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

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Class History On September 6, 1944, our class became freshmen in high school. This was one of the best years of our lives not only because we were finally in high school but we made new friends, all coming from Carrboro, Chapel Hill, and White Cross schools, who were to be with us through the best of our years in high school. Helen Jane Wettach was president of the Student Council and we got our first taste of Student Government and had our representatives to the council. Robert Brooks was elected president of our class for the first year. During this year the school cafeteria was reopened to the high school students for the first time since the fire which burned the high school building. The Civil Air Patrol was organized for the first time in Chapel Hill, and although we weren't old enough to join we got much pleasure out of watching the group work. The first annual Proconival was held during our Fresh- man year, and gave us something on the social side to look forward to in our remaining year. A Career Day was held in the school and we were given an opportunity to discuss with others our plans for the future. Mr. Honeycutt was with us for the last time this year and when the school year end- ed we were all left wondering what Mr. Davis, our new superintendent, would be like. On entering school our Sophomore year we met our new superintendent, Mr. C. W. Davis. Many things we1'e changed in the school this year and we all buckled down to real work. Houston Teague was president of the Student Council and our class president was Janet Ellington. Mr. Lawerence E. Pittman organized the Athletic Association to take care of all matters pertaining to athletics. The new skating rink was built behind the Elementary school, and plans were started for the new school build- ing. Under M1'. Davis we had our first mid-term exams and although we thought they were rough it really made it easy on us when time for the finals came. This year for the first time in Chapel Hill, Teen Town day was held. On this -day we had our Mayor and other city officers to take over for an hour in the Town Hall. The first High School Glee Club, since the fire, was organized with Mrs. Jane Ishee as director. Our Junior year began with the election of Mike Hendren as our class president. Smitty Line- berger was president of the Student Council this year, and two members of our class were officers of the council also. The Teen-Age Club was organized in our junior year and many other clubs were add- ed to the few which had already been started. Mrs. Inez Chapman replaced Mrs. Ishee as the Glee Club director and the girls won a number one rating in the district contest and went to Greensboro to the State contest. Our class sponsored two large social functions, the Valentine Ball with the crown- ing of Ester Cheek as queen and the Junior-Senior banquet which was a very successful one. The biggest high-light of the year came when we moved into the new wing of the new building about two months before school was out. We entered our senior year with great anticipation. This year was our last and we tried to do many things for the school and the classes to come. Neal Creighton was president of the Student Council and again two more of our class mates held offices of the council. Robert Brooks was elected president of' our class. We held a big drive to get money to reopen our Recreation Center which had been closed because of the lack of funds on which to run. Mr. Cecil Longest organized the Monogram Club and all persons holding a monogram were allowed to become members. Much of this year was spent making preparations for graduation in the spring. DOT HOGAN, Class Historian Page T wen ty-six

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Superlatives R W W HYW C N Top left-Most pers'01iality: Mary D. Williams fbest all roundj, Jack Cohen fbest dresseclj, Jean Vashaw I best dressedj. Top right-Class baby: Joyce Booneg friend- liest: Colleen Hackneyg most naive: Dot Sloan. Lower left-Best looking: Cecil Riley, Ruth Sturdivant. Lower right-Biggest flirt: Robert Brooks K most likely to succeeclj, Peggy Durham. Page Twenty-five

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Senior Prophecy This is a great day, folks, here at Cone House Downs,-for the class of '48 is gathered for their 23rd reunion! Ah-It's almost time to begin folks. Here is the radio announcer everybody knows- Mr. Freddie Merritt! Mr. Merritt, The mike is all yours. Friends, students, and great-grandparents, lend me your ears. As we look around Cone House Downs, we see that great basketball coach, Lawrence Cheek and with him is his lovely fiancee, the Incomparable P.D., America's No. 1 torch singer who is now featured at the famous night club, Hill- view. Talking to Coach Cheek and P.D. are John Boone, the All-American Football player of 1950, and one of his great grandchildren. G1ancing over to the west end of the track-Ah-I mean field, we see the famous personage of Lou Wootten, head of the firm, Wootten, Wootten and Pendergraft, Photographers. With her is the brilliant pianist, Madeline Jennings. And you remember Dot Sloan, folks. The dramatic star of The Fude in the Sun or better known as Feuding, Fighting and a Fussingf' Talking to Miss Sloan is the world's funniest comedian, Mary Deane CDoodleJ Williams. And in the striking blue ensemble is Miss Jeanne Vashaw, the world-renowned Paris designer. Standing over in the corner talking to Robert Brooks, the 33rd President of Vassar is Dean of Chem- istry, Nancy Cheek, who won the 1952 P.U. Van Smellic Prize for her outstanding work in Chemistry. With Dean Cheek is the new modern artist, Nancy Young. Over at the east end of the track-I mean field-talking to Phyllis fHosenoseJ Ferguson, still trying to get in stories for the Proconian fshe finally graduated last yearj are the singing sensations of the nation, Misses Helen Thompson and Jessie Ward. And just getting on the track-oh-f1e1d,in the horse and buggy is Bob Farrell, the famous horse racer. I see that he has brought the world's fastest typist with him, Miss Frances Durham. Now they've stopped to talk to Miss Durham's rival, Miss Madeline Copeland. I hear there is to be a contest between them soon. Thomas Harrison and Needham Layton, Orange County's prize farmers, brought two of their pigs for the barbecue this afternoon. And I believe that Joyce Clark and Janet Ellington, the famous die- titians, have made the barbecue and planned the rest of the menu. Heard the other day that Colleen Hackney and Joyce Boone have bought the Long and Short Circus and they seem to be doing quite well. Don't tell anybody but Edna Womble, owner of Hillview, is the silent partner-silent, that is. Also Karin Jones was working in the show as The Little Woman Who Wasn't There. Bernice Fawthrop's teeth are a shining example that she practices what she preaches Kas a dentist, that isj. She's over there in the grandstand, I mean the balcony, talking to the Face All America Knows, Ruth Sturdivant. Jack Cohen is still writing for the new Carolina Mag. He's over there talking to Neal Creighton, who turned out to be a policeman. Heard that Dot Hogan was coaching a swimming team for Harvard. Wonder how she's made out? She and J. W. Duke fpronounced Dookj, pardon-Dr. J. W. Duke, who turned out to be a veter- narian fdog doctor-that ish are conversing fGet that big word, will you!J with Kathy Hogan. She's a ped-pedi-anyway-she's a baby doctor. Myrtis Williams went into the Diaper Service. She's over there with the famous coiifeurers, Dot Perry and Sue Partin. All are doing a thriving business so I hear. The Pangee Lipstick Company is now run by Mlle. Pearl Smith. Talking with Mlle. Smith is the Square Dance Queen, Jewel Merritt. By the way-she said to tell you there'd be a square dance after the barbecue! - Oh, yes-Cecil Riley and Clyde Young. They're truck farmers. You know what a truck farmer is-one who farms on a truck. Talking about trucks and cars, did you know Roy Ray drove a taxi now? Gonna inherit it someday. Everybody's heard of the famous Slamagon Madle's-Well, today We have one right in our midst. Miss Betty Jean Ivy. She brought a friend from New York, her press agent-none other than Miss Marion Moore. Miss Ivy, under the direction of Miss Moore-has modeled for Carter's Fashion Center here in Chapel Hill fJane Carter, that isi. Did you all know that Lois Whitt became famous when she jitterbuged at Timbustor! Norma Neville really turned out to be a journalist in New York. Sharon Pendergraph turned out to be an English teacher and did you know that Jo Bissell really turned out to be a doctor. Now-folks-Let's eat!! I'm hungry. Aren't you? fNever heard of a senior that wasn't. Have y0l1'?l KATHERINE THOMPSON, Prophet Page Twenty-seven