Middleburg High School - Carrier Yearbook (Middleburg, NC)

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CLASS HISTORY (Con't.) Freshmen! At last we had attained that title. And you can bet your life, we were proud of it. Mrs. G. W. Pernell was our home-room teacher. Miss Odom taught us health and English; Miss Pritchard, civics; Mr. E. O. Young, Jr., alge- bra; and Mr. G. B. Blum, agriculture. Some of us became very interested in basketball and for the first time made the team. With the coming of the next September we received a new name--Sophomores. We found Miss Barbara Rudd, who is now Mrs. George B. Blum, Jr., on hand to greet us as instructor and Kenneth Daeke and Barbara Bowling as new stu- dents. Mrs. Douglas McColl, Mr. Young, Miss Mary Jean Grose, and Mr. Blum taught us different subjects. It was nothing unusual to have one of us say ‘‘bon- jour’’ or ‘ merci’’ instead of ‘‘good morning”’ or ‘“ thank you'’, for the first time, we were taking French. We enjoyed the year very much. Mrs. Douglas McColl was our home-room teacher our Junior year. We were very happy to have Shirley Brame from Aycock to join us and Bertha Guerrant from Dabney. We were constantly seen flashing our hands in the air. Do you wonder why? We had our class rings. We gave a Junior play that year, too-- ‘“‘Jerry Gets A Fever’’. We were all proud of it and received many compliments on it. That year it was our turn to entertain the seniors at the banquet. This was the major event of the year. The banquet was held at the Middleburg Com- munity House which was lighted with blue and gold, the Senior Class colors. And now we come to the twelfth and greatest year in the history of our class. SENIORS!! With the gaining of this title we began to take ourselves more ser- iously than ever before. And when we say seriously we mean seriously. Mrs. McColl has been home-room teacher again this year. Under her direction we gave our senior play entitled ‘‘Sonny-Jane’'. We enjoyed it very much. The Juniors gave us a lovely banquet, which we also enjoyed very much. We now leave M.H.S., carrying these cherished memories along with us. These years have been dear to each of us. We shall be happy; but we shall feel sad at our departure. The first great milestone in our life has been completed.

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Class H istoty Now as our days at Middleburg High School are coming to an end, we, the Class of '50, want to look over our years together. These years have brought us great happiness--happiness which we shall never forget. It binds us with un- breakable ties to our school, our faculty, and to each other. On a bright sunny day in September of '37 four of our present class mem- bers started the long journey toward graduation. They were Peggy Breedlove, Pauline Kearson, John Reavis, and Alvin Ellington. Miss Frances Pittard start- ed us on our journey. We were taught the easy subjects, ‘treading, writing, and arithmetic’’. Finally our first year ended, and we found ourselves second grad- ers, with Miss Nancye White to steer us through the year. Eunice White joined us that year. We were not quite so timid that year. More subjects were added. We took part in our rhythm band that year. With flying colors, we entered the third grade to find Miss Thelma Duncan waiting for us as instructor and Maurice Fleming and Gill Duke joining our group. Again we took part in our rhythm band. Miss Bessie Atkinson led us on our journey around the world with a geogra- phy book in the fourth grade. Ann Best joined us that year. Because of an insufficient number of teachers the fifth grade had to be divid- ed. Miss Nannie Burt had half the grade and Miss Bessie Atkinson the other half. A new subject, history, was added. Miss Nannie Burt was on hand to greet us as we entered the seventh grade. We had a very prosperous year. Ferebee Fletcher joined us that year. As we plodded into the eighth grade, Miss Theta Jackson, our home-room teacher, was there to greet us. Tunstall Curtis, Joyce Mustain, Mary Cobb, and Ida Burdick came up from Drewry. Mary Sue Moore came to join us from Ox- ford Orphanage. That year our teachers were Miss Bernice Odom, Miss Willie Pritchard, and Miss Theta Jackson. During the first month of that year, we suf- fered much inconvenience because of our unfamiliarity with the rules and regu- lations. We were forever getting our classrooms mixed up and arriving late for class. Often, because of our tardiness and our talking, we received punishment. That year we took an exciting trip to Raleigh; Miss Jackson and Miss Pritchard were our chaperones. We had a wonderful time.

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MOS'l INTELLIGENT NEATEST MOST HANDSOME MOST Alvin Ellington Pauline Kearson BEAUTIFUL Ann Best Maurice Fleming Tunstall Curtis Ferebee Fletcher Superlatives