J F Webb High School - Wildcat Yearbook (Oxford, NC)

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Dedication We the members of the annual staff of F Webb High School Dedicate Our Wildcat to a man whom we love, admire, and respect. It is through his untiring efforts and skillful planning that has made this consolidated school a reality And now with appreciation and pride we dedi- cate the nineteen hundred and sixty-four NVild- catv to our superintendent, M R. DAVID N. HIX

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Contents Foreword ...,., . 4 Dedication . . . . 5 Faculty . . . . 9 Seniors . . . . . , 15 Juniors A... . . . 43 Sophomores . . . . . , 55 F o r e w o r d I. F. VVebb High School. The name was new, the school was new, the faculty was new, and the stu- dents were new. During this year, as a result of the consolidating, we have made new and lasting friends of students and faculty. The annual staff joins me in expressing the hope that in these pages you will find many pleasant memories of your first year at F. YVebb High School. To our capable sponsors, Miss Kay Mills and Mrs. Freshmen . . . . . 65 Activities . . . . . 75 Organizations . . . . . 87 Athletics ..... , . .103 Advertisements . . . . .121 Esther Gillis, the elected officers, and the entire staff, I wish to say a special thanks for their many hours of hard work in producing an annual of which we will all be proud. To the students I would also like to say thank youi' for your co-operation through- out the year and your work on the magazine sale. With these facts in mind, it gives me a great deal of pleasure to present to you the students, the faculty and friends of F. Webb your 1964 WILDCAT.

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In February of 1873 at Tally Ho, North Carolina, Mr. F. Webb was born to Iames Hazel Webb and Kate Russell WVebb. After the death of his father, Mr. Webb helped his mother rear 'the younger children. Since no formal schooling was available, he attended only small local schools and later the Uni- versity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Being a Latin and Greek scholar, he taugh while in college to earn the mony to finish his education. He was a Phi Beta Kappa member and graduated in 1898. Two of his uncles founded a boys, preparatory school called Bellbuckle in Tennessee, and it was here that Mr. Webb taugh before coming to Oxford. Mr. WVebb, who came to Oxford in 1907, was appointed Superintendent of the Granville County Schools. He held this office until 1935. He founded the Oxford Credit Union in 1937, and it has since grown to a million and a half dollar organization. In late fall of 1958, he died. Since Mr. WVebb was superintendent when the initial consolidation began, our new school bears his name. A few members of the older generation re- member seeing Mr. VVebb riding in a buggy pulled Mr. John Fred Webb by a blind horse up the dirt roads and streets of Granville County. His purpose was to look over the school system. Since the trip to the northern part of the county took more than a day, he spent the night with friends and started home on the following day. During the time he was Superintendent, Granville County, one of the first to do so, purchased a school bus. Later, however a bus body manufacturing plant was built in Oxford. The lot of Webb School was selected and pur- chased by the Oxford City Board of Education. The approximately cost of the lot, building and equip- ment was 5B750,000. The consolidation was a joint project of Oxford City Board of Education and the Granville County Board of Education conceived in 1960 after a survey and recommondation by the division of School Planning of the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction. BE IT RESOLVEDU that the new consolidated high school for northern Granville County be named, formally and officially, The F. Webb High School?