Meigs County High School - Tiger Yearbook (Decatur, TN)

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HISTORY CONTINUED Through all thrs we have had the protectrve gurdance of our teachers Words can never be composed to express our gratltude for therr faith ful and unurlng servlce We want to especlally acknowledge our prrnctpal Mr J R Herfner for the wonderful work he has done for us and our school He has stnved to help us accomplish our goals and make our school somethmg we can be proud of l-hgh School days w11l be but a memory and as we think of the days we spent tn school rn our dreams and wrth our memorres we ll keep a date a date wrth yesterday We shall always keep our motto as our rdeal Not Fmrshed Just Begun Jacquelme Grubb Historian VX I Q- x In our Freshman year we looked for gifts of know ,A NP ledge rather than to have to work for it f X In our Sophomore year we learned that we must fr t for everythlng we recelved 'f 1 ff' N m ay E -,X FRO ,i x l x lt t dl it I. , N F ,If . . . 'X an Hxyxxjj . ',1

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HISTORY CONTINUED Many became mfected wrth btg head tus ln many cases the drsease proved fatal and many never fully recovered It was at thts stage of our c1vil1.zat1on that one of the common people rose to herghts of rulershrp and Charles Skelton became the wlse ruler of F1118 hlSl10IiC group of people The senrors welcomed Cindy Matlock from McM1nn and Enzena Lewrs from Buchwood to then class These swelled the class to forty four We are very fortunate to have some of the faculty wlth us durrng the enure four years of our struggle for the highest goal Mis Hannah Norton Mr D B Powell and Mr and Mrs T H Jewell Our hrgh school documents yxeld up names that are famllrar to those who have become acquainted wrth the members of the Class of 54 Among those names we flnd such as Sarah Carter Buchanan Raymond Buchanan Carl Carter N C Cartwright Wayne Cartwrrght Wmnre Chllds Randall Curus Raymond Colbaugn Muuel DeBusk Dons Ann Dennis Claudme Dtxon Jo Anne Edgemon Tommy Ftnnell Brllre Frances Ford Wlllle T Goodner Jack Gregory Jacquelrne Grubb Matue Sue Harmon Tommy Hope H C Howard Julran Judd Jrmmle Kyle Jrmmy Lane Harold Layman Lourse Ledford Enzena Lewrs Cynth1a Matlock Betty Jean Melton Dean McKenz1e Emma Sue Nance J L Perlunson Wanda Petut Greta Prurett Betty Jo Redmon Frankre Reed Eleanor Rose Roberts Jo Ann Scott Kay Shackelford Jackson Srnk Charles Skelton I C Swafford Donald Thompson Betty Carolyn Ward and Dorothy Wrlson, The tribal leaders of our Senror Class are Presldent CHARLES SKELTON V1ce Presldent DEAN MCKENZIE Secretary MATTLE SUE HARMON Treasurer TOMMIE HOPE Reporter BETTY CAROLYN WARD Sponsors MRS T H JEWELL MRS HARRY KROLL and MR, J R, HEIFNER The Seruors spent ther: days 1n rntellectual purstuts sometrmes gorng to classes rn the halls of learnlng someumes meetlng our opponents on the athletic freld and sometimes passmg the trme dotng mostly nothlng Our chref sport seemed to be maklng' other classes bow to our superlouty, Our chref arm rn lrfe seemed to be to capture a dlploma - - . 1 a Q 1 1 , 0 nu 9 a 1 s 1 1 . . , 1 1 1 1 1 1 Q - 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 Q 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 11. 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1- 1 1 1 - ..-------- . . I 1 9 o 1 I 1 1

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?fza When the class asked me to predtct the future of the graduating class of 1954 I qurckly sent my WHEATIE box top and 10 cents to the Wheaues Company and very soon I recerved my Crystal Globe I peered 1nto the globe and set it to the year of 1974 This rs what I saw I Jo Anne Edgemon was on a Rocket Plane to Mars As I was Sllllllg there I heard the Atomic Newscast This was the cast I heard Tommre Hope a leadmg chemist of today wxth laboratorres rn an obscure rsland rn the Pactfrc reports Ln an off1ci.al news release that an rmportant new flurd has been drscovered near the rsland whrch screnusts have stated closely resembles water and has the class letters 2 6 H O At the rocket shrp races today H C Howard won the thousand mrle dash by defeaung hrs nearest competltor Tom Goodner 190 000 people taxed the capacrty of M J Rocket Stadrum San Francrsco Calrfornra to see the run off One of the biggest real estate deals of international Importance has 1ust been closed Charles Skelton capitalrst of New York purchased a ranch 111 the Amazon Rlver Valley rn South Amenca Consrderatton 15 reported to be nrne mrllton dollars N C Cartwright Mayor of Rock City Mars wrll run agam for offtce He rs closrng hrs second term whrch has been marked by petty brckering among his offrcral famlly the city treasurer accusrng the crty clerk of stealrng f1VC postage stamps from htm Willrs Carter IS the presrdent of Haskm Unrversrty and has announced that the school w1ll no longer requue students to attend classes Recent surveys have shown that rf students attend classes the teachers must also attend classes Thrs overworks the teachers Most rmportant person of the year accordrng to the Natronal News poll whrch has just been completed 1sJ1rnmy Kyle Basrs of the award rs the wonderful servrce that Jrmmy has rendered to fteld mrce rn seerng that farmers rarsed plenty of crops to feed them 1 Q . 1 1 0 Q . 1 1 1 1 1 o 1 o a 1 u 1 0 U I 1 1 u I 1 1 . a 1 e o 1 1 . 1 n 1 a 1 . . 1 u 1 .