Taylor County High School - Sampler Yearbook (Perry, FL)

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Owen Raulerson “A tall and stately boy is he, fond of ladies' company Virginia McCall “The windy satisfaction of the tongue. Frank Sapp “The sport he tackles best is any good ole American sport. Billy McLeod “Don't let your studies interfere with your high school educa- tion. Irene Mantzanas “If worry were the only cause of death, should live forever. Ellis Ray Parker “Small in stature, deep in mind, a jollier pal you could never find. Janie Massey “This young lady, we are sorry to say, was not content, single to stay. Lowery Wentworth ‘7 like the dreams of the future bitter than the history of the past. Edwin Williams “My faithful dog, my trusty gun: a bag of game, a day well done.

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SENIORS Hazel Sauls “If silence were golden, she would be a pauper. Ray NeSmith “Never idle, never still; always smiling, always will.” Etheleen Register “Her voice was ever soft, gentle, and low; an excellent thing in a woman. Richmond Peacock “When fun and duty clash, let duty go to smash.” Louis Shaw “Great men are dying, I don’t feel very well myself. Imogene Simons “If she will, she will, and you may depend on it, but if she won’t, she won’t, so there! Donald Rice “He’d stop Saint Peter’s roll call to ask a question.” Shirley Parker “Better to be small and shine than to be large and cast a shadow.”

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CLASS HISTORY In 1939 we, the first small shoots of inexperienced plants, show'ed up in the green- house where we w£re planted at T.C.H.S. We were in the small greenhouse near the large building where the senior plants were kept. These first plants were Jackie Lynch, Don Rice, J. H. Tedder, Lowery Wentworth. Hazel Sauls. Richmond Peacock, Carolyn Hicks, John Walker, Ben Whitfield, Ray NeSmith, Wilson Hendry, Joan Glickman, Irene Mantzanas. Billy Warren, Ira Landry, Erma Lee Langford. Johnny Willis, Charles Holmes, Frank Sapp, Bettie Lynn, Ellis Ray Parker, Gordon Davis, Billy McLeod, and James Franklin. Under excellent care we grew through two trying years uninterrupted. In the third grade an excellent plant, Betty Inman, was transplanted from Salem to our thriving group. During our fourth year we were all carefully uprooted and transplanted to a new greenhouse across town. Here in strange surroundings our growth was retarded somewhat; however, after a period of readjustment we again resumed our normal growth. It seemed a short time until we were rejoined by Carolyn Hicks, a sturdy plant that had spent a year away from us in Panama City. Again we found that we were to he moved, this time to the main greenhouse. With eager and expectant faces we faced the bewildering maze of rooms, halls, and sophisticated seniors, who threw us wilting glances. A new fellow plant from Foley was Vivian Howell. In our eighth year we were joined by a sturdy shrub from Jacksonville, Virginia Mann. Our growth was once again becoming normal. Although we bore the marks of freshmen cuttings, we were strengthened by shipments from South Carolina, Live Oak, Shady Grove, Louisiana, Pleasant Grove, and Cabbage Grove. These were Bonnie Ruth Baggett, Ethleen Register, Lowery Wentworth, Richmond Peacock, Russell Tedder, and Janet Page, respectively. The next year, an extremely sturdv plant from Cabbage Grove joined us—Shirley Whiddon. In our junior year we were joined by these healthy specimens from Foley: Louis Shaw, La Nell Bethea, Robert Jackson, Owen Raulerson, Edwin Williams, Imogene Simons, Newana Chesser, Shirley Parker, Cecil Carlton, Virginia McCall, Harry Hall, and Janie Massey. We were also joined by Jackie Lynch from Georgia; Tommie Towles from Salem; Lawton Grantham from Pleasant Grove; Muriel Dice and Jacky Alvarez. In our final year we were joined by Hilda Daniel from Tallahassee and Erma Lee Langford, who was at another greenhouse for a year. Under our Chief-Cultivators, Boyd and Robinson, wre wrere carefully trimmed and pruned for our last year. We enjoyed all the privileges given and took as many as w'e dared until that eventful night when we received our diplomas and became “graduated shrubs.”