Hartsville High School - Retrospect Yearbook (Hartsville, SC)

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RETROSPECT course, and kept the faith.” And I, on behalf of the Class of 1926, wish to thank Mr. Thornwell, Mr. Hungerpiller, and the rest of the faculty for their co-operation, willingness, and good will in helping us along with our work. Although we hale to leave old H. H. S., the scene of all our joys and sorrows, yet we are glad that when, in after life, we are asked what school we came from, we will be able to answer that we hailed from a school of good and clean reputation. “For when the One Great Scorer comes, To write against your name, He writes, not that you won or lost. But how you played the game.” Charles Manship, ’26, Historian. 1926= Pane Twenty-tour

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RETROSPECT History of Senior Class When we, the Class of 1926, entered the doors of Hartsviile High School as freshman, we were given the customary name of “rats” by the upper classmen, especially by the wise and vengeful Sophomores. We did not mind this, though, for we thought ourselves as good as, or better than, the rest of them. As freshmen we were forty-eight strong, ready for anything and quite sure of making good in every phase of high school life. We were very much attached to Mr. Crow, then our principal, and also to the rest of the faculty. At the end of our Sophomore year we lost Mr. Crow and Mr. Hungerpiller was chosen to take his place. Although we lost a good man, we were not really “out” anything, for “Anything we lose is not lost in vain, something, just as good, in its place we gain.” Each year of our high school life is marked by one or several brilliant achievements accomplished by members of our class. In our freshmen year the declamation medal in the Commencement Declamation Contest was won by a member of our class. In our second year there were several members of our class who made the football and baseball teams. We were also well represented on I he Megaphone staff and Student Council. This year one of our class represented the school in the State Oratorical Contest. Many of the members of the orchestra came from our class. In our Junior year we attained still greater heights of success and fame. We had a good representation from our class on the football, baseball, and girls’ and boys’ basket-ball teams. We also furnished many members of the Glee Club. In this year members of our class won both the medals in the Commencement Declamation Contest. As Seniors we number forty-three, some having dropped out to attempt to weather the storms on the sea of matrimony, others leaving us to go to other schools. Still others have been added to our roll as we progressed along the highway of education. In this year we have surpassed all former records. We had seven boys to receive gold trophies for their stellar work in football, a good number for basketball and baseball, and a pleasing number in girls’ basket-ball. The history of our class would not be complete if 1 did not mention our superintendent, Mr. Thornwell. Without his gentle leadership, his inspiring personality, and his kind words and encouragement all along our path, we could not have accomplished what we have. We hope that we have “fought a good fight, run the 1926' •ai c Ticcnti three

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RETROSPECT f The Class Will ESTEEMED COMPANY OF WITNESSES: The Senior Class has felt for sometime that its end was very near; we have felt that school was beginning to disagree with us and that members of the faculty had conspired to accomplish the death of the most astonishingly brilliant class the walls of Hartsville High and the teachers thereof have ever frowned upon. The bitter doses of lessons we have taken with daily regularity have hastened rather than prolonged our class demise, and we know with sorrowful certainty that the hour of our departure is near at hand. Therefore, being so soon to pass from these scenes of educational activity; being in full possession of alert minds and memories that put the most extensive encyclopedias to shame; having faculties keenly sharpened by many contests with flinty instructors, we would publish to you upon this funereal occasion, the last Will and Testament of the Senior Class of 1926. I To our superintendent and the members of our beloved faculty, who look upon our demise with smiles of joy, we bequeath the satisfaction which comes from duty well performed and a peaceful rest from the weary task of making our graduation shrouds. We also leave them a large amount of sympathy for their depressing attempts to pound knowledge into our craniums. In addition we bequeath them our regrets that their work with us was so barren of results. We leave them, but we don t leave them much. II To the school in general, we leave the out-of-the-way nooks where we have been wont to hide—to waste the time we should have spent in studying. The the school library, we leave the collection of volumes setting forth the charms, the escapades, the achievements, and the startling knowledge gleaned from our examination papers. These volumes will be written by the first famous author who offers a good price for so doing. Ill To the Junior Class, as our rightful and worthy successors, we leave (1) our seats, occupy them but do not try to fill them; (2) our Senior dignity, may they uphold it with becoming seriousness, endeavoring to overcome their usual hairbrained and frivolous flippancy; (3) our tendency to make a little knowledge go a long way in the class room; also our ability to throw faculty members off the track when they imagined we were bluffing; (4) our honored positions as models for the school—models of wit, wisdom, charm of manner, excellency of behavior, physical development, and intellectual expansion. May heaven help you to stand up under this strain; (5) lastly, that which gives us the greatest pang to part with— 1926= Tircntfhfive