Edmunds High School - Hi Ways Yearbook (Sumter, SC)

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airplanes. They were drilled lay officers from Shaw Field. in addition to our regular fire drills. we now had air raid drills. Nlany of our teachers were called into the service. Those who received leave of ahsence for the duration of the war were Mr. Bill Clark and Wir. Joe Berry, athletics coaches: Mr. Sum- ner Smilh, French teacher: Mr. J. R. Barnwell, science teacherg hir. J. Nl. Harris, teacher ol manual trainingg lwlr. Paul Lolton, teacher of agriculture. and hir. Lindsey. instructor of physical education in Junior High. Soon alter spring holidays the senior class toolc as a project an occupational survey of Sumter and immediate vicinity. We inter- viewed the manager ol each husiness in Sumter 44 to find how many joins were available lor those with grade-school, high school, and college educations. This information was to lead to the establishment of a school placement hureau. At the installation ol the student laody oli- licers for 1942-1943 a Sumter High School ilag was presented to hir. Stoddard. The designing and malcing of this Hag were a project ol the student council. Junior-senior was held late in the spring. and this time we were the guests. it was so marvelous we'll never forget our senior daze. Class Day was next on our calendar. Wear- ing the dear old purple and white, we marched into the auditorium. We relinquished our seats to the junior class, and moved onto the stage. Here we heard the class will and prophecy read

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Attending Senior Class Day exercises was one ol our special privileges. VVhen the seniors moved onto the platform lor the program we moved into their places. lt was an impressive ceremony and program. As the seniors left the auditorium, We were given their lighted tapers and, with these, the taslc ol heading the student worlc ol the school and upholding its standards and ideals. Summer passed quiclcly. and we were seniors. The senior class, made up ol almout two hundred and twentyrlive hoys and girls was divided into seven homerooms with the lollow- ing as teachers: lVlrs. pretto llfnrunson, lxfliss Elizaheth Heplxurn, lVliss Ruth Harrington. Miss Catherine lvlLll't'l'llSOl1, Miss Julia Rey- nolds, Miss lrma VXfeinlJerg and lVlr. Robert Walter. The annual was one ol our hig responsiluili- ties. We chose as editor and husiness manager two students who would talte this worlt seriously and do it to the loest ol their alnility. Our lirst plan to raise money lor the annual was a magazine sale. This was a real Pull together, Seniors., project, and served to unite the class at the heginning of the year. Qur tour class ollicers saw to it that lrom there on the Class ol ,42 worlcecl together not only lor the good ol the class, hut also lor the loest interests ol the school. From our class came the president ol the student laocly who was also the sluclent council chairman. The president ol each homeroom represented his classmates in the council, hringing their wishes and suggestions. Other memlyers ol the council included the student hocly ollicers, and class ollicers, and committee chairmen. The war lvrought many changes to our school. The girls ioined classes in lcnitting and home nursing. The hoys toolc up raclio and auto mechanics and the construction ol model CE' 5,-Q SENIOR CLASS OFFICERS Lf-fr in riglil: Snmmnn DUNN, 'I'l'0ClSIlI'!'l'C JEAN CHANDLER, Svc:-vluryq CTIIARLES l'RoPs'r, Prvsizlanlg .louN Riifxmiis, Vim-Presitlwit

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and sang tire sciiooi song and other favorites. As We ieft tile auditorium, we passeci on our iigilteci tapers to time juniors. June tile Second and commencement at iasti The auditorium was fined to capacity when the seniors, young anti inreatii-taking in tiieir graduation regaiia, marciueci flown time aisies to taice their places on tile stage. Here, with the receiving of their ciipiomas and the singing ot tile Star Spangieci Banner, time iiigim scimooi career of time Class oi '42 encieci. Ancl anotiler ciass goes out into tile woricl, never to be uniteci again. Another ciass wiii sing with a new appreciation, as time years go by, the familiar worcis- STUDENT COUNCIL eutrri, inf! to rigiit: BILLY HlRStllililZG. JANE BROWN. Vice-President: JEAN CHANDLER, HELEN Secretary mul Treasurerg JOHN REAMES. SCRIVEN BRUNSON, JACK BLACK fin fronli. Slancling, right DAVID BURKETT, ALFRED Scmmonouon, CIIARLES Puovsr, JIMDIIE Moisia, SHEPARD D1 ummm BULTMAN, President: Bonnm VVILLIAMS. - 'Q ff? if ni' -f'CL 'JBL X X 2 3' R-Ek f -:lj I, A ,x f L I f 9 FAMAIIS EN , ,xi EHMERICRG f 1 I H fsroavl :L Those ciays oi yore Vviii Colne no more: But tlirougix our later years The liiougiit of you So good, so true, Vviii fiii our eyes witil iearsiu JONES, left to DUNN.