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CLAUDE B. CORKY APPOINTED
SUPERINTENDENT OF BETH ESI) \
Claude B. Corry, who was with the
Bethesda Home for seven and one-half
years during the time Ole W. Bur¬
roughs served as superintendent, was
unanimously named to the position of
superintendent by the hoard of managers
of the Union Society.
The Board also named the Rev.
Thomas J. White, pastor of the White
Bluff Presbyterian Church, to a part
time post with Bethesda. Mr. White will
assist Mr. Corry in working with the
boys and will lie in charge of young¬
sters in the fourth, fifth and sixth
grades. Mr. Corry succeeds Max rnv
ingston who resigned as superintendent
in September 1948. Mr. Burroughs, who
retired several years ago returned to
fill the duties of superintendent during
the time between Mr. Livingston’s leav¬
ing and Mr. Corry’s taking over the
job.
Mr. Corry is 33 .\ears of age, married
and attended Berry Schools at Rome
where he graduated with a degree in
industrial arts, January 1, 1938. He also
majored in social work during his col¬
lege career.
Mr. Corry was connected with the
Rentz Heating and Service Company
after leaving Bethesda and before tak¬
ing over as superintendent. During his
more than seven years at Bethesda he
had charge of the outdoor activities of
the boys. Mrs. Corry is a native Geor¬
gian having attended the Georgia Teach¬
ers College near Statesboro and is an
accomplished musician, and had pre¬
viously assisted in organizing a glee
club at Bethesda.
Mr. White is himself an alumnus of
Bethesda having entered when he was
six years of age and remaining until
he concluded his high school career. He
then entered the University of Georgia
agricultural college and the Columbia
Theological Seminary at Decatur. He is
a national Committeeman of the Ameri¬
can Business Club and is chaplain for
the same club and also for the Be¬
thesda Alumni.
Mr. White will not give up his min¬
isterial duties at the White Bluff Church
and his appointment as a member of the
staff a “very valuable acquistion.” His
wife, Louise will also be a valuable
addition being a graduate nurse.
BETHESDA NEWS
HOME NOTES
Having rung out the Old Year and
rung in the New, we look forward with
anticipation to the realization of our
New Year’s resolutions and plans. Since
our advent at Bethesda in the middle
October, there has been a succession of
events, each one so important in itself
that we have hardly recovered from one
before it was time to commence prepa¬
rations for the next. Consequently, we
have found ourselves too many times
saying of the smaller, commonplace
tasks that require attention, “We’ll see
to that right after Christmas.” So now
the big exciting events—the Annual
Alumni Thanksgiving Banquet, the
Wilson-White wedding, and the Christ¬
mas Season with all its meaning and
festivities—are behind us and the New
Year ahead, filled wtih hope and prom¬
ise.
By the time this appears in print it
is possible that the tall, white-trunked
sycamores which have stood like senti¬
nels on guard over the Big House these
many years, may be just a memory of
the past. It is the plan to remove the
trees and landscape the front of the
main building.
Since the last edition of the News we
have received into the Home two new
boys—Charles Wright, age G, from the
Children’s Home, and Marvin Carter, 7,
who came to us from Moore Avenue
School in Savannah. Our faculty has
been increased by two Mrs. Louise
Wilson White, registered nurse, and Mr.
William E. Bennett, who is returning
to assist in the dairy.
Work on the Cohen Cottage is nearing
completion, so much so that we have
hopes of moving in perhaps by the time
this goes to press. The heating system
in the Cottage is causing some of the
older members of the Bethesda family
to be heard remarking that they would
like to be G instead of 1G—and up!
Mr. Keller and his farm committee
had the good idea of planting the field
in back of the new cottage in pecan
trees. A long-time friend of the Home
started the ball rolling with a gift of
twelve Stewart pecan trees, and with the
purchase of an additional one hundred
trees, already planted, we can look for¬
ward to a good harvest in a few years.
Report cards of the town school boys
were somewhat better the second six
weeks than they were the first six
weeks period, but there is still room for
improvement. It is to be hoped that the
coaching the boys are receiving in study
hall plus the added seriousness with
which some of them are approaching
their homework, will reap rewards. We
would like to see the number of our boys
excelling in their studies proportionate
to the excelling in sports.
Our thanks go to the old boys, the
members of the Board of Managers and
the Women’s Advisory Board, and the
many other friends who remembered
the Home at Christmas and helped to
make it a Merry Christmas for all the
boys.
Respectfully Submitted,
C. B, Corry,
Superintendent.
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SPORTS
Continued from Page 2
Members of the club that have played
with the team so far this season are
Bobby Ross, Bill Sessions, Marion John¬
son, Jimmy Johnson, Swain Potter, Billy
Aid, Mike Edmondson, Wade Lynch,
Lonnie Carter, Bill Kitchens, John Dean,
Eugene Collins, Richard Crews, John
Hamm, Drexel Kicklighter, Ervin Lump¬
kin, Luke Sims ,and Harry Thomas.
SOFTBALL
This popular sport will begin in the
very near future, in fact some teams
are already practicing. Our sports com¬
mittee of Sessions, Ross and Dean are
planning to field two teams again this
season. They will probably call prac¬
tices soon and all members that desire
to play are asked to turn their names
in to this committee.
This committe also requests that all
players with softball jerseys to have
same cleaned and ready for play. Those
that played last season and do not
expect to play this year are asked to
check their jerseys in to the commit¬
tee.
TRACK
Twenty-seven runners, representing
Savannah High School, Benedictine Mili¬
tary School, and Commercial High
School held a cross country race on
Armistice Day, November 11. Commer¬
cial Cobras, paced by Ernest Bevill, who
turned the two and two-tenths mile
course in thirty minutes and thirty-two
seconds to finish first, captured the
Savannah Morning News-Evening Press
trophy.
Two boys from Bethesda, were on the
Commercial High winning team. Billy
Gill and W. J. Ellis.
THANKSGIVING DINNER
The Thanksgiving dinner given by
Mr, R. T. Carlyle at Bethesda on Tuesday
night November 23, 1948, was a delight¬
ful affair. Mr. Carlyle has given this
dinner annually for the past ten years.
The dinner was held in the lovely din¬
ing hall with 150 in attendance includ¬
ing boys at Bethesda. the faculty, alumni
and their families.
The highlight of the affair was the
awarding of sports prizes for the past
year in the amount of $17.50, these
prizes given by the alumni.
Carlos Mobley, captain of the Be¬
thesda 13 year old football team was
awarded the first prize of $5.00. James
Wiggins, alternate captain captured sec¬
ond prize of $4.00. Third prize of $3.00
went to Bobby Morris and fourth prize of
$2.00 was won by Charles Evans. There
was a tie for fifth place with Ralph
Sanford and Billy Lanier each taking
seventy-five cents. Honorable mention
and fifty cents went to William Ford,
Harold Thomas, Fred Alderman and Wil¬
liam Stokes.
Drexel J. Kicklighter, president of
the club was master of ceremonies,
Claude B. Corry, newly appointed sup¬
erintendent, spoke briefly to the gath¬
ering. Members of the faculty was in
troduoed.