Graham High School - Wag Yearbook (Graham, NC)

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Seniors WILLIAM DOUGLAS RATLIFF “Doug ’ Radio 3,4; Football 2. MOTTO ‘“Build For Character, Not For Fame ' CLASS COLORS Green and White FLOWER Gladioli MASCOTS DAVID HOLT BECKY HARDEN

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Sentors CHARLES STOREY Lover Boy”’ ‘ Man alive, what a pretty sweater!”’ Student Council 4; Audio Visual Aids 3; Key Club 4; Glee Club 1, 2, 3,4; Superlative 4. BARBARA THOMPSON ‘ Babs ’ ‘ Let me tell you something. ’’ Audio Visual Aids 4; Homemakers Club 4; Photography 3; Superlative 4, RICHARD LEE VESTAL OS Dye) ey I don’t know what to tell you!”’ Monogram Club 2, 3,4; Boys’ Athletic Club 3,4; Foot- ball 2, 3,4; Basketball 2, 3,4; Baseball 2; Key Club 3,4, President 4; Glee Club 3,4; Superlative 4. JEANETTE CAROLYN WALLACE ‘ Frenchy”’ ‘ Who me? ?” Audio-Visual Aids 4; Dramatic Club 3,4; The Cracker 4; Photography Club 3; Girls’ Athletic Club 4; Glee Clube DAN ALBERT WEBSTER ““Wiebexs ‘ Don't know, do you?’”’ THE WAG 4; Library Assistant 2; Boys’ Athletic Club 3, 4; Pootballe2) 4. (Glee Glubely 2, 2. BILLIE JO WILSON SON ito ‘I'm sorry you’re not having any fun,’”’ Homeroom Class President 2; Library Assistant 4, Secretary; Girls’ Athletic Club 3, 4; Majorette 1, 2; Superlative 4. LAVICA WRIGHT WILSON oral va Giaieae er Wiekl, Gier te Student Council 3; Library Assistant 3, President; Glee Club 1, 2,3,4; Superlative 4. JONATHAN T. ZACHARY, JR. So Ziach “‘I’ll doit, but I ain't going to like it! Class Vice-President 1; Student Council 2,3,4, Vice- President 3, President 4; Honor Society 3,4; Marshal 3; Dramatic Club 3; The Cracker 3,4; Monogram Club 2, 3,4; Boys’ Athletic Club 3,4; Football 3,4; Basket- ball 2, 3,4, Co-Captain 4, All County Team 3; Baseball 1,2,3,4; Key Club 3, 4; Superlative 4.

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Class His tory Experiences by the score--a few sad ones, but most of them happy--have been a part of our school life since that fateful day in nineteen thirty-nine when we, timidly and with a few mis- givings, first walked under the large white arch and made our debut at Graham School. In that first year we made new friends, who were to be our classmates for the next twelve years. Soon our first year was over and after a short summer vacation, we entered the second grade, where we settled down and began learning our reading, ‘riting, and ‘rithmetic in earnest, Grades three, four, and five passed quickly as we continued laying the foundation for our higher education. In these years there was much fussing because’ we had been separated from our classmates of past years. However, most of our problems were soon forgotten as we made new friends, Then came grade six and our classes were now held upstairs. We were really ‘‘bigshots”’ then, going to classes on the same floor as the high school students. That year we entered into intramural sports with the other grades, and some of the great athletic talent of our class began to develop. Grade seven passed rather slowly. We were still studying the same subjects of the past few years, and there was still that sluggish geography to learn. Now we were in the eighth grade and only one year away from high school. This year we began changing classes on a small scale. The trip to Raleigh was eagerly anticipated, and it proved to be every bit as interesting as we had expected. Various class projects helped the year to pass quickly, and almost before we knew it, we were through with the elementry grades and ready to enter high school. At last we were Freshmen. Being a Freshman isn’t anything to rave about, but we were reall y proud to be in high school: The upper classmen would often provoke us, but there were enough ball games, parties, and other activities to offset that. That monster called High School bewildered us a bit, but the year was gone before we found time to worry. Then we were Sophomores. The studies were a little harder, but we were a bit more pre- pared, We settled down to the grind of learning biology, history, and Latin, We were repre- sented well in all sports and those who were not athletic served as library assistants or glee club members, : During our Junior year we were called on to sell magazine subscriptions to help raise money for our big project--the Junior-Senior Banquet. After long months of planning, the night of the banquet finally arrived and we all stepped out in our formals, many of us for the first time. We enjoyed being Juniors and looked forward to the next year when we would be Seniors, The Class of Fifty-one has now begun the last of twelve happy years in G.H,.S. The school year has just gotten well under way, and we are now enjoying the honor of being Seniors. We are very proud to wear our beautiful class rings, which we thought would never arrive, Our chests fill with pride as we see the assembly rise when we walkin, Before long there will be those much dreaded exams. After exams are over we will complete our annual and take that long awaited Washington trip. Then all too soon graduation will be here. Soon the Class of Fifty- one will leave, but not forget, dear old Graham High. Hal Farrell, Jr. -Historian