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SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENT
A school superintendent’s duties range from the simple
choie of signing checks to the complex task of figuring out a
$1 million-a-year school budget.
On a typical day, he may go through the mail and dictate
replies where necessary; confer with callers who may include
teachers, parents, salesmen, or other persons: answer the phone
a dozen or more times; visit at least one school; check a bus
route; confer with maintenance officials about a repair job;
and puzzle over a knotty school financial problem.
School business is big business these days and the school
superintendent must not only have certain educational require
ments, but he must also be a good businessman. Finance is a
big part of his job.
Although his job is “running the schools,” he does not
make policy and he has no vote. Policy is made by the board
of education, which is, in the final analysis, his “boss”.
The superintendent must not only work closely with the
local board of education, but he must also work closely with
state education officials.
Since so much of the money expended on schools comes
from the state level ($825,600 for the coming year in Chattooga),
the local system is obligated to listen to the state and, in many
cases, to follow its advice.
The superintendent is usually the go-between for the state
and the local school board. It is he who usually makes the trips
to Atlanta to check on various matters. It is he who must deal
directly with the area supervisor for the State Department of
Education. It is he who must keep an ear attuned to the state.
For instance, the Chattooga system has during the past
two years received close to a half million dollars by keeping
an ear "attuned” to the state and the money it makes available
to systems. The sum includes the $327,000 grant made available
for the new high school; $84,000 for renovating the heating
system at Summerville Elementary; $32,000 for making struc
tural and roofing repairs to several schools; and $6,000 for
renovating the plumbing system at the Chattooga High School
Cafeteria. The latter three sums were available because the
buildings involved had been faultily erected under the State
School Building Authority some years ago. Some school sys
tems financed the needed repairs themselves but systems which
applied for and met the specifications obtained the state money
as Chattooga did.
Once the board of education has decided on a policy, it is
up to the superintendent to work out the details and carry it
out. For instance, when the decision was made to erect a new
high school, the superintendent had to do the paper wqj-k and
make the necessary arrangements.
The school superintendent doesn’t do the formal hiring of
personnel but he must interview them. The principal and sup
erintendent recommend and the school board does the hiring.
This series will continue each week between now and Sep
tember 9. Earlier articles discussed the tax collector, tax re
ceiver and clerk of court. Next week, the board of education
will be discussed.
Another duty of the school superintendent is to supervise
the various assistants such as the visiting teacher, curriculum
director, school lunchroom supervisor, maintenance director,
etc. He is directly responsible for each of these programs.
Administering the transportation (school bust program is
a big part of the superintendent’s job. He must see that the
buses are kept in good operating condition, that safe drivers
are employed and that the buses are safe.
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The superintendent is expected to take the lead In chang
ing or improving the curriculum. For instance, the addition of
the Diversified Cooperative Training program which was added
to Chattooga High School three years ago.
Because he sees the schools and their personnel so much
more often that does the school board, he is expected to keep
the board informed about needs. For instance, roofing needs
at the various schools were brought out sometime ago and a
contract was let recently to correct the problem.
The school superintendent also is expected to carry out a
program of public relations and publicity for the schools. He
does this by working with such groups as the Parent-Teacher
Assn, and by informing the press and radio of school activities.
He must prepare the budget, write board meeting minutes,
supervise the bookeeping, and prepare financial records for the
board. One such record is a monthly tabulation of the finan
cial standings of each school.
Complaints are also in the bailiwick of the school superin
tendent. Patrons often bring their problems to him and prin
cipals confer with him about matters which they do not know
how to handle.
The school superintendent also is expected to be a man of
integrity. The policy booklet issued in 1962 by the Chattooga
Board of Education says the superintendent is expected to “han
dle confidential information in a responsible way".
The school superintendent has the highest educational re
quirements oi any elective office in the county. Under a 1963
law. all persons going into this office must have at least a mas
ter’s degree (five years of college*.
The superintendent receives pay from both the local and state
levels. The state salary he receives depends on his college
background and experience, the starting figure being $5,539.20.
Like principals and coaches, he receives a local supplement
which, in Chattooga County is a flat $3,300 regardless of the
amount of education and experience. (The local supplement
given coaches is paid out of gate receipts and not out of the
regular school budget.)
To sum up, in the words of the policy booklet of the Chat
tooga board, the superintendent is “the executive officer” of
the board.
“He shall act under the advice and direction of the board
and shall serve as secretary of the board," says the booklet.
“He shall attend all meetings and take part in the delibera
tions but shall not be allowed to vote on any question. He shall
have general supervision over the schools and the employes.”
Tom Hogg
Tom Hogg, guidance counselor at Trion High School, is a
candidate for Chattooga school superintendent.
The 39-year-old candidate is a native of Chattooga County
and graduated from Lyerly High School in 1943. He served in
the U. S. Army from 1943 until 1945 after which he entered
Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College. Following graduation
in 1947, he entered the University of Georgia and in 1949 re
ceived a bachelor of science degree in agriculture.
Mr. Hogg began teaching in the veterans program in 1949
and continued in that capacity until 1951 when he became
coach and assistant principal at Lyerly High School. He served
as principal of Welmyer School for three years and for the past
seven years has been employed by the Trion school system as
a teacher, visiting teacher and currently as guidance counselor.
in 1957, Mr. Hogg received a master of arts degree from the
George Peabody College in Nashville, Tenn.
He is a member of the Trion Education Assn., Georgia Edu
cation Assn., National Education Assn., Georgia Assn, of School
Counselors, the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Menlo Church of
Christ and has served as district chairman of the Visiting
Teachers Assn, of Georgia.
Mr. Hogg is married to the former Miss Joyce Hamby and
they have one son, Mark, age 2. The Hoggs reside on Sum
merville Route 2.
Here is Mr. Hogg’s platform:
I will publish and make available the county school budget
and the complete cost of the operation of each school in the
county.
I will operate the office in an efficient manner and will
exercise conservative judgement over the fiscal affairs and
policies.
I will initiate a policy whereby all athletic expenses and
game receipts from athletic contests are published and made
public.
All local supplements to teachers will be made public.
The minutes of the Board of Education will be published
after each meeting whereby the public may be clearly informed
of their acts and doings.
I will visit all of the schools in the county for the purpose
of assisting the various principals and teachers and also in
order to insure that they have the necessary materials to carry
out an adequate educational program for the children.
I will personally supervise the operation of the school buses
in order to insure that the children are being transported to
and from school in a safe and comfortable manner and in order
to assist the school bus drivers with their various problems.
I will conduct the affairs of my office in a sensible and
businesslike manner and I will at all times be available to the
public for discussions with them of the progress of my admini
stration.
James H. Spence
James H. Spence, who is completing his first term as Chat
tooga school superintendent, is seeking re-election.
The 37-year-old educator is a native of Chambers County
Ala. and has lived in Chattooga County since 1951. He graduated
from Five Points (Ala.) High School and served in the U. S.
Army, seeing duty with the Army of Occupation in Japan.
Spence then enrolled in Auburn (Ala.) University and in
1951 received his bachelor’s degree in agricultural education.
After teaching briefly in Newnan, he joined the Summerville
High School faculty in 1951. Spence worked with the Ralston-
Pur* ll3 Company for a year and returned to Auburn where he
received his master’s degree in 1955. He taught at Lyerly High
School for three years and at Trion High School for two and
one-half years before being elected to his present position in
1960.
By attending summer school at the University of Georgia
and Alabama College, he has earned his six-year certificate.
Mr. Spence is a member of the Summerville Mpthodlst
Church where he is Church School superintendent, chairman of
the official board and a member of the Men’s Club. He is a
member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Summerville-Trion
Rotary Club, Masons, Georgia Assn, of School Superintendents,
Georgia Education Assn., National Education Assn, and Chat
tooga Education Assn.
The school superintendent is married to the former Miss
Rethia Camp and they have two children, Janice 8 and Bill 6.
The Spences live on the Lyerly Road, Summerville Route 1.
Mr. Spence says: “If re-elected, I promise to do the best I
can to see that the job is run efficiently and I will always work
in the best interests of the students.”
Scouts To
Return From
Jamboree
The Jamboree contingent of
61 boys and leaders from the
North-West Georgia Council of
the Boy Scouts of America will
arrive by train in Atlanta early
Saturday morning after spend
ing 10 days at the National
Scouting encampment at Valley
Forge, Pa.
Nine Chattooga boys are in
cluded. They are: Buzz Cook,
Arch Farrar Jr., Jon Payne,
James Bagley, David Pesterfield,
Richard Lindsay, James Marks,
Ken Kinsey and Rodney Thomas.
The local Scouts and Ex
plorers were part of the more
than 50,000 boys and leaders
who camped together at Valley
Forge on a 1.900-acre site. For
the 10 days, the boys lived in
tents and cooked their own
meals.
The entire Jamboree group
ate 400,000 eggs, 600,000 quarts
of milk, 181,000 hamburgers,
85,000 donuts, 10,000 pies, and 33
miles pf hot dogs.
The Jamboree received the
salutes of many prominent
Americans.
Congressman John W. Davis,
Seventh District of Georgia,
telegrammed the group:
“Congratulations and best
wishes to the Boy Scouts of
America on this very special
occasion. Speaking from per
sonal experience and from many
years of first hand observation
I can say that the entire nation
owes to Scouting a tremendous
debt of gratitude for its vital
role in the upbuilding of char
acter, good habits and loyal
citizenship in the youth of
America. May still greater suc
cess crown your effort in the
years to come.”
WEEK-END SERIES
The Rev. Dewey Youngblood
will lead a revival this week-end
at Christian Fellowship Center.
Services will be at 7:30 p. m.
tonight through Saturday.
Talmadge Praised for
Advice On Obeying Law
U. S. Sen. Herman E. Tal
madge, one of the most vigorous
and outspoken opponents of the
civil rights bill throughout the
congressional debate, fought with
all his might to bring about its
defeat in the Senate. But once
the bill was passed and signed
into law, the senator told his
fellow Georgians that he “can
not advise anyone to violate the
law.”
Now he is being praised in
many quarters throughout the
state for this sage advice. Typ
ical of this reaction was seen in
a recent Augusta Chronicle ed
itorial, entitled. “Talmadge’s
Sound Advice,” which said:
"The high degree of civic re
sponsibility shown by Georgia's
U. S. Sen. Herman Talmadge in
advising residents of this state
to respect law, and to refrain
from violating even those sta
tutes of which they disapprove,
is typical of the superior type of
leadership with which Georgia
people generally are favored.
“Sen. Talmadge referred spe
cifically to the so-called civil
'rights’ law, which he had op
posed consistently and vigor
ously in the Congress, and which
could have been no more palata
ble to him than it was to a large
percentage of his constituency.
“Many thought, and still
think, that the law is evil in its
conception and in its effects—
not because it might advance
the legal status of Negroes, who
have always had more sincere
friends in this region than in the
North, but because it sets up
possibly unconstitutional and
certainly antidemocratic central
federal power to destroy one set
of rights while purporting to as
sert others.
“Sen. Talmadge has not been
fighting a race battle. The real
racists are those who have spent
the past several years trying to
incite one race against the
other, and they include not only
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The National War College
in Washington, D. C. has an
nounced that Commander F. H.
Boney, U. S. Naval Reserve, a
resident of Summerville, partici
pated in the Defense Strategy
Seminar for 1964 July 5-18.
Defense Strategy Seminars are
conducted for two weeks each
summer at The National War
College under the direction of
the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Ap
proximately 230 selected Reserve
Component Officers of all the
military services attended this
year’s seminar, the purpose of
which was to develop a fuller ap
preciation of the various aspects
of national security.
In view of the purpose and
nature of the seminar and the
very limited quotas provided
each of the armed services, se
lection for attendance is con
sidered a distinct honor, it was
stated.
Suits Completes
Course in Germany
Specialist Four James P. Sults,
son of Mrs. Addie J. Tapp, 117
Seventh Street, Summerville,
completed a four-week wheeled
vehicle maintenance course at
the U. S. Army School, Europe,
in Murnau, Germany, July 10.
During the course Specialist
Suits received instruction in
maintenance procedures related
to engines, power trains, chassis
units, and fuel and electric sys
tems.
Suits, an ambulance driver in
the 565th Medical Company near
Baumholder, entered the Army
in 1958 and arrived overseas in
September 1962.
The 22-year-old soldier at
tended Dalton High School.
His father, Herman D. Suits,
lives at 17 Union Street, Sum
merville.
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the Ku Klux type but also hypo
critical do-gooder agitators. The
senator, along with others, has
been engaged, instead, in a his
toric battle to preserve demo
cracy. local and state self-gov
ernment, rule of law, and safe
guards of the Constitution
against the old and ever-persist
ing pressures of centralized au
tocracy.
"Utterly vital to his concept of
government, as it was to that of
Jefferson, Madison, Washington,
Franklin and other Founding
Fathers, is compliance with law
as promulgated by our repre
sentatives, while at the same
time proceeding by strictly legal
means to work for change in any
laws we find to be unwise. This
fundamental concept of dtizen
ship is completely opposed to
that anarchistic theory which
tells every man to obey only
those laws he wishes to obey.
“Sen. Talmadge said to tire
people of Georgia, ‘I cannot ad
vise anyone to violate the law.’
That was his position with re-
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GARNETT'S
The Summerville News. Thursday, July 23. 1964 4r
gard to racist demonstrations
and racist reaction to them, and
it is his position with regard to
reactions to the effects of the
civil ‘rights' statute.
“For him to advise anyone to
violate an unwise law now would
be to forsake past high princi
ples, and to adopt the philosophy
of anarchy preached and prac
ticed by those who succeed in
foisting this punitive legislation
on the nation.
“Instead, he has advocated a
Consistent attitude of responsi
bility, which is the best founda
tion from which to work for
those changes which will return
us to a democratic and free-en
terprise enviorment.”
TO THE PEOPLE OF
CHATTOOGA COUNTY
I AM A CANDIDATE FOR
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MRS. VERNON
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EMORY HOSPITAL
Mrs. Walt Vernon, of Summer
ville, has returned home after
undergoing open heart surgery
three weeks ago in Atlanta.
She is at the home of her par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. Gene Gravely
in Lyerly, and is reported in
satisfactory condition although
she can see few visitors.
Mrs, Vernon came home Fri
day and was considerably tired
by the trip, members of the fam
ily said. In addition, she suffered
a chest infection during the
week-end but is now recovering
from that complication.
A plastic valve was placed in
Mrs. Vernon’s heart. She had
suffered a heart illness since
having rheumatic fever as a
i child.
Surgery was performed at
। Emory Hospital in Atlanta.
Patience is the best remedy
: for every trouble.
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