Salt Lake Telegram | 1929-08-11 | Page 25 | Sergeant York, Greatest War Hero, Named President of His School

Serge fY rk Greatest st War H Named President of His School r s v t enn AUff g. g 10 CAP AP- AP I the unschooled led T c mountaineer mountain mountain- eer eer fame b bt U and re- re hom to nv Bt Ma his prentice u stige In 7 n e educating uc tI g hf hr hf's j people f pt aft after z a an ane e year eight f ha hu bern beenY nir d fo to ld his bill achievement ril by ap- ap ap up- up t to the pr ncy ilde-ncy ncy of or AI lork Yo Agricultural Institute t In F Fentress I c county Decision of the tho T state taLe b board bard ard of ot e education uc Uon to him hend t the Institute end ended d the ten ter prolonged fight 4 during Which his control ha bag been contested In factional political wrangles and legislative maneuvers Returning g fr from m Prance rance al at the PIe close of ot the ivar bearing the thede de decorations of of all I b Allied Amed armies Sergeant York pledged g d his 1118 U G and his slender s emancipating Ini ing his 1118 horn home hom tol folk folk ni Illiteracy Himself lf d deprived of ot education ad adv advantage ad ad- v vantages vantage h he realized the hazard ha ard of Inadequate ot of east Tennessee The strength of of his earnestness esi In his his' move for education was ey evir eyl- by his ref refusing sing l a 1000 I 00 vaudeville au ld a-ld ville c contract 1 In n order der foe to fo I devote e ote his time to ln a a campaign to 10 raise false funds tot for sch schools His Uhl tour carried him practically to 9 nfl all sect 8 sections Ct ns ot of the the United d States State where h re the story of his forcing officer to surrender sun sur render render- his entire con command drew thousands of hearers hearer He lie always vaya f followed ved his war story with a a. pl picture pic plc- ture tune o aZ the scant chau chances e for fot schooling afforded the boys boy and girls In the of t his his' home o state After Alter S York had founded tho the school h ol don donated ted by th the state tho the Institution lio soon n became the object ob oh- Jector of or factional fa tJ politics In Fentress F Fent- Fent nt ress Tess county one faction facton questioned q his control claiming the state stale appropriations ap committee placed the school under state supervision York finding his h hands bands tied went before the state tate legislature and tl threatened r to establish ah nn Independent pendent pen dent school If It h he was as not hot mad made head bead of ot the agricultural Institute Finally It was was' decided the state board of education h had d control and today tho the board appointed the World war hero herb and nd educational campaigner r president and manager of tho the Institution