Elm City High School - Bear Trap Yearbook (Elm City, NC)

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WE REMEMBER When the doors of Elm City High School opened for the school year of 1948-1949, ninety- six eager freshmen entered a new world of adventure---high school, Yes, at last we were really in high school. Oh, our freshman year! Our class was so large that we had to be divided into three sections,With Mrs, Pridgen, Mrs, Farmer, and Mrs, Simpson as sponsors, and Don Pridgen and Glennwallace as class presidents, we began our year's work, It can certainly be said, without any boasting, that our class soon proved to be capable of taking its place in the high school world, Many of our more musically-minded class members were in the band and glee club, while several of our class members took their places on the athletic teams of the school, Our one social event of the year was a Weiner roast, Shall we ever forget all the rain that poured down on us that night? Sophomores! Yes, most of us were together again in our second year of high school--but some few remained freshmen, With our group smaller, we were divided into two sections with Mrs, Farmer and Mrs. Pridgen as our class sponsors, With Betsy Wells and Lester Jean Batchelor as our class presidents, we had a pleasant, but quite uneventful year. lf our sophomore year was uneventfulg then the lost time was made up for as we became juniors. Gosh, it seems as though that year was just one mad rush after another! First of all, we elected Jack Jobe and Bill Sharpe as class presidents. Mrs, Farmer and Mrs, Pridgen stood by us again, We shall always remember the confusion and discussion that accompanied our selecting class rings and, when the rings finally came, how much trouble we had getting them out of the post office, But were we proud of them! Shall we who worked on the newspaper staff ever forget how relieved we were finally to get the newspaper finished? We published but one---one was enough! There was REALLY some rushing going on as time for the Junior-Senior Banquet and prom drew near, Remember all those green shamrocks and yellow balloons? Yes, we really tried to make the lunch room look like Ireland, Whether we succeeded or not--we all had a wonderful time, March 14 was truly a red-letter day for us, When commencement time rolled around, we bade the graduating class a fond farewell and then looked forward to the next year when we would be graduating, We reached that final year--the last year of one of the happiest experiences that any of us will ever have, Mrs, Farmer had seen us through all four years, She and Miss Bland were our senior sponsors, Jack Jobe was the class president, Our biggest undertakings for the year were getting out the annual and presenting the senior play, By the time this annual is published, we shall have presented fwe hopej a most outstanding play, we shall have enjoyed the sights of Washing- ton, D,D, g and we shall have been entertained at a banquet and prom given by the juniors. Yes, we still have much to look forward tog we surely have much to look back on, remember- ing the many, many good times we have shared, Can we ever forget them? ? Class of '53 Betsy Wells, I-IISTORLAN

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