Casar High School - Knob Yearbook (Casar, NC)

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CLASS HISTCRY In the summer of 1943,a happy, good looking, frightened, and proud group of boys and girls entered the first grade at Casar School. The first year Mrs. Ola Whisnant was our teacher. We learned some simple things, but mostly we got accustomed to going to school. When we entered the second grade we were pretty well in p1ace,and were under the direct- ion of Mrs. Marvin Eaker and Mrs. Joe Queen. In the third grade we felt even better to receive an arithmetic book. This year Mrs. W.H. Dodd and Miss Iva Ledbetter were our teachers. In the fourth grade Mrs. A.V. Nolan and Miss Beadie Melton were our teachers. This year we added even another book, Geography. We made the fifth grade successfully with Mrs. Geral- dine Christopher as our teacher. Mrs. Ada Warlick was our teacher in the sixth grade. We are proud to say she beat and drilled the parts of speech in our heads along with other choice bits of knowledge. Mrs. Selma Helton was our seventh grade teacher, and by this time we thought we knew it all. When we entered the eighth grade, Mr. Paul Willis was our teacher. We were his first home room class. Isuppose he was somewhat disappointed, but with these students from Moriah ---Christine Johnson, Ruth Ann Price, Betty Brackett, Mildred and Margie Richards, Mamie Queen, Kathleen Walker, Robert Shelton, and Beauford Hudson ---joining our class, we weren't too bad. When we received our certificates promoting us to high school from the eighth grade, we thought we were really grown up, all through with elementary stuff and ready for the first high school class. We entered high school under the sponsorship of Mr. W.E. Halyburton. We elected as our class officers: President, Don Devineyg Vice-President, Antha Brackettg Secretary, Betty Mc- Neelyg Treasurer, Jo Ann Cooke. This year we studied rather hard. It took us a while to get accustomed to changing classes every hour, but we soon got in the swing and learned the true feeling of being in high school. Miss Cleo Withrow was our sophomore sponsor. This was the year we really got off on the right foot. Due to the fact that Miss Withrow was green to what a home room in high school was like, we took advantage of it. She was a college teacher and certainly wasn't prepared for what she found in us. We got along very well on the whole I guess. We elected our class officers--- President, Don Devineyg Vice-President, Larry Costner, Secretary, Margie Brackettg Treasurer, Jo Ann Cooke. Miss Withrow was very good to us, especially at the Christmas Party. We felt bad about the way we had taken advantage of her. Mrs. Laura Gentry was our sponsor our Junior year. Our officers were: President, Larry Costnerg Vice-President, Antha Brackettg Secretary, Jo Ann Cooke, Treasurer, Betty McNeely,

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LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT We, the Senior Class of Nineteen Hundred Fifty-Five, of Casar High School, being of unstable minds, do hereby make our last will and testament. ARTICLE I J We, the Senior Class, bequeath to our faculty a Senior Class of the coming years that will be more studious and pay more attention on class than we did. To Mrs. Gentry, we leave fond hopes of a class that will respect her as we did. To Mr. Ayers, we leave the hopes of a private secretary who will leave him more time for his classes. To Mrs. Boggs, a class in which everyone passes Biology in one year. To Mrs. Falls, a Home Economics and Science class without a study hall. To Coach Halyburton, we leave hopes of a team that won't keep him on pins and needles during a tight ball game. To Mr. Beam, a group of boys that he will be able to get along with better than he has in the past. ARTICLE II To the Sophomores, we will our mirror since they do so much primping. To the Freshmen, we drop a reminder, bidding them to study hard now so that they may be- come dignified Seniors soon. ARTICLE III George Ann Fredell leaves her quiet ways to Mildred Hastings. Anne McNee1y Hoyle wills her ability to quit smoking to Madge Towery. To Donald Downs, Herman Melton wishes to leave his ability to know the sign of cheating on class. I, Don Mode, bestow my ability to drive the professor's jeep on Raymond Walker. J.W. Hunt bequeaths his ability to work crossword puzzles to Frank Hoyle. Sue Spake Lackey leaves her secret on How To Catch A Man to Alice Fortenberry. Bernice Downs Wright wills her ability to dance to Evelyn Brackett. I, Antha Brackett, will my love for peanut butter crackers and basketball to Hal Cooke, and my bus 529 to whoever can crank it best on cold mornings. Christine Johnson leaves her studious ways to Shirley Stacy. Billy Joe Gragg,being the most helpful boy in the Senior Class,wills his talent to Carl Hull. Pauline Eaker wills anything she has left at Casar School to Betty Sue Hamby and Lee Attle Moses with hopes they will take care of it. I, Ruth Ann Price, bestow my ability to be quiet on class on Rayford Ledford. To Wayne Newton, Garland Queen wills his ability to get a different girl every night. I, Betty McNeely Benfie1d,wi11 to Stella Mae Luckadoo, my know-how in getting along with the teachers. Charlene Parker wills her good note book backs to Joe Meade. I, Larry Costner, will my position as Beam's Boy to Kirby Beam. I, Don Deviney, will my ability to make an A under Mrs. Boggs to Buster Carpenter. And we, Jo Ann Cooke and Margie Brackett, having nothing to will except close friendship, will it to Juanita Martin and Winnie Benfield, hoping they will stick together through thick and thin as we have. M argie Brackett Class Lawyer

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1 CLASS HISTORY Thixs year we had quite a bit of responsibility. We gave the winter carnival to raise money for the Junior-Senior Banquet, at which we had a great time. It was held at the Shelby Hotel, April 30, 1954. This year the agriculture boys raised money for a big trip. They toured many states while we girls stayed home and dreamed. This, our Senior year, we are nineteen in number after few gains and many losses. During our high school years, Evans Swink and George Ann Fredell have joined our class. Under the G I Bill we have two veterans, J'.W. Hunt and Herman Melton, of whom we are very proud. It seems as if school was too much for a great number of our class. Through the past four years the following students have dropped out: Elsie Lou Parker, Lois McNeely, Mamie Queen, Edna Crotts, Bertha Cooke, Charlene Self, Johnny Rich, Bobby Downs, Carl Pruett, Betty Brack- ett, Kathleen Walker,and one veteran, Worth Walker. We have some who are still in school and others who have moved away. Those who have moved away are: Kathleen Walker, Evans Swink, Beauford Hudson, Mildred and Margie Richards. By now you have already guessed we had a rather large class when entering high school. The ones who have dropped out are scattered far and near. Part of them are married, part working, and naturally some are loafing. We have four students in our class now who are married. They are Sue Spake Lackey, Anne McNeely Hoyle, Bernice Downs Wright, and Betty McNeely Benfield. This year we chose for our officers, President, Don Devineyg Vice-President, Larry Cost- ner, Secretary, Jo Ann Cookeg Treasurer, Margie Brackett. And we are proud to have Mrs. Laura Gentry for our sponsor again this year. We couldn't ask for better. . The hard fought basketball season is over. We won second place in the county Tournament. With the help of every Senior, we have successfully finished selling the ads. We had quite a time giving the Senior play. The Senior class of 1955 has worked twelve enjoyable years for the time we would be re- ceiving that long waited-for diplomag some have even more than twelve years, but as we reach the crossing to an unknown, we are ready to take our individual place in the world, knowing it will be just what we make of it. We are well secured because the teachers of Casar High School have given and done everything for us they could, although we never let all we should have soak in. But we are very thankful for everything they have done. Now as each takes his place in the world, we are sure there is success for us if we remember our motto, Not merely to exist, but to amount to something in life. Jo Ann Cooke, Historian