Chester High School - Cestrian Yearbook (Chester, SC)

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CLASS HI 'l'0liY As THIS crass HISTORY is being written world history of the gravest importance is being recorded. The class of nineteen forty-one is leaving high school during a time of unprec- edented, important, and critical developments. lfach day we watch with keenest interest the swift moving events, and many of us wonder thoughtfully what effect these changes will have upon our lives, what roads they will make for us to travel. But let us leave these problems and look back over our eleven school years. Of this graduating class of nineteen forty-one, twenty-six entered the first grades of the Chester City Schools in nineteen thirty. As the years passed, We lost and gained students, but only the following have gone together through the entire eleven years: Margaret Allen, XX'allace Brockman, Ann Castles, Buddy Cornwell, Flton Cren- shaw, Betty lilliott, Angus Foote, Forest Faulkenberry, W'illiam Gregory, Betty Henry, Frank Hayes, Sara Kennedy Magill, Mary MeCravy, XVilkes Page, Sara Plyler, Nellie Peak, Patricia Poteat, Annie Sue Robbins, Dale Simpson, Louise Stevenson, Andrew Shugart, XV. F. Sanders, Blake XY'addell, Claudia XVherry, Dorothy XY'orthy, Glenn Young. These eleven years have been happy ones. We look back and leave them with a feeling of real regret. Vfithin the past four years many improvements have been brought about in our school system. Two white grammar schools. an auto shop and agriculture building have been constructed. There have been built one colored primary school and a negro high school. The curricula of our high school has been enlarged and improved. New courses have been introduced such as: auto mechanics, cabinet making, diversified occupations, distributive education. There has been organived a dramatic and Thespian Club, the latter being the only club in South Carolina. Our school officials have co-operated whole heartedly with the national government in a defense program training both young and old. As our school has gained much, it has also lost. This past year Miss Agnes Douglas had to resign because of ill health. For many years she worked with us and endeared herself to both pupils and teachers. On june twenty-first, nineteen thirty-eight, Mr. Tom W'hite passed away. Xlfith a great heart and broad vision he was at all times the friend of education. For forty-six years he was a trustee of the Chester City Schools and for thirty-five of those years he was chairman of the Board of Trustees. The community as well as the schools lost a dear friend when Dr. XV. L. Davidson died on December third, nineteen forty. He was a member of our Board of Trustees and was ever sympathetic with teachers and pupils and devoted to the best iHIff09l of the school. May this class of nineteen forty-one continue to study and read history and may they go out and make history worthy of the American way. XY'Al.l.AClf BROCKMAN, Historian. O IN REVIEW SFPTFMBYR . . . School begins, looking at seventh-graders makes us realize we're practically antiques! Gotta get outta here this year! Cheer leaders elected: football season starts-prospects-not so goodg plenty of spirit. f7l'lUBl.K . . . Keen competition, much campaigning for President of Student Body. Babe makes a glowing speech as drawling Francis McKeown's campaign manager: Mclieown wins, accepts with his ever-ready grin. Senior oliicers elected-Sue's our president. After-the-game dance for victorious Charleston team-W'heeler in the groove. Novi MBLR . . . Hustling here and there for CE5'l'klAN ads makes us really feel like Seniors! Main topic of conversationf Senior Pictures. Basketball teams-girls' and boys'-start practicingg Stevie stars again. American flag, gift of Chester Legionnaires, gives us that Proud-to-be-Americans feeling. The long-and anxiously-awaited Thanksgiving holidays Hnally arrive, bringing a smashing defeat for our footballers. Yep! Rock Hill again! DLCEMBLR . . . Girls' basketball team wins over a liard-fighting Faculty team, while the boys' team bows to the men of the Faculty. Good psychology on the boys' part? Counting shopping days 'til Christmas. More basketball doings -Chester girls entertain Loris team. Swell game--swell team. Any hard feelings over Loris' victory forgotten at wiener roast after the game . . . Thespian Dance on the twenty-firstg super stag-line! -I.-KNUARY . . . 1941! Hard to believe-harder to remember! Imogene Riddlehoover acquires .1 new name during the holidays! She's a Mrs. now. liven our precious Senior Privileges can't make us anxious for tests on the sixteenth and seventeenth. Cl s- TRIAN shaping up more quickly now. lixcited over glimpses of group pictures and snaps. Impatient to see the finished product. And now we anxiously await--being honor guests at junior-Senior, Senior play practice, spring music contests, the warm, delightful lazy days of spring-our last happy days together as a class, and the crowning event of all-Commencement. Our sincerest hope is that these memories and many others will become more precious to us as the years go by, and will be made more tangible by reminiscing the pages of this book. BETTY HENRY, Editor.

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SIWEIIIATIVEY I 2 3 4 5 They're good all around Our good students. Popular-well, yes. We think they are good They are good naiured.