Columbia High School - Columbian Yearbook (Columbia, NC)

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Class History Oh! The da2e of our youth! They are the ones we like to recall. Remember the day Mrs. Camille Everton and Mrs. Clara Alexander greeted us with comforting words as they welcomed us to the first grade? We enjoyed that year and the years that followed as well as our kind teachers. be completely brushed from our memories. Even now, I can recall that gay Septem- berday--ourfirst day in high school! We gathered together in the auditorium which was curtained off into classrooms because we were in the process of getting a new high-school building. Itwasthen and there we met our new coach. Mr. Woody West- all and learned that he was to be our home-room teacher. Because of his youthful¬ ness and good looks he had no trouble keeping the girls ' attention in class. We selected our subjects and finally began to get used to changing classes. Considering all the excitement that year in the auditorium, including the midget fly¬ ing saucers which came sailing over the curtains once in awhile, we all passed and were then known as Silly Sophomores. However, we felt as though we were grow¬ ing up, even if we still had much to learn. Our Sophomore Year was not too exciting. It was that year we bid farewell to classmates Carl Curlings, Betty Joyce Etheridge, Vida Rae Merritt, Bobby Spruill, and J. C. Voliva. In return, we welcomed two new teachers. Miss Stella Matthews . and Mr. Ernest Chesson, Jr. Also that year we girls were asked to serve at the Junior-Senior Banquet. At last we reached our Junior Year which was filled with many activities. The first was the morning we ordered our class rings and then the day they came. Then the presentation of our Junior play, Little Women. The proceeds secured from our play and from other extracurricular activities, such as sponsoring a Teacher Talent Show and selling drinks at ball games, gave us a start on the amount which was need¬ ed to give the Junior-Senior Banquet. We lost another classmate that year, Annette Brickhouse. At Christmas our mascots, Wanda Hassell and Chris Yerby, entertained us with a delightful Christmas party. When banquet time rolled around we had select¬ ed Cinderella in Fairyland” as our theme. For the Senior Return we were served a most delicious chicken fry. That year ended with great ambition and determination to return in the fall and Climb, Though The Heights Be Rugged. When we entered school in the fall of this year we had twenty-two seniors en¬ rolled. Later during the year we lost one of our best pals, Barbara Ann Davis, who married. Tokeep the record even we regained a former classmate, Frances Reynolds Alexander. She is getting her studies at home and plans to graduate with us. We are still spinning our web with only a few more rounds to make before we will be finished, and ready to begin a new one. Betty Jean Spruill Historian

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IH If! I mmu If Seniors 1954

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Cast Will A ad ZestamcHt Township of Columbia County of Tyrrell State of North Carolina We, the Senior Class of Nineteen Hundred and Fifty-four, of Columbia High School, being of sound mind and body, do ordain and witness this, our Last Will and Testament. r education, wish to destribute oi : possessions ir ARTICLE I To C. H. S. we leave our honor and affection through the coming years. ARTICLE U and thanks for all they have done to help us during our school years, ARTICLE III SECTION I SECTION II To the incoming Sophomores we leave the realization that they have survived their first year in high school and are on iheir way to the top of the school ladder. SECTION in To the incoming Juniors we leave the many parties and much fun included with the work of a busy Junior year. SECTION IV To the incoming Seniors we leave a glimpse of the future they will soon ' behold in a world they hope to improve. ARTICLE IV Individual Bequests: To specified individuals we wish to bestow the following articles: I, Roger Armstrong, leave my infectious laugh to Max Liverman. I, Red Belangia, leave my flaming hair to Jimmy Howlctt. 1, Jack Combs, leave my friendliness to James Cradock. to Bobby Smith, I, Bobby Hassell, leave my wittiness to Collon Snell. I, Clair Morris, leave my I.Q. to Lawrence Brickhouse. 1, Billy Spencer, leave my height to David Davis and my weight to Bill White. I, Hulda Ainsley, leave my weight to Louise Walker. I, Vadis Brickhouse, leave my care-free ways to Florence Brickhouse. I, Susie Cooper, leave my seriousness to Annette Spencer. I, Flo Davenport, leave my friendly smile and I.Q. to Barbara Ann Moore and Annette Jones, respectively. 1, Barbara Anne Davis, leave my tall slenderness to Ann Selby, 1, Peggy Griffin, leave my art ability to Betty Jane Rhodes. I. Mary Meekins, leave my candidness to Margaret Roughton. I, Kay Reynolds, leave my loudness to Shelby Cohoon. 1, Cay Spencer, leave my gay attitude to Audrey Spruill. I, Marie Spencer, leave my small feet to Judy McDuffie. I, Betty Jean Spruill, leave my right to ask so many questions in (or out of) class to Loretta Roughton. I, Dorothy Taylor, leave my ability to win an argummt to Nancy Swain. I, Betty Lou Chesson, leave this space to be filled in next year by one of this years ' unsuspecting Juniors. Betty Lou Chesson, Testatrix