Lexington High School - Lexicon Yearbook (Lexington, NC)

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SENIORS NANCY THOINIASON Nothing multiplier Jo much df lvincinefffl Lexhipep Staff 45 Tri-Hi-Y 45 Dramatics Club 3, Uncle Bobls Bride 5 Glee Club I, 25 F.H.A. Club l5 Sr. Superlative 45 Jr. Music Club Medal. PEGGY THOMASON 'lShe who plantr leindneff gatherf love. Glee Club 45 Jr. lVIusic Club 4. BILL TREXLER Hllappy if he who enjoyf lUe.,' Hi-Y Club 45 Latin Club I. FRANCES TRUELI. The only way to have a friend if lo be one. Basketball Team 2, 3, 45 F.H.A. Club 1, 25 Basketball Club 3, 4. JUNE WILLIAMSON A girl that ,rmiley if a girl worth Jeeingf' Dramatics Club 3, Sauce for the Goslingsf, Three Little Wiomenvg Glee Club 2, 35 Latin Club 1, 45 I'.H.A, Club I, 2, 35 lXIusic Appreciation 2, 35 -Ir. Euterpe Nlusic Club 3. MARY ALICE WILSON Her heart if full of noble pridef, Lexhipep Stall 45 National Honor Society 3, 45 Tri- Hi-Y 45 Class Testator 45 jr. Class Marshal 35 Student Council 1, 45 Basketball Team 45 Dramatics Club 4, Sec't.5 jr. Class Play, One IX4ad Night 5 Latin Club 1, 25 I .H.A. Club 1, 2, 35 Basketball Club 3, 4, Sec,t. 45 jr. Basketball 1, 3. GILBERT YARBOROUGH Where ia thy juliet tonight? Band 1, 2, 3, 45 Glee Club 1, 25 Key Club 3, 45 Bus Driver 3, 4. FANNIE YOUNG W hat a .fweet delight A quiet life ajordxf' Student Council 45 Glee Club 1, 2, 3, 45 Jr. Euterpe Music Club 2, 4.

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DONALD SIN K All great men are dying, I don't feel too well rnyJeQ'.', Student Council 4, Band 1, 2, 3, 4, Glee Club 3, Stage Crew 4, Jr. lNfIusic Club 3. ALBERT STAFFORD Here I am girlf, Flock around me. Freshman Class Ollicer, Sec,t.-Treas., Camera Club 2. ROBERT SUTTON IFJ certainly grand, To have .ruch afriendf' LEXICON Staff 4, National Honor Society 4, Hi-Y Club 4, Band 1, 2, 3, 4, Drum Major 4, Dramatics Club 4, Treas., 4'Happy Journeyf, Spreading the Newsn, Latin Club i, 2, Camera Club 4, Key Club 3, 4, Sec't., Beta Club 4. JIMMY SWING For he if juft the quiet kind, W hofe equal we will never jindf, JO DEANE SWING Two fair handf that thrill uf with their rnu5ie. Dramatics Club 4, Glee Club 3, 4, Latin Club 1, 2, F.H.A. Club I, Music Appreciation 3, 4, Jr. Music Club 3, 4, Winner in lXIusic Contest 1, State Music Contest 4. JIMMY 'TEMPLE A pleafant walk, .4 pleaxant talle.', Football Team I, Dramatics Club 4, Spreading the Newsug Latin Club 2, Asheboro High I. JUANITA TESH Wedding bellf, 0, Wedding belli- What happineff their harmony foretellf. CASPER TIMBERLAKE But handfomeneff if not hir only virtue, Sopb. Class Oflicer, Sec't., LEXICON Staff 45 Hi-Y Club 3, 4, Pres. 4, Football Team 2, 3. 4, Latin Club I, 2, Monogram Club 2, 3, 4, Key Club 3, 4, Beta Club 4, Sr. Superlative 4. V, - . SENIORS 55 ,mvysumf-'it,Jvy ' JL Ziezlif 'f'1f'f Zff6 'smiiif fe' af? - C- at 'in . V ,, A, , .Q Q J. . , ..L ul ,N -u tl J. r 'A -4 1 ' ,t. VH . 'X -Mfis sX-' 1 'ggi' ' l -nj 1 -fs , - 1, l ,, ,sh . .qs 14 1

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CLASS HISTORY Have you ever walked into a room full of strange people and felt absolutely and completely lost? This was the feeling of the members of the present Senior Class when we first entered Lexington High. What a change from grammar school! There were six periods, men teachers, three floors to get lost on, and hundreds of new friends to make. We were scared little sub-freshmen that first year and felt that we did not know one another well enough to elect officers, so we had to rely on the guidance of our teachers-who of course did not fail us. Being asked to join the Etiquette Club and to attend the dance for the seventh, eighth, and ninth grades made us feel very important. These two events were the beginning of a long series of social events that have piled up to add dignity and prestige to the 1950 graduates. As our sub-freshman year drew to a close, We sighed and puffed out our chests. We were up-and-coming, full-fledged high school students. Why shouldn't we have been proud? Our freshman year began in September, 1946, and we began right away to make it a successful and memorable year We chose our first officers, since entering high school, by electing Carroll Leonard, president, Ang Lindsay, vice-president. and Shorty Stafford, secretary-treasurer. With such an excellent beginning, we felt that we could not ruin it by falling, down on the job, so we decided to get busy. Some of our boys and girls joined the F. H. A. fboys excluded, of coursej, Glee Club, and Latin Club. Others took seats in the band and tooted horns and beat drums for all they were worth. Boys joined the football and basketball teams while some of the girls invested their afternoon hours in basketball practice. We Went to dances galore and learned that the new friendships we had formed during the year were wonderful. It was a busy year for everyone. We had so much fun, we hated to leave old L. H. S. even for a few summer months. We would have looked silly sitting in rooms with no teachers, so we finally bade Lexington High a fond farewell and left with a feeling of having completed a year of wonderful comradeship and adventure. The summer whisked by, and we returned to school with a feeling of anticipation. Sophomore! It was a wonderful word and, to us, carried much dignity with it. Could we live up to all it stood for? VVe decided to do our best, so we began by honoring Harold Carter as president, jo Ann Perrell as vice-president, Sonny Timberlake as secretary, and johnny Arnold as treasurer. Then we concentrated on school activities. Some of our boys and girls were in clubs, our boys shone in football and basketball, four of the seven majorettes were from our class. Three of our boys decided to show their superior brilliance by joining the staffs of the LEXICON and Lexhipep. It was an honor for the entire class as well as the boys themselves, for the members of both the staffs were usually taken only from the Junior and Senior classes. Had we lived up to the dignity of the name, Sophomore? Yes, at the end of the year we felt that we had, and we left for the summer with a feeling of a year well spent. Bang! That's the way our junior year began. Busy! We hardly stopped to breathe. It was to be a year of vital im- portance, for heavy responsibility was to be ours. We decided that we could use only the best leaders of our class as officers, and that was exactly what We did when we chose Ang Lindsey, president, Jim Dan Redwine, vice-president, Betty Jean Saunders, secretary, and Carolyn Fritts, treasurer. Our boys were on varsity that year and played important parts in the many victories of the football and basketball teams. While the boys on the football team piled up victories on the field, other girls and boys in the class sold drinks and food at the commissary. Why? Well, it was the main way we made money for the Junior-Senior banquet we gave the Seniors that year. To help the treasury Mrs. Fred B. Lewis and Mr. Theodore Leonard combined their talents to direct the Junior play, One Mad Nightf' which was an excellent success. Two girls and five boys were chosen as delegates to Girls' and Boys' State, one of the highest honors a junior can ever attain. To end a perfect year we presented the best Junior-Senior banquet Cin our opinionj that Lexington High has ever had. It was an event no member of the present Senior Class will ever forget. So on June S, 1949, we again said farewell to Lexington High and left to enjoy a summer at the beaches, being lazy at home, or working at summer jobs for three short months. Did I say three short months? I seemed more like three days for we no sooner realized that school was out before we were lugging books to and from school again. Our last year! It hardly seemed possible, but we decided we better get busy before the nine months slipped past us and left us with a feeling of having accomplished nothing of importance. This year We decided that our Junior officers had been superior so We again chose Ang Lindsey, president, Jim Dan Redwine, vice-presidentg with Patsy Nance, secretary, and Bobby Lee Parr, treasurer. We could not possibly have made a better choice! Our Senior year kept us busy. There were invitations and calling cards to decide upon, club initiations to await breathlessly, and foot- ball games at which we yelled our hearts out. We were on the honor system in English this year and proved it was an honor honorably upheld by every Senior in the class. We shall always cherish the memory of the excellent banquet given us by the junior Class. How could we possibly say, in words, our deep appreciation for a memorable event that will live forever? Yes, it was a year that stands out as one of the most wonderful years we have ever witnessed. But without the sympathy and understanding guidance of our beloved teachers, it would have been impossible to say at the year's end, It has been wonderful. I must never, never forget one precious moment of the entire five years. So at the year's close let us all- Sing a song of Seniors, A pocketful of zest, Seven and ninety fledglings Are about to quit the nest? As we glance back over the five years spent in Lexington High, we Seniors feel utter sadness that our lives here are ended. The years before us are uncertain but whatever they hold, may we meet them with the clear understanding, sym- pathy, love and dignity which our school has shown us in the five short years spent within her Walls. Farewell, dear school, and those we leave behind. You, our blessed Alma Mater, will live in our hearts for an eternity. Never shall we forget you! May the graduating classes of the years to come leave with as many loving and scared memories as we, the graduating class of 1950, carry with us. ELIZABETH CLODFELTER, Sanior Clarr Hirtorian. 21,