Newton Grove High School - Echo Yearbook (Newton Grove, NC)

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Our second year we started in the gym with Mrs. Earl Vann as our teacher. Due to crowded conditions in the second grade when we moved into the new building, our class was divided and several of our mem- bers went up to the third grade. Miss Linda Peterson was their teacher for the remainder of the year. The next year school opened with a new principal, teacher and a new member of our class, the Castellows. Mrs. Mary Williams taught us in the fourth grade. In our study of Geography we took several imaginary tours of distant lands. In the fifth grade. under Mrs. R, D, Weeks, we learned the states and capitals which most of us can recite today--thanks to Mrs. Weeks, We shall always remember one day in the fifth grade when Mrs. Weeks made us all sign the talking chart, which we called The Declaration of Independence, for mis- behaving while she was out of the room. We entered the sixth grade to become our teacher's first students. A spring graduate of A, C., Miss Christine Barfield. brought us through our sixth grade. In the seventh grade, under Miss Mary Belle Bryan. the main event was the presentation of The Courtship of Miles Standish, written from the poem by four of our members, We gave the play at a PTA meeting. Mrs. Thomas Turbyfill was our teacher in the eighth grade. This year we felt terribly grown up when we were allowed to attend the annual picnic at Houses Mill with the high school. We also entertained the- ninth grade at Houses Mill with a picnic supper in the early spring. At long last we became freshmen in high school in 1948. Mr. Thomas Turbyfill was our home room teacher, High school activities were exciting at first but they soon became routine. Several of our girls went out for basketball and Zilphia played on first team. To climax our freshman year the sixth through the 12th grades went to White Lake one Saturday. The tenth grade we spent with Mr. H, B. Cornett as our home room teacher, We had a new principal, Mr. J. A. Savage, and two new high school teachers. Mrs. Warwick taught us English and Mr. Cornett taught us General Science. The outstanding event of that year was the Junior-Senior Banquet. We were waitresses and dressed as Hawaiian girls, wearing grass skirts and leis around our necks. We went to school the first day of our Junior year not knowing who our teacher was to be, However, we drew the pick of the bunch. Mrs, Elizabeth C. Jackson kept us under her wing during our ,unior year. We gave a play Which Shall He Marry on November 27 and again on December 14 of '51. We began planning our Junior-Senior Banquet Early in the spring and had it on April 10, 1951 at the Plaza Grill in Clinton. Whispers of graduation were going around now and the plans were made. The class night ex- ercises took us to Ireland with the seniors. The Junior Class held a chain of roses for the Seniors and sang a farewell song for them. Then on Friday night. May 23, with showers of tears and ripples of laughter, we bade them goodbye. Then on September 10, 1952, we became seniors. The ideas that we might have had about happy-go- lucky hours, have as of yet not been seen. The second volume of Grove Echo is in the making and plans for our Senior play are brewing. From the first grade through the twelfth we have been one happy family even though many of our members have left us. We began with 41 and since Joyce has left us to become Mrs. E, T. Westbrook we now number only 13. Our joys and sorrows have been shared in ways we shall never forget. Addition: As a class, we welcome Johnnie Mason, a former student of Benhaven High School in Harnett Coimty. Marilyn Bryan Class Historian

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