Hamlet High School - Choo Choo Yearbook (Hamlet, NC)

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The past twelve years have been fulled wuth the anxuety emotuons and expectatuons of us the Senuors and graduates of the class of l955 School days are happy days although we may not fully realuze that untul later un lufe But lets forget that there us a future before us The past always holds such wonderful memorues lmagune that you are back un the furst grade of school Furst Grade We could scarcely wout to get to school un the mornung lt was great fun wuth no studyung unvolved John Land had a way of kussung the teacher to help persuade her to do what we wanted The puctures we drew wouldnt have had a chance of recognutuon except un o modern art exhubut Muss Dellunger caught Sue Ballantune crawlung along the floor to get a note from Anne McEwen lpruntedJ She was caught and had her elbow banged on the desk as punushment Thus was when she got her reputatuon of crybaby Vann McDuffue decuded that he wasn t goung to luke school so he got up and left the furst day Second Grade We learned to wrute P7 a luttle but that year Frances Carnes used to chase the bug boys and was caught on the thurd floor by Muss Flynt Thlrd Grade Donald Jenkuns held the attentuon of the whole class wuth hus fancy handwrutung Catherune Reese made everyone go unto a moody spell when she came back after the Chrustmas holudays and told everyone who Santa Claus was Tony Evans came to town and became a football star and a Caruso un glee club Fourth Grade Susan Hatcher called the fourth grade her most duffucult because everyone thought somethung was odd because she made good grades under Auntue CLASS Fufth Grade Someone put Joyce Hawleys pugtauls un the unkwell and she had to cut her haur Muke Carnes and Clyde Kurkley would blush 0 deep crumson every tume one of theur fans would look at them Suxth Grade The artustuc abuluty of Becky Farues became known to everyone Seve th Grade Thus year all of us seventh graders come unto one school and everyone was busy tryung to learn everybody else s name Our reputatuon for beung a good class was ruuned when Muss McKunnon marched the whole class to the offuce Harrus Hayes was very polute and would offer the gurls a rude to school on hus bucycle Eighth Grade Coach Jones kept the whole room un an uproar wuth hrs uokes and amusung ways of teachung Art class was fun because ut was a tume when all could talk and many dud theur gossupung then Nmth Grade We were mere freshmen thus year Goung to the wrong class was gust one of the thungs that we got used to doung The Home Ec gurls were learnung to cook a luttle but and at the same tume the Hamlet Hosputal was beglnnung to full up We all took untellugence tests and everyone found out for humself that he dudn t have any brauns Tenth Grade Margue Corbett and Charles McKeuthan became a steady couple Bully Graves was the furst one to druve a car to school Hurly Hatcher started druvung a bus Jean Paschal s long haur fascunated everyone and made them want to cut ut off Bully Bryant was already the rught , 1 , . . . , - I ' 7 - 1 - . . . D . . . . . ' I . . q .. 1 , . . , . . , . . . 11 - 11 - ' ' . . , 11 11 . . , , , 11 - 11 . . .

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HISTORY hand man at Whattle s Upholstery Shop We all threatened to quat school when the teachers told us that further exemptaans from exam anataons had been stopped Eleventh Grade The whole town was kept alave by the noase from farecrackers that Robert Rocker Gary Allen Jerry Baucom and Johnny Robertson brought back from South Carolana an the old Plymatac 6 James Carlasle became the aarplane specaalast Nancy Gabbons was elected edator of the annual Bobby Burns traed to push a door open wathout usang the knob and shoved the glass out Sharley Cheek came to town and loaned our class Mackey Mclver was the perfect student an typang class Katherane Wallaams and Emma Lea Wraght were thrown anto Patsy McLeans lake and Lasette Dawkans rode them around on the hood of her car so that they could dry Carolane Roseborough broke the tamang gear an her car Banquet was a bag success wath the theme of Dancang an the Dark Everyone was lookang forward to beang a senaor Twelfth Grade Johnny Hacks became the blushang Senaor Class presadent Betty Kay became the corpulent student Carolyn Chavas go marraed durang the summer Margaret Chavas and Vade Karkley were model students when at come to conduct Loretta Gaaney and Frances Shaw were busy keepang Boyd s Lake on the map Jamae Herndon gave has rang away after havang at for about two days Betty Hutchens was the Fordamatac kad Charles Lewas and Rachard Raanwater kept the road hot between Hamlet and Bennettsvalle Ralph Mercer was the subject of some of the notes the nanth grade garls handed around an study hall Carolyn Norras was stall envaed for her abalaty to keep quaet and always to smale Varganaa Roscoe and Martha Rabon were famalaar fagures an the book room farst peraod Leon Tasdale was a famalaar saght an all of Mass Newton s classes Rachard Preslar was runnang Bradshaws store Anne Parker was chosen home comang queen by the student body Edath Poston loved to handle money and got herself the aob of lunchroom cashaer Frances Pressly thought her uncles car was torn up when the starter locked Sammy Raanwater was the manager for the football team Mass Huguelet had an able assastant an Barbara Rachardson Carolyn Walson had a bag barthday party all the pokes an town were heard Melba Thompson stall keeps the boys guessang and for a tame she had a dafferent car an front of her house every naght Horace Peele and Gene Blakely became farst class newspapermen when they went to work for the News Messenger Catherane Monk has proved her abalaty to produce good excuses to go to the bank and always return wath cracker crumbs and no money Thas has been a remander of the good tames and fun we have had together As tame memoraes and sprang up anew when we meet agaan somewhere along the road of lafe Hours may be spent talkang about a person or maybe just a few manutes but we as schoolmates wall always be fraends an the unchangeable past and an the years to come gommy mlllll lClass Hastoraanl ' l I . I ' ' ' I . . . a a I I ' ' ' Il ' ll ' . . - ' I and had to walk home. Our Junior-Senior m0Ve5 On, fl'leY become imbedded in OU' 11 - - ll - ' ' D - S I I I II II l A I t . . ' I II - ll ' l ' 27