In the school year 1929-1930 Salina Ballance, Lela Howard, and Virginia Howard were enrolled as seniors. Elsie Ballance and Lucille O'Neal were sophomores.
Salina Ballance is in the second row, second from the right; Lela Howard is in the third row, fourth from the right; and Virginia Howard is in the back row, third from the right.
Founded by the Board of Education of the Methodist Episcopal Church, the Institute opened its door to students on October 1, 1913.
All students paid $5.00 at the beginning of each semester. Day students paid an additional $6.00 per month, and boarding students paid $25.00 per month. An extra fee of $5.00 covered literary, athletic, and laboratory expenses.
The application process was simple:
The Great Depression had a serious impact on the Washington Collegiate Institute, from which it was unable to recover. The Institute closed its doors in the early 1930s, but by then Ocracoke School was offering higher secondary education.
Our latest Ocracoke Newsletter is an article about the Ocracoke Crab Festival which was held each May from 1984 to 1989. You can read it here: http://www.villagecraftsmen.com/news072114.htm.
Schools have evolved so much since then. Now there are hundreds of students in a senior class. Many need to ride the bus to get to the public school because of the neighborhood zoning. Instead of 25 students in a class an auditorium is filled with nearly 100 students for a lecture. But today the homeschooling movement is represented by all the contestants on the High school Jeopardy week or the National Geographic Geography bee and the Scripts Howard Spelling bee. I suppose because they have the time and some how work it in to get credit-- studying to take the test-- The winners it seems of late are the Home Schooled students . But I also believe one never stops learning, one needs to stay focused to remember , to internalize and apply what one is taught.
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