Smoaks High School - Eagle Yearbook (Smoaks, SC)

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Senior Class History We, ihe Seniors, of 1955 began our formal education in 1943 as the thirty-two err.:ers of the first grade at Smoaks School: Rebecca Bennett, Betty Goodwin, ii . ii: Sara Griffin, Joyce Gohagan, Sandra Karinen, Betty Ruth Mixon, Dot Dorothy Smoak, Valree Shelly, Patricia Smith, Betty Smith, Pat Spell, V»meile Spell, Martha Strickland, Eva Thomas, Mary Thomas, Dorothy Bell, ri .i Huff steller, Idell Hughes, James Bunton, MBM Carter, Joe Carroll, Harry -.arrell, Marshall Kinsey, Barney Kinsey, George Kinard, Howard Lyons, Jack Pfizer:, James Smoak, Franklin Herndon, and Junior Reynolds. Miss Gertrude Campbell was our teacher. Mrs. Jennie Taylor taught us in our second year and we lost Valree Shelly, larr.es Smoak, Franklin Herndon and Barney Kinsey. The new members of our class were Rachel DuBois, Mary Nobles, LaDelle Strickland, Ernest Myers, Billy Strickland, Joseph Strickland and Elaine Hucks. When we began our third year we said good-bye to Betty Ruth Mixon, Patsy Hcifstetler and greeted Lula Mae Douglas, Annie Mae Kinard, Charlotte Polk, Frank Atkinson, McKeskar Lyons and Grover Reynolds. Our teacher was Mrs. Terrell Parker. In the fourth grade we gained a few new classmates; Luther Bennett, Franklin Crosby, Dale DuBois, Douglas Ferguson, Barbara and Billy Gillion, Dora Smith, McLellan Smith and Violet Stanly. Mrs. Evelyn Peters was our teacher. Mrs. J. M. Hiers helped us through our fifth year. Douglas Ferguson, Patricia Smith, Barbara and Billy Gillion, Billy Strickland, Grover Reynolds, Elaine Hucks and Syble Wethington dropped from our class. Our new friends were Ronnie Fletcher, Ronald Kinard, Syble Wethington and Barney Kinsey. When wc reached the sixth grade we missed the familiar faces of Barney Kinsey, 1. J. Kinsey, Dale DuBois and Raymond Lackey. Our new classmates were David Smith, Joseph Myers, Jimmie Strickland and Vernon Strickland. We gained J. M. Benton, Pattie Mae DeWitt, Pauline DeWitt, Nadine Humphries, Harris Ryan, Ralph Tuten and Marshall Wilson. Wc lost Ronnie Fletcher, Nadine Humphries, Howard Lyons, Joe Myers, Charlotte Polk, David Smith, Dora Smith, Jimmie Strickland, Harris Ryan and Mary Thomas. This de- creased our class considerably. Our teachers in the seventh grade were Miss Barbara Hackney, Mrs. Helen Farrell, Mr. Edward Strickland and Mrs. J. M. Hiers. We were considered high school students in the eighth grade. We were glad to welcome Syble Wethington, Sara Alsing, J. B. Ferguson and C. D. DeLong. We lost David Smith and Frank Atkinson moved away. Our teachers this year were Mrs. Mildred Smith, Mr. T. W. Copeland and Mrs. Roy Parker. As Freshmen in high school we lost Pemelle Neal, Ellen Carson, Lula Mae Douglas, Ernest Myers, Ronald Kinard and J. B. Ferguson. Members we gained this year were Richard Smith, Buddy Crosby, Pemelle Neal and Ellen Carson. We had four instructors who were Mr. Roberts, Miss Rosemary Varn and Mr. Floyd Beach. 17

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EVA ERNESTINE THOMAS Art Editor of Annual Assistant Edit©? Eagjc Xtel Club V i C e-Pf€ siden t J. H, A. Glee Club Treasurer Music Club Treasurer Basketball Co - Captain RALPH EDWARD TUTEM Cla B President F F- A. 4 - H Club Reporter Glee Club Basketball Bus Driver GENEVIEVE WALLING 4-H Club Gle-e Club Basketball 16

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In the Sophomore Class we lost Marshall Wilson, Buddy Crosby and Richard Smith. Our teachers were Mrs. Mildred Smith, Mr. W. P. Brandenburg, Miss Rosemary Varn, Mrs. Muriel Hayden, Mrs. E. H. Roberts and Mr. Floyd Beach. We began our Junior year with no new members. We lost Syble Wethington, Annie Mae Kinard, and ”BM Carter. Mrs. E. H. Roberts, Mr. Wilma Hughes, Mrs. Audrey Berry, Miss Rosemary Varn, Mrs. Wade Ammons and Mr. Reeves taught us. Mr. Charles Free, Mrs. Ross Horton, Mrs. Wade Ammons, Miss Rosemary Varn, Mr. Reeves and Mr. Hughes are our last set of instructors. In our Senior year we gained Dorothy King, Genevieve Walling and S. K. Padgett. Twenty-two of us are left to graduate on May 26, 1955.