— History
(Continued from page 11)
lyn; Sally Sanborn, Phyllis; Martha ^ea-
ly, Aunt Ida; John Roberts, Admiral
Grice; Luke Montz, Henry Steele; Tom
Dameron, Jim Raleigh; Harry Ward,
Robert Tarver; and Arthur Boykin, Mar
tin, and David Andrews as Colonel Smith.
The student director was Hope Pate and
prompter, Lillian Jenkins.
Before the play it was publicized ex
tensively through a parade, songs, and
class spirit. The day of the play was
Senior Day and on that day, they had
the privilege of bursting into the class
song at the slightest provocation. Again
an original song by Bobbie Helms was
used as the theme song. Also, Earl Lay
ton was again in charge of the elaborate
publicity.
One of the greatest honors that can be
bestowed upon a student of GHS was
given to Hortense Liles and David
Andrews, who were elected the most
representative students in GHS, in an
election sponsored by the Hi News. Hor
tense also won a gold pin for being a
Good Citizen of GHS. This honor was
given by the DAR after Hortense had
been selected by the Senior Class and
the faculty.
George Williams, Carl Wilson, and
Gray Whitford, Tommy Bland, Robert
Denmark, and Frank Kannan were con
testants at the Greenville Music Festi
val.
Throughout the year the Seniors order
ed their class rings. Altogether 90 of the
172 Seniors were the proud possessors of
the blue stones.
Commencement time was now ap
proaching. The president appointed the
following committees to plan the most
important event in a GHS student’s life:
Prince Nufer, chairman, Edwin Lee,
Henry Stenhouse, Tom Shaver, and
Arthur Boykin, Baccalaureate Speaker;
Minnie Louise Stith, chairman, Virginia
Rose, Gwendolyn Malpass, Kathleen
Davis, Florence Horne, Bill Rouse, Vir
ginia Stith, Everette Jinnette, and Letha
Carter, Invitation; Hope Pate, chairman,
Sally Sanborn, secretary, Camilla Lynch,
Elizabeth Mayo, Helen Wooten, Ann
Edgertcn, Hilda Longest, David Andrews,
Lessie Mallard, George Stenhouse, Ber
tha Shaver, Edwin Lee, Billy Charlton,
Norris Sutton, David Hinson, Bob Moor
ing, Prince Nufer, Mary Hicks, Hortense
Liles, and Betsy Modlin, Commencement;
Hilda Longest, chairman, and Senior
members of the journalism class. Supple
ment; Virginia Weatherly, chairman, Al
bert Handley, David McCormick, Eliza
beth Hawley, Gift; Elizabeth Royall,
chairman, and Susan Mooring, Music;
Bobby Helms, chairman, Gwendolyn
Malpass, and Jean Denmark, Song.
The Nominating committee, composed
of John Roberts, chairman, Shirley Lan
caster, Dot Grant, Hazel Whitley, and
Peggy Ballard, nominated Earl Layton,
prophet and Bertha Shaver, Testator.
These were elected by the class. The
historian, Lillian Jenkins, elected when
a freshman, worked with Earl and Bertha
to produce the class day skit, “One Last
Fling.”
As the class was fast approaching
financial difficulty, it decided to give a
dance. So, on April 25th, the class enter
tained GHS students at a Barn Dance.
The profit of $38 was used toward the
Senior Gift.
Class Day was on May 27. The his
tory, prophecy, and last will and test
ament were dramatized in a farcical skit.
This took place on a ship where the
Seniors were having “One Last Fling”.
In the midst of varied and queer activ
ities such as playing Truth and Conse
quences, bowing and scraping, fighting,
singing, and gurgling, a group of bellig
erent freshmen boarded the ship. After
announcing that the “Good Ship GHS”
wasn’t large enough for “you and us
too,” they forced the poor Seniors to
walk the plank.
After the Class Day exercises the class
left school for Tuscarora Lake, where
they enjoyed swimming, dancing, and
supper. Then they were guests of the
Paramount Theatre, where four boys,
Edwin Lee, Kirby Hart, David Andrews
and Walter Hicks, were the guest ex
perts on the Quiz Court radio program.
However, this was only the beginning.
On June 1 Reverend J. F. Herbert, of
Grace Methodist Church in Wilmington,
delivered the Baccalaureate Sermon to
the Seniors, who were now beginning to
realize just what they were leaving.
The class of ’41 approached the thresh-
hold of a new world, backward glances
being cast at the old building, the teach
ers who had always been ready to help,
and the schoolmates with whom they
had worked and played. Never again
would the class be as one. Never again
would the halls resound with their foot
steps; the walls with their youthful
voices. All was gone of the so-familiar
world. But the new world offered a
challenge to the abounding initiative,
energy, enthusiasm, and spirit which
had prevailed for four years. They were
ready to accept that challenge.
— Prophecy
(Continued from page 12)
nedy, a field representative for American
Red Cross. The bookkeepers, Herman
Pate, Elsie Savage, Rudolph Cole, Nellie
Howell, and Elizabeth Moye, told of
their daring escape from the fifth floor
where they worked. Mabel Gudger,
Susie Gentry, Hazel Whitley, Annie Mae
Christenbury, and Rachel Sheffield, sec
retaries there, told how they were going
to lunch together when they saw the
flames and called the firemen. Three
librarians, Camilla Lynch, Louise Hollo
man, and Helen Wooten were shown
checking out books in the New York
library to the dazzling movie star, Marie
Belk (Lamour the II) and her manager,
Russell Johnson, who were there on a
visit. Bill Griffin, the designer of the
newest streamline yacht, was on the
side line for an autograph, I imagine.
The news reel ended with a description
by Paul Starling noted sports announcer,
of Prince (“Champ”) Nufer winning her
umpteenth swimming title. Over in the
corner of the picture I am sure I saw the
sports writer, Norwood Kornegay, peck
ing away on his typewriter. As the meet
was in Cuba I was not very surprised to
notice also those noted travelers, Flor
ence Horne, Mildred Justice, and Jean
Startt.
When the title of the picture was
shown I was amazed to see that Lessie
Mallard was the star; that Ann Edgerton
designed the dresses in the picture; that
Everette Jinnette, the artist, designed
the sets; that Elizabeth Royall drew the
pretty girl pictures hanging on the walls
of the penthouse; and that James Pate,
the architect, drew the plans of all the
houses of the city in the picture. The
prologue, by the writer, Kirby Hart, in
formed us that this was the accurate
story of the discovery of the cure for
hebegebes by Mary Hicks, scientist. It
was very dramatic, but I was more inter
ested in seeing the authentic hospital
scenes where the Lab technicians. Dot
Smith, Virginia Weatherley, and Jame
Broadhurst, and the nurses, Madeline
Gurley and Annie Louise Baker, were
working. Credit was also given to the
following doctors: Harry Ward, Peggy
Ballard, Nejipe Farfour, and David
Andrews, for their technical advice. The
other film was a scientific thing which
I really didn’t enjoy because it was so
much above my head, but Charlie Wea
thers, Walter Hicks, and Sherrod High-
smith, aeronautical engineers in the
audience, seemed very interested.
It was so late I accepted with real
pleasure the ride offered by the mission
ary, Mary Louise Thomson. She was
very interesting when she told of her
work in reforming the “La Conga”
fanatics. Reaching home at last, I
tumbled into bed too tired to make a
record of the night’s full activities. But
I have tried to make up for my neglect.
It still seems rather strange to con
nect those self-assured young people 1
saw last night with those scared seniors
of ’41. We surely have made a lot of
goals in the game of life.
Earl Layton, Prophet, June 4, 1955.
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