Greenville High School - Tau Yearbook (Greenville, NC)

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1944 GREEN LIGHTS ♦ ♦ SUPERLATIVES

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IP 1944 GREEN LIGHTS f|P . SUPERLATIVES Nine

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1944 GREEN LIGHTS SENIOR CLASS HISTORY About five years ago we began our life in Greenville High School. Since then we have developed from the bashful Freshmen into some of the best leaders of the school. During our first years in Junior High, we became familiar with the students, the school, and its activities and organizations. We developed a respect for these things and frequently dreamed of the day when we would really be a part of them. We were creating within ourselves a desire to become some of the leaders of the school. In the tenth grade we began to participate in the extra curricular activities. Members of our class joined various clubs and organiza- tions. We were proud to have a member of our class elected as Treasurer of the Student Cooperative Association that year. As Juniors, we first worked as an organ- ized group. Our first officers were Jack Scott, President; Mattie Harris Mayo, Vice-Presi- dent; Shirley Savage, Secretary; and Wil- liam Keck, Treasurer. Under the leadership of these officers, we sponsored several school entertainments and conducted a successful magazine sale. The proceeds from these went into the Junior-Senior Dance which we gave in May. This successful affair summed up our activities as Juniors. Because of her high scholastic average, Peggy Rose Smith has served as Chief Mar- shal of our Class. Her assistants have been Elizabeth Kittrell, Mattie Harris Mayo, Betsy Hellen, Margaret Joyce Clark, Annie Lee Powell, and Hennie Ruth Whichard. During the summer of 1943 thirty-five members of our class received their high school diplomas. These students were those who had attended summer school or had passed the college entrance examination. Now some are attending college, working, or are in the various branches of the service. We have missed these students and still feel that they are a part of us. We began our Senior year as a small class suffering the loss of the early graduates. In spite of this, however, we were able to achieve success in all our undertakings. The most important undertaking of the year was the publication of the yearbook. Green Lights, and this annual proved to be a great improvement over previous years. The Staff was elected by the class and they were as follows: Co-Editors, Betsy Hellen and Peggy Rose Smith ; Business Manager, Hennie Ruth Whichard; Literary Editor, Dick Worsley; Photography Editor, Harper Darden; and Advertising Manager, Neill Posey. The Staff was assisted by members of the class. We presented the annual Christmas program, sponsored the filling of two Christmas bas- kets, and conducted a very successful station- ery sale. We also gave several dances, and sponsored a basketball game between the Juniors and Seniors. The following officers were elected at the first class meeting of the year: President, Mattie Harris Mayo; Vice-President, Hennie Ruth Whichard; Secretary, Shirley Savage; and Treasurer, Russell Gardner. It was under this capable leadership that we completed our last year of work. With the end of our life as Seniors came the end of our life as students of Greenville High School. This life has been a pleasant one and we shall never forget it and all the memories that it afforded. Eleven