Swain County High School - Ridge Runner Yearbook (Bryson City, NC)

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SOPHOMORES

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Lest We Forget 1. Aw, Blow it out. 2. Sheure! 3. The wall across the street. 4. Grow Bush. 5. George. 6. The Faculty. 7. Mrs. Wood and Miss Long as Senior Sponsors. 8. “Pssst, How long is it until the bell?” 9. The Sophomore-Senior Ban¬ quet. 10. “Macbeth”. 11. Aw Shucks!! 12. What’s Cookin’? 13. Bennett ' s”. 14. Outside of that-!! 15. The announcements. 16. The absence lists on Satur¬ day. 17. No wonder men leave home!! 18. The basketball game between the faculty and the girls team. 19. ' 44 and ’45 love affairs: Frankie Estes and Joe Al¬ mond; Doris Thomasson and Brevard Brown; “Pug” Wright and Jimmy Gray; Bobbie Lee Keeter and “Butch” Robin¬ son; Juanita Earls and Odell Seay; Gail Bryson and Harold Cope; All the girls and “Charlie” Moffitt; Nina Cable and Curtis Revis; “Blackie” Estes and Jonnie Maples; Elizabeth Tisdale and Harold Dugan; Dan Conner and Nor¬ ma Jean Burnette; Pearl Am¬ mons and Perc Estes. 20. That Mr. Taylor is a poet. 21. That Robert and Mary Anna are always on time for school. 22. Mrs. Wood and her dramatic gestures. 23. Afternoon activity periods. 24. The class of ' 45. 25. The election of the president and vice president of student body. 26. The absence of a junior class. 27. April 12, 1945. 28. May 8, 1945. Page Twenty

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Hail! We ' re Sophomores We have made much progress since the days back in the eighth grade, when our theme song was “Nobody ' s Darling.” Then we were misfits, outcasts from grammar school, but not yet in high school, and no one seemed to want us or care about us, except, of course, we ourselves. However, we were busy that year. We bought a flag for the school; were partly responsible for having the flag pole erected, sold over $2,000 in war bonds and stamps, and were generally regarded as the pests of the school. As freshmen, we settled down a little, for we escaped initiation. That was a quiet and uneventful year for the whole school, except for the eighth graders, to whom we showed off our superiority. Now we are sophomores, and have we had our ups and downs!! One of the biggest downs occurred when the legislature of North Carolina decided that we needed twelve years of education instead of eleven. We bemoaned this at the time, but it has its compensations, for the president of the student body and the chief marshal will come from our class for two years, and we have had the pleasure of giving the banquet, too. So now we re beginning to think it might not be so bad after all. now that we just have two more years. ”So it’s rather wistfully that we look back over this year and our class of ' wise fools.” - We are looking forward joy¬ fully to being the “love-sick juniors and the “dignified senior class of 1947. You can tell a freshman by his greenness. By his ignorance of the ways. And a junior by his love-sick mooning all the days. A senior is easily recognized by his dignity and such, But the sophomores!! You can tell them til you ' re black and blue. And you stili can ' t tell them much! CLASS OFFICERS President Secretary Treasurer Jean Minnis Smith Jean Sandlin Brevard Brown Page Twenty-Two