Cobb Memorial School - Reflector Yearbook (Ruffin, NC)

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CLASS HISTORY When we entered our first year in high school in September 1946 with Mr. Michael as principal, and Mrs. E. G. Strader as our home room teacher. There were thirty-one of us; nineteen girls and twelve boys. Struggling through those first weeks with some¬ thing new in store each day for us was exciting. Getting used to the new faces from Pelham and Providence, new teachers, and a new routine was thrilling. Up until now the buzzing of the classbell meant nothing, but then it meant changing classes and teachers. Before finishing the ninth grade one of our girls, Lelia Walker, stopped school and married. Upon entering the Sophomore Class there were twenty-six of us with Mr. Julius L. Clayton as our home room teacher. We ventured along with many hard but interesting lessons. This was our first year with Mr. Holmes as principal. We enjoyed football, basketball, and baseball as our sports with several victories. There were also the Mother-Daughter and Father- son Banquets given by the F. H. A. girls and the F. F. A. boys directed by Miss Frances Williams and Mr. E. H. Wilson. We lost about three weeks of school due to a deep snow and a few faces had dropped out by the end of this year. In the fall of 1948 we entered our Junior year with Mrs. E. G. Strader again as our home room teacher and there were twenty- seven of us that year. We worked hard to give the Seniors a Prom and it was given in May at the Country ' Club Inn in Danville, Virginia. It was just before closing for Christmas while the Seniors were giving their play that our school burned. We were out five weeks this time until the county could erect army barracks to be used until a new school could be built. It was during these five weeks that Virginia Thompson and Gay Green married and left school. Also during this time Carlyle Chambers and Peggy Sykes left and went to other schools. Anne McDowell, a member of our class, finished last year and after school married our science teacher. In September 1949 we all reached what we had really worked and hoped for, our Senior year. We by this time had only nine¬ teen students, ten girls and nine boys, to finish our high school career together. We worked hard during our Senior year with the school paper and the annual. This last year we found Mrs. Van W. Daniel, Jr. as our home room teacher. We are all proud of what we have accomplished by hard work and cooperation. Dorothy Jane Layne