Cottonwood High School - White Timber Yearbook (Cottonwood, AL)

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4 NCP T NELSON HOOPER Basketball: Baseballg FFA. VIRGINIA FOREHAND 4-H Clubg Fl-lAg Class Playg Glee Clubg Bandg Senior Il Treasurerg Senior III Student Council Representativeg School Supply Store. 1 BARBARA RHODES FHAg Glee Clubg Class Playg 4-H Club. DOYLE GLOVER FFAg Student Council Representativeg Vice President Student Council 569 FTA. MARVETTE C ALLOWAY President FFA. THELMA ARNOLD 4-H Clubg Glee Clubg Treasurer FTAg FHAg Class Playg Bear News Staffg Class Prophet. IEANETTE WATFORD 4-H Club Reporterg FHA Treasurerg Glee Clubg School Supply Storeg Class Play. Sponsored by FARMERS MILLING CO, HUB CITY OFFICE SUPPLY

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JERRY HICKS 4-H Club. EVELYN MATHIS Bandg FTAQ Secretary FHAg 4-H Clubg Glee Clubg Bear News Staff. MADELINE HOPKINS 4-H Clubg FTAg C-Clubg GleeC1ubg FHA. JOSEPH ANDERSON FFAg 4-H Clubg Class Playg Manager Football, Basketball 54-55. RUBY LEE MCCARDLE 4-H Clubg FHA: Cheerleaderg C-Clubg Homecoming Flower Girl, DORMAN WHITEHEAD Footballg C-Clubg FFA Secretary 56: Annual Staffg 4-H Clubg Class Playg Vice President Senior I. CARL GUY FFAg Footballg Basketballg C-Club. JEANNE BUSH MORRIS Bandg Fl-IAg Glee Clubg Secretary 4-H Clubg Beta Clubp Junior Classg Assistant Editor Bear News, .sul imma. 'KQ- VW? ,W 4-w Q!hr ' V...

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71 ' Lynda Sellers Early one September morning in 1946, about ninety-nine youngsters with twinkling eyes, mischievous hands, and inquisitive minds entered Cottonwood School to begin their school careers. Some were excited, others frightened, and it's still a mystery how they acted and what they did those first few weeks. I'm sure they were a problem to their first grade teachers. Twelve years have passed and, out of the original ninety-nine, twenty-three remain to receive their diplomas. They are: Joe Anderson, Billy Cameron, Carl Guy, Eulan Holland, Robert Love, Kenneth McCall, Bud Sellers, R. Q. Taylor, Dormon Whitehead, Rex Womack, Virginia Forehand, Joyce Mathis, Evelyn Mathis, Althea Meadows, Mary Ann McCord, Ruby Lee McCardle, Lucy Nell Moore, Shirley Paulk, Barbara Rhodes, Lynda Sellers, Yvonne Smith, Jo Ann Watson, and Jeanette Watford. Through the years others have joined our class, During the elementary years came Madeline Hopkins, Mary Ellison, Bernice Skipper, Ella Ruth Whitehead, Thelma Amold, and Jean Bush who is now Jean Morris. Jean retumed to school the second semester and plans to finish school this summer. During the high school years Marvette Calloway, Bobby Harrison, Jerry Hicks, Royce Johnson, Regina Armstrong, Jo Ann Mixon, Doyle Glover, and Nelson Hooper became a part of the class By the time the group reached the sixth grade in 1951 there were about seventy-five students to receive certificates. Those first six years were spent in trying to grasp the fundamentals for a foundation to later knowledge, After receiving our certificates of promotion for completing the elementary years, we found ourselves in Junior High School, This was very different from anything we had known before, We had a chance to take part in different clubs, athletics, band and many other things that truly gave us a feeling of be longing, Last, but not least, we received another certificate upon completing the ninth grade. About fifty-nine of us still remained in the class. After the nine long years, we were finally in Senior High School, They came our junior year which was filled with events that we shall never forget, our class play, l'M A FAMILY CRISIS, the Junior Senior Banquet with the theme, Paint the Town Red - to name the most outstanding Our last summer vacation passed very fast and soon we retumed to complete the last year of high school, With the beginning of September, 1957, we found we had inherited the title, Dignified Seniors and were occupying the senior room with a wonderful teacher, Mrs. Windsor The first exciting event of the year was the time when we received our class rings. They really mean something now, since Cottonwood has a standardized ring all its own. Our class is very well known for athletics. A lot of credit goes to the boys of the senior class for an outstanding football team - a team that won the Dixie Athletic Confer- ence Championship, and Peanut Bowl Game, and also the BIRMING- HAM POST HERALD award. Senior players were: Eulan Holland, Bud Sellers, Rex Womack, Carl Guy, Emmitt Wiggins, Dormon White- head, Billy Cameron, Robert Love, Bobby Harrison, R, Q, Taylor. With them here are Coach King and Coach Maddox. Now with the first semester over, we are looking forward to the senior play, the Junior-Senior Banquet and most of all GRADUATION.