Monday, June 1, 1964
THE HI-LIGHTS
Page Nine
huso amounts of dough engulfing
them. Joan Billings received a
whipping this year for that dread
ful misdemeanor of writing and
drawings in magazines. Unfortun
ately Sammy Wilson had an acci
dent and was out of school for a
month. He fell off his mule. Speak
ing of riding, Barbara Hester was
the champion rider of our class. She
really racked up the money v/hen
s3ie brought her horse to school
one day and sold rides.
At our last year at Union Hill,
the great event was the trip to
Raleigh. Joyce McDonald, who had
joined us in the sixth grade along
with a few other young ladies,
wore her first pair of heels to the
famed city. Aching feet? Oh no,
the girls would never admit that.
Another gala event (or as one
might say, another way of skip
ping class) was the volunteer work
in the cafeteria. Jackie Grissom,
Don George, and Howard Sanders
seemed to thoroughly enjoy work
ing in what was called the “slop”
Oh, not in the preparation of the
food but in the disposal of it.
The “girl chaser” of the year
was Gary Metters. Brenda Kersey
was one of the ardent admirers of
that “handsome Dr, Dull”. Dale
Witcher was a fairly “good little
boy.” Butch Routh wrote a couple
of books on how to get away with
smoking in the restroom and how
to successfully lay out of school.
The year was climaxed with the
presentation of the Scholarship and
Citizenship award. The recipients
were Steve Johnson and Sharon
Sechrest.
When “assigned to Jamestown”
was stamped on our report cards
in the spring of 19.59, our seven
years at Union Hill were over and
tJie path of our journey to June 1,
1964 was chan,ged.
JAMESTOWN
(lst-7th Grade)
The beginning of scshool brought
many small, scared first graders.
The idea of leaving their mothers
for a whole day was a frightening
experience for these “tots.” They
had to put down their paper dolls
and mud pies and go to school.
Many were not so sure they agreed
with the idea of an education, some
cried, and some just didn’t care.
Some of the tots that started school
at Jamestown were Delores Mc
Donald, Jean Jones, Nancy Nor
man, Candie Black, Jerry Fruitt,
Carl Elliot, Frank Israel, Roy Bow-
man, and Norma Byerly. This was
the year the senior boy.s nicknam
ed Carl Elliot “Mouse” because he
was always so quiet on the school
bus. As everyone knows, Mouse
i.. a loud mouse now. Mrs. Stone’s
and Mrs. Hilton’s students receiv
ed a star if they ate everything on
thedr plates at lunch. One day
Nancy Norman lost her lunch in
class after gobbling it down so
she could g«t a star.
The second grade brought “kinky
hair” Gail Furr from the Jack &
Jill Kindergarten. She had the cur
liest, natural curly hair of anybody
in the 2nd grade. The May Day
program was the activity of the
year, and of course, the 2nd grad
ers participated. Dressed in butter
fly costumes were Delores Mc
Donald, Norman Byerly, Sheila
Winslow, and Gall Furry. Dressed
as bumble bees were Rick Holmes,
Jerry Fruitt. and Eddie Blair.
In the third grade Barbara Sossa-
man, Sandra Napier, and Marie
Poteat invaded Jamestown Ele
mentary School. Unfortunate things
happened to Marie even in the
third grade. One day at school her
clothes got wet — some way — and
she had to wear a bunny suit all
day. This was also the year the
gangs were formed. There was quite
a bit of “boys chasing girls” —
“girls chasiixg boys” going around.
Of course, the boys were smart if
they didn’t get caught because if
they were they received scratches,
bites, and kicks from those sweet
little girls. Discipline was very
strict during this year, and look
ing out of the window during class
in Mrs. Crouch’s room was forbid
den.
However, one day a number
of kids were caught and lined up.
Jerry Fruitt was among the gay
group, so naturally he wanted to
be sure everyone deserving the
honor received his share. So after
everyone ahd been spanked, Jerry
reminded Mrs. Crouch that she had
forgotten someone — it was Sheila
Winslow, w'asn’t it Jerry?
Even in the fourth grade our
class was beginning to show its
ability for leadership. Candie Black
became vice-president of the stu
dent council and Eddie Blair be
came secretary. Eddie Blair showed
his techniques in leadership in
other ways that year, such as the
time he and Tommy Ragsdale,
Andy Upshaw, and Jimmy Finch
stuck a potato in Mrs. Killebrew’s
exhaust pipe.
The fifth grade brought “snow
man” Kenneth Honeycutt. Ken
neth was very popular for all the
funny faces he could make.
The sixth grade brought many
curious little minds back from sum
mer vacation. Kenneth Honeycutt
and Tommy Hill started the year
off by looking through the fan un
bathroom. Kenneth and Tommy
der the front steps into the girls’
along with Rick Holmes also had
a great time knocking on the prin-
cilap’s office door and then run
ning — but one day — Miss Boone
caught the'm. Naturally, Kenneth
Honeycutt and Tommy Hill were
very popular with the teachers be
cause every time the teacher would
raise her hand to come in from I'e-
cess, they would run for the woods.
One way or another, they managed
to get a spanking everyday.
This was also a good year for
parties, especially Candie Black’s,
All the old familiar couples we>'e
there: Jerry Fruitt and Barbara
Watson; Patsy Litzie and Jack
Beard; and Candie Black and Larry
Adams. The outside parties were
not the only means of recreation
by any means. Miss Chadwick and
Mrs. Johnson did a great deal of
entertaining for the sixth graders
with their faimous Charleston,
The seventh grade was truly a
year to remember. The Sanatorium
was used for class rooms and it
was definitely a world of its own.
Artistic beauty and the love of art
was stressed very much this year
hut Jerry Fruitt wasn’t very in
terested. One day in an attempt to
outrun Mrs. Braswell, Jerry broke
his leg jumping down a flight of
stairs.
Jackie Beard had an attack of
appendicitis at school, and finally
after he turned purple they took
him to the hospital — you know
hrw hard it is to get our of school
these days.
Naturally, Ken Honeycutt was
still around and full of mischief.
This year after he threw a snow
ball and hit Mr. Hiatt in the head,
we didn’t hear anything else from
Ken. Barbara Watson was every-
cne’s best friend especially Gail
Furr’s. She talked Ken Honyecutt
into breaking up with Gail (under
false pretenses) but it was really
because she wanted him.
The Square Dance the class put
on for the May Day program was
the activity of the year. The lead
ing couple was Jerry Fruitt and
Candie Black. Some kids had a bit
of bad luck and couldn’t make it
the night of the dance. Danny Ca
gle came down with the flu and
w'ouldn’t you know it — Ken
Honeycutt was bitten by a horse
and four of his ribs were broken.
Mr. Crump received two surprises
from his class at the end of the
year. One was the reclining chair
the class bought him, and the other
was the “poo poo” pad someone
put in his seat when he sat down.
At the end of the 7th grade
everyone was looking forward to
growing up and being in the 8th
grade.
Jamestown Junior High and
High School
At the beginning of the eighth
grade, many foreign bodies were
introduced into OUR old familiar
Jamestown. When these 'little,
sweet, shy, innocent creatures”
from Sedgefield and Union Hill en
tered the tremendous doors of
Jamestown School, they soon real
ized that in order to survive, they
would definitely have to change
their “good” behavior. It certainly
didn’t take them long to pick up
the wild, swingin’ habits of the
"Jamestown cats.”
We found that one of the dis
advantages of being a BIG eighth
grader was having NO recess and
even worse was the complete omit
tance of “show-and-tell.” These
things, however, had their compen
sations; we were now BIG SEN
IORS of Jamestown Junior High
School. Just imagine, we had
charge of running the ice cream
shack and the Beta Shop. We even
monopolized the office that year.
Seme of Us worked in the office
and then there were others who
were there for other reasons, if you
know what I mean. Anyway, we
SENIORS practically "ran” James
town School.
Jerry Fruitt was elected president
of the student council and was as
sisted by Ronda Parks, vice-presi
dent; Candy Blair, secretary; and
Miriam Legg, treasurer.
The eighth grade was the year
we had that “great” safety patrol
group. They were really great too
—the head of the safety patrol,
Toni Elliot, got run over!! Didn’t
one of our girls break her arm
when she ran into Tony’s stomach?
I believe it must have been Sharon
Tate.
Our Midget Football Team did
“extremely” well that year. In the
regular season they lost two, tied
one, and won two. You see how
well they did, don’t you? In the
playoffs they beat Allen Jay in the
first game; and in the second .game,
they beat Sealtest Dairy 32-13 for
the championship. Pretty good,
don’t you think? Jimmy Finch was
elected captain of the team, and
Linwood Collins was elected as the
most valuable player.
The Midget Football Team was
supported by the following cheer
leaders: Rachel Jowers, chief, Kathy
Robinson, asst, chief, Beth Aspden,
Gail Furr, Sheila iWnslow, Candie
Black, Sandra Moore, and Patsy
Litzie.
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