Fuquay Springs High School - Greenbriar Yearbook (Fuquay Springs, NC)

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If you can’t recall some of the experiences, whether sad or happy, which we have enjoyed at school this year, read along with us as we refresh your memory. Some of the items listed are perhaps insignificant or may seem that way, but they have been added for one purpose—to make the picture in your mind more complete. It was the first Thursday in September, 1950, when you, along with three hundred classmates returning from summer vacations entered the high school building via the front entrance and were greeted probably by Annie Laurie Sherron, Jeanette Saunders, Doris Young, Tommy Keith, the Lane twins and a host of other friends. Inside the door, standing near the bookroom, was faith¬ ful Sara Van Hook—her eyes glued to her watch as almost-mechanically she flipped the switch which officially opened the beginning of a new school year. If you were late the first day, you didn’t feel so badly when your eyes caught “Speedy” Weathers trudging in tardy, too. Then on Monday came the news which crushed each one of us. Our beloved principal would no longer be with us. It had been but four days since he had opened the new,school year with chapel and although we had greeted him with an ovation befitting an empe or f it was but a minute expression of the love we really felt for him. Now, as a lasting tribute oj our deceased standard- bearer, our new athletic field has been officially dedicated as Fleming .Field. With the school year and football season came a near celebrity in our midst. We refer to Billy Joe Dickens, who because of his outstanding ability to think and run with the ball, found himself featured in a statewide newspaper write-up. Helping teammate Dickens lead the team to a county championship (decided in a sloppily wet game with Garner) and an impressive trophy, was promising new star, David Smith. Perhaps it was the aroma of Buck Adcock’s and Coach Council’s cigars which inspired the squad to victory after victory which resulted not only in an additional trophy but also a delicious steak supper. Initiation night was a memorable occasion for several clubs. New Beta members were sent on a scavenger hunt for impossible things and were punished with a vile-smelling mixture when they failed to return with a fishing worm or a sea shell. Future Homemakers and Future Farmers had to endure stunts like chalk rolling with the nose and cold showers. The thrill of the year was afforded the basketball girls when they presented Mr. Weede a nylon sweater. Upon receiving it, he exclaimed repeatedly, “For me? How long did you girls have to sacrifice?” The fad of the year was the Charleston. Almost any time you could catch Barbara Thomas, Carolyn Pritchett, and Nancy Cooke kicking their heels in an exhaustive attempt to make their feet move faster. The laugh of the year ended in a three-way tieup. First of all, what basketball fan can’t recall the night a Garner boy grabbed the ball under Fuquay’s goal and before he realized it, had flipped it in for two points? Secondly, what Senior doesn’t remember how Tommy Keith “elected” him¬ self class treasurer by moving the nominations be closed when his name was the only one up for election? Last of all, what member of the graduating class has forgotten how several classmates got size confused with virtues and voted for E. B. Walters for Best All Around” because they thought he was just that? While Mary Alice Baker thinks appendicitis during Christmas holidays was terrible and Portia Mitchell thinks that omitting basketball from her daily routine because of a knee operation was unbearable, nearly everyone, even they, agrees that the “pain” of the year as usual came with midterm and end-of-the-year exams. Pass the aspirin! It’s all about over now. We know you have had fun, because it’s all in a year at Fuquay—and what a year it’s been! Page Two

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SHOULD AULD ACQUAINTANCE BE FORGOT AND DAYS OF AULD LANG SYNE 1951 GREENBRIAR Published by the Senior Class of Fuquay Springs High School Fuquay Springs, North Carolina

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The Senior Class of Fuquag Springs High School c ' resents THE 1951 QREENBRIAR Daphne Adams Editor Ralph Ashworth .... Business Manager Sara Van Hook. ) Co-Advertising Nancy Kesler j Managers Elizabeth Cole Stack ..Advisor