Crabtree Iron Duff High School - Yellow Jacket Yearbook (Crabtree, NC)

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faculty First row: Mrs. O. L. Yates, Senior class; Mrs. Glenn Noland, Junior class; Mr. B. F. Nesbitt, Junior class; Mrs. Frank Kirkpatrick, Sophomore class. Second row: Mrs. Kenneth Hannah, Freshman class; Mr. GlennNoland, Eighth grade ; Mrs. Arnold Terrell, Seventh grade; Mr. Frank Kirkpatrick, Sixth grade. Third row: Mrs. Phillip Chase, Fifth grade; Mrs. J. R. Caldwell, Fourth grade; Mrs. Edith Plemmons, Third grade; Mrs. Hugh Noland, First grade.

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wmmm REX MESSER School Committeeman LAWARENCE LEATHERWOOD County Superintendent SCHOOL COMMITTEEMEN Left to right: Edwin Hill, Jack Chambers, Ray Milner, Marshall Kirkpatrick

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Class History After eight years of drilling and training we twenty-five sailors were judged capable and fit to launch our ship on a four year voyage that would complete our training and prepare us to take up life for ourselves. (Our crew had decreased by fifty-three members since the fall of 1942.) Our captain that year was Mrs. Glenn Noland with Sybil Bradshaw, Jewel Dotson, and Doris Kinsland serving as officers under her. The first thrilling event of our journey came when we were able to attend the F.H.A. and F.F.A. Banquets. The second year of our journey found us better tra ined seamen and feeling more dignified. We entered into more social affairs than we did the year before. Our captain was the same as the year before, and Jewel Dotson, Roy Pope, and Harrison Caldwell helped her to keep the ship steady. The tide was high when we began our third year voyage. Mrs. Frank Kirkpatrick was at the tiller this year with Sybil Bradshaw, Billy Best, and Jewel Dee Ferguson to help her direct the course. Three of our members had abandoned the ship and two new members had come on board. The excitement began to rise. We ordered our rings to proper¬ ly identify us as third year seamen. We Juniors were apparently ahead- ache to the faculty, for we were far more interested in the Junior-Senior Banquet, ‘ ‘Hitch Y our Wagon to a Star, and our Junior play, ‘Grandpa ’ s Twin Sister, ” than in our studies. We were sorry to see the seniors before us go, but we were thrilled at the thought of taking their places. In the fall of 1953 our ship was entering the last year of its journey. Mrs. O. L. Yates was our captain with Billy Best, Harrison Caldwell, Roy Pope, and Jewel Dee Ferguson to help her drop anchor at the end of the way. (Two members had jumped the ship.) The first thingto thinkabout was the annual, followed by the choosing of invitations, pres¬ entation of the class play, the Junior-Senior Banquet, where we were the honored ones, and graduation preparations. All too soon, we left our beloved ship, dear ole Crabtree-Iron Duff, that has trained us for bigger and better futures. Thus ends the history of our class- The class of ‘54; May our happy days be remembered- By each of us and many more. Valaree Henderson, Historian