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VOL. xxxi CAVE SPRING. GA., OCTOBER in. No. 1 was often busied in their behalf in efforts to secure for them gainful occupations and other relief for their various needs. One of his great achievements for them was securing an endowment for the Wes- ley Memorial hospital now at Emory University conditioned on the perpetual free use of a ward there by the deaf people of Georgia. It was also through his good offices that the Methodist Church of Georgia provided a minister specially for the deaf. It is likely that this beneficence will also con­ tinue in perpetuity to the deaf people of Georgia. For fifteen years Mr. Crusselle has been a mem­ ber of the Board of Trustees of the Georgia School for the Deaf and at the time of his death he was a member of the Executive Committee which meets every month to consider ways and means of pro­ moting the education of the three hundred deaf chil­ dren composing the body of pupils. He was second to no member of the Board of Trustees in his eager interest in everything and every body at the school. He endeared himself to us all. Officers, teachers and pupils alike learned to love him and alike we mourn his loss. Alike we tender to his wife and the other members of his family our profound sympathies. Mr. Crusselle having had the training and exper­ ience of the educator could fully sympathize with WILLIAM F. CRUSSELLE us as teachers of the deaf. He was himself unusually By .1. C HAKIMS endowed by nature and had spent much of his life in the school room. He was graduated Irom the N ) name except it be that of some member of the Boys High School of Atlanta where he was born home or of the school which actually reared and sixty-seven years ago. He taught lhem day by day is so dear to the deaf people graduated from the of Georgia as Mr. \V. F. Crusselle. whose death North Georgia Agricultural College at Dahlonega. taking there his A. u . degree. occurred during the vacation of our schools. June He received his Master I of Arts degree from the University of Georgia. His MUh. 1 (>28. No citi/.en of Georgia not ever in the love for learning, especially for Latin, burned bright­ facu'ty of our schools for the deaf has done for the ly till the close of his life. In 1886 IT- married Miss deaf so great service or w n from them so great Mary Lewis, daughter of Colonel David \V. Lewis, devotion, and when the news of his death came to who was then the president of the college from th«-m there were heart aches and tears. They deeply which he had graduated. He was himself for six deplored his loss and suffered in the silence which years an instructor in this college. is always theirs. He had loved them and love be­ No sketch, however brief, would be just to our gets love. And now that he is gone from them for­ dear dead friend that omitted mention of his devo­ ever they treasure his name and his memory as a tion to his church. He had a deeply religious nature precious possession. V.'e who were associated with I and implicitly felt that in seeking ideals of love, him for the service of the deaf also loved him and ' truth, justice and beauty he was cooperating with are bereaved by his death. God. He had a habit of daily prayer to God for all the causes and all the persons that he especially F^r more than twenty years Mr. Crusselle called loved. Time and again he informed the writer of weekly together at a church in Atlanta the deaf his unfailing mention of the Georgia School for the v.-ho lived in and near that city. There in the true Deaf in his daily devotions. -T it-it of service he regularly ministered unto them. Dear Mr. Crusselle, farewell' We shall never for­ H' there n<M on'y taught them the essentials of get you and all that you have done tor the deaf of Christianity but he inquired into all their interests our state. No man ever surpassed you in purity of and took measures to promote their welfare. He heart and devotion to duty. Tu'o Tin. SCHOOL HHLPER October, 1928 ORIGINAL WORK BY THE PUPILS THE TRAMP Vacation One morning John asked his father if he might All the boys and girls went home for vacation go to the river and fish. His father told him that last June 1st. My father met me in Atlanta. We he might. John ran to the shop and got a fishing left Atlanta at 9:00 o'clock that night. There were pole. He carried it to the river. He stopped near three girls on the train with me. We had a nice the river and sat on the sand. He put an earth­ time. We reached home at 7:00 o'clock June 2nd. worm on the hook and threw it into the water. I was very glad to get home for I wanted to see my family very much. After a while a tramp walked through the woods. He had on some ragged clothes. He didn't have a A few days after I got home I went to work help­ home, car and other things. He wanted to get some ing on the farm. My father had much work to do. water. He looked for it, but he couldn't find There had been so much rain they could not work it. At last he saw some leaves. They were wet all the time and then, too, there had been a heavy He took them off and drank the water with his hail storm a few days before I went home. The tongue. crop was very small and beat up very badly. We and soon it grew out very fast. We Then he went to the river and saw the fishing went to work with tobacco several weeks during July pole by the sand. He didn't know there was any­ were busy We exchanged work with another body there. He sat on the sand. He held the pole and August. and we had a jolly time telling jokes and for a long time, but he didn't get any fish. He family looked tor some good water and saw a lake. He teasing. We made a very good crop if we did have moved. John went to the river again and was sur­ work hard and had so much rain. prised. He saw no pole. He turned and looked I enjoyed my vacation very much, even though the pole. He saw the shoe prints on the sand. for a busy one. We all came back to school on He walked and followed the prints. The tramp it was held up the pole. A fish fell off the hook and hit September 18th. I hope that I can be able to get John's head. He was scared. He saw the fish and a better job than farming some time in the near caught it. The tramp ran to catch it and saw John. future. Both were scared. 1 he tramp said, "Big boy, you Ora Lee liurnam. did catch fish'" John told him that he did. He said. "Did you steal my fishing pole.1"" The tramp said. "Yes. I caught many fish tor you." He took eMorris's 'Boar him to the river. John saw many lish and counted them. He said. "Twenty." He gave five of them Last summer I asked my father if I might make to the tramp. The tramp said, "Thank you. 1 a boat. He said, "All right." We went to the ware will tell you a story." Both sat down on the sand. house. My father got some lumber and gave to The tramp told him jokes. John laughed. me. My brother-in-law helped me. We made a Pretty soon the tramp stopped talking. He told boat. My father and I carried it to a car. I rode him that he would go to town then. John carried to the creek and carried the boat and put it in the the fish home and told his parents about the tramp. water. I rode in my boat many times. They laughed. * Roy Forxyth Two weeks ago my brother and I carried it back to the ware house. Next summer I shall ride in the boat again and shall go fishing in it. too. I JOURNAL enjoyed riding in my boat very much. Morns Stephens. I came to G. S. D. from Atlanta to learn lip reading. I like it a whole lot belter. The Georgia School for the Deaf is a fine place to live and learn. JOURNAL I came from the Mt. Vernon Public School in At­ Last Saturday afternoon my father, mother. Fred lanta. 1 was in the sixth grade there. 1 went to Howell, hennie and I went to Rome. We spent Bolton Pubic School in Bolton, Ga. for three years. a few hours there. I was promoted for 5 straight grades and went two Last Saturday night the boys and girls went to years in the sixth and seventh. a movie in the chapel. I did not go. Last Sunday I like the deaf school better than any other school they went again. I did not go.

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