Grafton High School - Re Echo Yearbook (Grafton, WV)

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AS I RECALL Looking back on my years in high school, I seem always to remember doors. The first day of my freshman year I was swept with the other freshmen through the front doors, into the auditorium and into high school life. To a freshman the building is enormous and the door to the next class is so very far from the last. As a freshman I wandered through my first year looking up at seniors, being amazed at the amount of work involved in class tournaments, and shuddering when I found that the teachers were determined that I should use my brain. My sophomore year began more favorably. 1 went to my old homeroom and was sent to my new one. Those two doors symbolized a big step upward. Now I belonged to this mad rush of high school life. This year was like being suspended between two worlds. There was the rush to get to the ball games, concerts and tournaments, and at the same time the anticipation of being a junior. The glamour and magic of the prom, the chance to beat the seniors in the tournaments, and getting a driver's license were all things to which we sophomores looked forward. Then, suddenly, May was there. The summer flashed by in a whirl of parties, swimming, and drive-in movies, and again the doors opened on a new year. As juniors we had to think a great deal but had little time to do more than blink as events, soon to be treasured memories, sped by. I remember my junior sponsor's threats of peanut butter and crackers at the prom if we didn't sell enough magazines. Football and basketball seasons flashed by, and it was time for class tournaments. We really worked and won some a yards for our efforts. Then it was time to prepare for prom decorating. The prom was all I expected it to be. My junior year closed on a high note, and we all turned toward our senior year. We moved up to try out our new seats in the auditorium. Were we proud! Then suddently my classmates and I were seniors and the doors which had opened so long to receive us were finally to shut us out. There was so much to cram into our senior year. The joy of finally being a senior was dimmed by the fact that we were soon to leave high school behind. 1 have my own special memories of this last year as do my classmates. When our memories begin to fade, this book will refresh them. We'll pass through these doors and out again on graduation night knowing that when the doors to high school shut, new doors will open ahead of us. Some of us will never meet again as we move through the doors of the future, but we can all move back through the doors of memory to rejoin the classes of the year 1965. EDITOR - NORMAN COLLIER 4

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ALMA MATER Hail Alma Mater! Hats off to you. Ever You'll find us loyal and true Firm and undaunted always we'll be. Hail to the school we love. Here's a toast to thee. 3

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MILDRED HADD OX Mrs. Mildred Haddox, a very dedicated and much admired teacher left us at mid-year. She had taught for thirty-five years at Flemington High School, First Ward, Parkview, and Grafton Higli School. Mrs. Haddox attended Elkins High School, Davis and Elkins College, Marshall and West Virginia University where she received her A. B. degree majoring in speech. She belonged to the WUEA, and NEA. Mrs. Haddox was an able directress of plays during the time the Little Theatre was at C. H. S. After retirement she plans to read, listen to music, keep house, and do the things she couldn't do before. We're sure she's doing just that and enjoying every moment of it. RETIRING WITH WARM MEMORIES SHERMAN HASELDEN Mr. Sherman Haselden has been teaching in public schools for forty years. During this time he has taught typewriting I and II, bookkeeping I and II, office practice, office machines, salesmanship, retailing, business law, and business arithmetic. He is member of the NEA, WVEA, NBEA, Classroom Teachers Association, and Taylor County Teacher's Association. He was a Re-Echo sponsor for six years, various class sponsors, football program sponsor, and has held several other positions. Mr. Haselden's interests range from traveling to camping and gardening. After retirement he plans to write his family history. 5