West Rowan High School - West Wind Yearbook (Mount Ulla, NC)

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CLAS S HISTORY Four short years ago, fifty-three green freshmen entered Mt. Ulla High School, hoping to accomplish four years of high school work. As seniors, we look back on those first days.in high school and smile, remembering the great task of adjusting ourselves to this new and strange environment. Mr. Eugene Deal and Mr. H. C. Johnson, our home room teachers, helped us start on our way through high school. The following fall we again entered the welcome doors of Mt. Ulla, but not as “‘green freshmen” as we were so often called the preceding year; we, this year, were known as “‘silly sophomores.” Mr. Deal and Mrs. S. H. Price were our sponsors. Eleven lucky classmates had the honor of be- coming members of the National Beta Club. These were, Sara Frances Weast, Frances Thompson, Louise Lentz, Mary Phipps, Wilma Clary, Leona Hall, Jimmy Freeze, Bill Edmiston, Evelyn Lipe, Charlie Hamby; and B. B. Miller, Jr. As jolly juniors, we experienced a happy and exciting year of high school life. Miss Garnette Bowles and Miss Mary Bost, our advisors, helped us entertain the seniors of ’44 at a ball in the spring of the year. Roses on white trellises around the gym, an arched gateway covered with flowers at the entrance and a May Pole Dance by junior girls helped emphasize our theme, A May Garden. Dance music was furnished by the Boyden Barons. Our junior year saw two more of our classmates, Hall Steele and Whitfield Graham become members of the Beta Club. Entering Mt. Ulla as seniors, we found that three of our classmates had left us to serve our country: Grady Corriher and Lawrence Dowell are in the Navy, and Charlie Wagoner is in the Army. Miss Mary Bost is our senior advisor and the officers are, Leona Hall, president; Bill Edmiston, vice-president; Sara Frances Weast, secretary; and Hall Steele, treasurer. For the first time in the history of the school, the Junior-Senior Ball was given at Christmas rather than in the spring, The gym was beautifully decorated in Christmas evergreens, with a large fire-place on one side of the building from which hung filled stockings for every one. The Boyden Barons furnished music for dancing, and also led in singing Christmas Carols. Our hearts were saddened when early in the year of 1945, a message came from the War Department that one of our number, Charlie Wag- ner, was “missing in action” somewhere in Germany. But now the time to part has come, and it is with sadne ss in our hearts that we bid you “farewell” after four successful and happy years. LEonaéA Hatt, Historian.

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+ +8 THE KEEPSAKE 1945 MASCOTS ADVISOR SarA LOUISE GRAHAM HaypEN KEpPELEY, JR. es Miss Mary Bost Lrona HALL Britt EDMISTON Sara F. WEAST HALL STEELE Pres. ’45, Sec. ’42, 744 Vice-Pres. ’44, ’45 Pres. ’42, ’44, Sec. ’45 Business Man. Cub and Basketball °44, 45 Beta Club Sports Ed. ’44 Vice-Pres. Beta °45 KEEPSAKE Beta Pres. ’44 President F. F. A. ’42 Marshal ’43, 44 Basketball °43, ’44 Marshal ’42, ’43, 44 Cub Memed. Cheerleader 744, °45 Beta Club | Photo Club 742 Bus. Manager KEEPSAKE Asst. Ed. KEEPSAKE

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. THE KEEPSAKE 1945 BARGER, LIZZIE Secretary and Treasurer ’43 Music Club 742 DOWELL, LAWRENCE Serving in the U. 8S. Navy BELK, GERALD Faro AwAge 43 Reporter CLARY, WILMA Beta Club Artist for Cub and KEEPSAKE COMER, DORIS Asst. Artist for KEEPSAKE Cheerleader 745 DAVIS, CHARLES F. F. A. ’43 ELLER, KATHERINE Music Club ’42 ERWIN, EVELYN Music Club ’42 Statistician °45 GRAHAM WHITFIELD Beta Club Typist for Cub °45 Photo. Club 742 Lawyer 745 - HAMBY, CHARLIE President ’43 Beta Club Treasurer ’43 Marshal ’43, ’44