1942 - Lane Memorial Library

limited. At least one or ;wo musical events should be allotted
each year on the regular school calendar.
The work in Art is continually on exhibit in the school.
For the public, there have been two fine displays of the
pupils' art work at the school office in the Lane Block.
The large numbers of people coming to see this exhibit
bespeak the wide-spread interest in school work.
HAMPTON ACADEMY AND HIGH SCHOOL
Hampton is justly proud of its new high school building.
It is commended by state school officials and by
school architects. Its plan has furnished the basal groundwork
for other school building committees. With the introduction
of the Mechanic Arts Course the entire building
is now in use. With the introduction of this work
Hampton is abreast of the demands of wooden education.
Our school is serving nearly 100% of its pupils—those
with manual skills as well as those with purely book skills.
We were fortunate in securing the machines necessary
for our course before they became unobtainable. The first
year of the planned four-year course will be satisfactorily
completed next June. Forty boys are enrolled in it. Tliey
are being trained for a w^orld in which manual skill
be in increasing demand.
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Mr. Parker is teaching a night class in Elementary
Electricity under the Out-of-School Youth Organization
of the National Government. Twelve and fourteen boys
attend this class regularly fifteen hours a week through a
total of one hundred and twenty hours. This is one of the
Schools' contributions toward national defense and the
training of defense workers. I hope that Hampton may
continue this service either under the O.S.Y. sponsorship
or as a part of its own program. Other courses to be given
during out-of-school hours to out-of-school people will
surely follow the present electricity course. There will be
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