/ $***£*" 1^**- ^fJ* 'T^The Thirtieth Anniversary
&<,_^ _ jj^_ (2*^Jr^J ^ Cfaerterinf of the Rutherford ton
My Follow ftiwanians and Friends)
I an west happy to join you In celebrating the thirtieth anniversary of thedChartering of the Rutherfe*dton Kiwanis Clnb. It it a
doable pleasure to meet here alto Members of the Forest City Clab. Yea
see, I was a charter member ef that elub, too.
This celebration affords we aa opportunity to cone back hone. I
shall always be glad I mas privileged te lit# here far ten and.a half years.
Those years were filled with youthful aspiration and eneray.
It affords mi aa opportunity ta renew friendships famed latif ego
and eherlshed through the years*
This joint meeting, and Kiwanis la cieneral. symbolize far mm the
Haiti ag af the thasa two corai unities, iare and mm my memories merge them
into one.
As I look ever the roster ef membership, I find wore of my school
boys than of original members, thus Is the past linked to the present and I
trast the present will be linked with the fatare. Boys, your fathers have
left to yea a rich heritage; I treat yea will make a worthy bequest to year
sons.
ftb.iofiUYti
There are three objectives of Kiwanis that have been good is the past
aad that will be good for the fatare* 1 call then to year attention briefly!
First, Fellowship.
Benjamin Lee Smith was born February 6, 1893 in, Caldwell County, N.C. He received his A.B. from Duke University in 1916, and his M.A. from Duke in 1937. He served as superintendent of schools in the western North Carolina cities of Forest City, Rutherford-Spindale, and Shelby before assuming the same position in Greensboro, N.C., in 1935. His twenty-three year tenure in Greensboro included the years immediately following the 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education decision ordering desegregation of public schools. In 1959, he participated in the National Civil Rights hearing on school integration. Smith died in 1961. Ben L. Smith High School in Greensboro is named for him.
Subject headings
Segregation in education--United States;Race relations
Topics
School desegregation, 1954-1958
Place
Greensboro (N.C.)
Description
This is a transcript of a speech given by Greensboro school superintendent, Benjamin L. Smith, to the Kiwanis Club of Rutherfordton, North Carolina, at the celebration of their thirtieth anniversary in 1954. In the speech, Smith calls upon the Kiwanis to support the public school system during the time of adjustment after the Brown v. Board of Education decision, and argues in favor of desegregation. The typed transcript features handwritten marginal notes presumably by Smith.
Type
text
Original format
speeches
Original dimensions
8.5" x 11"
Original publisher
[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified]
Language
en
Contributing institution
Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University
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Object ID
Duke_RL.01210.0987
Digital publisher
The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, University Libraries, PO Box 26170, Greensboro NC 27402-6170, 336.334.5305 -- http://library.uncg.edu/
/ $***£*" 1^**- ^fJ* 'T^The Thirtieth Anniversary
&<,_^ _ jj^_ (2*^Jr^J ^ Cfaerterinf of the Rutherford ton
My Follow ftiwanians and Friends)
I an west happy to join you In celebrating the thirtieth anniversary of thedChartering of the Rutherfe*dton Kiwanis Clnb. It it a
doable pleasure to meet here alto Members of the Forest City Clab. Yea
see, I was a charter member ef that elub, too.
This celebration affords we aa opportunity to cone back hone. I
shall always be glad I mas privileged te lit# here far ten and.a half years.
Those years were filled with youthful aspiration and eneray.
It affords mi aa opportunity ta renew friendships famed latif ego
and eherlshed through the years*
This joint meeting, and Kiwanis la cieneral. symbolize far mm the
Haiti ag af the thasa two corai unities, iare and mm my memories merge them
into one.
As I look ever the roster ef membership, I find wore of my school
boys than of original members, thus Is the past linked to the present and I
trast the present will be linked with the fatare. Boys, your fathers have
left to yea a rich heritage; I treat yea will make a worthy bequest to year
sons.
ftb.iofiUYti
There are three objectives of Kiwanis that have been good is the past
aad that will be good for the fatare* 1 call then to year attention briefly!
First, Fellowship.
