Cleveland Junior High School - Echo Yearbook (Spartanburg, SC)

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GOLDEN DOORS A golden door Is closing for us now. We leave the place We know and love The untrod ways Toward which our eyes must turn In future days Hold mystery, And magic, And hope .... We hesitate to use the key Upon the door We see before us. W On that road ahead Some tears will stain our cheeks. For in this life there must be rain. But there is also sun! 'The sun of hope- Hope for a better life, A better world, A better understanding Of our fellowmen. That, we seek. And seeking we must act. XVe cannot tarry hereg But onward go Into the future. And as We travel ever onward Fearlessly, We will have faith, And courage, And hope .... Mary Floyd

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SUPERLATIVES W 'E W f,. bk,- l ls: Cufest Shirley Reed, Billy Splawn Bavf Citizen Elbert Holt, Sara Duncan ' 4 2 E X2 J if J! Most Studious Emma Jones, Robert Watson -l......i.. . ' Wiificst' Best Looking Mary Floyd, Jerry Cook Shirley Powell, Jerry Knight

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E CLASS HISTORY 1941 . . . The year of Pearl Harbor. Tragic char, and vastly significant. And yet, at the time, not nearly so significant to us who were then six, as the great event of beginning school. Six years old! School begins for kids when they are six. And so it did for us, nine years ago. Things happened that year. American vessels sank all over the Pacific, the Bataan Death March, the Fall of the Philippines, and that now famous remark, I shall re- turn. And more personally for a great many of us beginners, our fathers and uncles began marching away on long journeys that were not to end until we were in the fourth and fifth grades. We, the ninth grade, attended different grammar schools in that first year. Some went to Fremont. Others went to West End, Oakland, Cannons, Lenoir, Drayton, and West View. About the first of September, 1947, a group of bewildered seventh graders entered the halls of Cleveland for .the first time. NVC got our schedules mixed up, we walked down the wrong side of the halls, and we couldn't find the right rooms. By the end of the first day we were going in circles. We thought we would never get used to junior high school. But it really didn't take us too long. We learned to love it as so many before us had. . Not all of the present ninth graders were here that first year. The groups from Lenoir, Drayton, Cannons, and a few others didn't come until thc eighth grade. We were a little late starting to school the next year on account of the polio epi- demic. Now it was our turn to watch the seventh graders get mixed up as we had done. But everything soon settled down and we started another year. The election of student council officers was held in November. We had our eighthgrade banquet in May. It really was a grand success. Sorne of us wore long dresses for the first time. By this time it had been decided that We would remain at Cleveland for another year. As a whole I think it was a happy group of boys and girls that started back to school on September lst for our ninth year, and last at Cleveland jr. High. We were saddened too at the beginning of this year on account of the death by polio of one of our members. Buddy Ellis died on August 12th that year. We promptly began a Buddy Ellis Memorial Fund for the National Polio Foundation. This year has been a happy-sad year for us. We've had such fun feeling really grown- - up-seniors that isg even though next year we will be freshmen again. The students that are together here this year will never be entirely together as a group again and Q ' if ' that makes us sad. But if we, no npatter where we are, can make of the future a past Jthat we can be as proud of as we are at present our past, we shall not be ashamed to ace the ,i0 f . A Q 7 - .-- Q' -jean Grant 5 3 ppb- p pax ',,f-y-sg,,,.-:..,- E. -'Sf' . t' t t ' 'Z D 7-7' ?' Q I ..-1, ee 'E' f 112254 G .. F f7 f 43-W pg - ,QE-. ,I ky