Bainbridge High School - Purango Yearbook (Bainbridge, GA)

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CLASS HISTGRY Do you know, Iohnny? Know what? Martha. How in the world, or how in the Senior Class, did we ever get selected to write the class history. I haven't even been here all the time so I don't know what happened. I'm sure I don't know how we were selected, but I do know one thing. What's that? I know that we've got until Monday morning to get this thing ready. Mondayl Yeahl Monday. I'll tell you what, Martha, since you don't know what happened the first six years of school I'll brief you while we are writing. Okay? nokayfl Well, I don't have a photographic memory, but I'll try to remember everything exactly as it was. Let's see now. It was back in September 1945 that thirty-four of us-we were angels then-ar- rived to start our first day of school. I can see us now, all scrubbed and starched and feeling big, but holding tightly to Mama's hand. There we were: you know Harriett Harrell, Gordon Searcy, Bruce Woodbury, little old Eleanor Haynes, curly haired Betty Brockett, Nelda Pol- lock, Patricia Hall, Betty Lane Kaln, Carolyn Cooper, Mary Charles Roberts-freckles and all, Freddy Alford, skinny Frank Battles, Pete Sharber -he had his front teeth then, Mildren Sharkey, Johnny Fleming, Billy Allen, Bobby Higdon, Phyl- lis Davis, Charles Martin, Iean Adams, Tommy Donaldson, Ila Darley, Sadie Emanuel, lean Iohn- son, Iohn Ingram, Gretchen Gause, Phoebe Porter, limmy Sullivan, Martha Connell, Ieannine Hurt, Cecil Simpson, Shirley Davis, Iohnny Knight and lohnny Daniels. In the second grade the magic key opened the door to admit SuzannePetty1ohn, Donia Wa ters, Betty Io Roland, Robert Woodham, Myrtice Dyches. What? Where did I get the key? Well, Betty said we were supposed to have a theme of keys in our annual, so we may as well start unlocking some doors to personalities and friendships as well as doors to learning while we are at it. During the third year our key again opened the door so that Iohn Bates, Ramona Duggar, Ieff Cooke, and Ellen Durham could come in, but while they were coming in Robert Woodham slipped out. In the fourth year of our school life we let Harriett Thigpen corne through the door of knowl- edge, and we transferred Betty Io Roland and Myrtice Dyches to other schools. By the end of the fifth grade we had opened the door so that Frances Hawkins and Alechia Hatcher could enter. Of course we opened the door with our key, which has become customary by now, you know. Another one slipped out: this time it was lean Adams. When we used our key to unlock the door to the sixth grade, we thought we were getting to be real grown-up, because now we had THREE

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' 9 D' 'rf . S .aggg-A l szmon nom: noon sponsons Mrs. Alta Humphrey, Libmrirrng Mrs. Icme Edwards, History: Mrs. Ioe Dishonqh, General Science: Mrs. Cleo Tyson, Math- emcltics. fill it SOPHOMORE HOME ROOM SPONSORS Coach Bill Pimberton, Moth, Basketball: Mrs. Ruby Brown. Commercial Subiects: Mrs. luke Watson, English: Mr. B. C. Haynes. D.C.T,, Driver Education. df' Ag L 5 1- IUNIOR HOME ROOM SPONSORS Miss Pat Britton, Physical Educntiorig Mrs. Iecm White. l'-lllflo lish: Mrs. Lottie Bell Parker. Home Er-onomics, Family Hr-V lotions: Miss Irma Morgan, English, Guidance. FR HMAN HOME ROOM SPONSORS Coach Sam Williams, Civics, Football: Mr. Ed Wheeler, Shop, Agriculture: Mr. Charles Bailey, Shop, Agriculture: Mr. G. R. Tyson, History. EIGHTH GRADE HOME ROOM SPONSOR Mrs. Sara Henry, Moth: Mrs. Ed Wheeler, Home Economics, Svience: Couch Guy Sullivan, Moth: Miss Cluranell Speiqht, Enqlisli, Georgia History. SEVENTH GRADE HOME ROOM SPONSORS Mrs. Phoebe Sellars, History, Reading, English, Spellinq: Miss Esther Amold, Geofjrfrphy, History: Miss Myrtie Hunt. Arithmetic, Enfilish: Mrs. Marvin Yeager, Enqlish, Geoq- rcphy.

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teachers. Sayl Here is where you come in, Mar- tha Dean, along with Kenneth Rice, Wanda White, Beth Long, and Phyllis Cobia. By this time there was quite a large group of us. The seventh grade was quite an unusual one, for here, as you will probably remember, a great change came: the boys discovered that there were girls around and the girls . . . well they played coy and hard-to-get. It was in this year that the door was opened and we welcomed Delilah Griner into our class. Robert Woodham came back to us for only a short time, and then he was gone again. He just kept leaving us and coming back. As he was leaving something else slipped through the door. We couldn't quite understand what it was, but Miss Arnold told us that the thing was Steve Syer, a boy from Sao Paulo, Brazil. lust think, a boy from another country who could speak another language. Now, wasn't that some- thing. The eighth grade brought forth new adven- tures . . . walking from class to class, and other interesting changes. Here Laurita Walker came in and lean Adams came back to us. johnny Knight left through the door unlocked by our key. And how else do you think we would get the door open? Finally, the long awaited time came, and we were at last in high school. Boy, wasn't it em- barrassing to get lost and wander up the wrong stairway. The old key lyes, the same onel was getting rather rusty and we just could get the door open wide enough to pull Scott Connell, Betty Io Roland, Ferris Sandlin, Iulia Taliaferro, Delores Clenney, Whitley Brown, Christine Woodward, Bar- bara Bates, PeQQY Brady, Mary Ellen Wall, Betty Sue Hunt, Beth Miller, Ioan Griffin, Phyllis Powell, Wallace Weathersby, Archie and Wanda Ehlbert through the door to share our new adventures- the adventures of being ninth graders. In the tenth grade, we just couldn't get the door open, because our key was too rusty. Any way we pulled Ronald Durham, Will Little, Rhetta Hester, Kay Martin, and Leonard Harrell, Edward Brooks, Cool Cofty, Buck Powell and Iohnny Knight . . . who had come back again, under the door to join us. Billy Allen and Beth Miller were afraid of the rough door treatment so they hopped out through the window while no one was looking and they were gone from us. When time came to admit those who would join us for our lunior year, we decided that it was too rough to pull them under the door, so we put a ladder up to the window and in climbed Robert Woodham . . . home again, Margaret Rose LeGalley, Gerald Boutwell, Winfred May and Dorothy Knight. Then came the Senior Year . . . this year, which was destined to be the best one yet. We found it locked, not with a lock that our rusty old key would fit, but with a brand new combination lock. A few of our sharper students figured out the combination and we entered along with four new members: Pate Bridges, Ann Phillips, Beth Miller . . . who just couldn't stay away, and Micky Doss. You know, Martha, although we have had lots of fun and have learned much from our won- dertul teachers, the night we have looked forward to for so long will soon be here. Though we may not be so eager to leave, we'll walk right up there, receive our diplomas and start out into the world in our chosen ways of life. MARTHA DEAN IOHN FLEMING nn