Sumner High School - Echo Yearbook (Greensboro, NC)

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outstanding honors bestowed upon the members of the Senior Class, I should mention that Bill Lewis was editor of this year’s annual; Emma Short was D. A. R. Representative and editor of the ’’Sumnette”; Gladys Perdue was business mana¬ ger of the ’’Sumner Echoes”. Don’t think the other members of our class aren’t important, for if it had not been for them, these people could never have carried on as well as they have. Our memory books arrived in January and some of them were practically full before the end of April. Oh, those snapshots in some of them will certainly recall to us cher-r ished memories. In March each Senior received printed invi¬ tations to the much talked about and anticipated occasion, the banquet given particularly to honor us. This took place on Friday evening, March 26, at the Bliss Restaurant. We shall never forget the grand time we had under the excell¬ ent presiding of Elroy Dodson. He really was a grand toast¬ master . As we advance nearer to our last days at dear old Sum¬ ner, we recall the selection of the cast for the Senior Play We’ll have to hand it to our class. We had a talented group to take part in ’’Miss Smarty”. For our performance a lot of the credit goes to Miss Thelma Cornette. So this is Class Night. To Miss Emma Hemphill, many thanks for helping us with this program and may the best be hers forever. Gradu¬ ation is yet to come, and a little dreaded, I believe. We each say we are glad, and maybe we are; but the thought of leaving, what has been the same as home to us for the past twelve years brings us regret Here we are on the last phase of our school career, some to go to college, some to go to an office job, and still others to become homemakers To each of our fellow Seniors go our sincere wishes for a most happy future--whatever it may be. To Mr. T. H. Smith, our principal, go many thanks and much appreciation for his untiring interest in each of us and for his many helpful suggestions. To Miss Thelma Cornette, our Senior Class Sponsor, we owe much. She has stood by us when the going was rough as well as when things glided along smoothly. To each member of the faculty here at Sumner--we do appreciate you. We haven’t forgotten our underclassmen. We will always look to you for friendship and companionship. And last, but by no means least, our parents To you—we sin¬ cerely hope that you parents of the Senior Class can look at us and say, ”A task well done’.” You’ve done your part, and we hope we haven’t let you down. Historian Delores Cain

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CLASS PROPHECY - oi it n As you know, I have been Fashion Editor of Vogue Maga¬ zine for the past three years. I have just returned from a round the world trip on the Pan American Constellation and decided I would run by to see some of my old friends in Sumner. Well, I left La Guardia Field on April 30 and to my a- mazement, I found that Byron Stevenson was the pilot of the Constellation”, and Virginia Bell was air hostess. I spent four days in London visiting the fashion shops and there I found Irene Gray, of all people, a designer of fash¬ ions who has caused even the Paris designers to watch her progress with envy® While waiting in the hotel lobby one night in London, I looked at a very dignified man seated beside me with that preoccupied air of a scholar® I noticed he was strangely familiar. I saw that he was reading RECENT SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERIES which assured me that it was Billy Lewis. He now heads the Science Department at Oxford University® After seven days in India I flew to China and there had tea with the Generalissimo and Madame Chiang Kai Shek© In the conversation Madam Chiang Kai Shek was telling me about her interest in the Mission Schools and mentioned Dorothy Newman of our class and said she was doing a wonderful job bringing light and hope into the lives of those Chinese children. I spent several days in Manila. I learned that Sidney Pope is Chief of Staff at the Manila General Hospital ® He is doing a wonderful job in combatting malaria. We left Manila and flew to Okinawa for a few hours® We were met at the airport by none other than Col, Charles Austin who is in charge of the U. S. troops on the island. His wife is the former Betty Sharpe. We paused for short stops at Guam, Wake, and Midway Islands, then flew to Hono¬ lulu, Among the group to place leis around our necks when we arrived was Marie Gamble with some of her young students® Marie told me that Emma Short is in charge of the U e S« Schools in the Hawaiian Islands We were entertained in the palatial home of Mr and Mrs, Robert Baker who control vast interests in the pine® apple industry. Mrs. Baker is the former Dolores Cain® From Honolulu we flew directly to San Francisco© As we glided over the Golden Gate Bridge we noticed the neon signs.advertising the Crescent Night Club . We learned that it was owned by Dicky Mooney® At this swanky night