Faculty for the 485 Students in Chapel Hill Elementary to High Schools, Sept. 11, 1925

The School Opens. . . E.W. Knight Makes Address; 485 Children Are Enrolled

The Chapel Hill school held its opening exercises Monday morning, and exercises were followed by registration.

Four hundred and eight-five pupils were enrolled: 217 in the elementary school; 91 in the junior high school; and 177 in the high school.

The teachers are:

In the elementary school:

Miss Lettie Glass, 1st grade;

Miss Anne Graham, 1st grade;

Miss Sallie Pleasants, 2nd grade;

Mrs. W.D. Glenn, 3rd grade;

Miss Helen Shell, 4th grade;

Miss Olive McKinnon, 5th grade;

In the junior high school:

Miss Harriet Bowen, Miss Ola Andrews, Mrs. Janie Gwynn.

In the high school:

Miss Nellie Graves, principal and teacher of English;

Miss Ona Whitley, science;

Miss Minnie Atkinson, physical education;

Miss Clio Mitchell, French;

Mrs. William Olsen, English;

Miss Rebecca Markham, home economics;

R.P. Harris, agriculture;

G.H. Singleton, agriculture;

W.H. Abernathy, physical education and athletics;

Miss Buford Aiken, public school music;

Mrs. J.M. Williams, piano;

Mrs. J.T. Lawson, Latin;

E.L. Key, mathematics.

At the opening exercises, which were attended by a large crowd of relatives and friends of the school children, the principal address was delivered by E.W. Knight, member of the faculty of the University’s school of education. Speaking of education in North Carolina, he said that despite the progress made in recent years, there were still 100,000 illiterate people in the state and it was the duty of every man, woman, and child to help remove this burden of ignorance.

From page 4 of The Chapel Hill Weekly, Friday, Sept. 11, 1925

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