Negreet High School - Chieftain Yearbook (Negreet, LA)

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n-- '--E, ' X if V . E Siiwff Q ,. CD CLASS HISTORY OF NEGREET SENIORS 1949-50 ONE BRIGHT SEPTEMBER MORNING IM 1938 WE AWOKE BEFORE DAWN, EAGER TO GO TO SCHOOL AND BEGIN OUR EDUCATION, AS IS CHARACTERISTIC OF ALLCHILDREN ON THAT SPECIAL DAY, WE WERE vERY EXCITED, THE MOST IMPORTANT INCIDENT THAT OCCURRED THAT DAY WAS THAT THERE wERE NOT ENOUGH LITTLE RED CHAIRS FOR EVERYONE TO HAVE A PLACE TO SIT. MISS ZORA MILLER, OUR TEACHER, HAD SOME APPLE CRATES UPON WHICH SHE PLACED SOME OF US. THERE WERE MORE THAN FORTY CHILDREN IN OUR ROOM THAT MORNING BUT, TODAY, THIR- TEEN YEARS LATER WE CAN ONLY RECALL TWENTY-NINE OF THEIR NAMES AND NOT THAT MANY OF THEIR FACES THEY wERE, BETTY MURPHY, LOUISE FUNDERBURK, GEORGIA MAX EY, HOWARD STROUD, ROMA JEAN CALDWELL, JO ANN GAN DY, BETTY MARIE MONTGOMERY, JIMMIE SPEIGHT, BOBBY SPEIGHT, REECE WALKER, ENOCH PAUL SPEIGHTS, BOBBY TARPLEY, JERRY DEAN TAYLOR, LOLA JONES, CLARENCE JONES, DALE ROYAL, AARON MILLER, RALPH BOONE, L C BASS, GORDON R CORLEY, BOBBIE WRIGHT, MAXINE JONES GERALD COOK, CLYDE BOONE, MILDRED BAS WILBURN LEE ROYAL, FRANK LEE, DELBERT BRANDON AND MELBEARY PEACE OUR PRINCIPAL FOR THE TERM 1938 39 WAS MR, HENRY MIMS. WE LOST RALPH BOONE, FRANK LEE AND L C BASS WHEN WE PASSED TO THE SECOND GRADE M W G LILLY SUCCEEDED MR. MIMS AS PRINCIPAL AND OUR TEACHER WAS MISS EXIE MILLER, CLARENCE JONES, BOBBIE WRIGHT AND DELBERT BRANDON WERE LOST IN PASSING TO THE THIRD GRADE, WE GAINED LEONARD WRIGHT, EVARD MONTGOMERY, IRENE CARTER, NORMAN FERGUSON, JEWEL MARIE BRANTLEY, RAY JONES, ELON DALTON, BETTY JEAN ARNOLD, AND BERTHA JANE LEE OUR TEACHER wAS MRS LEODIE WAGNER LEONE, DUE TO A SHORTAGE OF TEACHERS, IN 1941 42, THE FOURTH GRADE WAS DIVIDED INTO TWO GROUPS ONE PART wENT INTO MRS LEONE'S ROOM WHILE THE OTHERS YEAR, WE GAINED ELTON NICKERSON AND LOST LOLA JONES, EUTHER PRANDON, NORMAN FERGUSON AND LEONARD WRIGHT WE REMEMBER HOW MANY TIMES, THAT YEAR, WE CRIED OVER THE 'F'Sn ON OUR REPORT CARDS, 'ei K I ff I T X X I I I . D ' I - 0 . . Y-A S, V AX c ' t X Q Q. ' . . X . Q I x . , 1 WENT TO MISS LILLIAN SIBLEY'S ROOM. DURING THIS KA O, 35, EQAZEQT-N532 K S :...E I .g X .