Smithfield High School - Shield Yearbook (Smithfield, NC)

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x ' ►we A w? . ' ' ' or 7y ' ■ii„j: ' ' ' oh, 5) .ynea Oin, to I Honor ftoi . ' ' month 0 V- ' ■ diinW JPei ' a Sanded r ' o ?ton fv ' ' GrS « Steves ' : ' a«ie HodeoD M Hood fj , darirood, Pear p j ; t7 V r Z ' , ' ' °- ' 4 o ' ' ' ' ' ' e 7 ft Of ' « % 0 e ' OUR FIFTY YEARS Today, we as seniors are proud of our school, but how often do we think back through the years of all the planning and work that went into making it what it is today. The real beginning of our school was a small two-room building on the East side of First Street near the present site of the Primitive Baptist Church. At that time the school was known as Smithfield Collegiate Institute. It was here, in 1886, that Prof. Ira T. Turlington, who became Superintendent of Johnston County Schools in 1884, united with Prof. J. L. Davis and began to write the early chapters in the history of Smithfield School. In 1891 Prof. Turlington founded Turlington Institute and erected what was then termed a large commodious wooden building consisting of four classrooms and an auditorium. Here began 20 years of concentrated effort on the part of Prof. Turlington and his wife, Hortense Rose Turlington, whose abHities in her field of English and related subjects distinguished her as a great pioneer spirit in the field of education. Twelve years later, in 1903, the onrushing 20th century wrought the first change. The Smithfield School District Committee, E. W. Pou, T. R. Hood and James W. Wellons, purchased Turlington Insti- tute and began preparations for a graded school. Prof. R. A. Merritt served as Superintendent of Tur- lington Graded School from 1903 until 1906. In 1906 Mr. Turlington resigned as County Superintend- ent of Schools and resumed charge of the graded school. By the time he left in 191 1 enrollment had climbed to 237 and the physical plant had expanded to a seven-room building. In 1911 Adolph Vermont was elected Superintendent of Smithfield Graded School. Under Mr. Vermont ' s administration the 11th grade was added and in 1911 the first class completing this grade was graduated. There were seven members. Also m 191 1 a petition for bonds was granted in order to erect a modern brick building. Construction was begun in 1911 and completed in 1912. This building comprises part of the present high school structure. H. B. Marrow succeeded Mr. Vermont in 1917. During the four years of Mr. Marrow ' s superin- tendency the number of students increased so rapidly that a new building was necessary to afford them proper training. Bonds were issued in 1921. Mr. Marrow became County Superintendent in this same year and Thomas H. Franks was elected his successor. In 1922 the present elementary building was completed. It was also during this period that the county began to bring in, by busses, children from the rural districts. N. C. Shuford was elected Superintendent of Smithfield School in 1925. The school sur- rendered its special charter on July 1 , 1927 and became a part of the county system. Principal Nathan Womack took over in 1931 and served as administrator for two years. OF PROGRESS The present principal, A. G. Glenn, came to lead the Smithfield School in 1933. Enrollment that year was 1255 with 31 teachers. Two decades have since passed— years filled with many additions to the curriculum — a period marked by building expansion to meet the needs of a growing Smithfield. In 1937 home economics was put into the curriculum, and for the first time a full-time public school music and glee club directo, as employed. A regular elementary librarian was secured in 1943, a year which saw the ninth month added by the state. The following year the 12th grade was instituted by the state. Physical education became a part of the school ' s program in 1947, and in 1951 a band director was added to the music department. The physical plant began to expand in 19 ' !8 with the addition of a central heating plant. In this same year a communications and public address system was installed, further adding to efficiency of operation. The completion of a new high school wing in 1949 gave us not only additional classrooms, ut also a modern cafeteria with a seating capacity of 300, a large library, a science laboratory, a com- mercial department and rest rooms. The most recent addition to the school plant is an eight-room annex to the elementary building completed this spring— the latest in primary school architecture. Present ' nr liment of Smithfield School is 1600 with a faculty of 54 members, including three piano teachers. Our school has grown through the years. As our community has expanded classrooms have been added to take care of increased enrollment. The faculty has been strengthened by the addition of se- lected personnel in new fields, to meet the ever broadening demands of an ever awakening public. But It is not for this journey with progress alone that we are most proud. Rather it is the realiza- tion that Smithfield School was founded on the fundamental truths of education. Scholarship and academic achievement, along with cultural pursuits, have been at all times foremost in the program of our community ' s school. Intellectual development has characterized the lives of the hundreds of seniors who have gone before us. Our graduates have become prominent in the fields of education, religion, law, medicine dentistry pharmacy, optometry, journalism, engineering, and the business, industrial, and farming world ' Standing high among them are Rhodes Scholars Col. Oscar Rand (1903) and Edgar Turlington (191 1 ). But of equal stature are those who, influenced by their training in Smithfield School and pointed along the path by competent leaders, have made it their responsibility to see that Smithfield School continues to be a guiding light in its community; that its program of leadership and scholarship hold true to the heritage of the past. For that we are proud and humbly grateful. May our class hold high their banner of achievement Page 3 Ira Thomas Turlington IN APP IRA THOMAS TURLINGTON (1859 - 1918) An opportunity to pay tribute to the memory of Professor Ira T. Turlington is welcome indeed. Much time has elapsed since I last saw him, and more since I sat in his classroom. Yet the impressions of him formed long ago have but little dimmed with the passing years. Moving to Smithfield in boyhood, I was soon enrolled in Turlington Institute and for several years v as in almost daily contact with Pro- fessor Turlington. I learned to like him for his fairness, to esteem him for his kindness, to respect him for his firmness, and to admire him for his ability and integrity. By precept and example he sought to inculcate high ideals in the young people under his charge. His influence endures in the lives of those whom he taught, and his community and state are richer because of his life and work. Colonel Oscar R. Rand, U.S.A., Retired. Washington, D. C. (Member first graduating class of Smithfield Graded School) IRA THOMAS TURLINGTON I saw him first at Turlington Institute in 1901, when I was a boy of five and he was a man of forty. I saw him last in 191 1 on the platform of Turlington Graded School in the closing chapel exer- cises of the year. I grew up under his influence in the school and on the school grounds, and studied under his teaching in the eighth grade Latin class. I have forgotten the Latin, but not the man who taught It, nor the personality, character, and painstaking thoroughness which came to his students through the interstices of Latin grammar. His name was a household word in my family, in the town of Smithfield and the county of Johnston, and in the surrounding territory in eastern North Carolina from which his students came. His life out- lived his body, as succeeding teachers continued his schooling principles, as school boards settled many a problem of educational policy by recalling what Ira Turlington had said, as his students named their children for him a generation after he had gone with a silent prayer that they might grow up in his image and likeness. He was born in 1859 and grew up in the Pleasant Hill community in Johnston County in the days of Civil War and reconstruction, went to the University of North Carolina in 1879, graduated in 1883, went back home to plow his own life into the lives of his fellow citizens in the belief that men and women can not only lift themselves by their own bootstraps but they can not lift themselves in any other way; and at the end of a lifetime looked back upon his pioneering labors with the heart lifting assurance that a prophet is not always without honor in his own country and among his own people. If Aycock, Alderman, Mclver, and Joyner at the turn of the century could go forward in a state- wide program of education for all the children of all the people, it was because they were standing on the shoulders of men like Ira Turlington who for a generation had planted their lives in a thousand com- munities throughout the land and laid the foundations of life more abundant in North Carolina. INSTITUTE OF GOVERNMENT The University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Albert Coates, Director Page 4 ECIATTON HENRY BURWELL MARROW The class of 1953 should be commended for setting down in black and white, before it is gone and forgotten, the history of the first half century of public schools in Smithfield. My class was enrolled in 1912 and graduated in 1923, so the half dozen of us who stayed on the treadmill for the full cycle had contact with one of the five decades now being chronicled. We were the first class to begin our schooling in the new brick building that was erected on the site of the wooden monstrosity which had housed Turlington Institute. As a matter of fact, at the time of our matriculation the new building had not been entirely finished and for a few initial weeks we wrestled with our ABC ' s in a second-floor room above a grocery store on the north side of Market Street. Eleven years later we were the first class to be graduated from the high school building. While these two firsts do not particularly burden us with fame they do show that our class was to a degree a link between the old and the new in the educational life of Smithfield. When we were first graders people were still coming to town once a year, in huge numbers, mainly by horse and buggy, to decorate the graves of the Confederate dead. And when we graduated our valedictorian was quoting a World War I poem beginning, In Flanders fields. . . All this is put down here not to suggest that we were anything extraordinary but rather to indicate which was our era. That is necessary in order to come to the point I wish to make— simply, that in our times, that transitional decade between the old and the new, the one man most responsible for educa- tional progress in Smithfield was Henry B. Marrow. I doubt that this statement will be challenged by anyone who was familiar with conditions in the Smithfield School when Mr. Marrow arrived around 1916 and when he moved on to head the county schools around 1922. If anything, my statement is too obvious. Somewhere in this volume there is, perhaps, a detailed record of the advances made by the schools under Mr. Marrow. However, records rarely convey the intangibles. Call it spirit, tone or mood, there was a considerable change under Mr. Marrow. When a long heat spell is broken the weather records show that at Henry Burwell Marrow such and such an hour the mercury dropped so many degrees. But what the persons on the spot at the time recall, the persons who had waited and waitecfand waited for relief to come, is that a cool refreshing breeze swept over the land. Educationally, Henry B. Marrow was such a breeze. The years dim our memory of precisely how many degrees the educa- tional mercury changed, but we do vividly recall how he invigorated us all. DON WHARTON 24 Gra mercy Park New York HISTORIANS OF OUR TIME MRS. A. G. GLENN English, Speech MR. ROY J. BROWN History, Coach MR. OSCAR BRANNAN Algebra MRS. MARY SPHANGOS English, French MISS MARY TAYLOR Science MRS. ELIZABETH LIDE Commercial MISS RUBY LANGFORD Mathematics, Geography MISS INEZ WANNAMAKER Latin, English MR. A. G. GLENN Principal MRS. MILDRED BELL Librarian, English MRS. RAMONA CASH Home Economics MISS JANE LEWIS English, History SENIORS MYRA BARBOUR She speaks a kind word io everyone And really does have lots of fun. Selma High School 1, 2; Commercial Club 3; Jr. Play Ticket Com- mittee 3; Decorating Committee Jr.-Sr. 3; Basketball 3, 4; Handi- craft Club 4; Chairman Cap and Gown Committee 4. EDWARD AMEN BAROODY A merry heart doeth good like a medicine. Career Club 1; Sportsmanship Brotherhood Club 2; Jr.-Sr. Waiter 2; Etiquette Club, President 3; The Little Dog Laughed 3; Jour- nalism Club 3; Hobby Club, President 4; Play Committee 4. WILBERT WORTH BLACKMAN Much wisdom often goes with fewest words. Sportsmanship Brotherhood Club 1; Wildlife Club 2; Self-Improve- ment Club 3; Marshal 3; Football 3, 4; Forum Club, Reporter 4; Editorial Staff The Shield 4. BEHY LOUISE BRASWELL Silence accomplishes much that noise cannot. Newport News High School 1; Etiquette Club 2; Commercial Club 3, 4; Cap and Gown Committee 4. ALICE RUTH BYRD To make the world a friendly place. She shows to it a friendly face. Library Club 1; Journalism Club 2; Photography Club 3; Menu Committee Jr.-Sr. 3; Marshal 3; Handicraft Club, Vice-President 4; Invitation Committee 4; High Times Typist 4. JERRY D. CLIFTON Men of few words are the best men. Cleveland High School 1, 2; 4-H Club 3; Baseball 3; Jr.-Sr. Plan- ning Committee 4; Glee Club 4; Cap and Gown Committee 4; Commercial Club, Vice-President 4; Monogram Club 4. BARBARA REE COCKRELL Very little is needed to make a happy life. 4-H Club 1; Career Club 2; Needlecraft Club 3; Menu Committee Jr.-Sr. 3; Dramatic Club 4; Invitation Committee 4. CURTISS WILSON DAUGHTRY Always jolly and carefree Life may be dull but never he. Journalism Club 1, 2; Glee Club 1; Jr.-Sr. Waiter 2; Bond 1, 2, 3, 4; Football 1, 2, 3, 4; Basketball 2, 3, 4; Baseball 3, 4; Marshal 3; The Little Dog Laughed 3; Art Editor High Times 3; Giftorian Jr.-Sr. 3; Monogram Club 3, 4; Music Club 3, 4; Social Committee 1; Editor-in-Chief The Shield 4. VARTAN AMBAR DAVIDIAN, JR. Others share with thee knowledge, but Art, O Man, is thine alone. Journalism Club 1, 2; Band 1, 2, 3, 4; Art Editor High Times 3; The Little Dog Laughed 3; Marshal 3; Giftorian Jr.-Sr. 3; Music Club 3, President 4; Art Editor The Shield 4; School Photog- rapher 4; Social Committee 4. SENIORS BEHY FAY DAVIS None so knowing as she. 4-H Club 1; Journalism Club 2; Art Club 3; Winner French I State Contest 3; Menu Committee Jr.-Sr. 3; Class Treasurer 4; High Times Exchange Editor 4; Ring Committee 4. JEAN CLAIR DAY Fair to look upon but better to know. Hobby Club 1; Art Club 2, 3; Jr.-Sr. Waitress 2; Glee Club 1, 2, 3; Decorating Committee Jr.-Sr. 3; Make-up Committee Jr. Play 3; Dramatics Club, Secretary-Treasurer 4; Advertising StafF The Shield 4; Ring Committee 4. JACKIE VIOLEIGH ENNIS A friendly girl in every way. Who makes the most of every day. Hobby Club 1; Career Club 2; Art Club 3; Chairman Menu Com- mittee Jr.-Sr. 3; Senior Play Committee 4; Advertising StafF The Shield 4. AAARY EDNA GRIMES Her beauty makes this vault a feasting presence full of light Class President 1; Hobby Club, Vice-President 1; Class Treasurer 2; Jr.-Sr. Waitress 2; Glee Club 1, 2, 3, President 4; Basketball 1, 2, 3, Captain 4; Journalism Club 2, Vice-President 3, President 4; Class Secretary 3; The Little Dog Laughed 3; Monogram Club 2, Secretary 3, President 4; Marshal 3; High Times StafF 3, 4; Class Vice-President 4; Editorial Staff The Shield 4. GAIL MARIE HATHAWAY ' Tis good to live and learn. Hobby Club, Reporter 1; Art Club 2, 3; Chairman Table Arrange- ment Committee Jr.-Sr. 3; Advertising Committee The Little Dog Laughed 3; Commercial Club, Secretary-Treasurer 4; Business Staff The Shield 4; Mascot Committee 4. WALTER JONES HUNTLEY III A noble man is led far by woman ' s gentle words. Journalism Club 1, Secretary 2; Jr.-Sr. Waiter 2; Band 1, 2, Pub- licity Chairman 3, President 4; Band Clinic 3; Marshal 3; The Little Dog Laughed 3; Ring Commiteee 4; Business StafF The Shield 4. JUNIUS CARNEGIE JOHNSON Always a dependable worker. He could inspire any shirker. Sportsmanship Brotherhood Club 1; Manager Football Teom 1; Manager Baseball Team 1; Monogram Club 1, 2, 3, 4; Journalism ' Club 2; Self-Improvement Club 3; Program Committee Jr.-Sr. 3; Commercial Club, Program Chairman 4; Invitation Committee 4- Business Staff The Shield 4. DOROTHY JEAN JOHNSON With the mind of a scholar, the touch of an artist. She doesn ' t lack much of being the smartest. Library Club 1; Manager Magazine Campaign 2; Journalism Club 2, 3, 4; Glee Club 1, 2, 3, 4; The Little Dog Laughed 3; Chair- man Decorating Committee Jr.-Sr. 3; Marshal 3; Art Editor High clT ' . ' j ' Social Committee 4; Assistant Editor The Shield 4. JO ANN JACQUELIN JOHNSON Brunette, petite, pretty, and sweet She isn ' t likely to be beat. Library Club, Vice-President 1; Etiquette Club 2; Needlecraft Club 3; Jr.-Sr. Place Card Committee 3; Jr. Play Ticket Committee 3; Class Secretary 4; Mascott Committee 4; Handicraft Club, Re- porter 4; High Times Staff 3, 4 SENIORS RALPH NATHAN JOHNSON A man in earnesf finds means. Sportsmanship Brotherhood Club 1; Art Club 2; Glee Club 2; Bond 1, 2, 3, 4; Music Club 3; The Little Dog Laughed 3; Monogram Club 3, 4; Basketball 3, 4; Baseball 3, 4; Chairman Ploy Committee 4; Hobby Club, Treasurer 4; Editorial Staff The Shield 4. ROBERT RAY JOHNSON Jusf the ari of being kind is all this sad world needs. Sportsmanship Brotherhood Club 1; Commercial Club 2, 4, 4-H Club 3; Decorating Committee Jr.-Sr. 3; Jr. Play Committee 3; Cap and Gown Committee 4. BRUCE DELANO JONES All his life seemed to be all in the word ' Music ' . Class President 1; Sportsmanship Club 1; Journalism Club 2; Drum Major 2, 3; Music Club 3; The Little Dog Laughed 3; Decorat- ing Committee Jr.-Sr. 3; Marshal 3; Ring Committee 4; Commercial Club, Reporter 4; High Times Staff 3, 4; Glee Club 1, 2, 3, 4. SHIRLEY MAE JONES As merry as the day is long. Hobby Club 1; Glee Club 1, 2, 3, 4; Journalism Club 2, Reporter 4; Art Club 3; Decorating Committee Jr.-Sr. 3; Cheerleader 3, Chief 4; Monogram Club 3, 4; Sr. Play Committee 4. HAROLD IRVING LANGDON Seek to be good, but aim to be great. 4-H Club 1, Reporter 2, Vice-President and Recreational Leader 3, President and Recreational Leader 4; Band 1, 2, 3, 4; Decorat- ing Committee Jr.-Sr. 3; Social Committee 4. WALTER HAROLD LANGDON When he thinks, he must speak. 4-H Club 1, 3, 4; Etiquette Club 2; Play Committee 4; Bus Driver 4. ALICE MOZELLE LEE Our life is what our thoughts make it Hobby Club 1; Needlecraft Club 2, 3; Chairman Program Com- mittee Jr.-Sr. 3; Dramatics Club 4; Invitation Committee 4. BARBARA WORTH LEE To say well is good. But to do well is better. Home Economics Club, Reporter 1, Secretary 2; Magazine Contest Winner 2; Jr.-Sr. Waitress 2; The Little Dog Laughed 3; Mar- shal 3; Date CommiHee Jr.-Sr. 3; High Times Staff 3, 4; Glee Club 4; Handicraft Club, President 4; Cheerleader 4; Mascot Com- mittee 4; Monogram Club 4. RUPERT BERNARD LEE, JR. We cannot all be masters. Sportsmanship Brotherhood Club 1; Basketball Manager 1; Eti- quette Club 2; Commercial Club 3; Play Committee 3; Planning Committee Jr.-Sr. 3; Hobby Club 4; Cap and Gown Committee 4; Monogram Club 2, 3, 4. SENIORS LUCILE LEE So earnest in her work and fun We know not half the work she ' s done. Library Club 1; Career Club 2; Art Club 3; Menu Committee Jr.- Sr. 3; Dramatics Club 4; Invitation Committee 4. SHIRLEY MASSENGILL The way to have friends is to be one. Home Economics Club 1; Needlecraft Club 2; Commercial Club 3; Place Card Committee Jr.-Sr. 3; The Little Dog Laughed 3; Handicraft Club 4; Ring Committee 4. GEORGE JOHN MEYER, JR. Leave silence to saints, I am but human. Long Branch Junior High School, Long Branch, N. J., 1; Model Airplane Club 2, 3; Football 2, 4; The Little Dog Laughed 3; Decorating Committee Jr.-Sr. 3; Baseball 3, 4; Monogram Club 3, 4; Mascot Committee 4. HAROLD HOOKS MOORE He ' ll make the majors! Sportsmanship Brotherhood Club 1; Journalism Club 2; Self-Im- provement Club 3; Forum Club, Vice-President 4; Monogram Club 1, 2, 3, 4; Baseball 1, 2, 3, Captain 4; Basketball 2, 3, Captain 4; Football 3, 4; Marshal 3; Chairman Ring Committee 4; Editorial Staff The Shield 4. MARY REICH MOORE She ' s little but she ' s wise; She ' s a terror for her size. Hobby Club 1; Glee Club 1, 2, 3, 4; Journalism Club 2, 4; Music Club 3; Chairman Jr. Play Committee 3; Decorating Committee Jr.-Sr. 3; Ring Committee 4. MARGIE LEE MORGAN She has that gift of gifts. That of making friends. 4-H Club 1; Needlecraft Club 2; The Little Dog Laughed 3; Home Economics Club, Vice-President 3; Band 3; Business Staff The Shield 4; Dramatics Club 4; Mascot Committee 4. DAISY DEAN NEIGHBOURS The Rose has but a summer-reign. The Daisy never dies. Library Club 1; Journalism Club 2, 3; Glee Club 1, 2, 3, 4; Mar- shal 3; The Little Dog Laughed 3; High Times Staff 3, 4; Commercial Club, President 4; Editorial Staff The Shield 4; Ring Committee 4. MARGARET LEE OVERBEE Life is what we make it. Library Club 1; Etiquette Club 2; Commercial Club 3, 4; Cap and Gown Committee 4. ELMER LEON OWENS Athletic, friendly, and kind. Another like him you ' ll never find. Sportsmanship Brotherhood Club 1; Etiquette Club 2; Jr.-Sr. Waiter 2; Commercial Club, Treasurer 3; Decorating Committee Jr.-Sr. 3; Football 1, 2, 3, Co-Captain 4; Basketball 2, 3, 4; Base- ball 3, 4; Glee Club 2, 4; Monogram Club 2, 3, 4; Mascot Com- mittee 4; Forum Club, President 4. SENIORS EDWARD SIMPSON PADDISON All the world loves a lover. Carlisle Military School 1; Class President 2; Model Airplane Club 2; Jr.-Sr. Waiter 2; Art Club, President 3; Dramatics Club, Presi- dent 4; Football 2, 3, 4; Monogram Club 3, 4. LULA FRANCES PEEDIN ' There are some defeats More triumphant than victories. Library Club 1, President 4; Commercial Club 2; Basketball 1, 2, 3, 4; Home Economics Club, Treasurer 3; Entertainment Commit- tee Jr.-Sr. 3; Monogram Club 3, 4; Ring Committee 4; Business Staff The Shield 4. OSCAR ALLEN SANDERS Silence never yet betrayed anyone. 4-H Club 1, 3, 4; Sports Club 2; Table Service Committee Jr.-Sr. 3; Mascot Committee 4; Art Editor High Times 4. AAARGARET STUART SANDERS A v illing heart, attractive grace, A charming girl Yfith a dimpled face. Home Economics Club 1; Art Club, Secretary 2; Magazine Con- test Winner 2; Glee Club 1, 2, 3, Secretary 4; The Little Dog Laughed 3; Marshal 3; Dance Committee Jr.-Sr. 3; Journalism Club 3, 4; Basketball 3, 4; Mascot Committee 4; Business Staff The Shield 4; Monogram Club 4. MARY ELLINGTON SMITHWICK If she says she will, you may depend upon it. Class Secretory 1, 2; Home Economics Club, Vice-President 1; Vice-President Art Club 2, 3; The Little Dog Laughed 3; Chair- man Dance Committee Jr.-Sr. 3; Marshal 3; Journalism Club, Sec- retary 4; High Times Staff 4; Art Editor The Shield 4; Chair- man Mascot CommiHee 4; Cheerleader 3, 4; Monogram Club 3 4- Glee Club 1, 2, 3, Publicity Cha irmon 4. WILLIAM GRAY STARLING A leader, but more than that, a friend. Class President 1, 2, 3, 4; Sportsmanship Brotherhood Club 1- Journalism Club 2; Jr.-Sr. Waiter 2; Band 1, 2, 3, 4; Music Club 3, 4; The Little Dog Laughed 3; Chief Marshal 3; Monogram Club 2, 3, 4; Basketball 3, 4; Football 2, 3, Co-Captain 4; Busi- ness Manager The Shield 4; Winner Woke Forest Honor Schol- arship 4. JANICE LOUISE STEPHENSON May she always be the same. Changing nothing but her name. Library Club, Treasurer 1; Etiquette Club 2; 4-H Club 3- Enter- tainment Committee Jr.-Sr. 3; High Times Typist 3, 4; Ring Committee 4; Commercial Club 4. JO EVELYN UNDERWOOD She is like an April shower — Full of fun and lots of laughter. Hobby Club 1; Art Club 2; Music Club 3; Glee Club 1, 2- Band Librartan 3, 4; Invitation Committee Jr.-Sr. 3; Assistant Director lu cL. Laughed 3; Ring Committee 4; Business StofF PATSY JANE VINSON Quiet, gentle, and refined. Always thoughtful, and very kind. Hobby Club 1; Etiquette Club 2; Program and Invitation Com- mittee Jr.-Sr. 3; Commerciol Club 3, 4; High Times Typist 3 4- Invitation Committee 4. SENIORS ELINOR LUCILE WALLACE Liffle in size, buf so friendly and wise. Home Economics Club, Vice-President 1; Journalism, Reporter 2, 3, Vice-President 4; Glee Club 1, 2, 3, Vice-President 4; Jr.-Sr. Waitress 2; Magazine Contest Winner 2; Majorette 2, 3, 4; Cfiair- man Entertainment Committee Jr.-Sr. 3; The Little Dog Laughed 3; Marshal 3; High Times Staff 3, Editor 4; Editorial Staff The Shield 4. NELL ROSE WALLACE In every activiiy you can depend upon her to do her part well. Journalism Club 1, 2, Program Chairman 3, 4; Jr.-Sr. Waitress 2; World Peace Speaking Award 2; Magazine Contest Winner 2; The Little Dog Laughed 3; Marshal 3; High Times Staff 3; Entertainment Committee Jr.-Sr. 3; Majorette 1, 2, 3, 4; Glee Club 2, 3, 4; Advertising Manager The Shield 4. PEGGY JOYCE WHITEHURST A smile is the whisper of a laugh. Library Club 1; Journalism Club 2; Glee Club 2; Commercial Club 3; Decorating CommlHee Jr.-Sr. 3; Handicraft Club 4; Cap and Gown Committee 4. DENNIS MARSHALL WHITLEY A silent address is the genuine eloquence of sincerity. 4-H Club 1; Model Airplane Club 2, 3; Basketball 1, 2; Football 1, 2; Decorating Committee Jr.-Sr. 3; Social Committee 4; Hobby Club, Vice-President 4. FRANCES LAVERNE WHITLEY You never can imagine what she has on her mind, ' Cause she ' s the timid quiet kind. Library Club 1; Etiquette Club 2; Ticket Committee Jr. Play 3; 4-H Club 3; Handicraft Club 4; Play Committee 4. REBECCA ANN WHITLEY She certainly has a winning way She ' s always something nice to say. 4-H Club 1; Needlecraft Club 2; Photography Club 3; Food Com- mittee Jr.-Sr. 3; Ticket Committee Jr. Play 3; Play Committee 3 4- High Times Typist 3, 4; Commercial Club 4; Business Staff The Shield 4. MASCOTS DEBRA LA ' WSON JOHN BOYETTE =4Wy ggj AROUND ®f ni ' if ' ' ' ' MOST POPULAR f WaLLacz J an don BEST LOOKING MOST AMBITIOUS _ .££ y.on£.i. Curtiss Daughtry, Editor-in-Chief, breathes a sigh of relief as he writes the final mes- sage to Paragon Press. Dorothy Johnson, Assistant Editor, waits to help tie the pack- age for mailing. We are proud to present this 1953 Shield. Our book represents the half-century growth of the Smithfield Graded School that has made our Alma Mater what she is — growth brought about by countless people, organizations, and experiences . . . EDITOR EDITORIAL STAFF Mary Smithwick says to Art Co-Editor Vartan Davidian, Why didn ' t we ask Mr. Biackwell about this drawing? THE SHI Snapshot Editors Mary Edna Grimes (left) and Elinor Wallace (right) find it easy to make these pictures fit. They just crop ' em off. COPY EDITORS Copy Editors Dennis Whitley, Daisy Neighbors, and Wilbert Blackman proof-read the copy as Harold Moore and Ralph Johnson pound away on those typewriters. Advertising Manager Nell Rose Wallar- and Business Manager Bill Starling smi ' when the budget balances. ELD Mrs. A. G. Glenn, Adviser to The Shield does careful checking on the final dummy copy. Our book symbolizes all those boundless aspirations and laborious undertakings which had their be- ginnings fifty years ago. It is a token of our appreciation of our school heritage. . . . EDITOR 1953 High Salesmen Harold Langdon and Watt Huntley (right) did a remarkable job in soliciting advertising. ADVERTISING STAFF Sie MLTn ' plt ' f ' 7 ' ' ' A l • ' 8 ' % ' ° ' f ' ' S - Hathaway, Rebecca Whit- i d Frances eelfn stanlg ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ° ' ' ' ' ' ' --O ' ' - The Edwin Smith Pou Award was started in 1919 by Congressman Edward W, Pou in memory of his son, Edwin Smith Pou, who died in the discharge of his duty in France, on October 28, 1918. Until 1931 , the Award was in the form of a medal. It was changed at this time to a $50.00 cash Award. In 1937, it was changed back to a medal. Until 1933, the Award was given to the member of the graduating class who had made the highest scholastic average during the four years of high school work. At this time, a change was made to the effect that the Award would be made to the most outstanding member of the graduating class. In de- termining the winner, scholarship, leadership, personality, attitude, and interest in the extra-curricular activities of the school were to be the chief qualities to be considered. The winners of the Award to date are as follows: 1919 Rachel Jordan 1920 Solon Cotton 1921 Benton Wharton 1922 Edward Patterson 1923 Donnell Wharton 1924 Gilmer Wharton 1925 Worth Boyette 1926 Ellen Patterson 1 2 Cora Creech 1 28 John Arthur Wallace 29 Daisy Young 1 ° Isabel Morgan 1 931 Margaret Edmundson j Lucile Batts and Julia Zaidy (tied) ]934 Mary Smith Mary Medlin Doris Coltrane 1936 Eloise Parrish 1937 Jane Parker 1938 St. Clair Pugh 1939 Phyllis Parker 1940 Carolyn Lore 1941 Dan Parker 1942 Ann Noble 1943 Mary Elizabeth Thomas 1944 Ruth Muriel Lassiter 1945. . (No graduating class — 12th grade addedJ 1946 Wallace Ashley, Jr. 1947 Daniel Britt 1948 Bobby Pool 1949 , Betty Sugg 1950 Lu Long Ogburn 1951 Julia Allen 1952 Ella Ann Lee JUNIORS George Austin Bobby Baggett Shirley Baker Geraldine Barbour Jean Barbour Letha Barbour Gwyndoline Batten Freddy Blackman Spencer Braswell Cecil Capps Wade Creech Kenneth Crocker Frank Daughtry Faye Davis Alice Dickens Mae Dixon Bobby Godwin Joe Grantham Tommy Hayes Bobby Hill Gene Hill Sarah Hill William Huntley Bette Johnson Norman Johnson Peggy Johnson Phyllis Johnson Eva King Earl Langdon Ann Lee Nancy Lee Mary Catherine Liverman Carolyn Massengi Bill Massey Vera Matthews Barbara Moore Lillian Narron Caroline Osborne Shelva Parrish JUNIORS Burton Stevens Joyce Stevens Robert Strickland Russell Thompson Lola Twigg Rivers Upchurch Dennis Wallace Mike Wallace Patricia Ward Shervi ard Ward Barbara Welch Rudy West SOPHOMORES FRESHMEN SOPHOMORES MISS LANGFORD ' S HOMEROOM: FIRST ROW, left to right; Marvin Bryant, Marie Blackman, Louise Cockrell, Lawanda Langley, Snerry Creech, Melva Ruth Beasley, Mary Ethel Barnjs, Lharles Edwa.ds, bECOND ROW: James Whitehurst, Sher- rill Peterson, Margie Beasley, Jo Ann Coats, Genevieve McLamb, Ju Ann kadfoid, Larry Moseley, Jack Davis; THIRD ROW; Miss Langford, Billy Ra Allen, Pershing Braswell, Harold UnderwoaJ, John Hill, Jackie Bryant, Jerry Joe Stephenson, Pete Peterson; ABStNT; Sherwood Cook, Bobbie Lynn Beasley. 4i A 1 V MISS TAYLOR ' S HOMEROOM: FIRST ROW, left to right; Wynona Sm th, Linda Lee, Dorothy Parker, Charlotte Edwards, Bettie Sue Hamilton, Janet Wall, Mildred Woodard, Joyce King Strickland, Edna Rose Greene, SECO ND ROW; Glenda Davis, Rachel Stevens, Patricia Nichols, Nell Hooks, Dorothy Morgan, Jennie Blow Layne, Brenda Register, Mary Simmons, Shirley Price, Teresa Upchurch; THIRD ROW; Miss Taylor, M. T. Baggett, Lehman Barnes, Monty Montgomery, Aaron Johnson, Fred Hoyt, John Twisdale, Frank Skinner, Steve Upton; ABSENT; Jean Corbett. SOPHOMORES MRS. LIDE ' S HOMEROOM: FIRST ROW, left to right: C. L. Gurganus, Joyce Dupree, Lillian Wallace, Minnie Ann Pilkington, Janice Ford, Sarah Warr, Mary Lou Holmes, Jimmy Moore, SECOi D ROW: Arthur Sellers, Rex Langston. Barbara West, Doris Stanley, Doris Jones, Owen Phillips, Ray Hill; THIRD ROW: Mrs Lide, David Parker, Eugene Whitley, Billy Haire, Bobby Mat- thews, Leon Warren, Joseph Stephenson, Adolph Langston; ABSENT Lossie Holley, Gerald Jones. FRESHMEN MISS WANNAMAKER ' S HOMEROOM: FIRST ROW, left to right: Helen Hood Baker, Sarah Elizabeth Blackman, Betty Jo Watson, Elizabeth Ann Turner, Beverly Whitehurst, Doris Jean Davis, Mary Louise Mo hr, Sharon Daughtry, Pat Lewis, Margaret Ann Sanders, Miss Wannamaker; SECOND ROW: Joe Frank 0 urn, Tony Capps, Marie Davis, Jane Twisdale, Ann Rackley, Patricia Ann Stephenson, Faye Hardee, Louise Stevens, Miriam Humphrey, Billy Blackmon, Johnny Wallace, THIRD ROw ' Harold Lee, Bryan Hill, Bill HoNand. Joe Durwood Creech, Haro ' d King, VirgH Early, Dennis Wiggs, Noble Capps, Charles Heav- ener; ABSENT: Douglas Brantley, Gayle Brown, FRESHMEN MR. BROWN ' S HOMEROOM: FIRST ROW, left to right: Jean Edwards, Cecilia Lee, Myrna Bridgers, Flora Radford, Charles Anderson, Larry Wheeler, George Stephenson, H. B. Strickland, SECOND ROW: Elmarie Johnson, Evelyn Overby, Gladys Coats, Edna Ruth McLamb, Ella Mae Vinson, Dorothy Eascn, Carris Edwards, John Langston, Clifton Faircloth; THIRD ROW: Jimmy Vinson, James Radford, Marvin Taylor, Ronald Coe, Jimmy Stallings, Bobby Stanley, R.H. Lassiter, P. E. Jones, Lawrence Lang- don, Billy Capps, Ernest Gurley, Mr. Brown, ABSENT: Marvin Ennis, Margie Owen, MR. BRANNANS HOMEROOM: FIRST ROW, left to right: G;ne Twisdale, Rose Peterson, Sandra Grumpier Miriam Steven- (x 1 ■ ' ■8 ' ' ' - Austin, Sonja Johnson, Clifton Johnson, Laverle Lee, Ma-gie Faircloth Margie Adams SECOND ROW: Glenn Langdon, Bob Johnson, Bobby Stevenson, Edwin Ncrris, B;n Daughtry, Bobby Coe THIRD ROW ' John Talton Doriald Johnson, Bobby Creech, Frederick Toole, Shirley Woodard, Dora Baker, Faye Cockrell, r e Penny Barbara Ann Davis ' Nelda Godwin, Sandra Ward, Peggy Parker, Rebecca Byrd, Bill Jones Mr Brannan JUNIOR - SENIOR BANQUET yffU DRAMATIZED . . . WE DINED . . WE DANCED . . . HISTORY OF SMITHFIELD-SELMA CAME AND HOMECOMING The Smithfield-Selma football game has become a tradition. The rivalry dates back to 1924 when the two teams met for the first time in competitive 1 1 -man football During 1940-41 the schools fielded six-man teams. They did not meet in the depression years of 1929-32 and in the war years of 1942-44 when inter-scholastic sports were banned in the county. Neither was there a game in 1 925. This year ' s clash marked the 20th annual game. Below is the complete record of Smithfield-Selma scores in 1 1 -man football: SMITHFIELD SELMA SMITHFIELD SELMA 1924 21 0 1939 25 0 1926 19 0 1940 15 0 1927 18 6 1945 14 6 1928 35 0 1946 14 13 1933 28 7 1947 0 31 1934 13 14 1948 6 19 1935 34 0 1949 26 20 1936 39 0 1950 0 51 1937 19 0 1951 31 13 1938 6 0 1952 13 18 For several years the game has been played on Thanksgiving in the Legion Park. It was the Class of 1947 who conceived the idea of Homecoming at this time. Under the leadership of Ann Finch and John Marshall Sasser the seniors acted as official hosts. A pep rally was held on Wednesday evening before the game. Skits, stunts, and novelty numbers along with dancing were planned for Thanksgiving evening with high school classes and alumni participating. It was this year that the Selma Football Team and Senior Class were invited as guests. In 1948 Faye Lee worked with the senior class in plan- ning the affair. The program in 1949 was under the direction of Frankie Finch. It was during this year that the Thanksgiving Morning parade was begun. For the next two years the activities remained practically the same under the leadership of Martha Osborne and Ella Ann Lee. The following pages carry snatches of this year ' s Homecoming. . Page 35 PARADE Cars line up for 10 o ' clock parade on Thanks- giving Morning (upper right). Prize winnir _ car decorated by Ann Lee and ANce Dickens ' right). Sophomores and freshman boys below) do their part in making the arade a success. Pep rally in Court ouse Square (lower right) after arade climaxes in morning program. PLANNING Mrs. A. G. Glenn, senior class sponsor, and Dor- othy Johnson, Chairman Homecoming Activities, make plans for annual Thanksgiving events. CHAPEL PROGRAM Wednesday ' s Chapel marks the beginning. Juniors George Wil- is Austin and Bobby Baggett (upper left) give clever radio skit. Cheer leaders (lower left) take part in program too. THE GAME (Left to Right) Red Devils seem confident as they leave gymnasium for Legion Park. Opposing Yellow Jackets score first touchdown. Smithfield spec- tators look worried. George Meyer runs over for a Smithfield touch- down. Selma stopped momentarily by Red Devils. Students selling souvenirs as the game gets underway. SENIORS DECORATE Creative hands go into action as seniors put final touches on Legion Hut for Homecoming Dance. (Lower Left) Miniature football field with players in position serves as centerpiece for re- freshment table. (Right) Mary Smithwick and Dorothy Johnson complete mantel and piano deco- rations. m DANCE AND ' floor show fj Saddened hearts over loss of I Thanksgiving [■game become ' ■lighter as high school classes and college groups pre- sent sparkling skits in early evening ' s en- tertainment. Late evening finds dance floor crowded with loyal couples who are bound by a strong tie to their Alma Mater. DRAMATIC PRODUCTIONS ONE FOOT IN HEAVEN, Junior Play 1953 PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE LEFT: In dissecting a cow ' s eye Coach Brown ' s Health Class learns more about the human eye. BELOW: Students go all out for their can- didates in November election. BELOW: Freshman boys discuss current topics in CIVICS class. I GO POGD BELOW: Joe Grantham reports on classic in Junior English Class during Book Week. r LEFT: With a Song in My Heart Harold Moore appears on Se- nior Chapel Program. Page 39 LEFT: Another grave senior prob- lem — choosing mas- cots. VI ' ' RIGHT: Mathematics can be perplexing but not to these apt freshmen. LEFT: Mrs. Mildred Bell, librarian, shows James Roberts- how to use Card Catalog. RIGHT: Receiving class rings is just one of the big moments in a senior ' s life. LEFT: Mrs. James Crayton, cafeteria manager, and her competent staff are ready to serve a turkey plate to 900 hungry students. RIGHT: Curtiss Daughtry and Bill Starling discover chem- istry experiments can be fun, but oh, those lab checks that follow. 1 RIGHT: Seniors in S.H.S. , develop a v ide reading range. LEFT: Yes, it ' s going to be a date frock, says Mrs. Ramona Cash, home ec. teacher, to Joyce King Strickland and Edna Rose Greene as she examines pattern. Mm wsmm m m- iiiiii iim ' -mammmiimii-mjiMmmmmimmz.i- i n LEFT: William Huntley gets comfortable to work on that Shakespeare research paper. RIGHT: Senior Bruce Jones finds Principal A. G. Glenn eager to help him choose his- college courses— at Carolina. ABOVE LEFT: Mrs. Sphangos ' seniors study French Phonetics through records of native speeches and (below) dramatize through the use of puppets a French story. RIGHT: First year French students preparing an imaginary trip to Paris. Time out for dreaming. . . . Page 42 NOTEWORTHY ARTISTS MISS FLORA CANADAY Piano instructor MISS ELLEN MATTHEWS Piano Instructor BRUCE JONES Superior rating in piano 1951 and 1952 N. C. Federation of Music Clubs Festival; Capital District Chairman of Junior Music Clubs from October 1951 to October 1953; elected State Vice-Presi- dent Junior Music Clubs at State Convention May 1952; original compositions in piano. MARY SMITHWICK Winner State Honors National Piano Auditions 1949 and 1950; Excellent rating 1950, Superior rating 1951 and 1952 N. C. Fed- eration of Music Clubs Festival; President Hunter Johnson Club 1952, 1953; Page District Conven- tion Music Club, October 1952 MUSIC CLUB Band Director Lee Rogers takes time out to discuss a difficult number with (left) George Austin, Barbara Welch, Sandra Crumpler, and Vartan Davidian. Other members of the club are: Margaret Austin, M. T. Baggett, Bobby Baggett, Shirley Ba- ker, Lehman Barnes, Gwyn Batten, Freddy Blackman, Curtiss Daughtry, Ben Daughtry, Barbara Davis, Marie Davis, Virgil Early, C. L. Gurganus, Bryan Hill, Ray Hill, Watt Huntley, Don Johnson, Billy Jones, Glenn Langdon, Bobby Matthews, Monty Mont- gomery, Edwin Norris, Joe Frank Ogburn, Sherrill Peterson, Bill Starling, Robert Strickland, Jo Evelyn Underwood, Johnny Wallace, Sherwood Ward, Rudy West, and Dennis Wiggs. COMMERCIAL CLUB Adviser Mrs. Lide (left) says. Ali of you must learn to cut a stencil properly and use the mimeograph machine. Gail Hathaway turns the crank as J. C. Johnson, Daisy Neighbors, Bruce Jones, and Jerry Clifton master other techniques. Other members of the club are: Betty Braswell, Bobby Godwin, Robert Johnson, Genevieve Mc- Lamb, Margaret Overbee, Janice Stephen- son, Russell Thompson, Patsy Vinson, Den- nis Wallace, Eugene Whitley, and Rebecca Whitley. HANDICRAFT CLUB Miss Mary Taylor, adviser (center), is ap- parently pleased with the finished product of these students. (Left) Alice Ruth Byrd, Barbara Lee, Ella Mae Vinson, and Jo Ann Johnson examine some of the finished prod- ucts. Other members of the club are: Myra Barbour, Myrna Bridgers, Cecilia Lee, Shir- ley Massengill, Edna Ruth McLamb, Margie Owen, and Laverne Whitley. LIBRARY CLUB Attractive bulletin boards add to a library. Jerry Joe Stephenson (seated) cuts out let- ters for a book display. Assisting him are Joyce Dupree (right), Letha Barbour, Mrs. Mildred Bell, Librarian, and Frances Peedin. Other members of the club are: Jackie Bryant, Marvin Bryant, Louise Cockrell, Janice Ford, and Sarah Warr. JOURNALISM CLUB One of the projects of the Journalism Club IS compiling a scrapbook of the year ' s school activities. President Mary Edna Grimes and Vice-President Elinor Wallace (seated) discuss a new project for the club. Ann Lee and Mary Smithwick (right) find the old scrapbooks most amusing. Peggy San- ders, this year ' s scrapbook editor, and Shir- ley Jones (left) are serious about selection of new material. Other members of the club are: Jo Ann Coats, Sherrie Creech, Dorothy Johnson, Nancie Lee, Mary Cath- erine Liverman, Mary Reich Moore, Brenda Register and Nell Rose Wallace, FORUM CLUB Vice-President Harold Moore leads group discussion as President Elmer Owens, Ad- visor Roy Brown, Secretary and Treasurer Carter Stephenson, and reporter Wilbert Blackman eagerly await to voice their opinions. Other members of the club are- Billy Ray Allen, Charles Anderson, Billy Blackman, Ronald Coe, Marvin Ennis, Bobby Hill, Buddy Hill, Pete Johnson, George Meyer, Eugene Snead, Jimmy Vinson. HOME ECONOMICS CLUB Cooking is really fun says Pat Lewis as she peeps into the boiling pot. Sarah Eliza- beth Blackman (left) is doubtful about this new recipe. Helen Hood Baker and Sandra Ward (right) are dubious too.- Miriam Stephenson checks on her oven dish. Mrs. Ramona C ash, advisor (right), enjoys the situation thoroughly. Other ' members in the club are: Margie Adams, Dora Baker, Gayle Brown, Rebecca Byrd, Gladys Coats, Faye Cockrell, Sharon Daughtry, Dons Jean Davis, Dorothy Eason, Carrie Edwards, Jean Edwards, Margie Faircloth, Nelda Godwin, Faye Hardee, Mary Lou Holmes, Miriam Humphrey, Sonja Johnson, Laverle Lee, Evelyn Overby, Peggy Parker, Rose Peter- son, Ann Rackley, Flora Radford, Margaret Sanders, Alice Stephenson, Faye Toler. DRAMATICS CLUB iRight) Mrs. MaryTom Sphangos, director, discusses costuming with Jean Day. Burton Stevens says to Pres. Ed Paddison, The play ' s the thing. . . . Student director di- rects scene from In Dixon ' s Kitchen. Rivers Upchurch, kneeling to Caroline Os- borne, as actor Joe Grantham (standing) plays his part too. The other members of the club are: Geraldine Barbour, Wade Creech, Kenneth Crocker, Barbara Cock- reil, Betty Davis, Faye Davis, Alice Dickens, Mae Dixon, Jacki e Ennis, Gene Hill, Wil- liam Huntley, Bette Johnson, Peggy John- son, Phyllis Johnson, Eva King, Alice Lee, Lucile Lee, Carolyn Massengill, Vera Mat- thevi s, Margie Morgan, Lillian Narron, Eliz- abeth Putnafn, Lola Twigg. MONOPOLY CLUB Monopoly Club adviser Miss Jane Lewis (standing) works out program with officers. (Left) Vice-Pres. Jean Barbour, Sec.-Treas. Pat Ward, Pres. Marie Blackman, and Re- porter Barbara West. Other members of the club are: Mary Ethel Barnes, Bobbie Lynn Beasley, Glenda Davis, Betty Sue Hamilton, Lossie Holley, Lawanda Langley, Jennie Blow Layne, Dorothy Morgan, Dor- othey Parker, Shelva Parrish, Minnie Anne Pilkington, Jo Anne Radford, Anna Stanley, Lillian Wallace, Shirley Woodard. 4-H CLUB Proper lighting seems to be the theme here where these boys and girls learn how to construct good reading lamps themselves. (Left) Mrs. Edwin Coats, adviser, Sarah Hill, Frank Daughtry, Shirley Price, Joyce Stevens, Spencer Braswell, President Harold Langdon, Glenn Maxwell, adviser, and Cecil Capps. Other members of the club are: Margie Beasley, Pershing Braswell, Noble Capps, Sherwood Cook, Jack Davis, Ernest Gurley, Elmarie Johnson, Norman Johnson, Jewel King, Earl Langdon, Walter Langdon John Langston, R. H. Lassiter, Bill Massey, ' Allen Sanders, Jimmy Stallings, Bobby Ste- vens, George Stevens, Louise Stevens, Ra- chael Stevens, H. B. Strickland, Fred Toole, Jane Twisdale, John Twisdale, Janet Wall ' HOBBY CLUB Making model planes requires skill, says President Eddie Baroody, and this is why I take pride in the Hobby Club. (Left) Dennis Whitley, Adviser Oscai- Brannan President Eddie Baroody, Frank Skinner, ' Harold Stephenson, and Ralph Johnson (seated). Other members of the club are: Bobby Coe, Fred Hoyt, Aaron Johnson, Bob Johnson, Donald Johnson, Bernard ' lee, R. E. Penny, James Roberts, John Talton ' Marvin Taylor, Gene Twisdale, Steve Up- ton, Mike Wallace. HOBBY CLUB Miss Ruby Langford, adviser (right), gets fun out of working with this interested group of boys on various hobbies. (Left) Adolph Langston, Harold Lee, Bobby Stan- ley, Owen Phillips. Other members are: Charles Edwards, Clifton Faircloth, Billy Haire, Raymond Jackson, Pete Jones, Rex Langston, Jimmy Moore, Larry Moseley, David Parker, Pete Peterson, Arthur Sellers, ' Joseph Stephenson, Leon Warren, Larry Wheeler, Harold Underwood, Jimmy White- hurst. DRAMATICS CLUB Miss Inez Wannamaker, director, watches her students apply make-up before present- ing a one act play. (Left) Mary Louise Mohr, Elizabeth Ann Turner, Teresa Up- church, Joe Durwood Creech, Bill Holland, Charles Heavener, Hal King, Wynona Smith, and Charlotte Edwards. Other members of the club are: Ruth Beasley, Tony Capps, Jean Corbett, Edna Rose Greene, ,Nell Hooks, Linda Lee, Pat Nichols, Mary Sim- mons, Pat Stephenson, Joyce King Strick- land, Betty Jo Watson, Bev erly Whitehurst, Mildred Woodard. FIRST ROW, Left to Right: Director Lee Rogers, Marshall Mauney, Jo Evelyn Underwood, Gwyn Batten, Shirley Baker, Marie Davis, Spencer Braswell, Dennis Wiggs, Glenn Langdon, Billy Jones, C. L. Gurganus, Mildred Woodard. SECOND ROW: Janice Edwards, Rose Peterson, Johnny Talton, Joe Frank Ogburn, Barbara Davis, Bobby Baggett, Ray Hill, Edwin Norns, Noble Capps. THIRD ROW: Sherrill Peterson, Joe Durwood Creech, Ben Daughtry, R. E. Penny, Virgil Early, Freddy Blackman, Harold Langdon, M. T. Baggett, Bill Starling. FOURTH ROW: Bobby Matthews, Watt Huntley, Frank Huntley, Cecil Capps, Sherwood Ward, George Austin, Lehman Barnes, Vartan Davidian, Curtiss Daughtry, Monty Montgom- ery, Robert Strickland, Donald Johnson. Page 48 FIRST ROW, left to right: Miss Parker, Joyce King Strickland, Jean Corbeft, Mary Catherine Liverman Charlotte Edwards bdna Rose Greene, Betty Sue Hamilton, Mary Reich Moore, Sandra Ward, Sonja Johnson, Miriam Stephenson Margie Faircloth ' haye I oler, Margaret Austin, Faye Hardee, Barbara Lee, Barbara Moore, Janet Wall, Carolyn Massengill ' SECOND ROW ' Caroline Osborne, Ann Lee, Mary Louise Mohr, Alice Dickens, Phyllis Johnson, Nelda Godwin, Jane Twisdale Louise Stevens ' Pat Stephenson Bobt e easley, Teresa Upchurch, Margaret Sanders, Ann Rackley, Pat Lewis, Miriam Humphrey, Sandra Grumpier, Dorothy Johnson; THIRD ROW: Peggy Johnson, Nell Rose Wallace, Shirley Jones, Linda Lee Daisy Neighbors Rachel Stevens, Burton Stevens, Dorothy Morgan, Beverly Whitehurst, Mary Smithwick, Sherrv Creech Pat Nichols Gayle Brown ' Dora Baker, Betty Jo Watson Jo Ann Coats: FOURTH ROW: Elinor Wallace. Mary Edna Grimes, Mae Dixon Nancy Whitley ' Donald Johnson, Bobby Stephenson, Harold Lee, Jimmy Moore. Bobby Godwin, Jerry Joe Stephenson, Gene Twisdale Fred Too e Mike Wallace, Joyce Stevens, Brenda Register, Rebecca Byrd, Shirley Wooda.d, Sara Hill; FIFTH ROW- Wvnona ' Smith Neil Hooks, Mary Simmons, Jenny Blow Layne, Bill Massey, Kenneth Crocker, Earl Langdon, Jerry Clifton, Harold ' Underwood ' Bruce Jones, Elmer Owens, Owen Phillips, Bobby Hill, Peggy Sanders, Peggy Parker, Laverle Lee Evelyn Overby HIGH TIMES FACULTY ADVISER; Mrs. Lide . . . EDITOR: Elinor Wallace , , . ASSISTANT EDITOR: Ann Lee . . . FACULTY ADVISER: Miss Lewis. ELINOR WALLACE SIXTEENTH EDITOR OF HIGH TIMES Elinor Wallace, 1953 editor of the High Times, marks the sixteenth editor of our school paper. Only two of these have been boys — St. Clair Pugh, the first editor and founder of the paper and Russel Jordan the fourth editor. Each editor has contributed no small part in helping preserve the history of our school. To the right IS a complete list of the past editors; ART EDITORS: Ed Paddison, Caroline Osborne, Allen Sanders, Harold Stephenson, Dorothy Johnson. 1937- 38— St. Clair Pugh 1938- 39— Marion Grimes 1939- 4C Carolyn Lore 1940- 41- Russel Jordan 1941.42_Ann Noble 1942- 43— Mary Elizabeth Thomas 1 943- 44— Betty Jane Parrish 1944- 45— Leah Whitley 1945- 46 — Jean Marrow 1946- 47— Sarah Ann Hamilton 1947- 48— Joyce Johnson 1948- 49— Carolyn Cheek 1949- 50— Lu Long Ogburn 1950- 51— Julia Allen 1951- 52— Ella Ann Lee 1952- 53— Elinor Wallace NEWS EDITORS: Barbara Moore, Bruce Jones, Mary Smith- wick, Carolyn Massengill . . . ADVERTISING MANAGERS: Mary Edna Grimes, Bobby Baggett . . . SPORTS EDITOR: Carter Stephenson . . . EXCHANGE EDITOR: Betty Davis. TYPISTS: Barbara Lee, Daisy Neighbors, Jo Ann Johnson, Alice Ruth Byrd, Gwyen Batten, Patsy Vinson, Rebecca Whitley, Janice Stephenson, FOOT Elmer Owens The football team this year was made up of nine seniors, six juniors, and ten sophomores and freshmen. After playing eight games in the Class A East Central Conference the Red Devils won five games and lost three entitling them to third place in the conference. Two non- conference games were played. Both games were lost; however, our oppo- nent Tarboro was a member of the AA Classification while Wilson was a member of the AAA Conference. Below is this year ' s record: Curtiss Daughtry alph Johnson Harold Moore SMITHFIELD OPPONENTS 19 OBurgaw 18 6Beulaville 20 18 Warsaw 27 14 Jacksonville 7 13 Wilson H 19 Wallace 27 0 La Grange 12 25 Tarboro 13 7 Mt. Olive 13 ISSelma George Meyer Joe Grantham Rivers Upchurch Tommy Hayes X ' A ' GIRLS FIRST ROW, Left to Right: Frances Peedin, Myra Barbour, Mary Edna Grimes, Sherry Creech, Mary Simmons, Nell Rose Wallace. SECOND ROW: Peggy Sanders, Burton Stevens, Alice Dickens, Mae Dixon, Jenny Blow Layne, Linda Lee. THIRD ROW: Beverly Whitehurst, Shirley Price, Evelyn Overby, Sonja Johnson, Dons Stanley, Nell Hooks Alice Dickens BASKE FIRST ROW, Left to Right: Harold Moore, Carter Stephenson, Elmer Owens, Ralph Johnson. SECOND ROW: Bill Starling, Rivers Upchurch, Hal King, Larry Moseley. THIRD ROW: Curtis Daughtry, George Austin. TBALL ATHLETIC AWARDS HOWELL TROPHY The Howeil Trophy first given in 1946 by Rudolph Howell, theatre owner, is presented each year to the vj nner of the annual Thanks- giving Day Football Game. Rules of the award state that the team win- ning the trophy three years in suc- cession may keep it permanently. Thus far neither team has accom- plished this feat. POLIAKOFF TROPHY Beginning in 1948 Irving Poliak- off, owner of Irving ' s Department Store, set up the Poliakoff Trophy which is awarded to the outstand- ing athlete of the vear. MONOGRAM CLUB TROPHY The Monogram Club Trophy was established in 1950, the first year of the Club ' s existence. The award is presented each year to the outstanding Senior Girl Bas- ketball Forward and Guard. Below are the winners: Smithfield Selma 1947- 1946 .....14 13 1948- 1947 0 31 1949- 1948 6 19 1950- 1949 26 20 1951- 1950 0 51 1951 31 13 1952 13 18 Below are the winners: 1948 — Tommy Stevens 1949— Billy Lore 1950 — Tommy Medlin 1951 — Sherrill Johnson 1952 — Joe. Dupree and Freddy Weeks Below are the winners: BEST FORWARD 1950— Lu Long Ogburn 1951— Julia Allen BEST GUARD 1950— Rose Mae Holland 1952— Frances Byrd Page 58 Jerry Clifton 1952 BASEBALL LETTERMAN The Smithfield Baseball Team compiled an enviable eight-game winning streak last season. The only defeat came in the final ' jame with Princeton making the Red Devils content with the title of County Champion- ship Runners-up. MONOGRAM George Austin Wilbert Blackma Jerry Clifton Curtiss Daughtry Mae Dixon Mary Edna Grimes Joe Grantham Tommy Hayes Bobby Hill Buddy Hill J. C. Johnson Ralph Johnson Shirley Jones Ann Lee Barbara Lee Bernard Lee CLUB Bill Massey George Meyer Barbara Moore Harold Moore Elmer Owens Ed Paddison Frances Peed in Peggy Sanders Frank Skinner Mary Smithwick Bill Starling Carter Stephenson Burton Stevens Rivers Upchurch Steve Upton Nancy Whitley 1953 COMPLIMENTS T O T H E CLASS OF ' 53 SMITHFIELD, NORTH CAROLINA DIAL 3301 HUNTLEY ' S Serving Smithfield and Johnston County MORE THAN 30 YEARS DRY GOODS SHOES READY-TO-WEAR STAR BRAND SHOES ARE BETTER COMPLIMENTS TO THE CLASS OF ' 53 SMITHFIELD AUTOMOBILE DEALERS ASSOCIATM SMITHFIELD, NORTH CAROLINA BUIE MOTORS, INC. 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In the past 29 years Burlington has become a leader in the devel- opment and production of beautiful, durable and high quality filament, spun and knit synthetic fabrics— as well as a leading producer of fine combed cottons. Employing 34,000 people, Burlington is today one of the world ' s largest producers of synthetic fab- rics and is a recognized leader in the designing, development, research, merchandising and fashion fields as well as manufacturing. We believe there is a future in textiles for the young man or young woman with the willingness to learn, ability to work and the natural interest in this fascinating and competitive field. With best wishes of SMITHFIELD PLANT, a unit of BurlinOton Mill Fiw    Li i f Aminta MAKER OF WOMEN ' S OUTERWEAR AND UNDERWEAR FABRICS • MEN ' S WEAR FABRIC DECORATIVE FABRICS • HOSIERY FOR MEN AND WOMEN • COTTON PIECE GOODS AND YARNS • RIBBON • INDUSTRIAL AND TRANSPORTATION FABRICS BEST OF LUCK THROUGH YOUR JOURNEY OF LIFE DIAL 2035 i m ! B IB BUIJ MRS SUPPLY CO, ' §1 i. ■ • ilDAIRY PRODUCTSiJ ROBERTS mum, INC. A Complete Farm Supply Store ' FEEDS SEEDS EASTERN FERTILIZERS - TRACTORS EQUIPMENT TOBACCO CURERS - HARDWARE DIAL 2408-2233 COMPLIMENTS OF HOOKS LAYNE Distributor TEXACO AND FIRESTONE PRODUCTS SMITHFIELD, N. C. PHONE 2424 r -- — . — — - ' Sinclair Petroleum Products MARVIN E. TAYLOR, Distributor SMITHFIELD, NORTH CAROLINA : Compliments of FIRST-CITIZENS BAM and TRUST CO. SMITHFIELD, NORTH CAROLINA Established 1898 MEMBER FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION ! — — COMPLIMENTS The HOWELL THEATRES, Incorporated HOWELL-VICTORY Rudy-Selmo COUNTY SMITHFIELD-SELMA DRIVE-INS Good Luck To The Class of ' 53 A. H. JOHNSON OIL CO. ESSO DISTRIBUTOR KEROSENE, FUEL OIL, MOTOR OIL DIAL 2794 SMITHFIELD, N. C. METERED SERVICE Smithfield Band Performs In Santa Claus Parade in Raleigh on the Evening of December 8 R E D REST AUR AIT STEAMED OYSTERS AND COMBINATION SEA FOOD We Broil Our Steaks, Chops, and Chickens RED APPLE TRUCK STOP USES 500,000 CUPS OF COFFEE A YEAR JORDAN ' S JEWELERS Since 1898 DIAMONDS - WATCHES SILVERWARE AND GIFTS SMITHFIELD, NORTH CAROLINA I BEST WISHES 1270 SMITHFIELD 1000 WATTS BOYETTE ELECTRIC COMPANY ' At Your Service ElectricalK ' SMITHFIELD, NORTH CAROLINA COMPLIMENTS OF ATLAS JOHNSON GROCERY MARKET PHONE 2747 We Deliver SMITHFIELD, NORTH CAROLINA 7 JOHNSON ' S FLORIST Since 1919 FLOWERS FOR ALL OCCASIONS Phone 2630 SMITHFIELD, NORTH CAROLINA LEDER BROS, INC. FEATURING NATIONALLY ADVERTISED MERCHANDISE SHOP WITH CONFIDENCE WEAR WITH PRIDE SMITHFIELD, NORTH CAROLINA ' -7 r- YOUR LINK IN THE SOUTH ' S • GREATEST CHAIN ' Correct Merchandise at Low Prices Phone 2445 STRICKLAND BROTHERS LUMBER CO., INC. ROUGH AND DRESSED LUMBER PAINT - BUILDERS SUPPLIES HARDWARE - DOORS Phone 3247 SMITHFIELD, NORTH CAROLINA HEAVNER AND WALLACE IMPLEMENT COMPANY ALLIS-CHALMERS FARM MACHINERY SMITHFIELD, NORTH CAROLINA - -7 CONGRATULATIONS SENIORS FROM CREECH ' S PHARMACY SMITHFIELD, NORTH CAROLINA WHERE WE MEET OUR FRIENDS CITY FOOD MARKET ; CONGRATULATIONS SENIORS ; QUALITY MEATS AND GROCERIES FAY ' S We Deliver Phone 2415 SANDWICH COMPANY ; Congratulations Seniors ; SMITHFIELD, NORTH CAROLINA : [ ,______ „ Compliments Of ; oM 1 1 n r 1 E L D 1 MULE COMPANY AUSTIN OGBURN 1 Livestock ; Avery and Oliver Tractors and COTTON COMPANY, Inc. 1 Farm Machinery I Clean Used Cars ' p Trnrlp For An +hin Th -it i T T 5 1 1 1 Kjt AM ly Ml Illy iiicji Your Friendly Cotton Buyer Walks or Rolls ' Compliments Of GARDNER-CREECH OIL COMPANY IMobHgasl YOUR FRIENDLY MOBILGAS DISTRIBUTOR COMPLIMENTS OF JORDAN and HOLT HARDWARE, INC. Farm and Home Hardware Contract Plumbing and Heating Pisone 2620 SMITHFIELD, NORTH CAROLINA ■7 - JOHNSON COTTON COMPANY Complete Farm and Home Supplies Furniture, Hardware, Fertilizers, Farm Implements JOHN DEERE TRACTORS AND EQUIPMENT Phone 2701 SMITHFIELD, NORTH CAROLINA UNDERWOOD FUNERAL HOME SMITHFIELD, NORTH CAROLINA FUNERAL DIRECTORS SINCE 1897 FARMER ' S HARDWARE DUO-THERM OIL HEATERS AND BENJAMIN MOORE PAINTS Phone 2460 SMITHFIELD, NORTH CAROLINA COMPLIMENTS OF DAY ' S DRY CLEANERS THE KLEANERS THAT KLEAN ' Phone 2868 SMITHFIELD, NORTH CAROLINA 1 r- J. E. WILSON LIVESTOCK CO. HOGS-CATTLE-MULES Auction Soles Every Thursdoy 1 P. M. We Buy Hogs Doily PHONE 3012 .SMITHFIELD GUY C. LEE MANUFACTURING CO. BUILDING MATERIALS LUMBER MILLWORK Diol 2010 COMPLIMENTS OF HOLT FARM CENTER, INC. Custom GRINDING AND MIXING Truck Lone and Brogden Rood DIAL 2043 . — . . o C Compliments Of CECIL ' S ESSO SERVICE Phone 3267 Washing - Waxing - Lubrication COMPLETE ESSO PRODUCTS Atlas Tires, Batteries and Accessories ROAD SERVICE CECIL WHITEHURST, Owner •J Telephone Selma 390 SEL-FIELD FEED AND PRODUCE CO., INC. WHOLESALE FRUITS and PRODUCE BANANA SPECIALITY Intersection Of Highways 70 and 301 COMPLIMENTS OF VANCE ' S MOBIL SERVICE VANCE BRADY PHONE 9841 or 3468 301 Truck Lane SMITHFIELD, NORTH CAROLINA BRANNAN TOURIST COURT Air Conditioned DINING ROOM WITH EXCELLENT FOOD HOLT LAKE Fishing-Boating-Swimming And Water Skiing Compliments Of WESTERN AUTO ASSOCIATE STORE Alfred H. Paddison, Owner SMITHFIELD, NORTH CAROLINA HUGH AUSTIN ' S MEN ' S AND BOYS ' STORE A TRIAL IS ALL WE ASK ' Compliments Of FURNITURE FOR GRACIOUS LIVING ON U. S. 301 Between SMITH : ' cir d SELMA Graduate To Greater Food Service At Your Friendiv colonial ' stores INCORPORATED SMITHFIELD, NORTH CAROLINA lICK Ah ■ DEPENDABLE SERVICE CALL RIVERSIDE CAB COMPAN ALL PASSENGERS INSURED PHONE 2151 COURTEOUS DRIVERS COMPLIMENTS of GRANTHAM ' S NEW BOYS ' YOUNG MEN ' S SHOP SMITHFIELD, NORTH CAROLINA IDEAL OIL COMPANY, INC. Distributors of SHELL PRODUCTS Fuel Oil Gasoline B. M. Faulk, Prop. RIVERSIDE BRICK AND TILE CO. BUILD WITH BRICK FOR PERMANANCY JAMES R. POOL, Owner Phone 3456 SMITHFIELD, NORTH CAROLINA CAROLINA MOTOR STORES, INC. Wholesale Jobbers -:- Distributors AUTOMOTIVE PARTS, SUPPLIES EQUIPMENT Box 149 PHONE 3182 SMITHFIELD, N. C. ' 7 Congratulations Seniors! PEOPLE ' S SHOE SHOP SMITHFIELD, NORTH CAROLINA NIXON BROTHERS TRANSFER AND PETROLEUM CARRIERS DIAL 2835 Compliments Of ALBERT ' S SERVICE STATION SMITHFIELD, NORTH CAROLINA Compliments Of PEARLE ' S BEAUTY SHOP PHONE 3309 Compliments Of OVERBY ' S FUNERAL HOME AMBULANCE Phone 2202 SMITHFIELD, NORTH CAROLINA SMITHFIELD HOG MARKET WE BUY HOGS EVERY DAY DIAL 3131 OR 3132 SMITHFIELD, NORTH CAROLINA 7 Compliments Of REYNOLD ' S BEAUTY SALON PHONE 2480 SMITHFIELD, NORTH CAROLINA •7 DELMA JOHNSON ' S STORE HEAVY AND FANCY GROCERIES FRESH MEATS POULTRY BOUGHT AND SOLD Dial 2464-2624 SMITHFIELD, NORTH CAROLINA Congrctulotions Seniors I R V I N G ' S SMITHFIELD, NORTH CAROLINA COMPLIMENTS OF W. T. DANCE COMPANY SMITHFIELD, NORTH CAROLINA ELEANOR ' S BEAUTY SHOP DIAL 3055 Johnston Street SMITHFIELD, NORTH CAROLINA Compliments HOYrS FLOWER SHOP COMPLETE FLORAL SERVICE SMITHFIELD, NORTH CAROLINA TALTON, INC. G. E. APPLIANCES - FURNITURE DIAL 3444 Compliments Of SELLERS PRINTING CO. Behind People ' s Shoe Store SMITHFIELD. NORTH CAROLINA MASSEY MUTUAL INSURANCE AGENCY Writes All Forms of Insurance Hood Building: Room 35 Phone: Res. 3361; Office 2776 SMITHFIELD, NORTH CAROLINA DORMAN ' S SHOE STORE QUALITY SHOES FOR ALL THE FAMILY SMITHFIELD, NORTH CAROLINA -7 WILLARD W. STANLEY T. W. Woods Garden Seeds We Specialize in Insecticides and Field Seeds DIAL 5068 CONGRATULATIONS TO THE CLASS OF ' 52 THE JEWEL BOX SMITHFIELD, NORTH CAROLINA DENNING FURNITURE COMPANY COMPLETE HOME FURNISHINGS 207 SOUTH THIRD STREET SMITHFIELD, NORTH CAROLINA PHONE 2587 Compliments Of ; PERKINS ' RIVERSIDE WAREHOUSE SMITHFIELD, NORTH CAROLINA . .. . WHITLEY BROTHERS WHOLESALE CO Your Home-County Wholesaler - — LANGDON ' S GROCERY Pleasing You Pleoses Us General Merchandise— Home Supplies R. F. D. No. 1 Dial 9320 SMITHFIELD, NORTH CAROLINA J O H N S O N ' S LAUNDRY AND DRY CLEANERS Smithfleld ' s Only SANITONE Cleaners Phone 2305 SMITHFIELD, NORTH CAROLINA In the annual Kiwanis Variety Show held in Selma, Helen Hood Baker, member of the Smithfield Freshman Class was crowned Miss Kiwanis of ' 52. She is shown here being crowned by Selma Mayor J. N. Wiggs as runnersup look on. They are, left to right, Pat Gregory of Benson, Mayor Wiggs, Helen Hood Baker, H. V. Gaskill, Master of Ceremonies, and Anna Jean Meece of Wilson ' s Mills. ROGMON OIL CO. BEST WISHES TO THE CLASS OF ' 53 SMITHFIELD, NORTH CAROLINA I- — — SMITHFIELD OIL GIN CO. PETROLEUM PRODUCTS COTTON GINNERS DIAL 2040 — . ENJOY OUR FOOD REBEL OUTPOST : On 301-3 Miles South ; SMITHFIELD, NORTH CAROLINA i_ ! — -- — ■ ' - — . jj rrj jj,, STEVE ' S RESTAURANT SERVING QUALITY FOOD At Reasonable Prices Intersection 301-70 1 APPRECIATE PATRONAGE Compliments Of CENTRAL CAROLINA GAS COMPANY Distributors Of Guaranteed Bottled Gas Service Phone 2533 r- — ' — . 1 ; CAFE ROYAL Alvyays A Friendly Welcome HOME COOKED FOOD BILL ROYAL, Mgr. I ' . BEST WISHES TO GRADUATING aASS nUUD BROTHERS DRUG STORE Johnston County ' s Family Druggists For Over 60 Years p ' ' ROGERS CONSTRUCTION CO. CONGRATULATES THE SENIORS OF ' 53 HOOKS ' STUDIO OUR STUDIO IS KNOWN : BY THE COMPANY IT KEEPS - — THORNTON ' S LUNCH Best in Hot-Dogs and Hamburgers ' FOUR OAKS, NORTH CAROLINA I — — R. B. TIRE COMPANY Corner Dundee and Truck Lane Phone 2127 SMITHFIELD, NORTH CAROLINA Try Our Expert Recapping ! Mohawks Go Farther t ' Compliments Of OPEN AIR MARKET SMITHFIELD, NORTH CAROLINA Compliments of J. E. GREGORY SMITHFIELD, NORTH CAROLINA UPCHURCH PHARMACY CONGRATULATIONS SENIORS OF ' 53 7 r- THE FASHION SHOP SMART APPAREL FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN Phone 2534 SMITHFIELD, L. E. Ferrell, Owner NORTH CAROLINA W. B. OLIVER SON, INC. Good Fertilizer Let Us Gin and Buy Your Cotton PHONE 400-J PINE LEVEL, NORTH CAROLINA 7 ROSE ' S 5-10-25 CENT STORE Compete Line of School Supplies SMITHFIELD, NORTH CAROLINA THE LADIES SHOP Tirst to Show the Latest WOODALL ' S VULCANIZING SHOP E. L. WOODALL, Owner Phone 3491 IGNITION SERVICE RECAPPING AUTO LITE BATTERIES HILL ' S GROCERY AND MARKET Groceries — Meats — Ice Cream Cong rotu lotions Seniors SMITHFIELD, NORTH CAROLINA COMPLIMENTS OF GRANTHAM ' S ' Outfitters For Men and Boys For Over 50 Years BAROODY ' S NOVELTIES-EATS-MAGAZINES A Pleasure to Serve You SMITHFIELD, NORTH CAROLINA 7 r- Read THE SMITHFIELD HERALD for Twice-a-Week Coverage of Johnston County News and Opinion COMPLIMENTS OF SMITH ' S ESSO 01 wmwm oday we are printers of the yearbook of your school. Tomorrow as you seek your future in professions, industry and commerce we the at Paragon hope to serve you with the essential Printing _7and Lithography you will need in the pursuit of your career. Many of our best customers came to us through friendships formed around the annual planning table or from former grads like yourself who first saw our work in their annual. X3 t Qaragon Qrejs si MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA LEE H. BLACKWELL Eastern Carolina Representative GOLDSBORO, NORTH CAROLINA $1 Shield : senior claXigh School SniTHFIELD esll0154995 RNC 373.756 S 1953 3 8950 99016941 1 Sraithfield High School . The shield 00 Visit Smn bool M Open ,se Monday facilities, became , y in the irgent need of aoa - ..g mzed small groups were i i with members 01 the Class conducting oui- buildings. . g hkh lfH||- Visited m • class- room  ' ' ' ' ° laboratory, coro- modern s«mM school library and JS nientary f o the modern 1 In sha ' -P building were PiP classrooms classrooms i ' , three ° ' t up because Uvhich had been set up. of overcro ded . y . erecting partitions n hall on the second , ent . .storage room m the . : ' H f f netSnchroom which ! visit to the new and ■ ■ ' Ta ' a co t of approxi- ' ;Prl.o;)og in distnct fund - Utl Gels ScboUtsb ? I « voui ' k- tiat ' • been ' ' tb otW H i III loiter


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