Brookhaven High School - Ole Brook Yearbook (Brookhaven, MS)

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lZlASS lllSlllliY School days, school days, dear old golden rule days. Could we ever forget our first day at school! Most of us came with our mothers and fathers, like Mary's little lamb, and when they left, we stood around looking like Little Bo Peep's lost sheep. After a while, we were ushered into Miss Magee's,Miss Stewart's and Mrs. Bee's rooms. There we learned how to spell a few simple words and write our names. By the second, year we had made many new friends and didn't feel so alone. This was the year our little red school house was torn down and we,went to the Methodist Church for school. This winter we had the big snow! Boy! Did we have funl We had about a week's holiday, but there was a catch, we had to make it up on Saturdays. That year we had Miss Clark, Miss Granberry and Miss Graham, who struggled along trying to teach us the three R's. Now we were in the third grade and had gotten into the full swing of school life. This was the year we were able to take our books home overnight. We were so happy because we had home- work! Can you imagine being happy over something like homework? Miss Priebatsch, Miss Daniels and Miss Jones finally drilled a fair amount of the multiplication tables into us. , - The fourth grade was the year we had our May fete when we got out of school every afternoon to practice. The fete was a big success and we had a wonderful time practicing for it. This was the year we all started buying war bonds and stamps. Every week we would aU try to buy two or three. ln this grade Miss Harris, Mrs. Steve Smith and Miss Wallace gave us our first taste of Geography. ln the fifth grade we had a wonderful time giving the puppet shows under Miss Hendrick's direction. Miss Namie and Miss Douglas also helped make that year a success. The sixth grade was another especially to be remembered, in that year we had three teachers and got to change classes. Under Miss Nutt's guidance we learned not only English but the bad influ- ence of alcohol. Miss Burt tried to drill a little Math into some of our thick heads. Mrs. Wales taught us how to write the Palmer Method. Will we ever forget all the songs we sang while doing push-Dulls and ovals? Now we come to some of the best years in our school life. The seventh grade was a little bit strange to us. Everybody seemed so old and we felt about as scared as Miss Muffett when she saw her friend the spider. This year we had many teachers. Mrs. Seavey, Miss Davis, Mrs. McNair, Coach Therrell and Miss Greenway all tried to help us along the road to education. By the time we entered the eighth grade, we had got used to high school life and its many activities. We started taking in- terest in all the football games and pep meetings each Friday. Mrs. Short, Miss Daily, Mrs. Malvaney all tried to prepare us for the four years of high school. Lowly little freshmen were we in the ninth grade. That year we weren't allowed to be initiated because of a new ruling. I think most of the girls were disappointed, but the boys were secretly happy over their stroke of luck which kept them from being stroked behind. The Sophomore year was rather exciting, for we had snow again that year. It didn't stay on the ground very long, but for the brief time that it was there, we threw enough snowballs to make up for the long time it hadn't snowed. Now in 1948 we were Jolly Juniors. The two highlights of this year were selecting our class rings and the Junior-Senior Banquet. We felt so proud when our rings came in that we went around showing them to everybody in school. We worried and worked so hard over the banquet that we were dead tired when the big night came. But when we saw the result of all our work, we forgot how tired we were. Forty-niners will always recall back-aches and great fun. Now we are sophisticated Seniors, only l don't feel sophisti- cated, do you? This year has been just wonderful. We had so much fun at the football games, even though we did have to work. Home- coming was such a big success that we hope that the Senior Classes in years to come will keep it up. Other things that added very much to our Senior year were the Senior parties, Spoken English plays, Senior Class play, Senior Class Day. All of these contributed toward making this the most wonderful year of our high school days. As we, the Seniors of 1950, leave OIe Brook, we want to express our deepest gratitude to Mr. Lipsey, Mr, Roach, and the faculty who have done so much to make our school days the hap- piest years of our lives. We only hope that the Seniors of the future have as many happy memories as we are carrying with us as we leave Brookhaven lfgh School, JAN ALFORD Class Historian :sw-.ut V. 521' i V 1 A 1