PHIL ROBINSON Historian On September 5, 1937, we the class of 1949, entered the portals of the Wadesboro Public Schools. This was an event of great importance to us. Miss Mary Plunkett, Mrs. Lee Ashcraft, Mrs. Joe Liles, and Miss Anne L. Massemore quieted our mothers enough to obtain owr names. For us school began. The first few weeks were filled with the hard tasks of getting ad- justed to our new surroundings—then we settled down to work. Eight years of grammar school rolled by under the capable guidance of Mrs. W. L. McKinnon, Mrs. Chase Baughn, Miss Elizabeth Webb, Miss Julia Cameron, Miss Geneva Neil, Mrs. Elinor Gray, Miss Fan- nie Dunlap, Miss Barbara Weir, Miss Alice Lampley, Miss Pauline Pinkston, Mrs. H. E. Allen, Mr. Louis Fogleman, Miss Nora Boggan, Mrs. W. W. Bennett, Mrs. W. J. Gulledge, Mrs. Winkie Daniels, Mrs. Mac Henderson, and Miss Mary Mitchell. Those eight years introduced the three R’s along with history, geography, and spelling. Our outside activities that we remember par- ticularly were our chapel programs, our dancing the minuet for Jr.-Sr., and our part in the May Day exercise when we were in the seventh grade. All this ter- minated in our eighth grade graduation exercises. The valedictorian was Margaret McRae. Frances Dawking was Salutator- ian. In 1945 we entered our second and final step at Wadesboro—we became freshmen in Wadesboro High. The events followed one another so rap- idly that it is difficult to enumerate them and give to each its place of importance. All high school experiences were not rose colored. We remember some rather pain- ful experiences; such as, detention hall, laps on the football field or in the gym, “lime as Told CIS tre IS BOIRY being last in lunch line, and examinations. W.N. Hix, J. Ray Shelton, Mrs. George Craig, Mrs. L. A. Weddington, Miss Fran- ces Moore, B. P. Robinson, Mrs. Thomas Wall, Prof. Al Paling, Mrs. Elsie Carriker, Mrs. B. P. Robinson, W. L. Wildermuth, Miss Carrie Sturgis, Miss Hermine Cara- way, Mrs. Sam Milton, Miss Mary Alice Turner and Miss Norma Smoak were our instructors for the first two years in high school. Under these, we learned to change classes (quietly), to branch out in our sub- ject matter and in other school activities. Many of our class members took part in the special activities of the school such as the annual and the newspaper. Many of us had our names to appear on the football, basketball, and baseball rosters for the first time. Our Junior year was one of our busiest years. Under the capable guidance of Miss Hermine Caraway, W. L. Wildermuth, Mrs. Thomas Wall, J. Ray Shelton, Miss Edna Gieseking, Douglas Hall, Miss Carrie Sturgis, Miss Mary Alice Turner, Mrs. Charles Little, Miss Anne Carter, and Mrs. Sam Harrell we learned what such sub- jects as geometry, chemistry, and glee club had to offer. During this year many of our class members were well known as football, basketball, and baseball players, as well as cheerleaders. Hank Wall, Phil Robinson, and Dick Liles participated in football and basketball. Dick Liles and Lee Roy Bowers played baseball. Betty Jane Coggin and Betty Rose Short played basketball for the girls. Caroline served as cheerleader. Our class sold over $1,000 worth of magazine subscriptions to earn money for Junior Senior banquet; for this the Curtis Publishing Company awarded the class a bronze plaque. The Junior- Senior Banquet was held at the Country Club, while we were juniors, for the first time in history of the W.H.S. The theme of the banquet was that of a night club. The name of it was “The Club Jr.-Sr.” Music was furnished by “The Carolinians” of Chapel Hill. Our Junior play was entitled ““Bound To Marry.” The cast included: Caroline Tay- lor, Mary Agnes Allen, Eloise Hasty, Helen Stewart, Paul Sessions, Dwight Stephenson, Dick Liles, Margaret McRae, (Continued on Page 50) Page 23
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