Hartsville High School - Retrospect Yearbook (Hartsville, SC)

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FROM THE CLASS NIGHT PROGRAM CLASS HISTORY As our senior year draws to a close we look forward with anticipation to graduation. We do not experience happiness when we think of our school years ending in so short a time. We think of the friends we leave behind and of the teachers who have so ably guided us through the years we have been in school. As the day of graduation dawns, our minds go back to our first year in high school. We graduated from grammar school in 1940 with an enrollment of 145 pupils, the largest graduating class ever to graduate from the grammar school. This class was also the third largest class in the history of Harts-ville High School. During our freshman year we started on a field of study that was to last four years and prepare us for the day we would start out for ourselves. During this year our officers were Gregg Tedder, president; Pressly Coker, vice-president: Jean Crawford, secretary: and Kathrine Segars, treasurer. In 1941 we became Silly Sophs” and were we proud! This marked a most notable event in our national history. Pearl Harbor was bombed by the Japs and we were at war with Japan. Faculty members and students left school to go into the armed forces. Our officers for the sophomore class were Pressly Coker, president; Claire Jones, vice-president; Peggy Sing, secretary: and Ethel Cook, treasurer. At the beginning of our junior year we looked forward to Physical Education set forth by the government as a body building program. In all of the war drives we have been asked to take part in we have tried to meet our quota and if possible, top it. Among these were the scrap iron drive and the bond drive. Our officers for this year were not elected until the end of the year and were chosen to serve through our senior year. They are as follows: Keith Flowers, president: Pressly Coker, vice-president; Clara Ingram, secretary: Claire Jones, treasurer. Pressley Coker withdrew from school and Jean Crawford was elected vice-president. We now enter the eleventh grade as dignified seniors feeling a little superior to the lower grades. This senior class has gone out for athletics in a whole-hearted manner. Our football team this year, coached by J. B. Harvin. was backed to the limit by the senior class, student body, and faculty. A large number of boys in our graduating class will go into some branch of the armed forces immediately after graduation. The student body and faculty feel every regret that Dr. Thornwell is leaving us at the end of this school year. Our best wishes go with Floyd Parker who graduated early to go into the Navy. We have come a long way since we entered Hartsville High in 1941, but we feel sure that we will be able to cope with any obstacles that may be in our path towards real happiness and success. Jim Stuckey, Class Historian, '44. CLASS POEM The members of the Class of ’44 Are ready to explore another world: The days of youth, alas, shall be no more, No more are we the carefree boy and girl. Regretfully we leave the shores of sweet content Whre few have been the rocks and crags of strife; But many are the happy days there spent.— Memories we’ll cherish all our life. Reluctantly we bid these shores farewell. We part and board the waiting ships. Whose distant port not one of us can tell. For this is sealed behind the Captain's lips. Uncertain is the Sea of th’ Future far; But we are confident that we’ll come through With Christ our Captain and our guiding Star To lead us. help us, in whate'er we do. Helen Vaughan, Class Poet, '44. Page Twenty-one

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WALDRON WATT Virginia Leigh Waldron J. W£w D. E. fcfijNG F. L. WASH E. G. Young V Edward Blackwell Watt “JINNY'' “Physical Ed. “Ed Student General Association 41. 42. 43. 44: Home Room Club 41. 42. 43. 44: Junior Homemakers Association 41. 42. 4 3. 44; Commercial Club 43. 44. Martin James Wase “Buddy” Student General Association 41. 42. 4 3. 44: Home Room Club 41. 42. 4 3 (President). 44: Victory Corps (Constitutional Committee 43). (iMajor 44): Glee Club 4 1. 42. 43. 44; Band (Color Bearer) 42. 43. 44: Bond and Stamp Committee 42: Green Counter Committee 4 3. 44 (Manager) : RFTROSPECT Staff; National Junior Honor Society 41. 42: National Honor Society 43, 44; American Legion Oratorical Contest 44. Student General Association 41. 42. 43. 44: Home Room Club 41. 42, 43, 44; Commercial Club 43. 44. Frances Louise Wase “Turk Demmie Erleen Young DUMMIE Student General Association 44: Home Room Club 44; Commercial Club 44; Physical Education 44. Student General Association 40. 41. 42. 4 3. 44; Home Room Club 40, 41, 42. 43. 44: Junior Homemakers Association 40. 41. 42. 43. 44; Commercial Club 42, 43. Not Photographed Carolyn Best Floyd Parker Emma Geraldine Young Cissy Student General Association 41. 42. 43. 44: Home Room Club 4 1 (Secretary). 42, 43. 44 (Secretary): Commercial Club 4 3. 44: National Honor Society 4 3. 44: Victory Corps 44; Basketball 41. 42. 43. 44: Soccer 41. 42, 43. 44: Home Economics Club 4 1. Page Twenty

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TWINKLE, TWINKLE, SENIOR STARS CHARLIE LANGSTON Most-in-Love, Most Popular, Best Looking. Best-All-Round. Personality-Plus. Friendliest JIM STUCKEY...................................................................... Most Courteous CLYDE COMPTON ................................................................... Most Indifferent SAM MCALPINE..................................................................... Most Mischievous ROCK TRUETT Best Dancer. Best Dressed. Most Musual KEITH FLOWERS Most Sincere. Typical Senior EDWARD Watt Most Dependable, Most Studious, Most Likely to Succeed, Most Dignified JIMMIE GARDNER Most Optimistic. Wittiest GREGG TEDDER .................................................................... Most Athletic JAMES WASE ................................................... . Most Bashful TOMMY Browne....................................................................... Biggest Flirt C. R. FINK Best Alibier Lillian McLeod ....................................................................... Most-m-Love GERALDINE Young . Most Courteous, Best Looking Page Twenty-two