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

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Seniors Class History Seniors, we made it. All's over, but the shouting or frowning as the case may be. But before we graduate, and people forget about the Class of 19453 let's look back on what's happened to us. Remember the big building, and how it felt to be a Freshman! After a few weeks of razzing we knew. Even then we longed to be Seniors. Bobby Wettach was president of Student Government and among other things we had an active Hi-Y Club, a band, -dramatics, and a tennis team. Lee Wiley was our class president and we spent our monthly class meetings writing a constitution. This was also the year the boys and the girls first tried to understand each other. Then came the tragic fire in the summer of 1942. We were like orphans, left without a home. That was perhaps the darkest moment in the history of the Class. The following fall when the new school year began, the Baptist Church took pity on us and graciously allowed us to use part of their building. Mr. Buckner was the new principal and with Billy Cheek as Student Govern- ment president, we started our sophomore year. This was the year that the new Eighth Grade was added. The new set-up left us still the youngest class in high school. That year Collier Cobb was the class president and under his leadership the class took great strides forward. Important events of the year were the spring production of H.M.S. Pinafore, which proved to be a great success, the rebuilding from scratch of the Library, and the first publication of the printed P7'0C07Ltll'7lf. Time passed quickly and soon another chapter in our class history was completed. The following fall found us still in the Baptist Church, but soon we real- ized that it was time for us to move on to new stamping grounds. For days the air was filled with rumors until that fateful autumn morn when we slow- ly plod our weary way to what was to be our last home-the Cone House. In less than two years we had traversed from the heights of good to the I nge T wen ty-sim'

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Class History---Continued depths of evil-from a Church to a fraternity house. Our goal was now in sight. Then came the first of Miss Anderson's great defeats. It was the an- nual Junior Magazine sale, and confident and proud to the last, Miss Ander- son saw her greatest hopes dashed to pieces as the Junior Boys with a last minute spurt, rallied to send her and her girls to the doom of defeat. Early in the year preparations were begun for the annual Junior-Senior and when this much-heralded event finally became a reality, all went home with satis- faction in their hearts, if not in their stomachs. Sam Summerlin was our president that year and presided at the dinner-dance. Elections of Junior Marshals and the handing in of a few late history contracts closed our third year at C.H.H.S. And then came our Senior year. We even felt different that first day. With Bill Olsen as our President we soon began to learn the worries we were to have to bear as Seniors. Class rings had to be ordered as did invita- tions, and caps and gowns. Work was begun on the Annual and continued throughout the year. And then there were the Juniors. Never in history had so few thought so much of so little. This was the year that the dream of the weekly printed Proconian became a realization. At Christmastime, amid the shouts of barkers, auctioning of pictures, giving of prizes, and the collapsing of the movie booth, the Proconival was deemed a huge success and over S100 was taken in. The C.A.P. and a swimming team were orga- nized. Helen Jane Wettach was the school president. With new uniforms and expert coaching the school's athletic teams prospered and the athletic year was a good one. And so we leave the High School after four long and hard years. Be- hind us we leave what we consider an impressive record in scholastics, athletics, and extra-curricular activities. To carry with us we have the memories of a few disappointments, but also the realization of many suc- cesses. In our hearts we have but one regret-that the four years have pass- ed so swiftly. Wherever we go or whatever we do, we shall never forget our happy 'days at Chapel Hill High School. HllllfC Page Twenty seven