All 10 of Turlington Graduates Going on to College, Sept. 9, 1921

Last Year’s Graduates of Turlington Graded School

Not many schools can say this fall that every single member of their 1921 graduating classes are going to college. But that is just the record of the class finishing the course at Turlington Graded school last spring. There were 10 members of this class and it is with pride that we call attention to these young men and women and to the colleges which they have chosen, as follows:

Benton Warton, Davidson College

Edgar Watson, Trinity

Kenneth Coats, State University

Marvin Woodall, State College

Lucile Cotter, Greensboro College for Women

Margaret Lee Austin, Hollins

Margaret LeMay, Randolph-Macon

Jean Abell, Salem College

Annette Lawrence, St. Mary’s

Frances Burton Crews, N.C. College for Women

It is a commendable thing for a boy and girl to complete high school with a good record, and it is also commendable for them to have the ambition for further preparation for life’s service. These things stand out, because of the large army of boys and girls who do not even complete a high school course.

To see young boys and girls leave school and go to work before they have laid a worthy foundation for their life’s work is a sad thing, especially when there is no necessity for them to work. They evidently have not caught a glimpse of what an education can do for them. Aside from the increased dollars and cents an education will bring, the broadening influence, the increased capacity for enjoying the higher things in life should be taken into consideration.

So we say all honor to the class of 1921 of T.G.S. May it set a standard which future classes will strive to attain. And may an increasing number decide to stay in schools and secure at least the advantages which are provided for them here at home in the Graded School

From the editorial page of The Smithfield Herald, Sept. 9, 1921, J.M. Beaty, W.M. Gaskin, Mrs. T.J. Lassiter, I.W. Medlin, proprietors