Ellerbe High School - Odyssey Yearbook (Ellerbe, NC)

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E l0R CLASS HI TURY In the fall of 1946 we were a proud group, for we had at last become freshman and had started on our short high school career. For the first few weeks, high school was a little confusing for the most of us, but we finally caught on to changing classes and learned our way around. The homeroom teachers for the A and B sections were Mrs. Robert Colson and Miss jane Beachum, respectively. Anne Ewing returned to be with us again, after an absence of several years. Fred Henry, the athlete of the class, came from Rockingham to join us. We enjoyed our year of Health and Physical Education under Miss jane Beachum and our year of English under Miss Margaret Wayne. But what most of us enjoyed a great deal was our second semester of math under Mrs. Frances Leggett. We liked everything about high school except that thing called exams. We were all very glad when the summer vacation came, because we had all worked hard to achieve success. In the fall of '47 we returned again to the famed Ellerbe High School. This year we were sophomores, which Mr. Little informed us meant wise fools. The task of getting our schedules arranged was not so difficult as the previous year. Second year math was not to be required. We were all so overjoyed that only a few took math, but Lhe rest regretted it later in the year. Everyone enjoyed Miss Thrift's biology class and especially on days when we went to the lab to dissect earthworms, frogs, fish, starfish, and other things. jean Frazier enjoyed this more than anyone else in our class except Edith Greene who hung out the window during the process of undressing the frogs. We were snowbound at home for about two weeks after Christmas, but of course we enjoyed making up the lost time on Saturdays. Armie Kate Lentz and Leatha Greene left us this year. Our junior year was filled with exciting events. We enjoyed preparing and giving a play entitled Here Comes Charlie under the direction of Miss Margaret Wayne. The junior-Senior Banquet was the highlight of the year. We entertained the seniors at Sidney's Grill in Rockingham. lack Frazier had the mumps and wasrdetained at home. The honor of being marshalls at the Baccalaureate sermon, the Class Night exercises and the Commencement exercise was bestowed upon eight of our classmates, who were Ruby Terry, jean Frazier, Anne Ewing, Ann Hunter, Peggy Harris, Margaret Ussery, Mary Ann Nicholson, and Meredith Bynum. We missed Bobbie Greene very much this year. She attended Central High School in Charlotte but returned to be with us in her senior year. Worth McNair joined us while she was away. The B section had lost several members of their class in the last few years, among them were Addie Belle Melton, Edward Floyed, Margaret Lefler, and Annie Mae Cox. The first day of school for us as seniors was one very different from the three previous ones. We had a new principal and several new teachers - three of them men. We were all proud of our new coach, Mr. Lauffer. Mr. Howard McCallister was our senior teacher. We enjoyed the year with him immensely amid his many lectures. We appreciated him most of all because of his efforts in helping us get an annual, the first the school had ever had. The A and B section were combined into one and we had a lot of fun working together. We elected as our class officers the following: President, Peggy Harris, Vice-President, William Howell, Secretary, jean Frazier, Treasurer, Pal Williams, and Historian, Ruby Terry. Several of our classmates decided they'd rather marry than finish school. Among them were Edith Green, Annie Mae Greene, and Anne Hunter. We also regretted that Larry Hogan wouldn't graduate with us. He attended a military school in Alabama. As each day rapidly slips away, we think back over the joys and the sorrows that we have shared together in the past twelve years, and it is with remorse that we approach our graduation date of May 26, 1950, and the end of our Odyssey. Ruby Terry Page Nine

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