Nahunta High School - Chieftain Yearbook (Pikeville, NC)

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Robbie receives Peace Essay award - Seniors discuss trip . Goofing off! Kay, our Chief Marshal. A cool jam session! At last Eat, drink, and be merry! Oh, what a house warming! i

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Smdm. f95K oil, boy! That long excited day in everyone ' s life had come, that September morning in 1946, when thirty-three students met together in Mrs. Dora Collier ' s first grade room. Some were small, some big, some afraid and others looking as if they were enjoying the new life at school. In spite of all these things we had a good year, with the first grade play as our most interesting high -light. We started our second year with quite a racket, having Mrs. Leslie Rowe as our teacher. Then came the third grade with Mrs. Dixie Edmondson as our teacher. Mary Cobb Forbes joined us that year. It would be wonderful if we could call back the fourth, fifth and sixth grades in which Miss Pipkin, Mrs. Louise Lewis and Mrs. Eva Wooten led us successfully. Robbie Taylor and Selby Boswell Joined us in the fourth grade. In the fifth, we went with the seventh grade to Chapel Hill, where we visited the Planetarium and Museum. A little later that year with the loss of Margaret Peedin and Robert Davis and the ad- dition of Lois Carter our group changed to thirty -one. The class separated in the seventh grade with Mrs. Mozeile Gurley and Miss Rhoda Bone as oui supervisors. Two students, Margie Barnes and Robert Edgerton, Joined us that year. Mr. George Spirtos led us through the struggle of learning to change classes in the eighth grade. This was Carolyn Fulghum’s lucky year because she won the citi- zenship medal, presented by Nahunta Grange. In the ninth grade we were very glad to have Miss Rhoda Bone as our teacher again. During that year Emmett Fail joined us. We had a very prosperous year in the tenth grade with Mrs. Doris Gmley as our teacher. Through cooperative effort, we won the tobacco drive that year as well as our Junior and Senior years. For winning, we got a tv o-hour recess and refreshments. We also sold candy as our first money -raising venture. We began ao enjoyable Junior year with Mrs. Louise Wilkie. The year was filled with activities to raise money; selling stationary, candy and magazines. Oui Junior play, Good Gracious Grandma was directed by Mrs. Wilkie. John Sullivan, a new comer, made an ideal Negro. Fifteen students including Kay Evans, a transfer from Wilson, met together on September 7, 1957, all happy because we were beginning our Senior year, which was to be sponsored by Mrs. Doris Gurley. We began the year by presenting our Senior play, Almost Summer. After the play, Kay Evans gave the class a party. An ex- citing time around school was when the Seniors received class rings. As the year pro- gressed, we began preparing for our Washington trip in the spring, selling Christmas cards, and picking cotton as projects. As we leave, we can look back over our shoul- ders to see the success that the years have brought us. We now look forward into the future at the success that we feel sure will be ours. EDNA GURLEY, Historian

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CLASS POEM The year ' 58 has come at last And soon we can look back to the past. On our school days at Nahunta High Where many happy days have gone by. Whatever the task we’ve stood the test And always tried to do our best. So that we might achieve great success In things to make our lives happiest. With our flower, the white carnation. To act as out inspiration. With colors of ted and white To help us gain greater heights. We ' ll ever be challenged to be pure and brave And never let out character be depraved. Out motto ever in our eats will ring Be not simply good ; be good for something. Now we shall go our separate ways As into this new world we’ll gaze. With fond memories that will linger neat And to our hearts be so dear. By Peggy Minshew Robert Edgerton made an ideal grandma in out Junior Play, Good Gracious, Grandma pre- sented in April, 1957. Seated: Lois Carter Sutton, Edna Gurley, Mrs. Louise Wilkie, Robert Edgerton, Robbie Taylor. Standing: Selby Boswell, Kay Pittman, Carolyn Fulghum, John Milton Sullivan, Peter Aycock, Jimmy Mitchell.