Parrish High School - Sel Ala Yearbook (Selma, AL)

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The next step was iunior high school. The huge building Cas it appeared to usl and the startling number of teachers held a new charm for us and a new fear. lt was the first time all the people our age had come together, and we found our classmates not such bad fellows as we had thought when we had engaged one another in a grammar school baseball game. y And then we entered Parrish High as little iunior threesf' fln fact we were the class that raised so much fuss at this name that it was used very sparingly by the end of our first yearl. The boys looked very peculiar minus all their hair, and, because the girls had not mastered the art of applying make- up, they looked almost as bad. The seniors were the characters whom we most admired. lf one spoke to us, we were very much flattered. How fast the years-nine, ten, and eleven-passed and with them passed World War ll. We were again at peace, and all our school war activities of finding scrap iron and tin cans changed to provid- ing food and clothing for the thousands of homeless people in Europe. Then in l948, we became the seniors. lt wasn't the entirely new thing that we had anticipated. ln fact, it wasn't different at all except that we received our beautiful class rings, we talked about our senior dances, the annual, the senior picnic lpioneer activity started by our classl, and for the first time we became a real united group, making the most successful class organization we had yet had. We were quite proud of our magazine sales. We reached our extremely high quota of 54,500 In fact we exceeded it to make our final sales amount to S4,643, and this made us Southeastern champions. For weeks later we teasted on those two pound boxes of candy awarded us for our good work. Perhaps the greatest achievement we have made this year has been the promotion of the honesty program. We reached another goal in our lives when we placed honesty as a paramount obiective in our school work. And now as the school year of 1949 draws to a close, we, the seniors, think over all that these 'I2 precious years have meant to us. And, when in later years we glance at our diplomas, so small and yet so significant, the thoughts of classmates, teachers, and twelve years of cherished experience shall fill our minds with happiness and yet with a little nostalgia. if Q' 7 15 ll Page l2l

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ULASS HI Tllltl' EVELYN BARTON, CLASS HISTORIAN Prologue The stotement, History repeots itself is certoinly true-especiolly in the cose ot closs histories. Therefore, I hope to be forgiven tor the continuol repetition used in my remorlcs .... As spring neors its end ond thoughts ot summer goily till the oir, so the thoughts ot groduotion till the oiir tor us, the seniors ot l949. As the yeor leoves spring behind ond goes into o new sum- mer, so we ore leoving our high school cloys behind ond ore focing the new experiences thot lie on our future. Prevolent in our minds cit this time is onother similor situotion thot occurred some twelve veors ctgo. We were looking forword to onother new ond toscinoting experience. Everything wos exciting ond interesting, even the new scor we hod on our orms ond that voluoble sheet of poper, proving thot we were reolly born, which mode us legitimote tirst groders. In those first six yeors tor moybe more for somet of grommor school, we lecirned the fundomentols ot reodin', writin', ond 'rithmetic. Then we probobly didn't reolize it, but we were wotching the present doy Porrish High othletes showing their skills ot the oge of nine ond ten. In the lost yeors ot grommor school we leorned with much ettort whot o noun ond odiective ore, little reolizing thot there ore such things os gerunds ond porticiples. Page IQO

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CLAS I'lillI'llIllil ILER PAYNE, CLASS PROPHET Alas! l am the prophet of the class of '49. For each of us I am to find a future. My best l've done to create fun and yet to still b Remember that l only tried to suit you. Isabell Grayson has won the title of a famous Power's model. And Neva Nabors, lab technician, has invented a new baby bottle. Edna Payne is in Hawaii married to her Navy man. Joe Lovoy beats the snare drum in the Million Dollar Band. The Texas ranch of Frances Stewart covers many miles. And Billy Buchanan's comic strips make money by the piles, Ullina Heinz has taken her horses to the blue grass of Kentucky. She was followed by Joe Hackman, better known now as Lucky, Mayor Jack King has built us a new city iail. 'Tis here that Billy Travis receives his week-end rnail. Mary Helen Lloyd traveled around the world on a motorcycle, While Jerry Piper was blessed with twins, Mitchell and Michael. Ringling Brothers Circus features Nell White as star of acrobats. Johnny Jones made his fortune manufacturing Welcome mats. Claire Rives is owner of her own little beauty shop. ln the field of engineering, Ronald Martin has hit the top. Page T22