Welcome High School - Welco Yearbook (Welcome, NC)

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Ajupafzfczfiusi Cutest Iackie Everhart Paul Lanier Best Dressed Gene Hill Betty Koontz F riendliest Nell Sink Noel Leatherman Most Popular Nancy Weaver Iimmy Latham Most Versatile Ralph Essick Dot Walker Wittiest limmy Ring Iohnsie Gobble

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Cfass Lsf-o 'zt K The first day of schooll How exciting! ln September, 1937, a thrilling incident occurred in the lives of forty-seven children, for they went to school for the First time. As the years passed, Iireckled-faced boys, wearing knee pants, and little girls, wearing short dresses and pigtails, often had to stay after school for talking in class. Our first love affairs stand out among our cherished memories. Through the doors of various schools we had walked these first years with bright. ex- pectant faces, demanding an education. Then, the first step in growing up came along-we entered Iunior High School. We really felt impor- tant, changing classes and having so many different teachers. After going through the usual trials and tribu- lations, and after appearing in long pants and bow ties and wearing longer dresses and curling our hair- we finally entered high school. At last the great moment came, when we entered Senior High School. lnwardly we were as fright- ened as the generations of freshmen before us had been, but outwardly we were just as bold as the dignified seniors, who strolled down the halls at all hours during the day. We entered our high school career in September, 1945, with an enrollment of thirty eager freshman, having that self-assurance that only freshmen possess. Even though matrimony stole one member from us, we had a successful year under the leadership of Mrs. Russell Smith, our teacher. Our sophomore year was better, because we had become more a part of the school and were not so frightened for fear we would do something that would be an unpardonable sin. We entered that year with an enrollment of twenty-eight. Several of our number became members of the basketball squad, and, too, five of us were made Beta Club members. ln our work that year we were guided by Miss Sarah Hunter. We looked forward to our junior year, for juniors had always seemed to be busy, planning for a Hal- loween Carnival and a Iunior-Senior Banquet. Under the sponsorship of Mrs Ralph Proto, our teacher, we had a most successful Halloween Carnival. On March 16, 1949, an important occasion occurred in our livesg we received our class rings, something we had striven and longed for. On May 20th we gave the seniors a delightful banquet. The decorations were breath-taking, the program entertaining and oh! those lovely dresses! We sailed through that year with flying colors. When the fall of 1949 announced its presence. we realized that we were seniors, we were overjoyed, we expected some great change to take place, we expected a door to open, we were wrong, for ive had not changed in the least. Alas! a cloak of dignity did not seem to fit our personalities. We were, however, nearly the same as we had been before with one exception, that matrimony had claimed another of our girls. We brave twenty-seven seniors remained throughout the year, traveling the road of knowledge, and all our activ- ities were pursued with the help of our teacher, Miss Corinne Stiller. We enjoyed immensely the banquet, which the juniors prepared for us-an entertaining program and lovely, colorful decorations. After about a year had passed, all of us realized what it meant to be a senior. VVe were no longer boys and girls, each of us was growing into a man or a woman. This was what being a senior meant. The year '49-150 is not only an epoch in our lives, but we believe that it will mean much for our future and for the betterment of those with whom we come in contact. Four years of genuine pleasure. profitable work, and the development of high ideals have come to a close. Now as we stand at the threshold of a new kind of life, we pause for an instant in respect to our teachers and parents, who have made these achievements possible. Mildred Sink Class Historian

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Supa 'zfafvaa Best Sports Reid Black Carolyn Leonard Best Looking Reid Black Peggy jordan Most Studious Ioel Leonard Mildred Sink Most Courteous Don F oust Carol Foster Mos: Athletic Sue Esaick Ralph Essick Most Romantic Ioetta Tussey Jimmy Ring