Local Boy, A Freshman at Duke University, Wins Debater's Medal, May 28, 1926

Ivy [Ivey?] Wood Keeps Pace by Winning in Debate. . . Although a Freshman, He Wins Debater’s Medal at Duke University. Had Good Record Here in High School

In a telegram to his father Mr. E.H. Wood, a very gratifying bit of news was announced last week, that Mr. Ivey Wood, one of Troy’s most popular and promising young men and now a student at Duke University, of which he is a student medal awarded by one of the literary societies of that institution.

When the size and standard of the university of which he is a student is taken into consideration together with the fact that this contest is open to all classes in the University except the Senior, this victory that Mr. Wood has achieved is no small honor. Among the vast array of students gathered from very nearly every state of the Atlantic slope it would be a distinguished honor for a member of any class, wub when a Freshman goes over the top and outstrips the bunch in a game of this sort it is a matter to make all hands sit up and take notice, and to call for big headlines in the newspapers.

Mr. Wood is one of the recent graduates of Troy High School and is a youth of marked talent and brilliant promise. While here in high school he showed much talent in the art of debating having once represented the school at Carolina in the finals of the Triangular series. He has shown marked capabilities along other lines of mind power and efficiency for which Montgomery county and Troy in particular has just reason to be proud. A man of this type is always an honor to the place from which he comes, and a citizen of this quality is a valuable asset to any town or community of which he is a product and adds just a little more value to every man and woman as well as every other asset of that community.

Mr. Wood is a son of Mr. E.H. Wood, Register of Deeds of Montgomery count and the Herald wishes to extend its sincere congratulations to him and his family for the honor that has come to them, and to drop a prophetic hint that other and greater things are awaiting just ahead to make his name a familiar one to the press and the public.

One thing the Herald would like to say, and that’s to the school patrons all over the county. The Herald has heard that Ivey Wood has a record of having never missed a day from school for 11 years prior to this graduation from Troy. Maybe this doesn’t’ mean anything. But it’s a fact, and it won’t hurt is to think about it a little.

From the front page of The Montgomery Herald, Troy, N.C., Thursday, May 27, 1926

The newspaper spelled Wood’s first name as Ivy and Ivey. To see the photo of Ivey Wood that accompanied this article, go to:

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