Union High School - Gleam Yearbook (Union, SC)

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11 Kfazid S WE leave this childish era And advance to higher places We are led toward greater height By a torch light in our laces. Many times we've heard the cry. --Follow yonder steadfast light: It will bless you during day: it will brighten darlcest night. We have come to lil-e's first crossroads: We lrnow not which way to turn: Faith and Courage, light the way now: in our hearts forever hurnl POE We have finished one long journey-f Happy schooldays now are lied: Yesterdays have passed lilce breezes. Our tomorrows loom ahead. Oh. those hygonc days were full ones. Full ol all manner ol' things. But they're gone. gone now forever. Fled on great and silver wings. Our tomorrows will he filled. too: We must strive as well as dream: But we'll ever lreep heiore us Our motto, Follow the C-leamf' .-JOAN EDWARDS Cf... HISTORY T WAS in Septemher. 1947, that we, a large group ol' shy hut amhitious youngsters, entered Union High to hegin what has proved to he the most glorious part of our entire school career. All sections oi our county were represented as students came from the towns. from textile areas. and lrom farms. And it came to pass, as we did enter this place. we were received with wild welcomings and rejoicings hy many who had preceded us and who were now leading the way up the slippery hy-ways of knowledge. We were also received with malicious glee hy a certain hand oi wild heings called upper- classmen who. because oi their fierce dislilce for Suh-lireshmen. did pounce upon us daily and nightly. We took this treatment as our part. and it was not until the next year that we hegan to he recognized as a part oi high school. Before we realized it, our first year was over. As we roamed the campus oi our school we tell in with the customs ol' the inhahitants thereof. and their strangeness wore away. and we each hecame as one among the rest. We had the distinct honor ol' heing one ol the first classes to have access to the then new gymnasium and cafeteria. By this time another nine months had passed and we en- tered the ninth grade, realizing that this was really and truly our iirst year ol high school lite. it is also easy to understand that we were more than glad to give up our unenviable posi- tion as the uluahiesn oi Union High. We also rejoiced inecause we were allowed to choose our own subjects. Some selected the easier courses. hut many ol' the iarighter and more amhitious students plunged into the complexities of Latin and Science. Nevertheless. we had a most interesting and enjoyahle fresh- man year. Upnn entering the tenth grade we had reached second hase. By now we could participate even more in the upper-grade activities. Vve were lreginning to get a taste oi what high school really was lilce. We entered wholeheartedly into all activities. such as voting. helping in campaigns, and hecoming memhers oi the Student Council. in the tenth grade we got into the groove and started feeling our importance. Only those of you who recall the time when you, too. were juniors can imagine the happiness we experienced upon finding ourselves in that important position. Our Junior Class was a class unique. It was distinctive. We had many highlights, hut the one of greatest importance was our junior play. EVERY i:AMlLY HAS ONE. Although only a few memhers ol the junior class could actively participate in the play. the cooperae tion oi the rest ol' the juniors was a contrihuting factor to the success of it. Yes, l thinlc l can truly say that our junior year was one unsurpassed hy any preceding class. Now we come to this, our senior year. We have now reached our goal and the path that we have traveled was not an easy one. it required much studying. much worlr. and many great responsibilities. We are also the first class to graduate under the new county-unit system. As the years go hy we'll cherish each fond memory of our days at Union High. To those who have worlced with us and encouraged us to strive tor higher goals we. the Senior Class of 1953. express our appreciation. in coming years our aim will he to set forth the high ideals that you have faithfully set heiore us. We shall ever strive to follow the gleam. .-WALLACE CULP.

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C RTAIN C LL '41, W. Vi- V- Aidf' i . JQCA gdffy The Senior Class ol i953 has joy in fleclicating this volume to one ol Union Highls most loelovecl faculty members, lXlR. JACK BARRY, Direvtor of lwlusic. Your humor and your unlailing willingness to help . . . the lad that you speak a language which stuolents unclerstancl . . . your mastery ol ilu- art ol relieving a tense situation . . . lor this and more, DIR. BARRY, we are appre- ciative ancl grateful. si Directing IAY BARRY, rvuclv for u riclv 75

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CE... GRU BLINGS VIZRYONE says that fm n big grumhlcr. so l'll take the opportunity to tell you what I think ol' this so-called high school. First ot all rd like to warn you that I have my dueling pistols with meg so it anybody doesn't like what l say, just take your choice of the weapons. I know that all of you have wondered why our teachers are forever hollering that we have no school spirit. li we try to have a littte spirited fun in school they throw us out on Olll' IIPHJS. t've just ahout come to the conclusion that to pass you either have to he a genius with a hrnin the size of a washpot or just a plain dumli moron, If you have all the virtues and matte the National Honor Society. you'll get there all right: it you don't listen, don't try in class, and mnlce ips on all tests. the teachers will pass you just to get rid of you. We llltljlui' lll0l'l ll0n'l IIEIVC 8 CllllHL0l in some schools there is a day when the whole student tmdy is dismissed to watch n ljoothalt game in which the senior hoys play the junior hoys: hut what do we do? We go right on to classes. Our school is plenty hig enough to have a holiday game at leust once every six weeks. And another thing . . . The teachers will tell us to read the next ljew pages in our hooks, and then the following day aslc us all kinds of questions on the lesson so that they can find out what it is all uhuut, I suppose. This must he so: because it they knew already, they woujdrft have to ask us so many hard-to-aw swer questions. Theytre not fair to school-hus drivers, either, they make the pupils sit at attention and he so good all day that when school is out in the afternoon there is n mad rush for the tmuses and so much unlaxing on them that the huses and drivers hoth are practically disjointed on the trip home. We all ltnow how cold it was hurl: in the winter. Boy. it was so cold that it you said anything you hail to pirli up your words and put them on the radiator to thaw 'em out. Well, on one ot' these certain days a few ol us were standing in the front ol' the new huihting detrosting and a certnin teacher came along and told us to get out . . . that lvtr, .leter had said that everyone should he out in the tresh air. Vve were turnetl out in the teeth-chattering r'ti LI while she joined other teachers at a hen party in the typing room. Guess they think that they don't need a breath ol' fresh air: hut it l blew oft as much hot air as some ol them do It's a tunny thing to me why they use the word free in reference to public schools and especially this school system. Wi' go to 5l'!l00l tWl'IN'1' yPHfS Und Hlfk Olll' Ilftlilltl UYPI' all sorts ol' things like Algebra. lrrench Spanish, and ull the rest ot 'emg then what'f? Graduation time comes and we have to Buy the diploma! After my twelve years ol' it l have reached this conclusion No matter how you look at school and classes, they are like a T-Model Ford: a lots ot nuts in the rear and un old rusty cranlc up front. -ROY GRA! JY,