Fayetteville High School - La Famac Yearbook (Fayetteville, NC)

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ass Histor The sun came up smiling that bright Wednesday morning. , . smiling on a group of eager happy children hurrying on their way to school. But. what an insignihcant fact. The sun shines almost every morning on hurrying crowds of children. lnsigniticant! Not at all! lt is true that the sun shines and children go to school. But is is not every day that 'one begins his high school life. And that is why the sun was shining a' little more brightly that morning of September T. 19138. Two hundred children were entering high school for the first time. That wise old sun had looked at many such scenes in its long career of cheering up a drab world. It could have told these eager youngsters so many things that they would soon learn for themselves. The joys, the sorrows. and the changing of ideals that is a part of every school. especially a high school. But these happy youngsters were confident that they could take it in their stride If they were just a little awed by the presence of the upperclassnien. it was soon over and before a few weeks had passed. they were confidently going about the every day affairs of a high school life and were busily taking part in all of its activities. One of the first duties that came to hand was to choose leaders to guide the class throughout the pitfalls of the coming year. So they got down to business and chose their class officers. Betty Hess was elected President of the class. Evelyn Barheld was Vice-President and Mary Lou Stack was Secretary-Treasurer. These students did a very tint- job. and before anyolne realized it. we were all making plans for the coming vacation, and thc first year of high sc too was over. All good things must come to an end. and so it was with vacation. But no one really tnindezi that so much, because here we were all together again. Cf course there were a few familiar faces gone, and we missed them very much. but there were also a number of new faces and ere long we were all friends working together. Again. we settled down to the affairs of a busv life and soon were running smoothly with such leaders as Victoria Alexander as President of the Sophomore Class, Betty Hess as Vice-President and Bill Olive as Secretary-Treasurer. With the exception of making new friends, our sophomore year passed uneventfully and before we realized it, we were Juniors and well on the way toward a successful year. Elizabeth Ambrose. as President of the Junior Class, led us through one of the best years of high school. Her Co workers were Bill Olive as Vice-President, Allen White as Secretary, and Mary Lou Stack as Treasurer. Soon we were all busily engaged in making preparations for the .lunior-Senior Prom, and what a delightful one we hal! Everyone had a good time and we were all sorry to have it gone. But it will remain as one of the pleasant memories of our .lunior year in high school. The mar- shals for the graduation were selected from our class and those chosen were: Luther Watson. chief. Margaret deRosset, Sol Rose, Mary Lou Stack. Thurman XVilliams, Buddy McMillan. Han- nah Lyon, Frank McMillan and Laura Owen. Elizabeth Ambrose brought an 'added honor to our .lunior Class by winning the Scholarship Cup, which is given at the graduation exercises to the person having the highest scholastic average in the school. Nice work, Elizabeth! Vv'ith such a splendid record to live up to. we began our senior and final year at EHS. XVc were very busy this year with many of our own individual tasks, for there was much to be done: many honors were given to our members. Margery Adams capably took over the annual as its Editorein-Chief, and Jimmy DeYane did a swell job as Business Manager. This year we were fortunate to have two senior classes, the eleventh and the twelfth grades, and we had much fun working together as one unit. With much care we chose the leaders of our two classes. The officers of the Student Body were Bill Yancey. President: Mary Yancey. Vice-President.: and Victoria Alexander, Secretary-Treasurer. The officers of the Senior Class were: President, Bill Mt-Gill: Vice-l'resident. Dixon McLeod' Secretary, Thurman 'Williamsz and Treasurer. Ernest Mc-Millan. Mafalda Milligan, along with her other duties, led the Beta Club through one of its most successful years. Thurman Vililliams was given the additional honor of becoming Chairman of the Student Council. Mary Lou Stack, as Editor-in-Chief of the Bulldog gave us several very good editions. The day for which we had waited was just around the corner-graduation day! As wc made our preparations for this day. we couldn't help but regret that our glorious days of High School were almost over. Yes. we had learned many of the things that only a high school could have taught. us. As I walk to school the last remaining days and watch the sun climbing its heavenly path, I can but hope that it will continue to smile down upon us and light our way as it has in our school life after we go out into a world apart from anything else we have known. Frances .lt ihnson, Historifnl. Twigrviv-Xitvil

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I had time to drop in on the Senate. filibuster. Jim DeVane, Evans Crowell. Walter Reed Hospital wasn't much I arrived just in time to hear .James Elliott begin his and Robert Shropshire were serving in the Senate. out of my way: so I stopped in to visit some of my sick very well after her appendectomy. but Gladys Nunnery's friends. Juanita Livingston was doing tonsils were giving her trouble. Hilda Peoples. Jewel Byrd, Yvonne Powers and Lola Register certainly did make fine nurses. The doctors felt confident that four other Fayetteville girls, Ella Ridgen. Ruth Jackson. Emma Vann. and Irene Riddle. would do as well when they finished training. .Just as I was leaving. Dr. Vance MacBryde came in with the two famous research scientists, Bill Mc-Gugan and XValter Applewhitez and I talked with them before leaving. When I was almost to the hotel. I noticed a new building. The driver told me that the architects. L. A. Raynor and Harold Atkinson, had designed it and that it was to be the Palmer and Alexander School for Young Ladies . At eight ok-lock I was at a style show. I sat with those famous milliners, Peggy Raeford and Edna Earle Williams. Frances Hicks led the show, followed by Emily Gahr. Annie Mae Baucom. Deane Tennant. and Sarah Kelly in very heautiful creations, During the show, music was furnished by Mildred Eggen and her violin. accompanied by Evelyn Dawson at the piano. Though it was getting late, I decided to go to a. night club. 'While riding there. I heard the latest news, edited hy Buddy McMillan and sponsored by VreeIand's Toothpaste. Margery Adams. the only woman commentator. had a most interesting program. The only girls swing hand in the country. led by Norma Mitchum and featuring the Andrews Sisters' equals. Rachel Calhoun. Eleanor Smith. and Mary Ann Edmiston. was broadcasting as I left the taxi. Who would have thought. hack in 1942. that Jack Booker and N. J. Bullard would own such a palace of entertainmenti' The floor show was just beginning as I entered. and I found that Patsy Howard. Martha Blue. Ruth Boone. Janie Edge, Evelyn Page. and Dorothy Britt were among the chorus. Dorothy Eggen and Aleen Faulkner did a juggling act. The next morning I dashed into Bertram Fleishman's dress shop to buy a new dress before going to New York. Most ol' the passengers on this trip were going to Sun Valley for skiing. Margaret Dempsey, Lillian Hallock. and .Jacqueline Currow had their skis. and l discovered that they were expert instructors. A new stage show. The Land of the Brave . starring Leon Beasley, Anne Ray Faircloth, and Alida Belle Dougherty. was the hit of the season on Broadway. I heard a rumor that the pro- ducers, Elizabeth Gooden and Augusta Hamilton. had made a cool million from that one show. Although I didn't see it. the great critic. Raymond Hair. told me all about it. Stopping off at Coney Island. I saw that Charles Martin and Edwin Hutchinson were selling hot dogs and other temperatured animals . Most of the side shows were OWHQCI and OIUQYHIGG by Paul Darden and Don Clayton. Eloise Hutchinson and Ralph Lutterloh were doing a trapeze act. while Frank McMillan and Carlton Pender were taking care of the water acts. Through reliahle sources. l learned that Clarice Melton and Margaret Monsour were leading a revival in the big city. Lucille Kennedy was giving a concert in Radio City that night. I was almost to Highland Falls when I saw the wreck. The McKenzie S1 Hall Wrecker Service was already on the scene. A siren could he heard. and soon a large Owen Q McBennett ambulance pulled up. The only patrolwomen in the world. Gwen Hamrick and Margie Autry arrived and took charge. and Mafalda Milligan. was irresistable to me. I went in and hought stick from .Janet Youman. Charles Hayes. the artist. was also making Jack Terpening. the star of My Glamour Days . a current movie street with his press agent and his publicity manager. Don Bedsole and s Johnson, Lora Lloyd The Highland Falls Gift Shoppe. owned by Rohin Pickett. France some Nancy Stoner Lip- a purchase. was strolling along the Bob Benge. Finally. I arrived at XVest Point and was met. hy Isabel Rising, the wife of one of the ins structors. Izzy told me that Jimmy Dougherty, Bill Yancey, Joe Creamer, Richard Pohl. Dixon MeLeod. and Ernest McMillan had just graduated from the Academy. Janet Groseclose. assist- ed hy Katherine Scott, was the housemother of the cadets. ln the evening we went to the Army hand concert. Joe Geddie. the bandmaster. was wonderful. The majorettes. Dot Lee Cain. Elizabeth Maynor. Billie Dobson. and Mary Louise Stubbs, certainly added to the appearance of the band. In the audience I saw Betty Anderson. Pat Lanius. and Virginia Harris. who were happily married and living somewhere in New York. After bidding Izzy goodrhy. I flew to Norfolk. where I saw Elizabeth XVilton christen a ship and splatter Hilda XVethington's impeccable costume with champagne. Rhea Stevlingson WHS Hlwflkilis that night on the Problems of Norway . I went to hear her talk and was ushered in by Betty Shelton and Elizabeth Snelgrove. When I returned to my hotel. Virginia Strickland. Sybil XVilliams. Zita Stevenson. and Yvonne York. dressed in cute little outfits, were distributing Charles Smith Razor Blades . lt turned out to he a trip l'll never forget. I had seen. heard of. or read about my classmates -one and all. Some were rich. some were poor: but all were happy-that dear, old class of '42' lfrances Conway. Class Prophet, '42

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Last and Testament State of North Carolina County of Cumberland City of Fayetteville we aw rw --f ffl, if We. the class of '42, being supposedly sound in mind and body, and i.f A . 1' realizing that our four years of bliss and contentment are about to 1-li-+17 , come to an inevitable end. do woefully submit to the public at large tiff e f this document. our Last Vt'ill and Testament. ITEM l. To Mr. Sisk. we leave our highest esteem and respect. We are grateful that we have had him for our superintendent because of his sympathy. interest, and ability to plan good things for us, To Mr. Harrill. we leave the exclusive right to run the high school, the present class having run it for the past t'our years, and our appreciation for his kindly interest in us. To the Faculty, our hopes for a speedy recovery soon after our departure. To FHS., we give our highest recommendation as a splendid institution of higher learning: our best wishes for continued growth and usefulness: and our regrets that it can never have another class just like ours. ITEM ll, To the people of Fayetteville, we would like to express our heartiest appreciation for all the advantages and backing that they have given us. ITEM III. To the Juniors, we bequeath our worldly privileges of leaving chapel first tif you can: we couldn'tt and of going to lunch early. To the present ninth grade. we leave our high hopes that some day they will grow up and be real Sophomores, since they were denied that rank this year. ITEM IV. I. l, Howard Criswell, do lend my way with the wimmenu to any junior who can get away with it. 2, I. Norma Mitchum, do leave some ammonia and a bottle of peroxide to Peggy Crowell, who also has leanings toward blondness. 3. I, Bill McGill, do will and bequeath the presidency of the Senior class to any junior who is ambitious along political lines. 4. I, Mary Louise Stubbs. do will my tremendous stature to Isobel Autry. 5. I, Margery Adams, do leave one great big job to next year's Editor-in-Chief. G. We, Eleanor Smith and Rachel Calhoun, leave our best wishes and the hope that their friendship will be as lasting as ours to Emily Applewhite and Faye Godwin. T. I, Mary Lou Stack, do leave all my beauty secrets to Stuart Verdery. S. I, Dixon McLeod, do will my athletic prowess to any junior who can be as good sport as I am. 9. I, ltiargaret deRosset, do leave my ability to rake in the menfolks to Sarah Holmes. ltd. I. Donald Bedsole, happily submit my imitations of Mr. Harrill to some junior who can scratch his nose and make funny faces. ll. I, Mary Ann Edmiston, do will and bequeath my genuine good-naturedness to Kate Broad- foot. l2. 'We. Carroll Adams and Luther Dawson, do hereby declare ourselves ready to part with our faked passes to anybody who will come across with the necessary amount of cash. I3. I, Jimmy DeVane, do leave my reputation as a Hdern good fellow to Tommy Jordan. 14. I. Emily Gahr. do will my interest in our armed forces to Merle Barnes. 15, I, .Ioe Creamer, do leave my crazy antics to Eastwood Atwater, in hopes that he may amuse as many people as I have. IG. We. the Business Staff, leave to the in-coming Seniors the ability to call meetings during the fifth period when you want to dodge a difficult class. Signed, sealed, and properly witnessed on this eleventh day of March, in the year of our Lord, Nineteen Hundred and Forty-Two. Witnesses: Thurman Williams. Jr. Mary Lou Stack Testator .loc Creamer Hannah Lyon 'l'nnrrv I