Chapel Hill High School - Hill Life Yearbook (Chapel Hill, NC)

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HILLIFE-1941 The History of Our Class Perhaps it would be better if we should leave the past to sleep and the dead moments to bury their dead, but since the final evening of our high school days is drawing nearer, and recollections come as the memory of a dream, which is sad because it hath been sweet, and cluster in our minds, to let those who come after know what we have done, we now set down the history of our class. The great adventure of the glorious first day has left an indelible im- pression on all our minds. Vile can remember the admiration and envy with which we saw the president of the student body, Pat VVinston, actually speak to our superintendent, Mr. Honeycutt. But the wonder and the awe of the first day wore off. The school became more familiar, we went up the wrong steps-once-and our cocky self-satisfaction began to grow. just when our pride was becoming unbearable for a freshman, we became sopho- mores, one step higher on the ladder. Gales Perry was the president of the student body in 1938-39. His qualities of leadership and dignity might well have been the ideals of our class, which certainly needed ideals. VVe were typical sophomores. 'We lorded it whenever we could, with an eye on the nearest door, and our theme song, like the theme song of each year's sophomores, began with the words VVrong steps, freshman! Yet, as the year passed, we became more occu- pied with geometry and our other studies, and by a gradual change we became- JUNIORS! It has been said that the junior year is the great changing period of high school life. The year before, one is a sophomore, knowing all there is to know and more, the year after, one becomes a senior, realiz- ing how little one really knows, preparing to live in earnest. The great event of our junior year was the junior-senior dance. After a greal deal of work to get money, we held the dance in the Carolina Inn. Everyone had a good time. This third year was really a successful one. Under the capable leadership of Marviii Hogan, everything went well in the school, and we reached the top of the ladder to become seniors. One of our own number, Charles Pullen, has been student president this year. A great many changes have taken place. The regular type of study hall has been abolished, and a much better system established. The library has been enlarged, and many other improvements made. It is through one person that we have been enjoying student government in our four years of high school. This person is our superintendent, hir. Honeycutt. It was by his efforts that the student council was established in xi Page Tfceufy-one g '94s

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HILLIFE-1941 Senior Prophecy Ladies and gentlemen, I am reporting from the Ritz Hotel in New York City where the C. H. H. S. class of 1941 is having an anniversary party. Sammy Andrews' famous band is providing the music. Ah! The people are beginning to arrive. Here comes that glamorous -movie star Dorothy Blocksidge with her producer husband, Paul Boger. Here comes that speed demon, IValter Curtis, who has broken all racing records. Enter- ing now is the heavyweight boxing champion, T. A. Hearn, with his manager, C. Simpson. Our master of ceremonies, Paul Green, is now announcing that trio of jazz singers, Billie VVilliams, Margaret Taylor, and Edna Riggsbee. Entering now are Jean Pegram, .lean Logan, and Felder Baldwin- hostess, dietitian, and nurse respectively of Fort Bragg with Col. Ralph Cheek, Lt. Charles Stanford, and Private john Keller. Here's someone peddling toothbrushes. VVhy it is VVayne VVilliams and his wife, Elizabeth Maynard. They seem to be making a sale. It's to the famous playwright, Mary Smith, who is with the great Shakespearean actor, Billy Durham. I see Bill Koch, the millionaire playboy, with Mary jane Lloyd, this year's glamour girl. They are talking to Taylor Hogan, Naval Reserve Ofiicer, and Allen Claywell, Math teacher. I see Deborah Lewis at a corner table with Allen Garrett, who is her latest passion since she divorced her third husband, Gustave Harrer. Incidentally Gus, who is now a preacher, is with the great artist Miriam Lawrence. Here comes Rachel Athas with Glen Haydon. VVith them are Charles Stanford and Louise Milam. Thomas Odum is now coming on to do his bird imitation act. He got started on Edward Canada,s amateur hour. He is amusing Lloyd Gardner and Edward Burks very much. They are now co-presidents of a young ladies school of needlework. Nearby is all-American Dallas Durham with his secretary, Amy Riggsbee. Over there are Jim Evans and Virginia Sloan. They are both teaching French, one at Harvard and the other at Vassar. VVe find the Hnal attraction of the evening is about to draw to a close with the unusual singing of a men's quartet composed of Decatur Jones, Allen Brandon, Robert Blackwood, and Charles Campbell. G'LADYS VVAGER, Clan Prophet. Ptlgf 7TfL'f'llly Tl-IE HILLIFE

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HILLIFE-1941 the year before We were freshmen, and his expert guidance has led the school since then into becoming one of the outstanding schools of the state. He has fitted the school to the students' needs, rather than fitting the students to the school. He is due our lasting gratitude. Freshmen, sophomores, juniors, seniors--We have been all of them. Members of our class have been outstanding in every activity. Our class has had leaders in football and in basketball. VVe can say truthfully that We have all kinds of people ready for the great and noble service of the world. VVe are ready now to begin our lives-for at the flaming forge of life Our fortunes must be Wrought, Thus on its sounding anvil shaped Each burning deed and thought. VVith many memories, and some regrets, We prepare to leave our high school and our friends. Vile anticipate new associations and new conquests with joy, and are in readiness for Whatever may come. WTAYNE WILLIAMS, C lass H istorian. Page Tecelzty-fzcfo THE HILLIFE