As Schools Open, Welfare-Truancy Officer Needed, Oct. 1, 1920

The matter of the appointment of a county welfare officer was taken up at a recent meeting of the local W.C.T.U., and resolutions were passed urging that the board of county commissioners of Pasquotank take immediate action on the matter. With the schools now getting into full swing in the city, and with several rural schools already started, while many others will open within the next few weeks, the problem of truancy is assuming considerable proportins, and the need of a welfare officer, who is also a truancy officer, is becoming acute. The first county welfare officer in Pasquotanke was Prof. Preston S. Vann, who was appointed last September, and who resigned in the early summer following his election to the presidency of Chowan College at Murfreesboro, N.C. The place was then temporarily filled by Secretary V.R. Gilmore of the Elizabeth City Y.M.C.A., and it is now urged that a permanent appointment be made in the immediate future. (From the front page of The Independent, Elizabeth City, N.C., October 1, 1920)