Berry High School - Torch Yearbook (Mount Berry, GA)

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'wl- SILVER AND BLUE SOPHOMORE CLASS Jesse Ray Gunn , , , , President Margaret Coleman ,, ,,,, Vice President Frank Moore ,,,, , , ,, , ,,,,,,,,,,, Y ,,., Treasurer Elena Stephens ,,,,,, N ,, ,, ,,,,,,, . ,,,,,,,,,., ,,,, ,,,,,,A,,e,, , , , Secretary Mr. Tracy Byers and Miss Alta Sproull ,,,,,,,,,7,,,,,,,,, ,,,,,,,,, ,,,,. .,,,, F a c ulty Advisers Lela Allen DeWitt Hurst Warren McMillan John Roberts Fleda Ballenger Edwin Barnett John Beeker Marie Cadle Langdon Cheves Eugene Claxton M-argaret Coleman Tom Denton Thomas Donalson Verdie Drake Fred Driver Brandon Ford Mabel Foy Ralph Gaskins Jesse Ray Gunn Jewell Hallmon John Harkness Kathleen Hayes Gladys Hines Mildred Hutchinson Ernest Jackson Frank Jamison Alton Jones Emmie Jordan Sam Kidder Jesse Kinzey James Lane Florence Lasater Frank Leake Charles Levie Frank Logan Inez Love Terrill Lowery Ted Lynn Sam Mashburn Tilda McCain Margaret McMillan Douglas McMullan Wynnis Roberts James Meadows George Rountree Frankye Miller Frank Moore Gerald Moore Winifred Moore J. C. Mulkey Irene Sellers Elizabeth Shepard Reba Shropshire James Stamps Preston Stamps Mary Lee Nunn Elena Stephens Dan Parkman Lillian Packer Eunice Still George Suggs Idalene Pennington Willie Summerlin Ruth Pettigrew Rufus Porter Pauline Powers Maybelle Prater Doris Purcell Miriam Robarts Ruby Robarts Page Twenty-two Claude Suttles Lemuel Tankersley Ledford Teague Louise Teat Mclver Vann Broughton Walton Royal West Albert Wyatt

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SILVER AND BLUE an romantic fiction, and only a few live up to anything serious, and none are ever truthful. It would be incom- patible with the real nature and spirit of the Junior class of 1932 to attempt to interpret its history with high-flown, imaginary facts. This year we watch Berry's first college seniors depart from the shadows of her steeples and go from their mis- her guiding hand. We look at past, we aim to profit by their takes and examples and sound a bigger gun when we leave our Alma Mater. Berry has already begun a period of expansion that will characterize her throughout the world. Our hearts, minds and souls are all with her. We entered the junior college here three years ago. Last year we finished the first goal. Today we are candidates for the various liberal arts degrees. As the days slowly passed we wil- lingly sat back and listened with the seniors at the lectures. Time and time again we have heard the speaker tell them, The world wants and needs more men and women like you. Juniors have little idea what the world will do with them, but we look forward to the time when we take their places in the school activities. Ill would it become the Junior class to prate about assuming the responsi- bility of administering the affairs of the clubs and societies for the past two years. But we do think that all should know that our class has been a leading group since our cradle days, furnishing leaders in college affairs, captains, managers, dictators and presi- dents. Several names might be men- tioned, names of men and women who have played prominent parts in making the college as well as being a part of the great Junior class. We do not point with pride to our favorite sons :nd daughters or to our geniuses, for we have none, we do not boast of gigantic intellects or athletic phenoms for the same reason. In the fall of 1932, life will reappear on our campus, a new group will be master of the helm of student activities. From a place of obscurity to the one of greatest prominence will be the difference between the old juniors and the new seniors. We must go on and on though some do fall by the wayside. There are those who are forced to stop and work, others go out entering into fateless life-time partnerships, and still others drift into the various occupations. To those less fortunate than us and to the patient, hard-working sophomores, we hope a full measure of success. Now as we are about to depart from our junior dress to take up the dignity of a senior, we still hold with us many friendships formed, and many pleasant memories of days gone by. To the seniors, we breathe a sad farewell and bid them God-speed. To the faculty of our college we assure you that you shall never be ashamed of your Junior class of '32 or your Seniors of '33. To the sophomores we say, Follow us. For we are going to: Work hard and be strong, halting not in our ways, Balking the bad half won for an instant dole of praiseg Work diligently and be wise-certain of sword and of pen, We are neither children nor gods, but men in a world of men. Page Twenty-one

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SILVER AND BLUE nv History When I begin thinking on the theme of the history of the Sophomore class I can look back over two years of the most engrossing college life and see a history that is quite credible. We Sophs came to college on a bright September day of 1930 with high hopes and aspirations that touched the ethe- real blue of the heavens, plenty of courage, freshness, and, in fact, not a little greenness as was shown by our first motto Green but growing. Those days of going to college that we had all dreamed about, and pictured mentally so many times in high school were now immediately before us. We got off with a good start at our first class meeting, our roll numbered one hundred and forty-five, the follow- ing ofiicers were elected: Harvey Rodgers, presidentg Doris Purcell, vice president, Glenn Jolley, secretary- treasurerg and Miss Alta Sproull and Kankakee Anderson, faculty advisers, As the year rolled before us there were days of joyous accomplishment, and, we must add-some days of dark- ness when we realized that there was so much more in this old world to learn than we had ever dreamed of in the Cock-sureness of our senior high school days. Our class was well rep- resented in school activities, in sports we were extremely well represented, as also in music, debating, public speaking, and other extra curricular activities. When registration day for the fall of '31 came we found some of our members no longer with us, several had gone to school elsewhere, others stopped to work, and death had claim- ed our beloved Ruby Smith. How- ever, at our first class meeting a splendid class spirit was shown. Jesse Ray Gunn was elected president, Mar- garet Coleman, vice president, Frank Moore, treasurer, Elena Stephens, secretaryg Miss Alta Sproull and Mr. Tracy Byers, faculty advisers. This year our class has piled up an even more enviable record in basket- ball, baseball, track, and we are well represented in the orchestra, band, choir, melody club, debating, Syrreb and Georgian Literary Societies, and other clubs of the campus. We hope as we come to the end of this year, that the coming year may find every class member in college fill- ed with determination to make an even greater standing as Juniors and so prove to our beloved Founder and to our friends that we will live up to our! motto, To thine own self be -trife. 3 How beautiful is youth! how bright it gleams With its illusions, aspirations, dreams! Book of beginnings, Story without end, Each maid a heroine, and each man a friend! There's something good, even noble, about anyone who does his job well. JUST SMILE A cheerful word, a sunny smile To those we meet each day, Are things that make our life worth while, The little things that pay. For those that own a smile and song The skies are always bright, And the world can never seem all wrong When we ourselves are right. Page Twenty-three