Chapman High School - Panorama Yearbook (Inman, SC)

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HISTORY OF CLASS OF 1939 On the tenth day of September in the year of 1928, life began for a jolly group of boys and girls in lnman, South Carolina. Eleven years may seem long to one but for us we were eager to get a glimpse of one part of school about which we had so often dreamed. This is where our adventures began. Among the dreamers on that day were: Thelma Babb, Willie Mae Britain, Mildred Cothran, Helen Hall, Rosamond Lawrence, Lucy Rogers, Charles Smith, Jane Willcins, Henry Wingo, Marion Greenway, Margie Emory, Ruth Strange, Paul High, Vivian McDowell, Ethel Haynes, Mozelle Wilson, Edna Ballew and Hovis Robbins. Our first two years were tender years, such that we can never forget They built the foundation of our education, whether good or bad was left en- tirely to us Mr. C. B. Haynes was our superintendent and with the assistance of Misses Sarah Shands, Eva Fagan, Marie England and Louise Ross we ad- vanced in our ABC's to be classed as second graders. During this year Rosamond Lawrence left us, to return in the seventh grade. Upon entering our second year we found our teachers to be Misses Sarah Whitlock, Ann Cooley and Mrs, S. J. Morrow. lt was here that Gertrude McClain, Dorothy Fox and Maxie Bebber joined us and Ruth Strange left at the end of the year. We studied hard so that we could enter the third grade the next year. Our third grade teachers were Miss Bertha Wells and Mrs. Ray Prince. During this year we tool: our first examinations which were unusual to us then but to which 'we later loolced forwerd. Our fourth year began with Misses Mattie Turpin and Etha Brown and the fifth with Misses Alvis Broolcs and Janie Henderson as teachers. ln the fourth year Cecelia Waters and Hollis Brooks joined our group. Reaching the sixth and seventh grades we began to feel a little more important after having overcome a little of our timid ways. We began paving the way for good scholars with Misses Hattie McCullough, Lucinda Dillard, Willie Henderson, Mrs. V. E. Rector and Mr. T. D. Stillwell as our teachers. ln the sixth grade Clyde Finch joined us and in the seventh Thirza Lancaster joined our happy band also We were proud of our seventh grade because the girls won for the school a beautiful cup for participating in the baslcet ball ,county contest. Mozelle Wilson won first place in the county English contest. The time had now arrived for us to loolc forward to being high school students. W were a merry crowd on the morning that we entered lnman High. Just to talce the name freshman was a big achievement for us Although we

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lznew nothing about the ways of high school, we made our way from one room to another learning the four new faces to be Lucille Broome, Edisto Edwards, Charles Ragan and J. D. Brannon. We also learned that Misses Elmina Wages and Nita Turner were the home room teachers and that Mrs. W. R. Newbury, Misses Aurelia Bush, Katherine Guess, Mr. B. W. Gibson and T. B. Cooper were to have a part in teaching us. The requirement for us during our freshman year was to malce four units. This we did and were called sophomores the next year. Our group in- creased by the addition of Mary Chesney, Billy Graham, Henry Wofford, Charles Spearman and Kenneth McDowell. We found that our ninth grade home room teachers were Miss Wages and Mr. Earl Winn. The next year we toolr the name of juniors. We had always hoped to to get this far and at last we had succeeded. We found our new comers to be Eugenia Day, Mary Horton, Emily Haynes and Norman Jenkins with Misses Helena Willis and Janis Viser as sponsors, and after the first semester Lee Bull- ington joined us. Our two big accomplishments this year were the iunior play Looking Lovely and Junior-Senior reception which carried out the idea of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs . We reached the height of our high school career in 1938-'39 for now we were full-fledged seniors. Our goal which we started striving lcr in 1928 was reached. This year John T. Hiclcs and Hoyle Hancoclc joined is and we were pleased to learn that Miss Viser was to be our sponsor and that Misses Sarah Ellison, Mildred Stultes, Mary Jane Garnett and Mr. C. B. Haynes were to teach us. ln our school days we have experienced many trials and tribulations, joys as well as sorrows. So with these experiences each of us shall strive, as we depart into a future yet untried, to be the master of our fate and the captain of of our souI. HOVIS ROBBINS