Bessemer High School - Spotlight Yearbook (Greensboro, NC)

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CLASS PRAYER By David Starr Dear God: Even as today has marked the sunset on a part of our life we raise our voices in hushed prayer for thy guidance in the future. Even now breaks the dawn of a new and infinitely more important part of our life. So we pray to thee to help us reach the heights we aspire to attain. Above all, dear God, whether we become great or small keep us ever humble for to be contemptuous of they fellow man is to have missed a great part of life. Help us remember not to be vain or proud but that just to be a man among men is thy will. Be it ever our motto to help those who cannot help themselves and always lend a helping hand to ease the life of someone not so fortunate as ourselves. Father, we would ask thy help that we may not live in vain. Our life will not be in vain if we could but leave something for those who pass our way that will make their life better for our having lived. When the time comes help us to see that we will not pass by our chance. Help us to know the good from the evil; guide our feet in the right paths; and when we are tempted to stray, even guide us in the homeward way. Ah, fleeting life how quickly art thou passed! Be it forever or just for today be it, dear God, as thou wouldst have it and above all thy will be done. Amen.

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CLASS HISTORY Someone has said, All good things must come to an end. So it will be with our school days. As the time for their close rapidly comes upon us I was asked to write the Class History. Thinking hard over the happy years we have spent together as a class, our trials, joys, and sorrows I was strongly impressed by the thought that we too soon would part. Soon, too soon, our class days will end and the final chapter of our school days will be written. With the writing of this chapter the book of our class days will be ended and closed and our class days like all good things will come to an end. In 1937, under the guidance of Mrs. Wilcox and Miss Fryar, we began our long struggle for an education. The following years were not so exciting, but we realize they were the basic miles of our long struggle. The great privilege of changing classes came to us in the seventh grade. We changed classes with the eighth grade. We were also placed into separate rooms —the boys in Mr. Hines’ and the girls in Mrs. Roberts’. The only thing of importance is the eighth grade had the privilege of having our home rooms in the High School building. In 1943 the big day finally come when we entered High School. The most interesting thing that happened that year was a hay-ride. Mid-term passed; then the day of our final exams which made us Sophomores for the coming year. During our next year, we girls and boys were again separated. We also, became more familiar and interested in school activities. Some of the boys and girls went out for sports, others for Glee Club, Newspaper Staff, or other activities. Our year spent as Juniors was a happy one. Miss Arvin, our home room teacher, and our grade mothers gave us a Christmas party we will long remember. We considered ourselves important that year because of the fact three of our members were on the newspaper staff; and sevral of our boys went out for sports. Two of the Junior boys made the all-county football squad. After much hard work, the highlight of that year came on April the ninth, in the form of a banquet at the Bliss Restaurant which we gave to entertain the Seniors. At last we are Seniors! We have achieved much through cooperation among our classmates, among other classes, and the faculty. We have sponsored the third edition of The Mouthpiece, the school paper, and the second edition of The SPOTLIGHT, our annual. The Beta Club was also chartered, and ten of the Seniors are members. The parties we have had this year have all been tops, but there is one which stands out foremost in our minds. Our grade mothers gave us a party at Christmas which we will long remember because of the wonderful time we had. The Junior-Senior Banquet this year was grand. We are sure that there has never been a more wonderful banquet than this one. The dramatic highlight of our Senior year was the Senior Play, My Heart’s In High. The cast was an excellent one and each person was well fitted for their part. It was a grand success. We consider our school years as prosperous ones, and as we leave with our diplomas in our hand, we must remember that as we shut the door to our school life, we are opening the door to life’s school. ANNIE LAURA HARRIS.

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SUPERLATIVES MOST CONCEITED Bobbie Jean Baker Juan Spanolia BEST DRESSED Bill Parr Ernestine Leonard MOST STUDIOUS Annie Laura Harris Garland Bunton MOST ORIGINAL Charles Cooper Myrtle Kinley