The Rotary Club had a splendid program at the last meeting, observing the suggestions from International headquarters as to Boys’ Week. The High School quartet rendered several selections to the accompaniment of Mrs. Francis Womack. This quartet is composed of Robert Gladstone, Alton Gillikin, Gilbert Joyce and John Chance.
J. Minor Gwynn, principal of the High School, spoke on the work that is being done by the boys in school. He stated that the boys were doing fine work, both in the classrooms and also on the athletic grounds, and that they were playing foursquare with themselves and with each other. He invited cooperation from Reidsville citizens in helping the boys to direct their activities in useful channels that will be more profitable than wearing out the sidewalks in front of the drug stores and on street corners.
Jerry Allen, county welfare officer, emphasized the need of the proper kind of cooperation with the boys in their activities. His observation as a welfare officer has been that boys as a rule are inclined to do what is the right thing if they know what it is, and that first of all, they are inclined to imitate the actions of some person who appeals to their fancy. With the proper cooperation with he boys they an be assisted in making the right kind of object in life to choose.
Abe Womack had a few words to say concerning the needs of a boys’ band. He pointed out that the boys had shown in the past two years that they were capable of holding themselves together under the competent leadership of Professor Parker; but that now in his absence, the boys are without a leader. He invited cooperation in assisting the boys of Reidsville in this particular.
The best talks of the evening were made by two high school boys who were asked to tell the Rotary Club of the ways in which the club can help them. These were Dillard Gardner and John Womack. When they finished their talks it was remarked by several members of the club that but few Rotarians could do better than these boys had done. Dillard Gardner’s presentation of his ideas was clear and convincing. He reminded his hearers that Reidsville High school athletics were among the best of many in the State, in spite of the fact that they were sadly lacking in proper space for outdoor and indoor games. He also spoke of the need of a library and of a band. John Womack represented the Boy Scouts of Reidsville, and earnestly pleased for assistance in securing a Scout Master. He stated that the Boy Scouts of Reidsville had had competent men for their leaders in the past several years, but that just now the Scouts had no one who could devote sufficient time to this important work.
The presence of these boys and their talks on the subjects that mean so much to them in their preparation for useful citizenship were helpful to the members of the Rotary Club in more ways than one.
From the front page of The Reidsville Review, Tuesday, Nov. 7, 1922
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