Flat Rock High School - Parade Yearbook (Flat Rock, NC)

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Osteen Reid MISS GARDENIA OSTEEN has classes in Algebra and general business. She has won our respect because of her genuine interest in the students and her faithfulness and thoroughness in her work. MISS GWEN REID is our science expert. She teaches classes in general science, biology, and chemistry. Her enthusiasm for her work is contagious. MR. NEIL ROGERS is our physical education instructor and coach for the boys’ basketball and baseball teams. It is easy to under- stand why he is one of the busiest persons around the school. MRS. SUSIE S. SINCLAIR devotes herself most sincerely to the task of helping us to learn and use good English. All of the students look forward to the time when they will have senior English under our beloved Mrs. Sinclair. N. Rogers Sinclair Richardson E. Rogers MR. DAVID RICHARDSON also teaches the eighth grade stu- dents. Although he has been with us only a short time he has won many friends with his warm and sincere greeting. MRS. ELIZABETH ROGERS is always ready to give her time in helping us with any problem we have. She teaches American history, civics, and North Carolina history. She is the faculty advisor for the student council. MR. JAMES R. STEWART, JR. is another of our English teachers and quite naturally he is the sponsor of our school newspaper, The Rocket. He is concerned with helping us to appreciate good iiterature. MISS BETTY THOMPSON teaches English, and health and physical education to the ninth grade girls. She is interested in helping us to be well-rounded and happy in life. Stewart Thompson

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Davidson Franklin MRS. MARGARET DAVIDSON, our home economics teacher, spends much time, energy, and patience in guiding our future homemakers in getting practical knowledge for modern living. MR. W. A. FRANKLIN, affectionately known as ‘Uncle Bill’, ably directs the training of our future farmers. He willingly lends a helping hand to any enterprise that needs his assistance. Freeman Goss MR. REX FREEMAN has classes in English and geography and coaches the girls’ basketball team. His happy sense of humor has made him a favorite with the students. MRS. KATHERINE GOSS has given many of us a better under- standing of the functions of our government, the present social problems and everyday happenings. Her teaching schedule in- cludes—civics, general business, economics, and sociology. Faculty MR. H. A. HASELTINE is one of our math teachers with classes in general math, plane and solid geometry, and trigonometry. He is always glad to help us understand some difficult problem. MR. DAVID HUFF is another of our eighth grade teachers. He makes our school a happier place by directing our glee club. He has won a large place in our hearts. Haseltine Huff MR. EARL KILPATRICK, who wholeheartedly puts himself into his classes which include world history and biology, has the respect and admiration of every student at Flat Rock. He also serves as the school librarian. The annual staff of ’56 will al- ways remember his willing assistance, as our sponsor, in editing the Parade. MRS. DOROTHY C. MEADOR is our commercial teacher with classes in typing, shorthand, and bookkeeping. She also serves as bookkeeper for the school. She is a friend to all. Meador Kilpatrick

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Here Mr. Sandburg welcomes the senior class officers to see his home. They are President, Wilma Hill; Vice President, Jimmy Cox; Secretary-Treas- urer, Betty McGinnis. 1952 was a year to remember for a group of students who became known as Freshmen. From the exactness of Algebra I, the newness of shop and home economics, and oh! those poetry notebooks, we survived to the time when Billy Drake, Wilma Hill, and Bruce McMahan were chosen to lead us through our carefree Sophomore year. From try-outs for the basketball squad to dissecting a long gruesome ‘Thing’ known as a worm, we hear Mrs. Sinclair’s favorite joke, ‘Tee hee, is that you Brutus?” Eagerly we started our Junior year. Class meetings became more frequent with the passing of each day. The Beta Club gained 18 new members in an impressive assembly program. Several things stand out quite vividly in our minds: lugging our French books by force of habit, meeting Mr. Haseltine in Uncle Bill’s divine quarters for our favorite subject—plane geometry, studying American literature but learning an awful lot about Germany, Mrs. Rogers rattling off dates (remember 1607?) and that ever present problem of ‘money making schemes”. From our disappointment in the basketball tournament we Mrs. Sinclair’s senior English classes have gained great fame at Flat Rock. plunged wholeheartedly into our Junior play. The thrill and excitement of receiving our class rings was the ““most’’ and we shall never forget our Junior-Senior. The gym was in all its beauty carrying out the theme ‘Moods of the Sea’ We said good-bye to summer and its many memories and began our last year at F. R. H. New officers were elected and Billy Drake began his duties as the president of the Student Body. Mr. Kilpatrick had the Parade Staff in a daze trying to meet our deadline. Of course, Otis had his financial difficulties. We all looked forward to the big day for our Senior Trip. When college bulletins began rolling in we heard the familiar question, ‘Where are you going to college?” As we neared the end of our Senior year, diplomas were signed, caps and gowns were measured, and invitations were sent to our many friends. Finally the big night arrived and we were proud to be the class of ‘56.