Foard High School - Quatra Log Yearbook (Newton, NC)

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Class History The long-awaited year has come! We are seniors with many activities confronting us, and a long and interesting history behind as. For almost two years we have been together at Foard High. Last year we were strangers, with our hearts and minds on junior cares and junior frolics. I must not,however, get ahead of my story, for we had a separate existence before the year 1953. Our history began in the year 1951 at Banoak, Blackburn, Mountain View, and Startown High Schools. At Banoak, fifty-four students laid aside their elementary training for high school. As the year passed, many decided they had completed their education and turned to other fields. Those remaining achieved sophomoric status. As sophomores, these industrious students began to raise funds for the junior-senior ban- quet by selling brooms and all-occasion cards. During this year many students became inter- ested in basketball. The more studious ones were taken into the Beta Club. The year pass- ed and soon they became juniors at Fred T. Foard. In 1951, twenty-one enthusiastic freshmen were having similar experiences at Blackburn, a neighboring school. Irene Leatherman was class president. When these students entered their sophomore year, there were only fourteen because some had dropped out to take on more responsible positions. Those who participated in athletics were again successful. With no further activity the sophomore year ended. The next year they became problems in a new and different e n v i r o n m e n t--Fred T. Foard. At near-by Mountain View in 1951, twenty-nine students entered high school, with Betty Kahili as class president. A Christmas party was held at Carolyn Hefner’s. In basketball the class became school champions. During their sophomore year Betty Kahili was again president of a class, now consisting of only twenty-three members. The girls played on the school softball team. This year the Christmas party was held at Patsy Hilton’s. Another class activity was a wiener roast in Ned Pitt’s cow pasture. This year ended, Mountain View was bidden farewell. Only sixteen students decided to continue their education at Foard. In 1951, with Mrs. Joe Curtis as sponsor, thirty-six students entered the field of higher learning at Startown. The highlights of the school year were: a wiener roast given to the sen- iors, a class picnic, and a mock wedding chapel program. The class officers were: President, Bill Abernethy; Vice-President, Vernon Cansler; Sec- retary, Martha Jean Pitts; Treasurer, Myra Hefner; Reporters, Barbara Shull and Helen Bum- garner. Then in 1952 thirty-four of the students entered the sophomore year with Mr. D. A. Anthony as sponsor and Johnny Bumgarner as class president. One of the pleasant experiences of the year was the theater party honoring the seniors. The class was divided at the end of the year. Seventeen members came to Foard; eleven were sent to other schools. In the year 1953, these four classes spent the first month of school together in busses and makeshift classrooms, since the new building was still under construction. Seventy-three jun- iors, under the supervision of Mrs.Setzer and Mr.Edgar Robinson, entered the new Foard High School, Monday, October 6, 1953. The officers elected were: President, Johnny Bumgarner; Vice-President, Jo Ann Wilson; Secretary, Faye Young; and Treasurer, Martha Jean Pitts. Immediately projects were undertaken for the junior-senior banquet. Sandwiches were sold until the lunchroom opened. Other projects were: selling brooms, magazine subscriptions, and ironing board hooks. Several very successful talent shows were held. The class motto was: “God is our Guide, and we shall strive to serve Him. ' Class colors were green and white; the class flower, dogwood. Sixty-seven juniors entertained the seniors at the Hickory Country Club. At the beginning of the senior year the class enrollment was sixty-eight. At the present time we are still making history. One of our major battles is a financial one--the raising of funds for our much needed vacation, which we shall spend in Washington, D. C., Philadelphia, and New York. Most of all we envisage a black sheepskin marked “Diploma,” at which time we shall say good-by to all our many friends and faculty members, and embark upon our uncertain, yet challenging futures! Peggy Speagle, Historian

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Superlatives most athletic Lloyd Hatley Irene Leatherman BEST CITIZEN J. D. Punch Ellen Wise MOST DIGNIFIED Kenneth Broome Helen Bumgarner