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

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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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Next Year “Tats “Sime LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT To All Whom This May Concern: We, the seniors of 1949, of Wadesboro High School, being of sane mind and sound body to hereby execute this last will and testament in the following manner: To Mr. Wildermuth, our kind-hearted and thoughtful superintendent, we leave our gratitude for his special efforts to lend support in all our undertakings. To Mr. Shelton, our loyal principal, we leave our sincere appreciation for all the problems he has helped us solve. To Miss Sturgis, our beloved teacher, we leave our love for the excellent job she has done in the last year of our high school life. To the faculty, we leave our deep and genuine appreciation for their hard work a nd enduring patience. To the class of 1950, we leave the honor of following in our footsteps; also the privilege of occupying the front seats in chapel. To the class of 1951, we leave all the headaches of planning the Junior-Senior Banquets. To the class of 1952, we leave all our hopes for a successful high school life. The following seniors have bequeathed the following traits: I, Dwight Stephenson, do leave my ability to preside over the Senior Class to the president of the Class of 1950. We, Esther Covington and Becky Allen, do leave Norwood and all its boys to Amelia Hildreth. I, Eloise Hasty, do leave my jolliness and also my boisterous laughter to Ruth Treadaway. I, Addie Milks, do leave my slenderness to Lois Turner. I, Doris Scott, do leave Med Northcutt to any girl who can get him. I, Eloise Horne, do leave my quiet ways to Jo Alyce Lackey. I, Margaret McRae, do leave Mvetnore oughness in work to Clyde Wright. I, Agnes Gilmore, do leave my senior dignity to Margaret Moore. I, Allelia Gray, do leave my business- like ways to Lib Faulkner. ELSIE MOORE Testator I, Julia Ross Teal, do leave my winning personality to Faye Stogner. I, Cora Lee Sellars, do leave my ability to be the first engaged senior to Ruth Wright. I, Caroline Taylor, do leave my musical ability to Claudia Marsh. I, Tillie Kelly, do leave my love for sailors to Vonnette Melton. I, J. C. Carter, do leave my interest in women to Don Trexler. I, Betty Rose Short, do leave my ability to talk incessantly and mostly about noth- ing to Mildred Starling. We, Christine Tarleton, Willie Horne, and Lois Hildreth, do leave our giggling ways to Jessie McRae and Delores Short. I, Herbert Ingram, do leave my ability to sing solos in homeroom to Dick Roper. We, William Almond, Lee Roy Bowers, and Paul Sessions, do leave our quiet man- ners to Douglas Britt, Buddy Rogers, and Joe Harkey. We, Mary Elinor Covington, and Betty Jane Coggin, do leave our places on the basketball team to Sara Elizabeth Moore and Carole Gray. I, Charles Gathings, do leave my execu- tive ability to next year’s president of Student Council. I, Sylvia Farris, do leave my ability to walk in every morning just as the last bell rings to Fetzer Mills. I, Dorothy Lookabill, do leave my flirty ways to Willie Mae Gaddy. We, Joyce Brower and Emmy Lou Lewis, do leave our secrets to any person that has as many as we have. I, Maxine Henley, do leave my friendly smiles to Helen Howard. We, Doris Ann Talent and Vera Sings, do leave our love for out-of-town boys to Barbara Russell. | (Continued on Page 50) Page 24