Antioch High School - Torch Yearbook (Hartsville, SC)

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This was a year of hard work, and the dreaded ordeal of examinations was passed with no casualitios. The teachers had endeared themselves to the hearts of the class, and there was feeling of genuine friendship throughout the school. And now we come to the fourth and greates year in the history df the class. We automatically became Seniors in September. With the gaining of this title,we began to take ourselves more seriously than ever before. And -when I say, seriously, I mean seriously! As the year draws to a close we are positively dizzy with dignity. All this is looked upon with friendly amusement by the teachers, who regard the result of their four years of hard labor with rightful pride. They have converted a band of ignorant, untamed aborigines into intelli- gent, courteous citizens of their great school, and have lost only the usual propotion in the process. Better yet, they had found that for which they had been searching so eagerly, a genius; in fact, several of them; and all of the class were passable. Bobby Carroll Easterling thought he'd like the Army better than 3 more months of school;so he left in January to go to Fort Knox, Kentucky. The organization of the Senior Class was noteworthy, the following list of officers being in charges President, Leslie Byrd, Jr. Vice-Pres- ident, Mary Ethel Johnson, Secretary and Treasurer, Josephine Griggs. Our marked events of nineteen-hundred and fifty were: Washington Bound— How To Raise §900 I Ve had a chicken supper and talent show in November. A Valentine Carnival and stage show in February. The Woodmen of the World gave a fried chicken supper to help us - on our way to Washington. Our class published for the first time in the history of the school an annual The Antioch Memiors. We had a Cliristmas party in December, Strawride and Weiner roast in April, Junoir-Senior party and Picnic at Cheraw Beach in May. It may be that we have erred on the side of restraint in writing this history. So we take the opportunity to say now that in our far from humble opinion the class o ' nineteen-hundred and fifty is the most bril- liant and attractive of any class known to history and will be always re- membered by the faculty of the Antioch High School and the people of the community as that wonderful class of nineteen-hundred and fifty. JOSEPHINE GRIGGS HISTORIAN