Chapel Hill High School - Hill Life Yearbook (Chapel Hill, NC)

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1-in Amid a great deal of discussion and many turbulent class meetings our rings were ordered and reeeived. The c-lass threatened to return to the worship of iron iigures in December when the boiler burst and lengthened our Christmas vaeation. Our elass established the precedent in Chapel Hill High Sehool of the Juniors entertaining the Seniors in some way. As ours was the first entertainment it was neeessarily very modest. ln spite of the changeable weather on May 25, we, the Junior and Senior classes, journeyed to Sparrow's Swimming l'ool about four- thirty in the afternoon. The sun, possibly realizing the importanee of the oe- easion, eame out and lent his presenee to the festivities. Swimming was enjoyed by most of the members of the party. About six o'eloek we all went down to the bridge where we had supper. After eating, speeehes-dry, witty, dumb, and other- wisegwere made by various teaehers and students. All who eould sang songs. As the appropriate ending to a perfeet day we were guests 'of the Varolina Theatre at the nine o'eloek show. September 1928, saw the beginning of our final high sehool year. Tom VValker was elass president. Miss Penny, who was our home-room teacher, when asked to say something about the elass responded with this, HProbleni: Explain the funeral-like ealm on the seeond floor the day the Seniors went to the Legislature. We were, perhaps, the most undignified group of Seniors that ever graeed the room. At the beginning of the year we had quite an argument with the Juniors, who sueeeeded in raising a very unsuitable emblem on the flag-pole. As usual the elass of '29 emerged vietorious, so to speak, when several of the boys removed this disgraeeful objeet after a great deal of excitement and endeavor. Christmas holidays were lengthened by the epidemie of iniiuenza. After mid- terms had been passed for flunked, as the ease might bel the Senior Vlass eele- brated by going to Raleigh to observe the Legislature and inspeet the Penitentiary and Dix Hill. Near the end of the year several mothers of the elass entertained us at parties. Hilarious times were had at all of them. As eommeneement drew near we were thrust into a whirlpool of aetivity-- parties, exams, and the elass play. Finally, all, who had sueeeeded in passing Mr. King's History IV stepped up and were handed the reward of four years atiha rd labor-our diplomas. N! ? Twenty-five

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