Temple Hill High School - Templar Yearbook (Castlewood, VA)

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CLASS HISTORY The history of the senior class is a record of what we, the class cf 1946, have accomplished during our high school career. It seems hard to realize that we, now as seniors, confronting you in all our strength and beauty with the wealth of experience written on our various features, were ever a group of empty-headed youngsters with nothing in our empty brains. Since then, we have indeed accomplished something to be thankful for, but I hear a critic cry out, Ho, that cannot be true, we always hear of Freshmen standing at the foot of a steep hill up which they are obliged to climb before they reach the diploma which hangs on high. This criticism applys to those other days. Whom shall we thank? First of all, we want to extend ou r deep appreciation and thankfulness to the school board, the Superintendent for his wise choice of teachers, and our principals, who have prepared and helped us with our studies. Next, our teachers, who haw so patiently and faithfully worked over our empty brains for the past four years. Last, our parents. It was they, who urged us on to our goal of graduation. It is true sorre strange things have happened since that far-off September morning of 1942 when we en- tered high schodas Freshmen. There were 75 of us, then. That day all was strange and new to us. Some of us have been together since the first grade; Ma?y Ruth Banner, James Dickenson, Betty Nell Salyer, Mildred Campbell, George Campbell, Estelle Bratton, Sally Jessee, Stanley Banner Lois Kiser, Mildred Couch, and May me Saddler. From Emerson came Bennie Johnson, Paul Burke, Marvin Byington, Nettie Castle, Elaine Byington, Henry Dotson and H. B. Isaacs, Jr; From Dorton came Wilma Byington, J. R. Welch, Jr., and Robert Porter. From Sunny point came Muriel Wolfe, Thomas Salyer; and Lorene Horne. From Hamlin came June Hamm, Georgia Parks, and Neil Halo. From Sulphur Springs came Harold Carty ( Chick ).