Cunningham High School - Wildcat Yearbook (Cunningham, KY)

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SENIOR HISTORY September, 1945, approximately thirty-five bright-looking, eager, tear-streaked, faces entered the doors of Cunningham High School to begin a twelve year search. As the years passed, some missed the grade, some flunked out, ” and some just quit. For eleven of these thirty-five students, who entered, Bob Milner, Carolyn Petty, Doris Hobbs, Gerald Stovall, Irene Linn. Junior Terry, Lucy Holman, Nell Partin, Patsy Reasons, Shelby Partin, and Zanada Dejarnatt, the year of 1957 will end this search. Before the new year, 1947, opened, Brodie Barriger and Donald Cullen joined the search. The rest of our first school year passed without much excitement. During our second year, we lost a student to an upper grade, she must have outgrown our nursery. When we entered the third grade, we began to sense the school atmosphere, and this year passed with an unusual quietness. School had become routine by our fourth year, when Joe Burnett joined us. During our fifth year, we began to use our dramatic talent which, for most of us, will be climaxed this year with our Senior Play. The sixth grade proved to be the quiet before the storm, In the seventh, Charles Sutton came from Corydon, Kentucky, and Jane Herron came from Bland- ville. Kentucky. Then, during the eighth grade, Jerry Grooms joined us from Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and Don Hook from Kirksey, Kentucky. These new additions, plus others, made the eighth grade the largest class we had had during our twelve yean. Thirty-nine students graduated from elementary school that year. Paul came from Lovelaceville, Kentucky, and entered High School with us as Green Freshmen. We survived our freshman initiation to elect Donald Cullen, President; Carolyn Petty, Vice President; Rexene Lucy, Secretary; and Junior Terry, Treasurer. Brodie Barriger, Donald Cullen. Jerry Grooms, Don Hook, Paul McGowan. Gerald Stovall, and Junior Terry made the basketball team, and Lucy Holman was elected cheerleader. For our Sophomore year, we chose Donald Cullen, President; Gerald Stovall, Vice President; Rexene Lucy. Secretary; and Robert Meece, Treasurer. Brodie Barriger, Donald Cullen, Jerry Grooms, Don Hook, Paul McGowan, Bob Milner, made the basketball team, and Carolyn Petty joined Lucy Holman on the cheerleading squad. Our play Mama’s Getting Married was one that will never be forgotten. To add to the years achievements. Donald Cullen won the Citizenship Award presented by Cunningham High School, and Joe Burnett won the Grand Champion Award in the Western Kentucky Burley Tobacco Show and Sale. We got our Junior year off to a good start by electing Donald Cullen, President; Charles Sutton, Vice President; Lucy Holman, Secretary; Jerry Grooms, Treasurer. Brodie Barriger, Donald Cullen, Don Hook, Jerry Grooms, Bob Milner, and Paul McGowan made the basketball team. Lucy Holman and Nell Partin were elected to the cheerleading squad. We spent much of our time raising money for our Junior-Senior trip, which we decided to take our Senior year. The highlight” of our Junior year was a trip to Giant City National Park in Illinois. Four members of our class received awards for their work during the year - Cunningham High School awarded Brodie Barriger the Athletic Award in basketball, and Donald Cullen the Citizenship Award; and the F. F. A. awarded Bob Milner and Donald Cullen the Kentucky Farmer Degree. Then came the title for which we had been working, Dignified Seniors. Our officers were Donald Cullen, President; Don Hook, Vice President; Lucy Holman, Secretary; and Jerry Grooms, Treasurer. Brodie Barriger, Donald Cullen, Jerry Grooms, Don Hook, Paul McGowan, and Bob Milner again made the basketball team. Carolyn Petty was elected Cheerleader Captain. We continued to raise money for our Senior trip; we published an annual, THE WILDCAT, and presented a Senior play, Hessie From The Hills. We are indeed happy that both our Annual and our Senior Play were success- ful. The highlight of this year was our Senior trip. Although our Senior year was packed with much work and much fun, our days at Cunningham High School are unforgetable, and we will always look back upon them with pleasure.

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SENIOR CLASS PROPHECY As I read in the Tea Leaves. I see the Seniors of 1957: BRODIE BARRIGER is now a champion farmer with his wife and twelve kids. He said they come cheaper by the dozen. JOE BURNETT, formerly a tobacco grower, now owns the Garrett Snuff Company. DONALD CULLEN has just come out with his latest movie, The Boy Can't Help It. Z ANA DA DEJARNATT has bought a five acre lot and built a restaurant with the name Squeak's Eats. JERRY GROOMS is now chief drinkman at Madison Square Garden Boxing Arena. JANE HERRON is now married and lives in a fancy pup tent with a small lawn. DORIS HOBBS is now an old maid teaching at Carlisle Central where she goes around mumbling, Quiet now. LUCY HOLMAN now owns the Bardwell Milling Company where she has her husband sacking feed. DON HOOK and his red-headed wife are living in Paducah down by the riverside. Just look, sitting on the river bank.. .three little fishing hooks.. .or should I say, three little Hooks fishing. IRENE LINN now has twelve milking machines. This time it's a boy! PAUL McGOWAN is the most valuable basketball player in history. He is playing for the Lovelaceville Girls Team. BOB MILNER now owns a big restaurant in Cunningham with a large sign out front saying, If you can eat more than I can, I'll pay for it. SHELBY PARTIN is now employed as a cha cha instructor at the Arthur Murray Dance Studio. CAROLYN PETTY is in Hollywood where her latest movie, The Life of A Boy Scout Leader, has just come out. PATSY REASONS has just married a French doctor and has a beautiful mansion with two shady lanes on each side of the house with two large neon signs out front reading, PARK HERE. NELL RENFRO now has three sons and all of them are under the Six-Month Plan in the Army. GERALD STOVALL has just been voted the champion pea picker of Pea Ridge. CHARLES SUTTON is the Head of the Scott Air Force Base and has a side line job of carrying hundred pound sacks of sugar through the woods. JUNIOR TERRY is now the owner of the Baby Bottle Factory in Cunningham.