Orrville High School - Orrbit Yearbook (Orrville, AL)

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Glass gfistory Z, I A gh N .. ho? 5 Y will! 2 A A! .Ji It As graduation time approaches, we realize that we, as a class, will soon be non-existent. Memories of the past few years come crowding in, forming a happy pic- ture of hours well-spent. The class of '47 entered high school in the fall of 1942. We were young then, but we kept things moving. Twenty-nine of us--Junior Andrews, Desmond Bridges, Jes- se Englett, Randolph Jeter, John Ross Long, Bobby Mayton, Dick McDonald, Edgar Mer- edith, Harry Miller, Don Mooney, Will Moore, Thomas Parrott, Eugene Pegues, John S. Reynolds, Aubrey Rush, Richard Sanderson, Alex Singleton, Otis Weedon, Dean Wilson, Margaret Baker, Anna Pearl Cox, Lula Mae Cleveland, Lucie Bell Edwards, Bobbie Jean Grant, Rebecca Harper, Nell Mayton, Doris Morgan, Dorothy Roberts, and Willie V. Weatherly--reported that September morning to our home-room teacher, Mr.A.L. Smith. There was a lot of potential football material in our group. In fact, throughout our entire high school course we have made a name for ourselves and our school in all athletics. Before the year was out, our number began to decrease. In the fall Desmond Bri dges left us. Dick McDonald moved to Montgomery, Anna Pearl Cox to Selma, and Re- becca Harper to Uniontown. Later in the year Otis Weedon and Jesse Englett stopped school. We came back to school in the fall of 1944 with eighteen students reporting to Mrs. Dunaway. Bobbie Jean Grant had moved to Alexander City, Alton Vickers to Sel- ma, and Clyde Hicks to Camden. We were somewhat saddened by the loss of Will Moore in a tragic accident during the past summer. We had a very successful year, not only in athletics, but in our studies also. Most of the athletes in the school were to be found in our class. Cupid was again at work. Lula Mae Cleveland married during the school year and set up housekeeping. That left only seventeen of us. When school opened in September, 1946, we were proud seniors. Again the armed forces took its toll of our number. Alex Singleton joined the Army, and Don Mooney enlisted in the Navy. Willie V. Weatherly married during the sum er and was not with us. But with the end of the war we gained four veterans--George Jewell, John Thomas Bridges, Martin Smith, and Charles Moore. Charles was taking a post-graduate course, but he could not resist the offer of a good job which was offered him, so he left us before Christmas. Wmrtin Smith also left us at mid-term to enter the U- niversity of Alabama. The athletes of the class of '47 helped to produce one of the finest athletic records in the history of the school. We shall long remember the happy hours spent in developing physical skill and sportsmanship on the football field,the basketball court, and the baseball diamond. Now that we have come to the end of our high school days, we face the future with a feeling of expectancy. Our years together have better equipped us to meet whatever is in store for us. May we be bound always by the bonds of friendship which have held us close during our high school days. BOBB! MAYTON Class Historian IO