Spartanburg High School - Spartana Yearbook (Spartanburg, SC)

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Seniors JIMMIE GLOMINSKI- THE MUSICAL SENIOR CLASS PRESIDENT was a member of the band during his entire high school career and first clarinetist and manager in his last year. Jimmie's music doesn't stop there, though, lor his classmates know well how he likes to sing in class! Interested in athletics, he played football and basketball in the color leagues. Jimmie was also a member of the Student Council three years, secretary during his junior year, vice-president of his homeroom his last year, and a member of the Beta Club. Friendly, popular, and interesting, Jimmie will be remembered as a good friend and a versatile student. HARRALL WALKER- HARRALL, BLOND, GOOD-LOOKING CLASS SECRETARY, led the 1942 Red Birds through I3 wins and four losses as captain of the team. A star of the varsity basketball team for three years, he won an honorary berth as a forward on the allrstate team chosen in the 1941 Scribbler poll. He was chosen the most popular boy in the senior class in the superlative voting, and was a runneraup lor the friendliest and most athletic. Hacky is really able to Keep 'ern Flying into the hoop. ln his junior year he also played on the varsity baseball team as shortstop. I9-412 fASS OFFICERS Ml GLOMINSKI, President BILL NEELY, Vice-President HARRALL WALKER, Secretary 9 DUREN JOHNSON, Treasurer BILL NEELY- BILL, HARD WORKING, DEPENDABLE, AND FRIENDLY, is well liked by both teachers and pupils. One of S. H. S.'s most versatile students, he was general manager of the chorus, a tenor in the glee club, and a member of the B football team in his junior year. He went out for the 1941-'42 basketball team. ln addition to being vice-president ol the senior class, Bill was secretary of the Student Council. He was chosen by teachers and pupils as the boy who best met the requirements of a good school citizen, He was also voted the best all-round boy of the graduat- ing class in the superlative elections. DUREN JOHNSON- THE TREASURER OF THE CLASS OF '42 is a real athlete. Duren was captain of the 1941 football team and a guard on the varsity for three years. Besides football, he likes baseball, swimming, and practically any other sport, He hopes to continue playing football in college next year. Duren looks the part ol an athlete, too, for he is dark, heavy-set, and muscular. He likes to be with people, and has been known around S. H. S. for his friendly smile. Swing music, mechanical drawing, the movies, and holidays are his favorite forms of entertainment. I

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After the school had thus begun to hum again with activity, the combined chorus and glee club, clothed in oriental robes, presented excerpts from Gilbert and Sullivan's colorful opera, The Mikado. Carolyn Collier's sudden fame spread like wildfire from the school to the city, then rapidly on throughout the entire state, due to the much-desired champion- ships that she won in district, area, and state competi- tion, in the American Legion's Fourth Annual High School oratorical contest. At the annual State Music contest in Rock Hill, highest honors were bestowed upon our s lendid band and orchestra, both of which had been enhiarged by the addition of junior high school musicians. Featured as a side-line, a number of our ensembles and soloists were judged winners of first place awards. As in l939, the Spartan tennis team swooped in to capture the S. C. doubles championship. Not satisfied with this accomplishment, Gus Chreitzberg gulped the ---. , 1'--' accepted by studentsg facul'ty members M. B. Self, L. L. Dunlap, and Walter Foster departed for active service in the nation's armed forces. The Dramatic club's interpretation of A Voice in the Dark, was at this time a particularly appro riate pro- duction, due to the fact that it reflected tiie school's new patriotic atmosphere. State-wide recognition was once more earned by our superb band when it traveled to Columbia in February and performed admirably before the General Assembly of the State Legislature. Sophisticated seniors began to bustle during the tinal school semester in preparation for their antici- Eated graduation. The class chalked up the amazing allot result of l55 to 155 over the controversy of morning or evening commencement exercises. A second vote ended all discussion with morning as the estab- lished time. Yes, indeed, graduation was a new ex- perience, and seniors' heads began to whirl-calling state singles just for good measure. cards, invitations, caps, owns, banquets, dances, and During the closing weeks of school, the Class of '42 i allY-d'Pl0ma5' came into its own at last. Gifted Nancy Harmon was And thus we brin ur classlyj chronicle to a close. appropriately selected to edit The Scribblern during Any si ' rity to in ' ents of actual occurrence is purely her senior year. Subsequently, popular Catherine Hale, inte i l fi following in her brother's footsteps, was the student ' body's choice for 1941-'42 Council president. Then four jp Nyjqfsr TURBEVILLEI 'aunt juniors found themselves tagged S. H. S.'s '41- l42 cheerleaders. They were Mary Allen, Ann Murph, M j DUNKUN BHRNSJDE' Parker Tabor, and John Brady. Part IV CURRENT HISTQRY Constituting an irreparable loss to all, the tragic death of our beloved friend and teacher, Miss Annie Gentry, occurred near the reopening of school. Jimmie Glominski equaled his brothefs similar achievement of a few years previous by landsliding into the office of senior class president. Hilarious S. H. S. students frisked and frolicked en- ergetically at sophomore, junior and senior square dances, presented under the sponsorshi of the Student Council for the purpose of raising suigcient funds for chorus vestments. , By the treacherous Japanese attack of December 7, the nation was plunged deep into the existing world contlagration, with the result that senior high became thoroughly war-conscious. A troubled silence hung over the vast gymnasium as students filed solemnl in to hear the Presidentis memorable war addressg the pur- chase of Ll. S. defense savings stamps was promoted by the school each week, with much confusion involved, the 'first school air raid drills took place, extra holidays provided for because of draft registration were eagerly P+

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