Siler City High School - Seniorogue Yearbook (Siler City, NC)

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honor list. Yvonne Schweistris and Ruth Elder, cheerleaders, added their big bit to the Class's fame too. Epochs faded, and then basketball games and tournaments flourished again with vigorous splendor. Richard Siler, young athletic aspirant, played on the boys' championship team. It was during this period that culture first seeped from its place in the dic- tionary and had a meaning. The Crosby-Adams Music Club, organized by the students of Mrs. C. L. Brower, found itself boldly printed on the National Music Honor Roll. Two promising sophomore musicians, Jean Wrenn and Betty Lou Wright, claimed honors in the State Contest. The age ended not so naive as it had begun, for the boys began talking to the girls. Except for the quieter and broader sense of knowledge, the crusaders were the same. The colorful Hpageanteersw wound their way through the gray halls of the alma mater and prefixed the jolly term Hjunior' before their name. Oflicers Mar- garet Self, President, Richard Siler, Vice-president, Jean Wrenn, Secretary, Nancy Freeman, Treasurer began developing muscles and plans for the crowded epoch to follow under the able and dynamic supervision of Mrs. Howard. First, the Kno-Wit-Awl, school paper dormant since prehistoric times, was aroused from its sleep. Margaret Self, editor-in-chief, and Emma Ruth Darden, associate editor, plus the brains of all the juniors, issued the paper monthly. The football season, adding more glory to its already bulging annals, came and passed. Basketball season rolled along, totin' a trophy for the girls' team. Janice Alexander, Lydia Moody, Emily Carter, Doris Davis, and Imojean Pres- nell recorded their names this year in the hall of fame. Richard Siler, Herman Kennedy, Junior Presnell, Billy Joe Daurity played with the boys. Ruth Elder was back on the scene as cheerleader. Time marches on! In March 1948 A.D., activity akin to atomic energy buzzed around the juniors' home room and in the lunch room, Lydia Moody and her Banquet committee quickly turned the theme The Court of May into a dazzling highlight of the age. The lunch room had its facellifted April 30, 1948, with May Poles, rainbow-colored skies, flowers Creal onesb, picket fences, jolly juniors, and dignified C?D seniors. It was a gala, yet sober, success. The stalwart cru- saders had almost reached the end of their school journey, and they knew it. Then came commencement. Honors were bestowed upon the juniors as well as seniors. Betty Lou Wright, Lydia Moody, and Janice Alexander were chosen to attend Girls' State, Richard Siler, Herman Kennedy, Lloyd Thompson, to at- tend Boys' State. Lydia Moody copped the Lion's Club's K'Best Citizen award. The moon was setting on a dynamically eventful year. PART IV Modern History Almost as soon as the moon set, the sun rose on new seniors singing Mr. Howard's prehistoric When You Wore A Tulip for the twelfth consecutive year. The ohicers crowning the year were these: Lydia Moody, President, Richard Siler, Vice-president, Betty Lou Wright, Secretary, Nancy Freeman, Treasurer. 16

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6104.4 Jffialorg PART I Prehistoric In the dark, dreary days of 1937, a band of children began their crusade toward mental enlightenment. With eyes cocked and paddles poised, teachers led the little warriors safely through the first few centuries. Only the belief that Mr. Braxton's office harbored an electric paddle and only the awe of the third Hoor and fourth graders kept the Holy Terrors on the right path. The following periods, though, were ones of trial and mostly error-yet the vacancy of little minds was slowly being replaced with proud knowledge. Exhausted teachers behind and chaos before, the tough little crusaders picked up their books and marched on through the wise, smiling old corridors of S. C. H. S. PART II Ancient History: The Dark Ages In 1944 a new land was discovered. The third floor of S. C. H. S. was explored and found to be lacking in the Phantoms of the Past. New people, those migrating from the Henry Siler School, joined the eager band under the firm, patient leadership of Miss Lambe and Miss Amick. Over and over again the adventurers were told the why's, howys, wherefore's, what's, and I-don't-know's of the dayg and after the first semester no one could tell the Jr. Freshmen from the Seniors- except, of course, the Jr. Freshmen themselves Cand probably the Seniorsi. The next year C1945 A.D.-importance in history due to the new freshmenb, the helm of state-steered by Yvonne Schweistris, President, Margaret Self, Vice- presidentg Jean Wrenn-Secretary and Treasurer-headed for fame under the counseling eyes of Mr. Brookbank and Miss Pearson. Mr. Howard put life into this period by organizing a Teen Town Club that wrote its own unique history of fun. Basketball was growing in popularityg in fact, becoming so popular that stu- dents often left their pursuit of knowledge to help the teams overtake the vic- tories. Both the girls' and the boys, teams won county championships this yearg and Emily Carter and Lydia Moody, sole freshmen on the girls' team, began their athletic careers. So another age had come and vanished before anyone could imagine it. With a vivacious attitude toward life and a malicious look toward books, the fresh- men rippled on to a new age-the Renaissance! PART III Ancient History: The Renaissance The day dawned bright and clear over S. C. H. S. Mr. Howard and Mrs. Hardee were fortunate C? J. They-with Frank Fields as President, Lydia Moody as Vice- president, and Dempsey McLeod as Secretary-helped the sophomores force their way into the destiny of the school. The football team wrote their history in Red and White by winning the Class B championship at Draper. Richard Siler and Herman Kennedy were on the 15

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Emma Ruth Darden, editor-in-chief of the SENIOROGUE, and Miss Holleman, one of the best of teachers and counselors, glittered in the Coronet too. The coming and going of the football and basketball seasons found it almost time to close its picturesque pages. The Red Raiders on roll: Richard Siler, Herman Kennedy, B. J. Daurity, Billy Phillips, Harold Wicker, Junior Presnell, Emily Carter, Lydia Moody, Janice Alexander, lmojean Presnell, and Doris Davis. All added 'tFinis to their brilliant school career in sports. The Junior-Senior Banquet, splendid and impressive, made the seniors realize that their pageant at S. C. H. S. was almost done. Then deliriously following, the Senior Play was selected, practiced, given. Slowly, but steadily, the calendar was losing its days. The Recessional at the graduation wasn't unlike the procession years before- except this night, caps and gowns and diplomas and dignity replaced ignorance and pep and self-importance, for the Crusaders knew that soon they would shed their caps, roll up their sleeves, and take Knowledge to penetrate the Hunpene- trablei' darkness of the Future-a big and serious undertaking even for the cru- saders. The pageant has wound itself through another volume of history. Examina- tions are overg Life has begun. They say that history repeats itself. I can't help but wonder if the next crusade-not through the halls of S. C. H. S., but through the corridors of Time-will be more beautiful, more dynamic than this? Who dares to set a limit to the possibilities of an illimitable Future? MARGARET SELF, Class Historian. dull! The sunset's gone, the dawn now nears, Just yesterday, those twelve long years! We workedg we tried, and now it's done, We've labored hard, but it was fun. The path along the way was lined With white and red, for soul and mind. If the future path is black or gray, Turn it into a brighter way. If cloudy, clear away the cloud, Be worth the pride if you are proud, The future holds for us great things, Time is a servant, use what it brings Look ahead! Weep not o'er scars To make it written in the stars. Accomplishments-That's a sign That we're the class of 49. DoRIs DAVIS-Class Poet. 17