Foley High School - Blue and Gold Yearbook (Foley, AL)

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Senior Class H1'sfory We shall look in our book of memories to when we began to ascend the mountain of education twelve years ago. We started out in our first year with a class numbering forty- flve. We have caught up with some who started before usg some have dropped over the preciplcesg others have slipped back down the pathg and still others have grown tired and deserted us. We shall always cherish the memories of the past happy years. It was during these years we made our friends. We started out as mere babies and cried our way through the first grade. We had our little fights and tussles over the swings or who would hold the teacher's hand. It seems silly to think of these things now, but they will remain as precious memories in our hearts. I can remember hard things that we have gone through. The little fights Virginia F. and Florene C. use to have, with Vivian C. and Mildred F. pitching in their two cent's worth. This was always ended by their coming arm in arm to their classes. Some of the girls would go to the movies at the theater with their heart throbs. This was the most exciting part of our grammar school days. And the many times Helen . and Charles G., Ramona T. an Floyd H., Vivian C. and Otto K. were caught swinging together. Oh! golly, I almost forgot to tell you about those funny haircuts the girls had. Vivian C. and Phyllis M. topped the list with those cute Buster Browns. Pig tails were also very popular. We were funny looking kids then. We were quite elated when we reached the sixth grade. This was an event second to entering High School, and we all felt we had reached one of the desired goals on the mountain of learning. During all those years we learned about nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs. We learned the use of the decimal point. In history we went back to the prehistoric ages and visited the ruins of Ancient Home and Athens. We felt that we were ready for our High School training. Our sixth grade graduation was a beautiful event. The stage was lavishly decorated with beautiful flowers. The

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ANNA SURREY Blushing, bonny, bright JAMES SUNDA Zealous, zesty, zippy MARJORIE FRITZ TEMPLIN Merry, modest, married RAMONA THIEHE Gabby, gay, gainful EVANGELINE THOMAS Flirt, fancy-free, festive NORMAN UNHE lUOD'l Hhndseme, hardy, husky VALDA WALTERS Bookish, beloved, blameless IMOGENE WILLIAMS Cheerful, charming, chatty I-Deceased 3 M ' N X, xl 5- ,iff

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girls all wore white dresses and the boys white suits. Sev- eral little speeches were given and then we closed our gram- mar school days with happy memories. We started our Junior years off bright-right from the first day until the last. We were fortunate in having two very good teachers because we were just beginning our High School career and we need all the English and history we could cram into our head's. Our Jr.I teachers were Miss looty and Mrs. Wingard. During our Jr.II year we were blessed with new students from Bon Secour. From the first day they were called the 'Wolf Pack' Kunfortunately they have been howling ever since! They have,been faithful students all through their years at Foley. We also had two very talented students with us that year. They were Boone--o and Rig--o the magicians. They en- tertained us quite a bit and it became so unbearable for Mrs. Tatum that she had a nervous breakdown. We were sorry about this because she was a good teacher. Mr. Tate came to teach us then. He was a substitute teacher, but he d1dn't substi- tute very long for us. For some reason, which we could never understand, he didn't like us. Mrs. White came next to be with us. She was very right after Christmas. to teach us. We tried so well with her. Oh, Buddy H. were punished they couldn't put over but she stayed with us considerate and stayed with us until Then ---- well Mrs. Robinson was sent old tricks but they d1dn't work many times Earl B., Alvin R., and our the for their funny, funny tricks, but Mrs. Robinson. She threatened to quit and by the time we reached the end of our eighth year we were pretty well tamed. Our Jr.III year brought us many'thr1ll1ng experiences. We were gradually being drawn into the social groups. We gave class parties every Friday night which proved to be won- derful occaslons for all of usl We gave our first real class party that year at Mr. George Holk's with our home-room teachers, Mrs. Robinson and Mrs. Williams, chaperoning. That started several of our High School romances that have grown through the years and the flames are still burning. Mary Scott gave us an enjoyable class party at her home. We had refreshments, games, and dancing. At the end of that year we brushed up on our knowledge to see if we were eligible to be Seniors. We cou1dn't wait to begin our Senior years with determination to make our class the best ever.