Columbia High School - Columbian Yearbook (Lake City, FL)

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Senior CLASS OFFICERS HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF ’50 During the summer of 1937, our parents told us that we were going to start a new life. We were going to prepare ourselves for the future. This really meant that we were going to start to school. Our principal for the first few years was Mr. East ham; our teachers were Miss Bell Jarret, Miss Glenn, and Mrs. Watkins. After mastering the alphabet, we finished the primary grades without too much difficulty. Some of our instructors during these happy years were Mrs. McGhin, Mrs. Herlong, Mrs. Huntley, Miss Long, Mrs. Hagan, and many ethers. During the sixth grade our greatest ambition was to have classes in the “brick building.” After we reached the seventh grade, we were proud to be able to change classes, attend pep meet- ings, and associate with our upper clas iuates. The seventh grade football game proved to us that we had several great players. They wei JVjg,' Ramsey, Downing, Thomas, and a few others. Sev- eral new members joined our education expedition in the eighth grade. They were Elino Cabalda. ■Jimmy Brown, Kenneth “Chick” Leist, Rachel Wilson, Margaret Williamson, and Barbara Caldwell. Byron Hollingsworth, an old member who had moved away, rejoined us. In the ninth grade we learned a new word, credit. Our instructors told us that we had to have a certain number of credits to graduate. We began taking the subjects that we would need to get those credits. Those who asked for admittance to our happy band were Wilmer Burnett, Mary Lou Eden- field, Martha Eikel, William Floyd, Truett Sheely, Ouida Bell Anderson, Wanda Cason, Cora Lee Larramore, Robert Patterson, Audrey Pearce, Jewel Sapp, Crocket Smith, Tommy Stewart, and Kie “Junior” Vining. i 12

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Mr. Byron HNeman Mr. I)an Folsom Miss Jeanne Sutton FACULTY CLASS PRAYER Dear Father, our Maker and Redeemer, We thank thee for life and all of its opportunities. We give thee praise for all the good and perfect gifts; for this school, for our teachers, and for our friends. Help us to do thy will in all things and to do those things which would influence other people to accept thee as our Creator and God. Create within us a pure heart. Give us the desire to do those things which are right and good in thy sight. We humbly beg all these things in His name, Amen. Miss Flora Mae McBride Mrs. Rose Bud McColskey Mrs. Mary McConnaughhay Mrs. Ola Lee M eans Mrs. Meriba Ogden Miss Carrie Redfearn Mrs. Sara Rivers Mr. J. C. Sellers Mr. Tommy Terry Mr. Ted Tucker Miss Corinne Van Iderstine Mrs. Doroth; Wubker

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When we started in the tenth grade, we began preparing for the fields that we would enter after graduation. We began giving dances to raise money for our junior year. One of our friends, Bobby Larsen, left us this year. The new members were Ray O’Cain, Vonceil Markham, and C onstance Stew- art. When we finally became juniors, we realized that we had a big job to do. We had to give the seniors a banquet. We sold magazine subscriptions and more magazine subscriptions to get enough money for the big Junior-Senior Banquet. It was a Hawaiian style banquet and one of the biggest Junior-Senior Banquets that had ever been given. The happiest day of our junior year was the dav we received our class rings. We lost four old members—Carlton Yopp, Hazel Townsend, Thomas Amerson, and Sally Paul. They were replaced by Betty Jean Coarsey, Daisy Mae Jones, Francis McNeil, and Gertrude Powell. We are now the dignified seniors of Columbia H igh School. Robert Pickens and Gordon Rehberg were the only new members this year. The ones who left us this year were Douglas Higgins, Roscoe Mansfield, Mary Waldon, R. A. Lord, and Sybil Cox. We, the senior class, are sponsoring an annual which will help us to remember all our former classmates and teachers. In a short time we will reach the point where we must part. At this point we will take the ditter- ent roads of life. We will face many problems which we will not solve as easily as the ones we met during our school days. Let’s hope that the roads we take will lead to success and that the ( lass of 1950 will always be remembered. By Walter Brown AND Sponsors