Sylva High School - Hurricane Yearbook (Sylva, NC)

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Class History 1952 ..... In September about one hundred and twenty anxious freshmen assembled along with the more sophisticated upperclassmen to begin the school year. We wondered if we would ever find our way around. Somehow order was created out of chaos and we settled down to work. We elected Ronnie Russell, President, and James Stevens, Vice President of our class. As the year wore on, we gradually began to feel more sure of ourselves, and before we knew it, our freshman year was over. 1953 ..... Most of us returned as sophomores feeling like old timers in this business of going to high school. This year Gary Dillard was elected President and Sara Bumgarner was elect- ed Vice President. Several members of our class were selected to serve as waiters and waitresses for the Junior-Senior Banquet. There were parties, football and basketball games, club activities, afternoons at the drugstore, and of course studying. Two years had passed and again came the end of school. 1954 ..... Our Junior year, and now we were really in the swing of things. At our yearly election we elected Lois Bradley, President, and Jerry Beasley, Vice President. Again came foot- ball games, parties, and studying, but now we had to raise money for our own Junior -Senior Ban- quet, pick out our rings, and select our caps and gowns. By a lot of hard work we managed to have a really successful banquet, the Stork Club, featuring Sammy Beck and his Royal Canadians and many other famous entertainers. Then came the time to see the Seniors off to Washington and New York and sit on the sidelines at graduation for the last time. We were really excited when our rings arrived and school came to a close. 1955 ..... Seniors! We finally made it. This year we were the ones to elect superlatives, publish the annual, go to Washington and New York, and finally walk up on the stage in our white caps and gowns to receive our diplomas. This year Jerry Beasley served as President of the class and Charles Mason, Vice President. 1956 ..... And as all good things come to an end, the final chapter closes on our four years as students at Sylva High. Soon we will be among its alumni, but it will always find a warm place in our hearts, and our memories of it will always go with us. Nell Robinson Class Prophecy Years have rolled past and the Sylva High Senior Class of 1956 are gathering from all parts of the world for a class reunion. What a contrast between these successful adults and the carefree boys and girls we were at commencement! Some of the people I don't even recognize, but by questioning I soon have met all of those who were my classmates, the alumni of '56, Seated at a vantage point I spy two old pals, Lois Bradley and Norma Jones. of course Lois is married to Bill Queen, an engineer in South America, and they have those twelve children. Norma has become a supervisor of nurses at John Hopkins Hospital. After greeting the girls, I learn that Joan Bumgarner is a model for Christian Dior's Parisian line of clothing, and Glenda Denton also is in Paris, studying art at the Sorbonne. A woman rushes up to say hello, and I finally recognize her as Carole Allison, who has real- ized her ambition and is driving a transfer truck for Overnite. Carole tells me that the freight company is owned by Harold Moses, and working as his right-hand men are Sara Revis and Frances Stiles, who in high school were so good at shorthand. I meet others in rapid succession. Standing in a corner are six old friends who all were school bus drivers at Sylva High - - Bill Akens, now a school bus manufacturer, James Beck, a colonel in the U. S. Marines, Vernon Cabe, famous for his picture on Wildroot hair oil, Charles Cope, North Carolina Commissioner of Motor Vehicles, Ray Ferguson, succeeding Haydn as Jackson County Highway patrolrnan, and Dean Stephens, commander of the battleship Mighty Mo, '