Wadesboro High School - Tiger Tales Hi Ways Yearbook (Wadesboro, NC)

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Hass Soug (Tune: “Pomp and Circumstance” ) Loyalty! Seniors! Forever we'll give Our love, work, and service Our lives to help live. Long years together We've worked and we've played, The goal that we strived for Toward this goal we grew; “The higher we climb, The broader our view.” It’s hard to part When heart to heart, We've lived, loved, and dreamed, and Know dreams will come true. We sing to you, Dear white and blue! Loyal and loving We will ever be! Loyal forever, Class of 743. —CHARLES STEVENS, CAROLINE HILt. Class Poem As we, the departing seniors, Move on to make way for the new, We think of the things we’d forgotten, The things we had planned to do. The remembrance of glorious achievement, Of the ardent, burning desire To succeed in the undertakings That set our hearts afire, Of the earnest, unceasing striving, With the ultimate goal in sight, To build our strength and wisdom, To distinguish wrong from right, Returns with a surge of emotion, As the parting of ways draws near, And we'll fondly treasure the memory Of all that to us is so dear. ==MORTo VIL GH EEE

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$ VALLIE LOWE ANNABEL ALLEN LULA WELSH DAVIDSON EVA HOLDER President Vice-President Secretary and Treasurer Adviser Wadesboro High School CLASS OF 1943 Motto—“The higher we climb, the broader our view.” FLOWER—White Rose. CoLORS—Blue and white. Mascots of the Class of ‘43 Charles and Clayton Burns

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Hass History Class Historian Rebecca Jones @e LONG JOURNEY is over—an- other has just begun. A beautiful take-off sends the expertly piloted airplanes soaring upward to the sky. For twelve, long, end- less years a dauntless crew have patiently prepared themselves to land these planes safely in their chosen fields in the land of tomorrow. The training of these mighty pilots started when the parents of these air-minded girls and boys first brought them to the WADES- BORO PILOT’S TRAINING SCHOOL. It was early recognized by instructors Liles and Plunkett that these students were defi- nitely making the sky the limit; therefore they immediately began laying the founda- tion for students whose ideals were stretch- ing upward toward the sky. Before the students could learn to fly, it was necessary for them to learn the parts of the airplane in which they would travel. Thus it became the task of instructors Leak and Baughan to teach them the fundamental parts. These were reading, writing, and arithmetic which would be used throughout their entire training and the knowledge of which would govern the progress they made. By the aid of head instructors Gray, Gul- ledge, and Bennett the students learned to operate the parts of the plane in every de- tail. Here many months of experiment and theory prepared this class for their actual practice flying. Then it became the task of instructors Pinkston, Allen, Dunlap, and Boggan to put into practice the theories learned during the early years of training. Although some rough days were exper- ienced, no fatal crack-ups occurred and after intensive training under chief instructors Cunningham, Gulledge, Johnson, and Wilder- muth the class was prepared to solo. How thrilled they were when they were at last on their own. This year the class was divided because different landing fields were being sought. Some excellent take-offs were made, but storms of study drove some of the planes down in the Latin landing fields. But with the aid of instructors Stancel, Stough, and later Kirby the planes were again able to take off and lookouts Morris and Cartier for English and science saw them pass high over their fields. This year, under the direc- tion of instructor Cartier, a few planes joined the band that was organized. The flying in this field was smooth and at the end of the year the planes competed in a national fly- ing contest. The contest was tough, but the planes came out in second place. In the contest some of the pilots received special recognition and medals for their superb fly- ing. All went well until a small group of planes got lost and cracked-up in the algebra airport. Some of the planes were not badly damaged and through the aid of able instruc- tor Johnson most of the planes were re- paired and again sent on their way. After the loss of these planes the remain- ing planes continued their course. Some forced landings were made in the fields of —— | Pc te ‘