Old Fort High School - Arrowhead Yearbook (Old Fort, NC)

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,L EX , MI L MRS. L GRADE. IT wAS IN THE SEVENTH GRADE THAT THE D ND S8 G IT N U , AL 9 WAS N , H M R X29 I .45 CD SENIOR CLASS HISTORY CONT. wERE MRS. GREENLEE, wHo LATER wAS REPLACED BY ss ONG AND oNoN. ALSO THE STUDENT COUNCIL WAS oRGANIzED WHEN WE WERE IN THE SIXTH MARRIAGE FEVER BRGKE OUT WITH THE WEDDING OF Two F OUR GIRLS, A N E HAS CONTINUED AT A RAPID PAGE. THE NExT YEAR THE BOYS AND GIRLS WERE SEP- ARATED AND MISS SCOTT wAS IN CHARGE or THE GIRLS A D MRS. H ss THE BOYS. THIS WAS OUR FIRST YEAR AT CHANGING GLASSES AND wE, or COURSE, FELT OUR IMPORTANCE THOUGH WE WERE NOT YET IN HIGH SCHOOL. THEN AT LAST, GAME THE YEAR THAT WE BEGAN OUR GREAT HIGH SCHOOL CAREER. STILL OUR GLASS so LARGE THAT WE HAD TO BE DIVIDED INTO TWO GROUPS, o E UNDER THE DIRECTION or MISS FERNE SMITH AND THE OTHER UNDER THE GUIDANGE or MISS MARGARET GRANT w o LATER CHANGED HER TITLE TO RS. AND HER NAME To AMSEY. IT SEEMS THAT OUR GLASS HAS BROUGHT MUCH GOOD LUCK AND HAPPINESS T0 OUR YOUNG LADY TEAGHERS BECAUSE QUITE A FEW HAVE CHANGED THEIR NAMES DURING THE TIME IN WHICH THEY TAUGHT US. DURING THIS YEAR, MISS GRANT WAS THE HGME ECONOMICS TEACHER AND THE HIGH SCHOOL BOYS SUDDENLY TOOK A GREAT INTEREST IN COOKING AND HDMEMAKING. GEORGIA EVANS WAS MARRIED WHILE WE WERE IN MISS GRANT'S ROOM. ANOTHER OF oUR GIRLS, MARGARET THDMPSGN, LEFT BEFORE THE BEGINNING OF OUR TENTH YEAR. HELEN HANEY ALSO QUIT. BUT TO MAKE UP FOR THE THREE LEAVING, THREE MORE WERE ADDED T0 OUR GLASS. THEY WERE PAUL BERNETTE AND DEWEY LAWING FROM PLEASANT GARDENS AND EDITH EVANS FRGM GLENWOODQ WHEN WE ENTERED THENTENTH GRADE, THE wAR HAD ENDED, AND A VETERAN, MR. WOODWARD, BEGAME OUR TEACHER. No ONE KNOWS WHY, BUT IT SEEMS THAT SOME or THE STUDENTS HAD A FEW DIFFIGULTIES WITH THE TEACHERS, BUT IULL N0 MORE THAN MENTION THAT. DESPITE THE OIFFICULTIES, WE HAD SoME or THE BEST TIMES or oUR LIvES DURING THESE FIRST TWO YEARS IN HIGH SOHODLQ AMGNG THESE Gooo TIMES WERE THE PARTIES, OUR TRIP T0 MOUNT MITCHELL WITH MR. WooDwARD AND THE VARIOUS HGKES AND fx si X I ffj 'I . xx' '. . . I' XV . K. GN h f X 1. V 70x XX 1 ,ggi ' ESs4255' :EEA S .4-'55 5 x N W N ff

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9' SENIOR CLASS HISTORY CONT. FIELD TRIPS. BUT T0 oUR SoRRow, WE LOST QUITE A FEW OF oUR GLASS IN THE TENTH GRADE. VIRGINIA CRISP, ELSIE LAGKEY AND BETTY CDRDELL DECIDED THAT THEY KNEW ENOUGH WITHOUT COMING TO SCHOOL So THEY QUIT. BLANGHE PRUDEN QUIT AND GOT MARRIED. BILLIE HENSLEY, EDITH EVANS, AND FRANCES STEVENS LEFT T0 G0 TO ANOTHER SCHOOL AND DEwEY LAwING LEFT TO BECOME OUR FIRST GLASS- HATE TO JOIN THE GREAT NAVY OF THE UNITED STATES. ALTHOUGH MILLIE WALKER wAS AN EXCELLENT SCHOLAR, SHE PREFERRED THE KITCHEN To THE SCHOOL RooM, So SHE GDT MARRIED. THIS YEAR ONLY ONE NEW GIRL JOINED OUR GLASS, AND SHE wAS THELMA ROBINSON. THEN WE BECAME THE DISTINGUISHED JUNIORS OF OLD FORT HIGH SCHOOL. MRS. CHURCH wAS oUR TEADHER THE FIRST PART OF THE YEAR, BUT LATER WAS REPLACED BY MISS SEARCY. THIS YEAR 'JUST ABOUT ALL oUR GLASS EITHER WENT To THE ARMY OR SDME OTHER BRANCH DF THE SERVIGE OR GDT MARRIED. THoSE BOYS GOING T0 THE SERVICE WERE! RALPH HARRIS, CARL WATER, DAVID RAYFIELD, GUY GRANT, Boa HUNT, AND J. R. MCINTYRE. WE HATEO T0 SEE THEM LEAVE, BUT WE wERE PROUD OF EVERY ONE OF THEM. THE GIRLS GETTING MARRIED WERE ELNORA AND LENORA WILLIAMS, FAYE ALLISDN, wHo MARRIED HER Doss, BETTY BRYANT, wHo MARRIED OUR CHIEF OF POLICE AND THELMA RGBINSDN. BEATRIGE DAVIS AND VIRGINIA VESS JUST TRADED NAMES. BEATRIGE SESAME A VESS AND VIRGINIA BECAME A DAVIS. GLADYS BROWN DECIDED THAT THE REST OF THE GIRLS wEREN'T GOING TO GET AHEAD OF HER WITH THE MEN, So SHE UPS AND GETS MARRIED, Too. SHE CHANGED HER NAME FROM BRowN TO SILVER. SINCE THIS WEPIDEMIC' ONLY TWO MORE CASES HAVE BEEN REPORTED. SoME OF THE MARRIED GIRLS sToPPED ScHooL, BUT LENDRA, GLADYS, THELMA AND BETTY ARE STILL WITHUS AT THE LATTER PART OF THE YEAR THE JUNIORS GAVE A PLAY ENTITLED USAVED BY THE BELLE' WHICH WAS A SUGGESS AND AS A RESULT OF THAT SUGGESS, THEY GAVE THE SENIORS, wITH THE HELP OF MISS SEARGY, A VERY NICE DANQUET. THEN MOST OF THE JUNIOR CLASS TOOK PART IN THE GRADUATION ExER- GISES. THE MARSHALLS WERE8 CHIEF, VIRGINIA S Q3 IQ 6 , I l ! 0' , - Q f I 5