Thursday, September 17, 2026

19 High School Grads Off to College, Sept. 17, 1926

Good Percentage Off to College. . . 19 of 28 Graduates of High School Here Last Spring Are Entering Higher Institutions of Learning

Nineteen of the 28 members of the class that graduated from the high school here last spring will pursue their studies in the schools and colleges of North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia. This class had the distinction of being evenly divided, having 14 boys and 14 girls. In the matter of entering college, the boys are ahead, there being nine girls and 10 boys who have either already gone or will enter colleges at an early date.

Those in this list are as follows:

Delia Ellington, Anderson College, Anderson, S.C.

Clara Fitzgerald, Lela Talton and Dorothy Lee, East Carolina Teachers College, Greenville

Nell Grantham and Ellen Patterson, Salem College, Winston-Salem

Louise Parrish, N. C. C. W. , Greensboro

Virginia Williams, Randolph-Macon College, Lynchburg, Va.

Mary Gattis Holland, Theron Johnston and William Lassiter, Duke University

Clifton Franks, Joe Honeycutt, Ralph Talton, State College, Raleigh

Arthur Gardner and Levon Jones, State University, Chapel Hill

Irving Gillette, Oak Ridge Institute, Oak Ridge

Herman Lawrence, Woodbury Forest, Va.

Raeford Hamilton, King’s Business College, Raleigh

From the front page of the Smithfield Herald, Friday morning, September 17, 1926

newspapers.digitalnc.org/lccn/sn92073982/1926-09-17/ed-1/seq-1/

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