Cunningham High School - Wildcat Yearbook (Cunningham, KY)

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Class History It is 1954, as I look back to the past, I pause at the year of 1942 — I see thirteen charming little girls spruced up in their pretty little dresses and eleven boys in their starched little overalls. Before entering High School, we struggled through the usual trials and tribulations of an elementary student. There were twenty girls and boys of the former twenty- eight to graduate from the eighth grade. With the help of Mrs. Allen, we presented two plays, Life of the Party and Rosalyn's Wedding, the night of our eighth grade graduation. In 1951 we started our first year of High School with much enthusiasm and new ideas. We presented a Negro Minstrel to raise money for a score board. Our class officers were: Donald, President; Betty, Vice-President; and Patsy, Secretary-Treasurer. Pat Williams from Tennessee joined us to share our enthusiasm. Pat was elected one of our cheerleaders. Mary Jane was our Basket Ball Queen Attendant. As we entered the Sophomore year, we chose Betty, President; and Patsy, Secretary-Treasurer. Mary Jane was elected one of our cheerleaders. Betty was our Basket Ball Queen Attendant. In our Junior year, we chose Mary Jane, President; Donald Lee, Vice-President; Betty, Secretary; and Glyn Clark, Treasurer. Junior Griffith decided to come from Illinois to share our good times. Mary Jane was again elected cheerleader. This year proved to be the most prosperous for our class. Our interest this year was financial. We were responsible for the Junior-Senior Trip; we worked our fingers to the bone slaving to raise money for it. We took the Seniors to Nashville, Tennessee. The Grand Ole Opera was the high-light of the trip. Everyone reported a very enjoyable time. At last we earned the title Dignified Seniors. Although there are only nine left in our class, we have had much fun working together. We chose Donald, President; Pansy, Vice-President; Betty, Secretary; and Patsy, Treasurer. On October 12, 1954, the seniors, except Pat and Donald, observed Senior Day at Kentucky Lake. It was a windy day, but we had a wonderful time. We, the Seniors, decided to publish an annual. Inexperienced as we were we com- pleted it with the help of Mrs. Terry and Mrs. Mabry. Our Senior Play was very outstanding and each character portrayed his part well. We have our eyes set on the future; we see the Junior-Senior Trip as the most outstanding event of the year.

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Class Prophecy As I look back on the four years I spent in high school, 1 see nine shy girls and seven gay boys starting in as Freshmen. A new world and a new experience for us all, a vast world of learning opening to the opportunities that have come to each of us. Now as 1 look back, I can see that we were all eager and perhaps independent, and 1 am not too surprised at the success of my classmates of long ago. After completing a stiff course in college to prepare myself for a kindergarten teacher, 1 came to visit in Cunningham, with my family. Oh, incidentally 1 secured a job in the Oak Ridge Public School! I was in Paducah to shop a few hours and to my surprise I saw a sign that read, Terry and Reasons. 1 went into the store and there was my old classmate, Patsy Terry. 1 might have guessed it, though, because she had worked for Kresge; now she owns her own store — and she got Benny, too! They have a fine home in Paducah. She told me to look up Betty Davis, which 1 did. I learned from her that she is engaged to a professor of history at Murray and she is a surgical nurse at the Baptist Hospital in Paducah. Betty had to rush to surgery so my visit with her was short. Mother tells me that Buck Davis isn’t married yet, but owns a fine farm on the Yellow Dog Road and is raising chickens. Mary Jane and her husband, Donald Davis, have taken over the management of Partin’s Slaughter House. They have developed it into a small factory and call it Carlisle Meat Packing Company. They have about twenty-five people working at the plant. They are a happy couple in their new house and have five husky boys — a good basket ball team. Mary told me that Lavada and Wayne Earl Bean own a 200 acre farm and have devoted most of it to truck farming cabbage, potatoes, tomatoes and beans. Quite a coincidence, beans raising beans! — as well as little beans! They have a little boy and a girl, or should I call them bean sprouts? Pansy was on a short visit, home from Chicago; she is a secretary for the president of a large business firm there. She married a lieutenant whom she met while going to business school. Before I left Cunningham, 1 met Donald Edwards; he told me he was a watch- maker there. Reminiscing over the four years 1 spent in Cunningham High School and thinking of the success of each of my classmates; although we were dissatisfied and we did not appreciate the efforts our parents and teachers put forth for us; I come to the conclu- sion they must have done a pretty good job after all. Written by Pat Williams