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oj- zz}£.niox £.La±i “ ‘The time has come,’ the walrus said” in Lewis Carroll’s famous poem, and today the 1941 seniors are repeating his words: “The time has come. We are seniors. We know we are. It’s easy to see, what with our hair beginning to gray at the temples, our tongues wagging mechanically over the law of Pythagoras and the blank verse of a Shakespearean play, and our coat lapels and blouses almost completely covered with medals and club pins. Yep! There’s not much doubt that we have at last reached the summit of our high school days. Somehow it just doesn’t seem possible that we were ever small enough to sit in those tiny desks over at North Ward and South Ward Schools. But evidently we were, for most of us have come up the long, increasingly difficult path together from our start back in the grades. Of course, we don’t remember much about those early years because we were children until we reached our freshman year. That was the year of the big campaign — the one that put the McKinley-Bryan race to shame. Candidates Ruth Kitchen and Revis Flowers organized their followers into strong-bound parties that printed signs, made speeches, and composed slogans thi-oughout the three week cam- paign. When Revis emerged the victor, the class came together once again and hastened to entertain itself with two picnics — one on a spring evening at Clearwater Beach, and the other on graduation day at Wall Springs. The summer of 1938 was a calm one as we sat basking in the glory of a most successful year as freshmen. Indeed, so satisfied were we that we basked right through our sophomore year with no thought of class organization. Of course, there were the hours and hours of Latin and geometry and biology, and sometimes it seemed almost too much to bear to be regarded as the “lowly sophs.” Nevertheless, the nine months galloped by, and ‘ere long we discovered that we had entered upon our junior year with nothing to hold us back but a couple of cases of fallen arches and a good seige of Moby Dick. Example number one of those who leap and then look was Mrs. R. B. Chafin (“Judy” the seniors call her), who agreed to guide the class of ’41 through its last two years in high school. ’Neath her protecting wing we elected Bill Caldwell president of our class and then proceeded to give the 1940 seniors the best party C. H. S. has heard of in a great many years. Juniors and seniors alike donned diapers, panty-waists, or pinafores to slip back five or ten years in age for the kid party. Ah, yes, ’twas a fair year— but even so, the dawn had not lighted the horizon until we emerged, approximately one hundred strong, full-fledged and thoroughbred seniors. Late September brought the customary elections with Kenny Miller coming out with the presidential gavel. However. during the first two months of school, not one, but more than a dozen seniors secured prominent positions. Tommy Harris became number one scribe of C. H. S. when he was chosen Editor-in-Chief of “The Chatter.” Mean- while, at the first meeting of the Student Council, the e : ghteen members had elected Bill Middleton as their president; and shortly afterward the Honor Society fol- lowed suit by naming Patricia Lowrey “Chief Brainbust- er,” An annual staff was chosen with Mildred Collins named head copy reader.
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Front Row: Alice Havener, Mary K. McMullen, Tommy Harris, Mildred Collins, Mrs. Chafin, Bill Alley. Back Row: Gordon Wallis, Bob Tyler, Eleanor Hancock, Bill Caldwell, Ruth Kitchen, Jack Skinner, Daphne Moore, Neel Walker. c taiia Cicuia Jhtcifj Editor-in-Chief MILDRED COLLINS Assistant Editor RUTH KITCHEN Business Manager BILL CALDWELL Advertising Manager BILL ALLEY Subcription Manager NEEL WALKER Photography Editor TOMMY HARRIS Student Photographer HERBERT BLANTON Art Editor GORDON WALLIS Club Editor DAPHNE MOORE Class History MARY KAY McMULLEN Junior Class Representative GLENNA SMITH Assistants ALICE HAVENER BOB TYLER ELEANOR HANCOCK JACK SKINNER
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