Corydon High School - Mirror Yearbook (Corydon, KY)

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Senfor Class Prophecy As I gazed out 1nto the universe some vast charm concluded ln the stars and I lmagined that lt told of the fortune and fame that was to come to the Seniors of 1950 James Berry as a mechanic will go far if you want good service, take him your car Joretta Byrd will be Superintendent of a Cripple Children Commission I hope she succeeds ln her ambltlon LaVerne Clark wlll excel in college for she has a head full of knowledge Ruby Cooke w1ll become a Home Economics teacher but some of us thought she would be preacher Delores Courtney will be a typlst at Henderson she ll do good work and have lots of fun Jacqule Culver will enter college at Bowling Green perhaps she ll be cheerleader for Western s team Mary Ruby Dlxon will play at church school and teach all her children, The Golden Rule Luther Duncan the baseball king for the New York Yankees is bound to swing LaVada Galnes wxll draw pictures you ll all admire, on those rainy nights while you relax by the flre Delores Gardner will be married to Harold She ll soon be singing the dish water carol A bright future for Joyce Greene I see, for somebody s wife she ll soon be Bill Horne will be drummer in a name band you ll be able to hear him all over the land Nora Holllfield will soon become a wife, and live happily all of her life Nancv Lilly will study to be a laboratory technician she will take otf seven days a week for fishing To be a beauty operator is Claudette Meyer s hope, that is if she doesn t decide to elope Martha Parker who is always running around, will someday marry and settle down I see Eugene Pinkston, as a sailor on the sea, giving orders and getting meals free Glenn Plnkston will be a wealthy man, for he will be a tiller of the land Homer Rogers will own a filling station, he ll make progress lf they don t have gas ration Douglas Smith, will play at some nice club, and be competition for Ernest Tubb Felix Thomas who drives a dangerous wreck, will become a farmer, if he doesn't break his neck James Wheeler will drlve a midget auto That s legal speeding you know Nancy Sue Wallace, as a policewoman will solve cases, especially those with handsome faces May the Sun the seasons of the year supply, and bid the evening and morning rise, command the planets with superior force, and God keep each of us in the wandering llght of his appointed course Nancy Sue Wallace 14 L A K. . , ' 3 a ' 1 ' I Il I IV James Dossett, will be the second Vaughn Monroe, to be a great singer is his goal. . , 3 I V ! ' , . u f I

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Class WIII On this the 26th day of May 1n the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and f fty W the Senlor Class of the sald year of Corydon H1gh School 1n the c1ty of Corydon county of Henderson and the state of Kentucky belng of sound m1nd and body but wlth sad hexrts and beautlful memories of leavxng our Alma Mater do hereby make and ordaxn one last N111 and Testament W the Sen1ors will to our fatulty our deep apprecxatxon for its kindness and understandlng through these years of Hlgh School tra1n1ng To the Junxors we wxll our abillty to have peaceful class meetlngs and the courage to f1n1sh high school in spite of the teachers To the remalnlng underclassmen we wxll our abllity to argue wlth the teachers to skxp classes and the chewlng gum that we have left under our desks I James Berry will my sllent and bashful ways to Hershel O Nan I Joretta Byrd will my dexterlty to write letters especially to a certaln sailor I La Verne Clark w1ll my ab1l1ty to f1nd a legal reason for skipplng school to Mary Stone I Ruby Look will my good Englxsh grades to Frances Stewart and Agnes Cook I Jacqule Culver will my perfect attendance at basketball games for four years and cheerleading to Hattle Kavanaugh and Mary Knxght Delores Courtney wxll my fllrty ways to Mlldred Plnkston Mary Ruby Dixon w1ll my llttle college book with all the college vacat1ons marked 1n t Jo Ann Brantley Jimmy Dossett will my technique to get along wxth Evansvxlle girls to Charles Meyer Luther Duncan will my ambition to play baseball w1th the New York Yankees to Rayman Kellen La Vada Galnes w1ll my acrdmonlousness toward nellgent l1brar1ans to my sxster Sandra Ielores Gardner w1ll my cleverness to get along with the Henderson boys to Anna Joyner Joyce Greene will my abllity to get along w1th the Little Dxxle boys to Buena Wxlson Bill Horn will my talent to play drums l1ke Gene Krupa to Hershel O Nan Nora Holllfield will my love for the Rogers to Venltta Doom Claudette Meyer w1ll my trxm waist to Sally Proctor Martha Parker w1ll my technique to get along with the teachers to Mr Evans Eugene Pinkstone will my helght, 6ft 2 in and basketball abxllty to Ronny Forrester Glenn Pinston will my excuses to skip school to John Pippin Homer Rogers make Harold Lewis heir to my basketball ability Douglas Smlth w1ll my skill to play the Spanish guitar to Douglas Sowards Felix Thomas, will my chewing gum to Mrs Taylor, because she is always asking for it , Sue Wallace will my 8mb1t1OD to have a sallor in every port to Mary Wooters I, James Wheeler will my school duties to Billy Littlepage I, Nancy Lilly last but not the least, will my heel caps and loud orange socks to Mr Evans so that the kids can always hear him coming up the steps witnessed By Written By 13 .Cy I. , U T V, U I . , J Y , , ki ,, . . H to Mary Ruth Boldry. I, . , , . ' I, ' ' ' i to . I, ' ' ' s. I, , , . I, ' ' ' ' ' ' ' . I, A ' . I, . . H J . H . . I, ' ' . I, ' ' . l, ' ' . I, A ' . . I, ' . . ' - I, . I, . I, ' ' . I, . . I A ' .

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HlSf0fj' of Our bchool and Class In 1872 Governor P H Leslle signed a charter for building the second public high school in Kentucky to be built here at Corydon Until then the only school at Corydon was a private academy It has been told that the signing of this charter granted per m1SSl0D to build the first grade school south of the Ohio River After obtaining the charter, S10 000 worth of bonds were issued to erect what is now the back half of our oldest school building This became inadequate and a frame structure was built in the yard to use as a primary room In 1903, a new front was put on the school and it was completed as it is now The S40 O00 auditorium was finished in the spring of 1940 And this year a S12 000 agriculture unit was put up near the school When the school was first begun, only ten years of school was taught In 1878, two extra years were required so the second graduation of a class from Corydon High School was in 1881 Until the 20th century ten members made up the average graduating class Athletlcs weren t thought about in 72 but by 1914 the girls had a basketball team and the boys played baseball basketball and football Then the school colors were crimson and gold and the students school spirit was as great as that of today The first Mirror was published in 1914, and contained 26 pages Since there were only a third as many students then, it had many more features than the current Mirrors Com merclal courses began that year, too The Parent Teacher s Association was organized in February of 1913 In 1945 Smith Hills began coming to Corydon for their high school education and our high school days began For many girls, the sewing and cooking we did in Home Economics that year was their first Algebra was the trial and burden of the year We enjoyed Biology but dreaded the tests And to our amazement, we found English became more difficult each day That year we were sorry to have Gloria Givens, Lottie Duncan, Jessie Gish, lyrtle Frlsby, At the beginning of Student Government was soon abandoned This was a group to Audurbon Park lost day Anna Pfingston, our Sophomore year promote better recreation One of their events of the class took Library Science and kept the Helen Culver, lary Jane Brisham, and Ann Booz left our class our first with a responsibility for us We had to finance the Our Junior year was Junior and Senior Reception We worked together and worked hard we sold cokes at games, sold magazine subscriptions and racked our brains for other ways of making We raised the money and gave a nice reception at the Spence Tea Room Toward the our Sophomore year, the faculty had a plan We were going to have Unfortunately, no one minded staying in as a punishment, hence the plan It was also during our Sophomore year that we organized a H1 Y Club was a viener roast at library a period each during annual ball money last of the year we gave a play under the patient direction of lr Lloyd The play nDeacon Dubbs furnished a fund to start our Senior year Our class suffered a great loss when Eva Blake, Charles Cheatham, and Leroy larler left Here at last was what we had strived for, our Senior year We began work immediately elected class officers, chose the Mirror staff, sold ads, and made our ad money without missing a class This took away the usual fun this or that but it seemed worth it when the teachers told us how People began to talk to us about our future We began to wonder if fun after all because what we did after graduation was a very important step plans We collected all of missing class to proud they were of us graduating was so much But many people from our school have taken the right step Jesse Tapp, elected NBest Athleten of his class, later became Vice President of the Bank of America lary Norris Hunt, a present resident of Corydon, was formerly with the letropolltan Opera Company Terrell Stapp, an artist for Walt Disney, used to draw cartoons for the annuals The famous Happy Chandler was educated at Corydon Yes, many of importance were and will be educated at Corydon School I hope many members of my class will, in the future, be included in the History of Our School La Verne Clark 15 , . . . l . , . . , . . , . ' ' ' I I Y Y ' D . . 9 Frances Austin, and Charles West leave us. y . II . . , I . ' do , . ll fl ' . I