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

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more of the activities of the school and to hold offices and take responsibilities. Our stunt Iuvenile Iury won second prize at Stunt Night. That year, as during each of our first three years in high school, we worked very hard to try to beat the class of 1955 on Stunt Night. No matter how hard we tried, they always finished first, but our stunts were a lot of fun never- theless. Robert Blackwood was President of CHHS in 1953-54, and Mike Gallagher was Chief Iustice. Teddy Moore was the president of our class in our Sophomore year, the year that contained a little of the excitement about the newness of high school life that our Freshman year did and a little of the respon- sibility and work and fun of running the school activi- ties that our Iunior and Senior years did. 1954-55-our Iunior year, and the money we had been saving, and the plans we had been making, and the dreams we had been dreaming all came to a head, for the Iunior year is the time when one of the most ambitious undertakings of a class is carried out, the giving of a Iunior-Senior. Clarice Merritt and Martha Ann Cheek were President of the student body and Chief Iustice respectively, and Cookie An- drews again had the very important role of class presi- dent. Early in the fall we waged a magazine-selling campaign and were quite successful as salesmen, man- aging to make more money than any other Iunior Class before us. This was hardly completed before we launched into rehearsals for our Iunior Class Play, Hook, Line, and Sinkerf' It developed that many people in the Class of 1956 were really hams', at heart, and that fact coupled with many nights of practice made the production a howling success. Ka Smith reigned as Sweetheart Queen at the Sweetheart Ball in February. In March came the basketball tour- naments. We all went to Henderson to see our team take the District Championship and then down to Sanford to see them win the Consolation Champion- ship in the State AA tournament. Everybody yelled until he was hoarse, but we think maybe the Iuniors yelled just a little louder than anybody else. All year plans were made for the Iunior-Senior. It was to be held at the Hope Valley Country Club on May 13, and the theme was to be Under the Seaf, The weeks immediately preceding the banquet and dance were certainly hectic ones-fish had to be painted on dance programs, names had to be lettered on place cards, an octopus had to be constructed, and shells had to be lavishly sprinkled with silver glitter. The great day finally came, though true to Friday the 13, it was rainy. The rain stopped in the afternoon, how- ever, and as we danced that evening to the music of lim Crisp's band, we certainly felt repaid for all our hard work. Graduation that year made us a little sad because we realized that the next year it would be we who would be up there and then our high school days would be over. We didn't have time to be sad for very long, though, for elections had already given to members of our class the highest offices and re- sponsibilities in high school. September, 1955, and at last we were Seniors. We were determined to make every single minute of our last year in high school be one in which we were doing something, and we very nearly succeeded in this. Ronnie Lackey was President of Chapel Hill High School, and Teddy Moore filled the post of Chief Iustice, which had greater importance since the Honor System had been definitely voted in during the spring elections. Michael Alexander was chosen president of our class. We felt even more like Seniors when we received our class rings, and these were proudly displayed to many admiring underclassmen, students who probably wondered just as we had if they would ever attain the coveted title of Senior. As the year went along, our duties and activities seemed to gain momentum, and there were many prepara- tions for graduation: calling cards and invitations were ordered, and we were measured for our caps and gowns. Then came our Senior Play, and the Iunior-Senior, this year being given for us instead of by us. Before we had time to think about its com- ing, final examinations were over, and graduation had arrived. ln four years the members of the Class of 1956 had shared many wonderful experiences and had succeeded in developing a class spirit and loyalty which would never be forgotten.

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MICHAEL VAN CLEAVE ALEXANDER A.Y. 3, 4g Student Council I, Trcas. 3g Honor Council 23 Hillife Business Manager 4g Iunior Marshal, Class Pres. 4g Band lg National Honor Society 4. FAYE LLOYD ANDREWS 4-H 1, 3g FHA 2, 3, 45 Iunior Marshal. FOYE DURHAM ANDREWS 4-H 1,'Vice.Pres. 33 FHA 2, 3, 43 Iunior Marshal. MARGARET ANDREWS Music Club l. 23 Rhythm and Blues Club Treas. 3g Glee Club 1, 2, 33 Class Pres. l, 3, Homeroom Pres. 2, 43 Y-Teens 1, 2, 3. 9 MARY CUTLER BAHNSEN A.Y. 1, 4, Treas. 2, Pres. 3g Glee Club 1, 2, 3, 45 Dramatics Club 3, 4, Basketball Manager 3, 4, Class Treas. 43 Homeroom Vice Pres. 43 Y-Teens 1. 2, 4, Sec. 33 Red Cross Council 25 Girls' State 3g Proconian I, 2. 3, Assoc. Ed. 4g Monogram Club 3g Technicians Club Ig Music Club 2. IANIS MARIE BELL Shelby High School, Shelby, N. C., I, 2, 39 Glee Club 4. VIRGINIA CAROLYN BENNETT Music Club l, 2, 4g Rhythm and Blues Club 3, Office Staff 4: Homeroom Pres. 1, Vice Pres. 43 Y-Teens l, 2, 3, 49 Band 1, 2g Red Cross Council Chairman 3. GORDEN LYLES BLACKWELL Basketball 1, 2, 3, Co-Captain 4g Monogram Club Pres. 43 Car Club -lg Student Council Treas. 4: Class Treas. 3g Home- room Pres. 2, 35 Band 1, 2g Safety Patrol 1, 29 National Honor Society 4. -il' ,mf 4 M.il -I fu- 49 I Aays M' 'frm new-v Yis- New alia' 41, ,- ..-c, .5. 3 .,--sv ., i J V' ...Z