Kings Mountain High School - Milestones Yearbook (Kings Mountain, NC)

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History of the Class of ’39 In the fall of 1 935, we, a green,” gawky bunch of freshman girls who seemed to be all legs and arms, and little boys with unruly hair, flocked (some accompanied by our mothers) to the large schoolhouse. We were going to enter high school! We had graduated, not with much honor, from three differ- ent schools, West, East, and Central, and were the proudest, noisiest freshman class that had entered the high school in many a year. Yes, it was our class of ’39! We were distributed to three different homerooms, under the careful guid- ance of Miss Mitchell, Mrs. Fulkerson, and Mr. Moss. After struggling through a very hard year in a strange place, our little more lady like and gentlemanly group was placed under the guidance of Miss Pasour and Mr. Hendricks. Under the tutorage of a fine group of teachers, we found good grades on our report cards far more frequently than we had found the preceding year. We wise fools had begun to work. During the second year of our high school life the school was allowed to organize a chapter of the National Honor Society, an organization which aroused much interest and inspired more hard work and good citizenship among us. Finally, after a comparatively easy sophomore year, we became juniors, going to Miss Scoggins ' s and Miss Crosland’s homerooms. We had achieved the height of our eighth grade ambition; we could give a banquet in honor of the seniors! We were a happy lot. Miss Scoggins launched us on the dreaded course of French, but we managed to stick together and finally mastered irregular verbs. Meanwhile, we had lost a few of our shipmates. Among them was our vice-president. Edgar Cooper, one of the leading students of our class. Even with these losses, we were the largest junior class in the history of the school, being over eighty strong. Upon beginning the last year of high school life, we found a number of changes in the personnel of the faculty. Mrs. Weir had replaced Miss Stroud as librarian, and she became Eleven B homeroom teacher; Miss Wren became English teacher and Eleven A homeroom teacher. Mr. Crowell Little became physical education teacher and coach. Miss Coble taught mathematics; Mr. Smart, eighth grade mathematics and history; Mr. Moffett, history and English. The class fell into line rapidly and led the school in many undertakings. This year’s successful football team and the basketball team were com- posed largely of seniors. The band, a very successful organization, instituted a student council which. Mr. Hendricks said, did more to help the band on its way to success than any other factor. On this council were five seniors. All the officers were seniors. Our Eleventh Grade has been active in almost every extra-curricular activity. We have members in every school organization, and have influenced the beginning of most of the new organizations. A Boy’s Glee Club, the first in several years, and a Monogram Club sponsored by Coach Little, were organ- ized through the efforts of the Senior Class. The Senior Class play, given by a talented group of the class, was ‘‘The Saturday Evening Ghost,” a very dramatic and weird production which delighted all lovers of mysteries. Now, we are, sixty-six strong, ready to receive our diplomas and with genuine regret bid adieu to Mr. Barnes and Mr. Bridges, who have helped us immeasurably, to the teachers whom we criticize, but love, and to the old school, the home of the happiest memories of our lives.