Four Oaks Consolidated District Teachers, 1926-27 School Year

Corps Teachers for Four Oaks. . . New Six Room Addition Completed and Work Well Underway on Teacherage

Four Oaks, Sept. 15—The teachers for the schools of the new Four Oaks consolidated district have been selected. J. T. Hatcher, for the past two years at the head of the Four Oaks school, returns as superintendent of the enlarged district. The high school will have six teachers, as follows:

Principal, Miss Margaret Tabor, Gilkey, N.C., A. B. Duke University, Latin and English.

Lowney Olive, Godwin, A.B. Meredith College, French and Civics.

Lois Adair, Clinton, S.C., A.B. Winthrop College, Science.

Kenneth Coats, Smithfield, A.B. University of North Carolina, History and Economics.

Maude Creech, Denmark, S.C., A.B. Limestone College, Mathematics.

Miriam Brietz, Selma, A.B. Salem College, English.

In the different elementary shools are the following teachers:

Four Oaks

Seventh Grade: Mary Newman Jones, Asheland, Va.; Mrs. Leon Adams, Four Oaks; Vidah Wood, Four Oaks.

Sixth Grade: Mrs. J. T. Hatcher, Four Oaks; Ktherine Noel, Burgaw; Sarah Patterson, Smithfield.

Fifth Grade: Mrs. Reed Adams, Four Oaks; Ava Myatt, Smithfield.

Fourth Grade: Pearl Johnson, Benson; Gladys Felton, Hertford; Lissie Pearce, Princeton.

Third Grade: Maude Westbrook, Bentonville; Jessie Hines, Goldsboro.

Second Grade: Gladys Bane, South Boston, Va.; Florence Wooten, Maysville.

First Grade: Katherine Hanock, Scottsville, Va.

Piano: Pattie Wiliams Stedman

Royal School

Helen Laughinghouse, Grifton; Mildred Allen, Four Oaks; Jessie Wall, Pearl Brewer, Holly Springs.

Parker School

Maude Hayes, Four Oaks; Lola Johnson, Four Oaks.

Corinth School

Mrs. G.T. Baker, Smithfield.

The new six room addition to the school house at Four Oaks is now practically finished. New laboratory equipment has been purchased, new plumbing, including hot and cold showers for both boys and girls, is being installed and work is being rapidly pushed on the 18-room teacherage. This will be ready for the teachers some time in November. In every way the prospects are very bright for the best school year in the community.

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

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