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4 The eighth grade showed us many new adventures. We elected Mr. and Mrs. Hamlin this year and our candidates were Mable Sowards and Sammy Lewis. Mrs. Miller and Mr. Lovejoy started the year as our sponsors, but Mr. Lovejoy took up the duties of coach and left Mrs. Fulture to do the honors. This was the year that small courtships sprang up between the male and female members of the class. Some of the girls even played the game of “love 'em and leave 'em, ; we were really learning fast now. Our eighth grade was so much fun that it seemed a shame to go into high school and leave it. “Freshmen, we had a name now. This made us superior to the lower classes and don't think we didn't know it as well as show it. Our class rapidly increased in number as well as stature this year. Our sponsors were, yes, it was Ruby again and Mrs. Galyean as well. We were glad to move one grade higher now for next year we would be called “Sophomores. Romance bloomed in the hearts of most of the students this year. Betty Yeager and Lawrence Barrett found they had something in common, hotdogs. Peggy Jarrell had a crush on Bernard McClure not to mention the way Bernard felt about her. Dot Harmon found her true love on the set of the Senior’s operetta. This was none other than Bobby Crawford. Our candidate for Miss Bobcat was Peggy Jarrell. Mrs. Miller and Mrs. Galyean were our sponsors again. We became known as “Ruby’s Angels, a name of which we were proud of, even if we didn’t deserve it. Ruby decided that she would sponsor us through the rest of our school year, that is if she could possibly stand it. Our Junior year, and the happiest year of our school days, we were nearing the end of our dearly beloved high school days. Yes, they were dearly beloved, you don’t realize how much they really mean to you until they are gone. We worked hard for our class and accomplished many things. We presented a three act comedy, “Brides to Burn. Mrs. Miller and Mrs. Elkins thought they had a class of actors and actresses but they were disappointed with only amateurs. We gave one of the most beautiful banquets but it was well worth every minute of it. Our candidate for “Miss Bobcat, Lois McComas, won the title. This also helped to add to the joys of our Junior year. As we neared the end of the year we had to make preparations for be- coming a Senior. Our class rings were ordered—maybe we are prejudiced but we think they are prettier than any class ring ever bought for Hamlin High’s graduating students and we wear them with proudness and memories of our school days. With due apologies I’ll say that at long last our Senior year rolled around. The year that gave promise of wonderful things. We were young ladies and gentlemen now. We were in love with love and life. Romance still bloomed among our members. There were hearts aflame and hearts cracked open. There were small secrets and long talks in the old corridors. The sec- ond floor gestapo agents found it hard to cope with the girls intent on capturing some football or basketball hero. Classes suffered when the class rings came in. The oh's and ah's expressing self-gratification at such a beautiful choice could be heard above the clatter of typewriter keys and the scratching of China map making. The usual exchange went on with the usual rolls of tape wound around some boy's ring. Miller and Elkins suddenly took to wearing sweaters--not that we didn't understand that they were trying to show off those lovely ruby pendants the class had given them. An Operetta was planned but due to lack of interest on most of our parts the idea was abandoned. I must be honest and say that several times we were in danger of losing our record of five years, in good deportment. There were times when the halo faded thin and “Ruby's Angels almost became something else. But our guardian angel always brought us through. The first semester came and passed and we started on our last mile of the way. We lost five girls to the bond of matrimony, Mary Petrie, Glennith White, Joan Wysong, Margaret McCallister, and Mildred Hill. We took a tremendous chance on ordering a $50.00 royalty play, a brand new one just off the press. Meet Me In St. Louis. Our plans included many beau- tiful things and then tragedy struck at our hearts and the fire that swept away our building also took with it many of our possessions. The play books burned but we reordered again and gave the play in spite of adversity. Hamlin High School could not burn up. It will live always in our hearts and the cherished memories of the days spent there while we made history will be as pearls in the chain of life. Perhaps I have led you to believe that our Senior year was full of fun but let me reassure you, we had our serious side. Not that we did not like the little superior air of being an important Senior, the small fry’s worship, the good grades, the front seats in assembly, all these help to contribute to our fun but, we worked as no Seniors have ever worked before to carry on the name of Hamlin High School. It isn’t the building that makes the school, it's the students and teachers. 18
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SENIOR H ISTO f?Y It was that day in 1937 when Pandora opened her box and let fifty little evils out into the first grade room of Hamlin Grade School. Mrs. Russia Childers, who later changed her name to Clark, could hardly cope with such despicable children. By the end of the year she managed to teach us our A B C’s and sent us on to the second grade with the hopes of being rid of us; we foxed her and had the Board of Education to send her on to the second grade, too. The second grade found us very grown up and ready to go into business for ourselves. Patty Plumley relieved Mary Petrie of her lolli-pop, and Helen Barrett borrowed Joan Wysong's twenty cents without Joan’s permission, of course she payed for it in the end. (The Southern end, that is). At the half of the year we bought Mrs. Childers a one way ticket to Spencer and Mrs. Wilhelm took over. She was so good to us that we hated to go on to the third grade and leave her but, that was before we saw our new teacher. The first few weeks of our third year the girls “swooned over our handsome teacher, Harlan Pennington, while the boys looked on with jealousy, our class decided to become musi- cians so with the help of Helene Griffin we organized a toy band. After several weeks of blowing horns and banging drums we gave a concert which was to determine whether we were to be musicians or not. We weren't! With the toy band on our minds most of the time and Mr. Pen- nington the rest you can see we didn't have much time for books, so we left the third grade not much smarter than we entered, that is, as far as education is concerned we weren’t but we were learning more and more about that little thing called love. Oh! excuse me. I was about to forget one of the most important activities, or should 1 say mind wanders, it was the Operetta, called, “The Sleeping Beauty. This was very exciting and it turned out to be a big success. Thanks to Mrs. Griffin and Leona Adkins. Our fourth year wasn’t so full of school activities but we were up against a problem, our teacher Mrs. Quessenbury had a “handle we couldn't pronounce but she compromised and let us call her “Goosebury. We would have stayed in the fourth grade forever if they hadn’t promoted us just to get rid of us. With our fifth year came a big disappointment we were separated into two classes, one taught by Mary Lee Elkins and the other taught by Mrs. Bruce Walls. Little did Mary Lee know that she would one day be the Junior and Senior Class Sponsor, to these darling little children. The main attraction this year was Berl King. Oh! what a Romeo. In the sixth grade we were still separated, our teachers were Miss Lily Thompson and Miss Erma Linkfield. We had a new experience this year, we changed classes back and forth across the hall from Miss Linkfield to Miss Thompson. This is the year we decided to become artists. Each class made a project of some kind. Miss Linkfield’s class made a small mining town and Miss Thompson’s class made a log fort. Both of these turned out very nicely and also kept us out of mischief. The latter part of this year was spent in getting ready for Junior High. We were very excited about this and very sad, too. for we knew we were growing up and leaving all our childhood memories behind us. We were going to determine what we were to be in life and work toward this through the rest of our school days. We were in the High School building at last, now what were we to do? Which way were we supposed to go? We didn’t know. For the first time in our lives we were beginning to feel that we weren’t so grown up as we had thought we were. It seemed that we weren’t getting to do any of the things that were interesting, it all was for the upper-classes. We couldn’t take typing and Oh! how we wanted to peck on those little machines. We took lots of hard knocks from the upper-classmen but we pulled through and went on to the eighth grade expecting the worst. Our sponsor was Miss Noda Goad. 17
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