Biscoe High School - Yearbook (Biscoe, NC)

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Howard Britt Marshall Maness Paul Maness Vernon Myrick Dickie Poole Billy Saunders Fred Staley Martha Buie Blanche Chriscoe Senior Class Roll Bernice Coggins Virginia Davis Estelle Dyson Blanche Goodman Doris Greene Carol McAlister Mary Anne McKinnon Barbara Maness Faculty G. B. Lamm, Principal R. H. Matthews, Science - Mathematics Hugh Thornburg, Agriculture Mrs. Mrs. Mrs. Mrs. Mrs. Mrs. Mrs. Miss Miss Mrs. Mrs. Miss Mrs. J. M. Connor, English - French - Commercial Fuller McDuffie, English - History R. D. McLeod, Eighth Grade Lois Callihan, Seventh Grade Walter Kanoy, Sixth Grade Floyd Haywood, Fifth Grade Carol Neighbors Mary Stewart, Fourth Grade Maude Maness, Third Grade C. R. Poole, Second Grade Warren Steed, First Grade Wilma Helsabeck, First Grade Hazel Armstrong, Music

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1950 LAURELS TO THE SENIORS Martha Buie - First place winner in the essay contest sponsored by the Biscoe Wo- 1nan's Club, entitled Our American Herit- age and Our Responsibilities as Ameri- cans First place winner of the Peace Ora- torical Gold Key. First place winner in the essay contest on The Truth About Bever- age Alcohol , and second place winner in the county finals. Salutatorian of her class. Carol McAlister - Winner of the Babe Ruth Sportsmanship Award for the girls, Co-Captain of the girls' basketball team, second place in the essay contest. Vale- dictorian of her class. Dickie Poole - Winner of the Babe Ruth Sportsmanship Award for the boys. Captain of the boys' basketball team, second place winner in the essay contest, The Truth About Beverage Alcohol . High hearts are never long without hearing some new call, some distant cla- rion of God, even in their dreams, and soon they are observed to break up the camp of ease, and start on some fresh march of faithful service. And, looking higher still, we find those who never wait till their moral work accumulates, and who forward resolution with no rest, with whom, therefore, the alternation is instan- taneous and constant, who do the good only to see the better, and see the better only to achieve it, who are too meek for re- morse, too earnest for repose, whose wor- ship is action, and whose action is ceaseless aspiration. J. Martineau Citizenship Medal Again the Junior Woman's Club is a- warding a citizenship medal to the student in high school who complies most fully with the requirements set as a standard for a good citizen. All students in high school are eligible for this award, thus making it possible for the same student to win it as often as he is adjudged worthy. The qualifications of leadership, sports- manship, scholarship, attitude, and service were considered as a basis for the selection of the recipient of this medal. lt is a distinct honor to Martha Buie to have won this medal two years in succes- sion. Her loyalty and unselfish devotion to all activities of school life are indeed to be commended. Hicks Memorial Medal Miss Carol McAlister, valedictorian of the senior class, has been named the 1950 winner of the Hicks Memorial Medal. This medal was awarded for a number of years to the student with the highest scholastic average by Mrs. W. B. Hicks as a memorial to her husband, a devoted patron of the school. Since Mrs. Hicks' death, her daugh- ters have continued the award.

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Wan If but one message I may leave behind One single word of courage for my kind It would be this-Oh, brother, sister, friend, Whatever life may bring, what God may send, No matter whether clouds lift soon or late, Take heart and wait. Despair may tangle darkly at your feet, Your faith may be dimmed, and hope once cool and sweet, Be last, but suddenly above a hill A heavenly lamp, set on a heavenly sill Will shine for you and point the way to go How well I know. For I have waited through the dark, and I Have seen a star rise in the blackest sky Repeatedly - it has not failed me yet, And I have learned God never will forget To light His lamp. If we but wait for it, It will be lit. -Grace Noll Crowell