Ridgeway High School - Cardinal Yearbook (Ridgeway, SC)

Text from Pages 1 - 44 of the 1951 volume:

THE CARDINAL 1951 PRESENTED BY THE STUDENTS OF RIDGEWAY HIGH SCHOOL RIDGEWAY, SOUTH CAROLINA The Senior Class of Ridgeway High School is proud to dedicate this our 1951 yearbook to our Parents, Board of Trustees, and Faculty. We shall ever feel indebted to them for the contributions they have made toward our education. RIDGEWAY SCHOOL ALMA MATER 1. Hail to Thee our Alma Mater Hail to Ridgeway High. We will love Thee in the future As in days gone by. Chorus: See her colors black and garnet Shining on the hill. Hail to Thee our Alma Mater Ridgeway High School, hail! 2. Our praise to Thee, Oh Ridgeway High School Lives through all the years. We’ll not forget Thee in the future Through life’s smiles and tears. Mr. James T. McLeod Superintendent and History Mr. Leon Whetstone Commercial and Mathematics Mrs. Virginia F. Whetstone English and Library Mrs. Ruth R. Coleman Home Economics RAYMOND CRAWFORD COOK Sports Editor School Paper 4; Adver- tising Manager Yearbook 4; Basketball 1, 2, 3. ANNIE LOUISE DOVE Reporter School Paper 4; Photo Editor Yearbook 4. ETHELEEN ELIZABETH GERALD Associate Editor School Paper 4; Literary Editor Yearbook 4; President 1, 4; Sec- retary 2; Vice-President 3; Beta Club 3, 4; Miss-Hi-Miss. MARY VIRGINIA GULLEDGE Circulation Manager School Paper 4; Editor-in-Chief Yearbook 4; Pulaski, New York 2, 3; Vice-President 4. HOWARD DAVID MOORE WILLIAM RAWLINGS WEIR Business Manager School Paper 4; Art Editor Yearbook and School Paper 4; Beta Club 1, 2, 3, 4; Basketball 2, 3, 4; Band 2, 3, 4; Quartet 4, Business Manager Yearbook 4; Editor- in-Chief School Paper 4; Beta Club 1, 2, 3, 4; Basketball 1, 2, 3, 4; Basketball Cap- tain 3; Band 1, 2; Vice-President 2; Sec- retary and Treasurer 1, 3, 4. JUNE OPHELIA WILSON Feature Editor School Paper 4; Associate Editor Yearbook 4; Beta Club 1, 2, 3, 4; Basketball 1, 2, 3, 4; Basketball Captain 2; Vice-President 1, President 2,3. SENIOR CLASS HISTORY We, the class of nineteen hundred and fifty one, are proud and happy to say that we have successfully completed twelve years of school. On September 1st of 1939, thirty-five boys and girls made up the first grade. It was something new to us and we all seemed a little bit frightened at first, but later we learned each other a little better, and it wasn’t quite as bad. Our teacher that year was Miss Jean Starnes. The following year we found ourselves very well satisfied, under the direction of Miss Margaret Clark, in the second grade. In the third grade we were under the leadership of Miss Louise Montgomery. The fourth grade found us under Miss Marian Hines, but due to the illness of her mother, we had every person in town who had ever seen a school room for a teacher. The next year we were under Mrs. Nicholson for the first time. We also had Miss Foster and Miss Rayfield. In the sixth grade we were under the guidance of Mrs. Nicholson and Mrs. Hamilton. June Wilson joined us that year. We were still under Mrs. Nicholson in the seventh grade with the help of Miss Castles. Five members joined us that year, they were: Howard Moore, Etheleen Gerald, Ellen Branham, Ferris Branham, and Raymond Cooke. Ail through the years people have joined us and then have left us, much to our sorrow. In September of 1947, a small group of boys and girls entered the eighth grade. This was all something new to us. Mary Gulledge joined us from Kramer High School in Washington. The next year we were really in high school in Mrs. McEachern’s room. At the beginning of the tenth year we were sorry to have Ann Edmunds leave us and go to Stuart Hall in Virginia. Mary Gulledge went to Pulaski, New York this year, but was back with us at the end of our junior year. Juniors now, and our number cut to eight with Oree Gunter leaving us made it seven. The highlight that year was our Junior-Senior Reception. Nancy Palmer left us this year and attended Sky Valley in North Carolina. We are seniors now with only one member to go through these twelve years from the original class. This is none other than Billy Weir. Now, near the close of our twelve years, there are seven members waiting for the night when we shall receive our diplomas. We seven shall never forget Ridgeway High School, nor the teachers who so kindly helped us pave the way. Billy Weir Class Historian Joyce Beckham Estelle Branham Fay Branham Sec. and Treas. Le Grand Branham Lucile Branham Louise Bradley Vice-President Louise Braziel Lavonne Dinkins Ronella Dinkins Jenny Wren Dixon Jane Edmunds President Norris Hollis Loretta Humphries Nadine Mattox Elizabeth Wilson Jessie Bass Janie Mae Branham Julian Branham Vice-President Lillie Bell Branham Claudie Cooper Tommy Easier Marian Edmunds Sec. and Treas. Eunice Gerald President Norma Hollis James Lail Shirley Mattox Billy Medlin Louie Moore Hubert Murphy Betty Palmer Rebecca Richardson Faye Wright Lin Barnett Dorothy Kelly EIGHTH GRADE SIXTH GRATE FIFTH GRADE HIRTI GRADE SECOND GRADE FIRST GRIDE r •' i BETA CL I II Sponsor, Mrs. Virginia F. Whetstone MEMBERS Joyce Beckham Julian Branham Louise Bradley Jenny Wren Dixon Jane Edmunds Etheleen Gerald Eunice Billy Medlin Howard Moore Louie Moore Betty Palmer Billy Weir June Wilson Gerald v YEARBOOK STIFF SEATED: Etheleen Gerald, Literary Editor; Mary Gulledge, Editor-in-Chief. STANDING, Left to Right: Louise Dove, Photo Editor; Raymond Cook, Advertising Manager; Howard Moore, Art Editor; June Wilson, Associate Editor , Mr. Whetstone, Advisor and Sponsor; Billy Weir, Business Manager. GIRLS BASKETBALL TEAM CENTER: Lucile Branham, Captain. KNEELING, Left to Right: June Wilson, Betty Pal- mer, Marian Edmunds, Nadine Mattox, Faye Wright. STANDING, Left to Right: Rebecca Richardson, Lillie Bell Branham, Elizabeth Wilson, Estelle Branham, Norma Hollis. BACK: Mr. Whetstone, Coach. BOYS BASKET BALL TEAM KNEELING, Left to Right: Lin Barnett, Bobby Hartman, Le Grand Branham, Gerald Trout. STANDING, Left to Right: Howard Moore, Louie Moore, Julian Branham, Hubert Murphy, and Billy Weir. Sonti Carolina Electrie Eas Company Congratulations Graduates... ....on the successful completion of your classroom studies. May they be of much value in your future education and assist in meeting and solving the many problems that now confront you, your country and its system of free enterprise. We shall always be glad to be of service to you in any way pos- sible. DRAUGHON’S BUSINESS COLLEGE Draughon Trained Is Well Trained Write for a Catalogue Columbia South Carolina BANK OF RIDGEWAY Fairfield's Oldest Bank Ridgeway South Carolina PEARCE-YOUNG-ANGEL COMPANY Wholesale Foods Compliments of Compliments of HARTLEY GROCERY COMPANY CHARLES P. 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