Charlotte High School - Tiger Yearbook (Charlotte, TN)

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A PAGE FROM MEMORY S BOOK After our graduation from the eighth grade we were ready to begin high school ln the fall of 1947 we enrolled as freshmen There were '74 of us Mr Bennett was principal We elected the followmg officers Billy Glasgow president Billy Duke vice president Roberta Damel secretary Don Doty treasurer and MISS Miller as our class sponsor Lots Sloan was elected candtdate for queen from our class for the Harvest Festival She was placed thrrd and we received S54 from her voters Poor freshmen' lt s a wonder we pulled through that first year with all the initiating and being called green horns but we made it and ended the year with a happy memory The last week of school 69 of us walked to Spout Spring on our picnic and had a wonderful t1me By the time the fall of 1948 came,we were ready to start again There were 69 now Our sponsor president and vice president remained the same but we elected as secretary Erma Dean Berry and as our treasurer Roberta Daniel After being here this long we were fairly well situated and were feelxng at home lt was this year that the Beta Club was organized Seven members of our class became members at this time Mrs Clyde Buckner was elected sponsor Going a little farther on our picnic thls year we went by bus and spent an emoyable afternoon at Montgomery Bell Park By the time 1949 rolled arormd we were feeling rather important We were happy to have 10 students from Van Leer increase our class We changed our treasurer and elected Betty Jean Mc the seniors with a banquet We also presented Pigtatls as our play At the end of the year we went to Shelby Park and ate supper played ball made pictures and went to the show We left school this year ready to be dignified seniors Seniors at last' We were 64 in number at the begtnnmg of the year 1950 We are sorry to have lost 5 students Jane Rector Julia Arm Spann and Adele Kelly marrted Collins Jackson Joined the Marines and Betty Lou Lawson changed schools We also had Murrel Slayden with us for a short time Our officers remained the same except we elected Jean Gilliam as our new secretary Katherine Spann was candidate for Queen from our class for the Harvest Festival Sara Gilmore was crowned Football Queen and Lida Talley was elected DAR Representative Again we had a very successful magazine drive and we also sold Christmas Cards We have had many thrills thxs year We received our rings our invitations and our pictures We presented a play Raggedy Nan We are grateful to the Juniors for entertaining us at the banquet We wish to thank every one who had part in planning the entertainment There are 19 Seniors who are members of the Beta Club We want to thank Mrs Bryant and Miss Bessie for their kind co operation Tuesday May 15 we chartered a bus and went to Lookout Mountains and we were pleased with what we saw and came home with pleasant memories We wish to thank Miss Miller for her constant encouragement and her patience with us these past four years We are also grateful to the rest of our teachers parents friends and class mates for making our graduation possible We are glad to have been a part of you Betty Io Cums Illwain, This year we had a very successful magazine drive, In the spring of 1950 we entertained

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THISTLES AND THORNS I m sure many of you thmk thrs rs a sony lookrng graduatrng class but when I ve told you some of the trrals and trrbulatrons we have gone through I feel sure you wrll understand I wrll assure you rt hasn t been easy but excrucratrngly dtffrcult to have gone through 12 years of drudgery fmally to become seniors and then to graduate We had the rmpressron that to be rn hrgh school would be lots of frm but we soon found this was only a dream Frrst just to be a green freshman as we were referred to was one of the trrals we had to bear We fonmd ourselves rn a strange world wrth four teachers mstead of one tellrng us Please be quxtel Dmspose of that chewrng gum at once I hear beautrfully and May I speak? And naturally there were those homble rmtratronsl One would thmk we would have some chorce as to the subjects we were to take but what do you thtnk Mr Bennett came m the very frrst day and told us we were requrred to take Englrsh General Scrence and some of us would take math and some algebra Home Ec and Ag Algebra' Was that hard' Instead of learnmg algebra we had to hsten to Mr Bryant s Jokes thatt we had heard hundreds of trmes but we had erther to laugh at them or fall algebra so we laughed We got through that frrst year but I ll never understand how We came back as sophomores hopmg to fmd some of the thoms gone but Instead there were Just a few more added We struggled and became Jumors only to fmd ourselves slaves to the semors We had to grve them a banquet and when commencement exerclses came do all the heavy work but rf you thrnk we got to mrss any classes for rt you re wrong because we drd that at vacant perrods Jlst to be a senrorl We envred the semors when we were junrors but we soon found rt was only harder wrth no senror prrvrleges as we had tmagrned Oh yes I don t want to forget to tell you about our senror trrp Thrs was something we had dreamed of for four long years as the other three years we had had only a half day and spent rt at Spout Sprmg or some other local amusement park Well we got one day one bus to carry 59 semors to Lookout Mountarns We only had to have three drrvers a bus to take us there and another to brmg us back And rt Just took us s1x hours to tour one small place near South Prttsbnrgh Berng a senror 15 not so wonderful and we should know' Why drd we have to study history? And Mrss BCSSIC always took up the entrre perrod tellrng rs about the lesson 111 her lrttle red hrstory book when she went to school but when tests came they weren t from her lrttle red htstory book The school ts so old that we are afrard rt wrll fall down any mmute Every step has a creak When rt snowed the heat was always off and we almost froze but when sprrng came wrth plenty of sunshrne the heat was always on I could go on and on but as I haven t recerved my diploma yet maybe rt would be wrse to stop It has been hard but we are seekrng a newer world and let LB hope rt won t be as drffrcult as these past twelve years have been Jean Gilliam , . . . - . . , 4 . . , . . . . - . . N N . . . . . ,, o n ' sv n ' - n I n ' n . n n - n n 1 . I I 1 n . . . , . . . Q n - . , . . I Q Q u 1 . . , . . s Q . , . . . n . n a n . u . . , . . 1 . . . I 1 , . . . . . . . , . .