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THE LEXHIPEP
May 26, 1950
Student President
MARVIN CROW
C. E. Wike
Principal
Class Statistics
President—Anglos Lindsey.
Vice-President—Jim Redwine.
Secretary-Patsy Nance.
Treasurer—Bobby Lee Par.
Mascots—Mary Elizabeth Nance,
Johnny Harris.
Historian—Elizabeth Clodfelter.
Testator—Mary Alice Wilson.
Prophet—Harriet Leonard.
Poet—William Cox.
Valedictorian—Harriet Leonard.
Salutatorian—Bobby Lee Parr.
Colors—Pale blue and silver.
Flower—Red rose.
Motto—“The future is not in the
hands of fate but in ourselves.”
Class Sponsors—Mrs. Ottis M. Hed
rick, Miss Charlotte Matthews.
To The Seniors of 1950
In a few days you will march down the aisle and onto the stage and
receive your high school diploma. Then for a short time,; you will feel that
you are out of jail at last and that all of your troubles are over andj that
you will live happily ever after. Fortunately, however, you are not living in
such a humdrum age as that. If you were, you would soon be terribly bored.
You will find that your responsibilitfes will be greatly increased and that
your opportunities for learning and growing will be greater than ever before.
I hope that some of the things that you have learned while you were at
Lexington High School will help you to live happier, fuller, and more suc
cessful lives.
While you were students here in the high school, your class has been
outstanding in many phases of school activities as well as scholastic attain
ment. During your junior and senior years you have been the leaders in
many fine projects. Several members of your class have been outstanding
in athletics and have brought many honors to the school during the past
four years. I wish for each one of you the greatest happiness and success in
whatever you undertake. In a few months we will be welcoming you back
to Lexington High School. The old “grads” always come back at every
opportunity and we are always delighted to have them with us,
C. E. WIKE
TO THE SENIORS OF 1950:
I do not know for sure whether the 20th Century entered its second
half with the advent of 1950 or whether the evact dividing line will be the
beginning of 1951. We need not be too fastidious about a technical point.
There is one thing we do know for sure—that the growth and expansions
in the past fifty years have been tremendous. What were marvels in 1900
have become commonplace or outmoded today. Diseases once deadly have
been conquered by science. New inventions in every field have profoundly
affected living. Transportation and communication are bringing global dis
tances within easy speaking range.
As startling and as far-reaching as have been the advances since the
20th Century began, these in all probability will be eclipsed within the
decades now beginning.
You, the Seniors of 1950, are going to live and work in a mighty inter-
lesting period—the second half of the 20th Century.
You will have a part in furthering the technical knowledge of the world
and controlling the material forces of the universe. I hope you will do all you
can to cause these forces to work for the betterment of mankind rather
than for destruction. This, as I see it, is your greatest challenge.
L. E. ANDREWS, Superintendent
Junior Class Marshals
Left to right: Henrietta Bruton, Maxine Yarbrough, Eva Gray McClam-
roch, Webb Leonard, Joe Bafford, Patsy Leonard, Ruth Cox, John Kearns,
and Janet Brown, chief.
Highest Honors
Harriet Leonard, Valedictorian
Bobby Lee Parr, Salutatorian
L. E. Andrews
Supt.
The Call of Life
—By Bill Cox
’Tis now we must go out into life.
Into the battle, into the strife.
Did I say strife? No, not at all;
Life can be beautiful; this is life’s call.
Life’s calling us from far and near;
It’s a challenging sound. Do you not
hear?
The whistle of the wind, the bubbling
of the brook.
It’s life calling us; we must listen
and look.
It’s cheering us on; on, to the top;
We must never look back; we must
never stop.
May we never regret the paths we’ve
trod.
But keep striving on—and looking to
ward God.
Senior Class Electives
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Senior Class Officers
Left to right: Mary Alice Wilson, Harret Leonard, Elizabeth Clodfelter.
Back row: William Cox,
Ang Lindsey, President; Jim Redwne, Vice-President; Bobby Lee Parr,
Treasurer; Patsy Nance, Secretary.