Swansboro High School - Pirate Yearbook (Swansboro, NC)

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CLASS HI TORY School days, school days, dear old golden rule days. . . Now that the time is coming for us to leave schoolwe realize that these days have been good days. No matter howfar we go we'll always remember the good times we had at Swansboro School. It seems like only yesterday when we began school under Miss Elizabeth Tolson, now Mrs. Venters, in 1942. Our class was the largest in school with sixty-nine of us all in one room. How we learned to read and write was a miracle. We used to play cowboys and Indians in the woods back of the building and after that the teacher would make us rest our heads on the tables. Those were the days when the teachers let us develop our artistic skill drawing on the blackboards and playing games. We still have happy memories of our school days when Miss Maude Ervin was our teacher for the second and third grades. We enjoyed making pictures of the pilgrims and even made a little notebook about some of the presidents. In the fourth grade we took a trip around the world in our geography book with Mrs. Capps, who is now Mrs. Marvin Hatsell, as teacher. The memory of those hundreds of multiplication problems still haunts us. One thing we could never forget about the fifth grade was those wonderful books Mrs. Weeks used to read to us. Mrs. Lillian Ray was our teacher in the sixth grade and she helped us start our Junior American Citizens' Club and we also took part in some speaking contests and made some scrap- books. . We were very disappointed in the seventh grade when our class had to be dividedg some of us were taught by Miss Rosemary Canady and some by Mrs. Barringer. We rejoiced at the arrival of the many nice students from the White Oak School who came to be with us that year. However, in the eighth grade friends were reunited under Mr. Farnell. By that time our knowledge consisted of a little more than the three R's, for boys started slicking back their hair andthe girls began experiments with lipstick and perfume. Anne Kellum joined our class during this year. Our hearts were saddened, however, toward the end of the year by the death of Onnie Cole. High school days were really super! Remember that first day in 1950 when we tried to fill out our schedules for changing classes? What a time we had going from one room to the next, meeting three or four teachers a day! As freshmen some went out for sports, while some were content keeping company with those loads of books. It was then that Georgiana Howard joined our class. Could we ever forget the trips to the State Fair ? Or, how about when we used to look up to all the students whom we thought were really super, Times have really changed! The next rung in our ladder of education was entrance into the sophomore class and, of course, no sophomore course would be complete without becoming entangled with Silas Marner. Mrs. Warf succeeded in getting several of the class to write poems and parodies and we came out with a few of those insignificant masterpieces. It was during our sophomore year that we were joined by Mary Sandefur, who is now Mrs. Guthrie. Then came that momentous year when we bought our class rings and really began to feel like somebody, Many of our number were rewarded for their labors by being admitted into the Beta Club. And, of course, we remember the fun we had learning our Junior Class Play and trying Mrs. Warf's patience while we practiced. Some aroused their patriotism for a short while---at least long enough to give some speeches. Our class was glad to receive Bill and Calvin Duplissey as a part of us, but we again suffered the loss of a classmate in the death of Edna Bright just before the close of that year's studies. Others ofour class finished during the summer and we lost still others because they hired a man to say, I now pronounce you man and wife. The school year was climaxed with the Junior-Senior banquet and our part in the last year's class day exercises, At last that fateful day came when on August 28, 195 3, we were officially recognized as dig- nified seniors although that title wasn't really applicable to all of us. Mr. Frazelle and Mrs. Hurst were our sponsors. We studied grammar the first semester as much as we ever did in the grammar grades and capped off our English course with the reading of Macbeth which many of us blamed for the bad dreams we had the next few nights. We sponsored the Sadie Hawkin's Dance in November and gave our senior class play, One Foot in Heaven, in March. We enjoyed our Junior-Senior banquet very much. That moment climaxed our twelve years of hard labor was the awarding of the little notice which means in essence, He's through, thank the Lord! We've learned by experience what the Bible means by earning things by the sweat of the brow. That's the way it happened and when it was over we were some kinda happy!

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