Sterling City High School - Eagles Eye Yearbook (Sterling City, TX)

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CLASS HISTORY It is with pleasure that the members of the Senior class of 1948 look backward over the past eleven years of our lives. Most of us began our upward climb to our Senior year in 1937. Of the eight members of our class, five started the journey together: Bobby King, Billy Lee Smith, R. T. Smith, Carolyn Foster, and Jacqueline Everitt. In 1944 we began our long awaited freshman year. Donald Gill, Jackie Tweedle, Mac Mathis, Claudell Reed, Norman Butler, and Douglass Chapman became new members of our class. Miss Evelyn Vernon acted as our sponsor and we elected R. B. Mitchell president. Melva Jeane Ward was chosen as candidate for the Halloween Queen. Her escort was Bobby King. According to custom, the freshmen were initiated, and a rough initiation it was. The junior class, lacking two members for its play cast, chose Carolyn Foster and Billy Hudson to take the parts. In the spring we had our usual picnic. We lost Edna Ruth Littlefield to Brady High School. When our sophomore year rolled around we found that we had gained three new members: Duane Cape, Melvin Noak, and Jeane Lee, who had come from way out west after hearing of the sterling qualities of Sterling City High School. It so happened that Jeane was elected as Halloween princess, and selected Melvin as her prince. H. M. Carter was our sponsor. The junior class did not have enough members to stage their play, “A Readymade Family”, so they asked three sophomores, Jacqueline Everitt, Jeane Lee, and Carolyn Foster, to take part in it. As a reward for being in the play they were allowed to participate in the junior-senior day. Eugenia Daves and Eula Mae Mitchell left school in the end of our sophomore year. Junior year. Only two more years to go. Norman Butler withdrew at the beginning of this year. The year of 1946-1947 passed quickly, since there were many activities which always come with being a junior. The junior class presented the play, ‘‘Good Gracious Grandma”, with the following cast: Jackie starred as Grandma; P-Sam, a colored house-boy, played by Bobby; R. T. was Henry Breckenridge; Helen and Cecile Allen were played by Jacqueline and Carolyn, respectively; Mrs. Lennoxl by Estelle; Delicia, a colored maid, byJeane; and policemen were Billy Hudson and Billy Lee Smith. Junior-Senior day was another high-light in 1947.. We entertained the senior class with a trip to Christoval, Texas. Everyone enjoyed this immensely. We chose and ordered our senior rings this year because the time was drawing nigh when we would be eligible to wear them. Mrs. G. W. Tillerson was sponsor of our class. At the close of the year Melva Jeane Ward and Claudell Reed withdrew from school; Estelle Reed moved to California, and Jeane Lee moved to Hamilton, Texas. We then had seven members in our class.

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At last, the year that we had waited ten years for came. We became full-fledged, if not, “dignified” seniors. Blanch Miller of Brady joined our number. She graduated at mid-term, but plans to attend graduation exercises with us. We worked this year at several projects to make money for our trip to Galveston in May. Among the things we did were sell magazine subscriptions, take charge of the concession stand at the Independent Basketball Tournament, stage a chocolate wedding and box supper, and give the play, “The Campbells are Coming”. From the freshman, sophomore, and junior classes we chose Elizabeth Hildebrand, Joan King, and Trinabeth Reed respectively to take part in our play. The cast is as follows: Carolyn as Ma Brannigan; her grandchildren, Kaye, Dick, and Betty by Jacqueline, Jackie, and Elizabeth; Cyrus Scud-der played by R. T.; his son, Jeff, by Bobby; Catalpa, a maid, by Joan; her father by Billy Lee; Mrs. Augusta Campbell by Trinabeth; and her son, Kingston, by Billy.