The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1916-09-22
GRENADA SCHOOLS
OPENED MONDAY.
Supt. Campbell Starts of Well; Sem
ator Blount Makes Fine Address;
Large Number Present; the
New Faculty.

The Grenada High School opened
Monday morning for the session of
1857. The recent changes and
repairs in the building made it look
almost new and present a very much
more modern and attractive appear
ance. The enlargement of the audi
torium adds perhaps more than any
of the changes in the building. The
friends and patrons of the school
were out in unusual numbers. At
ter singing America" the devotion
al exercises were conducted by DR.. l.
P. Trotter, pastor of the First Bap-
tist church. The president of the
board presented Prof. A. B. Camp
bell, the new superintendent. Mr.
Campbell has been in Grenada for
about three weeks and has already
won the admiration and the esteem
of the town. He was thoroughly at
home in what he said he was practi-
cal and evinced the very keenest per-
ception of the educational needs of
the present day. He especially en-
phasized the Importance of the school
of home science and of the depart
ment of manual training, the latter
for the first time being made a part
of the work of the school.
Mr.. Campbell, as is generally
known, comes to Grenada from Eu-
pora. He is a graduate of Millsaps
College and is regarded by those best
in position to know, as one of the
best and most progressive young
school men of the state.
State Senator J. A. Blount made
a speech of twenty minutes and it
would be difficult indeed to crowd
more good things into talk of that
length than Mr.. Blount did; it was
! just the talk to fit the occasion and
the need of the school an5 was very
| pei plCd W bhO ppto anu
of Grenada to use the opportunities
laid at their very doors. Among
other things Mr.. Blount said was that
he was glad to see 50 many present
at the opening, but that he hoped
that Mr. Campbell would not find it
here as at most other places, that is,
that he would see very little more
Of the great body of the audience un-
til commencement time next summer.
Mr.. Blount insisted that the people
owed it to themselves, to their chill
dren and to the faculty to visit the
school often.
County Superintendent Mckibben
made few brief remarks particu-
larly stressing that the teachers and
the faculty needed the sympathy and
the cooperation of the entire town,
and that it was impossible for the
teachers to give the best service of
which they are capable unless they
did have the cooperation and the
sympathy of the town.
After the close of the opening eX-
ercises, large number of patrons
came forward to meet the new mem
bers of the faculty which are as fol-
lows: A. B. Campbell, superintend-
ent. A. c. Hargis, Miss Augusta Ba-
ker. Miss Eva Lee, Miss Locke Tuck
er, and Miss Lawley. The other
members of the faculty are; Misses
Mary Moody. Margaret Thomas, Lu-
cile Cook. Stella Robertson, Media
McClesky. Lizzie Horn and Esther
Broadstreet.
The total enrolment up to date is
474, the largest in the history of the
school.
The colored school under A. H.
Henderson opened with over 200.
Henderson has had charge of the col
ored school so long that it has come
to be regarded as almost "Hender-
sons school," but he is meeting his
duties wisely and well and to the en-
tire satisfaction of the community,
especially his white friends.