee shop gives me some meal tickets for this.)
Mrs. Mable M. Cooney. welfare director, was most cooperative in helping me locate two applicants in Pulaski County. neither of whom were eligible to attend a school for the deaf. One had perfect hearing, but. nevertheless, had not developed speech. I asked Mrs. Cooney to take that little fellow with her on her first trip to Atlanta and have Mrs. Davison diagnose the case,
I am about to forget to mention applicant Herman Talmadge McKinney at Cordele. I missed locating him and had to move on to meet my appointment at the Welfare office in Perry. I did leave word and a plan whereby this young fellow will be brought to Macon somtime later when I meet a group there. I have one more call to make tomorrow, but I expect to come on in if it takes until midnight to make it.
Love, Clayton

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February, 1948

DEAF IN A NORMAL SOCIETY
(Continued)
gether. Due to the success of this Fraternity, most insurance companies now write policies for the deaf at regular rates.
Such organizations as these present unlimited possibilities for good and all young deaf people should be encouraged to take an active part in them. They offer an excellent opportunity to exercise qualites of leadership and to render public service that the deaf do not find among hearing people. And one of the greatest needs of the deaf is good leaders and intelligent followers.
Something that gives us alarm is the fact that so many of the younger deaf people seem to be sadly lacking in a sense of civic duty. Few of them show any interest in anything but their personal affairs. When it comes to accepting office or committee appointments in the various organizations. They are perfectly willing to let "George" do it. They seem to think that since they are making a living and having a good time they have no need of organization. It is the older people who went through the "root hog or die" experiences of the depression and who have had to fight for e,verything they h;lve gained, who keep the spark ahve in these organizations. They can't last always and I think one of the very best things you could do for your students is to instill in them a desire to render service to their fellows. In a large measure, the future progress of the deaf people depends on this. I would say that the greatest needs of the deaf are:
1. A wider acquaintance with hearing people looking to a better understanding between the deaf and the hearing.
2. A well rounded education which will give an alert mind, a desire to know what is going on and to participate in it.
3. A sense of responsibility toward their fellowmen and a desire to be of service to them.
I do not know just how we are to gain these .objectives. If I

did, I would apply for Mr. Hollingsworth's job. But I say in all sincerity that I do not envy you your jobs. Your work is tough and requires specialization of the highest order.
I think you are doing a lot toward promoting better understanding by such meetings as you are having tonight and I am honored in being a part of it. You might go further and invite the young people from town to attend your socials for the students so that they will have an opportunity to understand each other.
We on the outside should try to include some hearing friends in all parties, and to pUt forth a little greater effect at making friends. I am by nature a shy sort of person, but I have found that people are usually more than willing to meet you half way if you will only go ahead and try. I always try to do the things 1 am afraid to do, and which my nature recoils from doing. If I fail, 1 can at least say 1 tried, and if 1 succeed the things 1 have to fear become fewer and fewer.
As for the educational aspects, 1 think we should keep one thing in mind. That a well rounded education is the paramount consideration. There is some divergences of opinion as to methods of instruction. 1 think there is some good and bad in all of them. \Ve should concentrate on the objective rather than the approaches for in the final analysis if the deaf child finishes school with a well rounded education and is prepared to take his place in the world will it matter so much how this was achieved?
One final thing we should
keep in mind is that regardless as of how you train the deaf person. it is inevitable that he is going to associate, to a great extent, with other deaf people. Let us then do as a certain old darky did. When asked by a friend how he managed to keep so happy when he had more than his share of life's hardhips. He replied "I just learned to cooperate with the inevitable"
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I want to thank you for inviting me here tonight. I have enjoyed this meeting more than I can say. As time permits, 1 want to become better acquainted with e;lch of you.
Thank you
SOCIAL And CHARACTER DEVEL-
OPMENT Of The DEAF CHILD
Ralph H. Wl1ite
The most important function of any school for the deaf andours along with the rest is to equip its children for life. We have an academ ic department to teach our children how to live and a vocational department to teach them how to earn. But what do we have to develop the character and aid the social growth of our children? Of course, we have the toolsonly they cannot be found in anyone definite place. They an' in the classroom, out on the foot ball field. at a scout meeting, at a dance. and many other place I n fact they are everywhere on the campus.
ocial and character develop, ment is an important phase of of the school life of our children. They come to us in the most formati ve years of thier lives, and it is logical that this school should be the place where their characters are moulded and their social growth takes place. How they will behave. react to different situations, and respond to life around them later- in life will show their beginnings in their school-life. To say why we should teach our children the qualities of good character is needless. because they conform to the law of society. No one, not even a deaf person lives alone. He has to espe-ciil~y live with millions and millions of people who can hear. To many of the deaf people, this is a' foreign world in which they live. The importance of giving our children every opportunity available for social growth can never be overemphasized. The deaf need to live successfully with other people without their handi-

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cap becoming too serious a handicap.
Just how well are we doing in
this type of education and how good are our tools. To find out let us see.
In the matter of religion we have always fared well. Ever since this school was founded, we have made it a point to give our children some form of religious education. Of course. we have been careful not to teach according to any religious creed or doctrine. Our most immediate concern has been to provide the children some foundation on which they may base their thinking later. Recently we started the practice of allowing our children to attend Sunday School in the churches in town. We would just argue that a place of religious atmosphere such as a church is the best place in which to teach our children the principles of Christianity. Furthermore, in a church our children would have a chance to take part in church actives along with their hearing brothers and sisters. Almost all our graduates ard sti'tl carrying on an active interest in religion. In Atlanta the deaf are conducting a drive to raise funds to build their own church. A church would be the most natural center of their social, educational, recreational, as well as spiritual life.
Life is what experience reveals. A school is a world which is fitted to a child. When he leaves school, he then passes into a world to which he must fit himself. This transition for a hearing child is great, but that of a deaf child i greater. Here in school we must give our children numerous group experiences which will help our children to become better adjusted to life outside school. For this reason, we have recognized the Boy and Girl Scout organization as a great builder of youth. Through group experiences children learn to work, play, and live with one another. They also provide outlets for the restless energy of the children by means of outdoor life, development of certain useful skills like First-aid, swimm-

ing, life-saving, and outdoor cooking. A great deal of stress is put on character, leadership, and schola1'6hip. Because children at a certain time in their life how a strong tendency to join an organized group for the purpose of seeking adventure. both Scout organizations are desirable substitutes for gangs whose activities may become anti-social.
Not all children will remain interested in Scout work for very long. New interests come to destroy the hold such organizations have on them. The new interests may come in the form of athletics. dance. parties. and the desire to mix more with the opposite sex. Our athletics are well-organized and their value for health need not be mentioned. Whenever feasible, we have always held dances and given parties for our children. These social affairs offer the children concrete situations in which they may practice the art of mixing with people. No where can we find deaf children with greatr social poise than our own. The reason is partially because all our teachers mingle freely with the boys and girls. And in doing this. they serve as models. We have been broad-minded about allowing frequent get-togethers. We find in doing away with strict segregation of sexes solves many disciplinary problem and protect the warped ideas one side may have of the other side. Many of our boys and girls have special talent for dancing and a good number 0 them have been popular outside school as dancers
Teachers eating with the pupils in the dining-room have instilled in our child!'en a consciousness of manners and the desire to imitate the best in etiquette. Beauty culture though a vocational course in itself. is closely linked with the social development of our girls. In improving their appearance they have Stained confidence and pOise.
The one thing which is the most intelligent approach toward giving our boys and girls here special training in club work and
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orgaOlzmg techniques and parliamentary procedure is the Canteen which only lately the students have voted to change to the Lyceum Club. Who knows when a little training may stand our children in good stead someday? Outside school there are several
rganzations in which they may take part and assume leadership such as the Georgia Association of the Deaf and local chapters of the National Fraternal Society of the Deaf. One of the aims of this club -s to teach our children social res,)onsibility.
Dormitory life has the most decided influence upon social and charact~r training of the deaf child. We all know that character educattion cannot be successfully imparted through an academic medium. A child can read or listen to vol umes of the best advice, but the chances of his retaining it long are few unless opportunities arrive to put it to use in a concrete situation. And the dormitory is the place where situations happen daily. One good trait found in all d af children is punctuality In a school like ours where everything runs according to schedule, this habit i forced on them until it becomes merely convenient to be on time. 0 one would question the fine points of that policy since punctuality is a most desireable trait for one having a job. Very few of our graduates are criminally inclined. We can claim credit for this--since we teach respect and obedience for law and authority very early in life. By and large. they have proved to be very good citizens. Th e deaf as a rule are very clannish, but their preference for the society of people their of their kind is quite understandable.
We have done well in what we do. However, we have one problem. This chool is not the one one facing this problem. In fact this problem exists in every school for the deaf It has baffled educators of the deaf for generations. As yet there is no good method for correcting this problem. It is language. It is a handicap for many of the deaf people. It works hard-ships

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FtbrUtlrr;, 1948

on them. There is story once told me by a college professor, One time a deaf man had parked his car in a place where no parking was al-
lowed. Upon being given a police ticket, he tried to argue by pointing to a sign saying 'Fine for Parking.' He had one idea, and of course, law had another. Ignorance did not excuse him This problem often has a strong effect on the social life of our deaf people.
We teachers are like gardeners and the children entrusted to our care are like plants. In order that these plants may develop fuly and successfully, we must give them every tender care. We must see that they receive all the basic necessities such as sunshine, food, and water -we must give them room to de'velop and spread out. Then we must weed out all the undesirable factors which might hinder their growth. If this is done in their early life carefully and constantly, they will come a full maturity and develop into beautifull characters. Not all our plants will be strong and beautiful-this is too much to expect. But if a large proportion of the boys and girls develop into upright, honest, and uesful citizens, isn't the time and thought and care we lavish upon them in their formative years very mucn worthwhile?
Tonight some of the boys and girls from the advanced and intermediate departments will demonstrate several of the different phases of dancing. Quite a few can hear a litle,but most of them dance through the medium of vibration. Vibration reach them by way of the feet. Some musical intruments give greater vibration than others. Other give hardly any vibration at all. For instance, the beats of a drum can be felt on the floor with the feet.
The drum is by for the most distinguishable of all instruments. On the other hanh, a violin just gives strains which would be very difficult for a deaf person to distinhave to keep this in' mind when we buy records for Our children. We try to see that a drum is played on

each records. Swing or in the language of children, give is alway popular without our children. In the prmary department classes are conducted in rhythm as an aid ia speech trainini. Rhytm is also an aid in the trainini of time. 1 cannot promise that the children will be flawless in their steps because once in a while some of them may lose their timing

FACULTY CLUB PROGRAM February 12 1948

Paper: Social and Character Development of the Deaf ChildRalph H. White
Demonstrations of different phases of dancing:

Waltz

Spanish

Acrobatics Square Dance

Tap Dance

Ballroom

Military

-c. Introduction of guest speaker H. Hollingsworth Supt.

"The Deaf In A Normal Society" -Ernest C. Herron, President, Georgia Association of the Deaf

SPaRTS REVIEW

Georgia 22

Lyerly 42

Whittle White (5) Baker (14) Little (1) Byrd (2)

F Brady (17) F Jones (10) C Lindsey (4) G Cook (9)
Morrison

Substitutions: Georgia - Hayes. Potts, Callaway: Lyerly - Wyatt (2), Ragland. Score at half: L yerl y 21, Georgia 8

Georgia 19

Lyerly 25

Whittle (4) White (3) Baker (9) Little (2) Byrd (1)

F Brady (7) F Jones (4) C Lndsey (7 G Morrison G Cook (7)

Subatitions: Georgia - Hattrich. Callaway, R. Dukes: LyerllyWyatt, Ragland. Score at half: Lyerly 17 G. S. D. 12

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Georgia 31

Mt. Berry 42

V. hittle (3) White (4) Baker (14) Callaway (9) Byrd

FW. Phillips I I F Barnett (8) C Butler (9) GMcNullan (5) G Langsten (2)

Substitutons: G. S. D. -Hatt-

rich (I): Mt. Berry-Dykes (5)

M. Phillips. Edenfield, McBrayer

(2), Brannon.

Georgia 24

*
Buchanan 22

W.hittle (2) White (8) Baker (12) Callaway (2) Byrd

F

Kizer (6)

F Philpet (5)

C Brown (2)

G Dollar (2)

G Matthews (7)

Substitutions: Georgia-Little: Buchanan-Payton. Score at half: Georgia 13 Buchanan 13

*
Georgia 24

Coosa 31

Whittle (1) White (10) Baker (8) Callaway Byrd (2)

F Belvia ( 1)
F Smith
C Hall (24)
G Crider (2) G Earwood (I)

Substitutions: G. S. D. -Little

(3) , Hattrich: Coosa-Daniel

(3). Clark, Gentry.

Score at half: Georgia 15 Coosa 9



Georgia 16

Taylorsville 46

WhittlIe (2) Callaway White (4) Little (7) Byrd (4)

F

Lanier

G Harris (8)

F P. Arp (4)

C F. Arp (26)

G Osborne (5 )

Sltb titutions: Georgia -Hayes, Hattrich, R. Dukes: TaylorsvilleWilliam, Pinson (3), Westbrook.

Georgia 22

*
Taylorsville 26

Whittle

F

White (9)

F

Byrd (4)

C

Callaway (4) G

Little (7)

G

F. Arp (6) Osborne (3) P Arp (4)
Harris (4) Satcher (5)

Substituttions :-Taylo,rsville William (2) Pinson (2). Lanier. Score at half Taylorsville 16 Georgia 14

SCHOOL

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

MARCH

Vol. 48

No.6

THE SCHOOL HELPE

Volume 48

MARCH, 1948

The World's Safest Drivers

by Arthur H. Lewis

. Reprinted from the March issue, 1948. of the "Lincoln-Mercury Times", a publication of the Ford Motor Company,
I f someone asked you to guess who are the safest drivers in the world. what would you answer? What group would you choose, and why ? Would you select young men and women of keen co-ordination and quick reaction-time? Would you choose an older group because, presumably. there is more caution, better judgmen t, and less hurry in middle age? Or would you give the safety laurels to the true professional- the truck-drivers, chauffeurs, and cab-men?
There is reason in all these anSwer , They are all good, And they are all wrong. The ironic fact is that in some states the world's safest motorist are prohibited by law from driving at all, They are deaf mutes!
In a nation with an annual highway toll of 40,000 dead and nearly a million injured, the driving record of the deaf mute is almost unbelievably good. More than that, it is a discovery, There is drama, but no distortion, in the statement that the applied example of the deaf can cut our highway accidents to an irreducible minilnum.
In Pennsylvania about 3,000,000 persons hold opertor s licenses. Of these, 3,000 are deaf mutes. No deaf mute in Pennsylvania has ever been involved in a fatal accident. Still more significant is the fact that no deaf mute has had a single reportable accident involving personal injury in the past nine years! The same number of unhandicapped driver would have had 400 per anal-injury accident in I his period.

These very vital statistics come from the records of Mr. T. Elmer Transeau, Director of Pennsylvania's Bureau of Highway Safety which tontrols licensing of all drivers.
The National Safety Council figures for 1946 give Pennsylvania a death rate of 8.1 per hundred mi;llidn automobile< miles. This compares strikingly with the record of the 3,000 deaf mutes who drove not only with no fatal accident. but no accident at all.
The remarkable achievement of deaf mute drivers in Pennsylvania is no matter of chance. It is the result of a carefully developed plan with a continuous follow through by both State authorities and the drivers themselves.
In 1923, during the late Gillard Pinchot's first term as Governor. driving tests were first inaugurated in Pennsylvania. At that time, highway experts exerted pressure to refuse licenses to the physically and mentally handicapped. Deaf mutes would thereby fall in the group barred from operating motor cars on Pennsylvania highways. word of the discrimination reached Henry J. Pulver" pastor of Philadelphia's all Souls Church for the Deaf, and himself a deaf mute. Mr. Pulver was an excellent driver. Morever, his car was reqiured in his duties to his congregation of more than 200 people. Accordingly, he went to Governor Pinchot to plead the deaf mutes case.
"If you're willing," Mr. Pulver typed during the interview, ''I'll show you how well a deaf mute can drive."
With the minister at the wheel of his car, Governor Pinchot went on a half-hour tour through Harrisburg streets. The test con-

vinced him; but in order to satisfy the sa fety experts, the Governor made several stipulations to which Mr. Pulver readily agreed.
First the deaf mute must pass a rigid examination by the State police. Next, he must submit to a character examination given by a committee of deaf mutes. Finally, he must obey a stringent ruling against alcoholic beverages.
The day after their interview, Governor Pinchot appointed Mr. Pulver chairman of a special licensing committee. Two other deaf mute were chosen on the committee to represen t centrraJ and we tern Pennsylvania.
Instead of the usual over-theroad test lasting ten minutes and covering about a mile, the deaf mutes' tests were to be twice as long in time and thrice in distance.
The unhandicapped driver was asked a dozen or so questions on the State motor vehicle code. He was permitted one error. The deaf mute was to be asked fifty queslion. He was permitted no errors.
If the handicapped driver scored a hundred percent on the vehicle code test. he went on to a member of the deaf mute committee for a character examination.
In this test his way of life, his temperament, philosophy and attitude were carefully weighed. Mr. Pulver had a reason for this. "If we get one irresponsible, hot-headed driver who becomes involved in an accident," said the minister, "he may spoil it for all of us.'
Mr. Pulver underscored the subject ofldrinking with this question:
"Can you imagine what would happen (to our cause) if a deaf mUle driver were stopped for a minor traffic violation and th~

THE SCHOOL HELPER

March, 1948

policeman smelled liquor on his breath?"
Of their own volition-it is not required by law-most deaf mutes take the special "clinical" examination given in Philadelphia by Stephen Morris of the Pennsylvania State Police.
The main purpose of the clinic is to determine what makes drivers prone to accidents. Used chiefly by taxicab companies and other fleet operators, the clinic is regarded by the deaf driver as added insurance for maintaining his group's hundred-percent safety record. The clinic tests his eye-hand, eye-foot coordination, his vision and vigil-
ance. Officer Morris, who has been
examining handicapped drivers for twenty years, says the deaf. driver "is the most careful conSiderate, and intelligent driver of all."
"In the clinic test" said Morris, "he reaches the highest scores possible. In the over-the-road test he really proves his fine driving ability . . . What's more important than his mechanical aptitude is the deaf driver's attitude ... His consideration of the other driver is remarkable. He never seems impatient.
Highway Safety Director Transeau names five factors, which he feels make the driving record'of the deaf unbeatable.
1. He obeys an iron-clad rule against drinking.
2. Each time he gets behind the wheel, he drives as though he were taking a test not only for himself but for all physically handicapped people.
3. His powers of observation and alertness are highly developed.
4. No conversations or outside noises distract him.
5. He believes in the Golden Rule and practices it.
My own ride with a deaf mute was a revealation. Reverend Pulver drove me from one end of Philadelphia to the other. He never used the horn. He never hurried, yet always seemed to reach traffic lights when they were green.
Cars on busy Broad Street shot

ahead and around us. But when we arrived at the City Hall, these same drivers turned up again-behind us-to fidget while waiting for the lights to change.
Dr John Bowman statistician for Pennsylvania's Bureau of High way Safety, comes close to knowing what will happen on the Commonwealth's roads this year. Fifty thousand people will be injured. Seventeen hundred will be killed. Dr. Bowman predicts that none of the killers will be deaf mutes.
From the record, it seems conclusive that these handicapped people have discovered the secret of saving life and avoiding injury on our highways. The national application of their formula could radically reduce our annual toll of 40,000 deaths and a million injuries.
Why don't we do it? What have the world's safest drivers got that the rest of us haven't--except determination? They have set perfection as their goal and achieved it by submitting to stringent tests by training, attitude, selfimposed rules and by honorin~ a tradition of careful and courteous
drivin~.
The deaf mutes have proved that our high wallS can be safe and they have shown us how to make them safe. Their example is no less forceful because ther; can nei~ ther preach to us nor listen to our excuses.

SPORTS REVIEW

Georgia 25 Darlington "B" 34

White (4)

FCrooland (4)

Whittle (6)

F Parker (4)

Little (5)

F Watkins (8)

Callaway (6) G Abercrombine

Byrd (2)

G Wilcox (5)

Substitutions: Georia - Hattrich.

R. Dukes (2); Darlinton "B" -

Potts (8) Barron (5). Score at

half: Darlinton 16 - Georgia 9.

Georgia 32

Cave Spring 36

Whittle (8) F Huckaby (1)

White (9)

F Acker (0)

Byrd (4)

C Tucker (9)

Collaway (5) G Gladney

Little (6)

GSmith'man (6)

Substitutions: Georgia

R.

Dukes ; Cave Spring-Buford (4)

Beck (2), Robinson (4).
Score at half: Georgia 18 Cave Spring 8

Georgia 29

Armuchee 35

Whittle (2) F Hicks (17)

White (7)

F Hetrick (3)

Little (16) C Hyde (4)

Callaway (1) G H. Bailey (6)

Byrd (1)

G R. Bailey (2)

Substitutions: Georgia- Hayes,

Hattrich (3), R.Dukes: Armuchee

coggin, Chastam (2), Ables.

Score at half: Armuchee 16 Geor-

gia 11

Georgia 34

Taylor~ville 40

White

F F. Arp (15)

W'hittle (12) F Osborne (8)

Little (16). C P. Arp (13)

Callaway (6) G Harris (2)

Byrd

G Lanier

Substitutions: Georgia-Hattrich

R. Dukes: Taylorsville-Satcher,

Harris, L.

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Georgia 21

Cave Spring 19

Georgia 17

Armuchee-I 2

Georgia 18

Taylorsville 20

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From the Primary Side

When we first came to school

we did not know one day of the

weeks from the other. Now that

Wit are learning the meaning of the

days, we look forward to Friday,

for it is on the day that we go to

town if the weather permits.

We felt very big at first going

to the drug store, sitting around

the tables, and having ice cream

given to us. Now that we are older

and have better comprehension,

our teacher hands us our nickels

when we get to the drug store and

we are allowed to make our own

decisions as to how we will spend

our money.

Larry and Jackie always want

"pink" ice cream. Barbara Sue and

Fulton are experts at blowing

bubbles with bubble gum so that

is their choice. Barbara Jackson

buys candy. Sarah, Barbara And-

erson\ Herman, Johnny, and

Russell enjoys balloons so much

that they always want them.

It is hard for us to decide what

to buy when we have only a nickel

to spend and want so many things.

Sometimes, if we have enough

money and have been "very good"

we are allowed two nickels,

We do so much enjoy our trips

to town, for we see a great many

things that tie up with our work in

school as well as the pleasure of

buying the little "extras".

_-Miriam Minter's Class

Our classroom is the most con-

venient place to set up the picture

machine, so we feel very important

when it is time for a show. We like

having all the other boys and girls

come in to enjoy the picture with

us. Then we have a show of our

own after they are gone. We get

almost as much fun from "discuss-

ing" the pictures and telling what

we saw as we do from seeing them.

Sometimes our teacher writes "I

saw

"on the blackboard,

and then she lets each of us find a

picture or helps us draw one if we

can't write the name of the thing

that interested us most. There were

so many things that we wanted to

tell about in "The Adventures of

Peter Rabbit" that we had to fill

in the blanks in more than one

sentence each in order to get them all into our story.
Another picture that we got lots of fun out of discssing was one of an ice carnival.We doubt that even very accomplished ice skaters realize that they get themselves into as many different positions as we found to imitate. Our little friends, the stick men, helped us out in that. Each of us tried to remember something that we saw a skater do. Then we posed and our teacher drew a stick man in the position we were in. You should have seen our blackboard when this exercise was finished! We felt that we had almost put on an ice carnival of our own.
We are looking forward to more shows, and we hope that they will have plenty of action in them.
--Jim Irwin's Class
The spring season is one that we all welcome, particularly do we welcome it here at G.S.D., because it means more time outdoors that, on account of bad weather, we have had to spend inside.
Our weekly trips to town have been resumed, and they mean a great deal to us. Each trip means to us boys and girls ice cream cones and an opportunity to get outdoors. To our teacher it is an aid in gathering language for us, a lesson in nature study, and an aid in calendar work, since we are always eager to mark off the days as they pass and to count the remaining ones before our next trip to town.
Language development is one of the most important phases of a deaf child's education. To an outsider it might seem that we are wastinp; time outdoors, but it is much easier for us to learn by doing things and associating names with real objects than by classroom drill altogether.
-Mildred Wright's Class Last fall when most of the children in our class started their second year in schooL all of them did manuscript writing. This method has been in use up Ito March. Suddenly they decided they

to script, which they did almost overnight with very little trouble. One or two of the most immature children still do manuscript, but by the end of the year they will have changed to script. too.
Our Sunday work has reached an interesting stage. With Easter coming soon, our handwork includes coloring rabbits, eggs, Easter lilies, and Easter baskets along with writing and speaking our Bible verses and prayer. By meeting together for forty-five minutes every Sunday we hope to instil! in the children the habit of attending Sunday school whether at home or at school. Our prayer now is: I love God. I want to be good.
-Mabel Fincher's Class We have been working on greetings recently. We are now able to say, "Good morning", and when asked, "trow are you?", we say, "Fine, thank you".
We went to the hospital onlt day last week to weigh. Our height and weight chart showed that we are growing taller and that we weigh more, too. Patricia has gained ten pounds since September.
Now that we are growing up, we are also working harder in school in order to keep pace with our physical growth. We have made vocabulary books and use them often for reference. All our new words and phrases are placed under the correct key-words and symbols as we learn them. So far we have had these headings: Who. How many, What color, What, Whose. Where. When, Verbs. Pronouns, and Adjectives.
We are looking forward to Easter. The time for Easter rabbits, chickens, and eggs is drawing near. We are very happy that we are allowed to go home for the holidays and hope that all of you have a pleasant Easter.
-Bettye Arnold's Class We are still busy learning new words and phrases that we place under the key-words and symbols we know. So far our vocabulary is classified under Who. How many, What color. What. Whose,
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THE SCHOOL HELPER

March, i 948

THE SCHOOL HELPER

All communication should be addreeaed to the Sehool Helper, Cave Spring, Georgia.
Entered at the post office at Cave 8prin, Georgia, as second class matter November 1889. Acceptance for mailing at a special rate tlf postage provided in Section 1103. Act of October 3, 1917. Authorized October 31, 1918.
Published monthly during the school year in the printing department of the Georgia School for the Deaf.

OLAF TOLLEFSON MARIE KENNARD OLAF TOLLEFSON

Editor Auociate' Editor Printin. Inatruetor

VOLUME 48

March,1948

NO.6

THE SCHOOL HELPER'S PLATFORM
For th. PromotioD of all State Aided School.
For the Deaf
1. Improved recognition as educational institutions with control in the hands of educational boards.
2. Sectional and national associations with accrediting authorities and approved measuring rods and standards suited to each association, terminating in the highest requirements for membership in a national association for schools for the deaf.
S. A greater Gallaudet College serving the interests of all the states with special emphasis on research findIngs openly arrived at and freely disseminated in promoting the educational interests of all the schools.
4. A full utilization of services that can be rendered by the U. S. Office of Education in keeping with the spirit and purpose of its creation.
6. Federal equilization aid for education that will guarantee equal opportunities for deaf boys and girls in all states.
6. Utilization of a full time state Field Agent and Placement Officer (or both) to locate and enroll deaf children in the State Schools for the Deaf and to work with the Department in job placement and vocational rehabilitatioJl of ex-pupils and graduates.

OPEN HOUSE A D EXIBITS
As a part of the Centennial Celebration there will be exhibits of various kinds. They will cover most phases of the work of the pupils in school.
Beginning in the Primary Building the classroom displays will show each step in the child's learning process from the time he' enters school. The work in the intermediate and advanced departments will include classroom displays, lesson assignments, textbooks, workbooks, and .tests. Every advancement from school entrance to graduation will be illustrated.
There will be bulletin board displays, Scout activities, athletic interests, religious training, and pictures of campus life to interest all visitors.
The vocational exhibits will show the skills taught and the finished products in each vocational classroom.
The Primary Building, Freeman Hall. the Boys' Vocational Building and the girls' vocational classrooms on the second floor of the dining room build-

ing will be open all day each day of the celebration. Scouts will be on hand to show visitors around. All exhibits will be plainly marked. Visitors will be welcome to stay as long as they can at each exhibit.
In the science rooms at the end of the first floor of Freeman all there will be an historical exhibit covering the hundred years of the school's life. There will be old. documents, record books, pictures, scrapbooks, newspapers, and other groupings which will be of interest to our friends-old and new.
The Georgia School for the Deaf is not like Topsy. It didn't "just growed." There has been consistent planing from the first for the logical expansion of the school's program and activities. This has been a school even from the first four pupils and it is stili growing. The exhibits will help to show what .has been accomplished in this span of vears and help to visualize our dreams and ambitions for the years to come. We have not arrived at our ultimate goal yetwe are only on our way. -ED.M.
INFORMATION WA TED
The first twenty pupils to enter the Georgia School for the Deaf are listed in the order of their admission:
I. Temperence L. Jordan May 15, 1846: Newton County.
2. Martin McDuffie May IS, 1846: Puaski Co. 3. Thomas Mims, May IS, 1846: Thomas Co.
.+. Elmira Pugh, May IS, 1846; Upson County.
5. Simpson Matthews, Sept. II. 1846: Lafayette. Waker County.
6. Marcus Raiford. Nov. 28, 1846: Hamilton. Harris County.
7. M. J. Berry, Nov. 28, 1846 McDonough, Henry County.
8. Mary McLeod, Dec. 3, 1846: Montgomery Co. 9. Margaret McLeod, Dec. 3, 1846; Montgomery
County. 10. George L. Birdsong, Feb.!' 1847: Americus,
Sumter County. II Elizabeth L. Birdsong, Feb.!' 1847: Americus,
Sumter County. 12. Martha S. Birdsong Feb.!. 1847: Ameircus.
Sumter County. 13. Sarah Blizzard, Feb. 1847; Covington. New-
ton County. 15. William Beall, 1847 - 48. 16. James D. Wright, 1847 - 48. 17. John W. Hoge, 1847 - 48. 18. Mary T. Hoge, 1847 - 48. 19. Angeline Prior, 1847 - 48. 20 T. Catherine Carrender. 1848 - 49.
This group was instructed in a log cabin which stood on the campus of Hearn School Academy. Any information regarding relatives of these former pupils should be sent to Mr. Hollingsworth at once.

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Superintendent's Corner

I the constitution of the Convention of American Instructors of

the Deaf under "Objects of the

A Convention
Plank

Organization," the Fourth reads as fdllows: "As an association to stand

committed to no particular theory. method. or sys-

tem, and adopting as its guide the following motto: 'Any method

for good results; all methods, and

wedded to none.'"

This objective has 'become a

truism that time and trial have

only tended to solidify and make

more secure in its position. As a

matter of fact. any treatment or

discussion regarding the over-all

olan for the education of the deaf

becomes an educational faux pas,

and otherwise ridiculou . the mo-

ment it departs from this bedrock principle.

We have. in the na~t. expounded

a renewed emphasis on speech

tr<lininQ' and Q"ave as reason. im-

proved aural approaches. the retention of speech for an increa~ed

number of deafened persons. and to

:lvoid neS!lect of that deaf child

who can develop intelligible speech

without neglecting his education

in the doing. (In- the ratter cat-

ellory. there is a smaller percentage than w~ like to admit.) We even

subscribe to Mrs. Rolfe Kennard's

theory when she says. "To the un-

initiated his speech (meaning the

deaf pupil) may be difficult to

follow. but his family and friends

understand what he says, and this

normal means of communication

is a great asset to him all through

life."

But when meaningless articula-

tion is emphasized to the neglect

of language, reading. and good so-

cial attributes. irreparable damage

is done. The teaching of language

and the development of reading

skills require infinitely more skill

and patience than does the teach-

ing of speech and speech-reading.

It is relatively of greater impor-

tance. Even the casual thinker will

realize that the acquirement of lan-

guage and reading vocabulary must stay far ahead of the ability to speak. The person who is not familiar with all these requisites to good teaching and does not put the child above method is not worthy of the name "teacher" in its largest sense. It is true that one may be a speech specialist. another a good language teacher, and still another a manualist. but to neither should be entrusted the whole education and training of the deaf child.
In times past, we have pointed out what we thought were many woeful weaknesses in our national program. but the propounded objective number Four in the Convention's constitution is not one
of them.

I N this atomic age. this highly commercialized era. when duca-

tion has become a necessity rather

than a luxury. at-

Basic

titudes. personal

Needs h a bit s. manual

dexterity, and a

good language background have be-

come basic needs not only for deaf

students. but for all students.

There is nothing that can satisfy

a deaf person like economic secu-

rity. There is nothing that makes

him feel like he belongs and is a

supporting unit in society like be-

ing able to make his own way.

In the February issue of The Illinois Advance. an editorial under the caption, "A Look Ahead". very well emphasizes these facts. This editorial in part is as follows:

"This real test of the program is yet to come. During the war and continuing into more recent years, deaf workers have had no great difficulty in securing employment. We have an "Employ the Physically Handicapped Week" with widespread and effective publicity, and a large number of employers have adopted the policy of employing a certain number of phy 'ically handicapped workers on a percentage basis.

But-and this is very natural to ask-will these gains be held when Jobs become more <fifficult to get? Obviously it is impossible to forecast all the factors that will be involved. The deaf, in a competitive labor market will be up against the same difficulties; the appeal to enlightened humanitarinism will be less effective. Still the essential requirements will remain: good working habits and specialized training. The school should be primarily concerned with the first; the latter requirement will be met by the above (O.V.R.) program.
Schools for the deaf need not be turned into trades and techincal training schools as is usually advocated in difficult times. There is much room for improvement but we can see very clearly now that basic training in attitude and laD-
guage development are still para-
mount".
~~
Y ouny British Dancers
The Deaf Quarterl y News from England recently carried a picture of four deaf dancers. and had the following to say about them.
"The Deaf Quarterly News believes that any attempt to overcome the handicap of deafness is worthy of mention and especially so when those concerned are as young as the four Sunderland girls who appear in our photograph. Ranging in age from II to 13 these four pupils of the Barbara Priestman School for the Deaf an winning high praises for the excellence of their dancing displays. Skilful tuition coupled with great concentration have enabled them to master not only the intricacies of the graceful ballet but also the faster rhythms of modern chorus dancing. We wish them still further success. lknowing full well that while they are giving pleasure to others they are themselves enjoying a happiness which they could easily have missed".
-Ontario News

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From the Intermediate Department

Edna Pope was very glad to see Gone \Vith the Wind March 9th because she learned so many things from it. She enjoyed seeing it and wishes that she could go to see it
again.
Louise Boyd was glad to get a letter from her mother March 14. She sent Louise some money and told her to buy herself a dress and shoes for Easter in Atlanta. She told her that her daddy's shoulder was well and that he could work a little a few days at a time.
Inez Smallwood will not go home for Easter because she lives too far away. Her sister wrote her that she would try to come to see her on Easter. Inez will be happy to ee her sister again.
Rose Mary Smith went to town Saturday afternoon. She bought
some peanut brittle. She liked it. Rosemary Smith was surprised
that Martha Maxey went home Sunday morning. Rosemary asked the girls why she went home. They told her that Martha's grandmother died. She was sorry. She hopes that Martha will comes back to school soon.
The boys work every Saturday morning. Robert Wooten and Howard Ledford worked in the hospital. TheY' swept. mopped, and waxed. That's all.
Some of the boys went to Rome to the movie, but Howard didn't
want to go. Martha Maxey went home
March 14th because her grandmother died. Everyone was very
sorry. Margie Ledford said that she
had a good dream one Thurday night. She dreamed about her brother and uncle. Her brother took her to New York with him and got her some new shoes. He bought himself a new car and a new house. Margie got angry with him because he didn't let her stay with him in his big new house. She went off by herself and met her uncle. She told her uncle everything that her brother did and her uncle took her back home to Georgia.

One SaturdjiY afternoon Fay Johnson wanted to play a game with Barbara Ashworth and she said. "all right." So they played in Fay's bedroom. Fay got her finger bent and he cried. Grace Roberts went with her to the hospital and the nur e fixed it for her.
Billie Jean Smith got a sweet letter from her mother March 12th and she was glad to hear from her.
Frances Tatum is happy that her mother may come to see her at Easter. Frances hopes so, but Savannah is a long way from Cave Spring.
Jack Watkins likes to have something in the aquarium in his bedroom window. He has a small turtle four small fish, and two big fish in it now. He had lots of fun with the turtle. He found it in the creek and painted it red with finger nail polish. Dan Jones has one, too, but he bought his in Rome and it is orange in color.
Mary Suggs's sister. Ruby, has a baby boy born on March 2nd. His name is William Dryden. He is a cute baby. He weighed eight pounds. Mary's brother-in-law. Bill, is proud of his new son. Mary can't wait to see her new
nephew. Louise Boyd has been invited
to Ruth Owen's for the Easter holidays. Mrs. Boyd has written to Mr. Hollingsworth saying that Louise may go. Louise is eager to
go.
Vinton Troup is very happy that the weather is springlike now. He hopes that some of the boys will play baseball next month. He wants to play baseball now, but they are having spring football practice. As soon as it is warmer, the baseball will be here.
Ann Thompson wants to see her family next summer. She misses her family. She wishes that she could go home for Easter, but her family will come to see her here Easter.
Eugene Baggett is happy now that it is spring here. He will play baseball in April. He likes to play baseball very much. He hopes that

he w ill be a fine baseball player.
When school closes. \V.c. Wooten will go home and get a job in a dairy in Macon. He will be very happy to work in the dairy He will put his money in the bank to save it.
Ruth Owens wanted to invite Louise Boyd to go home with her for Easter and her mother gave her permission. Louise ond Ruth will leave school March 25th for Easter. They are glad because they are going and they will go shopping in Atlanta the day before Easter.
Frances Jane Cox was surely glad to get a letter from her mother last Friday at noon. Her mother will send her some pretty dresses, a camera, and some other things for Easter. She hopes that the weather will be shining and beautiful for Easter.
Mary Ann Pate will go home for Easter Thursday March 25th. ::>he is very happy. Mrs. Pate wIll buy new clothes for Easter for John Pate and her. ~he knows that they will have a good time at home because they .11 wa ys do.
Guy Jones hkes to play lag. l.Jen~, .t- ranklln, tugene, and Guy played tag one day III iVbrch. Guy ran all over and 11ad a tine lime.
Betty Brown's father will send her some new shoes soon. ~he will not go home for caster and that makes her sad.
Fain Gritfin skated for an hour March 14th. He likes to skate all
the time. He Jumped over the high jump and ran around the road about three times that day, too.
Jene Pritchett will go home with Fay Nelle Evans for Easter. Fay elle invited her to go. She thinks that she will be bashful with Fay Nelks family. They will go to see Margie Ledford on Saturday.
Vivian Turner likes the ways we eat in the dinning room now. The boys and. girls eat together and tbey cbange tables every two weeks. The teacbers do not cbange
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THE SCHOOL HELPER

arch, 1948

PRIMARY SIDE
(Continued) WJlere When, Verbs, Adjectives, and Pronouns.
We are not so busy but that we can take time out now and then for a little fun. We know that all work and no play is bad for growing boys and girls.
Two of our play times recently were a Valentine box and a Valentine party. We could not have them together because we had too many valentines to give to our friends. So we went to the boys' playroom before lunch where the older boys and girls helped the teachers pass out the valentines. That afternoon we had a good time playing going to Jerusalem, ten pins, and bingo.
\Ve had nice refreshments, or really an early supper, in the dining room. Mrs. David, our new matron, had the room looking very pretty with red and white crepe paper and red valentines.
We enjoyed the box. the party, and the delicious supper so much that we arc looking forward to another "play time" soon.
-May F. Glenn's Class
Our school has recently purcha~ed a new moving picture machine. The children are thrilled Jnd look forward to each picture with much interest. The films are furnished by the Department of Education. and there is a great variety of subjects to choose from.
The children enjoyed the story of Bunny Rabbit and are looking forward to Jack and the Beanstalk. Mr. Caple tells us ahead what the pictures will be so that we can read the stories in the classroom before we see them. The pictures make the stories more realistic and help the children remember them much longer. Questions are <Isked after we see the pictures. They are a great help to the teachers. and we hope to have them
often.
The children are all very happy over the long Easter vacation. Patsy, Sandra P.. Sandra B.. .Llmes. Joe Ann. Jimmie. and Alton are planing to spend the

holidays at home. Avus, Margene, Charles, Franklin, and Ronald are looking forward to a happy Easter here at school.
---Jessie F. Jones's Class Spatter painting is the latest interest in our art classes. Perhaps you would like to know how it is done. If you have an old toothbrush. some ink or tempera paint, a cigar box. and some screen wire, you can spatter paint. too. Of cour e, a pattern is neces'Sary and it can be simple or as elaborate as you wi h. You can use real flowers and leaves. So far, we have used only simple patterns of birdhouses and flowers cut from heavy paper. The e were pinned to art paper in order to hold them in
place. We tore off the tops and bot-
toms of cigar boxes and tacked the wire over one side. The screened boxes were then placed over the patterns, The toothbrushes were dipped in tempera paint of the desired coor. It is always best when dipping the brushes to wipe off all excess ink or paint. When the area around the pattern has a thin coat of paint. you then remove the pattern, and stand back to admire your design silhouetted against a
mist of color. We are enjoying this new ad-
venture in the realm of art, and so
will you. -Geverna Chapman's Class
The children enjoyed the Valentine party very much. They had fun playing going to Jerusalem, ten pins. and bingo. After the party, they went to the dining room for early supper-and such a good supper it was. Of course. they enjoyed that. too.
Carol and Clarene saw Peggr Highnote on the sidewalk in town one day. They were surprised to know that she could walk.
Dickie Taylor and James Chapman went home the weekend of February 20. They had a
good time. Milton played football on Sun-
day afternoon. He was very sore
for several days. J. D, got a box of candy bars
one day. He pa sed them in the

dining-room. Claude got a nice box of cand y. He passed it, too. We think the girls and boys are very generous because they always want to share their boxes with their teachers, classmates. and friends.
We have had everal movies in Mrs. Irwin's classroom recently. One was about a little rabbit and his brothers and sisters. In another we saw girls and boys skating. We hope that Mr. Caple will show us a movie every week.
Alvin and J. M. spent the week-end of March 5 at home. Alvin lives in Lindale and J. M. lives in Rome so they can go home once a month.
We are happy to know that Mrs. Casey is improving, so nicely. It looks good to see her walking around in town. We shall be happy when she is able to come back to school.
-Polly Casey's Class On March 5 our class celebrated Kate Mae's thirteenth birthday. As this was to be our last birthday party for the term, we played several games so tbat everyone would have a chance to win. DanieL Mary Ann, and Willis Joe won the bingo games. These triumphs were followed by London bridge, in which our honoree and her group, Mary Ann, Wayne, and Andrew Lee. were victorious. In the final contests. a couple of guessing games. Louise. Jean. and Betty were the winners. Brooks and Marcus received cookies as consolation prizes. Katie Mae had a white cake adorned with pink candles, twelve of which she extinguished with one breath. We hope that she had a happy birthday and that she will enjoy "many, many" more.
-Viola McMitchen's Class Each child in our room has a Thorndike dictionary for his own use. The children are learning the diacritical mark of the vow{'ls as presented in the Thorndike dictionary and are finding the work very intere ting. We take one sound at a time
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March, 1948

INTERMEDIATE SIDE
Continued
tables. She is eager to see where she will be next.
Jewell Henderson has invited Wynell Godwin to her home for Easter. Jewell will help her mother wash dishes, mop, and wash cloth
Louise Murphy got a box of
candy from Agnes March 12th and a card from her mother. Her mother told her that she would send her some things in a few days.
days.
Seven intermediate girls went to Cedartown with Mrs. Turner and Mr. White March 12th. They went to the Women's Club at the club house there. They gave their their "Dance of the Wooden Soldiers." Frances Tatum, Juanice Dukes, and the others enjoyed it. Mr. White was proud of them.
Robert Wooten saw some beautiful flowers on the trees. He thinks that they will go to sleep next fall. He hopes that they will be alive again every spring.
Jack and Robert waded in the
water Saturday afternoon, March 13th. Jack caught a little turtle and two fish. They had a good time in the water.
Alma got new glasses. She likes them very I!luch. She can see much better.
Laura Anne Brigman got a let-
ter from her mother. She wrote that Berry's daddy gave her sister a little black puppy for her,. Her niece called it Blackie. Her mother asked her if she wanted it. She also asked her if she wanted a new dress for Easter. Laura Anne wrote to her mother that she wanted the dog and the dress, too.
Faye Nelle got a letter from her mother last Friday morning. She sent her some money. She told her that her father went to Rome last Wednesday morning. He sold some Irish potatoes there.
Dorothy Sims got a letter from mother march 13th. She wrote her that she would not send her an evenng dress just now, but she would send one to her n a box at Easter.

Tom Byrd's nephew is a year
and a half old and Tom has never
seen him. He hopes that he will
ee him soon.
Margie Ledford and Louise Wi! on went to Rome February twenty-first. Margie's father, mother, and brother met her in Rome. Margie invited Louise to ride in their car around town. She had a good time.
Jack Callaway will miss football. He cannot play football next fall. He is too old. He enjoys playing. He was given honorable mention as an outstanding center by the Cavalier, the newspaper for the deaf which is published in Washington, D. C. Jack wishes that he could play football another year.
Mr. Van Cott, the coach, told them that he would miss the eight who would be gone after this year. He wishes that our team would stay the same as this year. Then maybe they could win the championship another year.
Bob Pennington went to Atlan-
ta with his parents March 13th. They spent an hour and a half looking at hearing aids. He had lunch with his sister. After they got home Bob listened to some Victor records.
Gene Lanier got a box from his mother and daddy March lath. He got some chocolate candy, some candy with nuts in it, and three boxes of candy.
Franklin Dyess got a letter from his cousin one Wednesday morning. He got a new car last January. It is a green Oldsmobile. His cOlU>in told him that they would go swimming next summer. He hopes to have a fine time.
He got a letter from a friend Thursday morning, too.
Wynell Godwin likes to play volleyball She enjoyed the game March 10th, but she got hot and tired.
James Clements went to Atlanta February 14th to meet his father He bought a new suit for J ames. He was proud of it.

Barbara Ashworth is excited about going home for Easter.
John Pate was very happy to get the dollar from his mother on February 13th.
Myrtice Sales can hardly wait
ror spring to come because she is
tired of the bad weather.
February 25th was Ralph Gentry's birthday. H is now 16 years old
Dan Jones has a new niece He \\' as very surprised to know that his sister had a baby girl It was born on the fourteen of February.
Raymond Potts can hardly wait for spring to come because he likes to play softball.
Bobby Gorman can hardly wait for Easter to come because he wants to go home.
Cynthia Aspinwall hopes that her mother and father will come to see her for Easter.
Clearence Rainwater was very happy to get a pair of new shoes f"om home on March 13th.
Cecil Cox enjoyed the weekend with his aunt and uncle in Atlanta on March 12th.
R. T. and Roy Holmes were glad to hear from their mother.
Fleming Bloodworth saw a show. It was "Gone With The Wind." He liked it very much.
PRIMARY SIDE
Continued
and work on it until the children understand it. For instance. they list all the words that they know which contain the sound 0'0. Then they find them in their dic~io~a~ies and write them with the dlacntlcal mark. They understand that the word in parenthesis is the spoken form of the word. The words are broken into syllables and the ac' cent marked. This helps the children peak more correctly.
Since we have started using the dictionaries. the children have become more self- reliant. Whenever new ward come up in reading, they ru h to look them ur and find how to pronounce them.
-Emmalee Highnote's Class

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PUBLISHED AT Tr& GEORGIA SCHOOL FOR
THE DEAF. CAVE SPRING. GEORGIA

APRIL Vol. 48

No.7

THE SCHOOL HELPER

Volume 48

APRIL. 1948

NO.7

GEORGIA DEAF SCHOOL
WINS CLASS C TITLE
Baker Second Short of 880 Mark
Ferris Seta New Discus Record
By DA MAGILL, JR.
Journal Staff Writer
MACON, Ga. May 8-A good looking blond boy, about five-ten and 160 pounds, anxiously watched the starter as the runners prepared to take off in the state class C half mile finals here Friday.
The other participants looked straight ahead. They awaited the sound of starter Tom Heath's pistol. But not Raymond Baker, 18year-old Atlanta student at the Georgia School for the Deaf at Cave Springs.
He watched for a special hand signal from Heath. Finally Heath fired the pistol and simultaneously dropped his other hand.
Baker jumped out front and stayed there. His wnning time of 2: IS was only one second short of tying the state record. The victory was especially sweet for Raymond because he had twice previously failed here. He was third in the 440 two years ago and second last year.
Baker also ran on the winning relay team, his pointmaking ability leading GSD to the class C team title.
A strong wind ruined chances for new records in the running events. Griffin's Pete Ferris established the only new record. tossing the discus 137-6 in the trials Thursday. He proved it was no lucky throw by getting off a 136-9 toss Friday.
Ted Brown class C 220 winner from Fitzhugh Lee at Smyrna. substituted for EugeBe Whittle, Georgia School for Deaf sprint star, in the half mile relay. His district won and Brown sent his medal to Whittle. who stayed at home with the mumps. Hugh
Continued on page eight

MARIETTA HIGH AND G. S. D.
WIN DISTRICT TRACK MEET
Cobb Countians Cop Class B Crown
As Cave Spring Lads Annex C Title
ROME EWS-TRIBUNE
Marietta High and Georgia School for the Deaf were crowned Seventh District Class "B" and
"c" ~hampions Friday afternoon
following their annual track meet at the Darlington Field before one of the largest crowds in the history of the meet.
Marietta won by a considerable margin 0 er it nearest opponent and had the event in the bag after the half-way mark, Calhoun and Lee High were the nearest competitors registering 32 and 31 Doints respecticely.
G. S D. was tops in the "c" di-
vi ion capturing eight first places out of the twelve events. They also annexed one second, one third and two fourth places. for a total of 67 poin ts. Chattanooga Valley was second with 55 points and Fit7..hugh Lee next with 35 points
Tommy Woodlee. of Lee High, one of the fastest men in the state and high scorer in football during the past season, copped the 100 and nO-yard dashes to put Lee in front early in the meet, but William (Pee Wee) Garner, of Marietta, who. Woodlee barely nosed out in both the dash events, led his teammates to the decisive win in the later events.
G. S. D. led all the way in their classification getting off to an early lead. but in the closing events, Chattanooga Valley closed the gap to a narrow margin of victory for the Cave Spring lads.
McHenry captured two first places. In the opening event. the mile run, Evans stayed close bebind Hutchins. of Rockmart. until the last 100 yards when he sprinted to a two yard win. Bolt of the
aLJ inals won the broad jump and [he school's relay team placed
Continued on page eight

G. S. D. DOWNS ALABAMA
IN DUAL TRACK MEET
Baker High Point Winner
The sunny afternoon of April 17th saw the Silent Warriors of the Alabama School for the Deaf invade G.S.D.'s track layout. A three and a half hour battle ensued and when the dust settled. there was a somewhat ruffled but still triumphant Blue Jay strutting on the field.
In the opening round, G.S.D.'s James "Cunningham" Clements captured first place in the mile run. Alabama then took the lead with a first and third in the 100 yd. dash. In the next event. the pole valut, Georgia placed I, 2. and 3, however, Alabama's vaulters had had ony one Or two practice sessions prior to the meet and put up a spendid effort in this event. Alabama then came back with 8 points in the hurdles. only to drop behind when Georgia made another clean sweep, this time in the shot put. From there on, Ga. held the lead to the end.
Georgia's Raymond Baker won individual honors with Blue Rib bons in the 880,440. and tie for first in the pole vault. a total of 13 points.
Mile run - Clements, Ga.; Harril and Grubbs, Ala. 5 :25.6
100 yd. dash: Jordan. Ala.; White, Ga.; Shaneyfelt, Ala. 11.0
Pole vault-Baker, Calloway, Little, Ga. (Tie) 7'11".
120 yd. hurdles-Baker and Harri. Ala.; Wooten, Ga. 19.6.
Shot put-Byrd, Calloway and Mock, Ga. 39'9"
880 yd run-Baker, Ga., Boozier and Artis, Ala. 2 :21.5
Discus-Oliver, Ala.; Mock and Byrd Ga. 100'.
440 yd. run-Baker, Ga.; Grant, Ala.; Byrd, Ga. 60.0
High jump-Little, Ga.; Hipp, Ala.,
Shaneyfelt, Ala., and Gorman, Ga, (Tie) 5'4".
Broad jump-Shaney, Ala.; Little,
Continued on page eight

From the Primary Side

We want to tell you how we build up our news. Oh yes, we do have news even though we are very young. These items consist mostly of the cards, letters, and boxes we get from home and our weekly hip to town.
Soon after we came to school in September, we learned to recognize the printed form of our names and the names of our classmates and teacher. This required quite a bit of drill. Soon our chairs. beds. and lockers were labeled with the possessive form of our names. When the first birthday of the year was celebrated our teacher made a picture of a birthday cake for each of us and pasted on the cakes candles to represent our ages. These were also labeled with the possessive cards.
Work on news was begun by drawing the picture of a card, a letter, or a box on the blackboard, illustrating it as nearly as possible like the one received and labeling it with the possessive form of the child's name. We have found this preliminary work helpful for it gives the children an interesting exercise to enjoy from day to day while they are still uncertain of one another's names, and it also leads gradcally to the reading of sentences which might be confusing if introduced too early in the school year.
At first, the nouns and possessive form of the names were emphasized. Then work on verbs was begun when an interesting happening occurred. The sentence was written on the board under the heading News and the verb was written with red chalk to call special attention to it. A verb chart was then started by drawing a stick man doing what the sentence stated. This chart has been added to until we now have got, bought, fell, cried, and laughed. The children are able after reading the sentence to go to the verb chart and pick out the correct stick man
We have learned the names of the days of the week and can find each day on the calendar as it passes. We have recently added to

the news items the day each took
place. Soon we will be using today
and yesterday.
The period for reading the news
is a happy time because it recalls pleasant happenings. As our teacher points to the subject of the sentence. the reader points to the corret boy or girl. shows the tick man in the verb chart performing the action designated, shows the noun in the noun chart. and the day on the calendar. In this way we can be sure that the child understands what he is reading.
-Miriam Minter's Class

Pronouns interest us a great deal. With our old friends, thE' stick men. to help us we have learned several pronouns.
In preparation for the lesson. "a stick woman" is drawn and labeled "Mrs. Irwin". By her side are seven boys and four girls, each having one of our names written on it. We started this exercise by letting each of us in turn point to each figure in the line and then to the person whose name it had on it. ard say "You". When our own was reached, we said "I" instead. and of course this made us feel very important. When all the figures had been pointed out, with a grand flourish we would take in the whole group as we said
"we".
A few sentences from our news "diagrammed" on our figures helped to make some others clear. For instance. if "Henry got a box. He got some gum" was written on the blackboard. everyone could see that "He" and "Henry" were said of the same figure by pointing to Henry in the stick group as each was read. In this way "He" and "She" were added to our list.
If the sentence was "Ann gave us some candy", we could see very quickly that "us" like "We" meant everyone in the group. We are learning now to say "me" instead of "I" in such a sentence. That seems a little hard for some of us to remember. but with a
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little more practice. we will soon
be able to tell you lots about pronouns.
- Jim Irwin's Class
*
Now that the Easter vacation is over. the next important date on the calendar is June 7. That is the time we shall leave for our homes.
Although time is fleeting. we have much to accomplish. We shall start our review soon and hope to i~prove ,our weak points. Our likes and dislikes are varied and we shall strive to improve in the subjects that we dislike. Writing the " ews" each day is one thing that we all enJoy. We first draw pictures to illustrate our happenings, and then. since we are a beginning c1as . our teacher writes it in simple language so that we can read it: as,
EWS
Vincent. Virgil. Janice. Joyce, and Jimmie went home for Easter.
Rosalie. Danny. Geraldine, and Jean got boxes.
We went td the show Tuesday. We bought some popcorn
We went to town Friday. We saw four horses. We saw some pretty flowers. too. Danny bought a tablet. Jimmie bought some candy. Vincent bought a balloon. Janice. Joyce, Jean. Geraldine. and Virgil bought ice cream.
-Mildred Wright's Class

The la t holiday weekend. Easter. has passed and the day of days is rapidly approaching. On weekend holidays some are always disappointed beGause they live too far away to spend these holidays with their families: but not so with this ,approaching day, the day all suitcases are packed and home everyone goes. The time will go by fast with lots of class work still to be done and the practicing of the pageant to be given during the Centennial celebration <1t the close of school.
C1asswork is improving by leaps and bounds. at least the children

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April, 1948

think so now that they are all able to write their own "news" instead
of watching their teacher write it
ror them. The places they go, the
thing~ they receive from home, and the things they buy have taken on
an entirely new meaning since they
can write about them themselves. -Mabel Fincher's Class

*
Our Easter holiday ended with an egg hunt Monday morning after recess which we all enjoyed very much. Some of IlS found several eggs. Alton Shirey and Jadie orris won the prizes.
Since spring is here WI: enjoy our trips to town a great deal. The flowers are very pretty and one Friday we saw some prett y briq;htl colored birds.
\Vi h the arrival of spring. we rea ize that the cJ ose of school is near. We are very much interested in the preparations for the Centennial. It is difficult to visualize a birthday cake with one hundred candles: however. we understand that G.S.D. has had ninety-nine birthdays.
'Vie have grown quite a bit, both mentally and physically,during the past nine months. We are looking forward to our summer vacation and hope that each of you will have a pleasant summer.
-Betty Arnold's Class

*

We are sorry that Mrs. Jones

has been sick but are happy to

k now she is better and will be

back in school soon. Mrs. Welch

taught us for two weeks and now

rs, Gibbons is teaching us.

\Ve were glad that Friday was

a pretty day and we could go to

lawn. We went with Mrs. High-

note. We bought some things in

town and then we took a walk.

We went to see Mrs. Jones for a

few minutes.

Joe Ann. Alton, Ronald, Frank-

lin and Charles go with Mrs.

Highnote every morning to practice

for the pageant.

_

Sandra Baker had a wonderful

time when she went home for Eas-

ter.

A vus gets a card very often

from her mother. She is always happy to get them.
Patsy enjoyed her trip home Easter. She had a pretty new Easter dress.
Sandra Pike went home for Ea~ter She went in the station wagon with Sandra Baker's daddy.
James Chapman went home for Easter. He did not come back for several days.
Marl!ene's friend came to see her one day. Margene was happy to see her.
Jimmie Parker likes to play out doors He thinks he will have a !lood time on Field Day.
-Mrs. Jones's Class
*
We have had quite a few red letter days during the school term. \ hen one of our group has a hi r lday. it is a red letter day for the entire group. \Ve always enjoy cOll.nting the candles and watch, almost breathles Iy, to see how Tlany "blows" it takes to put them out.
One of the biggest red letter days that we shall ever experience will be our participation in the celebration of our school's one hundredth anniver ary, We are <111 excited over it.
The Centennial is cause enough for excitement, but after the celebration is over we know that we are to go home. The time has passed so quickly that it is hard to realize the time is so near. We are realizing, too, that in the passing of time WI! have learned quite a bit. E pecially, do we realize this when we compare the work in OUr filrs We have to laugh sometimes ,,,hen we put the work we did at the first of chool with the work we are doing now.
-May F. Glenn's Class
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'vie have readily responded to the call of the great outdoors since our v:inter weather was so bitter and we had to stay inside for so long. e keep our fingers crossed for fe:tr a beautiful day will end in disaster. and we cannot play oursi e or take our usual trip to town on Friday.
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The beauties of nature have truly been visited upon our small town this spring. The hillsides are bewitching with the dogwood
and redbud trees and the many different shades of green.
We often end our trip to town with a nature study trip to the cave and spring. There is so much to be learned that nature study is always exciting.
So far we have studied about roots, leaves, rocks, and the weeping willow. dogwood and pine trees. We chose to study about these trees first because there is such a difference in their rate of growth.
We are now studying about the easonal flowers-daffodils. iris. tul ips. and pansies.
On everal occasions we have een fortunate enough to capture a crayfish and a baby fish. Our latest desire is to find a nice fat tadpole so that we can watch it develop into a frog.
These adventures in the realm of science are both worthwhile and most ,enjoyable.
-Geuerna Chapman's Class

This year in writing our cards and letters home. we've tried to str the fact that parents are more interested in what we our selves. are doing rather than in what has been happening to Tom, Dick, or Harry.
In the past we've almost had to write about what we knew, regardless of whom it concerned;
but this year our teacher has tried to impress upon us the necessity of keeping our letters for reference and having us comment whenever possible. on some part of the letters received and of telling our families something of interest about ourselves.
We have three birthdays to celebrate this month, those of Milton Saunders, Clarene King and J.D. McCloud. Each one is counting off the days until the eventful day. and strangely enough, Clarene and J. D. will celebrate the arne day.
-Polly Casey's Class Continued on page seven

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April, 1948

THE SCHOOL HELPER

All communication ahould be addreued to the School Helper, Cave Spring, Georgia.
Entered at the post office at Cave Spring. Georgia, as second class matter November 1889. Acceptance for mailing at a special rate of postage provided in Section 1103. Act of October 3. 1917. Authorized October 31,
1918. Published monthly during the school year in the print-
ing department of the Georgia School for the Deaf.

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Editor A..ociate Editor Printina In.trudor

VOLUME 48

April, 1948

NO.7

THE SCHOOL HELPER'S PLATFORM
For the Promotion of all State Aided School.
For the Deaf
1. Improved recognition as educational institutions with control in the hands of educational boards.
2. Sectional and national associations with accrediting authorities and approved measuring rods and standards suited to each association, terminating in the highest requirements for membership in a national association for schools for the deaf.
S. A greater Gallaudet College serving the interests of all the states with special emphasi3 on research findinK'S openly arrived at and freely disseminated in promoting the educational interests of all the schools.
4. A full utilization of services that can be rendered by the U. S. Office of Education in keeping with the spirit and purpose of its creation.
6. Federal equilization aid for education that will guarantee equal opportunities for deaf boys and girls in all states.
6. Utilization of a full time state Field Agent and Placement Officer (or both) to locate and enroll deaf children in the State Schools for the Deaf and to work with the Department in job placement and vocational rehabilitation of ex-pupils and graduates.

NOTICE TO PARENTS Primary children may go home any time after the Pageant Friday afternoon, June 4, if the parents come for them. Intermediate and advanced pupils may go home with parents Sunday, June 6. All pupils traveling by bus or train will go home Monday, June 7.
A Tribute To Ted Brown Of Smyrna
Two days before our track team was due to leave for the State Meet at Macon, one of those things happened. Our sprint star, Eugene Whittle, came down with the mumps. This was a body blow where our hopes for the C class championship cup were concerned. Eugene's time in the 440 was better than that made in any other district C class meet in the State. He was also on our relay team.
We had to forfeit our place in the 440 to the 2nd. place district winner but since the competition in the State Meet is district against district as well as

school against schooL we were privileged in the relay to substitute any first place winner in our district meet for the boy who could not go. You can well imagine that we lost little time upon reaching Macon in contacting Ted Brown and his coach from Fitzhugh Lee School of Smyrna, Georgia.
Ted is a dark haired, handsome boy with the build of a natural athlete. He is neat in dress, erect in carriage, has a friendly smile that can brighten the gloom of the darkest day, and most important of all, at that time, he has the ability to burn up the cinder path in the 220-the length of each lap in the relay.
Ted was not only willing to sub for Whittle, he was actually happy to get in there and run some more. The fact that his event, the 220 came up preceding the relay and that he would have but 30 minutes rest between the two events did not bother him a bit. He won his trial heat easily the first day. In the finals, the next day, he won the State 220 with a sprint at the finish that his competitors could not match. And. on both days, after a short rest, joined our relay team to win the trial heat and finals in that event also. Ted was the lead-off man and on both days gave us a five to ten yard lead on the first lap. Baker then took over and increased the lead another five yards or so. Third came Herbert White who kept up the tempo, and finally Jack Calloway, running the last 220 in his usual manner -he goes the first 100 yards of his lap at top physical speed and the last 120 a little faster, running on will power alone. We were 20 yards in front at the finish on both days.
When the meet was over and the medals were being handed out, Ted brought his mother to meet us. She was a warm-hearted smiling lady, intensely proud of her son'~ accomplishments, and one could easily see where Ted had obtained his pleasing personality. Before we could thank Ted again for runing for our boy in the relay (and were we thankful!) they both thanked us for letting Ted run with our boy and insisted that the medaL rightfully Ted's for running in the relay, be given to Whittle to cheer him up and make up in part for his not being able to come to the State meet!
When the writer was a little boy, he was told (and still believes) that St. Peter has a golden book in which he records good deeds for future reward. Later he read of Abou Ben Adhem. He is sure now that Ted Brown's name leads all the rest.-OLT.
Our school i justly proud of the clean sweep made by OUr track team. Taking Alabama as a warm up. the boys went on to cop the 7th district chamiono:hip and on May 6th and 7th came out on top at the state tournament in Macon. This is an achievement never before accomplished by our school. We now have t\VO beautiful cups and a bouquet of medal~ lO put exhibit for the visitors of the centennial.
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Superintendent's Corner

The American Annals of the Deaf closes the celebration of its

fruitful and happy one hundredth

THE

b i r t h day this spring. We say

AMERICAN fruitful and happy A NALS because any maga-

zine or paper that

lives one hundred years absolutely

true to one ideal through thick and thin. never quitting or falter-

ing. is something to shout about

and to make all feel happy.

The service of The American Annals has been devoted to the
education and general welfare ot

the deaf in America throughout all these years. The American Annals

i the official organ of the Conference of Executives of American

chools for the Deaf and the Con-

ven tion of American Instructors of the Deaf. 11 hail. The American nnals. May it in its present

purpose continue as the brightest

star in the firmament. Happy'

1irthday to you!

Accept our felicitations, too.

you who have carried the torch in the past and to you. Dr. Elstad, as

\Ve face a new century under your

editorship.

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Average Graduates of Our chools Succeed

In the October issue of the "Star", we reprinted an article. "Li fts Barrier of Deafness". The art icle reported an address made ;n hicago by Mrs. Spencer Tracy at the opening session of the
merican Academy of Opthamology and Otolarynology in Octobrr.
..ong other things. Mrs. Tracy remarked that she had taught her deaf son. John. to ~peak. and he now "studies art, at end the university, plays tennis and polo. has many friends, and carries on an interesting conversation .. ,
Quoting Mrs. Tracy again, .'The child from babyhoOd learns 1he vibration of words by placing his hands on the father's face. Then without warning, the imita-

tive sounds bursts forth when he feels the need to communicate. After that he learns to speak."
The article closed with the statement that Mrs. Tracy said sign language and finger spelling destroy oral speech and set a child apart uncomfortably from the group.
The facts as set forth in this article, are a bit misleading.
Mrs. Tracy mentions her son John, and no other deaf people. of whom there are thousands who can not only attend a university. play ten nis, etc.. but can also hold down uch positions as city chemist. research chemist. government ~tatistici n. new paper editor and countle s others. as well as ~et up and operate their own bu iness. These people. the average naduates of school for the deaf. I ave never had the advantages that seem to have been given to young Tracy but they have not failed in the world nor do they seem uncomfortably set apart from the group.
Mrs. Tracy makes the acquisition of speech seem a very simple matter-"then without warning, the imitative sound bursts fourth when he feels the need to commun'cate. After that. he le'arns to talk," It is not so simple. What
rs. Tracy has not explained are the hours of drilling necessary to get the child to say the simplest words at the expense of more valuable education; the hours wasted trying to teach him to talk when he should be learning to think: the di appointment of failure. unless he is above average; the life that he must lead on the border line of two worlds-the hearing and the deaf. Very few deaf people can associate happily with hearing people-nor can they aswciate with their deaf compatriots if they can not use their sign language.
I t has nor been proved that finger pelling has had a dereriorating effect on language. and although the sign language and fin-
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ger spelling may be detrimental to the acquisition of speech, they ari not detrimental to the acquisition of knowledge. nor to happy social intercourse in the world of the deaf.
While attending the Convention of America Instructors of the Deaf in Florida last summer, the writer attended an address of Mrs. Tracys. Said writer is as deaf as a post, is not mute, and lip-reading is a possibility. Yet, in St. Augustine, it was impossible to understand a word Mrs. Tracy said. Thank God for people like Supt. of KSD. Roth, Supt. of TSD, Poore, and Supt. of ASD Wallace. who acted as very capable interpreters to help people such as the writer understand Mrs. Tracy when she explained the value of speech. and speech reading, and possibly bemoaned dat ole debit. the sign language. No doubt the hundreds of people attending the Gallaudet Reunion, the Teachers Convention and the NFSD Convention were also thankful for the gift of France to the U. S. deaf -the sign language and the manual alphabet!
Let us have peech and speech reading where they are possible. but let us also have no one system schools where the majority must suffer to glorify a doubtful system-W.R. in the Kansas Star.
PROGRAM
CENTENNIAL CELBRATION
FRIDAY, June 4Commencement Exercises Hiatorical Pageant Reception
SATURDAY, June 5Dedicatory Addreu Governor'. Addreu Barbecue Dance
SUNDAY, June 6-Memorial Service Picnic

From the Advanced Department

Patsy Baker was happy when he found out that her uncle was coming after her in his new station wagon Easter. She had a good time while she was at home, but he was glad to get back to school.
Mary Roberts went home with Evelyn Robinson for the Easter holidays. She thought that Evelyn's family and friends were mighty nice to her, and she enjoyed her visit very much.
Fred Waters is looking forward to his summer vacation. There is an island in the river near his home and he is planning to make a camp on it. He thinks that he will have lots of fun.
Sara Crisp went to Tifton with Mr. Baker in his new station wagon on Thursday before Easter. He took all the girls who lived in and near Tifton. She had such a good time. he did not get back to school until Sunday night at nine thirty.
Louise Walters can hardly wait for April 30 to come. That is the date the Girl Scouts will leave for a week-end camping trip. She hopes that the swimming pool will be opened there by that time.
Roscoe Dukes was glad that Mr. White invited him to go to Atlanta with him to buy a new suit that Roscoe had been planning to buy. He likes his suit and he enjoyed seeing the different stores in Atlanta.
Laura Pope spent the Easter holidays in LaGrange with Louise
alters. They spent one night with ouise's aunt. They had a good time going to the movies, eating good things and walking around town. Laura felt very much at home there and was sorry when it came time for them to leave.
Evelyn Robinson is looking forward to meeting a lot of her friends at our Centennial in June. She would like very much for her uncle Leonard. and her aunt Gladys and Eunice to come to see our school at that time.
Alma Wooten hopes that she can help her mother lots this summer. She enjoys cleaning the house and making things look lovely

around the home.
Jackie Dukes did not go home Easter, but her family came to see her. They had a good time together. Jackie has a sister and two brothers in school. so it is easier for her family to come here than for all of them to go home.
Ben Godwin went to Atlanta on the bus recently. He enjoyed the ride and was happy to see his family at the station.
Sue Brannon will be very happy in June. She will be graduated then and she is expecting a lot of her frien ds to come to Commencement.
Clarence Highfield is very proud that his class planted three trees on our campus on Arbor Day. One. The Nell A. Gibbons Tree, in honor of Mrs. Gibbons who has ta ught here for over forty years. One The Centennial Tree, in 1 memory of all those who have been a member of our school family during the past one hundred years. One The Class of 1948 Tree.
Billy Adams spent the Easter holidays in Atlanta and at home in Jefferson. He is looking forward to his graduation in June ) ,d he hopes that we will have a lot of our friends here when we observe our Centennial.
Alton Holman has been quite busy taking pictures for the Centennial number of the School Helper. He hopes that all his work will be a success and that everyone will enjoy seeing the different views of our school life.
George Vaughan went to Atlanta, while he was at home for the Easter ho.Iidlays. His father went with him and helped him elect a new suit. George was so surprised to find that suits were so expensive. He thinks his mother and father were mighty nice to buy him such a lovely suit. He thinks that they have always been good to him, and he feels very proud of them.
George Hargrove went borne with Sue Brannon recently. She met a lot of Sue's relatives and friends and they all tried to make
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her have a good time. Sue's father
had a birthday while she was there
and Georgia will never forg t the
lovely irthday dinner they had.
Duwayne Dukes had a good time at home Easter. He took some pictures of his family and saw a great many of his friends. He had a birthday on April 7 and feels that now since he is seventeen that he i gl tting old.
This was the first Easter that Gertrude Hixon has gone home.
he was so surprised when she found out that she could go, that he could hardly believe it was true.
Eugene Whittle is eager to know how he will come out on the Achievement Tests which will be held soon. He hopes that he will make good because he would like to go to college when he finishes chool here.
Mary Moon surprised her father when she went home for a visit recentl y. Her mother and sister knew that she was coming, but they did not tell her father. Mary had a surprise too when she saw her father's new tation wagon.
Lorraine Kicklighter thinks she will have a mighty good time at our Centennial in June. She likes to meet her old friends who have been to school here, and she hopes a great many of them will come at that time.
hry Baker enjoyed hearing about her father's trip to Florida recently. She hopes that she can go with him sometime.
Russell Royston thinks this will be the most exciting year that this "Wonderful School" has ever had since it will celebrate its one hu ndredth birthday. He think~ that every pupil who has ever attended this school should be proud that he had the opportunity of spending sometime here.
Janie Smith wishes that the Easter holidays could have been longer. She had a good time at home and was very much surprised that her parents had a new car.
lois Watkins went home with Continued on page seven

The School Helper

April, 1947

ADVANCED DEPT.
Continued Mary Baker recently. They enjoyed their visit to Grant Park ill
Atlanta. Doyle Norris enjoys all kinds
of sports. He would have liked so much to have been on the Track team this year, but he was sick for a good while and could not get permission from his doctor to take part in the meet. He hopes that next year he can win some first places for his team.
James Hattrich bo.ught some new clothes when he went home recently. He was glad that he could buy them at home so his mother could help him select them.
Louida Benson was happy when Mary Francfes Bates visited the school recently. Mary Frances finished school last year and every one here thinks she is one of the finest girls we have ever had in school and it is always a joy to
see her.
John Harrell is looking forward to Field Day on April 29. He hopes that it will be a pretty day. He remembers what a good time the boys and girls al ways
have on that day.
Janie Elder is very proud of her new nephew. His name is Gregory and she thought he was a very cute, sweet baby when she saw him Easter.
Thomas Rucker wishes that he could become a weatherman, so he could predict what kind of weather we were going to have. Then he would not have any trouble getting caught in the rain.
Maggie McGahee received a letter from her mother recently telling her that a friend of theirs shot her elf on April 5. She was very sad when she read this.
Raymond Baker was very hap10lY when his father told him that he would get a new car soon. Raymond likes to drive and he thinks that he will have a good time this ummer when his family will take some week-end trips.
Billy Hayes was sorry that he could not go home Easter because his si ter had measles, but he had a
ood time here with the other

boys who did not go. Spring and summer are John
Mock's favorite seasons. He is so glad that spring is here and that he can breathe all the nice fresh air he wants to without being cold at the same time.
Bud Little enjoys track. He had such a good time when the Alabama boys came and spent the day with us. He won several first places.
Herbert White was glad that our track team beat the team from the Alabama School for the Deaf, but he thought they were mighty nice boys and was glad they came to see us
PRIMARY SIDE
Continued
As we approach the close of school. we should like to mention a few of our studies by telling you about our favorites.
Although a number of us are good in the various phases of our religious work-the Child's Creed. Jesus Loves Me. and Bible VersesDaniel Reagin surpasses the rest of us in answering questions on our tory of the life of Jesus. Shelva Jean White excels in speech readillg exercises. and Katie Mae Rogers and Brooks Blankenship are our stars in speech and rhythm. Marcus Kemp is partial to elliptical and original sentences with the drill verbs. In arithmetic Andrew Lee Harrison is especially fond of lessons in time telling. while \XTayne Edwards is an expert in addition and subtraction combinations. Willie Joe Knott is our genius in geography. Betty Sizemore and Mary Ann Durrence look forward to the readers, and Louise Hunt spends every spare moment learning new nouns.
AThen we go home this summer, perhaps our mothers will enjoy helping us review these and other phases of our school work. Our files will give some excellent clues to our abilities and our needs.
-Viola McMichen's elas-s

e have looked forward .all year to Arbor Day. This is one of the most important days of the

f year to us. the senior class of the
primary department. Now that it has arrived. we realize what it means. As we walk on by one and plant our wishes of hope. love. strength, happiness. truth. and success at the roots of this young tree, our feelings are varied. First we are proud-proud. because we have crossed another mile stone toward the goal that we have set before us. Sad because of the many friends we leave behind us as we go "down the hill". Yet. happy at the prospect of the friends that we shall make. After we have planted our wishes, we take one another's hands a~d stand with bowed heads. What do we plant as we plant our class tree? Our hopes that this tree will grow straight and tall, filled with buds. which summer days will lengthen in to leafy sprays whose strong boughs the birds will haunt and sing and hide their nests in: and that these leafy boughs will grow to make a shade where happy children play and be a helter from the summer showers. May this tree be a monument of our love and appreciation to this chool where many hours we have studied, arid many )'iears from now make us "think of childhood's careless days, and long. long hours of happy play".
-Emmalee Hiqhnote's Class
EDITORIAL. Continued Individual honors go to Raymond Baker who came in first at the state meet in the 880 and was an important cog in our relay team which ~lso came in first. Baker's time, 2: 15 was but one second from tying the state record for C class schools in this event. Clements took second place in the mile and Bud Little tied for third in the high jump to give us a total of 21 points and the State Championship of the C class schools. To make this feat more difficult. Eugene Whittle. our 440 district winner and who was sure to place in the state meet came down with mumps two days before the meet was to take place and could not accompany the team to Macon.

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The School Helper

April, 1947

STATE MEET
Continued Frank Radcliffe. Thomaston's mighty strikeout wizard, placed third in the pole vault. If he had won, he would have been the first Georgia boys in 20 years to make all state in the four major sports. -Vernon (Catfish) Smith did it Lanier.
CLASS C Mile: C. Webb, Morgan; James Clements, G.S.D.; H. Devane, Shellman; W. Screws, Wadley. 5:07.5 Shot put: S. Overstreet, Wadley; S. Huckaby, Woodbury; B. Dunn, Morgan; F. Nelson, Montezuma. 43-7 440: C. McDonald, Hoboken; C. Kienast, Chipley; A. Finch, Union Point; B. Young, Chatham, 58.3. Half Mile: R. Baker, G.S.D.; Ce::il Barnes, Loganville; Bobby Cook, Morgan; C. Bennett, Waresboro, 2.15 High jump: L. Sturdivant, Chipley; S. Wilcox, Hoboken; B. Little, G.S.D. and Donald Sandars, Edison tied for third, 5-9. 100: Kelley Cone, Clyattville; C Kirby Gordon; Joe Wall, Shellman; Ted Hicks, Ochlochnee, 10.7. Discus: Overstreet, Wadley; David Chapman, Chattanooga Valley; H. Drinkwater, Morgan; J. Ervin, Darien, 113-11. 120 Low hurdles: N. Stewart, Ochlochnee; Billy Barrett, Stratham; M. Woodruff, Greenville; P. Hayes, Clyattville, 15.7 220: Ted Brown, Fitzhugh Lee; Joe Wall, Shelman, Ted Hicks, Ochlochnee; B. Callahan, Woodbury 37.4 Broad jump: N. Stewart, Ochlochnee; G. Bailey, Montezuma; B. Martin, evils; Louis Sturdivant, Chipley, 21-2. Half Mile relay: G.S.D. (Ted Brown, Raymond Baker, H. White, Jack Calloway); Kingsland; Montezuma; 1 :41.7 Pole vault: E. Batton, Montezama; W. Bradshaw, Edison; Benton Bryant, Louisville; C. White, Chipley, 10-6.
DISTRICT MEET
Continued third.
Model's Hartline placed fourth in the hurdles and Self, also of the Shannon school, was knotted in a

three way tie for second place in the pole vault.
The following were the list of events.
CLASS C Mile-Clements, G.S.D.; Abercrombie, Fitzhugh Lee; Patterson, Chattaooga Valley. 5 :00.8 100-McBee, Chattanooga Valley; Coker, Hiram; Whitner, Fitzhugh Lee; Wyatt, G.S.D. 11.3 Shot put-Byrd, G.S.D.; Watkins, Fitzhugh Lee; Chapman, Chattanooga Valley; Teal, Hiram. 38'. 220-Brown, Fitzhugh Lee; McBee, Chattanooga Valley; Teal, Hiram; Whittle, G.S.D. 24.7. Broad jump-Little, G.S.D.; Whitner Fitzhugh Lee; Hale, Chattanooga Valley and Pitchett, Hiram, Tied for third. 16 ft. 10% in. Low hurdles-White, G.S.D.; Hickson, Chattanooga Valley; Crocker, Hiram; Smith, Fitzhugh Lee. 17.7 440-Whittle, G. S. D.; Ellis, Chattanooga Valley; Cay, Hiram; Watkil\s, Fitzhugh Lee. 57.5 880-Baker, G.S.D.; Tarvin, Chattanooga Valley; Rakestraw, Hiram; 2:15.7 High-jump-Little, G. S. D.; Rich, Hiram; Smith, Fitzhugh Lee; Hixon, Chattanooga Valley, 5'5": Pole Vault-Tarvin, Chattanooga Valley; Pritchett, Hiram, Caloway, G.S.D.; Abercrombie, Fitzhugh Lee. S feet. Discus-Chatman, Chattanooga Valley; Mock, G.S.D.; McDaniel, Fitzhugh Lee; Davis, Hiram. 119'. 880 relay-G.S.D., Chattanooga Valley, Hiram and Fitzhugh Lee. 1 :41.i

DUAL MEET
Continued
Ga.; Oliver, Ala. 19'3". Half mile relay-Alabama, by de-
fault.
G. S. D. Track and Field Records
100 yd. dash. 11.0, A. Holman, '46 220 yd. run 24.4, A. Holman '46 440 56.9, R. Baker, 1947 880 - 2.15, R. Baker, 1948 Mile run 5:00.8, J. Clementa, 1948 120 hurdles - 17.7, H. White, 1948 Half mile relay - 1 :40.6, A. HoI.
man,B. Smith, R. Baker, H. Hawkins, 1'946 Discus . 109', John Mock, 1948 Pole vault J. Calloway, R. Baker, B. Little, 7'11", 1948 Broad jump - 18' 8~", B. Little, 1948.
NOTICE
The form printed below is for your convenience in obtaining reservations for
The Biggest Celebration Our School Has Eever Known
Cut this form out. Fill it in, and mail it to:
John L. Caple, Principal Georgia School for the Deaf
Cave Spring, Georgia

Georgia Scbcwl for tbe Deaf, Cave SpriDI', Georl'ia

If poasible I plan to attend the following meetings of the Centennial Celebration of the Georgia School for the Deaf. (Please Check)

( ) Friday Graduation Reception

( ) Saturday Barbecue Dance

( ) Sunday Memorial Service Picnic Lunch

Please ( ) do ( ) do not make reservation for me,

AME

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ADDRESS

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State of Georgia
M. E. THOMPSO ,Gonrnor

Georgia School for the Deaf

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

ADMINISTRATION

C. H. Hollingsworth, M.A., Superintendent

John L. Caple, Prineip I

Rebecca S. Crowe, Secretary Julian Tumlin, Steward
Myrtle A. Johnson, Sec'y to Steward

Charlel E. Owen, D.D.. J. C. Connor, M.D. Sarah Grif.f.ith, Nune

INSTRUCTORS

Primary Department
Marie S. Kennard, B.S., Supv. Teacher Bettye V. Arnold Polly Casey Geverne. Chapman, B.S. Mabel L. Fincher May F. Glenn Emmalee J. Highnote Jim Irwin Jessie F. Jones Viola McMichen, B.A. Miriam B. Minter Mildred B. Wright

Intermediate aad Ad'Yeed Depe.rt_ _t
Mary P. Turner. B.A., Alit. Sup.... Teacher. Advanced Department
Katharine Casey, A t. Supv. Teacher, Intermediate Department. Connor Dillard Ruth D. Forb61 Mary Forbes Edythe D. Montgomery, B.S. P uline J. Shahan, B.A. Francel M. Tollefson. B.A. Daniel Van Cott, B.S. Ralph H. White, B.A.

Voe.tien,al Departllle.t

Olaf L. Tollefion. B.A., Su v. Teacher

Olaf L. Tollefson, B.A.

Printing

J. ?t. Ware ..

Carpentry

Earl Cox

Machine Shop

Con!\or Dillard

Shoe Repair

David Pledier ....

A. May Clark. B.A .. Arts Craft

Gladys L. Latham. Beauty Culture

Annie McD iel

Sewinl'

Everette Ryle . Barberin&, &. PreDinl'

.... Farm Supt.

Colored Depart.e.t

Mildred K. Daniels Rose Anna Gibson Cynthia S. Hannah

Lucille McCullough, Supervilling Teacher Hattie S Menifee Henriett B. Reynoldl
Matti D Sama R. H. McAffee, Vocational In tructor

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