DuPont High School - Leaves of Hickory Yearbook (Old Hickory, TN)

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CLASS HISTORY As the end of our senior year draws near, each of us begins to realize that we are leaving some of the happiest moments of our lives behind. As we think back over those four years, we wish we could bring back some of those happy moments which remain only as treasured memories. Of course we'll never forget those first few weeks of our freshman year and that feeling of utter confusion, and in the midst of our confusion - Freshman Day. If it hadn't been for our sponsors, Mrs. Major, Miss Elliott, Miss Calkin, Miss Williams, and Mr. Domey, we would probably never have learned our way around school. The highlight of our freshman year was football and basketball seasons. Our girls' team captured the 19th District Championship and were runners-up in Region V. Besides this the boys' team also had a successful season. With Gene Paul Petty as our class president, we completed a successful year with a picnic at Pleasant Green Plunge and the annual trip to Dun- bar Cave. It seemed our summer vacation had only begun when it was time to register for school again. We elected our same class president and settled down to studies. Again we had a successful football team, and as always, our basketball teams won tame. Our girls' team captured the N.I.L. crown and were runners-up in both the district and regional tournaments. The Dunbar Cave trip was again the conclusion to another successful year at DuPont High. Another summer seemed to fly by, and we awoke to find ourselves upperclassmen. Eugene Lunn was elected to take the leadership as class president. This year our girls' and boys' teams won both the district and regional tournaments. This season ended with all of us very proud of both our teams. For our class play, we chose Mumbo Jumbo , a very unusual mystery-comedy. It was a marvelous success, and we added that to the list of our accomplishments. After the play we began to think of and to make plans for the Iunior-Senior Banquet. We chose the Oriental theme and carried it out in decorations and in the food. Annie Eddins was crowned Queen of the Prom by Eugene Lunn. The prom climaxed our memorable Junior year. When the school bell rang again, we found ourselves seniors, at last. We felt, as we saw the freshmen looking as confused as we had, that we had reached the goal that we had longed for. Ronnie Pearson was chosen as our class president and Eugene Lunn was president of the student body. Gene Paul Petty was editor of the annual. Miss Calkin, a most capable sponsor and a true friend, left us, but to take her place, we were fortunate enough to get another good sponsor, Miss Tittsworth. With Zollie Sircy and Gary West as co-captains, our football team finished a successful season. In basket- ball, we had one of the most successful seasons that we had ever had. Both the boys' and girls'teams won the N.I.L. crown, an honor which no other school had won since 1936 when DuPont's teams had the same honor. All of us were engaged in various activities, as if we were trying to crowd all the good things that high school had to offer into the last few months of school. Realizing that we were about to end our high school career, we began to glance back over the experiences I have just related to you. As wehave relived briefly our four years in high school, we realize that we should be the. most grateful of all the classes to have graduated from DuPont High, for we have been blessed w1th all the things necessary to make one's high school career complete.