Mullins High School - Leaf Yearbook (Mullins, SC)

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YW.,-T CLASS HI NTURY One bright September morning, in 1937, a group of frightened, timid youngsters walked up to the grammar school to begin eleven years of long, hard work. It wasnit long until the newness of new place wore off and we soon learned to start the hundred-yard dash to the lunchroom as soon as the bell rang. The biggest thing we found wrong with school was that we couldn't talk when we wanted to. That first year passed quickly and so did the second, much to our surprise. The next year we were herded into the little building where Miss Turner, Miss Derrick and Miss Watson were our shepherds. The fourth grade thrilled us with changing classes and here we first met Miss Moore. The old piano took a terrific heating when she wasn't looking. Miss Senn is always remembered along with that fateful fifth year. Her shoe tree was always humming, it seemed. And that old record player we used to write by, ah, those were useless days, we thought. The sixth grade made us king-beesn in the grammar school. Several of our classmates left us for good but their places were being filled. Bill Dudley won the history medal this year. Next year, we were taken down a few notches from our high place in the grammar school. Most of us thought that we would get lost while looking for our rooms in the seventh grade. But the newness soon wore off and we were able to find our classes without being told. In the eighth grade we were reinforced by a large crowd from Gapway and Scotch. Also Margie Livingstone from Conway, and janet Lambert, who was transferred from Nichols. This year some of us were invited to join the journalism Club and were duly initiated. fNeed I say more?j Some of the girls helped with the junior-Senior Banquet this year, too. A few of us got enough courage to go out for some of the sports and played our time on the bench. The ninth grade found us well accustomed to the high school building, and feeling right at home here, too. We were surprised with a few new students from Nichols, quite unexpectedly. Some of the boys and girls served at the junior-Senior this year. We were told that we would have the honor fha-hal of being the first class to go to school twelve years. Oh, welll! Another year isnit too long. In the tenth grade, Bill Dudley was elected president. Certrude Freeman joined our ranks from Marion and Tom Huggins, a fugitive from Hemingway and another preacher's son, also there was Marjorie McCumber with us now. A lot of our boys were on the football team this year and we were real proud of them. Now we were closer to the end than we realized, in the eleventh grade. The long- waited time for us to sit in the front seats of the auditorium in chapel was now at hand. Even though we weren't officially Seniors yet, we were the upperclassmen-and that was something. The Student Council was started this year and real progress was made. We practiced real hard and the junior Play was a big success, with the help of Miss Hardin and Mr. Yates. The Revue was not published this year, much to our sorrow. And now, it was here. Seniors at last . . . This year the Beta Club was inaugurated. Many new things had been added since we first stepped into ole, M. H. S. Hal Norton was elected president of the class, Sara Hug- gins, vice-president, and Bobbie Ellis, secre- tary. We campaigned for Senior Privileges- something unheard of in Mullins before. The jazz Band, which was started last year, had now grown into a full-fledged orchestra, The Stardustersv. The LEAF staff was elected and quickly got to work on the annual, the best yet. It seemed like no time until we were being measured for caps and gowns. Now that we were really going to leave, we found just how much we really liked M. H. S. Now commencement has come and gone and we said goodbye to good ole' M. H. S. - j1FF1E,' BECKHALI, C lass H istorifm.

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THE BUS ES L. j. HENDRIX, Principal . . . Mathernatics, Coach lliaskethallj LAWRENCE YATES . . . .......... Science SUSANNE BETHUNE ............. English and History CALHOUN GAULT . Physical Education, Coach fBasketball and F ootballj NIARGIE MCMEEKIN . Girls' Physical Education, Coach CGirls' Baskethallj CHARLOTTE PLOXVDEN WINIFRED SHELLEY H. L. STOUDELIIRE . D. H. SLOAN . . DOROTHY TODD . . ANNE CRIMBALL . CELESTE BONNETT . T. H. SKEEN . . MARIE D. WARD . . . ELIZABETH B. STREET . . . . . . Librarian . Commercial . . Agriculture . Mathematics . . . . English . . . Home Economics . . . French and English Chemistry and Mathematics . . History anzl English . . . . Secretary

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.,,, CL S UFFICEH N President SARAH PIUGCINS Vice-President BOBBIE ELLIS Secretary and Treasurer fit.. NORTON ELLIS HUGCINS C S POE Soon weire going to graduate And bid you all adieug But before we go We would like to leave This simple thought with you. If every minute of the day VVould turn into a glassg Each man Would have a lot of them Before a day had passed. But look into these glasses How many do we findg Are filled with love and kindness And things to help mankind. Few are filled with goodness. And its not hard to guessg That all of the other glasses Are filled with emptiness. If we wonit Waste a minute And work hard all the dayg XVl1en We lay down to sleep at night XVe may be heard to say. YVe thank Thee, for this day, dear Lord, And now before it passesg VVeirc verv glad to say that we Have filled all of our glasses. -EDWIN Friorn, Class Poet. 7