Buies Creek High School - Legend Yearbook (Buies Creek, NC)

Page 8 text:

Our Fs ok aa pee yee ae a eo “Now | am called Kivett Building but through the years from 1903 to 1926 | was known as the Academy Building. I’m older than any other building on the campus; so, | could tell you many an interesting tale of glorious struggle if you had time to tarry. “After the school grew from an academy toa junior college, | housed the local public school from 1926 to 1948, when the public school moved into its new home and | was reconditioned last summer for college classes, at a cost of $25,000. “To all comers and goers, | am a monument to the faith of the many who believed in the school’s motto, ‘To the stars through difficulties’.”’ Prior to 1948, the public school was operated on the campus of Campbell College. Dr. J.A. Campbell was principal from 1887 until his death in 1934. He was succeeded by his oldest son Leslie H. Campbell who served as principal fifteen years. Mr. Torrey Johnson of Stedman served as the first principal. He was succeeded by Mr. Coyte C. Lanier, now Assistant Superintendent of Wake History SEMEL LONE ASG LEBER NYE RELIES Sti EI BINS Re 2 Oe TA SIE OEE CO ee Ketoes : County Schools. When Mr. Lanier moved to the principalship of Rolesville High School, he was succeeded by his cousin, Mr. H. Haywood Hamilton. After a year, he was followed by Mr. Roy Parker. Mr. Parker served as the principal of Buies Creek School until 1968, when he moved to Highfalls, North Carolina. He was succeeded by Mr. John A. Willoughby, who is still the principal of Buies Creek High School. (All preceding information was submitted by Dr. A.R. Burkot, Campbell College.) “It goes without saying that Buies Creek Academy is Harnett’s most famous educational center. “Actually, it began its existence in 1887 ina one room ‘up and down boarded’ building. Through the years, under the able direction of its founder, the Rev. James Archibald Campbell, it grew steadily, always striving to offer more to its students than a bare knowledge of the three Sa reading, ‘riting, and ‘ritnmetic They Passed This Way by Malcolm Fowler

Page 7 text:

A Thing of Beauty A thing of beauty is a joy for efer; Its lobeliness increases; it mill nefer JJass into nothingness; but still fill keep A bofuer quiet for us, and a sleep | Hull of street dreams, and health, and quiet breathing. Cherefore, on eGery morro, are fe foreathing. A flofery band to bind us to the earth, Spite of despondence, of the inhuman dearth Of noble natures, of the gloomy days, Of all the unhealthy and o’er-darkened Mays Made for our searching: ves, in spite of all, Some shape of heanty mobes aay the pall Hrom our dark spirits. Such the sun, the moon, — Grees old and young, sprouting a shady boon Hor simple sheep; and such are daffodils With the green forld they life in; and clear rills — Chat for themseloes a cooling cobert make ‘Gainst the hot season; the mid-forest brake, | ‘Rich with a sprinkling of fair musk-rose blooms: © And such too is the grandeur of the dooms ie habe imagined for the mighty dead; All lotely tales that foe hafe heard or read: An endless fountain of immortal drink, jdouring unto us from the heaben’s brink. - Nor do fe merely feel these essences Hor one short hour; no, eben as the trees Chat whisper round a temple become soon Bear as the temple's self, so does the moon, Che passion poesy, glories infinite, Haunt us till they become a cheering light Wnto our souls, and bound to us so fast, Chat, thether there be shine, or gloom o’ercast, Chey alfeays must be With us, or We die. — John Reats

Page 9 text:

First Senior Class of BCHS Our Number 1 Teams Francis Loreena Johnson, the great-grandmother of Tim Ennis, was the first student enrolled in Buies Creek Academy. Pants were forbidden. If one wore pedal pushers, she was sent home to change. The Senior Class had picnics. Ole B.C. as it is now began in the fall of 1948. The building was new and without water, electricity, or heat — with hours of 8:30-1:00 for the first semester. There were six high school teachers with twelve Seniors in the graduating class — most of whom live within fifty miles of school now. A brand new principal, Mr. Torrey M. Johnson, had his hands full for the school year of 1948-1949; there was no gym, no playing field, no activity bus. Many handicaps were overcome. School has come a long way, and so have the student members of the 1949 class. Miss Dorothea Stewart was the favorite teacher. (Mr. Calvin Mangum)