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CLASS HISTORY Upon crossing the threshold of Harding High School in 1950, we the seniors first saw and began to climb the high-towering lad- der of success, with each year taking us one rung nearer the top. At the beginning of that first year, we felt as strangers in a strange place. Our boys quickly began to idolize the big husky foot- ball players, and our girls jumped to imitate every move and fad of the beautiful senior girls. However, as the days went by, the halls, classrooms, teachers, and students became friendly, familiar sights. Climbing that first rung was rather difficult, but we suc- ceeded under the leadership of Carl Ford as class president. By the time our second year rolled around, we could proudly look down on the one rung we had climbed. Still there were many more much higher. We immediately started upward by electing Eddie Allred and Jo Ann Moose as class presidents. They planned our big social dream, the junior-Senior. Sending Kenny Lowery and Eddie Allred as Vice-Presidents and Carol Spurrier and Billie Ann Sigmon as treasurers to the Student Council was a genuine thrill for us eighth graders. Billie Ann Sigmon also represented our class in the Student Council play, Three Strikes You're Out, and seven of our fellow classmates starred in the junior Choir's operetta, Sunbunnet Sue. Our junior football team was the city champion, and the second rung was completely reached when fifty-two of us were tapped into the Junior Honor Society. When we looked up the ladder and saw the next rung, we realized that we were the leaders of junior high school. We began to display that quality by electing Carl Ford and Tommy Parker as class presidents. Under the leadership of Billie Ann Sigmon and Carol Spurrier the junior Honor Society proved its outstanding ability by sponsoring a banquet for the junior football team, which came in second for the city championship. Billie Ann Sigmon was crowned queen of the festivities. Leadership was also proven when we Sent Jo Ann Moose and Carol Spurrier as presidents and Mary Lois Pegram and Billie Ann Sigmon as secretaries to the Student Council. Climbing the ladder of success is not all work and no play. We kept our year well rounded through the Junior Dance Com- mittee under Betty Ann Smith. Thus, the third rung was reached. Reaching the next rung on the ladder looked as if it would be more difficult than all the others had been. We resumed our old seventh-grade feeling of strangers in a strange place. However, we began to break the ice by electing Carl Ford and Johnny Craig as class presidents. They planned many social events, such as the Bunny Hop , for our in-the-middle class. We began to feel we were a part of senior high school when Carol Spurrier was elected secretary of the Student Council and when Sylvia Smith and Carolyn Tarte represented our class as beauties in the Acoiuv. We were very proud of the fact that many of our boys were on the football team that beat Central, won the Western AA title, and the State AA Championship. Having twenty-four of us tapped into the Senior Honor Society was the big boost that finally put us on top of the fourth rung. We anxiously anticipated the thrill of reaching the fifth rung of our ladder and started climbing quickly by electing Jerry Godfrey as class president for both semesters. Plans were made for the tradi- tional junior-Senior, which was given on April 30 at Radio Center with the theme April in Paris. We naturally feel it was the best in Harding's history. Still we knew a junior-Senior could not push us up to another rung alone. So, we continued to be active. Five were elected as outstanding rising Seniors-Betty Ann Smith, Carol Spurrier, Betty Lou Helms, George Hart, and jerry Godfrey. Jerry Godfrey went to the Student Council as Vice-President. Fourteen juniors were chosen to be junior Marshals with Jerry Godfrey chief and George Hart assistant chief. Betty Ann Smith and Sylvia Smith with elected class beauties. Our football team tied Central. Ten of us juniors felt as if we were on top of the entire ladder when we were tapped Imperatores. The culmination of events and hard work through our junior year placed us successfully on the fifth rung. We looked up at the beginning of this year and suddenly realized that we were nearing the top rung. Yet, there was still one more, and we could,n't slacken. We were the leaders of our school, and the top of our ladder had not been reached. We began to strive for that last rung by electing Tommy Miller, president, George Hart, vice- president, Sylvia Smith, secretary, and Dixie Horne, treasurer. Second semester officers were Betty Lou Helms, presidentg Bill Mc- Millan, vice-presidentg Bill Powell, secretary, and Tommy Miller, treasurer. jerry Godfrey served as president of the Student Council both semesters with capable assistance from Betty Ann Smith and George Hart. With Buzzy White and George Hart as co-captains, our Rams won the Conference Championship and chose Carolyn Tarte the Gridiron Queen. The basketball team fought for that last rung as they won the GCAA Conference sportsmanship trophy. Betty Ann Smith assumed the editorship of the Hi-Lites with Bill Powell as assistant. Carol Spurrier, editor, and Betty Lou Helms, business manager, worked for a bigger and better presentation of the ACORN. The Senior Class honored Betty Lou Helms with the D.A.R. Good Citizenship Award and Betty Ann Smith with the title of Miss Hi Miss. During this work-packed year, we always took time out for old fashioned square dances and elaborate formals under the supervision of Willa Lynn Leary. Then, back to work we'd go, that last rung had to be reached. Beauty was quickly recognized when we chose Martha Barnhardt as class beauty and Libby Bell as class cutie. Carolyn Tarte and Jerry Godfrey were elected King and Queen of Hearts by the student body. Always keeping that last rung in mind, class day officers were chosen: Joanne Wentz, Valedictorian and Poet, Betty Lou Helms, Salutatorian and Historiang Bill McMillan, Lawyer, and Jerry Godfrey, Prophet. Wanting to be a success in every respect, we worked hours and hours on our production of the senior play, Hillbilly Weddinf' It was different, but its success made history. Looking not so far down the ladder, we see our class trip, our class banquet, the Junior-Senior, and Baccalaureate. Soon Class Night will be another happy memory, and graduation will come. When we gazed in awe up that high-towering ladder of success six years ago, it seemed impossible that we would some day reach the top rung. Climbing a little each year we have fulfilled our goal. We as individuals must go into the world, eager to climb any ladder set before us. BETTY Lou Hauvrs, Historian Page Thirty-one