St Matthews High School - Saints Scroll / Stinger Yearbook (St Matthews, SC)

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CLASS HISTORY We came, we tried and now we've succeeded! Our school days have been filled with excitement and fun. Reminiscing, our mind wanders through the passing events of the years. Our First Grade teachers, Mrs. Banks and Miss Harmon, had their hands full with Alfred Pitts as grandpa in the little rocking chair and Donald Whetstone a steady customer for the coat-room jail. The Second Grade was fun with Miss Richardson and Miss Ryan assigning homework only every other day. Miss Modelle Taylor coached us through our first taste of examinations and the Third Grade. As a class project, we built a miniature Dutch scene with windmill and all. Who could ever forget Mrs. Hiott and the multiplication tables? This was the Fourth Grade, and school began to take on a more serious meaning. By the Fifth Grade, we were little big shots with the first romances be- ginning to bud. Mrs. Senn was our teacher. We entered the Sixth Grade, and for the first time we could forget about air raid drills, for the war was at long-last over. Miss Almetia had quite a struggle trying to keep us out of her private life, but we finally succeed- ed (and so did she) for the next Christmas she became Mrs. Riley. All the girls fell in love with Mr. Crider during the Seventh Grade. Remember Shirley's big crush? We took High School by storm, determined to show everyone how the place should be run. Our Class had grown in size and number, and we were the largest class ever to enter the portals of SMHS. Besides the regular grind of racking our brains for the unknown quantity of 'X' or the hiding place of that Ceasar translation, our High School days have been filled with dances, football games, play practices and many, many memorable events including just as many B's on deportment. Miss Williams had us sweating and laughing through our first two years of High School English. Mr. Golson convinced all of us that matter was in- destructible. Artie Furtick memorized Gray's Elergy to be exemptfrom those super examinations for which Miss Fox is noted. Whose fingers will recover from Mrs. Crutchfield's typing classes? Among the many athletic accomplishments during our days at St. Matthews High were four District nine football championships. Quite a record for anyone! Baseball and track also shared the limelight. But the gleam never seemed to reach the basketball court until our final year, when the Jhckettes trounched all opponents and claimed the district hard- wood crown. Paramount over all else was our lavish Junior-Senior Banquet on April 27, 1951. That night will linger in our memory forever. Our Class presented two superb plays, The Bat in the Belfry , as Jhniors, and Was This Murder? , as almighty Seniors. All this, and much more, too, has endeared to us these hallowed halls of SMHS. 16

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SENIOR CLASS OFFICERS PRESIDENT.......... VICE-PRESIDENT .... SECRETARY-TREASURER CLASS POET......... CLASS PROPHET...... CLASS TESTATOR .... CLASS HISTORIAN .... . . . Mark Buyck Donald Whetstone . . . Peggy Sauls . . Edna Robinson . . . Janie Rucker . . . Helen Millender . . . Mark Buyck CLASS POEM So we've done it at last! We've come through school safe and fast. And now we know, deep in each heart, That the day has come when we all must part. We leave to the Juniors all our cares, All our hopes and all our fears. And hope that the future to them will bring, All the best in everything. And now at the end of that long, hard road. We store up memories to save and hoard, Memories that will last forever and ever, Memories that distance can not sever. CLASS COLORS...................................Red and White CLASS FLOWER...............................American Beauty Rose CLASS MOTTO....................... In ourselves our future lies. 15

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SENIOR SUPERLATIVES Best Looking ............... Best All Round ............. Best Dressed ............... Loudest .................... Best Dancer ................ Silliest .................. Dumbest .................... Cutest .................... Biggest Worker ............. Neatest .................... Most Dependable ............ Best Make-Up ............... Most Studious .............. Most Optimistic ............ Most Pessimistic ........... Wittiest ................... Teacher's Pet .............. Most Sophisticated ......... Biggest Feet ............... Laziest .................... Slyest .................... Biggest Eater .............. Most Popular ............... Biggest Flirt .............. Quietest ................... Best Disposition ........... Biggest Liar ............... Most in Love ............... Best Partner on a Desert Isle Best Sport ................ Biggest Cheater ............ Least Studious ............. Most Ambitious ............. Best Line .................. Most Reckless ............. Biggest Beggar ............ Most Talented .............. Most Original .............. Peppiest ................... Most Courteous ............. Most Athletic .............. . Helen Millender, Donald Whetstone ...........Peggy Sauls, Mark Buyck . . Katherine Hicklin, Bob Wimberly .........Helen Sikes, James Rucker .........Janie Rucker, Mark Buyck ...........Helen Sikes, Jr. Hancock .... Dorothy Martin, Jr . Hancock .... Lois Inabinet, Bob Wimberly . . . Katherine Hicklin, Mark Buyck .........Peggy Sauls, Bob Wimberly .... Peggy Sauls, Andrew Rucker .Shirley Robinson, Donald Whetstone . . Katherine Hicklin, Bob Wimberly .... Janie Rucker, limes Rucker . . Lilyanne Peterkin, James Cason . . . Edna Robinson, James Rucker . . Lilyanne Peterkin, Bob Wimberly . .Virginia Hungerpeler, Billy Hutto .........Helen Sikes, Arthur Haigler . . Lilyanne Peterkin, Arthur Baxter . Edna Robinson, Alfred Rickenbaker .........Helen Sikes, David Howze . . . . Helen Millender, Mark Buyck . Bobbie Dean Hammond, Billy Hutto . . . . Mildred Jackson, Floyd Ayers .........Lois Inabinet, Bill Swygert . . . Janie Rucker, William Pou Wise . Shirley Robinson, Donald Whetstone .........Janie Rucker, Ernest Sikes Lilyanne Peterkin, Donald Whetstone . . . . Lois Inabinet, George Crider .Virginia Hungerpeler, Artie Furtick . . . Katherine Hicklin, Mark Buyck ..........Mark Buyck, Janie Rucker ..........Lois Inabinet, Ralph Crim .Bobbie Dean Hammond, Jr. Hancock Katherine Hicklin, Donald Whetstone . . Shirley Robinson, Holcome Wise ...........Janie Rucker, L. W. Rast ........Dorothy Martin, John Geiger Lilyanne Peterkin, Donald Whetstone 17