Hartsville High School - Retrospect Yearbook (Hartsville, SC)

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Senior Class Poem P 4 To Mr. J. . Thorn well and the Faculty. As we come to the close of our High School career And think of each session apart. We know that the thought of our Senior Year Is marked with real sadness of heart. We’ve worked close together four long happy years. And now as we come to the end. We think of the parting with eyes full of tears. And this message to you we would send. Our purpose shall he as through life we go To gallantly ’‘follow the gleam.” To hold to the truths which we all know, And not value things as they seem. To you who have taught us, our friends tried and true. We pledge faith to your high ideal. You’ve given us courage to dare and to do As Life’s Mystery you’ve sought to reveal. Myrtle Carpenter, Poet, ’28. Twenty-nine

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in having one other among its new members, Woodrow Lewis, who has, without doubt, made his presence felt in the record he has made for himself. During this, his first year in Hartsville High School, he won the distinction of being the best negative debater in the state. The short story medal, which is awarded each year to a pupil from our High School who writes the best short story, was won by a member of the Junior Class, Mary Lee. Literary ability was also discovered in Maude West, who won the prize awarded by the Professional Women’s Club for the best essay written on a stated topic. We are most proud of the members of our class who acquired success on the various athletic teams and in the musical activities. Last, but not least, among the events and happenings of our Junior year, and wa might say, one of the most worthy, was the organization of a chapter of the National Honor Society in our high school. The honor of the organization of the chapter is due to Miss Helen Baker, one of our beloved teachers. The members of our class who were taken into the society this year as charter members were Margaret Phoebe Reynolds, Marguerite Gandy, Charlotte Coker, and Woodrow Lewis. Last September we entered our Senior year with the largest membership ever possessed by a senior class of Hartsville High School. It was hard to realize that we had been at old H.H.S. for three years, but yes, we were now seniors, and it was our duty to live up to that name of “Senior.” This year, for us. has held even more than our Junior year, and yet we know that it has been one of joy mingled with sorrow -joyful because we had attained our Senior year, and sad because we must soon break the ties of love and friendship which have, for the last four years especially, bound us together. Our Senior class officers were elected as follows: President, Woodrow Lewis; Vice-President, Lucas Sparrow; Secretary, (.’arson Steen; Treasurer. Martha Carnes. Fannye Stokes was added to our class roll this year. The new members taken into the Honor Society were: Martha Carnes. Ruth Stewart. Mary Lee. Myrtle Carpenter, Lem Stephenson. Lucas Sparrow, and Finch Ridge. Vie give much credit to our affirmative debating team, which won third place in the state, out ol forty contesting teams. On this team were two members of our class: Martha Carnes and Woodrow Lewis. The IJ. D. C. medal, awarded this year for the best paper written on Wade Hampton by a high school senior, was won by Margaret Phoebe Reynolds. I he prize in the tobacco essay contest was won by one of our seniors. Maude West. In spite of the many, many times Mr. Hungerpiller has scolded us in Fnglish class, for being one of the worst classes in spelling he has ever taught, we are proud of the fact that we have one member, and maybe two or three others, who are excellent along this line. This pupil is Sadie Howie, who has won. for the past three years, first place in the County High School Spelling Contest. Our class had the privilege this year of contributing to the Lower State Championship Basketball Team the manager. Margaret Phoebe Reynolds; three players. Marguerite Benjamin, Mary D. Chambers, and Fannye Stokes; and three subs. Mildred Folsom, Frances Flowers, and Juanita Ingram. Our boys also accomplished much in athletics. We had quite a number from our class in the Glee Club which won second place in the Coker College contest. Of course, fellow classmates, it would be impossible for me to remind you of all the activities of this, our Senior Year, but these 1 think are the most outstanding. While we are not satisfied with our achievements, the class as a whole, has stood for a high standard of honor. The record of the class has not been attributed to the attainments of two or three members, but to the steady work of the unit. We shall soon part, probably never to meet again as a group, but true friendship can never be wholly obliterated and, therefore, we are sure that we shall not forget those with whom we have been so intimately associated. I must stop now for 1 have told you, as best I could, the history of the class of 1928. We shall leave the responsibility of the next chapter in the annals of Hartsville High School to the rising senior class of 1929. Charlotte Coker, Historian. Twenty

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 e $ I am a prophet and the son of a prophet, and lo. in a dream. I behold these children going up out of captivity in the year nineteen hundred and twentv-eight. Those who have been held in oppression under the heavy hand of James, of tin House of Thomwell, who is a mighty king in the land of Hartsville; and of his counsellors. John of the House of HungerpiUer. whose fame has gone abroad through all the land because of his deeds of valor; and of the scribe, John, of the House of Scoggins, whose words of wisdom are many; and also they have been buffeted about by the fair and beautiful princesses whom the king employeth to say, “Thou shall and thou shah not. Behold these children do lift up their voices against all of these oppressions, and they lift up their voices and say unto the king, “Oh, King, have merev upon us, thy miserable children, and let us go forth out of this place of oppression into a land of joy which lieth outside the citv.” And Janies, of the House of Thorn well, looks in pity upon them and says, “Oh. my children, your transgressions have beerf many and your iniquities great, and the land into which you go is full of evils, but be it unto you even as you have desired. My children, go in peace.” And lo. it shall come to pass that they shall go forth and their sojourn shall be long and the years thereof shall be many. And liehold. Walton of the House of Luther, shall be a mighty healer in all the land; he shall look upon tin afflictions of many, and they shall become whole, and happiness shall be his all his life. And lo. Bruce of the House of Bair, shall follow the plow; he shall rise up a great while before it is day to till his fields that they may bring forth an hundred fold; and he shall accumulate much wealth he, with his good wife Ruby, shall possess. And I look again, ami I see one Ruth, of the House of Stewart, who shall journey afar to teach history in the temple of learning in the land of Kellytown. For it was she who learned from Princesses Simons and Baker the length of the Hundred Years War. And lo, I see in my dream Myrtle, of the House of Carpenter, who shall be great in the writing of poetry, and her fame shall spread throughout all the land, for in the days of oppression in the land of Hartsville. her lines did surpass all the rest. And one Sadie of the House of Houle, and Ktlie! Mae, of the House of Kenfrow. because they have had great experince in (lusting their noses while they did study in the temple of learning in the land of Hartsville, shall open a beauty parlor, and their fame shall spread to the end? of the earth. And again I look, and behold, one sits in the seats of the Latin teachers and lo, it is Lemuel of the House of Stephenson, who has succeeded Robert of the House of Du rett. at the College of Coker, in the land of Hartsville. He shall teach his students always to speak the I atin tongue, and he shall journey with his students to the C arrollum Forum in the great temple of learning, and there they shall draw fresh inspiration and renew their love for the Roman tongue. Before this group at the setting of the sun, there shall dance the classic dancers. Mary I), of tint House of Chambers and Beatrice of the House of Heustess, who did make merry of yore in the land of Hartsville. And behold. I see the capitol city of the state; the capitol building majestic in all its splendor, the House of Representatives assembled, ready for the days work; and behold. I see in the place allotted to the County of Darlington, one Woodrow of the House of Lewis and one Vartlia of the House of Carnes. Have they not journeyed to Columbia by way of Dr. Kgleston's road through Lynches River? And was not the purpose of their journey to so amend the South Carolina text book law as to provide for the selection of texts by the unit of Supervision from a general list approved by the State Board and furnished free to all children? And one I aura of the House of Twitty shall study to be a Home Demonstration agent, but ere the years be many, she shall demonstrate in her own home in the House of Raines, in the land of Hartsville. Again I see a large city, and in this citv Helen of the House of Howie, and Mildred of the House of Folsom, and Ruth of the House of Folsom, have erected a large hall of pleasure. And it shall come to pass that in this building. Robert of the House of Stewart, and Ralph of the House of Turner, shall every evening entertain the multitudes who shall press forward eagerly to witness their performances. And it shall also come to pass that the fame of these two comedians shall so spread throughout the land that the two Black Crows will be forced to wing a solitary flight, and will never be heard of again. And behold, V irginia of the House of I angston. and Virginia of the House of Chapman, shall journey northward to teach math; but alas, when they shall attempt to explain geometry, they shall be found wanting! For have not the fair maidens slept away their days of grace in the math class in the temple of learning, in the land of Hartsville. and neither have their answer books arrived which they ordered from Sears Roebuck! And again I sec in my vision an automobile driven rapidlv towards me. As it comes to a stop, behold. I see Marguerite of the House of Gandy, and R. VV. of the House of Stogner, chief Thirty