Walnut High School - Echoes Yearbook (Walnut, NC)

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GrumbIes . I am here to represent the Senior Class of 1950 in our one and only chance to talk back to our abusers. We have suffered much in our past four years of ' 'book larning , but we have borne it all in the silence and dignity suitable for people of our high standards. Now we are going to tell you a few things so just pull up a chair and set, Qand Miss Louise don't correct my English, for one time I talk as I want toj. You all talk of our Senior privileges, what privilege's I ask you? So far I can see none. We have been abused by our under- grades. Even the Freshmen fail to look up to us, and the Soph- omores even laugh at our blunders. The Juniors share every- thing we have, except our wounded pride. Why our teachers even correct us in front of under-grades. n We have no desk, but have to sit at tables in the same room with the Juniors. People never seem to remember that we al- most adults and that we have great dignity. All the under-grades jeer at us whenever they see that they can wound our pride. Even the Freshmen dare speak in our presence and even they get by with things we Seniors don't. We have listened to endless fussing and undeserved reprov- ings but now it is only fair that I tell you that you wasted all your breath and also your time. We only pretended to listen, it went in one ear and out the other. Instead of burning the midnight oil studying our lessons, we burned it thinking up ways to repay you for not understanding that we are privileged and should be looked up to. Nobody seems to understand us, everybody tries to run over us. We have to work all the time All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy . We suffer all these told and untold anguishes and then people say we grumble. The following GRUMBLES are characteristic of the class. Mary E.: Oh heck, I graduate this year : Irene: Having the mumps in Senior year : June: All I have to do : Lillian: I grum- ble when I don't have anything else to do : Mamie: I grumble at grumbling people : Alma Lee: No baby pictures : Inez: These men teachers : Eugene Wild: We need more younger teachers: hnogene: All these lessons : Wesley: The long hard years of college ahead : Lloyd: English text book Authors : Morgan: Everything: Helen: Anything : Ella: French : Rita: To many girls after my boy friend' ': Ava Etta: People Won't leave my boy friend alone: Jean: To much work Wallace: Nothing : Mary V To much to do and no time to do it in : Marvin: Does anybody have a pencil : Billy J.: Too much study hall : Margaret: Too many nosey people : Pansey: Can't eat, sleep, drink and be merry in study hal1Z': Floyd: 'Some of the other things : Freeda: Too much General Business : Herbert: Some of the other grumbles . Class grumbler Lloyd Roberts 17

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. Sen ior Class History Chapter One. ' ' The history of the class of nineteen hundred and fifty of the high school of the city of Walnut, county of Madison, state of North Carolina is in this wise: It was the sixth and fortieth year, the eighth month and the eighteenth day that twenty-six melek and humble Freshrnen began their tread down that long rocky road of education, in a bright new caravan. Mrs. C. M. Blankenship had the task of being our chief horse in pulling our caravan along, although it had to be given a few pushes from behind by our new principal, William W. Peek, succ- essor of Mr. A. V. Nolan. During our Freshman year, such problems as war, marriage, and weakness of mind'caused the class to dwindle at a rapid rate, leaving about twenty one members to enter as Sophomores. Chapter Two: Our second year of good old Walnut High was reigned over by William E. Hill. We were under a great. strain after losing one of our faithful lead-horses, Miss Anna M. Hyde, but Miss Louise McClure, another old faithful yet much younger horse, helped us to forget our loss and look forward to brighter days. As our caravan moved along during our Sophomore year, led by om- team of prized horses: Miss Louise McClure, Mrs. Epps McClure, Mrs. C. M'.'Blankenship and Mr. Orma.nd C. Williams, guided by Mr. Hill, several more dropped out to tread that wide path of ignorance. It was in this year that we started having fun, for we were becoming Favorites among our leaders. Chapter Three. Upon entering the Junior class, our caravan seemed much stronger. Mrs. Epps McClure was our lead horse and our team was led by our new principal., the honorable Fred W. Anderson. The Seniors were only'a few pacesiahead of us in this year and we were spoken of as The Favorites' ' by everyone. It was in this year that our caravan passed some hikers on that rocky road. We gave them a. lift and on doing so learned that they were ones who had fallen out in days gone by. They had seen their mistakes and were on their way back to Knowlodgeville . 'Of course we took them in with joy and pride and accepted them as members of our Lucky Class . We had stuck together for eleven years of hard labor and had traveled the road of learning until it was becoming smooth with our progress, work and efforts put forth to attain that diploma, only one year away. We were fondly looking forward to that day when we would be addressed as former graduates of Walnut High School., Chapter Four. Our caravan, given its first push down that long road by Mrs. Minnie Davis twelve long years ago, is now nearing its journey's end. After dropping and adding members' all along, we now have twenty-seven who have strived and stayed together to attain the title of Seniors. Now with saddened hearts and tearfilled eyes, we Seniors of 1950 recall many fond memories of good old school days spent in Walnut High. We recall our first years in this Dear School, and all our little mean pranks, along with the few good ones. But alas! these echoes will soon be stilled for we will only be a memory of our classmates and teachers. Now that we are thinking of our future, there is quite a hustle in our caravan, preparing for our final events. But as all other good things, these must come to an end, for after our Senior trip, Jr. and Sr. banquet, Class night, and other activities, we will march down the aisle and bid farewell to Dear Old Walnut High, a place that will always be very dear to our hearts. 'To our teachers and many friends, we say: Merry have we met, merry have we beeng merry do we part, and merry meet again. Class Historian Pansy J. Allen 16

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CLASS SUPERLATIVES Most Likely to Succeed -------- June and Billy John Class Baby ---- Class Pet ---- -------- - Most Popular --- Best Looking --- Biggest Feet --- Most Likely to M Most Studious -- Neatest - ------- --- Inez and Marvin -------Mamie and Lloyd -Mary Elsie Gr Toot Rita and Toot Al.ma Lee and Morgan arry ------ ----Alma Lee and Morgan ------ ------ Irene and Marvin -June and Morgan Stingielf --------------------- Pansy and Billy John Class,Pest - ---- Most Atheletic -- Class Monkey -- Smartalec ----- Most lndustrious Inez and Lloyd Irene and Toot Alma Lee and Lloyd Freeda and Marvin --- -------- ---Lillian and Wallace Laziest ------------ Man Hater ----- Imogene and Billy John -------------- Woman Hater - - -- ------------- Wallace om Maid ------------ Bachelor -------------------- Best Sport ----- -------- Mary Virginia Billy John --------------E11a and Marvin Best All Round ----- --------- June and Marvin Meanest ------- Heart Breaker -- Wittiest ---------- - --------- Ava Etta and Wesley Freeda and Marvin Wesley and Margaret Class Wolves ---- ------ - ----- WESLEY AND BILLY, JOHN Always on Tirne Prettiest Eyes -- Class Tattlers --------- - ---- Class Liar ----- Class Thief --- ------ Dumbe st ------- Helen and Lloyd -Alrna Lee and Billy John - Jean and Toot Mary Virginia and Lloyd --------- Pansy and Billy John- Irene and Toot Biggest Cad ---- ------ --------Ixnogene and Eugene Twirps --------- Most Conceited - Best Personality Pansy and Morgan Mary Elsie and Floyd -------------Mary Elsie and Marvin