Oakhurst High School - Oaklog Yearbook (Charlotte, NC)

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SENIORS BeITV Rum . l5ERNETHV r.H.A. 1. 2; Class Secretary 2; Junior Play 3; Junior Marshal 3; Beta Club 3, 4, Secretary 4; 1 loner Soeiety 4, Treasurer 4; Chorus 3, 4; Freneh Club 3, 4, Secretary 3, 4; Assistant Editor Oaklog Stall 4; Best All-Around 4; Frientl- liest 4. Margaret Ellen Almond F.H.A. 1. 2; French Club 3; Dramatics Club 3, 4; Sociology Club 4. Frances Austin Basketball. Marglierite Bartlett F.IFA. 1; Dramatics Club 2; Oakhiirst Scoop Staff 2; Beta Club 3, 4; Junior Play 3; Fibrarian 4; Chorus 4, Mistress ot Robes 4; Oaklog Staff 4; Senior Class Typist 4; Most Versatile 4. Joan Bennett F.H.A. 1, 2; Historian 2; Dramatics Club 3, 4; French Club 3; Sociology Club 4; Chorus 4; Oaklog Staff 4; Best Dressed 4. Janet Lois Bullard F.H.A. 2; Songleader 2; Cheerleader 2; Dra- matics Club 3, Play 3; Chorus 3; Best Dancer 4; Oakhurst Scoop 4; Monogram Club 4; Flirtiest 4. James Winford Cockman F.F.A. 2; Dramatics Club 3, 4, Play 3; Chorus 4; Sociology Club 4; Best Dancer 4. Marilyn Joyce Coffer Greenwood High School I, 2, 3; Class Presi- dent 1; Chorus 1, 2, 3; Home Economics Club 1, 2; Basketball 1, 2, 3; Class Treasurer 3; Junior Play 3; French Club 4, Vice-President 4; Dra- matics Club 4.

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HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1950 “Return with us to the thrilling days of yesteryear,” when Oakhurst became our second home and presented challenges that we had to accept, whether or not we wished. Our hrst experiences we shall never forget. We were vaccinated, initiated, and some of us felt almost exterminated. We got along very well considering how young we were, but how we trembled when we heard the principal was coming. Somehow, with the help of Mrs. Huff, we lived through the first year. In the second grade we felt more secure, for we were now a part of dear old Oakhurst. Miss Lawrence actually taught us to write (that is, some of us). The next year we realized we were in school for a serious purpose and we really went to work especially on those multiplication tables which Mrs. Little tried her best to teach us. The fourth was a cinch. We had studied so hard the year before we were sure we knew enough to skip lightly over this one. Miss Scruggs taught us otherwise. Remember? Miss Mooney did her best for us in the fifth grade. This is probably the year most boys first become interested in sports— and girls become interested in boys. Oh, sad dissolution! In the sixth and seventh grades we were divided for the first time. Some of us spent t hese two years in the Agriculture Building. In the eighth grade, we were still two classes, but we had the Hickory Grove Students with us for the first time. Wasn ' t it fun becoming acquainted with all those new students? Oh! High School at last. The ninth grade really was fun. Oh surely we studied, too (at least the teachers thought so). We had our class party that )?ear at the Armory Auditorium, that was quite an advance from the previous year at the school gym. Our home room teachers were Mrs. Mullanev and Miss Blankenship. In the tenth grade we finally were allowed to choose some of our own subjects. With the help of Mr. Hill and Miss Price we passed on to greater opportunities and our junior year. Rarely ever did you hear anyone say he was in the eleventh grade, oh, no, he would say “I’m a junior.” We worked hard that year, trying to pass and make money for the Junior-Senior Banquet which, by the way, was at Hotel Charlotte. Our junior play was a real success with Ruby Lovelace plating the title role in “Our Gal Sal.” Mrs. Thornton, our home room teacher, led us safely through this year. The senior year came at last with Miss Black as our home room teacher and real friend. And now as we approach the close of our high school careers at Oakhurst, each to go his separate way, it is with mixed feelings of gladness and sadness. Glad to enter a new phase of life with its challenging opportunities; sad to leave our dear friends and pleasant memories behind us. Each and everyone of us shall carry with us on our separate wavs, memories that linger and will be a part of us always. To our teachers and principals, who have worked hard trying to help us realize our respective abilities and trying to instill in us noble ideals, we bid a sad but fond farewell. But let us not dwell too long in memories, for time waits for no one. Let us follow the advice of the immortal bard— Shakespeare— “This above all; To thine ownself be true— And it must follow as the night the day. Thou cans’t not then be false to any man.” Yes, let us sav farewell but not forever. Although this is the end of our school days together, it is only the beginning of our efforts to make our school even better for those who come after us. Let us join our efforts in doing all we can for just as many as we can. Then we shall hear the Master’s voice as He says: “Well done thou good and faithful servant: Thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: Enter thou into the jov of thv Lord.” Deloris Williams, Historian Pa e Nine

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SENIORS Patsy Ann Connell Library Club 1; Chorus 3, 4; French Club 3, 4; Journalism Club 4; Most Bashful Girl 4. Grady Neal Cook, Jr. Nature Club 1, 2, President 1, Vice-President 2; F.F.A. 3, 4, Secretary 3; Baseball 1, 2, 3, 4; Class Secretary 1, 2. Peggy Sue Crump Basketball 1; Sociology Club 4; Library Club 4; Chorus 4. Peggy Joyce Davis F.H.A. 1, 2; Journalism Club 4. Murl Lewis Foard F.H.A. 1; Beta Club 3, 4, Treasurer 4, Class Treasurer 3; Junior Marshal 3; Honor Society 4, President 4; Sociology Club 4, Secretary and Treasurer; Managing Editor Oaklog Staff 4; Most Likely to Succeed 4; Most Dignified 4. William Frank Furr Nature Club 1, 2, Treasurer 2; F.F.A. 3, 4, Treasurer 3, President 4; Football 2, 3, 4; Bus Driver 4; Class Treasurer 4; Best Looking 4. Johnnie Wyatte Hall Hi-Y 1, 2, 3; Nature Club 2; Football 2, 3, 4; Monogram Club 2, 4, Vice-President 3; Beta Club 3, 4; Chorus 3, 4; French Club 3; Basket- ball 4; Oaklog Staff 4; Wittiest 4. Waylon Hedgepeth Lumberton High School 1 , 2; Allenton High School 3; Football 3; Basketball 3, 4; Baseball 3; Class Vice-President 3.