• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

The Library of Lore for Cliffside, North Carolina

Since 2002

Remember Cliffside

MENUMENU
  • Home
  • Explore
    • Galleries
    • History
    • In The News
    • Landmarks
    • Media
    • Memories
    • Odds & Ends
    • Photos of the Month
    • Rutherford County
    • Society
    • Where People Lived
  • What's New
  • About Us
    • About Us
    • Where are we?
  • Guest Book
  • Contact Us
  • Search
  • Help
  • Donate
Home » Society » Remembering Mr. Beatty

Remembering Mr. Beatty

The Gathering – 2009

Beatty – Introduction

Introduction
Mr. Beatty
Harley Connell Beatty
1903-1975

At the Society’s annual Gathering, a number of speakers spent about an hour discussing the traits and personality of our former principal, H. C. Beatty. You can read each speaker’s comments from the tabs above.

From 1927, when he arrived in Cliffside to be first a teacher then a principal, until his retirement in 1969, Mr. Beatty was a pillar of the community, a leader, not just in education, but also in civic and church affairs. Over those 42 years he touched the lives of thousands of youngsters, and not one of his students will ever forget his guidance or his discipline, which was firm but fair.

The speakers of the evening included a co-worker and successor; his two daughters, Ann and Brenda; a son-in-law; a lady who he hired to manage the school cafeteria; and three of his former students.

These accounts of their experiences with Mr. Beatty reveal that he was, as expected, a generous, patient, amusing, loyal, gentle man. And, of course, Cliffside was much the better for his being there.

 

Primary Sidebar

Speakers

  • Introduction
  • Phillip White
  • Ann & Brenda
    • The Faculty
    • Young Harley
    • Mom Comes to Cliffside
    • Upbringing
    • Travel
    • Basketball
    • College
    • Marriage
    • Lessons Learned
  • Spencer Culbreth
  • Other Speakers
    • Helen Miller
    • Mike Fisher
    • Louise & Geraldine

© 2002–2023 · Cliffside Historical SocietyScroll To Top