Hartsville High School - Retrospect Yearbook (Hartsville, SC)

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SENIOR SUPERLATIVES Ervin McLendon Best Mannered Boy No girl need ever fear a moment's embarrassment with Ervin, for his manners are impeccable. Behold the modern Ix»:d Chesterfield seating his girl of the moment. Merle Davis Best Mannered Girl Perhaps some day, instead of referring to Emily Post, we may be following Merle Davis's newer and more up-to-date rules of etiquette. Bob BASS Most in Love Spring is in the air. tra-la. Birds are singing and flowers are springing. But if you want first hand information on love, ask Boh, the sentimental | oet; he knows. Ruth Barbie Most in Love If Bol» can’t tell you, just take a look at Ruth, who seems to he enjoying a quiet tete-a-tete with our young Romeo. Charles Dalton Shyest Boy How Charles would like to get around that big obstacle between him and Anne! Some boys would simply slice through anything that got in their way. but | erhaps Charles is afraid such a procedure might frighten Miss Mullet away. Anne Cannon Shyest Girl But Anne, a'lso, is peeping shyly around that fern to see just what the young man intends to do altout the situation. We are sure, from the expression on Anne’s face, that she is half hoping his rising courage will throw caution to the wind. Harrell Gardner Most Mischievous Boy Keenest Sense of Humor What mischief have we here? We wonder whose brain hatched up the latest plot that is alnnit to disturb the peace of the school’s most tranquil spot —the library, of all places! Sarah Frances Mixon Most Mischievous Girl Keenest Sense of Humor Whatever’ brewing, surely Sarah’s in it as deep as Harrell: but don’t be too harsh, for here they’re only having a little harmless fun.

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SENIOR SUPERLATIVES Gordon Moore Most Studious Boy Though Gordon, characteristically, is carrying an armful of textl ooks, he is surely amused at the moment by the passage Margaret is pointing out on the subject of Sjwrts. Margaret Stucky Most Studious Girl What’s the knotty problem, Margaret? Or are yon merely pretending a brown study? For the book you hold in your hand is surely a treatise on baseball rather than physics. Raymond Stokes Most Athletic Boy “He's a wonder, he’s a dream, he’s the captain of our team. Raymond surely has what it takes and he never gives up till the very end. Ruth Barbie Most Athletic Girl You need more to be a good athlete than mere muscle. Good sportsmanship ami a sense of fair play count as much as physical ability. For these and other reasons, we have in Ruth a true athlete. Bob Bass Most Patriotic Boy When it comes to whipping the Axis on the home front. Bob, the captain of the I . K. I , company, really leaves the Marines tagging behind. Lucille McLeod Most Patriotic Girl She may not In a WAVE, nor yet a WAAC: but she’s doing her bit by buying war stamps ami bonds. Norwood Davis Best Looking Boy You may think that those three famous adjectives, “tall. dark, and handsome.’’ are just something you read about; Hut have you seen our pride and joy, Norwood Davis? Carolyn Kea Best Looking Girl In Carolyn we think we have the answer to a movie scout’s prayer. We don’t know about the acting, but she really has the looks.

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SENIOR SUPERLATIVES Bob Bass Best All round Boy Most Sincere Everything that rocs to make up a typical senior may be found in Boh. for his abilities arc as varied as his interests, which arc wide enough to include such different fields as horticulture, photography, poetry, war. and love. Orcla Powell Best All-round Girl Most Sincere And here’s a girl of whom it might he said. “If you want a thing done, get Orgla to do it ; for Orgla seems to l e able to do almost anything required of her with uncommon ease ami dispatch. Albert Burnette Best Dressed Bou If there were a magazine. “Young Esquire. Albert would appear in the leading fashion plate for Spring Styles of ’43. Catherine Byrnes Best Dressed Girl Girls, when you have trouble selecting your new spring outfit, just come over to Hartsville High and ask for Catherine Byrnes. She’s our “Mademoiselle” style editor for 1950. Jack Gainey Friendliest Boy Did anyone ever feel a warmer, firmer handclasp than Jack’s? or meet a friendlier smile? Sarah Frances Mixon Friendliest Girl “Sissy’s stock of friends never seems to run out, because her sincere goodwill includes you and me and all the rest of the world except Hitler. Mussolini. ami llirohito. Harrell Gardner Most Optimistic Boy Even the prospect of being “caught in the draft” couldn’t erase that impish grin from Harrell's face, for he still goes on playing pranks as in pre-war times. Joyce Gaston Most Optimistic Girl Rationing conies and hair turns grey; but Joyce pushes the war effort along in her own merry way.