Graham High School - Wag Yearbook (Graham, NC)

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D0 YOU REMEMBER? On that early, warm, Autumn day way back yonder in 1936, as we eagerly pushed our sunny little faces into the doorway of grade one, our eyes shone with great anticipation over this exciting new adventure. We looked about us and saw many small, strange faces which were destined to play important roles in our lives and share twelve happy years with us. Almost too fast, we passed into the second year. The highlight of that year was, without doubt, our trip to the fire station. Our tiny hearts almost burst with excitement on that memorable day. We climbed on the fire engine and listened with big eyes to the stories of the fire chief. The third and fourth years fled as we discovered ourselves packed with more and more precious knowledge of reading, writing, and arithmetic. In our fifth year the State Fair was held at Raleigh, therefore, we found ourselves milling through the crowds, eating cotton candy and riding the hobby horses. On the same day, we visited the capital and shook hands with Governor Hoey. This incident made us feel very important indeed. Grades six and seven passed slowly. At the end of the seventh year, we were shocked to find out we would have to spend an extra year in the grades, however, our eighth year passed quickly. Finally that glorious day arrived when we received our elementary diplomas. We were in high school at last! Then came that horrible year we spent as green, green freshmen. We felt so lost and little among all those big people. It was terrifying!! Breathing a sigh of relief, our class found itself as sophomores. We felt more important now and at least we could pick on the new freshmen! Many of our classmates were now active in sports and in the Glee Club. The girls were busy learning to be good home makers. The air was constantly filled with delicious aromas escaping from the Home Economics Department. In our Junior year we were busy attending to many happy events. The fall was spent going to football games, the winter cheering our basketball teams, and we even turned out to watch some fine baseball in the spring. With the great problem of the junior-Senior Banquet staring us in the face, we set to work. Our hard work was justified for we have never seen a more beautiful banquet. We hardly recognized each other in our striking evening clothes. Many of us wore formals for the first time. How grown up we felt on that wonderful night! Finally after eleven long years of waiting, we became the Senior class of 'c48.v This day had been only a dream for so long we could hardly believe it was true. None of us will ever forget the day we received our shiny new class rings or ,the day we decided to have the first annual Graham High ever published. We were swamped with work-algebra, physics, French, and English. All of us had our noses stuck in college catalogs, trying to decide on a career and a college to enter after our days at G. H. S. were finished. Now in the midst of planning our VVashington trip and our commencement, we stop to realize that we will soon be going out the same swinging doors we entered so long ago. In these years we have learned not only facts from books. but sportsmanship and the value of friends. These years have been happy years, filled with the joy of youth and also the pains of growing up. VVe wont forget old Graham High and the happy years we spent within its sheltering walls. Since that first day in the first grade, the time has passed quickly. The years ahead may be trying ones. We are aware of our great job in the future. We can only hope with all our hearts that the rest of our years will bring the happiness and joy of our last twelve within old G. H. S. CAROL GUTHRIE, Historian

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i X ,4 aww, sam Nu lmigci' are yu slu-ltcrccl hy Thu kuocl ulcl ha s of Graham Iligh. Thcyw ' been our ri 'ugc year hy year. Our me nory of them will always be clear Out into th- wiclc, unfricuc ' world, Qui' iiatc hcforc us lies urifurle . Success and sorrow, joy and tear Tia-y lie in sturc among the years. But wi-ill not laltcr with a sigh, XXI-'ll moot the-in all with hcacls held high XXX-'ll put our lumwlcclgc- to thc test Anil givc to thi- world our vcry host. Our paths will lcail us all afar, But always, as a guiding star, Thr- l4mmw'lc-clqv gaim-cl in high sclwml days Will load us to sm-cuss anal praise. L.xr'1i,x Kim: Xlrixrczrmi-prix' fl?-