Wakelon High School - Wak Igh An Yearbook (Zebulon, NC)

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4567112777 fbias' Hkfady A bunch of excited first graders on that pleasant September morning in 1940 boarded the train destination, Wisdom, with Mrs. Fred Page and Mrs. Robert Dawson as engineers. lt was a long journey but finally most of us had learned to read and write so we ventured forth into the second grade where Miss Ruby Stell and Miss Dean Hardison were our engineers, and we learned to write instead of printing. We went on with Miss Mary Barrow and Miss Batchlor as engineers. The next year we took up the study of geography under our engineers, Mrs. Helen Gregory and Miss Thomp- son. Miss Annie Lou Austin was our only new engineer in the fifth grade where we beganthestudy of history and also began to wonder if the journey would ever end. Mrs. Gregory remained with us while we journeyed on into far away places. We found ourselves with two new engineers the sixth year, Mrs. Anderson and Miss Rebecca Marley. Soon we reached the junior high point. Under the able leadership of our engineers, Mrs. Falc Bunn and Mrs. Horton, we finished the seventh grade and now had to go oneto the eighth grade. This year Mrs. Flossie Knott and Mrs. Julia Johnston were our engineers. Now we had reached the point at which we were to change trains in order to reach our des- tination, Wisdom. One September morning in 1948 we stepped aboard the High School Train to complete our journey. When we arrived, we found Miss Frances Thackston and Mr. Jake Smith were to be our engineers. We feel sorry for them now as we realize how new and inexperienced we were on that first journey. We leamed fast, however, and continued our journey with only one engineer, Mrs. Doris Privette, This year we enjoyed our stop at the Junior-Senior banquet where a few of our girls served as both waitresses and entertainers. The journey had to continue, so we went on with Mrs. Privette still with us as engineer. We were now jolly Juniors. There were quite a lot of exciting moments that year, one of which was the night that we were host to the Seniors at the annual Junior-Senior banquet. Another was the night we gave our Junior play. It was the first public acting that we had done, but it turned out swell. The highlight of the year, however, was the day that we got our class rings. Every Junior you saw that day had his hand in the air! Although it was a lot of fun, the train had to move on with us with it. We lost a lot of our riders then. Some of them just dropped out, and others decided to make a home of their own. The rest of us had to keep going, however. September 5, 1951, with Mrs. Privette still engineering, we found-ourselves marching down the aisle at the station, Wakelon. When we saw all the other travelers standing for us as we took the front seats, we knew that in nine months our journey would end. We really enjoyed that year with all of our 'Senior privileges. We enjoyed the banquet given us by the Juniors. We'l1 never forget the wonderful Senior play that we gave. Most of all we enjoyed our trip to Washington. We finally come to the end of our long, twelve years journey and get our diplomas and hope we have neared our destination, Wisdom.

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Though we leave the High School Train bound for Wisdom we realize that our destination has not been reached. We shall always continue on the Wisdom Train and strive for our ultimate goal, Knowledge. Along the way we can recall quite a few exciting moments like the day Rena, Jean, and Gloria had to put their noses in a circle drawn on the back steps of the high school building: in the fifth grade when we were forbidden to play a game we called King and Queen since we al- ways ended up witha quarrel over whowould be guard of honor or body guard to the queen, lean Robertson: the night Patsy, Artelia. and Rena spent with Betty Jean. They were going to get up an economics report, but we hear they were drinking Pepsi-Colas at 2:30 a. m. Anyway they came to school the next morningsleepily singing, 'Pepsi-Cola Hits the Spot gthe day that Sis got her school bus driver's license. No one seemed to believe her: the day that Miss Thackston said the fog in Londonwas so thick that youcould cut itwith a knife and Charles Finch believed her: all those solemn looks Bobby Gill had during his Senior yearg the day Joyce Young spilled orange juice on Mrs. Knott's head in the lunch room: all those times Bettie Lou was afraid to sit on the ground. She was afraid that she would get her dress dirty. The day that we heard that a former member of our class, Fay Privette fMrs. Ed Ehriey, had a seven pound baby girlg how popular Ned was the day he got his new car. All the girls begged for a chance to ride with him. All of it was very exciting - these have been just a few of the high lights. Now that our high school joumey is over, and we are forced to go on alone, we wish to thank our parents, and teachers, and everyone who has. helped us along our way. The high school journey is over, but each of us will go on and strive to reach nearer and nearer to our destination, Wisdom. RENA MOODY Class Historian CLASS FLOW!!! CLASS COLIS Talisman R088 Ngvy and White CLASS MOTTO United we standg divided we fall