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

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9 GRY 'HISTf':gfY'fL A is tiialix, For six long years we waited for the chance to go to school. Finally the time came. Miss Mary Burgin, Mrs. Nichols and Miss Della Williams were our teachers in the first grade. After learning the alphabet and mastering the art of counting to one hundred, we made it to the second grade. Mrs. Elizabeth Bidde and Miss Charlene Hemphill were our teachers this year. It was quite different from the first grade, as we started having home work. We learned to be very obedient. If we misbehaved we didn't get any recess. Our teachers for the third grade were Miss Hicks and Miss hensdale. Our biggest pain this year was arithmetic. But with the careful guidance of our teachers we soon found it wasn't too bad after all. Mrs. Gay Grant and Mrs. Harris had the responsibility in the fourth grade. This year we struggled over the new and different subject, geography By the end of the year we understood it a little better,then we were pro- moted to the fifth grade. Mrs. Gay Grant and Mrs. Emily Bradley took the burden this year. As if geography wasn't enough last year, we had to take up history. Boy, did we have to work! This year was also very sad for all of us, as our principal, Mr. Norwood, died. In the sixth grade we had finished half of our schooling and thought we were practically grown. Miss Albright and Mrs. Kanipe must have had their hands full. As seventh graders we began smiling at the opposite sex and the girls began trying on lipstick. Mrs. Kanipe and Mrs. Lonon had the headaches this year. Poor Mrs. Kanipe, two years with the same bunch of grown-ups! In the eighth we began changing classes which made us feel extremely important. Some of us thought we were in High School. There were so many in our class that the boys and girls were separated. Mrs. Huss and lk. Moore were our home room teachers. In the year l9h7, we were really in High school and known as the Fresh- men of Old Fort High. Our class sponsor was Mr. A. K. Moore. Clark Walker was our president this year. We progressed rapidly and found ourselves in the tenth gradewzith Mr. Moore again our class sponsor. he began to study biology. Some of the mem- bers of our class were ushers at the Junior Play and some of the girls were waitresses at the Junior Senior Banquet. Our leader for the Junior year was Mrs. Truby Painter. Walter Summey was our class president. This year we will always remember ,for it meant that we were to honor the Seniors at a banquet given in the Masonic Temple. Annie Lou Allison senved as toastmistress. We sold magazines and presented our Junigp Play, nM'lissH in order to obtain the money. The characters were Ivaleigh Gilliam, Sam Porter, Jimmy Suttles,Vinson Davis, Hilda Allison, Vena Faye Morris, Annie Lou Allison, Clark Ralker and Wade Ayers. Mr. Robert Woodward was the director for the play. Now we have come to the last and greatest year in the history of our class. The organization for the Senior Class was: Mr. R. M. Woodward, Class Sponsor, Hilda Allison, President, James Robinson, Vice-Presidentg Annie Lou Allison, Secretar 5 Jimmie Harris, Treasurer. The Juniors honored us with a banquet on May E. The baccalureate sermon was held on May 13 and the grad- uation exercises on May 21. The memories of our senior year are mingled with happiness and sadness, a feeling of accomplishment and one of just be- ginning. There were so many last things to be done and so little time to do them. Soon we found ourselves receiving those much desired and treasured diplomas. Graduation was over, our schoolciays ended. Vena Faye Morris Class Historian