Union High School - Gleam Yearbook (Union, SC)

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Steuogs No Longer To Be Student Secretaries In other years Young Stenogs served as student secre- taries to the teachers of Union High. This year, however, this ceasedto be true. The club dropped this activity from its list. If a teacher desired the special assistance of one of the members, it was given, but specific secre- taries were not assigned the teachers as in time past. Any senior girl who had taken shorthand and typing in both her junior and senior years and had averaged 85 or higher was acceptable to the club. An initiation fee of 81.50 was required of each member. Meetings were held during regular class periods. With Miss Robinson and Mrs. Warr as sponsors, the club members tried to increase their efficiency in typing and shorthand in order to make better future secretaries. They learned that to be a good secretary one must be willing to practice and work hard toward perfection. A Christmas party just before Christmas holidays was a main event for the members of the club. Refreshments were paid for from the treasury. Singing carols and chatting with friends served as entertainment. YOUNG STENOCS CLUB. Bottom: Ferrol Teague, president, Karen Cagle, vice-president, Linda Smith, Janice Gregory, treas- urer, Brenda Holcombe, Vera Stepp, Dana Kay Rogers. Second Row: Mary Alice Abee, Brenda Garner, Margie Green, Patsy LeMaster, Janet McGowan, Brenda Boulware, Brenda Baker. Cutting stencils in the typing room as a part of their training as future secretaries are Young Stenogs Ann, Brenda, Linda, Ferrol, Janice, and Karen. Third Row: Mulloy Barnett, Barbara Hall, Carol Todd, Lois Brewington, Angela Arthur, Janet Palmer, Elaine Bailey. Top: Peggy Brown, Joyce Betenbaugh, Ann Colson, Jerri Bradburn, Juanita Faulks, Dale Addison, Sammie Ridgeway, Ann Brannon.

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Speec Club Members Give Play In Assembl Nancy Pitts and Ruth Hodges are quite aroused in a debate over Nixon and Kennedy, as Vice-President Jimbo Fowler tries to keep order. The others members of the Speech club listen attentively. SPEECH CLUB. Bottom: Wayne Hutcherson, president, Jimmy Fowler, vice-president, Gaye Dulin, secretary, Rebecca Teague, ffea-WTGTS Johnny Epps, Marilyn Mahan, Harriet Bishop Ferrol Teague, Joan Davis, Jean Anderson, Ruth Humphries. Second Row: Butch Ashmore, Judith Gilliam, Ann Conley, Larry Bailey, Johnny Smith, Sandy Black, Walker Smith, Gwen VVyatt, Elaine Brown, Cecil Scott, Bill Vieth. Third Row: Gleen White, Jo Wix, Around National election time, the members of the Speech club held a Presidential debate, with each side being equally represented. This gave every member a chance to debate in public as well as to express his opin- ion on the election. In April the two speech classes gave a one-act play, One Happy F amily,', in assembly. The play was given twice, with one class presenting it for the lower grades the other class presenting it for the upper grades. In order to be eligible for membership in the Speech club, one had to be, or to have been, a member of one of the speech classes, and while maintaining an average of 85 in speech and in English. The membership of the club was 50. The purpose of the organization was to teach its members correct emphasis, posture, poise, and voice control. Five helps for memorizing were stressed for all stu- dents of speech. They were as follows: Qlj Copy pass- age into notebook, Q25 Memorize thought, not lines, f3JNote how each thought follows the preceding one, MJ Get the feel of the rhythm, 15D Note and learn the words that rhyme. Doris Johnson, Amelia Ann Cody, Mulloy Barnette, Brenda Garner, Mickey Cranford, Kay Shetley, Linda Bates, Ray Lybrand, Roger Waldrop. Top: Vance Hightower, Gene Patterson, Patty Dawkins, Ruth Hodges, Nancy Pitts, Baylus Johnson, Madison Greene, Ezell Willard, Hubert Sprouse, Bobby Joe Gibbs, Robert Edens, Carl Ba er.

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Preacher,s childreni' Dennis and Judy, briefly defy their fatheris wishes as they Charleston to the tune of Chips, uke, with Beverly, Barbara and Kathleen watching. Toni and Bill watch breathless as emtionalism flares between preacher Ralph and choir leader Betsy while Dennis with upraised arm threatens umamas boyi' Bruce. lunior Pla Depicts Personal Life Cf Preacher One Foot in Heavenf, staged by the junior class on Friday evening, December 2, portrayed the life of a Methodist ministeris family in the early 1900's. Based on the biography of Hartzell Spense, a young minister, the play was filled with many true-to-life experiences. From this book, Stanley Adams read prologue and continuity passages as the play proceeded. Coming into a new parish whose residents were selfish and prejudiced, the Reverend and Mrs. Spence QRalph Phillips and Toni Callrnanj and their children, Eileen and Hartzell fjudy Guinn and Dennis Russelll, faced problems concerning racial distinction and religious in- terpretation. JUNIOR PLAY CAST. Seated: jan Pitts, Judy Gwinn, Beverly Cain, Dennis Russell, Kathleen Berry. Standing: Fredia Smith, Mike Strahley, Ansley Lyon, Stokes Felder, Ralph Phillips, Bill Maria Mendoza, a talented Mexican girl QBarbara Richardsonj was a frequent topic of discussion. Another good friend of the children, and especially of Hartzell, was Louise CKathleen Berryl who offered the audience several enjoyable moments of music on an old pump organ. Ronnie, Eileenis boyfriend who played the uku- lele, was acted by Chip Linder. Molly, a career-minded teenager, was played by Beverly Cain. Dr. Romer fBill Crahamj was an outspoken old gentle- man who proved to be a loyal friend of the parsonage family. The leaders of the church who were critical at first and who later gave up their childish ways were as follows: Mrs. Cambridge, played by jane Pitts, Major Cooper, Stokes Felder, and Mrs. Digby, Betsy Anderson. Graham, Chip Linder, Bruce Barnado, Toni Gallman, Errol Hicks, Hettie Fowler, Barbara Richardson, Betsy Anderson.