Watertown High School - Purple Tiger Yearbook (Watertown, TN)

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THE HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF I955 History has been written about important persons and things but you will agree there isn't a better or more important subject for history than our class of '55, In 1943 an eager group of boys and girls entered Watertown Elementary School. Sixteen of these are in our Senior Class. They are: Ted Wright, Dot Bailey, Glen Beard, Gerald Cowan, Virginia Ann Jacobs, Don Hudson, Jessie Ruth Russell, Elbert Mathis, Don McClanahan, Marie Hall, Richard Donnell, Ben Thomas Powell, Betty Rhea Malone, Billy Joe Allison, Don Bass and I. Those were happy years with all their happy experiences and wonderful teachers who guided us through the tender years. Time passed and soon we were in Junior High, which was different from our first years of school, At first we felt quite lost with all of those upper classmen, but soon learned their ways and got along with them very well. As Freshmen in 1951 surely we felt we knew about all there was to know but as Silly Sophomores we found we had a great deal more to learn before going out to meet the world on our own. As Jolly Juniors we were beginning to think of the future. Some of the outstanding things happen- ing were the Junior-Senior Banquet, selecting our rings, electing our class officers. Again time rapidly passed and now we are Seniors. This year has been packed with many exciting things, such as: receiving our class rings, electing class officers, electing annual staff, electing paper staff, Junior-Senior Banquet, sports, publishing The Purple Tiger , class play and Commencement exercises. Soon we shall be graduating. To our sponsors, Miss Elwe Griffith and Mr. P.L. Gott, and the entire faculty, we thank you for your wonderful guidance during our school days. To each '55 senior, face the future the way you have faced these past 12 years and I know you can't go wrong. - f ly X. ,,:l,,, it 4 ' - ,. ,xii ,J Fr W - E' V,Eyil'4f3'!Hls-:Lu 1 I sili 1, Peggy La Fevor Historian 'W be WM ' as ff -L , 'fsxsgwgjf' Q, 1. 1- ,,a:'st3 .lv-rx if

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Harold Dean Johnson Class President 4, Vice Pres- ident 35 Football 1-2-3-4, Lettered 2-3-4, Captain 4, All CVC 4, Basketball Manager 3: Student Council 2g Volunteer Boy's State 3, Glee Club 2-3- 4, Sgt. -at-Arms 4g Business Manager, Purple Tiger: Boy Most Likely to Succeed 4: Best Cidzen 4. Mack Corley Betty Rhea Malone Basketball 3-4, Lettered 45 Glee Club 3-4, Candidate for Football Queen 25 FHA 1-2, Feature Editor, Purple Tlgerg Pep Squad 2-3g 4-H Club,1-2g Meanest Girl 4. Minnie Ruth Lanier Football 1'2'3' Lettered 31 FHA 1-2-3,4-H club 1-2-3: Glee Club Football Manager 4g FFA 1-3, Glee Club 4g W Club 4, Class Poet 4. 1-2-3-45 Pep Squad 1-2-3. Donald Ray McClanahan Football 1-2:Glee Club lg Pep Squad 2-35 Meanest Boy 4. Homer Lee Snyder Football 1-2-3-4, Lettered 2- 3-4, All CVC 4, W Club 3- 4, President 4g Glee Club 3-45 Best Football Player 4.

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CLASS POEM United we stand, divided we fall, United we've stood though the number was small: Together we've lived these past few years And the thought of departure brings sorrow and tears. Many happy days we have spent here As we struggled on from year to year: But the time has come when we must depart And a new era in our lives will start. There is work to be done, this work we will dog We will do much before our lives are throughg There is a world to conquer and wars to fight, There is the old to change and the wrong to make right May this class of fifty five be a success tomorrow: May there be much happiness and very little sorrowp May our deeds blossom forth like a blooming flower, And we will offer our thanks to a higher power. Now we are leaving, where will we go? We all have plans, but we don't know. We are leaving here with ambitions high, Schoolmates, Teachers and Friends--good by. Mack Corley Class Poet CLASS MOTTO: United we stand, divided we fall. CLASS COLORS: Red and White CLASS FLOWER: Red Rose