Kernersville High School - Retrospect Yearbook (Kernersville, NC)

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BABY PICTURES

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SENIORS ROY WHITAKER “There is a time for all things.” Walkertown 1, 2, 3; Assistant Bus Driver 4. JAMES WILSON “The laborer is worthy of his reward.” Athletic Club 3; F.F.A. 2; D. O. Club 4. a

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CLASS HISTORY ANN SPEARS ‘School days, school days, dear old golden rule days.” This might well have been the theme song of one hundred and one starry-eyed, six year olds entered the portals of Kernersville School for the first time. Some of us laughed, some of us cried and clung to our mothers’ skirts. Still others of us, bewildered by the sudden change in our status quo, subsided into utter silence from which our teachers, Mrs. Jean Whitaker, Mrs. Erie Hedgecock and Miss Amelia Osborne had considerable difficulty in changing us. Our second year found us under the able leadership of Miss Clarice Jones, Miss Ida Mae Higgins and Miss Louise Grunert. Some of our number had our first fling at acting when Miss Higgins’ section presented the Tom Thumb wedding. The fall of 1941 we re-assembled for work in the third grade under the super- vision of Mrs. Ida Roberts and Mrs. Briane Maultsby. The highlight of that year was our train trip to Winston-Salem where we were met by our parents and were taken to Selected Dairies for refreshments. The road to learning via the fourth grade was paved for many of us with frequent paddlings at the hands of one of our teachers, Mrs. Venice Blake. Fortunate indeed were those of our number who had for their teacher Mrs. R. C. Morris. Before the end of the year ill health forced Mrs. Blake to resign and she was replaced by Mrs. Fred Vance who was with us the remainder of the year. That year Betty Lou Bowman joined our ranks from Germanton. September 5, 1943, found us awaiting eagerly our places on the fifth grade sec- tions of Mrs. Blanche Fulp and Miss Emma Orr. Betty Jean Taylor joined us that year and Sarah Morris came back to be with us after having been gone three years. We waded through decimals and the Geography of Europe and Asia in the sixth grade under the efficient guidance of Miss Allie Higgins (now Mrs. George Fulp) and Mrs. H. B. Goslen. The boys in Mrs. Goslen’s section learned that the easiest way to go up higher was through a hole made in the ceiling of the cloakroom. By the fall of 1944, the war was in full swing when we entered the seventh grade. One of our teachers, Miss Sally Sims, was a newcomer to the faculty and the other seventh grade teacher was Miss Sara Deaton and it was under her direction that those of us who were girl scouts and boy scouts did our part in Civilian Defense by helping to man the local observations post for airplane spotting. For this we each received certificates and pins from the War Department.