Vancleave High School - Time N Tide Yearbook (Vancleave, MS)

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946 Kixg PS} y ee yea ae Me Sug 93 EKy PSE if @ 52 EIGHTH HIstory In the year 1939, twenty-eight little girls and boys startea to school. Miss Potter, our first teacher, was very good to us, because all of us were sad ad very home- sick the first couvle of weeks of school. We moved on in school,though;most of us made two grades in one year. After the first year Miss Annie Mae Murphy was our teacher. Some of the pupils dropped out, some went to other a aio aid some new ones came into our class. e went from Miss Murphy's room on to the third grade where our teacher wes Misa Susie Vaughan. During the summer of 1942 our’ school building burned down, and the next year we moved into another building where Miss Susie Vauzhan was still our teacher. The next year we moved to Mrs. Walter Breeland's room, where we were taught tne fifth and six- th grades. We moved to the high school after that for the seventh grade where Mrs. George Penton, Mrs. Roland Fuller, Mr. N,C. Taconi and Mr. Leanord Long were our teachers. This year we have in the eighth grade twenty-one husky lads and lassies who are looking forward to their first year in high school. They are: Winifred Havens, Clara Ellis, Evelyn Jennings, Patsy Dees, Rosemary Ramsay, Alice Cole, Jimmie Nell Mitchell, Alice Tanner, Pearl Olsen, Billy Dee Havens, Patty Joyce Wilson, Jennie Vee Overstreet, Bobby Holden, Darnell Atwell, Max Roberts, Kenneth soy Wilson, Leon Fletcher, Bobby Moe, Charles Daniels, Wilton Holden, and Joseph j vy we as oe OCD (7 % % ei c ra f va of SE Ne = eee 37

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946 SEVENTH HISTORY During our first year in school in 1940, Miss Henrietta Potter taught the following boys and girls: Myrna Fay Allen, Gerald Holden,Addie Lee Overstreet,Frances Breeland, Myron Tillman,Van Roberts, Ellis Olsen,James Tanner, Rita Joe Walker, Laura Quave, Hazel Goff, Maxine Nix,FIloy Mav McAllister,Kenneth Walker, Edwina Havens, McIwain Vaughn, W.G. Groves,Jr., Virginia Goff, Emmie Lois Brown, Randal Ross, Martha Sue Nixon, Jacqueline Parker, Margie Harbin, Lavada Graham, and Shirley Allen. i EN x Under the leadership of Mrs.Jacob Lockard in our second and third years' work, the ed- ucational road we traveled was smooth and uneventful. We were pleased to welcome Dixie Curry and Gertrude Broadus into our class. 3% oO The following year we were happy to be instructed by our beloved,Miss Susie Vaughan. This was one of our most outstanding years in ‘ elementary school. We are still puzzled and q wonder how in the world Miss Susie made that dull subject, geography, so very interesting to us. One new student, Alvin Williams, join- ed our class in the fourth grade. Slilie . - ff ores In the fifth grade under Mrs. Breeland our largest number of new pupils, seven in all,became part of our class. They were: Estelle Holden, Dimple Whiddon, J.%. Turner, Lilly Blanchard,Guy McMillan,Charles Andrews and J.D. Doswell. % ‘27, Again under Mrs. Breeland in the sixth grade three new members joined our class---- James Penton, Roy Walker, and William Karman AS Lega. a! V