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CLASS HISTORY SENIOR CLASS HISTORY FOR THE YEAR 1949 A.D. Prologue: This is a true story of the High School life of the Senior Class Family of the year 1949 as related by a member of the Grandmother Class to her young grand¬ daughter, a member of the Eighth Grade Class of 1985. Granddaughter: “Oh, Grandmother, I’m so scared! Tomorrow I start to High School”! Grandmother: “There, there, dear! Don’t be fright¬ ened. Everybody has to go through it at some time or other.” Granddaughter: “Oh, Grandmother, tell me about when you went to High School. Please!” Grandmother: “Well, alright, if you really want to hear - It all started very long ago on a damp rainy September day. I, along with about two hundred other green-horns , stood gazing open-mouthed at that huge, monstrous, big building called Can¬ ton High School, which was to be our home for the next five years. We toddled eagerly up the front steps and were herded into the auditorium, thence to our home rooms. Here we were given a program card with subjects, teachers, room numbers, and a floating period . We were told not to go down that stairs to get to first floor, not to take the other stairs from the attic, not to enter this stair from second floor. The bell did ring. We did go! Where we did, nobody knows. For the next few days, we ”8 Geers were kept busy running errands for upper classmen, taking up funds to buy an elevator to go from first to third floor, inquiring where room 13 was and ending up in the Boiler Room, getting locked in the Library for taking 1 Vz dinner periods. Oh, those were trying days but binding ones! It was during those history-making days that I met your Grandfather. In our Freshman year, we were really grown up. We were so ' rambunctious that it required two presidents, David Mitchell and Etta Mae Smith, to guide us through our tribulations. How¬ ever, we survived! Our Sophomore year was a good one, but every ounce of us was striving toward being a Junior, so ' s we ' d be in with the Seniors. (The Seniors always like the Juniors because they want a good Prom.) Finally, our Junior days rolled around, and what happy days they were!! That year several of us made our debut as actors and actresses and went to Chapel Hill to enter the festival. We ' d never been on a great big university campus be¬ fore. I guess we were really branded as Moun¬ taineers! Our class rings were ordered and this was the first year they were made standard. Dur¬ ing all this entanglement, we had decided to give the Seniors a Stardust Prom. This was really something, although it did almost break us up— financially I mean, and we got out of two whole days of classwork. Our efforts were rewarded by the best Prom ever given in Canton High. Fall came, and we were Seniors! Early in the year we received our class rings. And did we point and strut! The Christmas play, in which a number of Seniors had roles, was tagged the best yet . The climax of the year was our week ' s visit to Washington. We gazed, looked, walked, watched, shoved, pushed, for that entire week to see Washington at work. Upon our return, Commencement was staring us in the face. The prom, a real formal on,e, was quite an event, and I won ' t ever forget it. The Senior play (a howling success!), Class night, the Baccalaureate Sermon, and finally Graduation. That was the happiest and saddest night of my life. Yes, my dear, that was a very long time ago. But it seems only yesterday. Granddaughter: “Oh, gee, Grandmother, I didn’t know so much had happened to you. If I can be half as good as you!” Epilogue: (Any facts and references used in this history are not fictitious, and any similarity to any person living or dead, is purposely intended.)
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