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

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CLASS HISTORY It has been said that history repeats itself, and in order to know what is go- ing to happen in the future, we must know the past. Starting in 1943, a familiar war year, the first seven years of our school work went by rather quickly. In the eighth grade we combined with the Henry Siler School eighth grade under the instruction of Miss Smith and Miss Mvilliken, who prepared us for the coming four years of high school. Then we were ready for the more advanced and painstaking work. We felt as though we could move mountains, for the words “High School sounded so big. Mrs. Foust and Mr. Alston were our homeroom teachers in the ninth grade, and our class officers were Marie Pritchard, President; Carolyn Beaty, Secretary; and Marion Dixon and Jimmy Thomas, Treasurers. In the speaking contest for the American Legion there was one representative from our class, Robert Taylor. Those participating in sports from our green year were: Rosa Ruth Frazier and Jackie Staunton in basketball; Frank Clark, Richard Clapp, Gerald Phillips, Jackie Staunton, Edd Stone, and Billy Cockman, in baseball. Altogether, this was a challenging year— partly because it was our first year in high school, but we felt that we were really on our way. After several weeks of summer vacation, we began our tenth year. We were no longer green freshmen, but silly sophomores. Under the leadership of our teachers and class officers, Jimmy Thomas, President; Jerry Pickard, Vice Presi- dent; Rosa Ruth Frazier, Secretary; and Robert Reid, Treasurer, we advanced with much success (to our way of thinking). Our boys ' basketball team won the Chatham County Championship that year and the girls lost to Silk Hope in the finals. Those taking part in sports from our class that year were Rosa Ruth Fra- zier, Marie Pritchard, Jackie Staunton, Sonny Resch, and Eddie Roberts in basket- ball; Eddie Roberts, Richard Clapp, and Gerald Phillips in football; and in baseball Bobby Setzer, Gerald Phillips, and Jackie Staunton.