From the front page of The Rockingham Post-Dispatch, Thursday, August 12, 1920
Rockingham School Opens Probably Sept. 13th. . . Nine New Teachers. . . Second Floor of Opera House Building to be Used for Temporary High School
The Rockingham City Schools, White and colored, will open the first or second Monday in September--probably Sept. 13th.
The second floor of the Opera House building has been rented, and changes are being made to adapt them for school purposes. The High School grades, about 140 pupils, will be taught there till the new High School building can be erected.
Two new rooms are being added to the colored school builoding to take care of the overflow there. A full corps of teachers has been elected and assigned as follows:
High School Department, Kate Finley, Principal and Teacher of English; Mathematics, Meriel Groves; Latin, Isabel Arrowood; History, Mary Bynum Paris of Rocky Mount; Science and French, Lillian Allen of Hendersonville; Home Economics, Agnes Williams of Reidsville.
Elementary School: Bernice turner, Principal and teacher of first grade. Primary teachers, Nancy Stacey of Hamlet; Leah Love of Monroe; Rebecca Stimson, Pearl Nance of Monroe; Mabel Brooks of Goldsboro.
Grammar Grade teachers: Maude Moore, Kate Lea Owen, Bernice Hornaday of Maxton; Estelle Jones of Smithfield; Hart Sheridan.
Of the new teachers, Misses Paris,Williams and Stacey are graduates of the State Normal College at Greensboro; Miss Allen of Converse; Miss Nance of Meredith; Miss Hornaday of Littleton; Misses Love and Brooks of Peabody; and Miss Jones of East Carolina Teachers' Training School. With two exceptions, all the new teachers have had three or more years of experience.
According to the new state salary schedules, all teachers with State Certificates are to receive a 33 1/3 per cent increase of salary over salaries paid for the past year.
An increased enrollment and a good school year may be expected.
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