Smithfield High School - Shield Yearbook (Smithfield, NC)

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Blanche Gold Woody Bill They smile that win. Blanche has a happy disposition and always wears a smile on her face. She is loved by all the class and is ready at any time to help in any way possible in the class activities. She is art Editor of The Eagle and gives promise of an art career. Annual Staff 4; Basketball 3, 4; Dramatic Club 4 ; Secretary-Treasurer Basketball team 4 ; North Carolina Club 4 ; Literary Societv 4 ; Current Events Club 4, James Thomas Uzzle Jim Oh how I hate to get uj) in the morning. Jim has been a great addition to our class. AVhat could we have done without liim and his bus ? He is a great lover of athletics and has won fame both is basketball and in football this year. Jim is one of these go-easy type of fellows and is never seen in a hurry. Football 4; Basketball 4; Baseball 4; Monogram Club 4; North Caro ' ina Club 4: Literary Club 4; Current Events Club 4. 1 T w e nt ij -nine

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Lela Ronena Talton Virginia LeMay Williamson Bill Glnnie Silence is more musical than any song. Lela is a very quiet kind oi girl, but has made many friends among her classmates. She has been with the class of ' 26 for only one year. She has been a great addition to the class and we feel as if we could not do without her. Dramatic Club 4; Basketball 4; Glee Club 4; North Carolina Club 4; Literary Society 4; Current Events Club 4. Day by day. in every xoay. she gets wiser, and imser. The most studious in the class, Virginia is popular with both e ' assmat-es and teachers. If any task is assigned her, every one knows it will be done. Dependability is one of her splendid characteristics. She is associate editor of The Eagle, and is publicity editor for the entire high school. Chairman Publicity Committee 4 ; Annual Staff 4; Glee Club 2; Music Club 3; Basketball 2; T. M. S. Club 4; North Carolina Club 4; Literary Society 4 ; Current Events Club 4. Ralph Wingiate Talton Stacomb ' ' He ivho fights and fights in play May live to fight another day. ' ' Stacomb, or as some know him, Bloody, is quite popular in our class as a sheik. His hair is always slicked back and shining with Stacomb. Ealph is also known on the athletic field as a very good football player. Football 3. 4; Baseball 3, 4; Dramatic Club 3, 4; Glee Club 3, 4; Monogram Club 4; North Carolina Chib 4; Literai-j ' Club 4; Current Events Club 4.

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History of Class of ' 26 ' 23 HEN, we entered liigh school in 1923 we also enteved a new and beautiful T f building. Owing to this fact and to the fact that we were, for the first year, under the guidance of Mrs. R. B. John and Mr. Charles Park, we had a hopeful start in our high school career. When Freshmen, our class, of ninety- eight students, was divided, with Mrs. John teaching the girls and Mr. Park the boys. All this year while Mrs. John strove earnestly and tirelessly to teach us the fundamentals of English, Miss Evelyn Wilson faced the hard task of teaching us Latin. Mrs. Thomas H. Franks, who was our Math teacher throughout high school, laid in our minds the foundation of all our future work in this fascinating study. The year passed happily and peacefully with one exception — the girls will always feel that they were treated unjustly when th ey Avere compelled to mem- orize Thanatopsis and the boys were not. Forty-eight students entered the Sophomore Class, all of whom were delighted to find that Mrs. Franks was to be their home teacher and that Miss Wilson was to be with us again. We had two new teachers. Miss Mildred Goode and Miss Clara Brawley, both of whom we soon learned to love and respect. They worked faithfully with us, and though Miss Brawley constantly and truthfully declared that we were absolutely ignorant on the subject of history, she labored so diligently, that after a while she could detect some faint glimmering of knowledge in our poor little brains. At the last of the session it was riunored that Mrs. Franks was not going to teach the next year. Such distress ! We were all cast down by the very thought. We could only hope the rumor was untriie. Such joy when we found that Mrs. Franks had returned and, as our home teacher, would pilot us safely through our Junior year. Each day that she had been with us we loved her more and more. We knew that such a friend as she was seldom found. We realized that she would make us walk the straight and narrow way, but we gladly followed her because shei always stayed with us through thick and thin. Miss Sue Brett, our English teacher, did all in her power to help us in everything we undertook. We will never forget her. ' 24 ' 25 Thirty