Gibsonville High School - Yell O Jak Yearbook (Gibsonville, NC)

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Seniors it M Bl:RN XRD BL FLER, JR RACL I OY Barny ard C racle If bustnes rnterlers mth DIQSSUIS cut out Dun t let her quretr ess hal yan busrness she has her share of fun Glee Club 3 4 Monogram Club 3 Pres Glee Club 2 3 Black ann Gold staff 3 4 tdent 4 Beta Club 3 Pres1dent4 Scrence Yell O Jak Staff 4 French Club 4 Class Clubz Photagraphy Club 2 French Club 4 Play 3 xssrstant Marsnal 3 Yell O Jak Staff 4 Student Counctl 4 Black and Gold btaff4 rdenr I Basketball 3 grptarn 4 JLANET FL YOLNC LR BOBBY MAINLS5 NCI Meatless HGH! 8 515,511 Gfld 21 Sllvlll I take lrfe as rt comes and enjoy rt Thefl YOU 11 KNOW She 15 about Beta Club 3 4 Treasurer 4 Chtef Marshal GleeClubI 3 4 Classbeer tar I 3 Class 3 football r 2 3 CO Captgm 4 Mono Treasurer 4, Bl3Clx alld Gold staff .4 Yell gfamfjlubg 3 4 C1355 Play 5 Superlatlvg O Jak 4 Xlpha Delta 4 Class Plax 3 bup erlatrve 4 fl-Q -in-n-qw' 'hu' 9 O 1 f wf N if 3 , err l t , ,, 1 r I . . 1 ' - S ' , ' -' s , ' , ' I , V, My . , . 4 , - I i . : ' ' : A A 'Q ' . -' ' 4 ' - - 1 Class Play 3g Baseball 45 Class Vice Pres- ' g 2, 5 NL I . 7 A. , T :T ,I K. ,. my 3 ? ,A . , . . v - 1 i 'W C Y - 2 1 ' . , Q - ' 'Q - - : 1 Q j 1 'l - 4. If ,

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Class History The year of 1947 found us th1rty n1ne freshmen grow1ng as all good freshmen should 1n Mr J S Casey s home room Hohnme Faye Wllson was elected as leader to the crew and the year proved to be rather successful We entered 1nto a few aCtlV1t1CS and tr1ed to be a part of hlgh school but we made only a start Thlrty two of us managed to surv1ve that f1rst year and were ushered 1nto our sophomore year along w1th the New Look' a new pr1nc1pal Mr Gerald D James a new home room teacher Mrs J1mm1e Madren and a new pres1dent Horace Isley By th1s t1me we had overcome that stage of be1ng green Several of us were show mg a keen 1nterest IH sports and the brand new subject of b1ology Enghsh was worse than hard but IH the end most of us came out on top In the fall of 1949 we met our new J Everybody was changmng the ha1r styles g1rls had the1r ha1r cut short and the boys were lett1ng the1rs grow Many thought the boys were goxng to have to start paymg excess tax' e were twenty Jolly Jumors w1th Mad1son Klotz as our presldent The f1rst h1ghl1ght of the year was the fxnal selectlon of our class r1ngs We wa1ted long and 1mpat1ently unt1l they came then we suddenly developed a hand complex The stagmg of our f1rst play 'Grandpa Goes to College ' was a b1g th1ng for us but even that was pushed 1n the background when we attended our f1rst Jumor Semor Dates w1th our dreams corsages long flar1ng evemng frocks, and a full course d1nner 1n Meyers new Banquet Hall was ch maxed by danclng to the thr1ll1ng tunes of a real orchestra There was noth1ng that could surpass such a n1ght At last there came the ture Sep tember 1950, when we had reached our coveted goal We were Sen1ors A change had come over us We had a new ser1ousness 1n our manner and some of the d1gn1ty wh1ch all sen1ors by trad1t1on 1nher1t We were really s1tt1ng 1n Mrs Wynne s home room Though now only nlneteen 1n number we were taklng Semor Englrsh and had resolved to pass' We d1d lt too Fmally we could s1t ln the front seats at chapel wh1ch are always ass1gn ed to the sen1ors All of us had looked forward to th1s pr1v1lege Th1s year proved to be the bus1est and happ1est of our ent1re h1gh school career We sponsored a Popular1ty Contest at the Hallowe en carmval and went over the top Before Chr1stmas hol1days Carolyn Dalton who had come to us from Florlda found that her present cred1ts were lnadequate for graduatlon 1n North Carolma so she left us On New Year s Day three of our semor ton and Toble Craddock declded they had rather volunteer than to let Uncle Sam draft them 1n the 1nfantry e reluctantly sa1d Good bye' truly re grettlng to see Semors who were pass 1ng the1r work leave us Wlth only flfteen left we gravely face the POSS1b111ty of be1ng able to g1V8 a play but trust we re not too small 1n number to be entertalned at a banquet Only two b1g w1shes seem really foremost now f1rst that there w1ll stmll be a Wash1ngton D C for us to tour 1n the sprlng and that we w1ll go on record for hav1ng the smallest graduatmg class 1n the last score of years We leave h1gh school Wlth the hope that only tr1als w1th1n our power of comprehenslon awa1t us Bobby Gerunger H1StOT1dn Completed by Harold Johnson . I ' l . . . . I . . C ' ' -J . , . ' . ' I . . i I , . ' big man teacher MY- If H- ViCke1'Y, boys: Bobby Gerringer, Bobby Farring- r. ' ' ' ' . ' - ' ' . W Q ' VI I 0 W . , Q - . . . i '