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February, 1949 SS: || II I lliii ill 1 IH ills Picture Courtesy Savannah Morning News 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. Page Three 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.