Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-10-03

Hodges, S. c., a newcomer in York
Vile. Miss Seawright is a graduate o.
the Due West Woman's College ant
has been teaching for six years.
Approaching the room of the fourth
and fifth grade "over flow" we NEE
Miss Irene Grier of Columbia, wht
likewise Is entering upon her frs
years work here Miss Grier is 6
graduate of Lander College in Green
wood, and has been teaching for sever
years.
Over in the sixth grade we meet
Miss Kathleen MCGEE of Anderson, S
C. This is Miss McGee's second year
as teacher and we learn also that she
is graduate of Lander College al
Greenwood, that she has a big class
here and that she likes the work fine
and that the pupils like her.
We find Mrs. Agnes Hunter Lawton
in charge of the fifth grade proper
Mrs. Lawton is a native Of Yorkville
She is a graduate of Winthrop College
and we learn that she taught here last
year.
Directing the work of the seventh
grade is Miss Wilmore Logan Of York
vile. Miss Logan is graduate of
Chicora College and has had much /eX-
perience in the teaching profession
She has been teaching several years in
the local school.
The High School.
Our tour of the primary and
grammar school grades having been
completed. we enter the high school
department. There is Miss Mary Will
liams, native of Yorkville, who has
been teaching here three years. She
is q graduate of Winthrop College
and we learn that the special branches
she teaches in Yorkville are history
and English.
There is Miss Louise Oates, graduate
of Winthrop who teaches high school
pupils Latin-nothing but Latin. Miss
Oates has had several years expert
ence as a teacher.
There is Mrs. F. Erwin Moore of
Yorkville who teaches high school
English Miss Nora" her pupils call
her, and it is learned that she has
been teaching in the public schools for
fifteen years or more.
We meet Tatum w. Gressette of st.
Matthews, who Joined the faculty last
week. He teaches science and is school
director of athletics. The big boys and
the little boys call him Coach" al
ready and he is very popular with
those pupils of athletic bent and incli-
nation especially, despite the fact that
he has only been identified with the
school less than a week. The school
is confidently looking to Coach" to
lead them to. victory in various kinds
of athletic meets.
Miss Mary o. Blackwell of Laurens
is also n newcomer in Yorkville. Miss
Blackwell specializes in French. This
is her first year as a teacher. She is
a graduate Of Winthrop.
Mrs. E. A. Montgomery, wife Of the
school superintendent, is director of
music in the school and she has as her
pupils a number Of boys and girls who
show considerable musical talent. This
is Mrs. Montgomery's third year as
music teacher
We meet the school principal Mr..
George C. McCelvey-"Mr. Mack" as
the boys and girls call him. He is a
graduate Of the Citadel and has been
teaching in Yorkville for several years.
Very popular with the students is "Mr.
Mack" and one who is at all times
interested in every movement having
as it's object the growth and progress
Of the school.
The Director.
Then we drop in on the general di-
rector or superintendent, Prof. e. A.
Montgomery, graduate of Wofford in
the class of 1902. He is entering upon
his third year as superintendent Of the
schools. 1t is largely due to his un-
firing activity and earnestness for the
promotion Of local school welfare that
the new school building long so sorely