Cradock High School - Admiral Yearbook (Portsmouth, VA)

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CLASS HISTORY ( V we are Seniors and our school days are over; those happy days and years we spent together have now come to an end. But before we pass along let’s look back a few chapters in our lives to the time when — It was a sunny autumn day in September of 1938, and everything was just dandy I to us, Freshmen. We had just come into high school and thought we owned the whole place; but then came Supreme Court and we were put in our proper places. Well, finally after settling down we chose Miss Phyllis Ferguson for our sponsor, and tor our class officers Wilma Clapper as President; Shirley Lewis as V’ice-President, and Ruth Shafer as our Secretary. Our first year of high school passed and June was there before we knew it. Then came our Sophomore year and we again selected Miss Phyllis Ferguson tor our sponsor. We then elected Donald Bolding, President; Clarence Taylor, Vice-President; and Cornelia Gregory, Secretary. With these officers and sponsor we completed our second year ot high school and were now halt way through with our trip. Chapter III. B ’ now we thought we were getting somewhere. It was the third leg ot our journey and so to begin with we selected Miss Dorothy Pettus for our Junior Sponsor and for our class officers we chose for President, Buddy Dunn; for Vice-President, Smokey Broughton; for Secretary, James Martin, and tor Treasurer, Cornelia (iregory. The big event of the year came on .■ pril 2.5 when we honored the -Senior Class of ’41 with the annual Junior-Senior Dance. During this year many new pupils came into our class and school but as in the year betore we went “Onward ever; backward never!”, this being our motto for the last two years. Came June, much, much too quickly and we realized that three ot the short years ot high school were now behind us. Thus ended Chapter III. Chapter 15’. ' I ' he greatest one of all; the one that passed all too quickly. We got down to busi- ness right away and chose Miss P.velyn Byrd for our sponsor and J.ack Wilstrup for President; James Martin tor 5 ' ice-President; Julia .Albert tor Secretary and Cornelia Gregory for Treasurer. Red and white were chosen official Senior colors along with our motto, “Don’t wait for your ship to come in; swim out to meet it!” The “tresh” Freshmen were put in their righttul places by our Supreme Court on October 28. .Alter much discussion we selected our rings, invitations and finally our caps and gowns. With the mid-term exams safely in the backgroud we started practice for the third in our series of “Odds and F.nds” ministrel under the direction of Miss Ruth Haverty. It was given February 26 and 27 at school and March 14 at the USO Club. The annual was planned to be bigger and better than ever this year so the staff was chosen November 28, and work was begun on the usual picture- taking and the job of getting enough ads. By now the time for the Senior Play had arrived and we picked out “The Merry Hares” and the usual task of selecting a cast and practice was started. It was greeted by a tull house in May and was pronounced a great success. .All tormalities were dispensed with on April 1, our annual “baby day,” when we all became babies once more. In May we were the honored guests at the annual Junior-Senior Dance. These were the days when “jitter-bugging” was in full swing and all the “bugs” had a chance to show their ability. .At the Senior Burial all of our grievances were buried with much ado and with this our year was just about ended. With the Senior Banquet, the Baccalaureate Sermon, Class Night and Commence- ment we wrote the “finis” to Chapter IV. Thus we end the last chapter in our school life, those happy days we spent at Cradock High are now just a memory. Here we bid our .Alma Mater adieu with the sincere hope that she will continue to serve the youth ot our community as she served us. Robert Glenn Jackson, Esq., B.B.S. Ph.D. A.B. D.D.