Knightdale High School - K Dalian Yearbook (Knightdale, NC)

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STORY OF THE CLASS OF 19A9 CLASSMATES, FOR MANY YEARS NOW WE HAVE BEEN SITTING IN THE CINDERS, so TO SPEAK, WE wILL THINK OF THE CINDERS AS THE WORK YEARS WE GPENT IN HIGH SCHOOL. WE HAVE BEEN HERE TRUDGING ALONG, AGQUIRING THE FUNDAMEN- TALS OF AN EDUCATION AND THE ART OF LIVING WITH OUR? SELVES AND WITH oNE ANOTHER. SITTING IN THE cINoERs HAS Nor BEEN so aAo BECAUSE WE HAVE HAD HAPPY AND GAY TIMES TOGETHER. WE HAVE oBEYEo WITH MEEKNESS AND HUMILITY THE RULES AND REGULATIONS OF CINDERLAND. ALL WORTHWHILE THINGS ARE GAINED av A PRICE. WE HAVE PAID THIS PRICE AS WE HAVE WRITTEN, THIS, ouR HISTORY THROUGH THE YEARS' IT WAS IN THE FALL oF 19A5, THAT WE MARGHED GRAVELY INTO CINGERLAND. FoR You SEE, WE WERE FREGHHEN. WE , FOR WE KNEW, EvEN CAME EQUIPPED WITH PENS AND PAPER THEN, THAT WE WERE T0 BE WOULD BE LONG REMEMBERED, MR. VANGE TIBBENS WAS AND How VERY PATIENT AND THE AUTHORS AT LEAST TO TO GUIDE US UNDERSTANDI REMEMBER How HE QUIETENED THE FEARS FIRST YEAR AS HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS. LovE AND RESPECT HIH. THAT YEAR WE T0 LOSE WILBERT HILL, DORA LEE WATSON, LILLIE MAE HEDRIGK AND BETTIE WATKINS 0 oF A HISTORY wHIGH us. THROUGH THAT YEAR, NG HE WAS: WE WILL AND HoRRoRs OF ouR THIS CAUSED us T0 HAD THE UISFORTUNE THE YEAR WAS RELATIVELY UNEVENTFUL FOR WE WERE OC- 9 CUPIED AND AWED WITH THE IDEA THAT AT LAST WE WERE EN' TERING THE LAST CHAPTERS OF THE FIRST VOLUHES OF OUR EDUCATION. THE YEAR ENDED AND WE FELT THAT IT HAD BEEN GOOD. THE EARLY FALL OF 1946 FOUND us AGAIN ENTERING THAT INMORTAL FRONT oooR. THIS TIHE WE WERE HUGH MORE GON- FIDENT AND How GREEN THOSE FRESHMEN SEEMED TO us! MR. RANDOLPH JEFFREYS CARRIED us suGcEssFuLLY THROUGH THAT YEAR. WE FouNo IT wAs ACTUALLY FUN T0 BE A PART oF OUR SCHOOL. BUT, IN SPITE oF THE FuN WE WERE HAVING, WE LOST WILLIAM GLovER AND RALPH TART TO UNCLE SAM'S ARHY AND PEGGY SMITH To THE RALEIGH HIGH ScHooL. A THIS IS ONE GLAss THAT WILL NEvER FORGET ITS FIRST PEER INTO BIOLOGY DR RUNNING INTo THOSE ALGEBRA PROB- BY THE END OF THAT YEAR, WE FELT THAT WE WERE LENS. REALLY SCHOOL STUDENTS. NESS, COMING OUT OF THE KINKS AND BECOMING REAL HIGH As THE FIRST NIPPY NIGHTS BEGAN To SHOW THEIR SHARP' WE GAME BACK TO SCHOOL AS THE JUNIOR CLASS. IT wAs WITH GREAT EXPECTATIONS AND PLANS THAT WE JOYFULLY f?S ?5gQiiLf2r :Zi I C7 GJ

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CWELL, ALMDS ANYWAYD DAME BACK TO SCHOOL THAT FIRST DAY. WE DLADLY ACCEPTED FRANCES HORTON AS THE NEw MEMBER DF OUR DLASS AND wELcoMED SADK GLADYS HARRELL, WHO HAD BEEN TO SCHOOL IN VIRGINIA, WE SADLY GAVE UP EUNICE AND ALICE DDDGLAS, wHo MOVED T0 GARNER AND BARBARA HODGE, THIS WAS THE YEAR IN WHICH WE WOULD GET OUR CLASS RINGS AND WEAR OUR NEW FORMALS AND EEST SUITS TO THE JUNIOR-SENIOR BANQUET. YDD CAN TAKE MY WORD FOR IT - wE woRKED FOR THE MDNEY wITH WHICH TO FEED THOSE SENIORS. OUR BANQUET WAS HELD ON APRIL 16, AT 6:30 AT THE RALEIGH WOMANUS CLDS. MRS. VICTOR Dowo, OUR DDID- ING HAND FDR THAT YEAR CAND IT TOOK A Dooo ONE, HELPED Ds wDRK OUT THE THEME OF A DUTCH GARDEN FOR DDR TABLES AND ENTERTAINMENT. IT WAS FUN AND BELIEVE IT OR NDT A SDDDESS. OUR GUEST SPEAKER, MR. L.A. DOUB, CONTRIBUTED TO THIS BY HIS VERY FINE SPEECH wHIDH wAs FILLED WITH WISDOM. THE NEXT IMPORTANT EVENT THAT YEAR WAS THE SENIOR CLASS NIGHT, DURING WHICH WE MADE OUR ARCH OF FLOWERS AND SANG NMEMDRIESH. IT wAs WONDERFUL TO REALIZE THAT IN A YEAR wE, TOO, WOULD BE LEAvING CINDERLAND FDREvER BUT THERE wAs A BIT DF SADNESS ATTACHED ALSO. I AM SINDERE wHEN I SAY THAT I DON'T BELIEVE ANY CLASS WAS EvER SD PROUD OF BEING SENIORS AS WERE WE ON THE THIRD DAY DF SEPTEMBER OF 19A8. SUDDENLY WE REAL- IZED THAT THIS WOULD BE OUR FINAL OPPORTUNITY T0 CON- TRIBUTE TO OUR ALMA MATERS WE FOUND A NEw DIRECTOR FOR THIS YEAR, MRS, NELL KAHDY, wHD HAS BORNE THE INNDMSERABLE DDYS AND DISAP- RDINTMENTS WITH Ds. THE HALLOWEEN CARNIVAL wAs REALLY THE FIRST SCHOOL EVENT IN WHICH WE TOOK PART, EXCEPT, OF COURSE, FDR THE CHAPEL PROGRAM. ODR OFFICERS FDR THIS YEAR HAVE BEEN - PRESIDENT WILLIAM WATKIN8, VICE-PRESIDENT ANN PENNY, SECRETARY MARTHA KIRK, AND TREASURER SDE NICHOLS, MAY I ADD THAT THEY HAVE SEEN EXCELLENT ONES TOO. WHILE THE YEAR WAS NEW, WE BEGAN WORK ON AN ANNUAL. OUR ANNUAL STAFF INCLUDED ALMOST ALL THE CLASS IN SOME CAPACITY, DDT OUR EDITOR-IN-CHIEF WAS SDE NICHULSS 9 THE SENIOR PLAY wAs A BRILLIANT HIGHLIGHT OF THE YEAR. IT WAS A MYSTERY ENTITLED, nHOBGOBLIN HDDSEH, PRESENTED ON JANUARY 28, AT 7:30 P.M. So PROUD WERE wE DF OUR NEW GYM, THAT WITH THE PROFIT FROM THE PLAY AND VARIOUS OTHER PROJECTS OF THIS YEAR, WE GAVE, AS OUR GIFT T0 THE SCHOOL, THE ELECTRIC SCORE SDARD AND TIME CLOCK, WHICH WE HOPE YOU ENJOYED DURING THE BASKETBALL SEASON. IT IS OUR DESIRE THAT THIS G 7 Q MR 6 -- I X U53