Staley High School - Sta Hi Tig Yearbook (Staley, NC)

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SENIOR SUPERLATIVES CLYDE RAY HICKS LOUISE WILLIAMS Cutest TOMMY BRINKLEY Best Sports ALDEN LEE HICKS HELEN GLASS ALDEN LEE HICKS Class Baby Most Athletic

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SENIOR SUPERLATIVES JUNIOR POE HELEN HICKS BERA EDWARDS Biggest Flirt Wittiest CLINTON PEARCE Best All-round DORIS PUGH EARL LANGLEY Most Popular

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CLASS HISTORY In the year of our Lord 1939, when autumn leaves were falling helter-skelter, we too fell into the doors of Staley School. We were a jolly bunch of boys and girls anxious to meet our teacher and start our school life. Mrs. Beta Rogers lead us through our first year. It was from her that we had our first lessons in reading, ’riting and rithmetic. Time sped by as the years piled up, and we found ourselves in that ““Never-never- land”—High School. Scared to death and afraid it would show. It did. How green we were, but how quickly we bloomed! Our algebra wasn’t easy, neither were the other subjects compared to the grammar school work, yet we overcame each obstacle and breezed into the tenth grade. In the tenth grade, we won the Halloween Contest and were treated with a hay-ride—one we'll never forget! Our Junior year came, and Mrs. Isley helped us with a most successful Junior- Senior Banquet. Our operetta, “In An Old Kentucky Garden,” proved to be a fine presentation, and we enjoyed it thoroughly. All too soon our junior year ended, and we were dignificd Seniors faced with a new faculty. Mr. E. B. Clayton was our new principal with Mrs. Betty Daughtridge and Mr. Thomas A. Faust completing the administration. We were very unfortunate in losing our Physics teacher, Mr. Faust, the second semester. He was replaced however, by Mr. Edward Bost. We elected Mrs. Daughtridge our sponsor and began work immediately. We organ- ized a Dramatics Club and presented a Christmas Pageant entitled ‘Christmas in Re- view” that will long be remembered by all who saw it. Then came our minstrel, “Lazy Moon Minstrels.” Under Mrs. Daughtridge’s expert coaching, we had ’em rollin’ in the aisles. Our basketball teams made great progress, especially the girls. Though the boys fell by the wayside in the second round of the county tournament, the girls went to the finals and emerged as runners-up in the county with Helen Glass and Mary Jo Thomas being named on the All-County team. Our banquet was a most memorable occasion as was our senior play, “Rest Assured.” But most remembered of all will be our trip to Washington, D. C., and the mad scramble for funds that preceded it. “We went, we saw, we conquered,” someone said, and that was us in the year of our Lord 1951. Now we have finished—with class history that is—but as individuals the class of ’51 will make history and go down in history in the years to come. HELEN HICKS, Historian