Henderson High School - Pep Pac Yearbook (Henderson, NC)

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.S'0PERHI7lVf5 593- MOST POPULAR BEST ALL-ROUND MOST TALENTED HAROLD HOUSE HAROLD HOUSE BILL COLLINS DOT BRA1-'FORD FRANCES CURRIN SALLIE KERNER FRIENDLIEST MOST LIKELY TO CHARLES HITE SUCCEED SALLIE KERNER CHARLES HITE ANNE REAMS 18

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Tflf 611455 HISTORY It was bright and cheery on a particular day in September, 1944, for a group of students, some 128 strong, were positively dying to get inside H.H.S. and really see if high school was actually as wonderful as they had heard. We, the Seniors of the Class of 1949, were those students, just as green a lot as had ever entered Henderson High. Not much happened that first year when we were considered mere eighth graders. You might say that our real high school life began that next year, for as Freshmen, we began to take part in school activities and feel just a little bit superior. Our officers were Donald Seifert, Presidentg Marshall Pinnell, Vice- President, and E. G. Collins, Secretary-Treasurer. Not only did we have fun that year, but we worked too. Our class had a larger percentage of honor roll students than any other class. ln the fall of 1946, we again entered the portals of H.H.S., this time as Sopho- mores. With Sallie Kerner, Marshall Pinnell, and Martha Newcomb as our Presi- dent, Vice-President, and Secretary-Treasurer, respectively, another year passed successfully by. Its highlight was the choosing of sixteen of us to be waiters and waitresses at the Junior-Senior Banquet. I am sure none of us will ever forget the year of 1947-48. As Juniors and at last upperclassmen, we filled it to the brim. With President, Donald Seifert, Vice-President, Charles Hite, Secretary, Helen Cheek, and Treasurer, Ann Conn, as our leaders, we were host at the ever important Junior-Senior Prom. Our Mexican Fiesta was to be sure a gala affair, enjoyed by all. Our large class had now dwindled to 69 members, but that made little difference in our activities. When our class rings arrived, naturally we felt there were no others like them. The halls of H.H.S. echoed with shouts of joy when we slipped them onto our lingers. Our class play, a comedy called A Case of Springtime, was a big hit, thanks to the efforts of Miss Clyde Hunter and Mr. Bob Harrison, our spon- sors, whose patience with us was untiring. In 1948, when we passed through the doors of our dear Alma Mater, we could hardly believe that we were Seniors. Soon we realized, though, that this was our last year and that soon we would never be together as a class again. This, our last year, flew by swiftly, for we crammed into it all the things we before had left undone. We presented our class play, and it was hard to believe that the wonderful Junior-Senior was being held in our honor. With Badger Clark as President, Jack Lane as Vice-President, Ann Conn as Secretary, and Tom Byrd as Treasurer, our long awaited Washington trip was planned and experienced. After the many nice Senior parties, the long tedious English themes, our class day exercises, and the election of Senior superlatives, we discovered that our year was almost gone. Soon we shall leave our beloved Henderson High and behind us the five glorious years we have spent here. In our hearts there will always be fond memories of the teachers who put up with us, of the many friends We've made, and of the days gone by. Many thanks to you, H.H.S., for giving us the privilege of playing and studying on the campus We no longer will call our home. HELEN L. CHEEK, Historian. 20