Decatur High School - Golden Memories Yearbook (Decatur, AL)

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selves -and o good one too, Their Junior year, under the sponsorship of Miss Mary Louise Garrett, ended with a successful magazine campaign ond play Supe-rstitious Susan , directed by Mrs. W. J. Brown. Their senior year, Mrs. Brown was elected sponsor, Ned Anderson, president, Lillian Houser, vicerpresi- dent, Bonnie Park, secretory, Gil Crane, treasurer, and Martha Ann Gregg, reporter. An eventful year followed in which they reached the highest maga- zine campoign, produced a group of onefoct plciys, and published an entirely different year book. His dreams brought him up to the present year, l944. May 29 rolled around. Mony sober faces appeared-for this was their final high school gradu- ation. As the lost strains of the Alma Mater died away-there were lumps in each throat, for they lcnew that this might be the lost time the entire class would be together. Because in o few months many of these boys would become sailors, soldiers, and marines, fighting for the country that had offered them every opportunity. ln the distance, guns were thundering, plones roaring on to victory. Suddenly there wos an explosion. BANG! Porky awoke to find it wasn't a gun but only the last spark of fire popping in the fireplace. l-le smiled. Gosh, what a fine dream about fine people! The closs of 1944 had done their share and more . . . they're still doing their share, too. For these some boys and girls who stood up for the things they believed in at school-are fighting for these things now. They have that good old American spirit in their heart-ond WHO COULD ASK FOR MORE? See bock flyleof for no es

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Senuor Ill Class Hustory Outsudo the home of Porky Pug now was f lu a softly By mornung the whole ground would be covered by thee cold whute flakes from above But unsude the house a brught warm fure was burnung uy n uc u o en uueuace T e fure u cast hadow on the wall and Porky after a bug meal wuthun the ratuon book lumtt of cour e at en uoyung fully the peaceful ettung As naturally as the snow was fallung Porky fell unto a dup dreamy sleep Suddenly ut was T932 agaun and he was seeing a group of bewuldered chuldren goung through theur urs day at school Lutte gurls un pugtauls boys un hort pant all eager to become bug boys and gurls now that they had tarted to school The years passed sux to be exact Frrday mcrnung found many of thus group suttung un the audutoruum of the Senuor Hugh School receuvung theur duplomcs from grammar school The next year uunuor hugh was theur host Here fuve new members uouned the class Many new fruend from Trunuty Qomervulle Hunt vulle Burmungham Stevenson and Mooresvulle Alabama became one of them Columbua Tennessee offered uts contrubutuon too After three years another graduatucn was un order Now came enuor hugh the peak after nune hard years Senuor hugh was altogether dufferent from thesr prevuous schoolung They were more socually munded and more unterested un makung a name for them x See back llylrcf for r-ancs SGW S . Mmuno Yu BEL-AEVE ATF! f u luuul u U U ' 1 ' s I a 'ing V 1 C T V I J . lazl i tl? h ge p f ?rl ,. h ' lght s 5 s , Y, A . . . - -. .1 S S 4 . . C . 4- V f f f. T V U . I ..., I . C qw H . H ' C . . 1 U , I S . f . , I Q . . M - . sift w- Kit- 'N 'Ni . fl u T . l . ' N S

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