Chester High School - Cestrian Yearbook (Chester, SC)

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CLASS I-IISTOIQY N a brrght sunshrny mornrng n September I926 several hundred small exerted chrldren forsook babyhood forever and embarked on the penlous voyage that rs educatron At Foote Street College Street Dora Jones Baldw n and Eureka we learned the fundamentals of read n rrtrn and rrthmetrc under capable teachers who endeared themselves to each small puprl Our grammar school days are now only pleasant memorres ot work play and companronshrp but we realize they were preparing us tor the long hard grand that IS hrgh school When we entered the seventh grade we telt that a detlnute mrlestone n our Irves had been passed The hrst tew days were a seemrngly endless processron ot blocks lockers and new 'faces but once we had conquered the former two we seemed to be truly a part ot the hgh school The next year being erghth graders we were elrgrble tor the varrous organrzatrons ot the hugh school proper such as the glee clubs and the student councrl Thrs year we were Introduced to the long dreaded terrors ot Iatrn and algebra but most ot us found the realrty not qurte so terrrble as the antrcrpatron A Junror College was added to our school at the begrnnrng ot thrs school year but a slnght change rn the arrangement ot the blocks was the only way we were attected Our nrnth year saw a complete change rn our system ot gradrng The school year was drvrded Into terms ot sux weeks and exams which had threatened at regular Intervals during our school careers approached us twrce as otten Musrcal organrzatrons have played a large part rn our school actrvrtles The glee clubs boys and gurls under Mass Hutchrns Mass Wnllxams and Mrss Shealey successively have Interested many of our members and have done much to advance good musrc rn the school The band under Mr Huchrns rn 34 was reorganlzed the next year under Mr Allen It has grown steadrly srnce and has contnbuted much to the enthusrasm of the student body rn chapel and at games We began the last half of our hrgh school days wrth Increased responsrbrlrtres and a growrng sense of our rmportance The hugh spot ot the year was that long dreamed ot occasron the rumor sensor party Ot that memorable evening In May let at be sand It we may be so bold as to boast that a good time was had by all It was not untrl the last week ot school that lull betore the hustle and bustle ot Commencement that we realrzed that our days rn the burldrng we had learned to love were numbered Wrth drthculty we realrze that we are senrors Graduation untrl now a hazy blur on a 'tar distant horizon IS a concrete event Drplomas the ultrmate goal ot eleven years ot hard work are wrthrn our grasp As we leave Chester H gh and begun the serrous bus ness of Irvrng we realrze that In the years o come we wll look on the days spent wrthrn her shelterrng walls as the happrest of our Irves From year to year our number has been constantly changrng We have lost trrends but new ones have lorned from rural schools and from other towns Those who have been rn the Chester Cnty Schools contrnuously srnce the trrst grade are Mottat Anderson BII Bruce Marlon Conrad Kathryn Coogler Ball Cornwall Morgan Crag Mary Ellen Cunnmgham Gertrude Darby Harry Davrs Morns Ehrlrch Elrzabeth Gayden John Holder Dorothy Horner Roy Huey Eugema Lgon Wrllram McAIrIey Altred McCoy Haskell McKeown John H Muller Eva Porter Jett Rhodes Margaret Robbins EI za beth Robrnson Elonse Vaughn Lorene Warmoth Ann Whrte Eluzabeth White Mary Phrllrps Whrte Bertre Wrlkes Frances Wrllrams Bette Wood Sunnre Mae Woodle Eloise Wylre Clarence Young Jr MARY PHILLIPS WHITE Hrstonan 37 O 1 I 1 I 1 1 1 1 lr 11 -...-. .. -11 . I1 1 . 1 1 , 1 I 1 1 1 . I 1 . 1 1 , . - 1 1 1 1 - 1 1 1 1 1 ... . . 1 - . 1 1 . 1 , . 1 1 ' , . 1 1 . i I 1 1 I . - 1 . 1l r 1 1 1 ll 1 1 1 I 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 - 1 1 1 1 I' 1 1 1 1 1 1 , 1 1 1 1 1 - -- 1 1 1 .

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The Harry Davrs Company has just presented for your entertarnment Ann Whrte mezzo soprano of the Metropolrtan Opera House and as guest artrsts Jeff Rhodes and Alfred McCoy world re nowned poets At thus same tame next week Lrlla Wrlson war correspondent from ltaly and that well known comedy team of Vaughan Summerlrn and Elrzabeth Attaway wrll be our guests Then a Ragtrme Band hrt the arrways and so drd the announcer Once agarn ladres and gentlemen we greet you from atop the Hotel Alrsra rn mud Atlantrc where we feature nrghtly the refreshrng swung music of Lafayette Ramsey and famous dance team of Julra Hall and Roy Bennett The next program came on wrth a flash Dots and Dashes and Lots of Flashes and ths rs your old news hawk Roy Huey and l brrng you the 45th edrtron of the Perry Journal presented through the courtesy of the David Perry Maga zrne Co Hollywood Calrfornra Kathryn Coogler the torch srnger of the movres rs reported on the way to the altar agarn Thrs wrll be her nrnth marrrage The lucky man as John Holder the new Frankrnsteln New York N Y The rnterror decorators of New York wrll add another store to therr charn thus trrne at Mfrs One of the three Presrdents Bertre Wrlkes Frances Wrllrams or Lrllran Cockrell wall open wrthrn the next month and Install as manager Elrzabeth Robinson Parrs France Dorothy Horner and Marlon Conrad are frndrng rt hard to deny the rumor that they wrll be rnarrred soon Chrcago Ill Clayton Matthews and Elorse Vaughn were marrred tonrght as a result of therr frve year romance Mr Matthews rs the great frnancrer of Wall Street The best man was Moffat Anderson well known broker and the brrdesmards were Bette Wood the strrkrng dress model and Elrzabeth C-Eayden her companron Fred Rrngstatf polrtrcal boss of Spam was overthrown by two of hrs lreutenants Robert Brshop and Robert Bennett Thats all Well those you drdnt see there sand James turnrng off the televrsron you may fund rn my paper On the front page l saw the two candrdates for the presrdency of Mars They were Marran Dove wrth her vrce presrdent Dorothy Lrndsay and Mattre Lou Estes wrth her runnrng mate .lean Hopper There was also the statement made by two soldrers that they were gorng to capture Mars They were Haskell McKeown and Wrllram Muller The famous psychoanalyst Harry Davis reported them Mary Ellen Cunnrngham was sarlrng for England and the famous law partners Eugenra Lrgon and Lourse McDanrel were rust returnrng from a world crurse On the sport page a bulletrn stated that Coleman Wear had accepted the job as coach of the Mrnnesota football team and had appointed Waddell Atkrnson as hrs assistant The socrety page was all about Marguerrte Starnes refusing ten thousand dollars from Lester Bell dog collector for her Engo punk pup Then the news of the dress shop of Srnnre Mae Woodle Elrzabeth Whrte and Lorene Warmoth about the purchase of the old Emprre State burldrng whrch they have taken over for a storeroom Then the marrrage of Ella Mae Carter to Grady McCallum ln the prcture sectron I was startled to see Oneal McKeown and hrs famrly of erght I recognized hrs wrfe as Ollre Lemons of my old school days school days l never shall forget J D SNEAD Prophet 37 ,. . . . . 1 . I I I . . . 1 1 ' . . . .. , . I, , , , . . . , 1 1 I H . . . , I 1 1 I . ,, . . . . , 1 -1 1 1 . - 1 , . .'- 1 1 . 1 1 1 , .'- ,, . . . . . , .- 1 ' 1 1 1 , . ,, . .. . . . . 1 1 1 r r. ,, . , ,, . . .. ., . . 1 1 1 1 rr , . ' 1 1 1 . , . - 1 1 - r 1 , . 1 1 - . , 1 1 . ' r - - 1 1 .

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CLASS WILL the enror Class ot I937 realrzrng that our days at sc oo are swlttly passrng have drawn up the tollowrng document bequeathrng to the rrsrng senror class those trarts that are especrally endeared to us We are tully aware ot the serrous tact that the rncomrng senror class rn therr buddrng youth and rrnmaturrty wrll be utterly rncapable ot realrz ng the tremendous srgnrtrcance ot the bestowal ot these grtts upon them We hope however that the sand present rumor class wrll treasure these prrcele possessrons wth all therr hearts and that they wrll use each and every one ot these enumerated bequests to the best of therr abrlrtres The tollowrng rs the last wrll and testament ot the senror class ot nrneteen hundred and thrrty seven ot the Chester Hrgh School To the faculty we express our deepest gratrtude for both the mental and moral knowledge taught us Also we are thankful tor then krndness and patrence I Bertre Wrlkes do leave my abrlrty as chret cheer leader to Lucrle Crosby hoprng that she wrll enroy gettmg hoarse as much as I ave I Motlat Anderson do leave all my knowledge of ladres to Brll Henry We Margaret Robblns and Mary Erwrn Abell do leave to Vrrgrnra Stone and Helen Faulk our love tor Wrnnsboro and also a bool: on How To Get Acquarnted I Ann Whrte do leave my ablty as a speaker to Lucrle Crosby and Julra Wall hoprng that they wlll draw the crowds as I have I Nellre Caldwell do leave my knowledge ot physrcs to future students hoprng they wrll under stand ths subrect as well as I durrng every one of my sensor tests We Robert Brshop Grady McCallum and Robert Bennett leave to Charles Blume Frank Patton J C Cassels and Wrllram Harvey our qenurne desrre to drunk rn the hrstory ot our Amerrcan 'fathers We Phrl Chappell Harry Davrs and Roy Huey do bestow our hard days ot study upon Ralph McCallum John Huey and W B Wharton knowrng our record cannot be excelled We Bette Wood and Elorse Vaughn do leave to Dorothy Robrnson and Ruth Grant our abrlrty at bluftrng teachers hoplng they wrll enroy the rob more than we do I Haskell McKeown do leave to Bartlett McCravy and Janre Werr my abrlrtres at drawrng I Roy Bennett do leave to Oneal McKeown the power to make good marks and strll be on the football team I Wrllram Love do leave to Walter Games and Buster Lrngle my abrlrty to remember every th ng I ar I Morrrs Ehrl ch do leave to Jummy Betts and BII Baker my love of standrng before 'football fans and yellrng I Morgan Crarg do grve my trnal farewell toot rn the band to James Grant and Donald Keller hoprng that they wrll do as well rn other actrvrtres as they have done wrth me rn the and We Elrzabeth Gayden and Ruby Farr bestow our hrstory notes upon Frances Byars hoprng that she wll get a complete knowledge ot hrstory from these pages I Oneal McKeown leave my seat rn solrd geometry to Paul Brawley and Otto Ray hoprng they wrll be as much an object ot Interest to Mlss Brgham as I have been We Maurrce Wrlkes Julra Hall and Ollre Lemons leave to Anne Mrnter Mary Hood Mary Wood all the trme we have lost from studyrng and do hope they wrll study equally as hard W E, S . I . , h I . . I i . . . , h I I . I yi I . . . I ' do. I, Marion Conrad, pass on to the members ot the junior class my imagination which I have needed , , , . r , . . , , , , , I I I - i he . , ' I r I I 4 I I I I I 1 I I I , I ' I I I I 1 - ' ' I I ' I I