Blakely Union High School - Bobcat Yearbook (Blakely, GA)

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E Illll Norman Bailey Smlth All out for football, bruises and bumps. Football l,2, 3, Baseball 2. 3, 4,Track 1,2,4,B Club 2, 3.4, F F A 1,2,3,4, Asst. Sec. 2. Sec. 3, Pres. 4, Ga. Planter Degree 3, Mer- it Award 1, Delegate to State Leadership Confer- ence, Chr. of Conduct of meetings 3, Chr. Leader- ship Comm., Class Vice Pres. 3,4, ProgramChr. 3, FHA Boy of Year 3, Boy of Month2,3,4,Hi-Y 1, Mu- sic2, 3, 4, School Patrol 1, 2,Annnal Staff,Who's Who. Crawford Paul Swann 'Never idle, never still, Crawford's always talking, talk he will. Football 1, 2 , 3, 4,Basketba1l 1, 2, School Patrol l, 2, l-ll-Y l,2, FFA 1, DramatlcClub 3, B ClI.lb2, 3,4, Wl10'S Wh0g Music 4, Delta Sigma Pi. Lucy Ann Wasdln 'lf she had a brain, she'd be dangerous. Basketball l,2,3,4, B Club 2, 3, 4, FHA 1,2,4,T1'i-Hi-Y l,2,4, Annual staff, Who's Who, Music 3, Softball 2, Dramatic Club 3. Jacquelyn Widener 'At the piano she does ex- cell, a second Chopin, who can tell. F H A 1.2, Song Leader 2, Trio 1,2,Pian1st FFA Quartet 1,2,BetaClub2,3,4,Treas. 4, Dramatic Club 3,4, Dist, Meet Soloist 3,4, lst Place 3, School Trio 3, Typing 3, Annual Staff, Who's Who, Glee Club 1. E Illli Mary Stokes Nice and always a friend, this she will be to the end. Basketball 1, 2, 3, 4, Co- Capt. 4, B Club 1, 2, 3, 4, FHA l,2, Tri-Hi-Y 1,2,3, Who's Who, Annual Staff, Music 1.2, Softball 2. Herbert James Swords Friends, Romans, Country- men, lend me your women. FFA 1,l-li-Y l,Basketball 3, Football1,2,3,4,Capt. 4, Who's Who, Track 1,2,3, B Club 2,3,4, Vice:Pres. 4, D C T 4, Baseball 3,4, Dramatic Club 3, 4. n Eugene Watson l'm through teacher, now you can talk. FFA 1, 2, 3, Vice Pres. 3, Football 3,4, Basketball 2, B Club 3,4, Track 2, DCT 4, Who's Who. Harvey Woolf l.n football he's quite the thing, in fact he's good in everything. Football 1, 2, 4, Basketball 1, 2, 3, 4, Co-Capt. 3, 4, Baseball l,2,4, Track 1.2, 3, 4, B Club 2, 3, 4, Class Treas. 1, 3, 4, Who's Who, Mr, B.H.S. Delta Sigma Pl, Annual Staff, School Pat- rol 1,2, FFA 1,4, Dramatic Club 3, 4, Halloween King 4.

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Er long time ergo, said Uncle Remus, er whole batch ob chilluns started to school in Blakely, Georgia, honey. Bless grashus, chile, dey wuz good nice chillun. Dey mommas tuck 'em to de schoolhouse en sot 'em down en lef' 'em wid de teachers. De teachers tol'dem dey wuz goin'on a big education hunt in high school an' ter play lak de wuz on a boat. Seems dis education hunt would take dese chllluns to heaps of places, er so dey sez. 'Course dey wusn't really gwlne nowhere - dey wus just makin' believe. Well, sez de teachers, de name ob de boat wuz - The Shell and it tukThe Class of 54 - dat was whut de chillun called deyselves - ober de ocean of Grammar School. Dey had their- selves 'er time on dis boat en de teachers wuz Miz J. E. Freeman en Mis' Verne DuBose. two nice white ladies. Dey call Miz Sessions de captain ob de boat. Now new chllluns wuz coming to de school all de time en in de second er third year of dis tfip dey wuz takin', Mary Frances Owen and Norman Nobles come to go wld 'em. ln de fourth year dey changed boats en dey left de old Shell en clum on a bright shiney new un - De Blakely-Union School -dey called hit. Now all de time dey wuz get- tin' closer en closer ter de place where dey wuz gwine en Jackie Widener en Miriam Bynum en Lucy Wasdin en Herbert Swords en Betty Odum jined up wid 'em. Dey get Themselves a new Captain too 'caze Miz Sessions, she never went no fu ther. After er sailin' en er sailin', dey come ter er island named Junior Hil Dem chil- lens seen dem dat dey had ter go fru' er whole lot er pre-le'ming 'fore dey could get ter dis hyar High School. Dey wuz scared ob dis place enyhow kaze dey called sum ob de older chilluns cannilalo out wid de good guides dey had - de teachers yo' know - dey fin- ally got ter de country where dey put out ter go - de Blakely High School. Now all 'long de journey some chllluns lef 'em en some new ones jined. Er pile ob chllluns come up frum Cedar Springs now - Mary Stokesen Hallie Ruth Perry en Wynette Hayes en Doris Odum. William Amos en Evelyn Clark en Jimmy Brown en Eugene Watson come too but I desremember whar frum. CLASS Ill 'l'0llY