Pantego High School - Olde Academie Yearbook (Pantego, NC)

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ward jones, husband of the former Miss Anne Alman, Miss jean Vfilliams, and Mr. Charles Elks joined in guiding us through this year, Norman Midgette led the class as President and joyce Canady, Hulda Cullifer, and Magnolia Duckworth had the privilege of hetoming Beta Club members. The outstanding event of this year was the Holi- day junior-Senior Banquet at which eight members of the class, llulda Ciulliter, Betsy Long, Doris Keech, Hazel Paul, Bobby Mobley, Norman Mid- gette, H. Newberry, and Preston Wfatson. served as waiters and waitresses. Anna Davis and Hazel Paul again represented our tlass as Marshals. XVith the opening ot' the 1951-1952 sthool term, we liound ourselves one step higher on the rungs ol' the ladder towards our ultimate goal -Gradua- tionl During this, our junior year, one of the new faculty members. Mrs. Betty S. Guilford of Choco- winity, had the high position ot' being our advisor. We gained lamhert Van XY yk from Terra Cleia and lost Doris Keeth, Vernon Myers, Nellie Allen, Ralph Dunbar, j. ll. Newberry, Preston Wfatson, and Sara Boyd. Again this year, we had two new tatulty members in addition to Mrs. Guilford. and they were: Mrs. Carrie joyner and Miss Anna jean Poole. Norman Midgette was again Class President and three ol' our classmates, Delouous Vlfaters, Lam- bert van XVyk, and Retha Radtlifte, became mem- bers oti the Beta Club. This was an unusually busy year, having our junior Play and entertaining the Senior Class at a hancyuet. The play. The Stuffed Shirt was a huge suttess, and our banquet, whith was held at Club Saleeby's in XY'ashington, was semi-formal and tar- ried out a Spanish theme with ten members of the Sophomore Class serving as waiters and waitresses. This year a new contest was carried on in the High School and that was the selettion of a girl who would he Miss Pantego High. Our elass was proud to have one of our own juniors, Betsy Long, receive this delightful honor. The Chief Marshal, who is always a junior, was Anna Davis with Hazel Paul and Betsy Long serv- ing as the other two marshals from our tlass. Our class was well represented at Commencement when joyce Gaylord, Rena Topping, Anna Dean Davis, and lnez liverett received medals for out- standing ability in their respective fields. We con' eluded our junior Year in a flurry of parties and the delightful prospects of being rising Seniors!

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Km 7527 6111.95 M tary Wity' back in the ancient year of 1949, forty-two bright-eyed, but somewhat awkward youngsters en4 tered the Great Halls of Learning at Pantego High School. We were awed and taken back by the great pow- erful ''Upperclgassmc-n, but it did not take us long, however, to find that they were not as bad as they seemed but were very nice. Wfhen school opened for the term 19-t9-IQSU, which was our Freshman Year, we had many new teachers and a new principal, Mr. Kelly XXfallace. The new teachers were: Mrs. Myrtle Paul Carowan, who taught the Commercial 'subjectsg Miss Anne Alman who taught the girls Home Economicsg our other teachers, Mr. joseph Wfindley, Mr. Paul Long, Mrs. jack Harris, and Mrs. T. Byrum who had been members of the High School Faculty the year before. We gained three new classmates this year, and they were: Hulda Cullifer and H. Newberry from Pinetown and Preston Wzitson from Fairfield. Dur- ing this term, we had the good fortune of having Mrs. Myrtle P. Carowan as our homeroom teacher, and our thanks go to her for starting us off on the right foot in our high school career. Hazel Paul was our Class President, and a very efficient one to say the least. It was not long before our class had gained the reputation of being one of the loudest in high school, but even with all our talking and many good times, ten members of the class had the great honor of being asked into the Beta Culb. They were: joyce Gaylord, Hazel Paul, Rena Topping, Evelyn Gaskins, jane Bowen, Nancy Aycock, Anna Dean Davis, Betsy Long, Pauline Barrett, and Catreta Bowen. XVe were proud of this good number representing our class in such an Honor Society. Anna Davis and Hazel Paul had the' highest scholastic averages in the class and were, for this reason, selected to serve as Marshals at graduation. Joyce Gaylord received the Citizenship Medal this year. Wfhen school opened for the year 1950-1951, we found ourselves with the educational status of sopho- mores with Mr, joseph Wfindley as our homeroom advisor and had a population of thirty-five. We were glad to welcome Bobby Mobley from Plymouth and Magnolia Duckworth from Greenville as our new classmates, but were very sorry to lose: Rudolph Bell, Roselyn Bowen, Roy Boyd, T. Daniels, Phrosene Latham, Sherman Linton. Roy Sheppherd and Flda Dean Slade. Three new faculty members, Mr. Ed-

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Dignified Seniors, at last? XY'hen we entered Sehool for our last year, we found ourselves indeed fortunate in having Mrs. Myrtle Paul Carowan as our Senior advisor and Mr. Charles B. Elks as our sponsor. We had Mr. H. D. Ifpting and Mr. 'lesse M. jones as new faeulty members. The three teachers who remained with us all four years of our High School Career were: Mrs. Myrtle P. Cfarowan, Mrs. ll. T. Byrum, and Mr. -loe Wfindley. XY'e lost two of our tlassmates, Hulda Cullifer Sullivan and lfrnisteen Allen Hetitley, who detided they had rather have a career in marriage than a diploma. Seniors are usually very husy people and the Seniors ot' '35 were no exteption. lfirst we eleeted our tlass olitiieers, Norman Midgette, Presidentg Anna Dean Davis, Vine President, Hazel Paul, Set- retaryg Carrera Bowen and Rena Topping, Treasurers1 and Betsy I.ong, Reporter. Those heing privileged to become Beta meinhers were Inez lfverett and liarhara XVoolard. The day Mr. Blaekwell tame to measure us tor our rings was one ot' the memorahle occasions as Seniors, Then name our solititation for ads in our annual. The selee- tion of mascots was a hard job sinee there were so many nite little hoys and girls to thoose from. lfinally the vote was mast, however, and Doran Cluthrell and XX'ayne Radtlatitie were thosen as Mastots. On Oetoher 25, 1952 otturred one ot' the happiest occasions ot' our Senior year . . . the arrival ot our long-waited- tor tlass rings? By this time, we were really hegin- ning to feel like Seniors, and even more so when we hegan work on our annual and selected our caps and gowns. We deeided on white taps and gowns with green and white tassels. XWe looked forward, with great antitipation, to our Senior Play, our junior-Senior Banquet, and of course, Graduation. Our loving devotion and loyalty go to our par- ents, our tlassmates, .ind our teathers who have so untiringly guided us through these past twelve years ol' our lives, and may we long rememher them with some of the same kindness that they have showered upon us. CATRITTA BOXWEN H1 v1w'1.u1