Class History
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the Sophomores, lavender and white; and
the Freshmen, green and white.
The song committee, consisting of
Barbara Edwards, chairman, Tommie
Brooks, Effie Ruth Maxwell, Elaine
Brown, Carolyn Hollingsworth, Mary
Emma Rouse, and Lois Smith, wrote a
song to the tune of “Sweetheart of Sigma
Chi”, which was accepted as the class
song. I’ve heard quite a number of
people outside of our class singing our
song; they must like it too.
Another step taken this year toward
building up interest in class activities
was the election of a class historian. (I
got the job and have been busy, more
or less, ever since collecting data.)
Did you see “Birds’ Christmas Carol”
presented by the Class of ’42? Directed
by Miss Janie Ipock, it was a presenta
tion that will long be remembered in
GHS. Those taking part were: Dickie
Weatherly, Margaret Scott, Herbert Bar
bour, Jessie Morris, Margaret Jean
Thornton, Hazel Brady, Helen Denning,
Bob Kemp, Marvin Crumpler, Mary
Emma Rouse, Geraldine Edmundson,
Frank Broadhurst, Effie Ruth Maxwell,
Bill Stafford, Eleanor Crocker, Christine
James, Dick Sherman, J. D. Pike,
Carolyn Hollingsworth, and Hilda Bell.
We were especially proud of Miss
Newell’s sophomore homeroom when it
won another honor for our class by
leading the school in the Free Lunch
Drive.
Fourteen sophomore girls had quite
a thrill when they were selected by Miss
Mary Langston to help with the enter
tainment at the Junior-Senior. The lucky
ones were: Hilda Bell, Mary Emma
Rouse, Gloria Massengill, Helen Bissette,
Mary Mitchum, Frances Stafford, Vir
ginia Jernigan, Alice Graham, Janice
Knight, Mary Lou Austin, Barbara Ed
wards, Margaret Jean Thornton, Lois
Smith, and Frances Gaddy.
The swimming team claimed James
and John Lee, Ben Ward, Robert Crump
ler and W. E. Avery. In there fighting
for ’ole GHS in football were R. J.
Moore and Graham Bizzell. We were
proudly represented in basketball, too,
by Lee Adams, Cubby Culbertson, John
Eliis, Robbie Malpass, Pearl Lee, Fanny
Lou Parker. On the softball team were
Helen McDonald, Lucile Johnson, Gerald
ine Edmundson, Margaret Britt, and
Lizzie Mae Adams.
To keep us swinging, Thomas Gillikan,
Quinn Anderson, James Snipes, Helen
Bissette, Fanny Lou Parker, George
Denmark, Lyndon Hart, Dick Sherman,
Joel Powers, J. D. Pike, Johnny Bridgers,
Frances Gaddy, Gertrude Edgerton.
Speros Naskeos, and Virginia Smiley
joined the band. Many of these mem
bers remained in the band for the next
two years.
The SA needed good committees, and
we believe that our class helped the SA
a great deal. On the Assembly Commit
tee was James Crow; Athletic, Fanny
Lou Parker; Bulletin, Margaret Scott;
Cafeteria, Herbert Barbour; Cheering,
Hilda Bell and Dickie Weatherly; Pro
gram, Effie Ruth Maxwell; Property and
Stage, Billy Haire; Board of Elections,
Ruth Minton; Nominating, J. C. Harrell;
Lost and Found, Dorothy Perkins.
It was a nice year. We saw winter
move into gay springtime. We saw the
Seniors become graduates and we knew
as they moved on there was room a
little higher up for us. It was nice being
silly and young, but oh, how much nicer
it was going to seem, come fall, to be
jolly Juniors—honest-to-goodness upper
classmen!
Chapter Three
As Juniors we greeted the underclass
men: Hi, Freshies and Sophs! Remember
us? We were just kids last year, too.
We had just entered into that class
where every one must be active and
that’s exactly what we were.
With all enthusiasm we elected Fanny
Lou Parker, president; Barbara Edwards,
vice president; Virginia Jernigan, secre
tary; Bob Powell, treasurer; Carolyn
Hollingsworth and Dickie Weatherly,
cheerleaders. Miss Janie Ipock was
again our adviser.
In the SA, Hilda Bell was made head
cheerleader; Helen Bissette was chair
man of the nominating committee and
Margaret Scott was corresponding secre
tary. Our class sponsored early in Octo
ber a successful Junior Ball to help
finance the Activity Ticket sale, under
the sponsorship of the SA.
That fall Lee Adams and Cubby Cul
bertson really made honors on the foot
ball field. At the end of the football
season Lee Adams was made captain
for the following year, it was noi sur
prising to find on the basketball court
Cubby Culbertson, Lee Adams, Joe In-
vernizzi, Leonard Kornegay and Ed
Herring.
Our Lady Quakes were doing all right
too: Frances Stafford, Margaret Jean
Thornton, Carolyn Hollingsworth, Mary
Emma Rouse, Helen Bissette, Agnes
Hallow, Barbara Edwards, co-captains
Lucille Muse and Margaret Handley
worked hard and gave our class many
honors.
The baseball team went to bat with
D. B. Burns, John Ellis, Donell Garris,
and Ben Ward representing our class.
Ben Ward again represented us on the
swimming team.
A boys’ and girls’ tennis squad was
organized for the first time since 1935
with Agnes Hallow, Mary Emma Rouse,
Helen Bissette, Carolyn Hollingsworth,
Margaret Jean Thornton, Cubby Culbert
son, and Lee Adams from our class.
Chosen as the most outstanding juniors
in athletics for the year were: Brinkley
Taylor, Arthur Culbertson, Tom York,
Lee Adams, Ben Ward, Agnes Hallow,
Pearl Lee, Margaret Handley, Lucille
Muse, and Fanny Lou Parker.
We presented “Why the Chimes Rang”
as the annual Christmas play and began
the tradition that the Junior Class pre
sent the Christmas program. Those tak
ing the leads were: Dick Borden, Dickie
Weatherly, J. D. Pike, Gertrude Edger
ton. Others taking part in the play
were: Lois Smith, Ruth Minton, Nancy
Paige Swift, Dot Perkins, Ben Ward,
George Denmark, Fanny Parker, Corne
lia Grice, Virginia Mercer, Mary Lou
Austin, Virginia Hopewell, Marianna
Best, Hazel Brady, Lizzie Mae Adams,
Juliette Farfour, Keith McClenny, Char
les O’Steen, Lois Wiegand, James Baker,
Ordery Moore. Serving on the property
committee were James Crow, chairman,
Fanny Lou Parker, Billy Haire, Emmett
Daughtry, Eleanor Jones, Lorena Edger
ton, and Charles O’Steen. Billy Haire
was in charge of the lights; helping him
were Herbert Barbour and Russell
Singleton.
The Hi News could not have been such
a swell paper without Effie Ruth Max
well as co-editorial editor; Helen Den
ning as co-feature editor; Lois Smith,
assistant feature editor; Herbert Bar
bour, sports editor; Bob Powell, co-picture
editor; Carolyn Hollingsworth, exchange
editor; and Hilda Bell as circulation
manager for the business staff.
Staff reporters were Ray Alston, Hilda
Bell, Elaine Brown, Alice Graham, Jack
Gue, Linwood Harrell, Ruth Minton, Dot
Perkins, Mary Emma Rouse, Hannah
Shrago, Nancy Paige Swift and Charles
Thompson.
Ad solicitors were Hilda Bell, Elaine
Brown, Alice Graham, Carolyn Hollings
worth, Hannah Shrago, Nancy Paige
Swift, Dot Perkins, Ruth Minton, Char
les O’Steen, James Crow, Ray Alston,
Mary Emma Rouse, and Effie Ruth Max
well.
Delegates to the North Carolina
Scholastic Press Institute in May were
Jane Parks, Helen Denning, and Caro
lyn Hollingsworth.
The eight-page Junior Issue of the
Hi News was a thrill to every member
of our class, for it not only publicized
the Junior Play, “Three Cornered Moon”,
but it announced the marshals and gave
a lot of dope about the members of our
class.
Why all the excitement? How well I
remember that afternoon I pushed
through the crowd to see what was
going on. The cast for the Junior play,
“Three Cornered Moon”, had just been
selected. The lucky ones were Dick
Sherman, J. C. Harrell, Gertrude Edger
ton, Edwina Jinnette, Frank Broad
hurst, Helen Denning, George Denmark,
J. D. Pike and Effie Ruth Maxwell.
James Crow was student director and
Margaret Magill prompter. The former
Miss Fowler Spencer directed the play.
The committees (those things that
we just can’t do without) were appoint
ed. The ticket committee was made up
of Elaine Brown, chairman, Margaret
J. Thornton, Alma Griffin, Barbara
Roberts, Walter Peterson, Bob Powell,
Miss Ezzell, adviser; Helen Bissette,
Lorena Edgerton, Carolyn Hollings
worth, Dickie Weatherly, Miss Ipock
adviser; property, Betsy Cade, chairman,
Alice Graham, Janice Knight, Mary
Emma Rouse, Dot Perkins, Hannah
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