Beaufort High School - Mainsail Yearbook (Beaufort, NC)

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The History of The Class of ’25 I don’t know how to write a class history, and especially the history of the class from 1921-1925. It is almost a super-human task to write all the exploits of such noble persons, but I am forced by the authorities to attempt this great deed. First I will tell you of whom I write: the original members of the Class of ’25—Oleta Barber, Ruth Brickhouse, Dolly, Elizabeth, and Ella Chap- lain, Pauline Chadwick, Lillian Ewell, Edna Ireland, Ruth and Katherine Norcom, Lydia Parkin, Margaret and Eleanor Ramsey, Sarah and Elizabeth Rumley, Alstine Simpson, Kathleen Skarren, Mildred Whitehurst, Carolyn Felton, Violet Fodrie, Charles Clifton, Gilbert Glancy, Claude Guthrie, Charles Hassell, Clyde Hill, Christopher Jones, William Longest, Dorsey Martin, Jack Neal, Marion Noe, Edward Piver, Adrian Rice, Clarence Simp- son, Rufus White, Graham Whitehurst, Francis Hatsell, and Robert Taylor. September 10, 1920, we began our four long years of joys and sorrows with Mr. Pittman as our Superintendent. Not long after school started, we decided we had to do something for the Seniors, so we gave them a party in the Croaker Club.” We decorated in the Senior colors, served ice cream and cake, and every one declared it was the best party they had ever at- tended. The girls won the Basket Ball Interclass Championship Banner for that year. Don’t think that was all the entertainment we had because we had Volley Ball and Base Ball. Also, Oliver Springle entertained us every few days by running some one around the room. One day, the initiating tribe spanked Ruth Brickhouse because she yelled for the tenth grade and we wanted her to yell for the ninth grade at a basket ball game. In September 1921, we began as Sophomores. We were presented with (FIFTEEN)

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Mildred Arville Whitehurst “SHE KNOWS WHEN TO SPEAK, KNOWS TOO WHEN TO BE SILENT.” Arcian Literary Society ’24. Secretary-Treasurer Open Forum '25. Domestic Science Club '25. Sewing, studying, and loving. Are Mildred Whitehurst’s joys. She loves her parents and her girl friends, But not the boys. (FOURTEEN)

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Luther Perry, George Thomas, Martin Willis, Elizabeth Lewis, Emma Tay- lor and Christine Dusenbury. On October 31, we gave the Seniors a Hallowe’en Party. Of course it rained and Margaret’s paper dress was torn off. I will tell you a secret. After Christmas when we came back to school, Kathleen Skarren brought a new mirror and two days later Oleta, Margaret and Lydia were fighting over who was the owner. The result was a broken mirror and seven years bad luck. Several of us were insulted by being told we had too much powder on our noses, also too much lip-stick and rouge. I heard someone say, “Oh compact, where is thy beauty?” In 1923 we gained our Junior dignity? We also became less popular with other High School students and every where we heard, “The Juniors are trying to run the school.” No, we were not trying to run the school but we were trying to accomplish something as we had played long enough. That year the honorable Guion Barbour was added to our number and became famous by being the originator of the “Demerit System.” We de- bated the subject, submitted a plan which we had worked out, to the school and it was accepted. After a few improvements it was adopted and the High School is now being run by this plan. We are proud of our improved discipline and both teachers and pupils are relieved that no one is made to “stay in” nowadays. One bright day we missed the boys, and later learned that they had been excused from school, taken their mules and carts, and gone to the country. They went to get clay in order to make it possible for us to play basket ball instead of going swimming in the “pond,” as the basket ball court was then called. We find that we can play better since our court has been improved. Christmas we gave the whole High School a Christmas tree and gave away presents. After Christmas Literary Societies were started and most all of the officers were chosen from our class. It was most every morning that Guion led the chorus of LooO LooO—LooOOO. (SIXTEEN)