Austinville High School - Memories Yearbook (Austinville, AL)

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FLOYD STOVALL A song is more lasting than the riches of the world. A Club 54-55-565 Beta Club 55-565 FTA 55, Officer 565 Class Officer 565 Annual Staff 55-56. LOUISE VICKERS The'wor1d sure'd be dull without me. Beta Club 55, Officer 565 FTA Club 54-55, Secretary 565 Elem, Supply 54-555 Office Girl 565 Librarian 565 Paper Staff 56, 'I+' T JANE WHITT She IS just what she is what better report a girl friend student good sport Student Council 55 Beta Club 55 Secretary of Beta Club 56 FTA 55 Historian of FTA 56 Office Girl 55 56 Glee Club 56 GAITHER WILLIAMS A woman is to be loved, not to be under- stood. A Club 54-55-565 Beta Club 55-56: Class Officer 545 Paper Staff 563 Basketball 54-55 56.

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DEWAYNE REYNOLDS All great men are dying ---- I feel ill. Mr. Austinville 553 Beta Club 55-56g Annual Staff 56: Paper Staff 56: Junior Class Play 553 Class Photographer 56, PEGGY RICKS No wonder the teachers' hair turns grayg I chatter chatter all the day, FTA 54-55-56, Officer 56g Beta Club 55-56g Paper Staff 56: Annual Staff 565 Glee Club 563 Librarian 55. 1 DOROTHY SPARKMAN She lives her life for one love. Annual staff 565 Junior Class Play 55, CAROLYN SUE STEPHENSON Small folks seem to fill a space that no other can replace. Office Girl 54g Student Council Officer 54 Class Reporter 54-55g Beta Club 55-56g Annual Staff 56g Paper Staff 56g Miss Austinville 56,

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JAMES WILLIAMS A head packed full of brains and a heart packed full of sunshine. Safety Patrolman of Senior Class of '55-'56 Beta Club Good Citizenship Rep. for six weeks of '55-'56 Seniors not pictured, Shirley Smith Marvin Tucker Class History Come with me back to a cheerful day in 1944 when fifty-three children shyly approached the old Elementary School to begin their careers as first graders. Of the forty-one members of our present class, sixteen started together: Louise Vickers, Shelby McCulloch, Carolyn Baker, Freida Herring, Doris John- ston, Sadie Mae McCleskey, Larry Manly, Jimmie Plant, Dorothy Sparkman, Bobby Johnson, Carolyn Stephenson, Rebecca Allen, Floyd Stovall, Martha Messer, Gereldean Ryan, and Horace Hamilton. It took Mrs. E. B. Gurley's full attention to drill the ABC's into our lazy little heads. A highlight of that year was the Tom Thumb Wedding, in which Jimmie Plant, Larry Manly, and Sadie McCleskey had im- portant roles. Miss Lera Teague and Mrs. Julia Suggs were our second grade teachers, by the time we became third graders, we were so well-adjusted to school that almost any recess period found one or more of us staying in. Mrs. W. E. Ellis and Miss Teague were our teachers, and Mrs. R. W. Waldrop became our guardian angel in our fourth year. As we advanced through these early grades, our class roll increased, Joyce Roper and Edwin Liverett joined us in the second, Peggy Ricks, Gaither and James Wil- liams in the third, and Martha Holbert in the fourth grade. During our year with Mrs. D. L. Murphy in the fifth grade, we were excited because for the first time we were allowed to be exempt from our exams - that is, if our grades were good enough! I remember 110W hard we worked f01' that honor . OU! sixth, and last, year in grammar school was spent under the guidance of Mrs. Ellis. How weary she must have grown of our continual questions about what to expect next year! ln the fall of 1950 we found out for ourselves what to expect! Had it not been for the kindness of Miss Frances Collier, we never would have lived through that confusing adjustment into the seventh grade. By the time Mrs. S. M. Dollar took us over in the eighth grade, we knew our way around and felt quite superior to the dazed seventh graders. When we enrolled in the ninth grade with Mrs. Garland Simmons as our teacher, we discovered that we had outgrown our building and were forced to have some of our classes in the Club Room - freezing in the winter and broiling in the summer! However we managed to live through it, although at the time, I didn't think we would. During our junior high school years, we gained seven classmates, Arvel Lane, June Haley, and Delpnrue French in the seventh, Samuel Cooper in the eighth, Dewayne Reynolds, Autry Blagburn, and Dorothy Murphy in the ninth grade. Senior high school at last in 1953! We thought we were really growing up - whick we were, come to think of it! Only two more years to go after this one! Boy! Oh, Boy! Our class experienced a big expansion with the addition of seven new faces - Shirley Narmore, Flavous Johnson, Reba Bowling, Faye Lowrey, Jack Mullican, Horace Beggs, Berlie Busbey. Our class was so large that two sections had to be made, with Mr. T. C. Teel and Mrs. Curtis Holt sharing honors as our teachers, the girls in Mrs. Holt's group were delighted with the set-up in the Home Economics room because of the full length mirror there, we could comb, brush and primp to our heart's content. But Mrs. Holt soon put a stop to this enjoyable indoor sport when she turned the mirror to the wall! What a blow that was to Becky Allen and Dorothy Sparkman!