Lillington High School - Footprints Yearbook (Lillington, NC)

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Gilman flllininrg The class of 1949, with a present enrollment of 11 boys and 11 girls, set out on the road of High School, in September, 1945. During these four years, traveling has been a difficult matter, but as we struggled through the toils of each day we advanced toward our goal. Now that we have fought a good fight, and have won the race, we stand, proudly in the happy hufnting ground --having reached our goal--graduation. We began our journey as three separate tribes, each with a chief of its own. Various obstacles tended to prevent our progress through the dense forest of learning, In our encampments we were attacked by the Cherokees of algebra and the Choctaws of Science, we were compelled to ford the river of English and the desert of Civics. After nine months under the leadership of Chiefs Walker, Kernodle, and Blackmon, we completed the first part of our journey. Having made enough progress to be called Soph- mores, we plunged once again into the depths of the path of educatiosn. Out of the 48 who had set out with us we now had 47. Due to the many battles we had conquered, we felt prou.d of having lost only one. Chief O'Quinn' was our counceller for the second lap of the journey. Our next stop during our journey, was in the Junior Class. We faced many hardships that year, but we ended as victors. We celebrated our good fortune of having conquered the Chippesaws of English, French, History and Geometry, by a great feast. We entertained our neighboring tribe, the Seniors at a banquet and a dalnce. In order to finance our pow- wow, we sponsored a stunt night, sold subscriptions to magazines, and sold refreshments at Field Day. Braves from a neighboring camp came into our midst and took away Doris Sutoon. Edward Mathews decided to aban- don the tribe and set up a tepee of his own. So that by the end of the year only 31 remained of the original group. In the fall of 1948 our tribe numbered only 24. Some had been lost in the depths of the forest of French and Geometry, Mary McNeill, Iona Campbell, and Eugene Ballard had left us to join another tribe. Clifton Smith and Dorothy Blalock found the traveling too hard, and left to pursue other courses. During the year of '48-'49 our class entered wholeheartedly into the athletics and other activities. We sponsored dances, gave a play, and took part in all the undertakings of the school. Now having struggled to the last step of the way - - we sit together around our last campfire before each one going his separate way. As we part to become chief of our own tribe, or to enter tribes who are pursueing higher learning, the hardships we have suffered, annd the battles we have conquered while traveling through the dense forest of learniing will never cease to be a part of our minds and hearts. in

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