Mayfield High School - Cardinal Yearbook (Mayfield, KY)

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May 17 1949 THE CARDINAL Page 1 Cardrnal taff Message T0 Edrtor Assocrate Edrtor News Edrtor Assrcrate News Feature Edrtt r Feature Wrrters George W Wrlson Jr Johnny Brock Nancy Crowder Charles Shelton Drck Howe Anne Stokes Brlly Luther Mary Frances Hrgdon Jen Hunt Covrngton Betty Clymer Jrmmy Clark Anne Green Drane Peterson Pat Long Angelyn Kelly Betty Roberts Evelvn Fuller Mary Jane Wyatt Socrety Edrtor Assoc ate Socretv Edrtor Sports Edltor Art Edrtor Assocrate Art Edrtor Lrterary Edrtor Exchange Edrtor Busrness Manager Adx ertrsrng Manager Assocrate Advertrsrng Mgr Betty Rose Jacobs Crrculatron Manager Jane Englrsh Assoc ate Crrculatron Mgr Douglas Leneave Robert Ferguson George Lrgon Wrllram Flemrng Janet Puckett Photograph Fdrtors Tvprsts Norma Krng Norma Gargus Verna Kendall Wrlma Clapp Zorabeth Crowder Norma Traughber Norma Mack Sue Breckenrrdge Rubye Iohnson Emma Crawford Marron F1Sk Betty Jo Whrttemore Dorothv Blewette Anrta Rhodes Barbara Cooper Mrs Hays K Neelv Reporters Sponsor A Medrtatron On Graduatron Nlovt I th nk I knotx how the knrght of old felt as he reached the tcp of the frrst hrll rn hrs search for the Holy Grarl only to see IIS rays flrttrng over the hrll just ahead And so rt lS wrth us as senrors graduatrng from hrgh school thrs year Graduatron so I have heard lS only the frrst of an endless ser1es of h lls rn the road of Lrfe Yes thrs rs a h1ll where the read forks Some of our number w1ll contrnue the1r e'lucatron rn colleges over the country whrle others w1ll soon get 1 bs and begrn the task of self support Theres one thrng sure Wherever vue go or whatever we do we vrrll all m1ss Mavfreld Hrgh School rn one wav or another It may be youll m1ss the football and basketball games you may m1ss seerng old scenes and faces Ol you may ex en m1ss hard study and the gay trmes y u ve had rn Englrsh class or the conquerrng arr' you had when vou worked a physrcs or algebra problem Yes Wlthout doubt vou wrll stop to th1nk of your present experrences and o hers at M H S and say Wlth a s gn Gone are the days And at last vt hen vou are over the topmost peak and are com1ng down the last h lls of Lrre vou may take vour grandchrldren on your knee or lap as the case may be and tell them of the trme a bunch of you slrpped off rn the spr1ng months to go frshrng or the t1me way back rn 48 when our football team beat the socks rff the mrghty T1lghman Tornado on Thanksgrvrng Day or you may wrnd up a sessron by tellrng of the t1me you dropped rn at Fullers Cafe for brarn food durrng classes and were caught by the Prrncrpal Occasrcnally you hear of a class havmg a reunron I won der what we would frnd rf our class were to meet rn say 1959 Some to be sure would be rn bus1ness and hard at vsork rn some walk of l1fe whlle others would st1ll be beating the bushes tryrng to frnd therr lrfe work It has been sard that berne a Hrgh School senror rs an ex perrence that comes only once rn a lrfetrme I am thankful for that Whrle I have thoroughly en1oyed my h1gh School career and wouldnt have mrssed rt I wouldnt start over agarn for love or money Man s obrect rn l1fe rs to go forward and progress Thrs IS exactly what I thrnk rt should be Of course, we all hate to see the end of our h1gh school days come, and there vxrll be the tradrtronall shed tears bv some at commencement, and prob ablv the warlrng and gnashrng of teeth, but rn the frnal count, rnk we wrll all agree that as Lrfe rs full of hrlls, we all want I th - 1 to see what's on the other s1de of them G W W The Graduates The annals of t1me reveal that lt has been the custom for each generatron of Amerrcans t leave even more complex socral polrtrcal and moral problems for 1ts successor to solve than con fronted t when lt strode upon the stage and took up the ICIHS of government The young men and xxomen who compose the generatron of h gh school grad uates for 1949 wrll be entrust ed w1th the most ser1ous prob lems coverrng every phase of the Amerrcan Way of Lrfe that have ex er exrsted If vue your predecessors the muddlers of Amer rcanrsm were to stop and casually consrder the complex1ty and range of the problems whrch w1ll constrtute your herrtage vre would be rn clrned to say that you W111 be totally unable to cope wrth them We would be rnclrned to hang our heads rn shame, t throw up our hands and cry I surrender In dorng w would bel1ttle your herrtage and condemn our efforts to pre pare vou for your task Youth has never been rnclrned to surrender however great the obstacles confrontrng It may seem You w1ll be no exceptron I have complete confrdence that your thoughts w1ll be broadened vurth the process of the sun The Amer can youth has ever been able to meet and cope xxrth par ental problems as applred to our natron The proof rs that Amer rea has become greater and ac complrshrnents h a v e become more nearly mrraculous through the years When the torch rs flung you vou Wlll hold rt h1gh You w1ll meet the challenge You Wlll do your part well towrrd pre servrng the lrberty and freedom xxhrch you Wlll enjov for the succeedrng generatrons Prob lems that we cannot solve to day w1ll y1eld themselves to your rncreased know how I am confrdent that there are those among you vrho can touch those phases of Amerrcanrsm that are torprd todav and they w1ll sprrng 1nto newness of lrfe ThlS must be true I personally be l1eve that when you hear the call You Must that vou as youth ever has wrll reply I can J O LEWIS Superrntendent Mr Ross xx as walkrng down Broadway the other dav when he was cornered bv a character, who asked Shay can you tell me where I can frnd the Alco holrch Anonvmush Why, do you want to JOIN? No, wanna resrgn Une Hundred To Recon e Drplomas On Thursday Mrv 19 1949 one hundred senrors w ll recerve thell d plom rs from the Presr dent of the Board of Educatron C A Bvrn D Edwrn Mrrns 1 for mer profes r of Vanderbrlt Unrversrty wrll delrx er the commencement add ress on the subrect The Real Fundamentrls of Educ rtron Thrs gl'ldll'ltl0I1 class rs the largest to recervc drplom rs from Mayfreld Hrgh School In 1910 srx drplomas were rssued to the frrst graduatrng class When the drplomas hue been gven to thrs class Mrvfreld Hrgh School wrll hrve rssued tvwo thousrnd and twelve drplom IS Explanatron Not for more than twenty wears has M rwfreld Hrgh School h rd 'rny publrcrtrorr th rt would rn 'rnv xr ay resemble an annual We do not ex en suggest that thls yearbook should be termed an annual but we do hope that rt XVIII be the stepprng stone to 'r larger and better 'rnnual publr catron In every enterprrse a few people are the pushers and pro moters Th1s publrcatron IS no exceptron Naturally ue are deeply rndebted to our 'rdvertrs ers for then support In fact had rt not been for then help we would not have been able to have ex en a school prper Our prrncrprl M Judson Jenk ns h'rs taken rn rnterest rn our cruse rnd hrs gurdcd us rr thrs undertrkrng Mrs Hays Neelv our sponsor has spent much of her trme xx hrch could hue been spcnt on other work to help get our copy rn condr tron to go to the prrnter Then tto we are deeplv rndebted to Mrss Florence Wyman who has read our copy correctrng errors throughout the entrre year Th1s has been a servrce we could not have done wrthout And last vxe express our thanks to the Messenger Publrsh ng Company for therr specral rnterest and help rn the pr rrrtrrrg of thrs book as vtell 'rs our regular edrtrons of The Crrdrnal We hate trred vt 1th our mea ger resources to prece together a ve rrbook grxrng 111 ell round el prcture of Max freld Hrgh School To the student bodv, the staff wrshes to express ltS thanks for 1ts support through out the entrre year The Edrtors . 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