Sumner High School - Echo Yearbook (Greensboro, NC)

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vat mu I £ May 21, 1946 Act I Ealutatorian CLASS DA :: THE oEAIOR SCOOP x. ' ewspauer Office r LI. Riley, Owner of local newspaper Student editor of the paper J. J. Fred Adame Eddie, An office boy Hiss Smith, Secretary to the editor Reporters, Dolores Gain, Virginia. Ralph, A substitute student editor Tom, Student editor during emergencies Jake, An emergency advertising man Marcus, An emergency newswriter Mrs. Amanda Derrickson, Member of the complaining public August Swinburne Jones, A self-styled poet Rufus Riddle, A seeker of revenge Edna rerdue Elroy Dodson Dicky Mooney Sidney Pope Emma Zack Short 3ell, Irene Gray Marcus Short Charles Austin Byron Stevenson Leonard Farlow Joyce Poe Wayne Hall Bill Lewis Act il prophecy Fred Adams, Editor of local paper Dicky Mooney Jake Smith, Office boy Byron Stevenson Edith Howard, Society editor Betty Mae Sharpe Jane ' - alters, Secretary to the editor Marie Gamble Louise White, Fashion editor of Magazine Gladys Perdue Act Hi Final Class Meeting Class Class Mr. Riley Fred Adams President of the Radio Announcer Historian Poet Class Testator Statistician C-iftorian Valedictorian Class Mascots Motto Colors Flower (11th grade) Senior Class (11th grade) Class Class Class Melvin small spar Elroy Dodson Dicky Mooney Marcus Short Mark Short Dolores Cain Virginia Bell Irene Gra 3 r Marie Gamble Dorothy Newman Emma Zack Short Swain and Sandra Keen •k makes a great fire ' 1 Blue and White Whit© Rose Appreciation is expressed to Mrs. C. V for helping us with the music. Directed by Miss Emma Hemphill Gamble at mmm

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CLASS HISTORY 1 We , the Seniors of ’48, have among our ' souvenirs some treasured remembrances that mean more to us than could pos¬ sibly be expressed in these few lines of history. But for the benefit of refreshing our memory, I will recall a few of the most outstanding ones. I can never forget the year 1936, on a much dreaded but beautiful morn, when the parents of the now Senior Class trudged the weary way to Sumner School. I recall particular¬ ly Mrs. W. A. Short and Mrs. M. R. Perdue leading two very sad looking little girls with corkscrew curls. Their mothers signed the names on the roll as Emma and Edna. From the way things stand today, maybe each of us would have been better off if we had worried a little more. What happened to these two cry babies 77 ? Two honor roll students and even more than that the two most-outstanding members of our class tonight, scholastically speaking. It wasn’t long before these students who entered the first grade in 1936 were in the Grammar Grades. Several of us who didn’t begin our school days by crying were added to the honor roll. During our grammar school days we had both happiness and disappointments. Our play periods helped in our entertainment program; such things as the loss of our gymnasium served as disappointments. These things will re¬ main with us forever. It was in September, 1944, when the long awaited day of our entrance into high school came. There were about fifty of us demure Grammar Grade Graduates who were making our in¬ itial step into high school. Now we were in the building where the students changed classes every forty-five minutes and where we had different teachers for different subjects. That was truly a change? This year the girls had an oppor¬ tunity to learn to cook and sew. You bet we really liked the cooking part; but when it came to ripping out seams, that’s quite a different story. The boys learned all about raising poultry. At least that’s what they say, I must not forget to mention the fact that we did have some difficulty getting our courses straightened out. Up to this point dur¬ ing our school days, we were taught certain subjects regard¬ less. But now some of the boys decided to study history in¬ stead of agriculture. To© we had to learn the rooms in which to go. Upperclassmen as well as members of the facul¬ ty were very helpful and sympathetic. During this year Irene Gray, the quiet T conservative type, found a way to keep from walking to the Home Economics Building. She was hit by a car and knocked over there. We had several ups and downs during this school year, and I must admit that we were +£ : i