were Russell Singleton, Andy Smith, Clif
ton Daniel, Tom Dameron, Frank Or
mond, Charlie Weathers, and Tommy
Bland. Tom Dameron, Emory Whiting,
Billy Charlton, Vernon Pate, Clifton
Daniel, Graves Lewis, Charlie Weathers,
Wiley Smith, Derwood Bizzell, Andy
Smith, John Roberts, Tommy Bland,
Russell Singleton, and Bobby Heyward
reported for spring football. The only
candidate for track was Frank Ormond.
Baseball claimed Clyde King, J. C. Rose,
Brinkley Taylor, David Hinson, Billy
Wynn, and Gray Whitford. The junior
basketball team had Russell Nickens.
Journalism also interested the class,
and as a result. Dot Grant, Elsie Savage,
Elizabeth Mayo, Sally Sanborn, Betsy
Modlin, Hilda Longest, Marie Belk and
George Stenhouse were members of the
Press Club, which issued the “Latest
Lowdown.”
The class was beginning to show signs
of financial strain. So, they sponsored
the Neil Joseph Fashion Show. The
profit was $5.50. A dramatization of
Silas Marner, written and produced by
members of Miss Newell's sophomore
English class, was presented as an assem
bly program. This play added to the
class’s reputation as one intensely inter
ested in drama.
Again many girls served as waitresses
and entertainers at the ’39 Junior-Senior
reception. These girls were Elizabeth
Mayo, Marie Belk, Hilda Longest, Jane
Broadhurst, Hortense Liles, Mary Louise
Thomson, Dot Grant, Sally Sanborn, Eve
lyn Ginn, Susie Gentry, Bobbie Helms,
Mary Hicks, Doris Harris, Eunice High-
smith, Ellen Lovelace, Helen Wooten,
Virginia Weatherly, and Hazel Whitley.
The class elected its superlatives in
January. It was decided that the most
popular were Charlie Weathers, Bobby
Heyward, Buddy Crone, and Prince
Nufer; best dressed, Johnny Reaves and
Sally Sanborn; best dancers, Frank Or
mond and Hilda Longest; most original,
Earl Layton and Lessie Mallard; best
athletes. Buddy Crone, Derwood Bizzell,
and Prince Nufer; wittiest, Joe Reaves
and Lessie Mallard; most talented, Earl
Layton and Elizabeth Royall; most per
sonality, Buddy Crone, Prince Nufer and
Sally Sanborn; best all-round, Buddy
Crone and Hortense Liles; best look
ing, Johnny Reaves and Sally Sanborn.
In the band that year were Eunice
Highsmith, Sherrod Highsmith, Dwight
Pate, Norwood Rouse, Carl Wilson,
David Hinson, Bobbie Helms, Bill Grif
fin, Harry Ward, Tom Parker, Robert
Denmark, and Leonard Edwards.
Warbling in the Glee Club were Jane
Broadhurst, Bobbie Helms, Alice Toler,
Hazel Whitley, and Jean Denmark.
This year, there was a Sophomore
Council composed of the homeroom rep
resentatives, presidents, and class offi
cers. Tommy Brooks, John Faison, Shir
ley Lancaster, Dot Grant, Rebecca Col
lins, Virginia Weatherly, Alice Toler,
Charles Wiggins, Tom Dameron, Albert
Handley, Bobbie Helms, and the afore
mentioned class officers composed the
council.
In the spring, Hortense Liles was elect
ed secretary of the SA to serve her junior
year. After this triumph, the Sopho
mores ended their second year of high
school life, looking forward to the rank
of upper-classmen, the Junior-Senior, and
the Junior Play.
Chapter Three
Upperclassmen . . . Jolly Juniors . . .
These were the foremost thoughts of
the Juniors as, for the third time, they
entered the doors of GHS.
Determined to make this the most
successful year in their history, they
elected Tom Dameron, president; George
Stenhouse, vice president; Bertha Shaver,
secretary; Betty Michaux and Tommy
Bland, cheerleaders; and Walter Hicks,
parliamentarian. This year Miss Kathe
rine Kalmar was the class adviser.
Due to a vacancy in the office of SA
vice president, Earl Layton was nominat
ed by the nominating committee and was
elected to this office. This made two
Juniors serving in SA offices, Hortense
having been elected when a sophomore
to the office of recording secretary.
Hope Pate, Dolores West, Camilla
Lynch, Charles Wiggins, Mabel Gudger,
Marie Belk, Helen Wooten, Virginia
Weatherly, Gaynell Odom, Alice Toler,
Betsy Modlin, John Little, Ida Bell Ben
ton, and the class officers composed the
Junior Council.
In the SA Council for the first term
there were Emory Whiting, Walter
Hicks, Annie Mae Duke, Kathleen
Grimes, Olivia Shumate, and Norris Sut
ton. Serving for the second term were
Bob Mooring, Raymond Bradshaw, Ed
win Lee, Elsie Savage, Billy Massey,
Evelyn Ginn, and Charles Wiggins.
The Junior Class was represented by
17 students on eight SA standing com
mittees. Dot Grant and Elizabeth Haw
ley were on the Athletic committee;
Hilda Longest, Social; David Andrews,
and Earl Layton (chairman). Assembly;
Kirby Hart, Helen Wooten, and Walter
Hicks (chairman). Building and Grounds;
Henry Stenhouse and Lillian Jenkins
(chairman), Bulletin; Betsy Modlin, Pro
gram; Edwin Lee, George Stenhouse, and
Elizabeth Ma>o, Board of Elections;
Marie Belk, Henry Stenhouse, Nomina
ting; Mary Hicks, Lost and Found. Marie
Belk was on the SA handbook committee;
Earl Layton, George Stenhouse, Sally
Sanborn, and Tom Dameron served on
the Constitution committee; while Lillian
Jenkins and George Stenhouse were on
the committee to make plans for the
program for the Ayden visitors.
When convention time rolled around,
George Stenhouse was an official dele
gate to Raleigh to hear Dr. E. K. Fret-
well, while Hortense Liles and George
Stenhouse were delegates to the NCSCC
in Durham.
The Juniors were also making a name
for themselves in athletics. Brinkley
Taylor, Derwood Bizzell, Russell Single
ton, David McClenny, Charlie Weathers,
and Vernon Pate received letters in foot
ball. For Junior football, Tom Dameron,
Frank Kannan, Frank Ormond, Charlie
York, and Andy Smith were lettermen.
For track, co-captain Frank Ormond,
Norwood Kornegay, Russell Johnson,
Andy Smith, and David Hinson, co
manager, received letters. Brinkley Tay>
lor, Clyde King, David McClefiny, Der
wood Bizzell, Billy Wynn, and Vernon
Pate were baseball lettermen. In varsity
basketball Clyde King, Vernon Pate,
Russell Nickens, Andy Smith, and Das?*3
McClenny received letters. Norw^SjH
West, Billy Charlton, and Frank Ka^l||g|it
were junior basketball lettermen.
The girls’ basketball team includea
Hortense Liles, Peggy Ballard, Elizabeth
Hawley, and Dot Grant.
Then came one of the most important
events in the life of the class of ’41. The
Junior Play was presented on April 19,
1940. Previous to this production, the
following committees worked very hard.
Carolyn Collier, Hilda Longest, Sally
Sanborn, Peggy Ballard, Bobby Harring
ton, George Stenhouse, and Earl Layton,
chairman, served on the publicity com
mittee; Evelyn Ginn, Susie Gentry, Eliza
beth Gophert, Doris Harris, Clyde King,
Norris Sutton, Alice Toler, and Bob
Mooring, chairman, ticket; Ellen Sum
merlin Smith, Mabel Gudger, Tommy
Bland and Dolores West, chairman, pro
gram; Dot Grant, Jean Startt, Leonard
Edwards, and Betsy Modlin, chairman,
wardrobe; Graves Lewis, Derwood Biz
zell, Walter Hicks, Kirby Hart, David
McClenny, Billy Brown, chairman, stage;
Jane Broadhurst, Charlie Weathers, Mar
tha Zealy, Frank Ormond, and Elizabeth
Hawley, chairman, property; Shirley
Lancaster, and Kathleen Davis, chairman,
make-up; Paul Starling, Olivia Shumate,
Florence Horne, Daphne Whitley, Way-
lon Simmons, Shelton Elks, chairman,
poster.
The result of this preparation was the
play, “Stage Door.” It had a large cast.
Those playing were Lessie Mallard as
Terry Randall; Henry Stenhouse, David
Kingsley; George Stenhouse, Keith Bur
gess; Jane Wood, Judith Canfield; Bertha
Shaver, Kaye Hamilton; Marie Belk,
Jean Maitland; Edwin Lee, Frank; Ann
Edgerton, Mattie; Mary Louise Thomson,
Mrs. Orcutt; Prince Nufer, Madeline
Vauclain; Virginia Weatherly, Bobby
Melrose; Betty Michaux, Pat Devine;
Sally Sanborn, Linda Shaw; Mary Hicks,
Olga Brandt; Hope Pate, Louise Mitchell;
Helen Wooten, Bernice Niemeyer, Vir
ginia Stith, Big Mary; Jane Parks, Little
Mary; Hortense Liles, Susan Paige;
Elizabeth Royall, Kendall Adams; Lillian
Jenkins, Ann Bradock; Peggy Ballard
Tony Gillette;; Bobbie Helms, Ellen Fen
wick; John Holmes, Sam Hastings; Ernest
Crone, Jimmy Deveraux; Tommy Edger
ton, Fred Powell; John Roberts, Lou
Milhauser; Ellen Lee Lovelace, ' Mrs.
Shaw; David Andrews, Dr. Randall-
Walter Hicks, Gretzel; Kirby Hart, Harry’
and Francis Castex, Billy. The play was
directed by Miss Mary Bell.
The class took in $218.90 from ticket
sales, and $105.28 from the activity tickets.
The class was still dramatically bent,
as was shown not only by the Junior
Play but by other class productions. “In
the Principal’s Office,” a play written
and produced by Mrs. Bradford’s Eng-
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