HE SCHOOL PUBLISHED AT THE GEORGIA SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF, CAVE SPRING, GEORGIA OCTOBER. 1950 VOL. 51 NO. 1 THE SCHOOL HELPER VOLUME 51 OCTOBER. 1950 NO.1 Advanced Department HOW WE SPENT OUR VACATION We haP many delightful experiences, met a great many of our former schoolmate~'> , and gathered a lot of news of mutual interest during our vacation. We thought you would enjoy our sharing all these good times with you by giving you some of the highlights that happened to each of us. Herbert White had a busy vaca- tion helping his father on the farm. He got through just in time to spend a week with his good friend and classmate, Roscoe Dukes. They had lots of fun going in swimming and doing all the other nice things Roscoe had planned. Edna Pope spent most of her vacation reading and studying. She is a senior this year and hopei'> that she can pass the examination and enter Gallaudet next year. She finished quite a few of the required readings and did some studying while she had plenty of time. Sara Crisp made a visit to Macon with her parents in July. While she was there, she saw Mary Roberts. Sara was very happy that she was able to come back to school, because !She is a senior this year and would like to go to Gallaudet next year. She is very fond of Lois Watkins, affectionately known as ''Big Sis," who entered Gallaudet this year and the height of Sara's ambition is to be as fine student as she thinks Lois is. Roscoe Dukes helped his father do carpentry work in Thomaston for two months. Almost all his Work was on the outside and he got a real sun tan. He saved his money 'SO that he could buy some clothes and have some money for the extra expenses that come in his senior year. Fred Powers did quite a bit of farming this summer. He lives on a big farm where a great deal of the work is done with tractors and he enjoys this kind of work. After the farm work was finished, he had lots of fun helping his brother build a hut on the other side of the river from his home and camp- ing there at night. Louise Boyd was pleasantly surprised this summer when Fran- ces Tatum came to vicit her. She and Frances went to see Wilda Mauldin and then Louise went home with Frances and spent twp days. Frances Cox was happy to have Jean Barrett visit her in June. They spent one afternoon with Sara Crisp. Frances attended her grandmother's birthday party at Lake Beatrice near Fitzgerald. This is an annual affair and Frances looks forward to seeing a great many of her relatives. Ruth Owens did quite a bit of visiting this summer. She spent one week in Savannah and then went with her family to visit relatives in Annapolis, Maryland. She stop- ped at a great many places of in- terest on the trip. Vinton Troup had a wonderful time visiting his uncle and aunt in Florida. He had been there before, but he always looks forward to another trip because he has so much futi . Ratsy Baker went to Savannah with her parents in July. They at- tended the Convention of the Deaf, and Patsy met a great many of her friends. They spent the fourth of July at Tybee Beach with James Hattrich and his fam - ily. Jackie Dukes worked at the pep- per plant near her home all during hu vacation with the exception of a few d Chattanooga, '\\\t. UN!vm,.,;- Tennessee. She thought Look Out Mountain was wonderful. v.,r. C. Wooten worked almost all the summer. He visited Bobby Gorman in Atlanta for a few days and they attended the Club for the De-af where he met lots of his friends. Vivian Turner had a good time all summer. She visited relatives in Mo~ltrie and spent one day while there, with Ann Thompson. She went to Florida in June and visited relatives in Plant City and St. Petersburg. Faye Johnson helped her mother and father on the farm the first part of her vacation, and then had a good time visiting her cousin in Alma, Ga. During the revival at her home in July, Faye joined the Baptist Church and was baptized. Dorothy Sims went to Indian Springs in June. She thought it was a very 'beautiful place. Her brother joined the Army while she was at home and is stationed at Fort Jackson, South Carolina. Louise Wilson visited in Rockmart, Bremen and Dallas during the early part of the summer. Her mother gave her a birthday party JUSt before she returned tO school, and she is still enjoying all the beautiful presents she received. Bob Pennington saw quite a few of his schoolmates during his vacation. Those who visited him were: Roscoe and Jackie Dukes Bob Rose , Eugene Whittle, Evely~ Robinson and Raymond Baker and Janie Baker. His good friend, Charl~s Johnson from Birmingham, Alabama came to see him severa l times. Bob always enjoys having his friends come to his home. (Co ntinued on page eleven) L I'= F\ From the Primary Department There are eleven of us, five of whom are newcomers this year, and after three weeks of working and playing together we are learning the special traits of one another. Little Louise Steele of Newnan looks like a story-book doll, with big brown eyes and a matching hair-ribbon for each pretty dress. Brenda Padgett of Atlanta, with reddish blonde curls and big blue eyes, enjoys JUmping rope. Mary Lou Millsaps of Blue Ridge has a talent for art. She draWlS beautifully. Annette Cochran of Atlanta and Sally Browning of Barnesvile are two laughing happy little girls. The following were with us last year: Richard Sampler of Griffin likes to draw cars of several makes. John Coleman of College Park w:ears Roy Rogers socks, likes tractors and any mechanical toy to take apart and put together again. Ronald Stephens of Winokur keeps the erasers dusted and the blackboards clean. Good-natured Felton Lamb of Camilla helps keep the chairs in straight rows. Jenell Cathy of Gordon is a popular member of the class; she gets a box of candy from home each week and always shares with her classmates. Jean Cofer of Macon enjoys teasing, and every class should have a teaser. There's never a dull moment in our class, and we are looking forward to a good year together. -Stella Granrt's Class Hello! We are the B division of the beginners. Let us introduce ourselves to you. Some of us were here last year. We are Betty Wood from Rocky Ford, Melvin Patterson from Copper Hill, Tenn. Richard Mallory from Madison, and Winston Stephens from Dalton. We are happy to be back and to have our new friends with us. The baby of the class is cute little Carol Whatley from Stone Mountain. Eva Chambers from Jasper, Sonja Cone from Albany, and Barbara Roberts from Dalton are our blondes with short, curly hair. Gloria Lanham and Anne Braddock are blondes also, but their hair is long and wavy. Anne has very brown eyes, while Gloria's are blue. Their homes are in Rome and Savannah. Mildred Ray comes to us from Dahlonega. She is our tallest girl and has light brown hair. Dan Adams lives in Atlanta and is quite handsome with his dark hair and eyes. Roger Hooper is our nice little boy from Gainesville. He has black hair and dark eyes also. Now that you have met us, you will be hearing more from our group all along. --Doris Brannon's Class We have been in school lon 2 enough now to feel that we practically own the pface. We have learned lots about lining up and going from place to place in an orderly manner. We have also learned that we go to town on Friday, and we feel that counting the days that must pass before our next trip is a very important part of each day's program. We recognize our names now, and we would like to tell you who we are and where we live. Our smallest member is Jimmie Peterson from Savannah. Our either boys are Wayne Hadden from Warner Robins, John Milford from Cumming, Colin Thomas from Whigham, Jimmie Welch from Rome, and Clinton lvey from Albany. Our six girls are Martha Smith from Columbus, Carole Read from Augusta, Joyce Bell from Rossville, Julia Ferrell fdom Caird, Sally Guinn 'from Trion, and Eleanor Mullis from Empire. --Jim Irwin's Class We are very happy to be back in school after a pleasant vacation. We have a new classroom and a new teacher. The girls are Jackie Reid and Jean Smith from Augusta, Betty Ann Lawson from Griffin, Peggy Sims from Cleveland Nan McAlum from Glennwood, and Barbara Sue Strickland from King&ton. James Harris from Scottdale, Herman McKinney from Ashburn; Fred Gordon from Savannah, and Delano Fincher from Eastman are our bo)'IS. We have all been here one year and some of us more than one. We know what it is all about now, and we expect to do some good work this year. -May F. Glenn's Class Since we have been in school 'Such a short time we do not have any item~ of special interest , . but we would like to introduce 'ourselves as a class and also as individuals. We have five girls and nine boys in our group. There $ never a dull moment when fourteen boys and girls are together and ;each buhbling over with interest and excit em e n t . Two new-comers to our school are in our class. They are Frances Marshall from Thoma/Ston and Bobby Hughes from Marietta. From Columbus we have Jimmie Brown and Roanell Dukes. There are three from Atlanta - Jerry Johnson, Joey Spurlin, and James Scoggins. Wlf?. have two Parker boy\'i, Hamilton from Alto and Joe from Wray. Mary Lou Willis, Thomasville; Sallie J o Kirk, Cedartown; Glinda Burford, Camilla; Jane Center, Ringgold; and Ronnie Smallwood, LaGrange compiete our roll. \V!tb so many wide-awake youngsters in our class, there is sure to be plenty happening by next month. -Miriam Minter's Class Every child in our class was present the first d:a,y of school which is unusual. There are eleven children in our group, eight boys and three girls. Their ages range between seven and nine. Betty Bruner and Dan (2) THE SCHOOL HELPER October, 19.50 Ward are seven. Bill King, Bonnie hearing and a good bit of speech. fortune to cut hie; knee just a few Bryant, John Reid, and Johnny While we try to catch up with days brfore school opened. We are Chandler are eight. Barbara An?- him in speech work, he is catching looking forward to Bobby's re- erson, Gene Elder, Emm~t Lewts, up with the rest of us in penman- turn . and Kerry Thomas are _nme. Fo~r ship. We hope the score is about -Polly Casey's Class of the children have btrthdays m even. October. We hope this will be a very successful year. -Mabel Fincher's Class Perhaps they do come cheaper Mary Alice Jones, Pelham, returns to us after a year's absence. Others include Betty Andert>on, Brunswick; Nell Akery, LaGrange; Carl Boyer, Atlanta ; Henry Daniel, temporarily of The children in our class are all happv to 1-e back in schc.ol. We have been so busy since we came that it is hard to realize we have been here almost a month. by the dozen as a family, but we Huntsville, Alabama; Stella Gaz- Every one of u~ had a good time can testify as a class that there away, Ball Ground ; Vincent Gray, at home and has enjoyed telling is also pep and interest galore when of Calhoun ; Janice Lee, Waycross; about his experiences during the they come by the dozen. Joyce Madden, Rome; Larry summer. When our birthdays are marked on the calendar, our weight chart is in view, or our homes are des- Thompson, Toccoa; Virgil Ward, Columbus ; Larry White, Acworth ; and Jean Wiggins, Smith- We are happy to have James Chapman back this year. ibn ated on the map. almost any dar i~ of special interest to us. Since we weighed the other day our interest, at present, is on how ville. We hope this is our best year ever. -Rebecca Crowe's Class Our class is composed of five girls and five boys. The girls are Ann Lynch, Inez Pollock, Patricia Edwards, Barbara Winters, and much and how little some of us eat. Rosalie Nastasi weighs decided - Mary Ann Welch. The boys are Right at first, it is a little diffi- Wilburn Dukes, James Chapman, ly more than any other member of our class (84 pounds). However, Marvin Hutto is the tallest (5414 inches.) Edward Clayton is our cult for the children to settle down to classroom work after such a wonderful summer at home. Each one has wanted to tell something Jimmie Bryant, Roy Garre'tt, and Terrell Leverette. --Jessie F. Jones's Class tiniest weighing 44 pounds and in particular he did during vaca- is just 45 inches tall. Melvin tion time, which never failed to Dukes weighs a little more (50 bring to another child's mind a pounds) and i& % inch taller. We similar experience he had enjoyed. hope that Peggy Ann Dixon, So it has been, these first days of Larry Lemming, and Barbara school, with the teacher becoming Jackson are going to begin eating better acquainted with each child more because they weigh fewer and some of the things in which p0unds than they are inches tall. he is interested. Delano Bryson, Sarah Jackson and At present, there are thirteen on Dollie Bridges weigh almost the our class roll who already are talksame. Delano sits by Mrs. Car- ing about working as hard as they penter at the table, and he often can so that after another three tells her that he wants to be big years, they can go " down the hill" and strong. Jo Ann King is the (to the intermediate department) youngest of our group but she is and be classed as big boys and girls! plump. She weighs 62 pounds and Our class roll carries the names is 49 inches tall. Barbara Jackson of : Billy Brumbelow of Aragon, We have been back in school several weeks now and, i having completed our review, have settled down to work and are studying hard. Our class is made up of threi girls and seven boys, Margene Bruner, Jo Ann Edwards, Joyce Mattox, Ronald Bell, Jimmie Parker, Alton Shirey, James Owens, Gene Dominy, Kenneth Corry, and Franklin Dubberly. We are very glad to have Franklin back this year. He will have to work hard to make up last year's work, but we think that he can do it. is another one who should eat Bobby Cannady of Graymont, There is a large bulletin board more as her weight and height are Joel Center of Ringgold, Betty in the hall, and we all are very *almost the same (50 pounds and Cutshaw of Forest Park, Jimmy much interested in it. A teacher has 49 inches). Taking us as a Grier of Lula, Donald Johnson of charge of it each month. Mrs. whole we are in pretty good con- Bainbridge, Bobby Jones of Jack- Jones has charge of it for October, dition, and just wait until May sonville, Billy McCullough of and it is very colorful with pretty and see what the chart tells then. Conyers, Ann Mobley of Colum- autumn scenes and Hallowe'en -Gladys Carpenter's Class bus, J.ane Parrish of Chickamauga, pictures. As well as being a point Delmar Shealy of Tallapoosa, Ge- of interest, the board may also .We are fourteen strong this year raldine Taykr of Wiley, and serve as an incentive for nice writ- With one new pupil added to our Danny Wilson of Savannah. All ten work in class as the best papers ranks. He is Linton Kersey from have remrmd , with the exception may be posted on it, too. near Vidalia. Linton has some of Bobby Jones, who had the mis- -Emmalee J . Highnote's Class (3.) Faculty Notes Except for a brief respite, with Mrs. Hollingsworth at St. Simons near Savannah, Mr. HoJ.lingsworth spent most of the sum.mer working on the budget and doing a vast amount of field work. Mr: Caple attended twelve weeks of summer :school at 'the University of Florida in Gainesville. Mrs. Caple and Suzanne spent all but two weeks in Cave Spring. The first vacation week was :spent in Arkansas visiting friends and the second in Florida resting while friend husband slaved over summer school. Mrs. Caple says that the latter was particularly enjoyable, as she carried a mental picture of times when she washed dishes and cooked while someone else read the papers and listened to the radio. Mrs. Turner studied at Columbia University during the summer. Mr. and Mrs. Kennard spent a week in Fayetteville, Arkansas vilsiting Mr. Kennard's mother. Mr. and Mrs. Forbes enjoyed a trip to Pittsburgh after school closed. They visited the Western Pennsylvania School for the Deaf and were glad to see some old friends there. Mary and Mildred Forbes were in training at the school and returned home with their parents. On the way home they stopped in 'Charleston. West Virginia to visit relatives and again in Flem- ing County, Kentucky. It was a very pleasant trip for all the family. Mr. Tumlin spent one week at DJytona Beach, Florida and visited various points in Georgia. pleasant summer in Cave Spring. Mrs. Perry spent the summer in Cave Spring. Mr. and Mrs. Stout spent a very enjoyable week at Fontana Village in North Carolina following their marriage on Augu:st 12th. Mr. Stout's parents paid them a visit soon after school started. Miss Latham spent the summer at her home in Cave Spring. Mr. and Mrs. Ware and Robby attended the G. A . D. Convention in Savannah June 3th to July 3rd. Mr. and Mrs. Brady spent a week in Waycross :rhe first week of June with Mr. Brady's mother. They had a very nice visit. After their return they took a speech course from Mrs. Kennard which was very interesting. Mrs. Brady spent a week in Atlanta the latter part of August to be an attendant in her former roommate's wedding. Mr. Brady spent a week in Atlanta the latter part of August attending the Coaching Clinic. Mrs. Johnson was in Cave Spring working during the summer. Except for a few short VlSlts with her mother in Bowdon , Mrs:. Fincher spent the summer at home. Mrs. L. 0 . Grant attended North Georgia Business College June 5th through AuglllSit 5th. Then she drove to Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts to spend two weeks with her husband who was studying there. They returned home early in September. degree in Nursing Education from the University the twenty -eighth. Following the graduation, Margaret's marriage to Robert Harling was solemnized at the First Presbyterian Church in Athens. Miss Nathaleen Ritch spent her summer visiting relatives. Miss Jessie Powers spent her vacation at her home in Asheville North 'Carolina and in New York: Mr. and Mrs. Cox spent their vacation at Daytona Beach, Florida. Mr. Cox did some deep sea fishing but was not very lucky. Mr. and Mrs. Stepp spent a very refreshing week -end in the mountains of North Carolina during the early summer. Later they spent a very hot week in Florida enjoying the ocean and the sun until they were blistered. Mr. C. G. Turner studied part of the summer at Mercer University in Macon, and the rest of the time just enjoyed his vacation. Mrs. Tumlin viSiited in Mobile, Alabama and Gulfport, Mississippi. Miss Casey attended summer school at the University of Georgia. Highlights of her summer were a trip to Campbell Folk School in North Carolina, " Unto These Hills," the Cherokee Indian drama , and seeing part of the filming of "I'd Climb the Highest Mountain'' in Cleveland, Georgia. M!IS. Simmons enjoyed a trip to California during the summer. Mrs. Henderson visited in Atlanta and spent the rest of the summer in Cave Spring. Mr. and Mrs. Williamson spent the first week-end after the closing of school in Clinton, Mississippi visiting Mr. Williamson's parents. Mrs. Montgomery spent a very Mrs. Griffith spent the summer in Cave Spring. Mrs. Jones spent several days in Athens the last of August. Her daughter, Margaret, received her (4) Mr. and Mrs. Dillard :stayed in Cave Spring most of the summer. Mrs. Highnote and Mrs. Minter attended tbe G . E. A. Workshop (Continued on page eleven) From the Colored Department 'we have been so busy that it is hard to realize we have been in school almost a mon~h. Although the work JJS new .to the children, I am pleas.ed w1th the interest and cooperatl.o~ t~ey have shown and am ant1c1patmg a successful scho<:>l year. Wilene W!hitsett, Oliver Thomas Virginia Sapp, Mary Robinso~. Charles Jones, Quinelle Solomon, Herman Smith, Tommy Harris, Eddie Baker, Lorene Coleman, Jessie Wadley, and Charles J efferson have received letters from home, and Edna Foster's mother came to visit her recently. A. J . Booth received a box. We are teaching the children to be unselfish and to divide with their classmates which makes everyone happy, When A. J . received his box, it was hard to tell who was happier A. J. or his class mates with whom he shared his peanuts and cookies. The children are learning to print their first names along with the letters of the alphabet. We have really formed a happy family, and I am proud of the children's interest and progress so far. -Beulah Chandler's Class From 2 :30 to 3 :30 every afternoon the large boys and girls go to vocational classes. The intermediate group goes to physical education. Right now we are having calisthenics, and ju:st as soon as we secure the necessary equipment, we are going to start volley ball. We hope to organize a basketball team, too. Some afternoons we play games. We are learning the names of the different games and enjoy them very much. -Ruby Jackson's Class There are seventeen in our group, eight boys and nine girls. Although all of us were not in the lsame class last year, we became good friends and are happy to be back in school again. As soon as we got back we began telling one another about our summer experiences, the trips we had taken, and the things we had seen. Everyone in our room has been assigned to do some special duty toward keeping the building and yards clean. Bobby Stephens and Russell Williams pick up paper on the yard every day, and the others help keep our room and the building clean. We have been modeling vegeta bles of clay, with the assistance of our teacher, to use in the miniature farm that we are exhibiting at the Coosa VaUey Fair in Rome, October 16 -21 . A prize of two hundred doUars will be awarded for the best exhibit. Of course, we hope we are lucky. We are all very fond of Mrs. Griffith and believe under her leadership that we will accomplish many good things. -Helen Jones's Class We are happy to be back in school after a nice summer vacation. We are now very busy getting our project ready for the Coosa V alley Fair in Rome. Corrine and Marion have made some corn, squash, tomatoes, potatoes, okra, and pumpkins of colored modeling clay for our miniature garden. Felton and Rayford went with Mrs. Griffith to the corn field to get some corn for our miniature corn shocks. Then Felton went to the barn for some hay and made some miniature bales of hay. Thursday, September 28 was Geraldine's birthday. She was ten years old. Her mother sent her a pretty birthday cake and some peanuts, candy, and gum. We are happy to welcome to our department Mrs. Nelle S. Griffith. We believe under her supervision that we are going to accomplish many things this term. -Mattie Malone's Class We were happy to welcome the pupils and teacherts September 11. Everyone spent a pl~sant vacation but we were all glad to get back to school. Our enrollment is the largest in the history of the school. There are eighty-four children so far this year. We have with us Mrs. Nelle S. Griffith, who has been associated with the deaf 'for a number of years. She took special training to teach the deaf at St. Louis, Missouri. She has had teaching experience at the West Virginia, South Carolina, and Alabama Schools for the Deaf. We are looking forward to a progressive year under her supervision. We have an experienced boys' supervisor, Quentin Gordon, who has been connected with the deaf since childhood and knows and understands1 them. The girls have a new supervisor also. She is Beulah Chandler. In only a few weeks she is doing nicely and enjoys her work. Under the supervision of our maintenance director, Mr. McAfee, a group of the boys have made a nice brick walk in front of the school building. The walk makes the entrance more attractive and was a means of training for the boys. On Monday and Tuesday afternoorus of each week the girls will do household and personal sewing. On Wednesdays they will be taught to crochet, knit, embroider, and weave. On Thursdays and Fridays they will do the ironing for the department. We have many plans for beautifying and landscaping the school grounds which we will tell you about from time to time. With the cooperation of Mrs. Griffith and Mrs. Kennard we are looking forward to a happy and prosperous year. -Lucille McCullough's Class A few days ago, our teacher read us a beautiful story about Booker T. Washington. We enjoyed it so much that we would like for you to read it, too. When Booker T. Washington was eight years old, he wanted to know how to read and write. One (Continued on page ten) (5) fHE SCHOOL HELPER October, 1950 THE SCHOOL HELPER All communication should be addressed to the School Helper, Cave Spring, Georgia. Entered at the post office at Cave Spring, Georgia, as second class matter Novembr 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. JOHN L. CAPLE ............ .. .. . . .... .... Editor KATHARINE CASEY . . . ... . . . . . . . . . Associate Editor MARIE KENNARD .. . ... . ... .. . ... Associate Editor C. G. TURNER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Printing Instructor VOLUME 51 OCTOBER, 1950 NO. 1 For the promotion of all State-Aided Schools 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. 3. 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. 5. Federal equalization aid for education that will guarantee equal opportunities for deaf boys and girls in all states. 6. Utilization or a full-time state Field Agent and Placement Officer (or both) to loca.te and enroll deaf children in the State Schools for the Deaf and to work with the Departmen\t in job placement and vocational rehabilitation of ex-pupils and graduates. WELCOME! TO THE NEW PERSONNEL ON OUR CAMPUS It is always a joy to welcome to our campus new members of our school family . To each new friend who has joined our group we extend a most cordial welcome. We are expecting great things of you, and we would like to do great things for you. We feel that there is a sympathetic link between us, that we are lifting together and th'at our hearts are tugging at the same load. May God manifest Himself in most gracious ways to each of us and to those whom it is our privilege to guide. It is with a great deal of pleasure that we wei- come Mrs. Elizabeth Freeman Simmons, daughter of the late Reverend S. M. Freeman whose name is so indelibly written in the history of the deaf of Georgia and particularly of the Georgia School. For almost forty years., he was a teacher in our school, and after retiring from classroom work, served for over t.wenty years, as an evangelist to the deaf congregation at Saint Mark Church in Atlanta and to the school he.re. His name will ever be a symbol for devoted service to the deaf child, and we are quite fortunate to hav a daughter of his become a member of our faculty. We are happy that the memory of this great man ca!l be honored and glorified by the perpetuation of h1s ideals and the accomplishment of his cherished plans by one who was so closely associated with him. Mrs. Simmons inherited in a generous degree the many noble qualities which made her fath.er the outstanding teacher, minister and leader of h1s day. She haJS been an unfailing source of inspiration to the deaf people of Georgia, and has established a pt!rsonal relationship with almost every member of tht great congregation to which her father h.ad so de- votedly ministered. She Has not only g1ven them generously of her time and effort, but has followed them with interest and wise counsel. The choice of Mrs. Simmons as a teacher in the intermediate department and as a counselor for girls is one of those happy events in which ~ gr~at opportunity is opened before one whose entlre llfe seems to have been a preparation for the duties she assumes. To her all training and culture and all gifts of mind and heart are. but instruments to be used in trust in the most sacred duties that fall to one so vitally interested in the more abundant life of the deaf child. Mrs. Simmons has come to our school with full heart and high hopes and with such we greet her. Her charming person~lity, her genuine interest and enthusiasm, her pronounced friendliness and her cooperative spirit have already won the heart-felt affection of each member of our ISichool family and we know that she will be a continual inspiration to us. Mr. Jack Brady, the husband of one of our teachers in the intermediate department, the former Miss Dorothy Forbes, is our new coach and math ematics teacher in the advanced department. He was born and reared in Georgia. Soon after he finished high school he entered the United States Navy and spent two years, one of which was overse~s . As soon as he was discharged, he enrolled at Georg1a Teachers College where he was graduated last June. Mr. Brady makes friends very easily and he is already proving to be a valuable contributor to our academic and athletic program. Mrs. Stout, the charming bride of our social science teacher in the advanced department, is a relief supervisor in the girls' dormitory and in the dining hall. Mrs. Stout spent two years at Gallaudet Col- lege. She ts insistent and earnest and we know we shall be seeing pleasing results of her efforts. (6) THE SCHOOL HELPER October, 19 50 It is with a great deal of pleasure that we wei- come Mrs Mrs. Nelle Sutherlin Griffith waos bor Griffith to our faculty. n and reared near Cave Spring. She was for six years a teac~er in t~e public ~chool system of Georgta. ~he recetved .tram~ng t under the shadows of a school for the deaf and the other a man who asked no odds in conquering hi-& deafness handicap. The deaf can claim many notables in the realm of sports. It is believed, however, that there is not one whose career can overshadow ticipating member of society. This emy, is a Canadian by birth and that of Earl J. Thomson of the does not mean simply preparing served with distinction in the U . S. Naval Academy. (8) From the Intermediate Department D CLASS The pupils in the D class have a great many adjustme_nts to _make during their first year 1!1 the _m~er mediate department. It 1s the1r flfst year in rotatiD;g classe~ and, also their first year m vocatwnal wor_k. It takes a few qays for the pup1ls to learn whejje and when . they should go to each class. The members of the class are Sandra Baker, Maureen Jones, Clarene King, Jadie Norris, Dickie Taylor, Bonnie Travis, J . M . Thacker, Milton Saunders, Patsy Sims, Alvin White, and Charles Wilson. Bonnie came from pubiic school and is from Columbus. At the beginning of the school day the pupils go to Mrs. Forbes' room for geography and history. They are studying directions and are making floor plans of the school building. In a few weeks they will begin history stories. The children have arithmetic and science in Mrs. Brady's room the second period. They are re viewing the number work they had in the primary department and will get a new book soon. Science lessons will begin later in the year. After recess the pupils go to vocational classes. Alvin and Dickie go to the print shop, and Mr. Turner is their teacher. Charles and Jadie help Mr. Royston in the pressing room. Milton is in the carpenter shop with Mr. Ware a's teacher. J. M. helps Mr. Cox in the machine shop. All of the girls are in Mrs. Wiare 's arts and crafts class. The pupils go to Miss Casey 's class after lunch for reading and speech. They are studying the textbook Street and Roads and are reviewing consonants and vowels. The members of the class go to Mrs. Montgomery 's room the nex t period for language and health. They are working on long and short answers and the verb to be. The pupils in the class are diyided the last period of the day for mdividual in'struction. Part of the class go to Mrs. Forbes' room and the others go to Miss Casey's room. On the home side the pupils have other adjustments to make. It is their first year 'down the hill' from the primary building. They eat in a different dining room and help wash dishes. The girls live in the girls ' dormitory where Mrs'. Simmons and Mrs. Tumlin are in charge. The boys stay in the boys' dormitory under the supervision of Mrs. Perry and Mr. and Mr&. Dil- lard. Our new pupils in the interme- diate department are already set- tling down to work and we hope they will do well. K. c. C-2 CLASS There have been some changes in our class this year. The clas'S has been divided. This leaves only eight and one of them is a new boy who has been in public school, Buddy Snipes from Wray. We are glad to have Buddy in our class. The others in the claSIS are, Brooks Blankenship, Claude Butler, Joe Wayne Edwards, Daniel Reagin, Betty Sizemore, Carol Smith and Shelva Jean White. We have the same teachers that we had last year. MiSS! Casey teaches us reading, speech and speech reading. We are in the fourth grade reader this year. Mrs. Forbes teaches us geography. We ha,ve been studying about our world and how we use it. In English we have been writing summer news for Mrs. Montgomery and also writing sntences using some. any, and none. In Mrs. Brady's class we had arithmetic for three weeks and nqw, this week, we are having science. In arithmetic we have had practice in addition, subtraction and some multiplication. We are in the fourth grade book. In science this week we are studying about the earth and the three parts of it-solid, liquid and gaseous. At 10 :30 we go to 1shop and don 't come back to the classroom until after lunch. Betty Sizemore is taking home economics as her vocational work. (9) Mrs. Stepp is Betty's teacher. SheIva Jean White is taking beauty culture. Miss Latham teaches her. Carol Smith takes sewing from Miss McDaniel. Brooks Blankenship, Joe Wayne Edwards and Buddy Snipes work in the print shop. Mr. Turner is their teacher. Claude Butler studies machine shop work with Mr. Cox. Daniel Reagin is working in the pressing room with Mr. Royston as his teacher. We enjoyed being at home this summer but it is nice to be back at school with our classmates. D. F. B. C-1 CLASS The members of Class C-1 have hol. he was put with Mrs. Mmter s group b~t found the work easy. He wasn t very happy with us because he thought our wor~ was too hard , but now he is gettmg along mcely. Melvin Dukes and Edward Clay ton are about Bobby's size and all three sit in small chairs in front o f ti1e others. The first month has been spent mostly in reviewin g last year's work. but it is time now to really go to work and learn some entirely new things. Our W here vocabulary was so limited that we decided to do something about it. First, we went to the spring. Delano Bryson gave everybody some fruit before we left the cla~ room . Larry Lemming, Dollie Bridges, and Barbara Jackson started feeding the ducks bits of their apples as soon as they saw them. Mrs. Kennard gave Marvin Hutto a cup to carry alon g; so he insisted that we get some water right away. A few days later we went to Mrs. Kennard 's home. With the Hallowe'en party, we now have to the spring, to Mrs. Kennard's, and to the party w hich not onl y add words to our vocabulary but &ive us a much better understanding of what Where really means. Everybody enjoyed the Hallowe'en party. When the gho&it and witch riding a broom came in , Rosalie Nastasi was really frightened until she decided she knew v.rho they were. Betty Jean Moore Was the only one in our class with a mask. Peggy Ann Dixon and Sarah J ackson tried with all their night in bobbing for apples but couldn 't get one. Melvin Dukes won a big top as prize. --Gladys Carpenter's Class A casual observer might think our trips to town and perhaps to walk every Friday afternoon an enjoyable outing, and he'd be right. Actually, however, they are much more than that. They give us material for an important exercise in Connected Language. The statements we learn to write are used in N ews and letterwriting and are always based on everyday ex periences. In fact , everything we write has true meaning. This has to be in order that we may learn time sequence which , of course, is necessary for our study of verbs. We also make a habit of connecting each event with the proper date on our calendar. We might begin our News Monday morning with the statement, "We went to town Friday afternoon ;" then, " Henry bought some candy, '' with each child in turn making some statement re garding his purchase. If there is time we often walk to the spring, in which case we might say, " Then we went to the 'Spring. Stella fed the ducks," etc. So you can see how we might go on each week building a better vocabulary and making self-expression a little less difficult. -Rebecca Crowe's Class On W ednesday morning , October 25 the chitdren ~n our department were privileged to have the Reverend John W . Stallings, Jr. and the Reverend Bob Johnson speak to them. By way of introduction, M r. Stallings, a hearing man of deaf parents ( who, incidentally, were educated in our 'School ) is superintendent of the Christian Deaf Fellowship which is a national inter - denominational organization serving the deaf and the schools for the deaf in the sou theastern section of the United States. Also affiliated with this group is Mr. Johnson, a recent deaf graduate of GalLaudet College, who just this month was elected as pastor of the Saint Mark Methodist Class for the Deaf in Atlanta and who will visit our school every two weeb. Mr. Stallings made a most impressive talk to the children, using such beautiful and clear illustrations that every child present seemed to understand. Speaking as he signed he began his talk by showing them his Bible, asking if they knew what it was. There was a good response from the children who, of course, recognized it. Mr. Stallings explained that it was God's book to teach us how to live. He went on. illustrating in a lovely way, moral principles by which Lhey should live. After his talk Mr. Stallings presented Mr. Johnson , who spoke briefly. The children were very pleased when he said he was coming back !SOOn and would bring some pretty religious pictures to show them . We wish we could. express for our children their appreciation and gratitude to these two ministers, but we feel that when Mr. Johnson returns, he will not fail to sense their appreciation through their interest and response. We might take this opportunity, too, of reminding the parents that religious training is a part of our program. On Sunday we hold Sunday school for forty-five minutes. Through the week we begin each day with a prayer. A period on Monday and another on Friday are devoted to learning Bible verses, prayers, short poems and songs. !Studying moral truths and the life of Christ. (This is very simple when first presented, but gradually as the children can take it, more detailed work iiS given.) From the first , the children are taught to pray before going to bed . As teachers, we wish that we might present God 's word as beau- (Continued on page ten) (3) Frorn the lnterrr:tediate Department During the fall months there are man y activities at school. We try to write about as many of them as possible during the English periods. The following work included many new expe- riences. It was necessary to give the pupils the new vocabulary and give them help in expressing the new ideas. The pupils had as much teacher help as necessary in writing these topics. -E.D. M . FLORIDA VERSUS G. S. D. Our football team went to Flor- ida. Thursday morning, October 26 . We left here at 4 : 15 A . M . We stopped in Waycross for din - ner and got to St. Augustine at 5 :4 5. After supper we talked to the Florida boys and then went to the movies with them. We slept in bunk beds. I. Rube, slept in an upper bunk. When I jumped out of bed, I hit my head on the light. Robert slept in an upper bunk, too. In the morning when he woke up. he stretched and fell out of bed. The mosqui- toes bit us boys all over. The game was Friday night. Our team didn't have any luck because F. S.D. beat us 30 to 0 . Joe said that their boys were bigger than ours. One boy weighed 21 8 pounds. We feJ,t nervous about him. We went to see some interest- ing places. We went to the Alli- gator Farm . We visited some old buildings in St. Augustine. We went to the beach to see the sea . We wanted the waves. We wanted to go in bathing. Saturday morn- ing we went to M.arineland to see the fish and other sea animals. We saw a diver go down in the water to feed the fish . We left St. Augustine early Sun- day morning and got back here about five o'clock. It was a very interesting trip, but we were glad to get back again. -Junior Galloway -Rube Collins MR. STACY Mr. and Mrs. Stacy came to our school one week-end. Mr. Stacy is studying to be a preacher. He comes from the Lutheran Church . This year he is a field worker with the deaf. He preached to us in the chapel that Sunday morning. So we d id not go to church in town for Sunday !School. Mr. Stacy preached about God's goodness and love fo r everybody. Some o f his signs are d ifferent from ours. We like him and could understand what he meant. -Jerry Nix WORDS! WORDS! WORDS! I find tSome new words every day. Do you know what an evangelist is? It is a preacher who travels all over telling people about the Bible and Jesus. Now I know one. Mr. John W. Stallings is an evangelist to the deaf. He is very well-known all over the United States. He can hear and talk , but his mother and father were deaf. They came here to the Georgia School for the Deaf. Mr. Stallings came here with Mr. Bob Johnson Monday evening. October 23 . We had chapel after study hall and again the next morning. We signed " Happy Day" with Mr. Stalling15. We liked his sermons very much. We could understand what he said. He helped us. He smiled all the time. -Jo Ann Hornsby GIRL SCOUT WEEK This is Girl Scout week. We want to tell you about some of the things we did. Most of our girls had to have new Scout uniforms this year. So Saturday some of the girls helped make the new uniforms in the sewing room. They finished them before night. All the girls wore Scout uniforms to Sunday school Sunday morning. After that we lined up in front of the Methodist Church. People in cars looked at us. Then we came back to our campms. We had our picture taken on the steps of Fannin Hall. Did you ever have tired feet? All the Girl Scouts did Monday afternoon. That afternoon we left school early and went to Rome on our school bus. We marched in a parade there. The Girl Scouts, the Brownies, and some other organizatiollJS paraded. When we got there. we had to wait and wait. When the bands started. everybody walked all the way down one side of Broad Street and up the other. The bands played very well. There were three bands. The sun shone very hard. We were very hot and tired. This parade was better than last year because we didn't have any uniforms last year. W e are glad that we have them now. So we want to tell you that we enjoyed that parade, but we got hot feet . -Betty Pharr -Dorothy Anderson THE COOSA VALLEY FAIR We always look forward to our day at the fair. This year we went to the Coosa Valley Fair near Rome the eighteenth of October. We had no school that day. The boys went on our bus first and then the girls went. We got in free. We lookec:l at some of the exhibits first. We saw our school booth with our exhibit in it and thought that it was good. We won twentyfive dollars on it. We were the guests of the Exchange Club in Rome. We had free coca colas. Then we all stayed together and had free rides on several of the amusements . We wen~ on the merry-go-round ,the Ferris wheel.the Octopus,the Skyride and the airplanes. Some rode on the fire truck too. We enJoyed the rides very much. Then we went to the Wild Animal Show. Last we had free ice cream . The men of the Exchange Club and the show people were very kind to us. We had to pay for the other amusements and the shows. V/e did different things, but most uf us went into the Snake House. We walked around the midway (Continued on page nine ) (4) Frain the Colored Department Thomas Harris, the smallest month. The most interesting word JohnW. Stallings lead us in three boy in the class, is finding it hard was hobby . Our class hobby is col- songs. We are learning " Oh Happy to make adjustments from home lecting the prizes that we find in Day" which we will use in our de- life to being " a big boy' ' in school. cracker jack boxes and candy. votional period. Marion Smith de- Edna Foster spent a w~ek-end After we had collected a num - lights in leading this song. with her family in Cunnmgham ber qf these prizes, our teacher On October 27 we had a Hal- recently. made a charm necklace. This neck- lowe'en party. We made masks to Charles Jefferson 's parents came lace is worn by the smartest girl wear to the party. W-e had lots of to see him one Sunday and at- over the week-end. fun in the grand m'arch. Our games tended Sunday school with him. Of course, the boys wanted to were le*ing apples on a strin.g, Charles Jones, Mary Robinson, make something, too, so they col- bobbing for apples, and fortune A. J. Booth, and Quinelle Solo- lected large acorns and we made telling. For refreshments we had mon sent their parents a copy of three pipes. The smartest boy of fruit punch and cookies. their abc's a few days ago. the week gets to keep one of the During all this excitement, we Herman Smith printed his name pipes over the week-end. didn 't forget our classroom work. and sent it home. In our classroom we have just Marion Smith, Mary Nell Wallace, Oliver Thomas received a letter as much fun getting our lessons as Sara Ann Wii.lis,' Geraldine Vick- from his mother with a picture of we do when we are engaged in ers, and Lueretha Camp have been him and his brother. He enjoys outside activities. Lots of our new as busy as little bees making rings looking at the picture. lan guage is brought in through out of shucks for the ring toss game Eddie Baker's sweet little smile outside activities and experiences. to be used during our physical edu- adds much cheer to our classroom: We are learning to get along cation period. Wilene Whitsett received a box with one another, to be happy , and -Mattie Malone's Class from her mother with three pretty to be good sports at all times. dresses, some fruit , and a box of -Helen Jones's Class We have begun our new school cookies in it. year with much interest, enthusi- Lorene Coleman received a box We have acquired some new asm , and determination to.. make from her mother with pretty equipment for our physical edu- this a great year. . clothes, too. cation classes. One new game that There are fifteen in our.. class, Jessie Wadley loves to draw. we are especially interested in right eight girls and seven boys. We are Every time she gets her hands on a now is ring toss, because it was unfortunate in not having started piece of paper, she draws pictures made by the children. We braided to school together, but we hope to of little dolls. shucks, made them into rings, and stay together from now on. Each child seems to be aware of dipped them in shellac. Our main interest right now is t h e approaching Thanksgiving We have pictures of many dif- about ' 'The United State5 and season. I have been showing them ferent games arranged on a shelf Food on the Way to Our House." pictures of turkeys, and pumpkins, in our room with the names As the United States is the coun- and also of little children, Thank- underneath. This helps us realize try in which we live and most of ing God for His Gifts. how many games we might play us live on the farm, we are .glad to Charles Jefferson's mother sent and to know more about them be- kn.ow . that the greatness of the Charles a nice Hallowe'en box to fore we attempt to play them. United States is founded on agri- treat his dassmates. There were -Ruby L. Jackson's Class culture. peanuts, a variety of Hallowe'en We find cattle, hogs, sheep. candy, and a gift for each member The month of October has been corn, wheat, oats, rye, barley, rice, of the class. The children were an exciting one for us. sugar cane, sorghum cane, tobac- ?elighted over being thought of On the nineteenth we went to co, cotto:n, Irish potatoes, sweet m such a nice way and would like Rome to the Coosa Valley Fair potatoes, celery, oranges, lemons, to thank Charles's mother for her and had a good time. The Rome grapefruit, limes, apples, peaches, kindness. Exchange Club gave us free rides, pears, grapes, sugar beets, poultry, -Beulah Chandler's Class ice cream, and coca colas. The Na- dairy products, fish, oysters, tional City Bank of Rome gave honey , and peanuts are products of . We all feel that we have been us pencils. In a game of chance, our United States and are ''On the tn school long enough to under- Hartwell Rhone won a bracelet, Way to Our House.'' stand some of the things that our Mary Nell Wallace won a glass On this products map you can teacher wants us to do and how horse, and Felton Young won a ~ind small pictures1 of all these they should be done. comb . products, placed according to the We have added several new . October 2 the Reverend Bob localities of production. We, also, words to our vocabulary this Johnson spoke to us. The Reverend (Continued on page ten) (5) fHE SCHOOL HELPER November, 1950 --- --------- -- - -- - - - - -- -- -- - - -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - THE SCHOOL HELPER All communication should be addressed to the School Helper, Cave Spring, Georgia. Entered at the post office at Cave Spring, Georgia, as second class matter Novembr 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 printing department of the Georgia School for the Deaf. JOHN L. CAPLE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Editor KATHARINE CASEY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Associate Editor MARIE KENNARD .... ... ..... .. .. Associate Editor C. G. TURNER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Printing Instructor VOLUME 51 NOVEMBER. l 9 50 NO. 2 For the promotion of all State-Aided Schoola For the Deaf 1. Improved recognition as educational institut ions with control in the hands of educational boards. 2. Sectional and national associations with accred it ing 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. 3. A greater Gallaudet College serving the interests of all the states with special emphasis on research findings openly arrived at and freely disseminated in pr omoting 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 guarantee equal opportunities for deaf boys and girls in all states. 6. Utilization or a full-time state Field Agent a nd Placement Officer (or both) to locate and enroll deai children in the State Schools for the Deaf and to work with the Departmen~ in job placement a nd vocational rehabilitation of ex-pupils and graduates. WHAT IS THE DEAF CHILD'S GREATEST NEED? (Reprinted from The Volta Review ) Almost anyone who is asked this question , if he has had no contact with the education of the deaf, will reply immediately , "Speech." That answer is wrong. The correct reply is ''Language.'' " But" protested a bewildered parent recently. aren 't speech and language the same thing ?" No matter in what kind of school a deaf child has been educated , what happens afterwards, when he meets a person unfamiliar with the deaf ? He must communicate. If he has learned. to speak intelligibly, he communicates in spoken language. If he has no speech , or if his speech is poor and he cannot make himself understood, he must write. Whether in speech or in writing, he must be able to put words together in a wiay that makes sen se. In other words, he must have language. Occasionally one meets a well educated deaf person who has never learned to speak at all. With pencil and paper he can express his thoughts readily, sometimes in excellent colloquial E nglish . He can communicate without difficulty with an y En glishusing person who can read and write and will take the time to do SQ. All who know him recogn ize him as a thinking, participating member of societ y, al though hampered and slowed down by his inability to speak a,nd to u.nderstand speech . He functions as a responsible citizen for one reason : he has language. Speech and language -are by no means the same thing, and language is by far the more important o f the two. Let us think about it a little. In order to function as human beings amon g other human beings. every person must have a means of communication. Without it he cannot express his thoughts, cannot understand the thoughts of others, and usually cannot prove to others that he is able to think . This means of communication is not necessarily speech, invaluable though speech is. Anything that interferes with a deaf child 's acquisition of language increases his handicap. If. after he has lea.rned the words in which to express a need, he is permitted to ask for what he wants by gesticulating. he is being penalized. If he says or writes such a sentence as "Joe want Christmas D ay kitten white with black,'' and nobody helps him to straighten out his distorted English and makes him understand that words must say what they mean , he is being done a grave injustice. A little hearing, skillfully trained and intelligently combined with the maximum use of lipreading, can be made invalua ble in the acquisition of language as well as of speech. Where that bearing, however, is insufficient to have provided the child with a reasonably normal com~ mand of sentence structure, an earphone alone, unsupported b y a trained teacher , is unlikely to be an acceptable substitute for a special school. The Volta Bureau has recentl y learned of two instances in which , acting on the advice of a man highly skilled in his own profession but untrained in the education of the deaf, parents have kept at home, attending ordinary schools, children with hearing so limited that straight language could not be acquired without special instruction. One of these children . now about nine. is writing sentences just as preposte rous as the illustration above about the kitten . The other, an intelligent little second grader, is o-fferin g (Continued on page eight ) (6) Superintendent's Corner SOME of you wh.o read t~is will recall that thts page m the November is- A Letter sue of t h e from HELPER Coach Thomson carried t h e article "A Notable Deaf Coach." The follow ing portion of a personal l~tter from Mr. Thomson substanttates the facts in said article and car- ries a cheering message to deaf people everywhere: "Naval Academy Athletic Association United States Naval Academy <\.nnapolis, Maryland 14 November 1950 "Mr. C. H. Hollingsworth Georgia School for the Deaf Cave Spring, Georgia Dear Mr. Hollingsworth: " . . . . . THE S CHOOL HELPER arrived in. the same mail and I think the article is very good. I hope that it will h elp some deaf people to take more interest in life. When all is said and done, there are a lot of things in this world that we can do without hearing. "My Cross Country team has not been too successful this fall but we hope to make up for it this winter and spring in track. Tell Connor that I have a full time assistant coach now, Billy Mitchell of Georgetown, and that he is doing a fine job. The trouble with the CC team has been nervousness due to not being away from home for more races. We are going to try and remedy that next fall. "Please remember me to Mrs. Hollingsworth as well as Connor, when you write him. Sincerely, Earl J. Thomson (Signed) Navy Track Coach" I N looking over copies of the l.p.f fo r pertinent news items on w h i c h to ''ROME BURNS comment, the WHILE first t w o NERO FIDDLES" papers picked up were the 0 . A . D . NEWS (Ontario Asso- ciation of the Deaf) and MICHI- GAN MIRROR. There was no need to look further. These two papers carried glowing headlines on their front pages that furnished sufficient material on which to comment for many months yet to come. Yes, these articles, under the big headline, depicted flying straws to indicate which way the wind is blowing and what is happening to our profession. Some straws were borne by mere whispers of wind. Yet, they bring the undeni- able promise of storms a-brewing and brighter da)'ls to follow . Others were pell-mell flying straws still swirling but losing their force in the ebb of a dying storm of seventy-five years' duration - not dying in force but in turbulence and swirl as they gathered to flow smoothly with an irrestible cur- rent carrying us to a more serene and finer destiny. Superintendent E d m u n d B. Bdatner, of Connecticut, in the 0 . A. D. NEWS screams out against "Glamourized Oralism'' and bemoans the fact that " Those Least Experienced With The Deaf Are Loudest In Phony Advice." Curiously enough, we agree with Mr. Boatner in his indictment of some evils threatening a true eva- luation of our residential schools. The current issue of the OHIO CHRONICLE reprints an article from this Corner wherein we spoke of the evils of " half-baked pedagogues, cure-all doctors, etc." But, we do not agree with Mr. Boatner as to a cure. He aptly says, ' 'Need is urgent for stepping up factual publicity.'' Both the diag- nosis and prescription are preemi- nently correct but the " negro in the wood-pile" is that such pronounce- ments of our trouble and the proffered cure. to be channeled through the medium of the l.p.f. and our present organizations, is far from sufficient and will get us nowhere during this time of trial by fire. His article is reminiscent of JUSt such fiery denunciations and appeals made a half century ago which are moldering in our files today. We quote again from the OHIO CHRONICLE - ''T h e SCHOOL HELPER has previously hazarded the opinion that we are inclined to be 'educational isola tionists' and that we are not sufficiently integrated with legitimate educational enterprise. As evidence thereof, the dissemination of pertinent information does not seem to register in all quarters. Publi cized research findings are not carrying sufficient weight if, indeed, there is any unified research. And, finally , there is not sufficient measuring in checking claim against claim as pertains to type and method of instruction. As is, there is no way to satisfy the inquiring public as to who is bamboozling who. Little wonder there is a wee bit of confusion.'' Now we turn to the MICHIGAN MIRROR and note that Harley Z . W'ooden has resigned his post as superintendent of the Michigan School for the Deaf to assume duties as executive secretary of the International Council for Exceptional Children, a department of the National Education Association. Mr. Wooden, one of our ablest residential school superintendents. turns to legitimate edu cation to better serve the education of the handicapped in our nation, including that of the deaf. On the same page of the MICHIGAN MIRROR it is noted that Charles Watson, M. S. D. Principal, resigned in June 1950 to accept a position 'as consultant in the education of the deaf and the visually handicapped for the California State Department of Education , and so it goes. Our position is that, until W it. channel our efforts through recog - (Continued on page eight ) (7) Faculty Notes Mr. Hollingsworth attended the Conference of Executives Colorado Springs, Colorado, then flew on to Vallejo, California to visit Wright for a week. Mr. Caple attended the Grand Lodge in Macon, Georgia, October 24 and 25. Mrs. Johnson and Miss Latham attended rt:he Matrons a n d Patrons Club, 0. E. S. in Cedartown November 1. Mrs. Johnson was elected president of the Club for the ensuing year. Mr. Brady was in St. Augustine, Florida, October 26, 27, and 28 with the football team. Miss McDaniel spent the weekend of October 4 in Atlanta. . C. G. Turner had an enjoyable trip to St. Augustine, Florida on the 26th of October with our G. S. D. football team. Mr. and Mrs. Carpenter attended the Rome Symp)'10ny Concert at the City Auditorium in Rome October 23. Mrs. Glenn was guest of Mrs. Irwin in Cedartown, Monday night. They attended the concert and heard John Sebastian, a noted harmonica player. Mr. and Mrs. Fincher visited their grandmother. Mrs. Janie Downs, in LaGrange the last Sunday in October. Mr. and Mrs. Highnote and Peggy visited relatives in Americus recently. Mrs. Crowe enjoyed the concert presented by the Rome Symphony Orchestra at the City Auditorium October 24. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Harling of Panama City. Florida visited Mrs. Harling's mother, Mrs. Jones, recently. Miss Brannon attended the Georgia Tech - Auburn football game in Atlanta recently . Mrs. Irwin and Patsy Sims spent a recent week-end with Patsy 's family in East Point . They attended the Shrine Circus while there. Dr. and Mrs. Grant attended the concert given by Roland Hayes in Calhoun on October 31 . Mrs. Minter and her family visited her mother and father November 3. The occasion was her fa ther's birthday. Mr. and Mrs. E. N. Smith, Betsy and Mitsy Smith and Dr. and Mrs. M . Freeman Simmons were the guests one week-end of Mrs. Simmons. Mrs. Simmons spent a weekend in Atlanta and attended the Billy Graham Sunday afternoon ~ erv1ce. Mr. and Mrs. Stepp attended the Tech - Auburn football game in Atlanta recently. Mrs. Montgomery and Miss Casey attended the John Sebastian concert in Cedartown , October 30 and the Aaron Rosand concert m Rome, November 7. CORNER-Continued nized public school mediums, we will continue "ripe unto the harvest" for the quack and the false prophet to ply their nefarious practices. Public school education has long since been recognized as the responsibility of both the state and federal government. To say that certain types and kinds of education, as is applicable to the needs of the people, should remain isolated from the general program is something that can not be defined, much less defended. If the advocates of such a felodese should go unbridled they miiht destroy some of the very principles they hold most dear. It is good to see the W oodens, W atsons, and the Brills going ahead to prepare the way. DEAF CHILD-Continued such jargon as the following in his eager attempts at a story about his dog: THE PADDY I like a Paddy was play ball. This is Paddy ball. of that boy and girl play Paddy ball he like Paddy. yes" I like to. Paddy phay ball ready go to with Paddy outside play with ball Jane play with Paddy. Dorothy play with Paddy, come back eat supper time ready go eat Paddy . I llave a surprise for you. Mammy say. this for Paddy too. I like this for Paddy eat. I don no where Paddy surprise. I love Paddy kiss. Thank you. Unless these children receive help very soon, from somebody who knows how to teach language to children who cannot hear it. what chance Have they of becoming adults who can participate in any ordinary discussion, whether in speech or in writing r How can they learn to have s o m e- thing to say unless they can use the words in which it must be said? The deaf child's greatest need is languiage. (8) THE SCHOOL HELPER November, 1950 - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- - - -- - - - - -- - - - - - - - - - - -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- - - -- - - -- - INTERMEDIATE-Continued and looked at the booths and the displays. We saw a real lion in a cage. We went to see the model airplanes. Mr. C. G. Turner won second prize and Roscoe Dukes won third prize in t~at. We looked at the farm anima~s. the farm machinery . the new cars and the flower show. We regi~tered for several prizes. We wanted to win $100 .00 at the bank. Later we stood and watched a loom weav- ing cloth. Some of us won prizes on the games of chance. Some of us tried. but didn't win anything. At four o'clock a man was shot out of a cannon . He was called the human cannon ball . He climbed up into the cannon . We waited and in a minute the cannon went off. The man shot high into the air. He fell into a big net. He was very brave. We came back to school after that. We had a very happy day at the fair. -A C-2 Class Topic home and stayed until Sunday night. Some of the boys went to the movies. A few of the girls stayed here. They took a walk in town. It started to rain a little and they had to wait under the awaing in front of Casey's store. There was a social in the chapel that evening. Some of the pupils danced there. A C-I Class Topic FUN AT THE HALLOWE'EN CARNIVAL We bad fun this Hallowe'en. We went to the Hallowe'en carnival in Hearn Hall at seven-thirty that night. We are glad that we ar~ big now . The primary children had to go to the carnival in the afternoon. We laughed a n d laughed there. We had to pay five cents at the door. Each of us got a number. Later Joe Wayne Edwards won the door prize. It wa'S a shoe shine kit. and other drinks. We talked and played tricks on one another We were tired and happy when the carnival was over. A D Class Topic ATLANTA, GA. By Rosa A. Johnson, Sr. Beginning September 30 the television fans at Atlanta Club of the Deaf started ' 'seeing" actual happenings as far as New York when the new coaxial cable between New York, Charlotte, Jack sonville, Atlanta and Birmingham was completed . How about seeing each other of us between these cities in some near future? Rev. James M . Stallings, a retired Baptist minister and an uncle of Rev . J. W . Stallings, Jr., of Norfolk , had been quite ill at Georgia Baptist Hospital here At this writing he was reported to be on his way back to recovery SCHOOL ACTIVITIES We had a fire drill the other day. The bell rang loud several times. Some of us could hear it. The teachers knew that it was a fire drill. We go to school on the second floor . Mrs. Montgomery went first and we followed her down the front stairs and out the side door. We marched out in line very quickly . Wte know how to march out in a hurry. Friday everybody at G. S. D. was happy because our team won the football game from Buchanan. They went there Thursday afternoon to play. G. S. D . won 19 to 0. When the team came back we jumped up and down and yelled. We were proud of them. That night the football boys went to Rome to Barron Field to se~ the night football game. Rome H1gh played against Decatur High. It was a close game, but Decatur won 7 to 6. This was the girls' Saturday to go to Rome. They went shopping and to the movies. Jewell went Some of the boys dressed up. J adie was a horrible old man. He had a great big nose. Some of us went into the Hall of Horrors. We saw a huge zombi, a hunchback, and a mummy in there. We thought the zombi was a gorilla, but Mr. Turner said that it was a zombi. There was a big lion on the floor, too. Sandra was scared and jumped. She bumped into Alvin and Milton. The zombi picked Dickie up and threw him in the air. Patsy was scared stiff. She couldn't move. Bonnie got in there and she was scared to death. She screamed and screamed. We like to be scared on Hallowe'en. Clarene said that she yelled, too. There was a fish pond. Most of us went fishing there. We got different things. Alvin won a ball and a horn on a chain. Charles got some sparklers. Patsy won a red glass. Dickie, Bonnie, Clarene, and Milton got combs. At the country store we bought lot'S of things to eat. They sold hot dogs, candy, coca colas, punch, Atlantans and Georgians regretted to hear the news of deaths of Mrs. Odie Underhill and Mrs. Herbert Smoak which occurred in North Carolina during September. The;y were well remembered by their frequent visits to Atlanta. Late in September Mr. E. H. Butts left on his two-week vacation trip for Philadelphia to visit friends there where he once resided for a number of ye.ars before moving to Atlanta. After visd.ting Alabama and Missou-ri Mrs. Fred Hart and Miss Mary Hart recently spent a day here with Mrs. Gus W eil on their way home in Savannah. The big Florida-Georgia football game in St. Augustine October 27 attended a large crowd from Atlanta. Next day in Jacksonville the deaf had a bowling tourna ment. Because their little children are fast growing Mr. and Mrs. H . E. Hartsfield have just moved into their new and larger home in the fashionable Sylvan Hills section. (9) THE SCHOOL HELPER November, 1950 COLORED-Continr.:ed and are eager to know the follow- them that a troop of Cub Scouts is use larger pictures of the products ing things about the people and in the process of being organized on small posters and match them countries: this year. The boys are already to the pictures on the map. In this way, we can see just where each product is produced. -Lucille McCu-llough's Class This month has been a very busy month for us. We have worked withj our ~hands; we have been studying very hard ; and we have traveled, too. First, let U!S tell you what we have done with our hands. The girls have been busy mending clothes and household linens. They have also made new pillow case6J. When they are through mending. they are going to make pin cushions and needle booklets for the sewing room. Delero Snead and Bennie Cook have learned more about the different kinds of tools that carpen,ters Ul9e. A few days ago they made What the people look like . Where they live. What they eat. What they weat. What tools and weapons they use . What their homes are like. How the people live. What their religion is What games they play. What the climate is. What the vegetation is. What animals live there . We have learned that the children of these countries were happy and healthy. We have learned four important things-the children got up early enough to dress in time for breakfast ; they did not dawdle but finished the task at hand ; they helped themselves as much as they could and were independent ; they bathed and put on clean clothes. working hard to become good Scouts and have been invited on several hikes with the Brownies. They also took part in helping them decorate the dining room for the Hallowe'en party. The boys and girls cut out colored leaves, owls, black cats, and jacko' -lanterns and pinned them on the curtains. The boys went out and picked real leaves to decorate the tables. The children always enjoy taking part in getting ready for our parties, and we try to include them in as many activities as pcxssible. The dining room looked very festive with all the Hallowe'en decorations, and the children enjoyed the delicious \lleal all the more because they had' had a part in making the room attractive. -Jessie F. Jones's Class a sawbuck table for our classroom. They used a try-square, a saw, a chisel. a ruler, a hammer, a plane, and nails. They planed and sanded the table and now are ready to paint it. They will use orange shellac so that the table will match our cabinet. w e have had new work in language. reading, and arithmetic. We are really enjoying this and are studying hard. Now, let us tell you about our plans of travel through many of the different countri~ and meeting the different kinds of people. In our classroom we have a large world map, and under it on the shelf there are pictures of the differtnt kinds of people. We use the key-words Who and What; as, Who: People Americans Russians Japanese What: Country America Russia Japan We learned that by getting up in time for breakfast and dressing quickly, the children had time to eat a big breakfast and thiat there waJS time left for something eltse. AU df them brushed their teeth imm'ediately after meals. Th:ey ,wore clothing sui.,table Ito the weather and were careful on their way to school. Their day had a good beginning, and they left school happy. Our room is very attractive, and we wlsheveryone could see it. We will have traveled more by next month and hope to have something new and interesting to tell you. -Hattie S. Menifee's Class PRIMARY-Continued tifully and impressively aiS did our visitors. -Polly Casey's Class The fall weather has been ideal for playing outdoors, and we have certainly been enjoying the nice new swings and see-saws which were donated by the St. Joanne Chapter of the Cathedral of St. Philip in Atlanta. Several members of the Chapter visited our school last year and later sent us the playground equipment. Our first party thils year was the Hallowe'en party, which was' a wonderful success. The playrooms were gaily decorated with cutouts of pumpkins, black cats, witches, and bright colored leaves. We played games and bobbed for apples with everyone taking part and having lots of fun. We were even visited by a spook and a witch riding a broomstick. After the party, we went to the dining room and enjoyed a delicious supper. On the following Tuesday we took part in the big boys' and girls ' Hallowe'en carnival. We look forward As our teacher writes one key- The Brownie Scout troop which to it from year to year. We fished word or claJS>sification, we write was organized la\5t year has helped and did all the interesting things the corresponding form. the girls so much and has been they had planned for us. We have just begun to travel such a pleasure and inspiration to -Emmalee J . Highnote's Class (10) HERMAN E. TALMADGE, Governor GEORGIA SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION M. D. COLLINS, State Superintendent of Schools ADMINISTRATION C. H. HOLLINGSWORTH, M. A. , Superintendent Janice R. Caple, Secretary Julian Tumlin, Steward Myrtle A. Johnson, Bookkeeper Earl Cox, Engineer Charles E. Owen, D. D. S. John M. McGehee, M. D. INSTRUCTORS JOHN L. CAPLE, Principal PRIMAR~ DEPARTMENT Marie S. Kennard, B. S., Supervising Teacher Doris Brannon Gladys E. Carpenter Polly CalMly Rebecca S. Crowe Mabel L. Fincher May F. Glenn Stella W. Grant Emmalee 3. Highnote Jim Irwin Jeuie F. Jon Miriam B. Kinter INTERMEDIATE AND ADVANCED DEPARTMENTS Mary P. Turner, B. A., Supervising Teacher Advanced Department Katharine Casey, Supervising Teacher Intermediate Department Dorothy F. Brady, B. S. Jack Brady, B. S. Connor Dillard Ruth D. Forbes Edythe D. Montgomery, B. S. Elizabeth F. Simmons, B. S. Gail Stout, Jr., B. A. Kathryn W. Williamson, B. A. VOCATIONAL DEPARTMENT John L. Caple, Supervising Teacher i C. G. Turner .... . ... . ......... .. :: . . . . . . . . Printing Sarah F. Ware . . . .. ... . ....... Arts and Crafts J. R. Ware .. . ......................... Carpentry Gladys L. Latham . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Beauty Culture Connor Dillard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Shoe Repairing Annie McDaniel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sewing Ruyell Royston . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Barbering and Pressing Geverna C. Stepp, B. S. H. E. . . . . Home Economics COLORED DEPARTMENT Nelle S. Griffith, Consultant Beula}l Cha1uller Louise Chubb Helen Jonea R. H. McAfee, Vocational Mattie Malone Lucille McCullough Hattie S. Menifee THE SCHOOL HELPER VOLUME 51 DECEMBER, 1950 NO.3 Advanced Department THE PROVING GROUNDS Test trme is a bad time To those who await the bell; Test time is a good time To those who use Time well. It is time for report cards again. In the advanced department, we believe that the central value of report cards is that they serve as useful instruments for the personalizing of education and the guidance of pupils. They not only give the parents and teacher a picture of the pupil's achievement, or the progress he has made; but they also show why a child is not making the expected progress. This offers an opportunity for the parents to tbin'k of what they can do to help the teacher provide the experiences that the child needs, and invites parents to participate in the education of their children. In keeping with the philosophy and goals of our school. we are intere-sted in the development of the whole child, and. in an environment of friendliness and encouragement, we offr many different experiences which will help each individual child: To develop a strong body, full of energy and vitality; To grow stronger in character; To cultivate worthwhile interests; To learn to choose true values; To think independently; T o strengthen perseverence; To make the most of abilities and interests; To get along well with other people; To acquire necessary knowledge and skills; To develop self-confidence and self-respect which result from earnest effort, and which lead toward success and a willingness to assume the duties as well as enjoy the privileges in life. With these goals in mind, we try to provide a stimulating curriculum of cooperative activities in which the teacher acts as a guide who is always ready with " a message of hope and a plan of action. " The questions and the pupii responses given her were taken at random from this six-weeks test papers. These will give you some idea about pupil achievement in the content fields and the tool subjects. A South American would like to know more about the United States and our way of life by subscribing to five of our maga- zines. List five good magazines that represent varied interests of American life and, in a sentence or two for each, give specific reasons for your choice. There are a great many magazines published in the United States that would help a South American learn more about the United States and our way of life. The following ones are my choice for this purpose: Look is a very interesting magazine. It has articles and pictures on almost everything that is done in the United States, and usually discusses both sides of a question. To get an idea of things that are of interest to women, Good Housekeeping would be helpfu . Each issue is filled with articles, illustrations, recipes , hints on home making and decorating and a great many other things that appeal to women. From this magazine the women of South America could get a good picture of our way of li fe . A very popular magazine that is full of digested news and a discussion of quite a few questions of importance in the United States is the Pathfinder. The Progressive Farmer would acquaint a foreigner with methods of farm ing and make him familiar with life on a farm . If one would like to read a little and learn a lot, the little magazine , Quick, would be a fine choice. I think these fine magazines would help a South American become acquainted with the United States and our way of life, and that he would soon fee l quite at home among us. - Sara Crisp Write a composition of 75 to 100 words on: My Privileges and Duties As An American I am proud that I am an American , and I would like to do my duty and enjoy my privileges. I am an American! These are four wonderful words. These words make me think of beautiful mountains, fertile fields, buSJy cities, quiet places in the country, good schools, plenty of food, good churches, nice homes, good books, kind people, free education, freedom of the press, freedom of speech, freedom of religion, free dom from want, protection, an opportunity to work and a great many other good things that 1 enjoy every day. I am an American! These words remind me of my duties also. 1 must love my country, I must obey her laws, I must do my part toward making this a more wonderful America. It is great to be an American , and I am thankful for my privi leges and my duties. -Roscoe Duhes Select four poems that have THE SCHOOL HELPER December, -1950 inspired you with noble or cour !because he invented the idea o f of the .various things that the ani- ageous feelings. Tell what effect steam power for doing work. mal should depend upon. . each had upon you and why it Lincoln freed a few slaves in 4. Nutrition-it is the differ- bad that effect. the South, but W:att freed all the ent functions of four things. There are a great many poems people from being slaves to work.. 5. Excretion-it is ~he expel- that have inspired me with noble The machines did more to help the ling of waste materials. and courageous feelings. Southern Negro slaves than the 6. Reproduction-it is the pro- "Somebody's Mother" whose Emancipation Proclamation. duction of the organism over again. author was unknown inspired me Before the invention of steam 7. Respiration-it is the ex- and made me want to help other power, all work was done by hand change of carbon dioxide and oxy- people. The boy who helped the or animal power. gen between the cells of the body mother in this poem was thinking The invention of machines and and the blood stream. about his own mother who some steam power gives people more lei- -David Barrett day would be old and would need sure time. It gets more work done some boy to help her across the and is much faster than if done b y Q. Why was the Greek -rictory at road . hand as before. Marathon important? " The Arrow and The Song'" by -Sara Crisp A. It saved the Greek civiliza- Henry W . Longfellow gave me in spiration. Since reading it, I have tried to be kinder to people and to make them happy. This poem showed me that cross words hurt people for a long time. "Columbus" by Joaquin Miller taught me the great lesson of never giving up, but to sail on and on and on and be successful. ''Abou Ben Adhem' ' by James Henry Leigh Hunt has inspired me to love people more and to love God, too. Almost all poems teach a wonderful lesson, and if every one would read more beautiful poems, we would all be happier people . -Fred Po wers Compare the mechanism of a camera a _nd the structure of the human eye. What are the fourteen com- mon and euential elements lo the life of all organisms? The fourteen common and es- sential clements to the life o f all organisms are oxygen, carbon , hy- drogen , nitrogen , calcium, iodine, phosphorus, sulphur, potassium . magnesium , iron , sodium , chlorine, and silicon. -Robert Woaten Explain the Apple Tree Cycle A n apple seed grows to a seed- lin g, a seedling grows to an apple tree, an apple has blossoms, blos- soms have egg cells and pollen, bees cross-pollinate the blossoms, and the base of the blossom gro,,s into an apple again. --Jack \Vath ins If snow is covered with par- tion and the idea of Democracy for the World. -Fred Powers Q. What caused the Punic Wara? A. Rome and Carthage fought . these wars because they were rivals for Mediterranean trade. -Herbert White Q. What did Hannibal try to do? A. He tried to ct:oss the Alps into Italy and conquer Rome on her own land. -Roscoe Dukes Q . What three thin~rs have helped the Danes to success 7 A. The three things that have helped the Danes are : 1. Land ownership by the farmers themselves. 2. Cooperative societies of the farmers. 3. Education of the people. The camera is a box which con tains an opening like the pupil of the human eye. It allows light to pass through a lens as the eye does. The light falls upon the sensitive film in the camera and upon the retina of the eye. Both the eye and the camera receive an image caused by light. The photographer develops the film and prints a picture ; the brain receives the stimulus of light and perceives the picture. -Herbert Whtte Write an explanation of the statement "James Watt did more to free slaves than did Abraham Lincoln." James Watt did more to free slaves than did Abraham Lincoln ticles of soot, why does the soot sink into the snow? When soot falls upon snow, it sinks into the sno w because soot is black and aborbs heat . It causes the snow to melt away from it. The snow is white so it reflects the hea t and does not melt where the soot does not touch it. -Roscoe Dukes What are the life functions that are common to all plants and animals? Explain what each function is. 1. Sensation-it is the sense and ideas of the animal which tell what it should do. 2. Motion-it is the movin g or quietness of animals. 3. Food-takin g-it is the eating --Sara Crisp Q. Why did the Americans have so few war supplies during the Rev olution? A. The Americans had few war supplies during the Revolution because they had no factories, were too poor to buy supplies, and no other country would give them credit. -David Barrett Q . Why was Charlemagne'. victory at Saratoga important 7 A . It led the French to believe that the Americans could win the war, and they agreed to help the Americans. --Jack Watkins Q. Who were the Vikings? A. The Vikings were Teutons ( 2 ) THE SCHOOL HELPER D ecember, 1950 from Norway and Sweden. . -Rosemary Smcth Q. Why was Charlemagne'a victory at Tours important? . A. Charlemagne's vtctory was important because it saved Europe from the Moors. -Wynell Godwin Q. The Pilgrims. left England b cause .... .. . . . . . . ... . A. The king would not let them worship God like they wanted and punished them . - Franklin Dyess . Q. . . .. .. .. . ... ... ... founded Georgia. A. James Oglethorpe founded Georgia. -Guy Jones What kind .of muscles always controls the skeletal system? The skeletal system is always controlled by voluntary muscles. -Mary Ann Pate What is the heart muscle called? The heart muscle is called the ca rdiac muscle. -Ann Thompson What is the name of the muscle on the front of the upper arm? The muscle on the front of the upper arm is the biceps. -Billie Jean Smith What does the muscle do when it be comes thicker and aborter? The muscle contracts when it becomes thicker and shorter. -Gene Lanier What are the three body systems that Wol'k together to cause movement? The three body systems that work together to cause movement are the muscular system, the skeletal system, and the nervous system . -Betty Brown What are the three parta of the nerv- ous system? The three parts of the nervous system are the nerves, the spinal cord , and the brain. The hope of the world lies in citizens who accept not only the rights but also the responaibilites of group living. A great many books acquaint us with people who made their world a better place because they lived in it. Choose two characters, one from a novel and one from a biography or an autobiography and show how each person made a real contribution to group living. It 'is very importan;t that we learn to work and play together. In m y reading I have met two characters, J ean V aljean from " Les Miserables' ' by Victor Hugo and BenJamin Franklin from ''Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin," who accepted not only the privileges and rights of group living, but al so the responsibilities. J ean Valjean , a very poor boy, became a good citizen of a small French tow n . H e started a jet-bead factory so th at the people might have a good job. H e paid them just wages so that they could enjoy comfortable homes, nice cloth~s . good food , and other things they needed. He started a hospital in his own home where the people could be taken care of if they were not able to pay a doctor. He went to the courts and helped the people get justice. He accepted not only his own rights but the responsibility for others' rights. Benjamin Franklin, also a very poor boy, educated himself and others. He helped write our Constitution and the Declaration of Inde- pendence. He publ ished " Poor Richard's Almanac,'' which con- tained wise sayings that would help the people live better He worked very bard serving his country and improving the rights of the people. Not all citizens can do so much as these two men did, but each citizen can ci.o something to h elp group living by accepting his res - ponsibilities. -Herbert White Suppose you have been appoin- ted temporary chairman to pre- aide at a meetinc. State in cor- rect order, the procedure that should be followed in beginning, conducting and closing the busi ness of the meeting. Your answer may be in outline form. l . Call to order 2. Roll call 3. R eading of the minu tes 4 . Rep ort of the t reasurer 5. Report of standing com mit- tees 6. Report o f special com m ittees 7. Call for unfinished busi ness 8. Call for new busin ess 9. Adjournment -Edna Pope It is a joyous fee ling to make another person happy by giving him something. Fr.om a poem you have read list the names of some people who made otbera happy by g iving them something. Tell what each gave. In the poem , ''A Good T hanks- giving," Old Gentleman G ay gave a fat turkey to Shoemaker Price. Shoemaker Price gave a chicken to poor Widow Lee. Poor Widow L ee gave a pumpkin p ie to W ashwo - man Biddy. W ash w oman Bidd y gave a ginger cake to the Fin igan Children . The Fin igan C hi ldren gave a p iece of the cake to L ame Jake. L ame Jake gave some cru mbs to the birds. T he birds sang and everybody w as happy and h ad a good time because they gave some- thing away. -Louise \Vilson What does the law of conser- vation of energy m ean? It means that energy cann ot be created or destroyed. It is derived from the sun . It comes in radian t form . It chan ges its form to man y different kinds of energ y and finally becomes heat or light, but it is not destroyed. - Herbert White What is a modifier? A modifier is a word or group of words that change the meaning of another word. -Rosemary Smith When is a sentence in its natural order? A sentence is in its natural order when the subject com es before t he pred icate. -Fran k li n Dy el:i~ What are the essential parts of a (Continued on page twe lve .l ( 3 ) From the Primary Department Hello there! Merry Christmas windows and watched the snow washed our faces and hands before and Happy New Year to all our until the ground was completely coming to class. We also are be- readers. covered. Our teacher drew a snow- ginning to recognize quite a few Life was exciting here in school man on the board and showed us classroom directions such as, Stand all through November. Early in pictures of snow scenes. We talked up , Sit down , Erase the black- the month we had visitors from about the things we could do with board, etc. We are becoming very the Junior League School in At- snow and begged to go out in it. polite with our new understanding lanta. They made a ~pecial visit to We put on our heavy wraps and and use of such expreSISions aa, our class to see Brenda Padgett and went outside thinking that we Thanh you, You are welcome, John Coleman, who are former might go to town for ice cream , Pardon me, and Certainly, but pupils of the Junior League as it was Friday, but we soon de- our real thrill comes when it is School. cided it was too cold to stay out time for relaxation exerci~s and We had a picture show ''The very long. We certainly had some- we are asked to run, jump, skip, Three Little Kittens" here at thing different to put on our hop, fly like a bird. or walk like school. and we went into town to weather calendar this time, and our a doll. \Ve have several of these see several movieJS. Then came a teacher thinks that we will long in our collection now, and if the wonderful Thanksgiving Day, and remember this thrilling experience. person called upon cares to show after Thanksgiving a big snow. -Doris Brannon's Class off his undel'Standing of the direc- Soon, ole Santa Claus will be tion, he has to do so very quickly coming down our chimneys, and We have found speech reading or all the rest of us will be up and we are now getting ready for our most interesting topic durin g ready to show .him how it's done. Christmas. We are oo excited that the past few weeks. Since this is --Jim Irwin's Class we can hardly wait. . our first year in school, of course Each member of our class wishes we haven 't had a great many When we c~me to school in for each of you readers the greatest words, but we have worked hard September, little did we realize that of ChristillalS joys and that the on the ones we know . You would the calendar on the wall was for Prince of Peace may rule in your be surprised to see how many dif- anything except the pretty picture, heart. ferent ways we find to do the same and the one on the blackboard just -Stella Grant's Class thing. One day our teacher draws to use the pretty colored chalk. We on the blackboard pictures of the have found out differently and Everybody seems to be talking objects we know, and, when we know that both calendars show us about the weather these days, and are called upon , we draw a circle about the da~. First, we learned we want to talk about it, too. around the drawing, a line under each square represented a day and After our prayer and flag salute it, or color it as the teacher desig- each day had a name. We know every morning, we observe the nates. Another day we might be their names and sequence. Then we weather conditions. we use three asked to select a picture of what is learned the .day that had just passed pictures. One shows rain , one sun- called for and then draw it on the was yesterday, and. the ' day now shine and the other clouds. Each blackboard ourselves. Sometimes a iJs today, and the day after today child ' goos to the window, looks row of pictures is placed on the will be tomorrow. We can show out, and then points to the picture board ledge or in a chart, and we in the chart that yesterday is fin- that represents the weather. This are asked to turn the pictures ished by putting the printed form trains us to become close observers around or pick them up and hold of Monday crossed out over the which is very necessary. After all them as they are named. printed form of Monday not have done this, one child is called We use some symbolf; called the crossed out. We can build in the upon to show the teacher in which Alcorn symbols which represent chart: space on the board to draw the the shape of the speaker's mouth Yesterday was picture depicting the weather. This in forming the vowel sounds. We Today i s - - - - - - - exercise helps us separate one day enJOY the exercise where these sym- Tomorrow will be - - - from another in our minds, and bols are drawn on the blackboard \}.,1e can associate the days in the better understand the passing of above our row of pictures and we chart with the days on the regular time. are given a piece of chalk with calendar and on the blackboard. Now we want to tell you what which to draw a line from the Now we are counting the weeks we did the day it snowed. Some !Symbols to the pictures of the until Christmas. There are too of us had never seen snow because words that contain these symbols. many days for w; to count yet. we live too far south; however, We can all point to the pictures --May F. Glenn's Class we knew /Something different was to show that we understand when happening outside and were very we are asked if we have brushed Since we did not go home for . much exci ted. We stood at the our teeth, combed our hair, or Thanksgiving Day, I will tell you ( ) - - -- T~ SC.HQ9L HELPER December, 1950 how we sp~n~ the.. <;lay in school. When we changed our calendar to November: we mar}<-ed the twenty 7third .m red .. Thts meant that it would be . dtfferent from other school days. Duri~g the qays preceding t~at c;l_ate, _p tctures r~p resenting the btstoncal occaston were enjoyed. From the word Thanksgiving we picked out t_wo familiar wo'rds : thank and gwe. The boys and girls in our class are very conscious of saying, " Thank you," when they ar!? given something. Now .we are thanking God for our homes, parents, friends, clothes. food, and school. The real meaning was made very clear. After giving our special thanks to God for all our blessings, we had a new story book with ve~;y pretty pictures. We have had two >torie.'l which we dramatized ; so aII of us were eager to know the contents of the new book. The name. of it was " The Golden Egg P.ook.'' It wa s about the rab bit \~ho found a big egg and tried to imagine what was in it. He tried to .break it by kicking it. jumping over it, fossing acorns at it, and finally rolling it down a hill. While be was asleep, a little yellow duck pecked his way out. From then on the_y were good friends. This story was enjoyed very much because it used so many familiar words and actions. Our dinner was the traditional Thanksgiving Day meal with turkey and all the trimmings. We cqmpleted the day, by going to a movie in town. . . Friday following Thanksgiving Day was a good qay , too. We recalled and re-lived the happenings when we wrote our news. To make i~ more enjoyable, in . a very short hme the ground was covered with snow. It became very cold and we were thankful to .be at school in a nice warm building. -Miriam Minter' s Class For two years now Cave Spring along with North Georgia and other southeastern states has puzzled over the noticeable absence of Old Man Winter, and many voiced the opinion that the climate definitely had changed to a warmer one. The chilly old man made a re'turn Friday, coming back in a twohour long snow storm, the equal of w~ich many old heads haven't seen m years. The children and I were quietly going about the calendar work , vaguely concious that the wind was blowing hard and the clouds becoming heavier and heavier, but just as Johnny was drawing a picture of the sun on the day before to signify that the sun shone all day yesterday, the clouds let .go the most snow many of the children had ever seen. It would have been criminal to try to keep them doing the regular class work ; so they moved the African violets off the window-sills and watched the snow fall until .the ground was white. Some of the older children wrapped up and. walked t.o town while it was snowing, but we waited until after lunch ; then we went outside in ~he front yard and played for awhile. It wasn't long before hands were red from . cold, and the children rushed. back inside and to the classroom . where they settled down to enjoy the comforting warmth and to color some p ictures. -Mabel Fincher's Class Some children from Mrs. Finch: er's, Mrs. Casey's, and our class have hobby hour together on Tuesday afternoons. For our project this year , we are working up a rhythm band. After several practices of "trying out'' we have about decided on our permanent places now. Bobby Hughes likes the symbols. Sara Jackson, Dollie Bridges, Betty Jean Moore, and Peggy Ann Dixon are very good with the bells. Edward Clayton, Larry Lemming, Barbara Jackson, Melvin Dukes, and Jo Ann King play the triangles. One da y Marvin Hurto beat the drum , and he certainly felt important doing it. Ros,alie Nastasi and Delano Bryson decided they didn't want to be in the band; so they joined another hobby group. Our latest piece is "Jingle Bells" and the bells really do get a work out. Even though we must pay the closest attention it seems more like pia y than work, and we enjoy it. -Gladys E. Carpenter's Class Thanksgiving D a y dawned bright and beautiful. mocking the da ys that were to follow on the week-end when the thermometer plunged to a cool above zero-the official Crowe reading from a northern exposure To the delight of everyone we had snow Friday morning, and few missed the unusual opportunity to get out in it for frolic and little rough play. As we said before, it was a pretty day Thanksgiving and we began it by reporting to our classrooms ai: 8:45 . Here we had our usual devotional lesson . Then our teacher told us the story of the First Thanksgiving. We looked at pictures of the Mayflower, a wigwam, a Pilgrim father, mother, boy, and girl, and a feast at which the Indians shared the wild turkey, . roast pig. fruits, and homemade breads and cakes. At noon we had our own feast of turkey, dressing, giblet gravy, cranberry sauce, tomato and lettuce salad, green peas, relishes, rolls, ice cream and cake. In the afternoon we gathered downstairs and soon our supervisors appeared to take us to the show in town. We saw John Ford in "Wagonmaster." Then we returned to school for an early supper. When spring rolls around, we 'Vvn t mind having missed our heretofore Thanksgiving holiday, f..:.r then we shall have a full week's va cation at home. -Rebecca Crowe's Class The day after Thanksgiving will long be remembered as a red letter day, for it was on that morning the beautiful white snowflakes began falling, so gently at first, but in such flurries at times that (Continued on page twelve ) ( 5 ) fHE SCHOOL HELPER December, 1950 THE SCHOOL HELPER Leonard M . Elstad spoke on the highlights of his trip to Groningen, Holland. where he attended the Inter- national Congress of Teachers for the Deaf. Dr. All communication should be addressed 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 Brown and his square dancers provided entertainment. The secret ldaked out that it was Dr. Brown 's birthday. His bakery staff presented him with a cake and all in attendance sang ' 'Happy Birthday. " -Tennessee Obseruer 1103. Act of October 3, 1917. Authorized October 31, 1918. THE MID-CENTURY WHITE HOUSE CON- Published monthly during the school year in the print- FERENCE ON CHILDREN AND YOUTH ing department of the Georgia School for the Deaf. The Convention of American Instructors of the . Deaf is participating as a National Organization in JOHN L. CAPLE .... . ... . .. .. ....... .. .... Editor KATHARINE CASEY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Associate Editor the Mid-Century White House Conference on Children and Youth. MARIE KENNARD ... .. .. . ....... . Associate Editor C. G. TURNER . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . Printing Instructor The purpose of the Conference is to determine ''how we can develop in children the mental, emo- VOLUME 51 DECEMBER, 19 50 NO. 3 tionai. and spiritual qualities essential to individual happiness and to responsible citizenship, and what For the promotion of all StateAided Schoola For the Deaf physical. economical. and .social condition are deemed necessary to this development. 1. Improved recognition as educational institutions The preliminary report was made by our Super- with control in the hands of educational boards. intendent, who is president of the Convention of 2. Sectional and national associations with accrediting American Instructors of the Deaf. She then nominated authorities and approved measuring rods and standards to represent the Convention, Dr. Irving S. Fusfeld, suited to each association, terminating in the highest Dr. Leonard M . Elstad, Dean and President of Gal - requirements for membership in a national association laudet College respectively, also, Dr. Dan Cloud, First for schools for the deaf. Vice-President of the Convention and superintendent 3. A greater Gallaudet College serving the interests of the Illinois School for the Deaf and Supt. Fred of all the states with special emphasis on research find- L. Sparks, Jr., head of the Central New York School ings openly arrived at and freely disseminated in pro- for the Deaf and Chairman of the Vocational Section moting the educational interests of all the schools. 4. A full utilization of services that can be rendered by the U. S. Office of Educa.tion in keeping with the spirit and purpose of its creation. 5. Federal equalization aid for education that will guarantee equal opportunities for deaf boys and girls in all states. s. Utilization or a full-time state Field Agent an d Placement Officer (or both) to loca.te and enroll deaf children in the State Schools for the Deaf and to work with _the Department in job placement and vocational r ebabilitation of ex-pupils and graduates. of the Convention. All these nominations have been approved by the Mid-Century White House Conference Committee 'a.nd President Truman. All will be participants in the Meeting December 3 to 7. Dr. Fusfeld was present at the preliminary Meeting Ocober 19 and 20, and asked toserve on the edtorial committee to prepare the recommendations of those sessions to the big Conference next month. The Convention will have an exhibit depicting the work of schools for the deaf. Materials arc being collected from all over the United States. The exhibit will certainly be an informative ~ne for the f~ve thou ~ CONFERENCE OF EXECUTIVES sand delegates plus visitors. -Tennessee Obseruer The twenty-second regular meeting of the Conference of Ex~cutives of American Schools for the D eaf JERRY TRAW1ICK, 16, WINS SCHOLARSHIP was held at the Colorado School for the Deaf and the Jerry Trawick, 16-year-old son of Byrd Tra- Blind at Colorado-Springs from October 16th to wick, won first place and a $180.00 college scholar' 20th. ship to the University of Georgia in the 4 -H Club The meeting was well attended with representa- livestock JUdging contest held in. connection with the tives from the United States and Canada and the prin- livestock show at the Southeastern Fair in Atlanta cipal from the Territorial School in Hawaii. last week. The program, broad and full, permitted no time Trawick, who bas carried livestock judging for idleness. The social affairs were delightfully plan- as a project for the past four years, has placed second ned by the superbly genial host and hostess, Dr. and for two consecutive years, in district competition and Mrs. Alfred L. Brown. has attended several livestock judging short . courses. At the staff dinner on Wednesday evening, Dr. -The Cedartown Standard ( 6 ) Superintendent's Corner I T was on Saturday evening that annah boy. as pastor and that she Wilder's Church looked after the Ernest Herron called our atten- felt the choice was a wise one. spiritual needs of the deaf of his . tion to the Then, over a long span of years, community. There shouldn't have An Appreciated fact that the followed the wonderful fulfillment been any surprise that he visited Christian Convent i o n of her good prediction. the class and came with a roes- Fellowship wal!l worship- It is generally conceded that no sage in tQe sign language. "Work ping at the lawyer in Savannah will turn hard, work hard, work hard.'. he Calvary Baptist Church t h e down Dr. Wilder's summons to said. as he came up the balcony following morning. The Calvary defend the defenseless; that no doc- steps and into our midst in almost Baptist Church! This rang a bell tor wll refuse his call to administer a dogtrot, despite his sixty-seven in the far back recesses of our mem- to the physical needs of the sick years. We had hardly finished a ory. It was a tinkling and pleasing ' -even to the meanest dere- word of greeting and an expression bell that brought back mellow lict on the street, in his luckless of our appreciation of the class, memories of forty odd years ago. home, in jail or just wherever he when Dr. Wilder called from the The occasion was the 20th Bien- may be found. Stories of his good foot of the balcony stairs, " Brother nial Convention of the Georgia As- deeds a~ so numerous that they Hollingsworth, follow me.'' We sociation of the Deaf meeting in become legendary but, part of the had to trot to catch up and the-n Savannah June 30- July 1- 2-3, man. And, they all could be so continue to hurry to llljatch his 1950. We had not fully made up very true. One of our favorite brisk pace. Before one could say our mind to follow the Sunday stories is about the police sergeant " jackrabbit'' we were ushered into schedule as outlined on the Con- making his rounds and finding a the presence ofthe primary pupils' vention program, but as afore sug- pdliceman, on hiis beat. tagging assembly-a department Aunt Ida gested, the announcement rang a Dr. Wilder's car for being parked organized in 1898. Following just bell and brought in a whole flood of memories. Sunday's program .&. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ .'*- a tew words of introduction Dr. _ . ~{! ~ ""t7 ~ ~tJ ~Wilder ~id, "Tell these young became an eminent MUST. It was - folks something about the deaf looked forward to with pleasant " Glory to God in the highest, boys and girls.'' Now we ask you, antici'pation and growing excite- and on earth peace, good will how could a fellow talk interest- ment. toward men.'' ingly and intellingently to eager It was recalled that the Reverend Luke 2: 14 youngfolks, under such hurried JohnS. Wilder, Pastor of the Calwry Baptist Church at Savannah .&. ~ .&. ~ &. ~ Al!.. conditiom? We were hardly ~ ~ ~ 'Vl'. ~- "{J ~ warmed up to our subject before was one of the most beloved men in . . Dr. Wildu was beckoning from all Georgia ; that three years earlier bestd~ a ftre plug. The sergeant call- the far side of the room and say- the Church and all Savannah had ed htm up sharply and wanted to c~lebrated his 40th Anniversary : know if he kn~w whose car it wa~. that he was Dean of Pastors of all ~hen the pohceman prof~ssed hts denominati0ns in Savannah; also, tgnorance, .he was admo~ushed seDean of the Baptist City Pastors in ve~ely ~nd mformed tha.t tt was Dr. Georgia ; that he . bad conducted Wtlde~ s dar, to learn tt well and ing again, "Follow me.'' Just as we caught up and started protesting,he literally dived into what proved to be his 8tudy. He handed me a 40th Anniversary Book at which to glance over while he, for more funerals, performed more know tt was not to b.e molested at a few moments, engaged in silent marriage ceremonies and made more any place or at any ttme. The po- meditation and prayer Suddenly sick visits than any other pastor in !iceman wa.s then .told if he must he bounded up and boited for the the state's history; and, that he was tag somethmg, Wtth a court sum- door with what now had become probably universally known and mQns, to tag the fire plug, but a familiar refrain, ''Follow me." loved by more people of all races never Dr Wilder's car. The infer- He ushered us into a little Chapel and creeds than any other man who ence, of course, being that Dr. where a dozen or more deacons had bas ever lived in beloved Savannah. Wilder .was alway.s <;>n an errand already assembled. He introduceinbttVaertlaslDW of GeoTr\ A\Ana~ ti~tgTil& PUBLISHED AT THE GEORGIA SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF, CAVE SPRING, GEORGIA FEBRUARY, 1951 VOL. 51 NO. 5 Spring Vacation MARCH 24 - APRIL 1 Parents are asked not to call or send for their children until AFTER the close of school on FRIDAY, March 23. Pupils are expected to arrive back in school on Sunday, April 1, or not later than 8 A. M . Monday morning, April 2. .: i .~: - THE SCHOOL HELPER VOLUME 51 FEBRUARY. 1951 NO.5 On T eaching the Abstract to the Deaf* One of the interesting things connected with the work on the American Annals of the Deaf if> the reading of the various newsp:1pers and journals that come in the mail. Recently I was particularly interested in a pamphlet, " The Story of Helen Keller's Visit to Queensland" in Australia. Durin g an interview in Adelaide, Miss Keller made the following remarks: If I could live again I should do much more than I have for the deaf. I have found deafn ess to be a much greater handicap than blindness. In advancing years I have grown closer to the deaf because I have come to regard hearing as the key sense. Deafness, by fettering the powers of utterance, cheats many of their birthright to knowledge. A child born deaf cann ot learn easily b ecause he can hear nothing to imitate. It is defi- nitely harder for the deaf to grasp concrete facts, much less ponder on the abstract. I was struck by the sentence " It is definitely harder for the deaf to grasp concrete facts, much less ponder on the abstract.'' At Gallaudet College we have the opportunity of seeing the language work of deaf students from many schools and classes for the deaf, and the results of a number of different systems of language teaching as used in schools and cla&Ss for the deaf in the United States and in Canada ; and from my own personal experience I certain! y would agree with Miss Keller that teaching the abstract to the deaf is just about the most difficult phase in their education. It is not a matter of training. It is a *A paper presented on July 28, 1950, at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois. The author is the editor of the American Annals of the Deaf and a professor at Gallaudet College. By POWRIE V. DOCTOR, Ph.D. matter of education, and especially, I believe, a m atter of teaching language. Aside from teaching the deafblind, the teaching of the deaf child is the most difficult job in the field of teaching. I refer, in general, to the child who has become deaf before acquiring language. And I believe that the teaching of langu- age to such a deaf child is even more difficult than the exhausting job o.f teaching him speech. In the April. 1950, issue of The Vo lta R euiew , appeared an editorial b y Miss Josephine B. Timberlake entitled ' 'What is the Deaf Child 's Grea test N eed? ' ' Miss T imberlake says. Almost anyone who is asked this question, if he has had no contact with t he education of the deaf, will r eply immediately, ''Speech." That answer is wrong. The correct reply is "Language." "But," protested a bewildered parent r ecently, "aren 't speech and lang uage the same thing'!" Speech and language are by no means the same thing, and language is by far the more important of t he two. Let us think about it a little. In order to function as a human being among other human beings, every person must have a means of co mmunication. Without it he cannot express his thoughts, cannet under stand the thoughts of ethers, a nd usually cannot prove to others that he is able to think. This means of communication is n ot n ecessarily speech, invaluable though speech is. No matter in what kind of school a deaf child has been educated, what happens afterwards when he meets a person unfamiliar with the deaf? He must communicate. If he has learned to speak intelligibly, he commmunicates in spoken langu- age. If he has no speech, or if his speech is poor and he cannot make himself understood, he must write. Whether in speech or in writing, he must be able to put words together in a way that makes sense. In other words, he must have language. Occasionally one meets a well educated deaf person who has never learned to speak at all. With pencil and paper he can express his thoughts readily, sometimes in ex- cellent colloquial English. He can communicate without difficulty with any English-using person who can read and write and will take the time to do so. All who know him recognize him as a thinking, participating member of society, though hampered and slowed down by his inability to speak and to un- derstand speech. He functions as a responsible citizen for one reason: he has language. In regard to this statement, I might add that in teaching speech and speechreading we all rely to a great extent on memory and imitation, whereas in teaching language, we must not only teach the mechanics of grammar, spelling, and tense, which depend to an extent on pure memory, but we must also, or at least we should, teach a deaf child how to think. It has been well said., ' 'Clear thinking lead~ to clear writing,'' and I am wondering if some of the poor English which we have in our classes of deaf pupils today is not possible because we, as teachers of the deaf. have dwelt too much and too long on attempting to get a readable sentence, whether or not the pupil understands what he has written. We have been giving standard tests at Gallaudet College for over twenty years. The results form a fairly clear pattern. The average deaf student often surpasses his THE SCHOOL HELPER February, 1951 hearing companion in spelling and frequently is on a par with him in grammar. But in the test on paragraph meaning he falls considerably below his hearing associates. Why is this true? I might attempt to classify the reasons somewhat as follows : 1. As a teacher of English 1 find it far less exHausting to correct spelling and grammar than to try and decipher some of the "deafy" language all of us get in our classes. There is virtually nothing more relaxing for a teacher of the deaf than on a Friday afternoon, after being confronted with a sentence devoid of all form and meaning, to hear the bell ring for dismissal and be able to say, "We will take that sentence next Monday!" Many subjects can be taught by illustration and example, but how is a teacher going to correct ideas except by bringing in more ideas, which in all probability, will confuse the issue still further! And, generally speaking. if he does present another idea to help illustrate the first point, the various members of the class will have such varying backgrounds as to make one explanation almost impossible. for all. Yet it is this very thing which I believe is our greatest problem in the average school or class for the deaf. What is the answer? I have not the slightest idea. However, I do believe one approach is to start as early as possible to teach more extensively by comparison and by contrast. We all tend to become so factual in our teaching of the deaf. We are sometimes more anxious to get across facts than we are to develop reasoning powers. The abstract is so much more difficult to explain than the concrete. It is easy to teach the word " fish,'' because we can point to a fish in a bowl or in a picture, but it takes far more patience and ingenuity to teach the word "forgive,'' because all too often any il lustration of the word "forgive" leaves the deaf child with the impression that everything is going out and nothing is coming in. We frequently hear teachers of the dea f say that the pupils progreS\SI so well up to the beginnin g of the Intermed iate Department and then the y take a slump. One possible explanation is that more subjects are re quired , another that tex tbooks are being used more extensively, and there are various other an~we rs. I believe the reason might be that it is easier to show improvement by concrete word lists and very simple sentences than by abstract words and the use of compound and complex sentences. Also, I be lieve there i'S a strong possibility that the over-use of special language systems used in teaching the deaf, such as the Fitzgerald Ke y, the Wing Symbols, etc may have a tendency to make our deaf pupils more concrete in their thinking th an h earin g pupils. We are confronted by the concrete versus the abstract. I believe too much use is be- ing made of ''True and Fal\Se" ques- tions, 'Fill in .the Blank'' questions, and " Completion". questions. They have their place, and "what'' questions certainly are far easi er to grade than sentences stressing ' 'why" and ''how,' ' but I am wondering if they are not responsible for some of the extremely concrete thinking on the part of many of our deaf pupils. Such questions sometimes tend to l.eave the pupil with the impression that there is an answer for every question all wrappld up in cellophane. During this last year. in our American Civilization course, we took up eight specific problems. The Sophomores seemed quite upset when neither the textbook nor the instructor would give a ready made answer to each problem. There were no blanks to fill in. It is quite a maturing experience for students to realize that the answer cannot be fo und in the back of the book or in the bead of the teacher. I believe we should start very early in the grades by stressing the point that teachers do not know all the answers. It mi ght be a good idea sometime on a cold snowy day to show our students the weather fore. cast :Fair and Warmer" in the mormng paper. 3. I believe that as teachers of the deaf we have a tendency to give up finally and tell the pupils the answers. I know I do. And sometimes by the time I finish explaining the meaning of all the words iq a paragraph, either the bell rinaor I have forgotten the main point in the paragraph myself. I believe we should attempt to allow the pupils to infer meanings much more than we do. It is slow. It is tedious. However, I believe it is a way toward encouraging thinking on the part of the individual pupil. Thus I would sum up three ways in which we may approach the problem of teaching the abstract in our language studies: First, attempt to ask more questions that require comparison, contrast, and analysis,. Give a short essay or story to be read, and ask the pupils to write compositions of their own, using the same pattern as found in what they have read, but drawing on their own experiences. Give two stories to the class. Ask them to make a list of all the thin gs that are alike in the stories and another list of all the things that are unlike. Try to get across the idea of a pattern in a story. One way to do this is by scanning poetry and showing the pattern in it. Secondly, try to teach more ideas and less facts. In social studies place less stress on dates, names and battles, and ask more questions be ginning with " why" and ''how'' and less with "what." A void an over-use of true and false questions. Thirdly, do not give all the ans wers in cla\SS, and even let some questions go unanswered. We must let the pupils realize that a problem does not necessarily have an answer, or that there may be more than one answer. This inability on the part of the deaf to comprehend the abstract carries over, I believe, into th~ vo cational field. I remember speaking once to a member of a large Motor (2) THE SCHOOL HELPER February, 195 1 Company who had under his jur- ''Sdiction quite a number of deaf 1 mployees . :wod out : He said first, the tiwn~obilitthyingosf the deaf to grasp meanmg from charts, diagrams, and blueprints. words which the students already know, rather than new ones which have a slightly different meaning. The word ''adoration" generally becomes " love ;" yet we all know there is a difference in meaning. Regarding the inability of the deaf Likewise, the word ''detest'' gento follow directions, he pointed erally becomes "hate'' almost in- out that the deaf as a rule had a stantly, although they differ tendency to follow directions ex- slightly in meaning. In such trans- actly to the letter, often to the lations we may tend to make our word , but less often to the sentence, pupil~S still more concrete in their and still less often to the para- thinking. Mrs. Alexander Graham graph. I wonder if this weakness might not be traced to the classroom. It takes us a long time to build up a word in speech or in language or in reading. The carryover from elements, to words, to Bell, deaf from the age of four, said that her teacher, Miss True, never once ' 'talked down'' to her. Miss Edith Nelson, who was deaf and for many years on the faculty at Gallaudet College, said she always sentences, is a tedious process, and divided the speakers in the college to get to the paragraph is even assemblie test ourselves on these words and see the changes of spring, too. From our news that follows you will be able to tell what we did. We went for a walk Thursdar morning. We saw many birds. W'fl saw a robin. We saw two red birds. .We saw many squirrels. We saw two fish. We saw a black dog. We saw some water. We saw many ducks. Mrs. Minter bought some candy and rome gum.. We went to Mrs. Kennard's. We saw many yellow flowers. It rained. We walked fast. Mary Lou and Sallie Jo fell. They did not cry. -Miriam Minter'~ Class (2) THE SCHOOL HELPER March, 1951 We are sure you would like to Moore, Peggy Ann Dixon, and teachers and Mrs. Kennard to do know if we have gained any Edward Clayton have had measles. the job of giving out all the val- weight, and if so how much, since Then some of the others have been entines in an hour's time, but this we have been in school. Delano has out a day or two with colds, etc. was much fun. gained 3.! pounds. Fred 4.! which prevented our taking up any Our Valentine party came on pounds. James 7 pounds. Betty new work. This doesn't mean that Friday with Mrs. Fincher as chair- Ann 5 pounds. Nan 4.! pounds. we haven't had plenty to do, how- man. The dining room and play- Herman 6 pounds. Jackie 8 ever. rooms were the prettiest ever. We pounds. Peggy 7% pounds. Jean We began changing from manu- enjoyed games and afterwards a 8 .: pounds and Barbara Sue 8.! script writing to cursive sometimt fine supper. pounds. Our matron, Miss Powers, watches us to see that we eat the foods that are good for IllS. We have learned to like raw vegetables and usually ask for the second last year but having so many letters to cope with some of us continue to make f and capital j wrong. As everyone knows, to write neatly and not to make an We were responsible for the bulletin board in the hall for the month of February. We soon tired of valentines. Mrs. Glenn and Mrs. Irwin helped by letting our class helping. o when it should be an a takes make colorful hatchets and cherries Woe are glad that the weather ceaseless vigilance and. in our case, out of con~Struction paper during has wtarmed up and we can play just plain drilling, their hobby hour. We were proud outside again. We all, boys and Some weeks ago we met for the to display these along with pictures girls. bought kites Friday afternoon first time the plural form of have. of George Washington and Abra- and had such a good time flying That has caused us a great deal of ham Lincoln during the latter half them. Some of them broke soon trouble, too. We first had to un- of the month. after we went out to play. but derstand that it was the Who that -Rebecca Crowe's Clasa a few of us kept ours for several was plural and not the What, da}'1S. which is the direct object. Of The family of one of our class-May F. Glenn's Class course, we had to find two or more mates, Betty Cutshaw, has really We hadn't been in school long after Christmas when news spread that a child had developed a case of red measles which was bad in more ways than one. Besides the discomfort of the di~ase, the whole primary department was pl'aced under quarantine, which meant no more walb to town on .Friday afternoon. This condition was eased somewhat by the teachers buying candy and bringing it to the boys and girls. On a recent people possessing the same things. It is usually safe to say that all of us have combs. But when we want to write sentences using candy, cookies, gum, etc. which have been eaten, it often takes some explaining to see why they don't have them several days later. Previously we had to consider only has and (/) have so it is easy to see that our problems are multiplying which al5io means that we are mak- ing progress, too. -Gladys Carpenter's Class been in the limelight recently, and even at this d$tance from the scene Betty has basked in it, also. Her father, the Rev. T. Z. Cutshaw was the deaf minister prominent in the recent deaf murder case in A tlanta, and her sister. Kitty, served as the interpreter in court. When the story broke, we took our newspaper to school for Betty to see. You can jUJSit imagine how surprised she was, and how pleased, too (for she is no different from the rest of us vain mortals who Friday every teacher bought a kite seem to enjoy seeing our names and for each child in her class and Valentine's Day is second only pictures in print.) The clipping if you had passed our way on the to Christmas as our most exciting and pictures had to be shown to following Sunday, you would have time of the year. After some discus- everyone she knew, of course. thought the trees on primary hill sion we decided to buy our valen- When the story and pictures ap- were blooming kites. tines instead of making them. Some peared in Life this week, we took Now, two monthis later, the of us wrote our parents asking Betty our copy. The whole class quarantine has been lifted and our them to send us some and several was amazed .that fthe !Story was trips to town on Fridays have been received only those addressed to carried by a magazine. and among resumed. The children and the themselves. We shall try to make other things, they wanted to know friendly clerks in town were equal- ourselves clearer next time so that if it would be in all the other ly glad to see one another again. our parents may know that al- magazines. -Mabel Fincher's Class though we like to receive them, we As a rule we don't go in for take just as much pleasure in hav- telling the children murder stories, There were three children absent ing valentines to send to others. but lS>ince this case was different, from our class at one time during We gathered in the big girls' we did have a lesson on it, point- the measles epidemic. Rosalie Nas- playroom for our Valentine box ing out the immoral principles in- ;tasi, Melvin Dukes, Betty Jean February 14. It required all the volved in the tragedy. (3) THE SCHOOL HELPER March, 1951 Turning to more pleasant subjects, we've been having delightful spring-like weather, and the children have very much enjoyed playing out in the sunshine. One Friday afternoon recently every child on primary hill was flying a kite, and you've never seen such a sight as that W'aS. We went to a movie in town this week, and for the first time since Christmas we took our weekly jaunt to town on Friday. But, best of all, it's just a short time before we'll be going hotne for spring holidays. -Polly Casey's Class to having Mrs. Akin, Executive Director, visit their troop soon. --Jessie F. Jones's Class Every year the highest class in the primary is given two achievement tests, one in February and the other in May. The first one is given to show how the children compare with one another to see if they are up in every subject and if not what their weaknesses are. The second is given to show the progress made since the first test, and to be certain that they are ready to be promoted to the intermediate department. Laws were given and aJS. each law was repeated one girl went forward to light a candle. Mr. Hollingsworth, who is superintendent of the school, was master of ceremonies. Mrs. Ware, who is an instructor, made a talk. Mrs. Akin told the girls and leaders how proud we all are of the magnificient work they are doing. Mrs. Glenn Chafin ass.ured them the council would aid them in any way possible. Mrs. Robert Johnson, wife of the president of Shriners, cut the three tier cake. Mrs. Chafin presented six Tenderioot pins to little girls who were happy to have passed the Brownie test- The boys' hopes to become Scouos have at last been realized. The older boys have been divided into two groups. Twelve of them have become Boy Scouts and have joined the Boy Scout troop down the hill. The younger ones have been organized into a Cub Pack. The Pack is sponsored by the Jewish Brotherhood of Rome. The number I 0 has been chosen for the Pack number. Mrs. Kennard, Mrs. Crowe, Mrs. Oasey, Mrs. Highnote, Miss Brannon, and Mrs. Jones are the Den Mothers. Roscoe Dukes is Cubmaster. Den meetings are held once a week, and once a month the Cubs meet with the Scouts. The cubbing program offers fine opportunities for the young boys. It promotes spiritual interests and On February 21, our class was given a Metropolitan toot, and all the children did very well. For the interest of our friends and families, we would like to tell you just how well we did. Kenneth Corry ______________ 3 7 Margene Bruner ____________ 3.6 Franklin Dubberly ________ 3.4 Jimmy Parker ---------------- 3.3 Alton Shirey ---------------- 3. 2 Gene Dominy ---------------- 3.1 Ronald Bell __________________ 3.1 Joe Ann Edwards ---- ____ 3.0 Joyce Mattox ________________ 2. 9 We are especially proud of Kenneth and Fmnklin who have been in school only three years. They have worked hard and made good progress. Joyce was at a disadvantage because of the time she has missed in school, but she i~ working hard and hopes to improve and were ready for Scouting. All the girls formed a line in order to meet all the Shrinem and other guests. -Rome News- Tribune SUBSCRIBE TO THE SILENT WORKER A monthly magazine for, by, and about the deaf. Official publication of the National Association of the Deaf. Of interest to all the deaf, to parents of deaf children, educators of the deaf, and all others interested in the deaf. * Containing\ news and useful in- formation about all the deaf. Human Interest Articles Social Activities Church Work mental and physical growth, en- by May. courages leadership among the -Emmalee J . Highnote's Class Education Sports Events boys, and trains them to assume responsibilities and to be helpful and thoughtful of others. The Scouts, both Cubs and Brownies h o p e to fix up a Scout room in the basement and to equip it with books, magazines, GIRL SCOUT NEWS There has been a big birthday party this past week. W edncsday night the Girl Scouts at the Georgia School for the Deaf in Cave Spring invited the Shriners, Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Chafin and Mr. All profusely illustrated with halftone photographs. The most complete and . compre hensive of all publications pertaining to the deaf. Subscription price . $3.50 per year Send your order to: tools, and material for handicraft and games. The Bitua tions. -N.S.G. This has been a very interesting month for us in many ways, and as a result, our vocabularies have grown by many words. W'e are working hard on reading and spelling. Everyone seems to enjoy the classroom exercises and is doing well. Eddie Baker celebrated her tenth birthday February 9, and all htr classmates enjoyed helping add the candles to her cake. We are beginning to be number conscious as evidenced one day this week by the interest H. W. Smith showed suddenly in the four different foods that had been served on his plate. He entered the dining room quietly and stood at his place with his hands by his sides. His eyes fell on his plate and all of a sudden up went four little fingers. We realized right then that the opportune moment had presented itself to introduce numbers, and just as soon as we got back to the classroom we began to see two, three, and four things where before it had been just one. We know there are many inter esting things for us to count now that numbers have been opened to us. ~Beulah Chandler's Class We chose the study of a few birds for our hobby this month. The two that we devoted the most of our attention to were the robin and the white crowned sparrow. These along with the cardinal and blue jay let us know that ~Spring is "just around the corner.'' One morning recently we took a walk and looked for birds and other signs of spring. WI looked for blue-eyed grass that grows among the meadow grasses. Its flower is of an intense white and star-shaped with long narrow pale green leaves. Other early spring flowers that we looked for were the wood (8) THE SCHOOL HELPER March, 1951 anemone, the March iris, and the trailing arbutus. -Helen Jones's Class We have been trying to develop numbers in realistic situations. We have made a plan of inventory for checking number abilities in rote, rational. and serial counting ; identifying and forming groups of specified size; and concepts of size, quantity, and location. The resul.ts showed that Catherine's abilities in rote counting are very satisfactory, She can identify and form groups of a specified size. She has some understanding of the concepts of size, quantity, and location. Henry obviously needs more experiences in counting, in identifying and forming specified groups of numbers, and in using the concepts of size, quantity, and location. After making the inventory, we find that the children fall into various groups and should be placed into small groups according to their needs with appropriate expenences. -Louise B. Chubb's Class After two months with the handicraft class we find the girls intensely interested in their work and have evidence of marked improvements along the way. The upper class enjoys shuck weaving so much that we find it an easy task to keep them busy, as each one vies with the other to see who does th.e best weaving. Charlie Mae Printup has done excellent work in shuck braiding and also in putting the braids together. Charlie Mae has completed a set of hot dish mats which consists of two round mats and an oval one. She is now ready to shellac her set. The shellac gives a gloss to the mats, serves as an aid in keeping the mats clean, and prolongs the life for many years. The lower class of girls enJoys paper pulpertry. We have expanded our ideas and developed some originality in designing and molding. We have made birds, ducks, dogs, cats, pitchers, and pintrays. We are ready to paint the designs, but we must wait for the designs to dry before painting them. Wi.th the help of Mrs. Griffith we hope to make this one of the most interesting classes in our school. -Elvira C. Bray's Class In the absence of our teacher, Mrs. McCullough, who is out on account of illness,, Mrs. Malone is teaching our class. Since the month of March is the beginning of spring, we are observing the signs of spring. Spring is a wonderful time. W e are happy after such a cold winter to see the green grass and trees, the beautiful yellow jonquils and our friend, the robin. It is very interesting to see the alder by the water shaking out her yellow powdery curls and the pussy willows budding in her fuzzy silver catkins. One afternoon the boys in our clas~ dug up !SOme bulbs to be divided but were more interested in looking for worms to go fishing than in getting up the bulbs. March brings us wind so that boys and girls can fl.y their kites. It brings not only spring, flo wers, wind, and birds but it also brings us dates that we fail to remember. On March 2 Texas celebrated her independence. On March 4 the Constitution of the United States went into effect. March 15 is Andrew Jackson's birthday. March 16 is James Madison 's birthday. March 17 is St. Patrick's Day. March 21 is the first day of spring. Last, but not least, is a date that we are looking forward to--March 23 to April 1- the spring holidays at G. S. D. So you can see, March is a month of holidays and birthdays as well a\S the beginning of spring. -Lucille McCullough's Class With the first signs of spri?g, we began a beautification proJect of our campus. This project will be very helpful to us as well as a means of beautifying our surroundings. We realize that much work has to be done to perfect this project and that our education iB largely the result of work experiences. v.;e hope to make the children understand better that work experiences play an invaluable part in their education and through this project learn to work better and to increase their vocabularies by actually working. It is very important th* we learn to think through difficult problems and to work when work is needed to be d one. The large boys are digging holes an d setting out dogwood and redbud trees along the driveway. They are cultivating along the walkway to plant various kinds of flowers. By putting this project into action , we have learned the procedure of setting out trees , the approximate depth of the holes, and the ways and means of preparing the ground for planting flowers, as well as enriching our vocabularies. To illustrate the point that it is very important to learn to think through difficult problems, I am reminded of the time that Mrs. Griffith wanted UJS to have some alder, the very first signs of spring. She drew a rough sketch of the bush with all the necessary indications; such as, the brook, land, the alder, and taSS1Cls and gave it to Bennie Cook to find. To our surprise, when Bennie returned he had the alder with itJs beautiful powdery curls. This was a difficult problem for Bennie and an interesting experience, too. -Hattie Menifee's Class (9) THE SCHOOL HELPER March. 1951 INTERMEDIATE--Continued week-end guest of Mr. and Mrs. Mr. and Mrs. Stepp spent a Sun. Until the crops could grow, the Kennard. day recentl y in Atlanta enjoying captain bought corn from the Indians. He paid for it with small mirrors and beads. One day Smith was captured by Indians. He was taken to their chief. Powhatan. Powhatan decided that Smith should die. Mrs. Irwin spent a recent Satur- day in Atlanta. Miss Brannon spent a week-end in Gadsden, Alabama recently. * * The Rome Methodist ministers and their wives entertained Bishop the beautiful ~ring flowers. Miss Annie McDaniel spent the week-end of February 24th in Atlanta and attended the basketball tournament. MR. DILLARD'S CLASS Booth of the Belgian Congo area Mrs. Simmons spent the week- Jean Rentz is thrilled because at dinner one evening recently. end of February 17th in Atlanta. her mother told her that she would Mr. and Mrs. Minter enjoyed take her home for the Ea:ster holi- Bishop Booth's interesting talk days. concerning the reaction of the Barbara Hobbs is so happy that Africans to present-day world con- she has a new baby sister. She was ditions. born on February 28th. Betty Ruth Baxley hopes that Mrs. Grant was called to her sh can go home for the Easter home in Anderson, S. C. February holidays. 1 9 due to the sudden death of her James Faulk got a letter from father. Mr. Joseph D. Winchester. his mother March 9th. He was * Russell Royston attended the funeral of his uncle in Austell and then went on to Royston, Georgia to the burial February 2. * Mr. and Mrs. Kenion E. Edwards, Jr. and Ken III were the guestl9 of Mrs. Turner recently. happy to get five dollars. Mr. and Mrs. Williamson spen.t Mr. and Mrs. Robert Harling Dorothy Hughes doesn't want the lCI!St ,Sunday in Fe!bruary in of Dothan. Alabama recently visi- to be so large. She tries to stay Atlanta as guestls of Mr. and Mrs. ted their mother, Mrs. Jessie F. on a diet. W. D. Venable. James Pope can hardly wait for Jones, and sister, Mrs. Highnote. * spring to come because he likes to go fishing often. Cynthia Aspinwall's sister from Warm Springs, Ga., told her that she would take her home for the Easter holidays. Lennie Moon is very happy that the weather is spring like now. He hopes that some of the boys will play baseball next month. Essie Mae Taylor thinks that she will not go home for the Easter holidays because she lives too far away. Netheara Mobley ils excited Mr. Hollingsworth and Mr. Caple spent Friday, February 2 in Atlanta. They report a bright picture of our building program and the advantages of being under the State Merit System. * * Mrs. Forbes spent the past month in Cave Spring trying to keep up with her school work. * * * Mr. and Mrs. Montgomery spent the seventeenth of February in Atlanta. They did some shopping and attended the Holiday on Mrs. Mary Walker, of Selma, Alabama, visited Mrs. Crowe and her family during February. * Mr. and Mrs. Fincher were made grandparents for the first time February 27 when a oon was born to Mr. and Mrs. Clark Fincher. The baby's name is Robert Clark. Mrs. Ray Dauwalter, of Mil- ledgeville, visited Mrs. May F. Glenn recently. * about going home for the Easter Ice that evening. holidays. CORNER--Continued Clarence Rainwater will miss football. He cannot play football next fall because he wii.l be twenty years old in November. Louise Hunt can hardly wait for spring to come because she is tired of the bad weather. FACULTY NOTES Mr. and Mrs. Tom w ,are of Atlanta were the week-end guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Ware March 3. * Mr. and Mrs. Dillard and Mr. and Mrs. Stout spent Saturday, February 24 in Atlanta. preacher said, but she came to church- "Put in her contribution, fulfilled her obligation to the Lord. spread her influence for good, and went home with a clear conscience. "That was thirty eight years ago, and 'Grandma' has long since gone to glory; but she is still a considerable part of my ministry- Second Lieutenant Daniel H. Miss Latham and Mrs. John- ' 'She made good her vows. and Woods of Fort Smith, Arkansas, son attended luncheon in Colum- served the Lord with gladness. who is stationed at Fort Benning. bus February 24th given in honor ''I hope she likes what I arn Georgia at the present was the of Mrs. Ethel Moncrief. writing about her.'' (10) HERMAN E. TALMADGE, Governor GEORGIA SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION M. D. COLLINS, State Superintendent of Schools ADMINISTRATION C. H. HOLLINGSWORTH, M. A., Superintendent Janice R. Caple, Secretary Julian Tumlin, Steward Myrtle A. Johnson, Bookkeeper Earl Cox, Engineer Charles E. Owen, D. D. S. John M. McGehee, M. ~- INSTRUCTORS JOHN L. CAPLE, Principal PRIMARY DEPARTMENT Marie S. Kennard, B. S., Supervising Teacher Doris Brannon Gladys E. Carpenter Polly Casey Rebecca S. Crowe Mabel L. Fincher May F. Glenn Stella W. Grant Emmalee J. Highnote Jim Irwin Jessie F. Jones Miriam B. Minter INTERMEDIATE AND ADVANCED DEPARTMENTS Mary P. Turner, B. A., Supervising Teacher Advanced Department Katharine Casey, Supervising Teacher Intermediate Department Dorothy F. Brady, B. S. Jack Brady, B. S. Connor Dillard Ruth D. Forbes Edythe D. Montgomery, B. S. Elizabeth F. Simmons, B. S. Gail Stout, Jr., B. A. Kathryn W. Williamson, B. A. VOCATIONAL DEPARTMENT John L. Caple, Supervising Teacher C. G. Turner . . . . .... . .... .. . . .... . .... . .. Printing Sarah F. Ware ..... . .......... Arts and Craft J. R. Ware ............................. Carpentry Gladys L. Latham . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Beauty Culture Connor Dillard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Shoe Repairing Annie McDaniel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sewine Russell Royston . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Barbering and Pressing Geverna C. Stepp, B. S. H. E. . . . . Home Economicr Earl Cox . . . . . . . . Machine Shop COLORED DEPARTMENT Nelle S. Griffith, Consultant Beulah Chandler Louise Chubb Helen Jones Elvira C. Bray Lucille McCullough Hattie S. Menifee UUnbinnrr\saifttY of GeorJI f.tbent. lieGtiia PUBLISHED AT THE GEORGIA SCHOOL FOR T-HE DEAF. CAVE SPRING, GEORGIA APRIL. 1951 VOL. 51 NO. 7 JOHN James Audubon was born April 26. 178;, the lover of birds and grea.t bird artist, was born of French parents at Les Cayes, Santo Domingo, now Haiti. From his earliest boyhood, Audubon studied nature. His room was always cluttered with relics be picked upon his many rambles through the woods. As a businessman, Audubon was a dismal failure. At length, his loyal wife, Lucy Bakewell Audubo.n. insi.\Sited that be devote his time to painting the delicate, detailed sketches of birds in their natural habitat which were to make him famous. Audubon's great work. " Birds in America," was completed in 1839. He continued with his nature studies and by the time of his death in 1851 , Audubon bad given the American people a priceless record of their woods and wild life. THE SCHOOL 'HE:LPER VOLUME 51 APRIL, 1951 NO.7 A Normal Language Environment By BOYD NELSON in The UTAH EAGLE Problems: The time is approaching when we must decide whether or not to send our child to the residential school for the deaf. He is so severely hard of hearing that he has not developed language normally. In fact at the age of four he says less than a dozen words that are easily understood . However, we wish him to learn and grow as normally as possible. Both . our doctor and a lady who has been giving our son speech lessons suggest that we do not enroll him in a residential school. They suggest entering him in the public school and giving him individual attention at home in the evenings, and providing private speech lessons for him about twice a week. They feel that his devel opment will follow more normal patterns should he live at home and mingle with hearing friends rather than other deaf children . We would appreciate your opinion as to relative values in normal language development. Discussion: Your son at the age of four can use for communicative purposes about a dozen words. The normal child at the age of four has a vocabulary of approximately fifteen hundred words. The ability to communicate or to understand others of his group is one of the first requirements for normal development. It is important to live, play and work on an equal basis With others in order to develop a normal intellectual. moral emotional life. Language is one of the strongest links for equality and comradeship among human beings. "jour son is certainly not developIng normally. A normal environment for your hearing children may not be a normal environment for yo.ur deaf child. Do you think that your son can catch up with his hearing friends so that he might soon communica.te normally with them? At the age of five, a hearing child has a vocabulary of approximately two thousand words. At the age of six this becomes twenty six hundred words. Unless your son can increase his vocabulary at the rate of five hundred or more words a year in his home environment he is not only failing to catch up, but the communicative gap between him and his friends is growing wider. He would not be meeting normal standards for his group. He would be developing abnormally. I would not say that it is impossible for your son to bridge the language gap which now exists between him and his neighborhood playmates. Proper guidance in the use of a hearing aid, special speech lessons and dail.y instruction . at home along with a maturing mind can conceivably do so. From my observations, however, it would seem very unlikely. Should you try keeping your boy in the environment of hearing classmates, do not let yourself be fooled by false appearances of progress and adjustment. Report cards may be graded in terms of effort or sympathy. The boy may give vent to rejection by friends in behavior patterns which you may not understand. Be careful to watch his adjustments to playmates and family. Observe his academic achievement in terms of objective tests. Many have realized too late that their handicapped children have failed to get an education and at the same time have developed serious personality maladjustments. To expect phenomenal progress at a school for the deaf would also be a mistake. Without normal language or the means of learning language normally the rate of acquiring communicative skills is very slow when cqm\pared with hearing standards. The main advantages in teaching deaf children in classes designed specifically for their types of handicap are: 1. The subject matter and presentation is on the ability level of the child. In public school the presentation level is often so far advanced that the child cannot participate but must become a so called "sitter." This means the child learns little more than experiences of defeat from class instruction. 2. The ac'ademic program is extended over a greater number of years. This means that the pupil can attend school with others of his own ability and age for thirteen to fifteen years. He would not ordinarily be able to extend his learning program in the common public schools to the sai:ne degree. He would not adjust to a younger age group in order to do so. 3. He can develop at rate and degree normal for deaf children. He can share qualities of leadership, cooperative planning and group activity. These are the qualities. which determine happy, useful. well adjusted citizenship. This is the aim of all education. With a hearing group of normal language ability it is no.t likely that he could acquire these highest goals in norrrtal growth patterns. I am sure that above all else you want your son to become a useful member of society. You want him to become a happy, well integrated individual. You want him to become a good worker, neighbor and family man. Therefore, you should carefully weigh his possibilities in view of the aims of purposeful liv- ing. -The Hoosier From the Primary Department Spring vacation has come and We are a group of very lively we arrived at home. Peggy had a gone! It now seems like a dream, little people, and anything that new baby sister she had never seen so quickly did it pass, but we all calls for an extra wiggle meets with Jean's sister had a new baby boj had an exciting time. Of course we our immediate approval. We have ~e had ne,ver seen. Nan bad a had longed for spring holidays ever done a lot of work on our verb birthday and a pretty cake with since the Christmas holidays, and, chart recently and have enjoyed it nine candles on it. just as we did then, most of us very much. This chart has stick We had lots to talk about when went home for the week. Some men illustrating the verbs that we we g?t to the classroom Moqday stayed here and had fun going to know, and we use it as part of our mornmg. the movies and to the drug store regular reading lesson. We under - We want to thank Mr. Hol- for ice cream. stand that the verbs are all in the lingsworth for giving us such a Mary Lou Millsaps had a birth- past ten~Se, for this work is started nice vacation at this time. day just before vacation, which by having us run, walk, or jump -May F. Glenn's Cit~~~ meant a nice party for all the class. and then sit down to show that the The cake and ice cream were deli- action is completed. The teachers and pupils of the cious. Eight candles were counted We use these same verbs a great primary department are unanim- on her cake. Roger Hooper was deal in connection with our news. ously agreed that spring holidays, home for his birthday, so his The verbs on our news blackboard March 23 to April 1. were j111t mother baked his cake for him and are written with red chalk, and the thing we needed to boost ua placed seven candles on it. Gloria we point them out on the chart as after the winter quarter and thua lJanham spent the holidays with we read the news. Naturally, got give us added energy to tackle the her grandmother in Rome. John is our pet verb, for it usually means spring quarter with its many extra Coleman tells what a good time he that someone has candy to share tasks. We believe thils will be a very had during the holidaYIS watching with us. In this way we soon un- successful spring, the children hav- a new television set. derstand gave, too. ing stayed at home just long Our entire class was pleased to We also like the verbs that call enough to make them glad to come have spring holidays, but we're for a trip outside, and that makes back to school and see everybody just as pleased now to be back in went, came, bought, and picked again, knowing in just a few more school learning new things and special favorites with us. We enjoy weeks they can go back home for having fun with our classmates. looking for something that is lost , the long summer vacation. --Stella Grant's Class too, and the one who is first to be We know the children's fami- able to put found back in the chart lies are equally enthusiastic about The girls and boys look for- is considered a very lucky boy or the spring vacation and are pleased ward to Friday which is the day girl. Fell is not so popular, but is to have it become a part of our for going to town or for a walk. We leave after lunch and usually go to town first so we can buy something. We like to go to the drug store where we buy ice cream cones and sometimes gum or candy. one that we use quite a lot. We are happy to say, though, that laughed can be pointed to much more often than cried when someone falls. --Jim Irwin's Class school program. -Mabel Fincher's Clt111 We have been interested in numbers for somletime. Recen~ly we have learned to count to five in We especially like to walk to For weeks we had counted the speech. the park where we can feed the days until Friday, March 23 when We know the numbers to five ducks on the lake. We enjoy we would go home for Easter and in speech reading and reading. too. having a large space in which to a week 's vacation. The day arrived by recognizing, making, and taking run and play. We see birds, flow- and we were so thrilled and excited groups of objects such 'as tops. ers, bees. cows, dogs, and squirrels that we could hardly wait until balls, spooniS, etc. We like to draw and have added these words to our time for our parents to come. and have been drawing simple ob- vocabulary. Barbara Sue, Peggy, Nan, Jean, jects for sometime but did not have Most of us went home for the Herman, Fred, and James went to bother to follow our teacher's ~ring holidays. Since there was home Friday afternoon. Jackie and directions. Now, in order to get to no school. we found every day to Delano went home Saturday draw, we have to read what the be almost like Friday. We bought morning. Betty Ann did not go directions tell us to draw; as, ice cream, saw movies and took home but she enjoyed Easter and Draw two tops. several nice walks. We are always the vacation here. She hunted Draw four balls. sorry for these trips to end be- Easter eggs, went to the show and Draw five flowers, etc. using all cause we have found them most to town, and bought ice cream the nouns we know in reading that enjoyable as well as profitable. several times. can be easily drawn. -Doris Brannon's Class Some of us had surprises when We really have done big things (2) THE SCHOOL HELPER April. 1951 when our teacher holds a number combinations. We have used only of small objects in each hand, puts made and ate so far. Very soon them together, and calls on us for we will use bought, found and the answer. Our part is to give the lost. This is an excellent way to correct answer in speech. Don't you broaden our vocabulary and af- see, we are adding. fords the teacher an opportunity Drawing still plays a big part to test our understanding. in our work for it helps us to -Gladys Carpenter's Class learn. The next step in addition is still more difficult. Our teacher From the start our Brownie Scout holds objects in each hand, puts program has been popular with our them together and then asks us to girls. It isn't the fact that we have dtaw fitst and then write; as, accomplished a great deal, because Two balls and one ball are _---- _ we haven 't, but the idea of actually balls. Now we are ready to go a being official members of so fine step further by crossing out the an organization makes us very word balls and leaving proud. Two and one are three. We meet with our leaders only These words are then changed one hour each week. This takes the + to the figuns. 2 1= 3 and 2 + 1 place of hobby work which is conducted by others for different age groups. We can write the Brownie Promise from memory and a few of 3 us can speak it. We have learned The older we grow, the more many adjectives which tell us what difficult our work becomes but we a Brownie is. We have done a little are .proud of ourselves when this craft work. too. exercise is finished for we rl?ally We are inviting Mrs. Jessie like figures. Akin, of Rome, Girl Scout Direc- -Miriam Minter's Class tor for this di:strict, to visit us at the time of our next meeting. We have many questions awaiting her We .began number stories durin g and shall ask for help in preparing the fourth period. The day they an order for materials which will were introduced we dramatized enable us to plan more effective them. Perhaps if you had peeped projects. We understand that we into our room about that time, have around. forty dollars to spend you'd have thought we were play- for this purpose. That should real- ing paper dolls. The verb made ly get us going. w'as the first one used; as. The break for spring holidays A boy had a kite. l-Ie made two (kites). Then he had ----------- kites. Mrs. Carpenter made a kite and gave it. to Edward. Then Edward has certainly shortened the period between Christmas and school letout for summer vacation. We had a wonderful time at home. -Rebecca Crowe's Class made two kites to show the three kites. We used kites, handkerchiefs, We wonder, if by any chance, .apron'S, paper cups, and belts in our readers (if we h:ave any ) could the same way. Our next verb was possibly be as joyful as are the ate. That really was fun because teachers in- realizing this is the last we got to eat suckers, cookies, monthly article of the year. No crackers. and nuts. Since the first matter how little or how much our day, however. we have drawn toil- salary is, believe us, please, when l~trate . the stories. Simple com- we say it is truly earned in the binations are used because we are writing of these little articles each trying to comprehend the language month-if we didn't do another .as . we are (striving for language thing the whole year long! Maybe comprehension rather than number that doesn't make sense to you, but we just dare you to ~k any teacher on primary hill how she feels on the subject. When you've been at it as long as some of us have, you feel that you've written all you are capable of on jUJSt about every possible subject. You rack your feeble brain each month in the hope that some new idea will be imparted, but, if you're lucky enough to even think you have an idea to develop, you suddenly recall that Miss So and So used that subject last fall. You sit and think, and hours later, it seem' you are inspired with another thought, only to find that that subject, too, had been used recently. And, so it goes, until you have a brain'Storm! When we finally hand in our little paper, we do so with apologies to the powers that be and hope and pray they won't ask us to re-write it-for little do they know of the struggle and effort that have gone into it. For some time now, we have been wanting to form a conspiracy with our subscribers. It's too late to do anything this year, but how about helping us out next year by writing in and asking that this page be omitted and li!Sting your reasons ? We know you must have formed some good criticisms and suggestions as you struggled through the reading of these articles which we struggled so to write. As you read this, your child will soon be home from school. We hope you will have a happy summer together and feel that this year has not been wasted. We have become very attached to your child, whom you have entrusted to our care, and although we may have made many mistakes .along the way. we have tried very hard to teach him well and wisely. -Polly Casey's Class We enjoyed our spring vacation very much. We returned feeling refreshed and ready to resume our work. We realize that the time is (Continued on page nine) (.3) From the Advanced Department Exploring the Library The most powerful tool with it is all right, the book is printed. HOW BOOKS ARE ARRANGED which the school can implement a -Richard Brewer IN THE LIBRARY pupil is the ability to read and use THE PARTS OF A BOOK All books of one kind are put books-not merely the ability to Almost all books have the same together. Almost all the libraries in say the words and understand the parts. the United States now use the meaning of the words but to use THE TITLE PAGE comes after same plan in arranging books. effectively the cultural resources. the fly leaf and has the name of the They UlSle the Dewy Decimal sys- These will challenge the interest of book, the author's name and posi- tem, which has ten main classes of the pupils, stimulate their curio- tion, and the name of the com- books, All books tHat are not fic- sity, and encoul1age response in a pany who printed the book. tion bodks are placed in one of variety of forms of creative expres- THE COPYRIGHT PAGE is on these ten classes. A special number sion. the back of the title page and shows is given to each class. The ten "EXPLORING T H E LIBRARY" the date and owner of the copy- classes and their numbers are: has been given to one section of the freshman English class with the hope that knowing some of the techniques essential to effective use of books and libraries, the pupils will seek the resources of the library in the solution of their problems and that these skills may last a lifetime. HOW WE CAME TO HAVE BOOKS People learned to write long after they learned to talk. At first writing was done by drawing simple pictures of things the writer wished to describe. In early days these pictures were drawn in sand, but the rain would wash these away, so people started carving on rocks. After many years, they learned to write on clay tablets, sheepskin and paprus, which was the first kind of paper. In 1440 a man named Johannes Gutenberg invented a way to print, and people began to write books. Now thousands of books are printed each year. -Fain Griffin right. The copyright is proof that the book has been registered in the Copyright Office of the Library of Congress in Washington, D . C. When the author get1: a copyright on his book, it is against the law for anyone to copy anything in the book without permission for twenty-eight years. The copyright can be renewed for twenty-eight more years. THE DEDICATION PAGE shows the person to whom the author dedicates his book. This is usually the one who bas helped the author. THE TABLE OF CONTENTS shows the names of the chapters in the book and the page number on which each chapter begins. This is just an outline of the book. THE PREFACE, INTRODUC- TION or FOREWORD tells why the author wrote the book, what the book iiS about and who helped him. THJ:: BODY of the book is the main part of the book that tells the story. CHAPTERS show how the book is divided. __ 000-099-General Works (Encyclopaedias) 100-199-Philosophy (Books on how to behave) 200-299-Religion 300-399- Sociology (Civics, education, law) 400-499-Language (Dictionaries, grammars) 500-599-Science 600-699-Useful Arts (Home economics, carpentry) 700-799 -Fine Arts (Music, painting) 800-899- Literature (Poetry, plays) 900-999-History (HiiStory of people, geography) A story book fiction is arranged on a shelf away from other books and are placed according to the author 's last name. They have the letter "F" marked on the label on the back to show that they are story or fiction books. When one author has written several books, these are arranged in alphabetical order according to their titles. If HOW BOOKS ARE MADE FOOTNOTES are written at the the title of a book begins with "a,'' A person must know a great deal bottom of the page and explain " an" or ' 'the" one pays no atten about the thing he would like to some thing that is written on that tion to these articles, but the first write. He first makes an outline, page. main word in the title is used in then he writes his first copy of the T H E APPENDIX is something finding the book. book. This copy has to be correc that the author added to the book. Magazines, pamphlets, newspa red, and perhaps many more copies THE BIBLIOGRAPHY is an al- pers and reports are filed in differ are written before the author is sat- phabetical li~S"t of some of the best ent ways, but can be found easily. isfied with the book. books on the subject about which -Wynell Godwin If the book has pictures, the the author has written. HOW TO FIND A BOOK author has to get a book artist to THE INDEX is an alphabetical IN THE LIBRARY draw these for him. The publisher list of people, places and things The card cataloe is the key to the ~w gets an expert to check the told about in the book. library. It is a cabinet or file draw whole book, and when he thinks -Rosemary Smith ( Continued on page nine) (4) From the Colored Department rvtirch was a month we all climb higher up in an . effort to Good Times Together. Other looked forward to as it brought reach our goal. books we have are The Big Indi- both Easter and spring holidays. This month we have had an in - ans, Birds, Birds We Know, To us. Easter meant only pretty teresting and enjoyable time work - Around the Farm, Friendly Ani- dresses of bright colors, rabbits, ing and studying together. We fi - mals, Young McDonald on the and hiding eggs, because our voca- nally got our "Little Golden Book Farm, Mother Goose, and our bularies are not advanced enough to of Words'' and enJOY looking at Bibles .We hope to have a library understand the importance of the pictures and spelling the many reading corner. set U!P with this Easter Sunday. new words. good start toward the Doorway \Vilene Whitsett, A. J. Booth, We were all curious when Mrs. to Bookland. Ed na Foster, Herman Smith, and Griffith brought a wide flat bqx We ar:? st\}dying animals thrs Charles Jefferson spent the holi- to school one morning. Much to month.. Animals rank high in chil- days at home with their families. our surprise, this box contained dren''s interests, and animal life We who were not fortunate enough some attractive and . ~olorful plac- on the farm is a big attraction. We to go home, spent a most enjoyable ards featuring a home, inside and learned from My Weekly Reader week here at ~hool. outside. Mrs. Griffith gave us a that spring is baby animals' time. -Beulah Chandler's Class set, and we placed th~ pictures :~n Some farmers raise pigs. A mother our shelf. We have pictures of a pig has many baby pigs. Some "Eveni"ng red and morning gray, Sends the traveler on his way . Evening gray and morning red, Bring:s down rain on his poor head.'' , This olq weather saying is just one ,()f. the .many that are familiar to . all of us. We are learning that weather plays an important part in the eyery day lives of all children. . We enjoy having some knowledge of the. kinds of weather and clouds that the winds may bring. We are learning . the directions of the wind and the three simplest cloud formations. Stratus clouds are the lowest clouds and often bring on rain. Cumulus clouds are the "fair weather" clouds. These are fluffy y,:hite cotton like clouds. . Cirrus clouds are the highest clouds in the sky. These clouds are thin, wispy, and white. Some people call these clouds " mares ' tails. " If the sky is bright blue above cir rus clouds, 'the clouds will probably fade away , but if the sky is gray blue above, rain or snow is usually on the way. -Helen Jones's Class complete house-a living room, farmers raise baby chickens. Some dining room, kitchen, two bed- baby chicks do not have mothers. rooms and a bathroom. Each , roo.~ They are hatched in incubators. is beautifully and colorfully fur- Some of our boys help feed and nished and bears its name. In this take care of five hundred baby way. the few of us who' do not chick~. Lambs are spring babies. know the names of the roohis will" Sonic farmens raise sheep for wool. learn them very soon. Some of our clothes are made from Now to top all this were those wool. happy ' 'Spring Holidays!' ' Some To follow-up our animal study of us went home, and others stayed . we put up pictures of farm animals at school. but we all had a won- in our room: For our calendar this derful time. Now that we are back month we have a large butterfly. in school getting settled to bur We are planning a trip to the barn regular routine again, we plan to soon to see the animals. continue to work on our theme- ' -Mattie Malone's Class we Want to Know,' '. " We Find Out." I was very much surprised to -Louise B. Chubb's Class find on . my return to school that a flower and vegetable garden had First, we must tell you how we .been started during my absence. spent Easter and the spring holi- Children should be encouraged days. There are twelve of us and to experience . the satisfaction of only two went home - Marion growing plants. Through the exSmith and Lueretha Camp. The periences and observationt>, lthey Easter bunny was good to us. acquire an appreciation of natural \Vhile Lueretha was at home the processes. . . . Easter bunny brought her a bicycle. The garden clubs of the nation We went to church on Easter Sun- and o'ur government are encourag- day and enjoyed a bus trip to ing home gardening this year. In- Rome during the holidays. creased living costs will undoubt- We feel as if we are big girls ed!y encourage many people to and boys since we have books of produce foqd at home. A good It has been said, ''In this world ou.r own to read along with My gardener gives his garden hard one's greatest pleasure comes from Weekly Reader. Each of us has The work and his garden gives him the anticipation of something far- Little Golden Book of Words, food, fun, and good health. ther on and higher up and in the which is a gift from our teacher. If you were going to have a struggle to achieve it. " Perhaps this Mrs. Griffith gave us the follow- flower garden, you would do the is true in our caJSe for we are al- ing books to use : Our Pets, Science same thing that a good vegetable ways trying to push farther on and Reader, The Little Citizen, and (Continued on page eight) (5) THE SCHOOL HELPER April, 1951 THE.SCHOOL HELPER All communication should be addreseed to the School Helper, Cave Spring, Georgia. Entered at the post office at Cave Spring, Georgia, as second claaa 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 printing department of the Georgia School for the Deaf. JOHN L. CAPLE .. . ................ Editor KATHARINE CASEY . . . ... . . . . . . Auociate Editor MARIE KENNARD ............ , All80ciate Editor C. G. TURNER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Printing Instructor VOLUME 51 APRIL, 1951 NO. 7 For the promotloa of all SteteAided School F- the o-1 1. Improved recognition aa 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 aehoola for the deaf. 3. A greater Gallaudet College serving the interests of all the states with special emphasis on research findings openly arrived at and freely disaeminated in promoting the educational interests of all the schools. 4. A full utilization of servicea that can be rendered by the U. S. Office of Education in keeping with the spirit and purpose of ita creation. 6. Federal equalization aid for education that will guarantee equal opportunitiea for deaf boys and girls in all states. 6. Utilization of a full-time state Field Agent or Placement Officer (or both) to loea.te 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. Exercises must remam here through noon on Monday. May 28. Since bus and train schedules from Cave Spring are not good, we urge all parents to come for their child if at all possible. OUR READING ROOMS A very fine interest has been developed during the past few months in reading rooms in the dormi- tories for our older pupils. Credit for this idea goes to officers of the G. A . D . They offered to secure magazines for the boys and girlJs if they would get busy and fix up a reading room. With Mrs. Perry pulling for the boys and Mrs. Tumlin working for the girls, a contest has developed and the results are a wonder to behold. If one can judge by the broad grin on Mr. Dillard's face and " the cat that ate the canary" expression on Mrs. Perry's face, we would say that the boys are leading at present. We are sure much good will come from this fine idea. Woe are grateful. to the G. A. D. for its support and the many others who have cooperated in this proJect. Parents of the children have made contribu- tions, the staff members have been untiring in their efforts, and last but ndt least, the pupils have been cooperative to the nth degree. A As Mrs. Perry !Says, " If you could see the ex- pression on the boys' faces when they are enjoying the room, that would be sufficient reward for your efforts." --J. L. C. CONGRATULATIONS FAIN W e were all happy to hear that Fain Griffin made honorable mention on Art Kruger's All-American footBall team. This team is picked from all the Schools for the Deaf in the United States and we feel that it is a great honor for Fain and for our school. Fain weighs only 140 pounds, but what he lacks in an weight he makes up for in determination to play his best of the time. Fain is a nice, quiet boy, and to see him on the campus one would never suspect him to be the rugged lineman that he is on the football field. Fain has one more season to play for G. S. D. and we know that his play will be outstanding. --J. W. B. NOTICE TO PARENTS School will close Friday, May 25. Pupils traveling by bus or train will go home Tuesday, May 29 in the usUra.! manner. Pupils in the Primary Department and in the School for the Colored may leave by noon on Friday, May 25 , if. parents will come for them. The pupils in the Intermediate and Advanced Departments who have a part in the Graduating VICTORY AGAIN I For the fourth straight year our track boys won the 7th district class C track title on the Darlington Field, Saturday, April 21 . The boys who won first places got nice medals and the school received a beau- tiful trophy. We are very proud of our boys and we wish them luck in the State meet on May 4 and 5th. Points: G.S.D-96, Cohutta-40, Mabelton -36, Pine Log-29, Cave Spring-6. --J. W. B. (6) Superintendent's Corner A resume of the proposed new facilities and program at the Georgia School for Building the Deaf is about as follows: I. NEW PHYSICAL ASSETS 1. An all purpose physical education building with a stadium and lighted athletic field. 2. An a d v a n c e d department sc~ool building with an auditorium, administrative offices, a library, laboratories, etc. (This building will occupy the site of the present boys' dormitory to be razed.) 3. Remodeling the present advanced department s c h o o l building and convert it to its original use as a boys' dormitory. 4. A new shop building or annex to the present building. 5. The power house and laundry . remodeled. 6. The purchase of a few acres of land on the east side of the campus,' opening up a corridor to the north section where the athletic field will be situated. 7. Vast ground improvements including the covering of the large drain ditch, passing through the main campus from east to west. This program also includes making private the public road now running directly through the campus. The state and county to cooperate in building a new public road leading into Cave Spring skirting the campus from an easterly direction. 8. A teachers' residence. and a cottage for homemaking experiences. 9. Acoustical treatment and new equipment fo'l" the primary department building. 10. A boys' dormitory at the colored school. ~ 11. A combination recreational and shop building for the colored school. The estimated total capital outlay will approximate $1,250,000.00. The money is being made available by a cash appropriation of $500,000.00 the current year and next year together with sharing a Building Authority Bill provided for the School for the Deaf and the Academy for the Blind in the amount of $3,00G,OOO.OO. II. PERSONNEL AND ACADEMIC IMPROVEMENT 7o 1. A 33-1/3 increase in teach- ing personnel. (This is for the purpose of approaching the optimum ratio of one teacher per eight pupils and improving the qualifications of the faculty. 2. A 100 % increase in domiciliary and extra-curricular personnel. (The aim being the removal of all working personnel from twenty-four hour duty and an approach to the optimum ratio of one supervisor to fifteen children.) The Minimum Foundation Program of Education is expected to implement the new salary schedule and provide the additional personnel needs of the school. Ill. ADDITIONAL RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE PROJECTED PROGRAM OF THE EDUCATION OF THE DEAF AND OTHER PHYS1 C ALL Y HANDICAPPED CHILDREN FOR WHIC'H NEW STATE LAW NOW PROVIDES 1. The creation of a special education department in the State Department of Ed u ca t'i on which will entail the employment of a special education director, an assistant, a field worker, and sufficient clerical help. This department, under the authority of the State Board of Education and the administration of the State Superintendent of Schools, should direct all special education in the state including that of the deaf, the blind, the spastic, and otherwise physically h a n d icapped. These recommendations for improvement and enrichment of special education in the state are based on "Report of Survey of the Georgia School for the Deaf," as made by the Education Panel of Agricultural and Industrial Development Board of Georgia, following tl\ieir comprehensive survey in 1945. It is also in line with present needs in the light of a generally worsened condition since the study was made. OUR March expression of joy and thanksgiving, for bless- ings received, elici- A ted some v t! r y Letter much appreciated "fan-mail" --most- ly from "home-folks." It is not pride nor vanity that leads us to print the following let- ter - rather, it is unadulterated love. We think it might please a very precious girl friend of ours. " Miss Lucy," (M~. E. K. Overstreet, Sr.) down Sylvania way, bless her heart, is eighty-odd years young and one of the finest souls we have ever known. Indeed, she is precious. "My dear Clayton and Hazel : "I fell and broke my right shoul- der Six mont)ls ago and still can hardly write. But, I have jullt read 'THE HELPER' and your page and with you I say, 'Our Father we thank Thee.' I rejoice with you about Hillis and Wright. "I have asked Essie and Clyde about Wrig~ many times and sent messages to you but if you can decipher this I just had to have another little try. "Oh, how our Heavenly Father does answer prayers. I have followed Wright from Korea to California and Jacksonville and now, bless him, he had Easter at homeand, w.hat a victory for Hillis! "Well, this will take time from (Continued on page nine) (7) THE SCHOOL HELPER April. 1951 FACULTY NOTES holidays in Mobile, and New Or- In the previous ~ssue we empha- Mr. and Mrs. Stout visited sev- leans. eral friends in Talladega, Alabama * * sized the importance of education through w o r k experiences. one week-end. C. G. Turner had an enjoyable Through honest and conscientious trip to his home in McCaysville, work we get the greatest happiness Mr. and Mrs. Stepp visited Georgia and stayed with his par- out of life. Nothing should give us friends and relatives during the ents all week. more satisfaction than worthwhile Easter holidays. * * accomplishment at a job. Work Russell Royston had a very plea- gives purpose and meaning to life. Mrs. Simmons spent Easter Sun- sant vacation. He and the Rev. It is not only a means of liveli- day in Atlanta, attending the wed- Bob Johmson visited many interes- hood , but in creative work we find ding of a close friend on Friday ting places in Florida and enjoyed our greatest reason for living. We before Easter. a fishing trip while in Fort Myers. feel that we should learn to do They visited in TallliPa and St. many kinds of work. The idea of Mr. and Mrs. Brady had a very Petersburg one day. After 19 years a beautification project of our cam- nice trip to Waycross to visit Mr. of fishing, Russel finally caught pus has given U!S different types of Brady's mother during the holi- a 5-pound fish .. work which are both practical and days. Mr. Caple drove to Little Rock to spend a few days with his moth- er during the spring holidays. * * * Miss Annie McDaniel spent the weekend of April 1st visiting Mr. and Mrs. Fred Jones in Carrollton. * * * profitable. We have learned the procedure of correcting places where erosion has occurred and the importance of conservation. Lt. C. Wright Hollingsworth of the U. S. Naval Hospital, Jackson- ville, Florida spent two weeks with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Hollingsworth. * Mrs. Grant spent the spring holidays in South Carolina visiting her family and friends. * * Mrs. Minter spent a part of the spring holidays with her parents in Hampton, Georgia. * * * Mrs. Irwin spent the day in Mr. and Mns. Montgomery visited the Parks family in Jackson, Mississippi. They left Cave Spring Thursday morning during the flood. As they drove across Alabama and Mississippi they saw all the rivers and creeks in flood. Miles and miles of the lowlands were covered with water. They felt as if they had gone to Jackson by boat. They enjoyed their visit with Mr. and Mrs. Park who are living in their new home on Duane Street. They visited the new MissiS5ippi A few days ago we discovered a beautiful elm on a bank in the edge of our school yard. The roots were unprotected from erosion. We piled grass clippings and waste at the base of thrs tree to be covered. with soil. We picked up rocks to build a wall at the foot of the bank and put in new soil on the bank and around the tree. The rock wall will prevent erosion and the tree will get added strength and the necessary food value that is required for proper growth. Rome recently. Mrs. Jones spent most of her spring holidays in the hospital in Rome. * * Mr. and Mrs. Highnote, Peggy, and Mrs. Jones visited relatives in Atlanta recently. * * School for the Deaf where the pupils began their school work on April second. The buildings and the equipment were very modern. On Saturday they all drove to Vicksburg where they saw the Mississippi River from the bluffs above the city. Mr. and Mrs. Parks sent messages to all their friends in Cave Spring. We are going to build up around our campus the places that have the slightest signs of erosion. We are going to colliServe along the hill side by planting various kinds of shrubs and set the bank in bulb:;. We learned also that tree leaves, after they fall and decay, give us very rich soil called leaf mold. We Mr. and Mrs. Carpenter, Miss Carpenter. and Mrs. Mae Glenn saw the Ice Fol.lies at the auditorium in Rome in March. * * * * Mrs. Turner and Miss Casey were delegates to the G. E. A. convention in Atlanta March 22, 23. and 24. shall place this along the hillside so that the plants will have the necessary vitamins to grow. My Weekly Reader, along with Mrs. Glenn visited friends and our experiences through perfecting relatives near Rome during the COLORED--Continued th is beautification project, has spring holida)'lS. * gardener would do to take care of taught us many things that we his garden. would not have learned ordinarily. Miss Brannon spent part of the -Lucille McCullough's Class -Hattie Menifee's Class (8) THE SCHOOL HELPER April. 1951 ADVANCED--Continued er which has careR; alphabetically arranged. The cards have holes punched in the center near the bottom through which a metal rod in the drawer runs so that a librarian can put in new cards or take out old cards. These cards arc arranged by authorar titles and sub- jec:ta, which gives one three ways to find a book. The cards are filed in alphabetical order by the first word on the top of the card. Story or fiction books are filed in two ways, by authora and titles. General reference bookJs have cards in rhe card catalog, ;but it is easy to find them without going to the file drawer. Each card has a c:all number in the upper left hand corner, which helps you get a book quickly. -Laura Ann ~rigman ENCYCLOPAEDIAS An encyc:lopaedia is a book or a set of books that tells abour almost every subject. It is not written by one pe11Son, but by many people. One man is called the editor -in-chief. He selects men and women who know a great deal about many different things to help him write the books. Encyclopaedias are arranged like a dictionary. and each book or volume has the first letter or word and the last letter or word in the book printed on the back. Sometimes there is an index at the last of each volume and sometimes there is one index for all the volumes. When one looks in the index he can easily find what he wants. Some encyclopaedias have a Ready Reference volume which will help you find uncommon information. It is important to have an up-todate encyclopaedia, because things are changing every day. -Martha Maxey OTHER REFERENCE BOOKS The encyclopaedia can not be printed every year, because it costs too much, so we have other reference books in which we can find the latest information. Some of these are: the World Almanac which ing work as head of our class. It is printed each y~ar. T'he index to has been very hard for us to under- this is in the front of the book, stand why he had to go. but we are and one can read about things that happy that we knew him and loved have happened recently. him and shall always remember Every year Who's Who is printed him. The memory of his life will in England. It tells about famous be an inspiration to us and may peo.ple of all countries, and every well serve as a pattern by which two years Who's Who in America is we 'should live. printed. These two book.s have only the names of famous people who are living now. If one would like to find out something about famous people We extend our heartfelt sympathy to Kenneth's family and many friends. -Emmalee J. Highnote's Class who are not living or of characters in books a Biographical Dictionary would give the information. --Jaunice Dukes CORNER--Continued your busy hours but, I do appreci- ate THE HELPER and love you all. PRIMARY--Continued 'Misa Lucy' " short. and we still have lots of work to accomplish before the end T of school. We are sorry that we could not all be back on time for HE printer calls our attention to the fact that a bit more space we realize that to make the spring needs filling hence vacation become an annual affair Another t h i s additional it will require everyone's fullest co:- .Messq.ge message from a n operation . out-of-state fellow The highest class in the primary has a wiener roast every spring. They have invited us this year and we are certainly looking forward columnist, Mr. W. T. Griffing formerly of THE DEAF OKLAHOMAN. Ted ' ~ postal card greeting. fairly to it. The boys and girls made out crackling with good will and his the following menu: wieners, inimitable style, is as follows: buns. mustard, catsup, slaw with onions, potato chips, doughnuts, marshmallows, coca colas, and ice . cream. We plan to go to. the show first and then to the spring for the wiener roCllSt. We are keeping our fingers crossed about the "Dear Ed., I am delighted at all the good fortune that h:as come to the Ho~lingsworths. Especially am t grateful that your son is home- I know what this means to you and yours. weather and planning on having "But, good children are the fruit lots and lots of fun. of careful upbringing by good par- --Jessie F. Jone-s's Class ents, hence a 21-gun salute to Papa and Mama. As this school year draws to an end. we look back over the past nine months. We are proud of the work that we have accomplished and the progress we have made. We shall have many pleasant memories of our last year in the primary department, but oversHadowing these will be our great sadness at the death of Kenneth Corry. His death was a great shock and we miss him very much. Only last month we wrote of his outstand- "A good school is headed by a good man, hence another 21-gun salute. "And a good paper is handled by a good editor, hence another 21gun salute. "Congratulations and all good wishes. Yours, WTG." Thanks Ted. And, please resume " The Melting Pot.' ' We all miss it and can't understand why you treat us that way. (9) In Memoriam~James Chapman Our hearts were again saddened by the death of another beloved primary student, James Chapman. James died in a Macon hospital April the twenty first. He had not been well for several months and was was able to attend school for only a month last fall. He twelve years old and was the son of Mr. and Mrs. James W. Chapman of Macon. He had one sister and one brother. James will be remembered for his happy disposition and pleasant wa~. He had been a student in the primary department for four years. He liked school and enjoyed taking an active part in square dances, school programs, and other activities. The funeral was held in Memorial Chapel in Macon April the twenty-third. Three of James's lifelong friend~. Dickie Taylor, Joe Ann and Patricia Edwards attended the funeral. We extend to James's family and friends our hea,rtfelt sympathy. ... ' ,~ ; fl ~ . .. '.,': .. 7 ~ ... \ ~ ' : \o ' 'I ( ' . .. HERMAN E. TALMADGE, Governor GEORGIA SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION M. D. COLLINS, State Superintendent of Schools ADMINISTRATION C. H. HOLLINGSWORTH, M. A., Superintendent Janice R. Caple, Secretary J ulian Tumlin, Steward Myrtle A. J ohnson, Bookkeeper Earl Cox, Engineer Charles E. Owen, D. D. S. John M. McGehee, M. !;. INSTRUCTORS JOHN L. CAPLE, Principal PRIMARY DEPARTMENT Marie S. Kennard, B. S., Supervising Teacher Doris Brannon Gladys E. Carpenter Polly Casey Rebecca S. Crowe Mabel L. Fincher May F. Glenn Stella W. Grant Emmalee J . Highnote Jim Irwin J essie F. Jones Miriam B. Minter INTERMEDIATE AND ADVANCED DEPARTMENTS Mary P. Turner, B. A., Supervising Teacher Advanced Department Katharine Casey, Supervising Teacher Intermediate Department Dorothy F. Brady, B. S. Jack Brady, B. S. Connor Dillard Ruth D. Forbes Edythe D. Montgomery, B. S. Elizabeth F. Simmons, B. S. Gail Stout, Jr., B. A. Kathryn W. Williamson, B. A. VOCATIONAL DEPARTMENT John L. Caple, Supervising Teacher C. G. Turner .. ... . .. ...... . .. . .. . ........ Printing Sarah F. Ware ......... . ...... Arts and Craft_ J . R. Ware .. .. . ...... .. .... . ........... Carpentry Gladys L. Latham .... . ......... Beauty Culture Connor Dillard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Shoe Repairing Annie McDaniel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sewin8 Russell Royston . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Barbering and Pressing Geverna C. Stepp, B. S. H. E. . . . . Home Economicr Earl Coz . . . . . . . . . Machine Shop COLOkED DEPAKTM.t:.NT Nelle S. Griffith, Consultant Beulah Chandler Louise Chubb Helen Jones Elvira C. Bray Lucille McCulloqh Hattie S. Menif~e . Llbrarta.o .::University of Geor&'fa ,.-Athena ..Geor~a. ~ - , I Jt!95& ~84ft-[ Geo~gia School fo~ ihe Deaf- J-il95k ~846: Geor~ia School fot -the Deaf- TI-IE SENIOR CLASS of THE GEORGIA SCHOOL FOR THE DEl\F Cave Spring, Georgia PRESENTS THIS NINETEEN FIFTY-ONE GRADUATION ISSUE of THESCHOOL Georgia School for -the Deaf- Unaid ed m emory co lors events with a misty shade that ofte n belies rbeir true value. In this issu e we have attempted to give an accurate picture of life o n the campus of the Georgia School for the Deaf. We h o,pe as the years pass this volume wi ll be a source of recurrin g p leas ure and a n aid to memo r y in keep in g accurate and makin g per man ent th e eve nts a nd activities of the year 1950-5 1. If this vo lume ca n prov id e a lod gin g p lace for cherish ed memo rie3 of o u r school d ays; if it ca n serve as a gentle reminder of the m an y s'ac ri fices it h a.s take n to m ake our school life poss ibl e, a nd if it ca n instill into the h ear ts of the boys and girls of G . S. D . a determination to fo ll ow o ur m otto; " Let kn owled ge grow, let life be enriched ", it will h ave f ulfill ed the mis\Sion on w h ich we sen d it. Editor-in-Chief . ......... . .... . .................... .... . ... .. H erbert Wh ite Assistant Ed itor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F r ed Powers Business Manager Roscoe Dukes Assistant Business Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Louise boyd Auditors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Patsy Baker and Frances Cox Calendar of Events .... ... ... . . .... ........ . .. . Ruth Owens a nd J ackie Dukes P h otography Editors . . . . .. ... .. ... Vinton Troup, W. C. W oot en a nd Ral ph Gentr y Salutatory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . H er bert W hite Class History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Roscoe Dukes Class Prophecy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Fred Powers Class Poem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sara Crisp Class Will . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Edna .Pope Valedictory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sara Crisp Class Sponsor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mary P. Turner Geo..-q ia School for ihe Deaf- DEDICATION THE SENIOR CLASS OF 1951 affectionately dedicates this issue of the School Helper to Mrs. C. H . Hollingsworth. Before her maniage, Mrs. Hollingsworth was Miss Hazel Wright of Cave Spring. As the daughter of Mr. Connor W. Wright who for over forty years gave his best efforts to this school in the capacity of a conscientio us teacher and a loyal friend to the deaf; as a g1eat niece of Mr. Wesley 0. Connor who was connected with our school for over sixty years, and who served as its superintendent for ever a half century, and; as the wife of our superintendent, Mrs. Hollingsworth has been so closely associated with our school life that it comes quite r.atural for her to have a sympathetic u nderstanding of and a generous friendship for every deaf child. Her winning, magnetic personality, her gentle dignity and unfailing courtesy have won for her t h e Jove and admiration of each member of our school family. MJ95lk J=f!,f~4H Georgia School fo~ ihe Deaf- THE GOVERNOR OF GEORGIA . . l. , l "" ~ : ;, . .~ ~ ' . . THE HONORABLE HERMAN E. TALMADGE ~84ijd; Geor2ia School for ihe Deaf- The State Board of Education GEORGE P. WHITMAN, JR., CHAIRMAN JAMES S. PETERS, VICE-CHAIRMAN M.D. COLLINS, SECRETARY 1st Dist. 2nd Dist. 3rd Dist. 4th Dist. sth D ist. 6th D ist. 7th D ist. 8th Dist. 9th Dist. 1Oth Dist. Henry W. Blount ---------------------------------------- W'aynesboro J . D . Rogers, Jr. -------------------------------------------------- Blakely Clarke V./. Duncan ---------------------------------------- Buena Vista James S. Peters ------------------------------------------------ Manchester George P. W hitman, Jr.. -------------------------------- College Park Herschel Lovett ---------------------------------------------------- Dub1in Glenn Milner ----------------------------------------------- ___________ Rome Lonnie B. Sweat ---------------------------------------------- Blackshear Irwin Kimzey ------------------------------------------------ Clarkesvi 11~ Mrs. Julius Y. Talmadge ------------------------------------ Athens zl184fl Jdl95Jk Georqia School tor ihe Deaf- The State Superintender;t of Schools THE HONORABLE M . D. COLLINS Geot--qia School for -the DeafOUR SUPERIN'TENDENT FARE THEE WELL! You, the class of 1951, h;we the happy distinction of being the most scholas- ticall y advanced class ever grad uated from t he Georgia Sc~ool for t he Deaf. This is an honor of which we ar.e all pro u d. It attests to your, a nd yo ur teacher s' fidelity. It is a challenge to yourselves that we fee l sur.e you are fully capable of facing victoriou sly. We believe in you, everyone. God bless and keep you is our prayer. C. H. HOLLINGSWORTH, SUP'T. Geo t--qia School for ihe Deaf- THE COMMENCEMENT SPEAKER I I I I DR LEGH R. SCOTT BACCALAUREATE SERMON lf'84B:!J J-095& Geo~qia School fo~ -the Deaf- THE COMMENCEMENT SPEAKER : ' . THE HONORABLE ROBERT L. SCOGGIN ziL84fJ=L Geo~~ia School for ihe Deaf- COMMENCEMENT PROGRAM BACCALAUREATE SERVICE SUNDAY, May 27, 1951 Cave Spring Baptist Church 2:30 P. M. Interpreter ------------------- Mrs . M. M . Simmons Processional, Priest March ------------------------------------------------------- Mendelssohn Mrs. R . W. Fincher, Pianist Invocation ----------------------------------- ------------------- The Reverend Charles Rector, iPastor of Cave Spring Bapti:s.t Church Hymn ------------------------ Holy, Holy, Holy Scripture Reading ------------------------------------------------------------ Dr. Legh R. Scott. Pastor of First Presbyterian 'Church, Rome , Ga. Hymn --------------- -------- Onward Christian Soldiers Vocal Solo ----- --------------- ----------------------------------------------- Mrs. Randy Brewer Mrs. M . M . Simmons Baccalaureate Sermon ---------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Legh R. Scott Hymn ------------------------ Blest Be The Tie That Binds Benediction ------------------------------------------------------- The Reverend Charles Rector Recessional ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Senior Class GRADUATION EXERCISES MONDAY, May 28 , 1951 CAMPUS OF THE GEORGIA SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF Interpreter ------------------- Mrs . M. M. Simmons 10 :30 A . M. Pre! ude, T raumerei-Romance ------------------------------------------------ Robert Shumann Mrs. P. M. Minter, Piani:st Processional March, March from Aida ---------------------- ----------------------------- Verdi Mrs. P. M. Minter, Piani!st Order of Procession Class Herald Color Bearers Honor Escort Mascot Senior Class Invocation ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. J. C. Patty, Pastor of Cave Spring Methodist Church Greetings ----------------------------------------------- Superintendent C. H. Hollingsworth Vocal Solo, A Perfect Day ------------------------------------------------ Mrs. Randy Brewer Mrs. M. M . Simmons Salutatory ------------------------------------------------------------- ------------ ____ Herbert White Roscoe Dukes Recognition of Service .------------------------------------------------------------- Senior Class Members of the school family who haue serued fifteen years or more. V aled ictory ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sara Crisp Fred Powers Introduction of 'Commencement Speaker __ Superintendent C. H . Hollingsworth Commencement Address ------------------------------------ Honorable Robert L. Scoggin Chairman of Georgia School for the Deaf Legisla'tive Committee Presentation of the Senior Class -------------------------------- Principal John L. Caple Acceptance of Class and Introduction ____ Superintendent C. H. Hollingsworth D elive ry of Diplomas ---------------------------- Honorable George P . Wh itman, Jr., Chairman State Board of Education Vocal Solo, God Be With You Till We Meet Again __ _ Mrs. Randy Brewer .Mrs. M. M . Simmons Benediction -------- ------------------------------------------------------- _ _ Dr. M . D. Collins State School Superintendent Recess ional _____ __ ------------------------------------------ Senior C lass and Honor Escort Mrs. P . M . Minter, Pianist Seniors will receiue congratulations under 1the oak tree near the Boys' Dormitory immediately following the program. Georgia School for ihe Deaf- Our Campus Beautiful Our campus, preserved in its natural beauty and mellowed by the suns and rains of a centur y, presents a p icture of charm and dignity. Ancient trees cast their friendly shade everywhere around our campus and shrubs and flowers add their color and fragrance. For many years departing classes have planted on our campus two sturdy trees- one a memorial tree to perpetuate the memory of one who holds the heartfelt affection of the class and from whose overf low of w isdom, lo ve, and kindness their li ves have been enriched. For its lifetime it will be a tree set apart, dedicated to and bearing the name of one who has given his finest effort that the deaf child might have life more a bundantlyThe other, a class tree as a parting gesture of good fellowship a nd loyalty, so that in the years to come when their names are forgotten and their class is only a vague memory, these trees will not only adorn the campus or their Alma Mater but they will also shade the walls which have sheltered them so long; they will be a home for birds in s ummer; a way station for icy winds in winter; an apart ment ho-use fer frisky squirre ls; a coo ling sh,eiL1 for little children ; a resting place for those who have grown weary by the way; and a sacr ed shrine for those who wander back on reunion days. e w buil dings have been constru cted through th e years; however care has been taken to assure that the architectual unity of our campus has been maintained. Wind ing walks from Memorial Drive to Class Tree Quadrangle frame our camp us into one lovely picture and the tower of the boys' dormitory forms a stateiy background a s it t hrows its bulk against the sky and is iilirrored in the cl ear water of the swimming pool. H ere 's to Our Campus Beautiful and eac h lc-ved spot that f ondly pleads, "FORGET ME NOT". Georgia School for ihe Deaf- T o the Class of 1951 : Kindness is never in vain. Only the brave can live by faith. The narrow way will straighten out twisted lives. Grudge bearing is nerve wreck- ing. Anger is slow poisoning, but fot- giveness is the antidote. Prey less on your neighbor and pray more on your knees. We can conquer the evil of premature satisfaction only by constant striving toward a higher perfection. Faithfully yo uJ:s, Rev. Robert C. Fletcher To the Class of 1951: As the doors of your dear scho ol now close behind you, you realize that you are on yo ur own. Ahead ne t a ll is brigh,t and smoothg oin g. You will meet problems with which no knowledge gained from books can cope. Here you must walk out on faith. Keep it always with you, fo r with it, amidst the darkest and wildest hour you shall be calm and serene. "Our knowledge is a torch of smoky pine. That lights the pathway but cne help ahead Across that mystery of void and dread. Bid then the tender lig ht of faith to shine By which alone our mortal hearts are led Into the thinking of the thought Divine." Sincerely your friend, Rev. Rob-ert J o h ns on To the Class of 1951 : "Commit thy way unto the Lord; trust a lso in Him; and shall bring it to pass.'' Psalm 37:5 "I'he fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. Psalm 111 :10 Sincerely. Rev. La wrence M. Stacy BAPT IST CHURCH METHODIS T CHURCH Georgia School for -the Deaf- OUR PRINCIPAL THE CAPLE FAMILY To the Class of 1951 : You hav.e done yo ur work w ell and w e sh a r e the hap piness of your achievement. Our best wish es go with each of you for a usefu l and successful life. No matter \vhere your different paths ma y lead yo u , we shall a lways be interested in your f uture accomplishment . - John L. Caple OUR SUPERVISING TEACHERS You nre leaving behind you a record of exceptional achievement. Many of yo u have been with us a ll your school life, some of you beginning without kn owledge of a s ingle word , a nd it is with pride a nd a ense of great accomplish ment that today we present you with a diploma. - Marie S. Kenna rd. May yo u ever keep happy memories of our yea1s togeth er. The world will challen ge th e best in yo u , but re me m ber th e hard tasks may provide the opportunity you wo uld like to have. We sha ll fo llow t he career of each of ycu w ;th inter est and you wi ll ever have a place in our hearts. -Katharin e Casey Your teachers have made a conscientious effort to , help prepare yo u to meet t he c ha ll enges of life. W e have every confidence that yo u wi ll measure up to w hatever may be de mand ed of yo u. W e hope t hat you w ill cont inu e to learn new lesso ns as new oppo rtuni t ies ope;1 up before you. We have fait h in yo u. Keep faith in yo urself. - Mary P . Tur n er Georgia School for ihe Deaf- OUR PRIMARY TEACHERS First row: Mrs. Carpenter, Mrs. Crowe , Mrs. Casey, Mrs. Fincher Second row: Mrs. Irwin, Mrs. Minter, Mrs. Highnote, Mrs. Gle nn Third row : Mrs. Kennard , Miss Btannon, Mrs. J ones, Mrs. Grant P RIMARY BUILDING Georgia School for ihe Deaf- OUR INTERMEDIATE AND ADVANCED TEACHERS fi rs t row: Mrs. Forbes, Mrs. Bardy, Miss Casey, Mrs. Turn er, Mrs. Williamson Second row: Mrs. Simmons, Mrs. Mo ntgomery, Mr. Dillard, Mr. Sto ut, Mr. Brady FREEMAN HALL ~8 4~ Georgia School fo~ ihe Deaf- OUR VOCATIONAL TEACHERS First row: Mrs. Ware, Miss Latl\am, Miss McDaniel, Mrs. Stepp, Mr. Caple Second row: Mr. Cox, Mr. Turn er, Mr. Royston, Mr. Ware, Mr. Dillard VOCATIONAL BUILDING Georgia School fot- ihe Deaf- OUR OFFICERS AND STAFF MEMBERS F in t row : Mr . C. H. Hollingsworth, Mrs. Griffith, Mr. Tumlin, Mrs. Caple, Mrs. Dillard , Mrs. Tumlin, Mrs. Mayne, Mr . John L. Caple, Second r ow : Miss Ritch, Mrs. Wilscn , Mrs. J ohn so n, Miss Franks, Miss Power s, Mrs. H cnd Hson Third row: Mr. Cox, Mrs. Howell, Mrs. Simmons, Mr. Dillard, Mrs. Perry FANNIN HALL Geo r gia School for -the Deaf- HERBERT WHITE Members of the Board of Education, Mr. Holl:ngsw,nth, pa rents, t eachers, a nd oth er fri e nds; In be half of the Senior Class of 1951, of which I have t he honor to be salutatorian, I greet yo u and extend to yo u a m ost cord ia l welcome. Our g r ad uati on exer cises would be in - complete without yo ur presence which is an assurance of your good wishes for our future success. We kn ow that yo u have followed us thr ough our school years with sincer e interest , a nd that yo u share our happiness today because we have arrived at a wmthy goal which has seemed sometimes long and difficult to r each. Even though we feel quite a bit of pride and pleasure in having reach ed this goal in our education, we r ealize that we still have a long, long way to go. We have r eached not t he end , but th e comm enceme nt of c ur lives, a nd we are eager to put in to acti on the m a ny v;rtues which we have been taught. A lthoug h we have completed our work a nd are about to begin a n ew a nd exciting life, th er e is, in th e background of our minds, a doubt as to our a bility to do all t hat is expected cf us. Not that w e feel unpre pare d or lack ambition , but that yo u , our parents a nd fri e nds, have s uch faith in our abi li ty and such co nf id ence in our futur e that we tre mbl e lest we di sappoint you, lest we fail to live up to your hig h expectations. We realize that the business of making a name and a li velih ood for ourselves is not easy, that the struggl e is hard and n ever e ndin g, a nd t hat it will require all 'm ab ili ty, but we sha ll enter t his n e w life w ith heads high a nd start upon our adventures with fear less hearts. We tru st that all our aspirati ons a nd a ll yo ur hopes shal l be made real a n d that each of us will match t he h our. We r ealize today as never before, the value of the happy years we have spent at thi s sc hool, a nd as we welcome yo u today, our hearts go ou t to each of you in grateful appreciation for the part yo u have played in ma king our g r a dua t ion possible. We sha ll neve r fo r get the e ncouraging words, the helping hands a nd the untiring efforts in our behalf. For ma ny years we have eagerly looked fo rward to t his day, but upon its arrival we f eel a bit of sadness, and real regret that our t ies of f riendship which have held u s so closely togeth er , in our t r oubles and in our t riumphs, mu st now be broken, a our little band separates a nd its members take their differ.e nt paths to fame and fo rt un e. Our lives wi ll be busy, and the hours of t he day will be crowded, but t houghts of our school days will often r eturn to gladden our hearts a nd to r enew our ambitions. Again we welcome each a nd every one present t oday. We sha ll always look back upon this day with g reat happiness, for it is truly one of tile r ed letter days of our li ves, a nd but f or you , goo d friends of ours, t his r ed letter day would not have been, nor many of those which we hope will follow. So again we welcome you and beg for those w ho follow after us, t h e sam e watchf ul car e, love a nd kindness yo u have given us! YOU ARE WELCOME !! Geot--qia School for ihe Deaf- Ci.AS S FLOWER: Red R ose PRESIDENT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Herbert White VICE-PRESIDENT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sara Crisp SECRETARY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Fred Powers TREASURER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Roscoe Dukes PARLIAMENTARIAN E dna Pope MOTTO: Scienta erescat, ( Let knowledge grow, let life be enriched) CLASS TREE : Willow Oak CLASS COLORS : Purple and Gold OUR MASCOTS Marth jl Smith, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Sm ith, Columbu s, Ga. J oey Sp ur lin, son of Mrs. Id a Lee Spurlin , Atlanta, Ga. Georgia School for ihe Deaf- HERBERT LEON WHITE Bainbridge, Georgia President of Senior Class Boy Scout '44-'51; Football '46-'49; Captain of Football '49; Basketball '46-'49 ; Captain of Basketball '48; Track '46-'49; Member of Baptist S ilent Bible Class ' 46-'47; Member of Methodist Silent Bible Class '48'51; President of Methodist Silent Bible Class '50; Treasurer of Methodist Si1ent Bible Class '49; Vice President of Su ndaY' School '49; Manager of Football '50; Manager of Basketball '50; Photography '50; Salutatorian '51; Editor-in-Chief of Senior Helper; Member of Seventh District -Track Team '48-'50 SARA FRANCES CRISP Fender, Ga. Vice-president of Senior Class Member of Athletic Association '46'5 1; Member of Baptist Sil :: nt Bible Class '46-'51; Girl Scouts '47-'51; Secretary of Freshman Class '47'48; Secretary of Sophomore Class ' 48 -'49; D-ining room Mon itor '49 '5 0; Secretary of s ~ cial Club '50'51; Member of Hom emaking Club '50-'51; Secr etary of Girls' Reading Room '50-'51; Dormitory Monitor '50-' 51 ; Vice-president of Silent Bible Cia s '50-'51 ; Queen of Hallowe'en Carni val '50-'51; Gir l Scout Patrol Leader '5 0-'5 1; Class P oe m '51; Class Valedictorian '5 1 WILLARD ROSCOE DUKES , JR. Woodbury, Ga. Treasurer of Senior Class Model Airplane Club '40-'51; Member of Boy Scouts '45-'51; Football '45-'47; Basketball '46-'47; Track '46-'47; Member of Hobby Club '46'47; Member of the Methodist Silent Bible Class '46-'51; President of Freshma n Class '47; President of Sophomore Class '48 ; Superintendent of Sunday Schpol '49; Manager of Football Team '49-'5 0; Social Clu b '50-'51; Photography Club '50' 51; Vice-president of the Methodist Silent Bible Class '50-'51; Class Historian '51 F RED COX POWERS Augusta, Ga. Secr etary of Senior Class Football '48-'50; Captain Football '5 0; Basketball B-team '48; Basketball '49-'51; Track '48-'51; Secretary of Senior Class '51; Dancing Club '49-'50; Member of Boy Scouts '47-'51; Boy Scout Patrol Leader '49-' 51; Methodist Church Secretary '5 0-51; Sunday School Vic.e-president '5 0-'5 1 ; Social Club '48-'5 1; Member of Athletic Association '45'51; Class Prophet '51 EDNA MARIE POPE Mableton, Ga. Parli me nta rian of Senior Class Memb er of Athl etic Association '45'51; Member of Baptist Silent Bible Class '45-'51; Girl Scouts '47-'51; Arts and Crafts Club '4 5-' 48; Monitor of Dining room '50; Member of Girls' Reading Roo m '50-'51; Member of H om ':!making Club '50-'51; Member of Social Club '50-'51; Me mb er of Editorial Staff '51 Georgia School fot- -the Deaf- LOUISE BOYD Augusta, Georgia Me mber of Athletic Association '45'51 ; Member of Meth odi st S ilent Dib le Class '4. 6-'5 0 ; G rl S _outs ' 47G1 ; Dinig r com mon it ot '5 1; Homemaking Club '5 0-'51; Member cJ Social Club ' 50-'5 1; Member of Baptist Silent Eible Class '51 ; Vice-preside nt of Girls' Reading Roc m '50- ' 51; Memb er d Master l...'ca utitian Club '51. IRA VINTON TROUP Enigma, Ga. Hobby Club '46; Hunting Club '46 ; Arts and Crafts '46; Sunday School Lesson ' 46,-'48 ; Carpentry Shop ' 47-' 50, Boy Scouts '47-' 48-' 51; Member of Baptist Silent Bible Class ' 48-'5 1; Football '4 8-'49; Basket ball '48-' 49 ; Track '48-'49; Basketball Scorer '51 JACKIE RUTH DUKES Woodbury, Ga. Member of Arts a nd Crafts Clu b '44-'46; Me m b2r cf Sewing Clu b '4 5-'46; Member of Athletic Association '44-' 51; Mem ber of Methodist Silen t Bible Class '47-'51 ;Girl Scouts '47-' 51 ; Member of Social Club ' 50-' 51 ; Member of Mast er B eautitia n Clu b ' 51 ; Trea sure of Meth odist Silent Bible Cla ss '511-5 1; Treasure of Readi ng Ro om ' 50 - '5 1; D ining r oom Monit or '5 0-'5 1; Me mber of Hom emaking Clu b '50-'5 1 ; Gir l S co uts S e ni or Patr ol Lead er '5 0-' 51 WILLIAM CULLEN WOOTEN Macon , Ga . Member of Baptist Silent Bible Class ' 46-'49 ; Boy Scouts '4 7-'50; F ootb a ll ' 47-' 50; Co-capta in F ootball '50 ; Track '49-'51 ; Basketball ' 48-'5 1; Member of SQcial Club ' 50' 51; Memb er of Hunt ing a nd Fishing Club '47 ; Memb er of Meth odist Silent Bible Class '5 0-'5 1 PATSY RUTH BAKER Tifton, Ga. Member of Athletic A ssociation '44'5 1; Member of Baptist Silent Bible Class ' 46-'5 1 ; Member of Gir l Scouts ' 47-'51; President of Soph omore Class '48-'49; Monitor of Dining Ro om ' 49 -'5 0; Vice-president of Social Club '5 0-'51 ; Me mber of Hom ema king Club '5 0-'5 1; Preoddent of Girls' Reading Room '50-'51; Presid ent of Sund ay Asse mbl y Pr og ram '5 0-' 51; President of t he Baptist Silent Bi ble Class '5 0-'51 ; May Queen '51 Geo~qia School for ihe Deaf- LENA RUTH OWENS Lithonia, Ga. Member of the Athl!!tic Associa ~ io n '45-'51; Member of Baptist Silent Bible Class '46-'51; Girl Scout Class '46-'51; Girl Scouts '47-'51; President of the Freshman C la ~s '48; Member of Social Club '50-'51; President of the Homemaking Club '50-'p1; Basketball '50-'51; Member of the Girls' Reading Room '50-'51; Dining Room Monitor '51 RALPH GENTRY Kingston, Ga. Member of Baptist Silent Bible Class . '44-'51; Dramatic Club '45; Football '46-'51; Track '47-'51; Baske.tball '49-'51; Member of Boys' Reading Room '51; Seventh District Track Team '48-'49 -'51 FRANCES JANE COX Ocilla, Ga. Member of Arts and Crafts Club '45-'48; Member of Athletic Asso ciation '45-'51; Member of Sewing Club '46-'49; Member of Baptist Silent Bible Class '46-'51; Girl Scouts '47-'51; Treasure of Fresh, man Class '48-'49; President of Sophomore Class '49-'50; Member ~f Social Club '50-' 51 ; Vice-president of Homemaking Club '50-'51; Member of Girls' Reading Room '50-'51 Fare thee well, dear friends and schoolmates. Out into the world we go; There are many pit-falls waiting; We shall soon Life's trials know. True today our rainbow's end ing Seems so dim and far away, But we must remember God is sending Always each morn another day. We'll ever keep alive youth's fervent fire We'll find a laugh for every tear. We'll greet the shower with a smile, Until the rainbow shall appear. And what e're may be our lot, We shall ever loyal be, And our thoughts will oft be turning Dear old friends and schoolmates-back to thee. -Clas-s of 1951 g{1S4ik:L J=fJ95& Geo~qia School fo~ ihe Deaf- Jd!JS4f!:L Jd.195& Georgia School fo~ lhe Deaf- HAPPY MEMORIES Georgia School fot- -the Deaf- JACKIE DUKES AND RUTH OWENS September 4-Football practice started. Coach Brady, our new coach, hjad everything ready to start off with a bang. September 12-School opened. All happy!! September I7-Welcome party and bonfire at the pump hcuse. Mrs. Turner and Miss Casey were in charge and they planned a wonderful party for us. September IS-Ie were happy to welcome the Reveren d J c:hn Stallings and the Reverend Bob Johnson to our school. We enjoyed their talks at Chapel and ho1=e that they can visit us often. September 22-0ur football team lost the first Jiame to McHenry 41 to 0. September 1 24- Sunday School officers elected. Patsy Baker, superintendent, Fred Powers, assistant superintendent and Herbert White, secretary and treasurer. Sep tember 29-W were made very happy by a visit fro m the Reverend Robert C. Fletcher. We look forward to Mr. Fletcher's regular visits with a great deal of pleasure. October 11-Coosa Valley Fair in Rome. Our: school had a very fine exhibit. The fair officials were indeed nice to us, and we were sorry when it came time to leave. October 12-Columbus Day. Mr. Dillard's class pantomim ed " The Landing of Columbus." 'They used a real boat in the swimming pool which made the story very re al. October 13-We won our first football game. We played Cummings High School with a score of 32 to 0. October IS-Officers were elected for our Social Club, Roscoe Dukes, president, Patsy Baker, vice-president, and Herbert White, secretary and treasurer. October 20-First period ended-Exams! Oc tober 27-0ur football team went to the Florida School for the Deaf. They lost but had a wonderful time. October 29-Girl Scout parade in Rome. October 31-Hallowe'en Carnival sponsored by the Sen- iors. Best time we ever had!! November 3-We won the football game with Tallap oosa-13 to 0. November 10-Football game. Calhoun won. November It-Bingo party at Girls' Dormitory. November 17-Lost our last football game to Chat- t anooga Valley High School. November t.S-Girl Scouts were jiuests of the Rome Shainers at the Shrine Circus in Atlanta. after the circus, they entertained us at the America~ Legion Home near Marietta. Surely this was the highlight of the year. November 23-Thanksgiving Day. Turkey galore with all the trimmings. December 1-Second period ended-Tests, Tests!! December S-A group from the Georgia Association of the Deaf came and offered to give a number of magazine subscriptions to the Boys' and Girls' Reading Rooms. This was indeed a generous offer and a great deal of interest was aroused. December 12- Candlelighting ceremony in Rome. December 14-Senior Class party at the Scout Hut. Mrs. Turner planned a wonderful party. Seniors exch:anged gifts under a beautiful Christmas tree and then gathered armmd a big fire and ate, and ate, and ate. Then we played games and danced and ate some more. Happy time!! December IS-Christmas tree in the Chapel. December I6-Christmas holidays began. January 2-Back to school. January 6-Seniors had cap and gown pictures made for the Graduation Number of the Helper. January 13-0ur girls' basketball team played the first game with Roopville. We lost. January 19-Seniors had the surprise of their lives when after a program in Chapel, Mr. Caple, in a very unique w'Ry, presented tHem with their class rings. This was a happy day!!! January 23, 26, 29-Boys and girls played basketball with Buchanan, Johnson High School and Tallapoosa. Boys won over Buchanan and Johnson, but girls lost all three games. January 27, 2S-Mid-term examinations!!! January 30-Saw the movie, "Joan of Arc." February 3, 6, 9-Basketball game with Roopville, Pepperell and Johnson High School. Boys won one game, but girls lost all. February 14-Valentine box in Chapel, after which the faculty and student body were served delightful refreshments in tjhe Home Management Department. Pebruary 16-Basketball season closed with game with Pepperell. February 2S-Girl Scouts birthday party. The Rome Shriners and their wives were our guests. March 7-Time flies! Third period ended. March IS-Seniors went to see the movie, "Hamlet." March 23-Home for spring holidays. April 1-Back to school feeling rested. April 9-Saw the movie, "King Solomon's Mines." April i2-Arbor Day. April 17-Music festival in Lindale. April IS-Senior girls were attendants in Miss Latham's installation as Worthy Matron. April 19-Track meet at Darlington. Our boys won first place and brought home the trophy. April 21-Tests, Tests~ Tests. The Seniors took every test ever made, they thought. April 23-Getting ready for State Board examination in Beauty Culture. May !-Achievement tests!!! May 3,. 4-Gallaudet examinations!!! May 4, S-State track meet in Macon. May II, I2, 13-Girl and Boy Scout Camp. May IS-Field Day. May 22, 23 24--Final examinations! May 26-Parents of Seniors begin to arrive for commencement activities. May 27-Baccalaureate service at the Baptist Church. May 2S-Graduation-Sad. May 29-Homeward bound-Tears of joy and sadness mingle. J=ll95& ~84~ Georqia School {or ~he Deaf- (9u,z d-ing and &2H~~n J=jl95& ~84B Geo~gia School fo~ ihe Deaf- ctt zd elltenc/antj Geot--qia School fot- -the Deaf- ROSCOE DUKES We, the Class of 1951, are a class worthy of more than the usual introduction. We have brought many honors to our school; our records are a valuable legacy which we proudly leave as goals to those who follow us; our every th.ought is loyal, and our hearts beat ~rm a nd high with love for our school ; we are wise yet we are friendly; we are crammed wibh knowledge, stuffed until our heads are numb; and we are inspired until we can no longer wait to make our dreams come true in a big old beautiful world. It seems very hard to realize that this wonderful class now standing before you in all its strength and beauty, and wealth of experience was ever a group of bashful primaries-just timid beginners!! With nothing in our little heads then but a lot of nonsense, and nothing in our actions but a lot of giggles, yet this was true. To those whp passed us that first day we came to school, we seemed just a little group of ordinary boys and girls, well dressed, fairly good - looking and badly frightened. That nhirteen silly, empty - headed, rattled - brained youngsters could ever have developed into noble, handsome, thoughtful, wise and charming Seniors, is indeed something for which we should be most thankful!!!! Some of us have been together since that first day at school, others joined us in the early years of our school life, and some we picked up during our last years. To each of these we can only say, we have weathered a good many storms together and have found school life not all a bed of roses. But we can trut!Xfully admit that whatever trouble has come to us ,has been largely our own fault and the result of our own carelessness, indifference or disobedience to rules which we understood perfectly well. Our happy days far outweigh our sad days, and now that the time has come to leave, a feeling of sadness comes over us and we recall a great many evidences of love and kindness that have been showered upon us during our life at G. S. D. I am sure that you would like to know something of the personal history of each member of this class. Patsy Baker was born in Tifton, Ga. on June 27, 1931. ~he had diphtheria when she was very young, and lost her hearing. She came to school here when she was seven years old. She was at first very frightened, because she thought all the large buildings here were hospitals, but she soon made friends, and since nbat time Patsy has grown to be one of the most outstanding girls on t)1e campus. This year she was chosen May Queen, Dormitory Monitor, passed the State Board Examination and received her license as a master beautitian. Louise Boyd w.as born in Augusta, Ga. on June 28, 1932. She came to the Georgia School wNen she was nine years old. She has always been a sweet, dependable girl, willing to bear her part of every burden. She was also lucky to pass the State Board Examination this year and is now a master beautitian. Frances Cox was born at Enigma, Ga. on September 26, 1932. When !lhe was seven years old, she started to school in Ocilla, Ga., but went only six months and then entered school here. Frances has a way of being nice to everyone and has many friends on the campus. She will receive a diploma in Home Management this year. Sara Crisp hails from Fender, Ga. She was born in this little town on March 25, 1935. For several years, she attended the public school there, but in 1946 she came to the Georgia School. Sara has an outstanding sclholastic record here. Each year she ;has received some of the highest honors offered by the school. This year she was chosen Dormitory Monitor, Queen of the Halloween Carnival, took the Gallaudet College entrance examination, and was Valedictorian of our class. Jackie Dukes was born in Woodbury, Ga. on August 16, 1932. When she was eigljt years old, she came to school here. Jackie always has a good time. She is thoughtful and makes friends very easily. She is another of the lucky ones to pass the State Board Examination and now boasts a master beautitian's license. Roscoe Dukes was born in Durand, Ga. on February 10, 1929. He did not enter school until he came to chis school in 1940. He is most appreciative of what our schotl has done for him. He took the Gallaudet College entrance examination this year and hopes that hie will pass, because his greatest ambition is to go to college. Ralph Gentry'was born in Kingston, Ga. on February 25, 1932. He has always been interested in athletics and has played on the football team and has taken part in every track meet. He did his part in helping bring to our school several beautiful trophies. He is a nice, friendly boy and is liked b.y a ll who know him. Ruth Owens was born at Lithonia, Ga. on May 20, 1932. She came to school here when she was six years old. Ruth likes to have a good time. She loves pretty clothes and has had several serious love affairs. This last year she really settled down to business and will receive a diploma in Home Management. Fred Powers first saw daylight on a farm near Sylvania, Ga. on October 15, 1933. He attended public school for six years and in 1945 he enrolled in the Georgia School. Fred is a great teaser, but is usually a good sport along with his teasing. He likes all kinds of sports and reads quite a bit. He took the Gallaudet College entrance examination and he has dreams of someday being a big farmer. Edna Pope was born in Atlanta, Ga. on November 21, 1931. Slle came to this sohool when she was seven years old and is one of tihe charter members of this class. Through the years, Edna has studied hard, and is loved by everyone on the campus. She is always selected to play the part of an angel in Christmas pageants because of her angelic look. This year she took the Gallaudet College entrance examination and is keeping her fingers crossed because she has always had dreams of going to college. Vinton Troup was born in Osierfield, Ga. on March 23, 1931. He enrolled in our school when he was seven years old. Vinton is a nice boy and attends to his own business. He has spent quite a bit of his time in the woodworking shop and will receive a diploma from that department. He would like to be a carpenter and has had some excellent experience doing repair work at the school. Georgia School for -the Deaf- GIRLS' DORMITORY Herbert Whi,te was born in Clim ax, Ga. on July 3 1. 193 1. He was another one of the charter members of [his class. He came when h,e was seven years o-ld and th is year he will receive an academic diploma. He has had every honor that the school offers. This year he was chosen King of the Halloween Carnival, took the Galbudet College entra nce examination and was chosen salutatorian , missing the place as valedictorian by only a fracticn of a point. H e is a "whiz" in math and does outstanding wor k in a ll his other classes. One reason for his su ccess is the fact that he has not been in love- until now. W. C. Wooten was born in Macon, Ga. on Februa ry 6, 1932. He came here when he was very young and this school has been home to him a long time. W . C. enjoys football, basketball, and, track. Th is year he will receive a diploma from the woodwork- ing shop, and he plans to gat a job as helper to a carpen- ter this summer w that he can get lots of experi Enc e. It would be very interesting if we had time to tell you of the funny experiences we have ha :J dur in g our school life here, th e changes in our class roll al c ng i;he way, t'he parting from t!iis one, and the wekoming oi another, the failures and su ccesses of eac h cn e, and ether vivid memories along the way, but this would taki! i;oo long, though we would like to say that our scho ol life here has been a most wonderful voyage and we have kept many souvenirs from every port. We have not faced a ny storm which we were not ab le to withstand and we hav ~ n ot been wrecked by any task. Now as we look at the big Ocean of Life tJhat li es befor e us we feel that our voyage here has fitted us to withstand every storm and reach our final port in safety. The Class of 1951 have their passports to thirteen different ports but our lamp of h ope is ligt>.JI;ecl and the ~h adows have disappeared. I THINK THAT GOD IS PROUD I think that God is proud of those who bear A sorrow bravely-proud indeed of them Who walk straight throu gh t h e clark to f ind Him th,ere And kneel in faith to touch His garment's hem Oh, proud of them who lift their heads to shake Away the tears from eyes that have grown dim, Who tigh;ten quivering lips and turn to take The only road they know that leads to Him. How prcud He must be of them- He who knows All sorrow, and how hard g rief is to bear! I th ink He sees them coming, and He goes W ith outstretch ed arms a nd hand s to meet th em t here, And w ith a look, a t(l uch on hand or head, Each fee ls his hurt h eart strangely comforted. - Grace Noll Crowell Georgia School for -the Deaf- FRED POWERS Several days ago as my wife and I were sitting in the den of our lovely home in HaWiaii, : one of our maids came to the door and announced tli.at someone wished to see Colonel Powers. She handed me a very neat business card, and as I looked at it, I was a bit puzzled, for the name looked familiar, yet I could not quite make myself beUeve that it was really the name of an old boy I had known at G. S. D. twenty years ago. I hurried to the door and was amazed to see one of ~y own classmates of 1951, a very tall, handsome, wellgroomed man. I threw my arms around him as I yelled, "Old Vinton Troup, from where in the world did you hail? Come in and say hello to the sweetest girl you ever saw". He said, "Now, don't be so sure about that-just wait until you see the one I have in my car". We hurried down my private winding driveway, and I could hardly 'believe my ey.: s when I caught sight of a big black 1971 Cadillac. This was shocking enough ,but when he opened the car do er, I really thought that I was seeing things. I r ;!memb :: red the beautiful girl and how deeply in love she and Vinton were at G. S. D. By tro~is time, my wife, wondering what had happened to me, came out and was standing on our terrace when we three walked up the driveway. She came running with outstretched arms, for she too, had been in school with Vinton and his wife, and was just as happy to see them as I was. They said that they could not stay long, because they were on their second honeymoon, and hfid a great many places of interest that they would like to see before returning to New York where they were making their home. We persuaded them to spend the night so that we cculd have an opportunity to talk over old times. Vinton told me that he .had made quite a success in real estate, and that he owned several large apartment units on Riverside Drive and a magnificent home on Long Isla nd. During his visit with! me, I really found out a lot of interesting things about our old classmates. One of the most exciting pieces of news was that one of our classmates of 1951 was now a very prominent professor at Gallaudet College. I learned that he made an outstanding record in college both in the classroom and on the athletic field, and that the year after he was graduated, he was offered the positia:n of math teacher at his Alma Mater. I also learned that h(e was not married, but was very much in love with a beautiful college girl, who was ten years younger than he, and that they would be married during the summer. I remembered how well Herbert White could work math at G. S. D., and I was not surprised to learn that he was a leading professor at Gallaudet. I was eager to tell V'inton about our good friend and classmate, Roscoe Dukes. You know he is related to my wife and we hear from him often. Roscoe bfts been a lucky guy. After he finished college, he was offered a wonderful position as a commercial artist in Washington, D. C., and made such a fortune that he was able to retire at the age of forty-five. He now weighs two hundred and fifty pounds and has snow white hair. He and his charm ing wife have a beautiful home at Alexandria, Virginia; have t\WJ cars and two chauffe urs, and !:::; ~ ~ 'r<.n r~.n t::1 0) Q -r Georgia School fot- ihe Deaf- Our school days have been happy, But now 'tis time to go. Behind are recollections fond, Ahead our futures glow. There's not a boy, there's not a girl, That's v.1alked along our way. But is a happier boy and girl Than they were yesterday. We've seen so much of gladness, We've had our share of joy, And mem ory is one gift of God That absence can not destroy. And even when across our pathway, Time's cool gray shadow falls, You'll hear our memory's footsteps Returning to your halls. And now to you, oh, Alma Mater Our loyalty we give; This be your pride and honor: You taught us how to live. If aught of greatness we achieve, If aught of good we do, The garland and the laurel wreath Belong, our Alma Mater, to you. Dear Alma Mater, may we all Ee worthy of your name, And make you proud in years to be That from your halls we came. Alma Mater, we must leave th,ee; Thou hast been a friend so kind. Sweet shall be our memories ever Of these scenes we leave behind. And now indeed each heart's aglow, With fond affection real and true. We each acclaim your worth and fame. Our Alma Mater, FAREWELL TO YOU. -Class of 1951 ~S4N: Georgia School fo~ ihe Deaf- Jdl95~ (9'11tZ G . S. D . BASKE TBALL TEAM-1947 BOY SCOUTS-1 949 }:ij95& Georqia School for 1he Deaf- INTERMEDIATE STUDENT BODY- -1947 GIRL SCOUTS- 1947 . .. '. \' ALMA MATER ~In our beautiful V