Smoaks High School - Eagle Yearbook (Smoaks, SC)

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Senior Class History We, the Senior Class of 1952, sailed into the great sea of education in 1940 with 31 members who were Charles Allen Bennett, Luther Bennett, Vernon Berry, Lari Crosby, Jr., David Griffin, Eugene Herndon, Earl Kinard, Wyman Kinsey, Norman Linder, Parker Lyons, Jackie Padgett, Julius Risher, Thomas Smith, Jimmie Strickland, Ray Thomas, David Smith, Vernon Strickland, Sally Bennett, Zell Garner, Mary Kinard, Lenora Lyons, Janet Maxey, Frances McAlhaney, Irene Padgett, Sadie Mae Proveaux, Shirley Ann Robertson, Martha Nell Smoak, Mildred Spell, Sally Ann Spell, Maurice Webster, and Mary Myers. Miss Elizabeth Black was our beloved teacher. Mrs. J. M. Hiers guided us through our second year. We only lost Eugene Herndon. Our class increased in the third grade with Jackie and Randolph Whetstone, Betty Ann Smith, Frances Taylor, Leo Bennett, George Kinsey, J. W. Herndon, Franklin Rickman, Lonnie Shelly, and Bobby Varnadoe, Miss Margaret All was our teacher. We began our fourth year with three teachers who were Mrs. Annabel Kneece, Mrs. J. M. Hiers, and Mrs. Terrell Parker. Zell Garner, Irene Padgett, Sadie Proveaux, J. M. Herndon and Lonnie Shelly left us, but we welcomed Paul Barnes, Iris and Doris Lyons, McTyiere Black, Harold Mixon, and Edward Smoak. When we left the fourth grade, our teachers were promoted, too. Paul Barnes moved away, but Irene Padgett and Sadie Proveaux joined us again. Yvonne Atkinson, Ronald Howerton, Lillian Smith, and J. W. Herndon began our sixth year with us. Mrs. Mildred Smith was our teacher. We outdid the other grades by having the most teachers during the year in the seventh grade. They were Mrs. M. R. Galloway, Miss Ruth Steedly, Miss Sara Neese, Mrs. Harris Beach, Mr, Gerald Padgett, and Mr. C. B. Polk. Sadie Proveaux, Edward Smoak, Franklin Rickman, Harold Mixon, Lillian Smith, George Kinsey, and J. W. Herndon left us this year. We were considered high school students in the eighth grade. We were glad to welcome Sylvia Scoggins, Johnnie Peters, Charles Babb, Jake Byran, and Lilly Crosby. Paul Barnes and Frances Taylor moved away. Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Polk and Mrs. Sara Linder were our teachers. Mrs. Helen Farrell, Mrs. W. R. Parker and Mr. Harris Beach joined our group of teachers in the ninth grade. Joyce Ann Garris and George Saunders came and Jake Byran, Leo Bennett, Irene Padgett, Jackie and Randolph Whetstone moved away. We began the tenth grade without Bobby Varnadoe, Martha Nell Smoak, and Julius Risher. Margie Ryan was welcomed. Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Polk, Miss Rose Mary Varn, Mrs. Helen Farrell, Mrs. Evelyn Peters, and Mr. Floyd Beach taught. Jackie Whetstone came back to be with us during our junior year, but George Saunders moved away, and Lenora Lyons and Mildred Spell were victims of Dan Cupid. Our teachers were Mr. Floyd Beach, Mrs. Helen Farrell, Mrs. Tom Willis, Mrs. W. R. Parker, Miss Rose Mary Varn, and Mr. T. Wr. Copeland. We were glad to welcome our new superinten- dent, Mr. E. H. Roberts. Mr. E. H. Roberts, Mrs. Audrey Berry, Mr. E. Reeves, Mrs. Tom Willis, and Mrs. Helen Farrell are our last set of instructors. In our Senior year we miss Mary Kinard, Betty Ann Smith, and Yvonne Atkinson. Seventeen of us are left to graduate on May 30, 1952.

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