Tarboro High School - Tar Bo Rah Yearbook (Tarboro, NC)

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(ttlaaa Biatory O, UR task of being educated almost finished, we stand now the greater part of the class that began the routine under Miss Mary Bridgers in 1920. For seven years we labored and taxed our brains, hoping some day to reach high school. Miss Donald went from the second to the third grade with us. We all remember the Springtime play that she gave, including every member in the room. In the fifth grade we made men out of candy, figs, and mlarshmallows. Th is little incident has remained with us. In the sixth grade, we started in the high school building; the change was hardly noticeable. At last we entered high school, sixty strong, with Miss Dedmon and Miss Mobley as our teachers. As soon as the novelty of changing classes wore off, we longed for vacation. In the ninth grade we were under Miss Levy, until the boys were given to Mr. Simpson. This rather separated us, but we had class meetings in M iss Levy’s room whenever anything important came up. Then came the third high school year. We were Juniors at last. The banquet was our main thought. As times were so hard, we could have only a limited number of entertainments with two or three faculty meetings before each one. The Beauty Contest was a success, Alyce Weeks being chosen queen. Stunt night was also a success. Finally, enough money was raised for the banquet. Under tbs unerring leadership of cur teacher, Mrs. Maricn Corbett, we gave a banquet which deserves to be marked down in our history. Being satisfied with our Junior year, we prepared to take our place as the Senior Class of 1931. What little ideas we had of how much work this Senior year meant ! There was money to be raised - caps and gowns — invitations - the year book - everywhere we turned something else to consider. This last year in school will always take first place in our mem¬ ories of dear old Tarboro High. After many struggles and failures, we have reached our goal-the goal fcr which we have worked these eleven years. We are extremely proud to say that cut of the four debaters who went to Chapel Hill, three are in our class. Jim Simmons, our president, worthily represented Tarboro High School in the oratorical contest spon¬ sored by the American Legion. Then, there is our Beauty Queen - Ruth Langley. Last, but not least, and the one to whom we owe the most credit is M iss Ethel Sheridan, our untiring, faithful teacher; for without her,we would have been a helpless class. So closes the last page of our history; for it is time now not to look backward but forward, and to see what the coming years have in store for us.

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Ait Srmtir iFrnm (ttlaBa nf ’31 We come tonight to tell you, dear old friends and pals. Just how our hearts beat in us, as forever more they shall; And though it’s love that binds us to each familiar face, The echo of something higher calls from another place. Proudly, but well, we have worked under you as our teachers then, Yet, tonight we say with appreciation, “It never shall be again.” We’ve shown our loyalty by doing as you directed; The faults are forgotten, only the good is recollected. Then to each of you we say, “Good-bye one and all,” We intend to climb upward and onward, but never shall we fall. We give credit to our teachers, who worked hand in hand To bring their struggling pupils to a higher and mere worthy stand. Once again our hearts beat heavy-for a two-fold purpose now- We say good-bye to friend and teacher with this solemn vow: “We, the Class of ’31, have gained life’s first stronghold, And whom could we honor for it, but the dear old Blue and Geld”? -Ruth Langley, Poet.

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BalriUrtory ONIGHT is the night when we shall bid farewell to all of our class mates, teachers, and friends. Long have we looked forward to this night which will soon be one of the sweet memories of the past. Tonight we close one chapter of our life, and now we are locking on a new chapter. We leave the hopes and accomplishments of the past and look forward to tlve future. We know that from now on, we shall live a new life and occupy new positions. Through the eleven years of school, we have studied and worked hard to reach our goal. Some have dropped out, but the others have kept together, and tonight is probably the last time we shall be together in school. From cur teachers we have acquired knowledge, which will in later life help us onward to new and higher positions. The lessons that we have learned will give to us the power and self-reliance required to secure the successes which we seek. Whatever of honor and health we may hereafter win in the world, we shall largely owe to our school, which has showed to us the means of success. Let us, then, remember our school with a proud and gratified feeling. To the teachers who have been so kind and helpful to us, we bid farewell, hoping that they will always remember the best side of us and not the worst. Although we haven’t always cooperated with you, we now appre¬ ciate the wisdom and consideration that you have shown to us in your plans. We are grateful for everything that you have done, and these things will always linger in our memories of school. And now, classmates, we must soon separate, never again to unite in the schoolroom. Never again shall we meet as we are now. Our success or failure will be determined by the manner in which we meet our responsi¬ bilities and opportunities of the future. I c n wish nothing higher or happpier for us than that through our lives, in joy and sorrow, in bright sunshine and deepest shadow, there may remain with us the consciousness of duty well performed, of suffering nobly endured, and of life faithfully lived. In the hope of such a future, with many pleasant memories of school days, and with the assurance of an unfailing, affectionate remembrance, I bid you good-by. - Frances Rogerson, Valedictorian. I f SB®