Pine Level High School - Pine Needle Yearbook (Pine Level, NC)

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■i IST€Cy My friends, before your very eye s I am going to unroll the story of a marvelous class — the most perfect class that has ever originated at Pine Level — the class of 1952. Its role was only four short years, but each day of the four years was crowded with the happiest and most important events. The story has its beginning in September, 1948, when the boys and girls made their initial appear- ance in the Pine Level High School. We were thirty-eight in number, and a most intelligent looking bunch of green” Freshmen. As Freshmen we had as our principal Miss Rena King; Home Room Teacher Mrs. W. T. Batchelor. During that year we gave a Negro Minstrel. Our next step, we were Sophomores. No longer were we called green freshmen but Saucy Sophomores.” During our Sophomore year we had as principal Mr. Clyde Mozingo; and home room teacher, Mr. W. T. Batchelor. Six of us students, Edith Poole, Marie Creech, Margarette Edwards, Junius Jones, William Overbee. and Bobby Stallings, were chosen as waiters and waitresses of the Junior-Senior Banquet of 1950. Jolly Juniors! What a marvelous feeling! We had finally reached this step, long to be remembered by all. Our home room teacher was Miss Norma Willard, Usually Juniors have only one big event of the year, the Junior-Senior Banquet, but we were honored by being able to accompany the Seniors to Wash- ington, D. C, We left Thursday morning, April 9, 1951. Returning we gave the Junior-Senior Banquet at the Pine Level Gym, on April 20, 1951 . We gave also a Junior Play, “Go Slow, Mary,” which helped finance the Junior-Senior Banquet, Having the great honor of being Marshals were Margarette Edwards, chief, Marie Creech, and Junius Jones. Now at last the most thrilling year of our high school career — Seniors! Still with us as principal v as Mr. Clyde Mozingo, and as home room teacher, Miss Margaret Kirk. Gradually our number had de- creased, some married, some working, and others moved to another community, until there were now only eighteen. Maybe we were small in number but we were the largest class in many years, and we were filled with enthusiasm and a longing to make Pine Level remember us. We gave the Senior play, “Flying High,” which will finance the gift which we will leave to the school. Last, but not least, the Business English Class composed of Seniors published the Pine Burr, the school paper. The class of ’52 having finished their four years of high school are a proud group of Seniors. So leaving Pine Level, where we shared our joys and sorrows, we might look happy, but within we are sad.

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Waverly Jones Glee Club 3, 4 Basketball 2, 3, 4, co-captain Baseball 1 , 2, 3, 4 Annual Staff 4 Newspaper Staff 4 Go Slow, Mary 3 Flyin’ High 4 4-H 1 Sara Lee Glee Club 1, 2, 3, 4 Annual Staff 3, 4 Newspaper Staff 3, 4 4-H 1.2 Citizenship Award 2 William Overbee Newspaper Staff 4 4-H 1 Bobby Stallings Glee Club 2 Basketball 2, 3, 4 Baseball 2 Class Officer 2, 4 Student Association 4 Bus Driver 4 Go Slow, Mary 3 Flyin’ High” 4 4-H 1, 2 Melvin Thompson Basketball 2, 3 Baseball 2, 3 Glee Club 3 Bus Driver 3 Mary Wood Glee Club 1 , 2, 3 Class Officer 1 Newspaper Staff 4 4-H 1 Once again we come to the close of the Senior individuals. We hope that you have noticed their feats of progress. Also we give them our wishes for a very success- ful future in every respect.

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LAST WILL ANL TESTAMENT We, the class of 1952, of Pine Level High School, Pine Level, North Carolina, being of sound mind and body, do hereby make, publish, and declare this to be our last will and testament. The Seniors leave to the oncoming Seniors our ability to co-operate. We bequeath our brilliant minds to the Freshman of 1952. We leave our ability to always be cheerful to the Sophomores. We leave our willingness to work to the oncoming Juniors. To the teachers the Seniors leave their honesty. Our faithfulness will always be left to our school, which we love very much, and we will cherish the memories found here for the rest of our lives. To our fellow students we wish to say that we will always remember your kindness. We hope that each of the coming years will prove to be the best for each of you. CEASS LLCEL ECT In a large, warm room with a beautiful fireplace, I sit thinking about the Pine Level High School Class of 1952. In this room there is a big blazing fire in the fireplace, and as I sit looking into the fire, I am thinking of all the seniors of ’52. The fire begins to fade away and the pictures of Carlton Creech, Donald Crumpler, William Over- bee, and Donald Creech come before my eyes. I see them in uniforms, and as the picture begins to clear I see them giving orders to a group of men. They must be doing well for themselves. The pictures of another, group come before my eyes. I see that Mary Wood, Marie Creech, Mar- garette Edwards, Shirley Braswell, and ' Billy Barbee are all through their business courses. But wait, I see Shirley and Margarette wearing blue uniforms of the WAF, Uncle Sami not only has the boys, but the girls working for him. As I look deeper into the fire I see that Sara Lee, Merlene Daughtry, and Violet Eason are very happy with their husbands. Sara and Merlene must not like house work so well, because they are work- ing as telephone operators. Another group comes clear in the flames. I see Waverly Jones, Junius Jones, Bobby Stallings and Jimmy Corbett going to college. And, last of all I see Melvin Thompson, a happily married man, and Cecil Dixon standing before their beautiful farms.