Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1914-09-18
SCHOOL DAYS AGAIN
Graded Schools Open Monday with
Record Breaking Attendance

Few formalities were observed
at the opening, the attention
! of Supt. Akers and his faculty
being directed almost entirely to
the difficult problem of finding a
! place for the crowds of children,
arranging schedules of recita-
tions, etc.
Mondays enrolment was as
: signed to teachers as follows.
Miss Clara Hearne, first grade,
Graded School Building, 44pupils.
; Miss Ruth Davis, first grade,
Graded School Building, A pupils.
Miss Nina Gatlin, first grade,
at the old Rosemary Schoolhouse,
} 40 pupils.
Miss Katie Atkinson, first
grade, at the old Rosemary
Schoolhouse, 80 pupils.
Miss Josephine Tillery, second
grade, Graded School Building,
so pupils.
Miss Minnie Hopkins, second
grade, rooms over the Patterson
Store Building, 40 pupils.
Miss Sarah Waller, third grade,
Graded School Building, AZ pupils.
Miss Sue Watkins, third grade,
rooms over the Patterson Store
Building, 27 pupils.
Miss Bessie Aston, fourth
grade, Graded School Building,
20 pupils.
Miss Mabel Byrd, fourth grade,
Graded School Building, 80 pupils.
Miss Nita Boyce, fifth grade,
Graded School Building, "A pupils.
Miss Lucille Edwards, sixth
grade, Graded School Building,
81 pupils.
Miss Belle Graham, seventh
and eighth grades, Graded School
Building 28 pupils.
Miss Irma Boyce, ninth and
tenth grades, Graded School
Building, 9 pupils.
All the grades in the present
Graded School Building are being
taught from 9: A. NJ. to2::30P. NJ,
except the fourth. Miss Alston
teaches the Rosemary fourth
graders and a few from Roanoke
Rapids in the mornings, 900 to
1900, while Miss Byrd teaches
the fourth grade from Roanoke
Rapids from 1890 to $3.50 P. NJ.
In the old schoolhouse at Rose
mary, Miss Atkinson teaches in
the mornings and Miss Gatlin in
the afternoons, both fsrt grades.
These teachers will change about
mornings and afternoons each
week.
In the room over the Patter-
son Store Building, Miss Hopkins
teaches the second grade in the
mornings and Miss Watkins the
third grade in the afternoons.
If the gain in the number of
the pupils from the first day of
enrolment keep up with the re-
cord of previous years, the num-
ber of pupils to each teacher will
be increased nearly fifty per cent
before school closes.
The new school furniture was
shipped on the 18th of Septem-
ber. When this furniture arriv-
es all grades will be taught the
full school day except in the case
of the first grades at Rosemary,
which will have two sessions
throughout the year.
1t is interesting to note in con-
nection with the Gradeo School
enrolment in this community
that the first days enrolment at
the Weldon Graded Schools was
230 pupils. Ether the population
of Roanoke Rapids and Rosemary
is more than twice that of Wei
don or a higher percentage of
the children of this community
are entering school. 1t is more
probable that the first assump-
ton is the correct one.
Judging from the first weeks
attendance and the number of
pupils to each teacher, it would
appear that in spite of the most
heroic efforts of Supt. Akers
and his faculty, the best results
cannot be obtained in the schools
this season on account of their
terribly overcrowded condition
and lack of anything like ade-
quate school facilities.
Let US hope that everything
possible is being done to get the
work on the new school build
ings started.