Highland High School - Ram Yearbook (Gastonia, NC)

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LEONARD CHARLES NIXON PLATO LESLIE SMITH, JR. ALICE KAY PAGAN TYSON MARSHALL PASOUR HOVIS CLYDE THOMPSON ROSIE LEE TIGLER DAVID ISIAH PHILLIPS KENNETH ROOSEVELT TURNER Class of 1961 GEORGE RUFUS WOODY YVONNE WORKMAN OTHELIA MAXINE WRIGHT CHRISTINE JEANNETTE YOUNG

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JAMES MATTHEW MILLER JOHN LEE MONTGOMERY MARIE MONTGOMERY BRENDA KAY NEELY JAMES RICHARD PHILLIPS JOHNNY WILLIAM RAINEY BENJAMIN DONALD ROBBINS BRENDA HAZEL SADLER

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History If three months can make a big dif¬ ference, it really did for the one - hundred and eight eager freshmen, who had shed their mantles of eight years of elementary tutoring and were, on this day September 4, 1957, launching a new career - high school. The task of keep¬ ing records, calling rolls, issuing re¬ port cards and advising the group was assigned to Mr. G. N. Brooks, Mrs. G. E. Carter, and Mr. H. D. Patterson. Scholarship was the class forte with Kathynel Blair and Brenda Sadler the leaders of the clan. Doris Crank, Brenda Sadler, and James Darby were acclaimed class heads. In extra¬ curricular activities plaudits went to Jonah Ervin and Henry Montgomery in athletics, Mary Darby and Dorothy Williams as Miss Highland attendants, and to Betty McClure as maid of honor to Miss Homecoming. One year later as sophomores and minus twelve of the starting number, Mrs. V. J. Leake, Mr. R. O. Mason, and Mr. J. R. Robinson became shep¬ herds of the flock. Doris Crank re¬ tained her responsibility as president and was joined by Christine Gary and Billy Lowery. New honors came and the following names were recorded: Neil Guthrie, Floyd Massey, Carvin Boyd, James Miller, Plato Smith, Bobby Guthrie, and Betty McClure in sports; Virginia Sanders and Christine Gary as cheerleaders, and Yvonne Craine, Zora Hoffman, Mary Alexander, and Kathynel Blair as ladies-in-waiting for the queens. September 2, 1959, marked the mid-point of our secondary school journey, and with only ninety-one en¬ rolled in the homerooms of Mr. F. E. Parker, Mr. C. L. Smith, and Miss M. L. Ormond, we set out to make this our best year. Doris Crank ' s popularity continued as she was voted to serve as president for the third term. Eva Ledbetter and Shirley Fairfax were elected presidents of their respective divisions. Newfrontiers were breached and pioneers for the class academically were Kathynel Blair, Eva Ledbetter, Betty McClure, Tyson Pasour, Brenda Sadler, Christine Gary, Virginia Sand¬ ers, and Christine Young. Lorene Wilson, Essie Wilson, and Benjamin Robbins joined the athletic lihe with Betty McClure replacing Virginia Sanders as ch ee r 1 e ade r . Christine Young posed in the yearbook as class queen, while Mary Darby, Zora Hoff¬ man, Mary Smith, Elouise Huett, and Carrion Parker shone less brightly as attendants to Miss Highland and Miss Homecoming. Our senior year brought many changes - the return of Mr. Blair to the Highland family; a new Miss Highland, Christine Young; Leonard Nixon, Mayor of the Student Council; Kathynel Blair, Miss Homecoming; Lorene Wilson, French Club President; Doris Crank, NHA head, and Herbert Eichelberger, NHS prexy. Kathynel Blair received the appointment to editorship of the Tattler, with Eva Ledbetter as her first associate. Johnny Clinton and James Graham were acclaimed athletically as newcomers with the Wilson girls, Essie and Lorene, being added to the cheering squad. Doris Crank was, like the great FDR, electedtoa fourth term as presi¬ dent, attesting not only to her popularity, but to her leadership as well. At the same time, Christine Young was presi¬ dent for the other senior section. Academically, Brenda Sadler and Betty McClure were tops and won the titles of Valedictorian and Salutatorian, respec - tively. The class gift is a brick marker erected on the northwest corner of Doffin Lane at Morris Street, heralding the entrance to the school campus. Class motto: Pense a bien , and class colors: white and green, and the class flower is the white carnation. Historical research by Christine Gary Lorene Wilson