Marshall High School - Islander Yearbook (Marshall, NC)

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te pT ng ic ey Nh aN pt SENIOR CLASS HISTORY EVER SINCE BACK IN THE '30'S WHEN THE '49-'50 SENIORS ENTERED GRAMMAR SCHOOL, WE ACQUIRED THE NAME OF THE WILD CROWD, TEACHERS ALWAYS DREADED TO TEACH US, BUT WERE GLAD TO PROMOTE US, WHEN WE REACHED THE EIGHTH GRADE, OUR REPUTATION FOR BEING WILD GREW VEN WORSE, BECAUSE SHORTIE FLYNN CAME TO US FROM ANOTHER SCHOOL THAT YEAR, TO THE TEACHER'S SORROW, SHE HAD AN EVEN MORE DIFFICULT TIME WITH HIM THAN WITH THE REST OF US, FINALLY, THEY LEARNED TO LIKE HIM AND EVEN TO LAUGH AT HIS SILLY JOKES, UPON ,OUR ENTRANCE INTO HIGH SCHOOL, THE !DEA OF CHANGING CLASSES EXCITED US, EVERYTIME THE BELL RANG, THERE WAS A MAD SCRAMBLE TO REACH THE NEXT CLASS, TO OUR SORROW, THE BOYS AND GIRLS WERE SEPARATED IN THE NINTH GRADE, dq UGer GURUSES HOMEROOM, WHICH WAS IN THE HOME ECONOMICS DEPARTMENT DION'T SEEM TO HAVE ENOUGH MIRR@ ORS IN IT FOR LORRAINE RECTOR AND FAYE SIMMONS, BUT THE TEACHER SOON GAVE THEM OTHER THINGS TO THINK ABOUT, MR, DICKERSON BECAME SO FRANTIC OVER THE CONDUCT OF THE NINTH GRADE BOYS THAT HE !S RUMORED TO HAVE SWORN OFF SCHOOL TEACHING FOR ‘LIFE, | SUPPOSE ALL ‘THIS WAS DUE TO THE FACT. THAT ERS TEN hb et aI DERE

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EVEN MOTE TARE Y™ AND LARD WOULDN'T LISTEN IN CLASS, PREFERRING THE MORE EN@= ‘JOYABLE PASTIME OF THROWING ERASERS, TO] OURS SORROW, THE 6S0YS .AND GIRLS WERE SEPARATEDR UN “THE “@NINTH GRADES THE GIRL 'S HOMEROOM, WHICH WAS IN THE HOME ECONOMICS DEPARTMENT OIDN'T SEEM TO HAVE ENOUGH MIRRORS IN IT FOR LORRAINE RECTOR AND FAYE SIMMONS, BUT THE TEACHER SOON GAVE He MemOgHeERe lH NGS i TOs HiNKe ABOUT, MRe DICKERSON BECAME SO FRANTIC OVER’ THE CONDUCT POF — fHE: SNINTH® GRADE BOYS THAT HE 1S RUMORED TO HAVE SWORN OFF SCHOOL TEACHING FOR LIFE. ge UPPOSER ALE THis Pace UUE TOM LHEU PACT. THAR EVEN MOTE TAFFY AND LCARD® WOULDNIT -CISTEN | IN, CLASS, PRE= FERRING THE MORE ENJOYABLE PASTIME OF THROW] ING ERASERS. AFTER OMIE, ELOISE, AND DOROTHEY HAD PRICKED SEVERAL FINGERS AND BROKEN SEVERAL DOZEN NEEDLES, SOMEONE SUGGESTED WE GIVE A FASHION SHOW, A PUBLIC FASHION SHOW , MUTTERED KATIE, NOT FOR MEQ GRACE'S COMMENT WAS: !'LL WEAR A BATHING SUIT , AS A WHOLE, THE SHOW WAS QUITE A SUCCESS, AND THE TEACHERS HAD TO ADMIT WE HAD TALENT EVEN I|F MOST OF US DID KEEP IT HIDDEN, MISS JESSIE MAYE WAS A SPLENDID HOME- ROOM TEACHER IN THE TENTH GRADE, WE REALLY LEARNED ALL ABOUT BIRDS AND BEES IN BIOLOGY. BERMA AND W. Le STARTED THE COURTSHIP THEN WHICH HAS BLOSSOMED DURING THE PAST FEW YEARS. THE BOYS NEVER K NEW WHICH THEY LOV-= ED THE BEST, SELMA OR THELMA, AND INCIDENT= ERA MM YATE OPIS i