Hartsville High School - Retrospect Yearbook (Hartsville, SC)

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Valedictory In the course of events it has fallen upon me to speak the final words for the class of 1933. In a certain sense they are words of farewell to classmates and school, but in another sense they arc not. This world is not so large and the dispersion of this class in it will not be so great that we shall nor meet again and often as active citizens in our varied walks of life. We are bidding farewell to the school as pupils, but we are not to desert it. Rather, through our efforts in the future we shall give it even more loyal support than we have in the past. The occasion also calls for expressions of gratitude on our part. Parents, teachers, trustees. and friends of the school, we arc wondering how we shall ever be able to express to you our appreciation for the wonderful opportunities that have been ours bcause of your personal sacrifices, your unselfish devotion to your work, and your abiding interest in our welfare. We realize that economic conditions have brought about a crisis in public education in South Carolina; we realize that the problems to be solved are grave indeed: but we also believe that if this crisis is to be successfully passed: if the problems so grave in their nature are to be satisfactorily solved, the common practice of making the schools the football of cheap politics will have to be abandoned and a program of enlightened statesmanship begun. The future worth of our citizenship and the future greatness of our state hang in the balance. Classmates, as I look back over our four years together. I see standing out in all their boldness, ruggedness, and true worth certain principles of good citizenship that have been impressed upon us from day to day. And yet. all the lessons that have been learned and all the truths that have been taught are to be valuable only in so far as we make use of those lessons and apply those truths in the broader contacts which we shall make in a busy and changing world. We say that this is a changing world, and events of the past few years serve but to lend emphasis to the fact. We seem on the verge of having to abandon our former worship of our so-called rugged American individualism. That individualism, which by the very nature of the case is selfish, has not only failed to solve the problems of this generation, but in large measure has brought our troubles upon us. For that selfish individualism we must substitute a group consciousness; we must place emphasis upon social values: we must stop our chasing after evanescent profits; we must, to a certain extent, be content to work for the glory of worthwhile achievements; we must bend our every effort in supporting the common good and raising the social and spiritual level for the communities in which we live. Honesty, truthfulness, fair-play, and holding sacred our obligations furnish a foundation on which we can build with everlastingly good results if we realize also that ours is the obligation to work. Ler us not go out with the idea that the world owes us anything, for it does not. We have no right to become economic drones or social parasites. We begin the productive period of our lives under a tremendous obligation to society, and the only way for us to discharge that obligation is to leave this world a better place in which to live than we found it. Our worth to the world is not to be measured by the extent of our lands, not by the value of our stocks and bonds; it is not to be gauged by the extent of our political success; it is not to be determined by the vociferousness with which we clamor for dubious rights. Rather, it is to be measured by the extent to which we relieve human misery and suffering: it is to be gauged by the esteem in which we are held by the best citizenship of our com munity; it is to be determined by the degree to which we perform our duties as men and women and discharge our obligations as members of a complex social order. Let us here highly resolve rhat in the years that lie ahead of us we will try to become noteworthy, not for the kind of living we make but for the manner in which we live. Grace Smith, Valedictorian, ’33. Page Twenty

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MOST DIGNIFIED Dorothy Miller Bernerd Bright MOST INFLUENTIAL Kent Segars May Powell BEST ATHLETES May Powell Bernerd Bright BEST DRESSED Carter McKinnon Charles Tatum Senior Superlatives MOST ATTRACTIVE Kathryn Barbie Rex Parrott BEST LOOKING Kent Segars May Powell MOST POPULAR May Powell Jack McAlpine BEST ALL ROUND Kent Segars May Powell BRIGHTEST FUTURE William King Belva Segars SHYEST Sam Blanton Edith Humphries MOST STUDIOUS Henry Malone Grace Smith Page Nineteen

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Junior Class OFFICERS John S. Nichols James W. Hill Maria Powell Wallace Smith Louise Atkinson Annie Rue Bell Eunice Benjamine Thomas Benson Jodis Blackmon Sara Blackwell Elizabeth Blasingame Truman Blasingame Carroll Boyd Oliver Burch Billy Byerly Ruth Marie Carlisle Edward Carnes Mildred Carpenter Mary Crossley Georgia Curtis Bratton Davis Charles Dennis Margaret Durrett Bobby Evins Clifton Elmore Rae Flowers Pauline Funderburk Corrie Gainey Dorothy Gandy James Gandy Lawrence Gibbes MEMBERS Jane Gilbert May Gillespie Willie Mae Goodson Lena Mae Graham Virginia Grantham Ethel Mae Harrell Edna Hatchell Lillian Hayes Eugene Helms Hazel Helms Elizabeth Hicks Louise Hodge Cora Howle Glenn Howle Hubert Hucks John Humpherys Nica Johnson Barbara Kalber Sara King Flora Lee Mary Lunn Robert McKorell Blaney McNfese Mildred McNeese Ruth Mears Margaret Middleton James Miller ..............President ........Vice-President ...........Secretary ........Treasurer McCuen Morrell James Moore Louise Mullis Pennie Mae Newsome Marguerite Odom Ruth Ousley Mary Parrish Lou Beth Parrott Annie Mae Pennington RICHARD PRIVETTE Katie Lee Rhodes Ruth Rhodes Juanita Roberts Cleo Rollins C. E. Spires Brown Stephens Elma Stokes Peak Suggs Mary Lou Wallace Thomas Watford Ethel Watkins Tossie Watkins Thelma Watson Joseph Wiggins j. G. Wilhelm Marion Windham MARGARET YARBOROUGH Page Twenty-one