McClenaghan High School - Florentine Yearbook (Florence, SC)

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☆ ☆ HISTORY OF THE | In the seemingly unimportant year of 1933, we, the Senior Class of Florence High School, entered Circle and Park Schools. We had made the first venture into this world of ours. The years rolled by; and before we realized it, we had finished grammar school and were entering Junior High. Oh, how grown-up we felt with a variety of teachers and subjects! ; Finally, in the year of 1941, we entered Senior High. We were rather notorious for our unconscious violation of all the traffic regulations and other rules of the school. After much embarrassment and confusion, we settled down to work. Between rounds with Caesar, the square roots of x and y, the principal parts of to be, we found time to elect Miss Sally Watkins, Sponsor, and Gene Kaufman, President. i The months passed quickly and happily, and then we became Juniors. To start the year off right, we elected Miss Flora Coker, Sponsor, and Peggy Smith, President. The I class's first display of talent was in Dear Brutus, a fantasy by James Barrie. After much hard work and acute cases of stage-fright, we blossomed out, under the capable direction of Mr. Abbott Lake, to produce a worthwhile dramatic offering. Meanwhile, our athletes were developing themselves for the coming Senior year. Our scholars were also developing their minds. In the spring our class placed winners in every field of the state scholastic contests. Finally came examinations; and, then, at the year's end, the more studious members of our class were rewarded for their efforts by being selected as marshals, and by being presented medals for outstanding work in different studies. I The summer passed quickly, and before we realized it we had entered that eventful year of years—the Senior year. Our first activity as a class was the election of officers, , and we elected Gene Kaufman, President; Sally Hite, Vice-President; Peggy Elmore, Secretary; Peggy Smith, Treasurer, and Miss Alice Brunson, Sponsor. To finance our annual, which we were determined to have, we conducted a magazine campaign, which

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☆ CLASS OF 1944 was highly successful. We covered ourselves with glory by selling over two thousand dollars’ worth of magazines, beating Sumter by over a hundred dollars in the annual friendly contest between the Senior Classes. The excitement of the year came in December when the first snow in two years caused school to be closed a week early for Christmas holidays. We were forced to postpone our play, but on January 14, Salad Days,” a three-act comedy, was splendidly presented under the direction of Mrs. Marshall Ligon. January was eventful, also, for the arrival of the long-looked-for rings. We shall never forget the day when we first proudly displayed our class rings to the envious Juniors and Sophomores. In February the annual went to press, and after the strain of mid-year examinations, we settled down to wait patiently for spring and commencement. The monotony was broken by May Day exercises, when Sarah Corley, our statuesque queen, was crowned in colorful exercises attended by a bevy of lovely attendants. And now, as the school year draws to a close, we look back upon three years filled with happy memories of classes, teachers, ball games, parties, and all the work and play which make school days the happiest days of all. With a successful career behind us, we look forward with hope and confidence to our commencement night and the future. John Collins, Historian.