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

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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

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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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626144 pl'0plleCy Scene: Studio B of Station SAPS, Washington, D. C. Time: Any time a good fifteen years from now. And also time to go on the air. Characters: One broken down newscaster muttering and stuttering the latest unconfirmed rumors. First, Last, and Only Broadcast The following program is electrically transcribed. Station SAPS, Washington, D. C. Eastern Standard time, 7:30. PF fi ik wk lk ik Good evening, everyone. This is your early evening reporter with ten minutes of the lastest news, brought to you through the courtesy of Doris Davis's Dandy Diner, the largest chain restaurant east of the Mississippi. Oh, hang the com- mercial, on with the news. Vienna, Austria-Famed pianists, Jean Wrenn and Betty Lou Wright, confessed today to the murder of Tschaikowsky's Fifth Symphony. It just had too many sharps, said Miss Wrenn. And flats, added Miss Wright. Baltimore, Maryland-Doctor Margaret Self of Johns Hopkins Hospital an- nounced today that she and her nurse, Frances Elkins, had, after lengthy examina- tion, reached the conclusion that Junior Presnell was truly the wise old owl. When informed of Doctor Self's findings, Presnell, who is manager of the new Perry's Department Store in Atlanta, Ga., commented I don't give a hoot. Denver, Colorado-The Women's Temperance Union, headed by spinsters Nancy Freeman and Faydeene Richardson, has asked scoutmaster B. J. Daurity to use his troop in tracking down a pair of moonshiners who are holed up in Cripple Creek. Sheriff Ted Elkins identified the two as Clifford CBad Boy! Back and Alvis CAD OlConnor. Greensboro, N. C.-Misses Emily Carter and Imojean Presnell, physical edu- cation instructor and history teacher respectively, of N. C. Woman's College left today for a vacation in upper Lower Slobovia. They will be joined shortly by Miss Janice Alexander, head of the Departmen-t of English at Greensboro College. Los Angeles, California-Poultry owner Lloyd Thompson was convicted today of selling rotten eggs to actress Dot Stone. After the trial not a peep was heard from Thompson. San Francisco, California-Glamor Magazine's Miss Sophisticates of 1964, Ruth Elder and Kay Pullen, called on fashion designer Sara Huddleston today only 18