The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1959-08-11
Norfolk County
Finals Speaker
LOngwood Awards
% Bachelor, 9
Master Degrees


Chittum. superintendent Of Norfolk
county schools. at the LongWood
College summer graduation pro
gram
The % bachelor and II master de-
gree recipients heard Chittum state
that 1.-THE only sure foundation for
our political and economic stability
is adequate education. He said
that today's major education prob
lens Of money. teacher shortage.
and curriculum must be solved if
the schools are to fulfill their des-
tiny. He added
The most fundamental shortage
in public education in America to-
day is the money shortage. Unless
we are willing to take look at this
problem and achieve major break
through in our attitudes and pro
cedures in school finance. this sltua-
ton promises to become rapidly
even more critical. Education, like
national defense, is going to cost
to meet our needs
Graduates Named
Dr.. F. L. Landlord. Jr. Long
wood president, awarded the de-
grees with honorS,'' Sally Jean
There were IA receiving the BIS IN
elementary education. four the BIS
and two the BA in secondary edu-
cation, five a BIS in business edu-
cation. and three the bachelor OF
arts degree.
Two of the graduates received de-
gress with honors Sally Jean
Harvey, of Arlington and Essie
Jaunita Anderson Yates. of Crewe.
Nine graduate degrees were
awarded, four being master Of arts
in education and five. master Of
science in education
Among the bachelor degree
graduates in the Herald area We're
Marie Thomas Anderson. Of New
Canton. Sarah Louise Ponton. of
Ontario. Paul Robert Gillian. Of
Burkeville. Frances Cartwright
Moore. of Keysville. Alice Watkins
SOmmers, of Blackstone. Iva Log
ing White. of Fork Union. and Doris
Clapp Bean, of Evergreen.
Tie With Earnings
In citing a survey conducted by
the United States Chamber Of Com
merce in 1914 and again in 1854 Chit
tum said ''of men earning $4,000 or
more, 80 per cent had completed
high school or college while the men
earning S. 900 or less. II per cent
had not completed the eighth grade.
Fifty seven per cent of the
farms producing $4,000 or more per
year were operated by high school
or college graduates while "a per
cent Of the farms producing less
than 81 200 annually were operated
by men who had not completed the
eighth grade
Cities in which the average
adult educational level was II or y
years purchased an average of 20
per cent more per person in retail
goods annually than the citizens did
in which the educational level was
from eight to nine years. Fifty-two
per cent of the college graduates
we're politically active compared to
only is per cent of the high school
graduates.
.Our prosperity and future as a
nation depend on the support Of edu-
cation Chittum stated.
Teachers, Curriculum
The teacher shortage needs no
documentatio Through good times
and bad for more than a generation
we have faced a shortage Of we'll
qualified quately prepared
teachers We cannot hope to solve
it by emergency crash programs
or any easy panacea The continu-
ing teacher shortage is evidence
that society simply does not value
teaching as highly as free so
ciety must. if it is to endure" the
visiting schooman said.
The most valid criticism of secon-
Diary education today is that it fol
lows the traditional disciplines
Chittum said Much delinquency
now results from trying to force
young people with limited academic
competence into intellectual discip-
lines which they cannot successfully
pursue.
The proper answer to the prob
lem Of an appropriate secondary
education for the average and be-
low-average student must be faced
resolutely and quickly 1t is nc
answer to glibly say that if they
can't do the work they must be
dropped. jefferson emphasized
that a free society cannot be per
petuated by few educated leaders
leaving the masses in ignorance. >
All children today will be citizens
tomorrow and public authority will
be in their hands. We can afford to
neglect none of them"
Americas unique contribution to
the world will be neither automa
ton. nor mass production but
a society of free and equal mer
through education. If we succeed
this will be our unique contribution
to human history" Chittum con
cluded.
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