Inverness High School - Blue and Gold Yearbook (Inverness, MS)

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CLASS HI TORY In September l939 forty children with tear stained faces were pulled into the first grade room They were greeted by the warm smile and cordial welcome of Miss Frances Hemphill, now Mrs Dave Wood Of the eighteen in our Senlor Class the following began that year together Bllly Fleet, Cecil Coleman, Bill Day, Earline Mayhall, Baby Sis Melton, Jeanette Price, Erma Joyce Logan, and Fay Wilson After this year of more tears than smiles we entered the second grade There we had our first real desk Mlss Ara Mullens, now Mrs Hunter Pratt, started the year however, she gave up and Miss McDowell, now Mrs will Price, won the glory of teaching us the A B C's and above all to wrlte lnstead of print Miss Evelyn Kennedy, now Mrs Dean Newell, as our instructor During this year we had our flrst taste of geography and larger doses of spelllng and arithmetic In thls year two of our present seniors Joined us, Evelyn Hughes and Frances Jones Miss Lillian Gunnels, now Mrs W A Hunter, was our fourth grade teacher During this year we learned more about conduct in the classroom than anythlng else fConfide,ntially, Mr Combs has to refresh our memories about this subject quite often I Up to the fourth grade all our teachers were fortunate enough to marry men in Inverness, maybe so they could stay to see if we ever finlshed school In the fifth grade Miss Leona williams drilled Being quite wise in the third grade, we had into our thick heads every state in the United States

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with its capital However, this study was spiced up by the study of many well known poems s Hatcher, whom we st1ll call Mrs Mac, tried to make artists of us ln the sixth grade, and that Greek mythology for history was like a fairy tale to us It was in this year that Clarence Allen Joined our class when we entered Junior high we were introduced into a new way of school life, but with the help of Mr Combs and Miss Bertie we finally overcame the impulse to run up and down the stairs Our Junior high graduation was a milestone in our lives and perhaps few of us ever thought we would graduate from high school It was during our first Junlor high year that Joyce Downs, Mozelle Klmhrell, and Joan Smith Joined us The freshman lnitiation took some of th t feeling of importance from us However, this was one of ourlhapplest years, for we could then take part in the minstrel show and other school actl we all adored him W rren Wasson, Connie McMaster and Buddy Phllley entered our class this year In the tenth grade Miss Walker was our home room teacher we knew then that we were full fledged high school students It was during this year too, that we put away our childish ideas and realized that thlngs were not handed to us on silver platters In our Junlor year Mlss Price was our sponsor Thls was a very busy year wlth the play and above all, the Junlor senlor party at Vicksburg Natlonal Park Our senior year has been very happy with Mrs Bradley as sponsor Thls year we picked up Jack Price, who waited to graduate with our class Now there are eighteen of us, hopefully walting for graduation night Fay Wilson Mr O Q I , A . ' a . . , C vities. Coach Smith was our sponsor, and naturally . ' 3. , , . . . ,