The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1911-12-21
DILLON BOY GOES HIGHER
Prof. w. ID. Carmichael, For Many
Years Superintendent of Durham
Schools, Goes With A. II. Co.

Schools, Goes With A. T. Co.
The following from Saturdays
Raleigh News and Observer will
be read with interest by many peo-
pie in Dillon county. Prof. Carmi-
chael is a son of Mrs. Agnes Car
michael and the late Capt w. D..
Carmichael. He was born and rear
ed at the old Carmichael home
about miles west of Dillon. but
has been connected with the Dur
ham public schools ever since his
graduation about Is years ago:
Durham, Dec. s. -. The resigna-
tion of superintendent William Don
aid Carmichael, head of the city
schools OF this place, will be tender
morning. 1t will be an item of
startling news, perhaps less than
ten people having any knowledge of
II to-day.
Heading a system, admittedly one
OF the finest in North Carolina,
and having a hold upon the affec-
tions OF the people reached by few
VINO have ever lived and worked
here, the resignation of Mr.. Carmi-
chael will have the most profound
ly sorrowful effect here. 1t is an
Item put down in the broad and
generous term, sensational" but
the step leading to it is the natur-
al one. the standing invitation of
other fields to take the artists of
the schools where one doesn't have
to beg bread.
Mr.. Carmichael has indicated the
date OF his new service as January,
when he goes with the Liggett n
Myers Company, one of the four
teen companies created out of the
recent disintegration of the Ameri-
can Tobacco Co. AS is known here,
this company will own the old w.
Duke & Sons factory with chief
offices in Durham and st. Louis.
This branch of business is to in
crease the business of the old Duke
factory and the stemmery of that
business in Richmond, along with
the wrapper department of Danville,
Will be moved here. 1t is big
concern, and over it is Vice-Presi.
dent Clinton w. Toms, who has
been many years general manager
of the entire business in Durna.
and is considered the greatest sin
gle find the American Tobacco
Company has ever made.
In attaching Mr.. Carmichael. the
company adds another school geni-
us to its working force. Fifteen
years ago Mr.. Toms, then superin-
tcndent of the city schools, first
employed Mr.. Carmichael fresh from
the University, where he gradual
ed in the class of 1897. He has
taught here since, being in the
city schools. The American To-
bacco Company called Mr.. Toms to
Its business. He worked upon it
until its management showed to
the entire country that he was a
genius, a diplomat, and a scholar,
No one man has done quite so
much for it as Mr.. Carmichael
He is the recognized hard worker of
the city and without exceptional
promise in college, he is ac-
knowledged master of those who
have gone into the same class of
school work as he has done. In the
current issue of the Worlds Work,
under the significant title, 1.-The
South Realizing Itself" Dr.. Ed
win Minis pays a handsome tribute
to the Durham schools and their
head.
His duties in the Liggett & My
ers Company have not been de-
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statement in day or two that will
tell more amout 1t. The call to
this work includes fine salary,
which at this age OF life a man
of Mr.. Carmichael's calibre could
not well pass up. 1t has always
been a credit to the tobacco bust
ness that 1t knows art and chooses
men as its lieutenants who are In
a great measure responsible for the
success of those higher up.
Mr.. Carmichael Is yet on the
safe side of forty, the sunny street
Of that age; married Miss Margar-
ct MacRobert, of Greensboro, and
has an intellectual wife known over
all North Carolina. His interest
ing family will not be lost to the
city. And there Is no concealment
of the fact that this alliance with
the tobacco business Is move
made in the interests OF his house
hold.
In speaking Of his resignation,
which Is to be ucted upon soon,
Mr.. Carmichael said: During the
past fifteen years l have given to
the Durham Public Schools the
best service of which 1 have been
capable, and l shall always have
deep interest in the Durham
schools, and in the cause of edu-
cation. / love my city and State
too much to give up educational
work, If did not believe my new
position gives me an opportunity
for real service for both OF them"