Hartsville High School - Retrospect Yearbook (Hartsville, SC)

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Salutatory 3 s Fellow Students, Teachers, Trustees, Parents, and Friends: I have the special privilege of coming before you this evening bearing a message of greeting from the Senior Class of 1928. Greetings to you, our fellow students, who are traveling over the same paths that we have trod! Very soon an occasion similar to this will see your efforts crowned with success and your names added to the long and honored list of Hartsville High School Graduates. Greetings to you, our Superintendent and Teachers, faithful, sympathetic, counsellors and guides! And greetings to you, our Trustees! But for you our journey would not have been possible, and we are happy because you are with us. Greetings to you, parents of every boy and girl of the Senior Class of 1928! We know how prayerfully you have watched the progress of your son or daughter from earliest school days until this graduation hour. Our happiness this evening is entirely complete because of your presence, our most honored guests. And greetings to you, our many friends! Interest in the Class of 1928 and education in general prompted you to accept our invitation to be our guests. We are glad to have you share with us the joy of this happy occasion. And so. Fellow Students, Teachers, Trustees, Parents, Friends, 1 greet you all in behalf of the Senior Class of 1928! Marguerite Gandy, Saluiaiorian, '28. T wenly-six

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 'miiiiiiu11111 nhiim lull) THE RE T R 0 S P E C T Senior Statistics § e First Second Most Vopulur Girl Mary I). Chambers Martha Carnes Most Vo put or Boy J. D. Cook Leslie Graham Best All-round Girl Mary 1). Chambers Juanita Ingram Best All-round Boy Carson Steen J. D. Cook Best Student Margaret Phoebe Reynolds Marguerite Gandy Best Looking Girl Beatrice Heustess Kitty Best Best Looking Boy Leslie Graham Woodrow Lewis Best Dressed Girl Martha Carnes Myrtle Carpenter Best Dressed Boy Leslie Graham Bruce Bair Neatest Girl Marguerite Gandy Kitty Best Neatest Boy Leslie Graham Heyward Smith Most Volite Girl Mary Lee Charlotte Coker Most Volite Boy Lucas Sparrow Woodrow Lewis Biggest Flapper Ethel Mae Renfrow Sadie Howie Biggest Sheik Henry McKinnon J. D. Cook Best Girl Athlete Mary D. Chambers Fannye Stokes Best Boy Athlete J. D. Cook Leslie Graham Most Dignified Girl Martha Carnes Kitty Best Most Dignified Boy Heyward Smith Bruce Bair Girl with Brightest Future Marguerite Gandy Myrtle Carpenter Boy with Brightest Future Woodrow Lewis Bruce Bair Most Industrious Girl Marguerite Gandy Charlotte Coker Most Industrious Boy Carson Steen Woodrow Lewis H ittiest Girl Percie Ingram Myrtle Carpenter Wittiest Boy J. D. Cook Boh Stewart Most Original Lem Stephenson Evelyn Graddick Best Natured Boy Carson Steen R. W. Stogner, Jr. Best Natured Girl Mary Lee Ruth Stewart Girl Who Did Most for . H. S. in 1927 and 1928 Charlotte Coker Martha Carnes Boy Who Did Most for H. H. S. in 1927 and 1928 Carson Steen Woodrow Lewis Twenty-five

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I I lllll'l II LfTTfn T H E RETROSPEC Senior Class History e It was in September, eleven years ago, that a young ami eager group of us entered the first grade of the Hartsville Grammar School. Our minds were filled with excitement and joy. and we were ready to grasp anything concerning learning which might come our way. In this group were several who have been faithful and true to our old class, and are now in the Senior (Hass of Hartsville High School, ready to be graduated if fate does not decree otherwise. The girls in this first grade group were: Lena Blackman, Martha Carnes, Virginia Chapman, Mary I). Chambers, Charlotte Coker. Marguerite Gandy. Beatrice Heustess, Juanita Ingram. Percie Ingram. Mary Lee. Ethel Mae Renfrow. Margaret Phoebe Reynolds. Dorothy Tillotson, Laura Twitty. I he boys were: Bruce Bair. William Funderburk. Henry McKinnon, Finch Ridge, Lucas Sparrow, Lem Stephenson, James Steen, Heyward Smith, K. W. Stogner, Jr. As the years of Grammar School came and went, others joined our group. When we realized that we were getting into the more difficult field of study, we felt very important. Before we knew it we found ourselves in the seventh grade. (x)uld this be possible? es. and then we were regarding the pupils in the lower grades with an air of dignity, and maybe a little condescension. Don't you remember, class mates, the feeling of pride which we had when we walked across the stage in May, 1924. to receive our Grammar School Certificates? We felt, as all the other pupils do when they graduate from Grammar School, that we had accomplished the first big task in our young lives, for our chief ambition in the years preceeding had been to receive our certificates from the Hartsville Grammar School. Those who went along with us from the Grammar School to the High School were: Mar- guerite Benjamin, Myrtle Carpenter, Evelyn Graddick. Myrtle Ingram. Virginia Langston. Irene Sparrow. Maude West. Robin Askins. J. 1). Cook. Walton Luther, Leslie Graham. Baxter Ridge. Carson Steen, Bob Stewart, William Summer. Ralph Turner. The following September, we appeared in High School with countenances marked with fear and uncertainty. We soon became aware of the fact that we were not nearly so old and learned as we had thought, and that there was much work ahead of us. We. during this first year in high school, experienced many taunts and threats, from the more experienced and more learned upper classmen, which filled our hearts with fear. We didn't fancy at all the title of honor— “Rats which was conferred on us that first y’ear. As we had no contact with the outside activities of the school world, as it were, we entered upon our studies with ardent zeal. Two new members came to us this year; Frank Ellis and Sadie Howie. No large task was accomplished by our group aside from class work that first year, for we were too busy becoming used to our new surroundings. We were largely occupied with the more difficult studies of Latin. Algebra. Science and the like, which seemed extremely hard and strange to us at first, and which demanded of us hard study in order that we might grasp their difficult problem. Nine months, filled with many hardships and fears, brought us to our Sophomore year. Feeling much more at ease, we entered, with more confidence, into the life of the school. We had by this time become adjusted to Hartsville High School life. This year we welcomed to our class these girls: Frances Flowers, Ruth Stewart, and Lois Young. The class was proud of Henry McKinnon, who won first place in the high school declamation contest. Several of our members began to take part on the various athletic teams, in the Glee Club, Orchestra, and other oragnizations of the school. In spite of the fact that we were rapidly gaining the reputation of being the noisiest class in high school, which reputation we were to keep for the remainder of our high school career, we were proud of our class for its varied achievements, and for the splendid way in which we had learned to work together. It was in the third year that we really made our presence fe!t. Quite a number of the members of our class were now old enough and capable enough to share in the various activities of the school, including athletics, in which some were bold and spry enough to take part. This, our Junior year, was filled with opportunities for the various members of our class. A great many of these opportunities were grasped, and successful goals were attained, by the class as a whole and by individuals who were to make for themselves a record worth while. The following students entered our group this year: Ella Mae Flowers. Zuline Flowers, Mildred Folsom. Ruth Folsom. Helen Howie. Doris King. Esther Lee Moore, and Ruth Poison. The class was fortunate this year Twenty-seven