St Stephens High School - Corona Yearbook (Hickory, NC)

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HISTORY We have reached a milestone in our career. The upward climb as high school students has been relatively long in some ways, but in other ways, it has seemed very short. When we leave this year, it will not be with the glee that we usually greeted summer vacations, but with a touch of melancholy and sentimentalism. Four years ago we entered St. Stephens as Freshmen. In our first year we were segregated--Mr. Clarke being the adviser to the boys and Miss Georgia Sherrill, to the girls. To quote Mr. Hoyle, it was a case of separating the thorns from the roses. Unruly and carefree the majority of us were unwill- ing to settle down to the regular routine of school life. At the beginning of our Sophomore year, we showed more susceptibility to the cultural and intellectual aspects of life. Due to the number in our class, we were still divided, but this year the boys and girls were together. Mrs. Hazel Purkey and Mrs. Anne Gray Anderson were our home room teachers. Also we were very happy to extend a welcome to the students who came down to St. Stephens from the local parochial school. It was with some apprehension that we greeted our Junior year, for we realized the responsibilities that lay before us. To sponsor the annual Junior- Senior Banquet was our main objective and to do this we had to raise money. As our first project, we sold magazines for which we received a certain per- centage of the profit. We are very proud of the fact that our sales topped all previous ones. Next we had a box supper,which was held in the school auditorium. In view of the approaching Yuletide Season the auditorium was decorated with an eye for Christmas. The high-point of our projects was the presentation of a three-act comedy entitled Little Miss Fortune. The play was admirably cast and presented. From this we netted quite a bit of profit, and we were very well satisfied with the results. Due to certain complications the banquet had to be staged at the White Pine. What we missed in the fun of decorating the audi- torium was made up by the pleasure we had at the banquet. The major event of the evening was a personalized gift presented to each Senior designating some individual characteristic. We are deeply grateful to Mrs. Christine Mauney, our Junior adviser, who through her counselling and patience, guided us successfully through our third year in high school. On August 29, 1949, we Juniors advanced into the Senior room. Mrs. Mauney came with us because of the death of Miss Rosa Sox, the beloved senior adviser. As Seniors we, of course, realized there was a lot of hard work ahead. The receiving of our class rings has been a special joy thus far in our Senior year. At this time all of us are working with our editors, Wanda Bolick and Edna Mae Herman, on the Corona of 1950. As we look back on our high school days, we find that they have been filled with much happiness, and we look forward to graduation with mixed emotions. Even though we are proud to be able to complete our school course, we will be sad to sever the old ties and friendships we have enjoyed for the past years. We shall always be grateful for the guidance that our principals, Mr. Hoyle and Mr. Murray, have so cheerfully given us. Our class motto, Ending but beginning, gives us a challenge to go on to greater things, but the portion of our lives spent at St. Stephens will ever be predominant in our memories. 18

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SENIORS CHARLES YOUNG Corona Staff-Advertising Manager; Cheerleader 4; Athletic Assoc- iation 4. Hickory High 1,2,3. CLASS POEM Now our Senior year is here, And the time to part is near. When these portals we shall leave, Mem’ries sweet will ever cleave. See our colors Gray and Red; By Red's courage we are led. Gray's for the clouds that will not stay, For they all will fly away. Our red rose we all do love, For to us it's from above. It will bloom for us through life, And will help us win each strife. To our motto, we’ll be true — End each task, then start anew. We have learned this in our school, And we’ll try to live this rule. Farewell, now, we say to all; Our best wishes on you fall. As we leave St. Stephen's High, In each heart there is a sigh. Betty Sue Turner 17

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superlative: BEST ALL ROUND Fred Huffman Rachel Granger MOST COURTEOUS Floyd Frye Betty Sue Turner MOST LIKELY TO SUCCEED Fred Huffman Janet Stafford MOST POPULAR Harold Kent Jettie Rullman WITTIEST Jerry McGinnis Earlene Miller FRIENDLIEST Floyd Frye Rachel Granger BEST LOOKING Clyde Hollar Jettie Rullman BEST ATHLETES Bill Simons Betty Sue Shepherd 19