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THE OAK LEAF VOLUN VII 1933 PUBLISHED BY SENIOR CLASS HUGH MORSON HIGH SCHOOL RALEIGH. NORTH CAROLINA OLIVIA RANEY LIBRARY 4016 Gary a Drive Raleigh, NC 27610 Foreword REALIZING that we can enjoy our high school days no longer, we, the Senior Class of Thirty-three, wish to present to you in this book some of the familiar faces, scenes, and achievements of our four years here. In the future, as we turn its pages, we hope it will bring back pleasant memories. Contents I the school ii CLASSES III ORGANIZATIONS IV ATHLETICS V FEATURES VI JOKES AND ADS Dedication IN EVIDENCE of the high esteem in which she is held, and as an expression of our appreciation for her ever present interest and readily given aid, we dedicate this seventh volume of The Oak Leaf to MISS LAURA M. JONES Miss Laura M. Joxes Faculty Roll C. E. Wessinger, A.B., M.A., Principal Myrtle Alexander, B.C.S. Marianne Crawford, B.S. Nellie McClees, A.B. Commerce Social Science Mathematics Mrs. Lalla D. Andrews Laura Efird Prances Moore, B.S. English Mathematics Home Economics Mary Oliver Ellington Anne Peay Morrow, A.B. Mrs. J. M. Barbee B.S. Mathematics English Science Grace Musch. B.S., M.A. Iva Barden, A.B., M.A. Lucy Gilmore, B.S., M.A. Science Latin French Margaret Partenheijier Laura Bell, A.B. Elizabeth Henley. B.S. Music Commerce Home Economics W. A. Potter S. A. Braxton Music Mary Elizabeth Hollis Instrumental Music A.B. Nei.le Scott. B.S. Social Science Mary Powell Brantley Home Economics A.B., M.A. Dorothy N. Hutchinson Social Science Ada Curtis Spencer, B.S. Physical Education Science Natalie Cofkey, A.B., M.A. Jv P. Johnson. M.E. A. T. Spurlock, B.S., A.B. English and Spanish Physical Education and Science and Athletic Coach Athletic Coach Margaret Connor. A.B. D. K. Stewart, B.S., M.A. Mathematics Laura M. Jones. A.B. Mechanical Arts Girls' Adviser and Mathematics Daisy Jones Couch E. M. Thompson. A.B. A.B.. M.A. Boys' Adviser and Science English Blanche Lancaster. B.S. Social Science Elizabeth S. Walker Nancy Wheeler Cox A. B., M.A. Secretary to the Principal Mildred Looney, B.S. Social Science Librarian Ruth Creightqn Katherine Wright A.B., M.A. Evelyn McCall. A.B. B. S., M.A. English English Home Economics Eight ftlM JONtS W€«ING£R THOMPSON 'fa.= GILA10R£ SCOTT _ I ^9 ^fc^J&&!P m •TBI' fcWh'CAiTtR 'ft/isiJARMN Cton Bin. ftft. MORROW AftDREfti LOONfcY '//!>.< COii K<(L«S POT rtR '/fe-ElllN6TON • ft.. COX #* BRAXTON !/ft«PARTt/Wt!i^R M.JWRUXK 7#«.BRAJWtY W..JOHNJOK W/..-WIRD flkJttWART Nine " ' ''' i ' 0EOU6C J^^^ £ , M ^ KARffWE Z^* tTW4ft l . JitainrsilllanatA/t ^JBk| I ^ <& / 1 W M| w JF H " • V ' J MM* . ^^^^^^W^ Associate Editors ^fc-OTOTiY Polier Senior Class Editor Virginia Tatum Junior Class Editor Peggie Moody Feature Editor Bill Sawyer Spoi'ts Editor Bennett Straughn Joke Editor Leonard Dowdee Circulation Manager Ripley Heatherly / - Art Editors Joe Blankenship \ Wray White Historian Marion Womble Poet CORLESS TENNANT ) \ Prophets Richard Vaden Alexander Badger Testator Ten Seniors I N Charles Franklin Andrews Mascot Twelve Senior Committees Invitation Margaret Bullard Leon Chadwick Alice Goodman Marion Womble Class Day Farewell Banquet Lester Crane Claire Eastman Herbert Upchurch Charlotte Fuller Margaret Upchurch John Metts Virginia Weathees William Poe Thirteen ; ; Roy Allen '"Roy" "Speech is great; but silence is greater." Boy Scouts 1 Bh.i.y Aycock "Billy" by years, but by dis "But not express'd in position is wisdom ac fancy; rich, not gaudy; quired." For the apparel oft pro- Home Room Representative claims the man." 1; Science Club 1, 4; Glee Club , 1, 2, 3, 4; Dramatic Club 1, 4; Pavetteville High School 1. 2; Vice-President o f Dramatic Hi-Y 3, 4; President of Hi-Y Club Manager of Book De- ; Testator of Oak Leap. 4 ; 4 partment 2, 3, 4. N. L. Ballance, Jr. 1 "Junior" Owen A. Ballanoe "Let the world slide, let "Not too serious, not too the world go; gay, A fig for care and a fi But a rare good fellow for woe!" when it comes to play." Boy Scouts 1, 2, 3, 4; As- Boy Scouts 1, 2, 3, 4; Band Patrol 1, sistant Leader 4 1, 2, 3; Science Club 1, 2. Patrol Leader 2, 3; Science Club 1, 2. George E. Baucom, Jr. Robert Lewis Barkley "Buddy" "Lewis" 'Wise to resolve and "Neat and trimly dressed patient to perform." and fresh as a bride- groom." Boy Scouts 1, 2, 3, 4; Scribe 2 ; Assistant Patrol Leader 1 Patrol Leader 4; Glee Club 3; Science Club 1 ; Boy Scouts Dramatic Club 4 ; Cheerio Club 1 ; Commercial Club 4. 4. Few rteen ; ;; ; Harry Billings Mary Elizabeth Baucom "Goober" "Gentle of speech and beneficent of mind." "And feel that I am hap- pier than I know." Home Economics Club 2. 3, 4; Treasurer of Home Economics Boy Scouts 1, 2; Lewis Liter- Club 3 ; President Home Eco- ary Society 3 ; Science C^ub Girl 4. nomics Club 4; Reserves 3, 4. Agnes Dunn Blanchard "Shag" "Ag" "A perfect woman, nobly planned, _nT_o warn, to comfort, and Anna Pansy Boyd "command." "The mildest manners and Vice-President of Class 1, 2 the gentlest heart." Girl Reserves 1, 2, 3 ; Secre- 0 tary of Girl Reserves 1 ; Home Economics Club 2; Girls Athletic Morson Literary Society 3 Home Economics Association 3, 4 ; Hike Leader 2, 4; Commer- 3; Group Leader 4; Assistant cial Club 4. Editor of Oak Leaf 3 ; Editor of Oak Leaf 4; Student Coun- cil Representative 1, 2, 3; Secre- tary of Student Council 3 Daisy Chain Committee 2 ; Mar- shal 3 ; Cheerio Club 4 ; Journal- ism Club 4. Mayiie Louise Bridgers Doris Larinda Brooks 'Does well, acts nobly; angels could do no "Larry" more." "She smiles and smiles Girl Reserves 1 ; Home and will not sigh." Economics Club 4 Commercial Club 4. Katherine Brooks "Runt" Lillian Brooks "The sweetest thing that "Sense is the diamond, weighty, solid, sound." ever grew, beside a human door." Girls' Athletic Association 1, 2 ; Dramatic Club 1 ; Morson Girl Reserves 1 ; Morson Liter- Literary Society 4. ary Society 4 ; Commercial Club 4 ; Girls' Athletic Association 3. Fifteen ; — ; Linwood Brooks Mildred Grace Broughton "Shorty" "Little Bit" "He's a very efficient boy; "With volleys of eternal And he is such a size bubble." That when his feet are on the ground, Girls' Athletic Association His hands could touch the 1, 2, 3, 4; Skating Leader of skies." Athletic Association 4; Dramatic Club 1; Girl Reserves 4; Cheerio Club 4. Glee Club 3, 4. Margaret Anne Bullard "In youth and beauty wis- dom is but rare." Junior Judge of Student Co- Fred Byrlji operative Assocation 3 ; Senior Judge of Student Cooperative Secretary "For they can conquer Association 4 ; of Freshman Class 1 ; Morson Liter- who think they can." ary Society 3. 4; Secretary Morson Literary Society 4 Member Daisy Chain Commit- tee 3; Shorthand Contestant 3: Commercial Club 4 ; Girls' Athletic Association 1. Leon Gordon Chadwick ''Pinky"1 Holland Carder "Quiet and modest, thought- 'I have a heart with room ful and meek for every joy." Knowing much more than he let's himself speak." Lewis Literary Society 3, 4 Science Club 3. Dorothy Ford Champion Horace Champion "Chomp" "Dooclie" "The world can't twirl without an attractive "He had a head which girl." sculptors loved to copy." Dramatic Club 4; Latin Dramatic Club 1, 2, 3, 4; Press Reporter Freshman Class Club 2 ; Music Club 3 ; Science Club 2, 3: Orchestra 1; Glee Club 3, 4; Girls' Athletic 4; Band Association 2; Girl Reserves 1; Literary Society 3. Sixteen ; ; ; Josephine Connelly Collie Trannie Yates Coburn "She has a natural wise sincerity, a simple truth- 'Thy modesty is a candle fulness." to thy merit." Girls' Athletic Association 1, 2; Girls' Athletic Association, Group Secretary 2 ; Home Room Representative 1. Holland Covington Nina , Alvah B. Coppedge 'The h&nd that" follows in- MeTIedt can achieve." "Cabbage" Gijl ReseW*«-,l, 2, 3, Secretary of <£irl Reserve* 2; 'I am sure care is an Dramatic Club 2 Reporter of enemy to life." ; *—Student Oiaiiiifctl ^4s--~*Ai3Bs6n Reporter of Literary Society 2 ; Mr\>on Liferafy" Society 3, 4 Glee Club 3-; Cheerio Club 4. Lester R. Crane Francis Craddock "His words are bonds, his oaths are oracles; "Oh, why should life all His love sincere, his labor be?" thoughts immaculate." Stage Manager Scienc Boy Scouts 1, 2 ; Glee Club Club 4. 3, 4; Business Manager of Glee Club 4 ; Student Council Press Reporter 3. Evangeline C. Crosby Fred Ckouch "Dickie'' "It's good to be merry and wise "He saw her charming, but It's good to be honest and he saw not half. true." The charms her downcast modesty concealed." Bov Scouts 3 ; Science Club 3, 4;' Science Club Critic 4. Morson Literary Society 4 Dramatic Club Journalism Club 4. Seventeen Virginia Pearl Davis "Pete" ' A smile for all, a greeting Annie Ruth Davis glad, An amiable, jolly way she heart is true as steel.' "My had." Girl Reserves 1, 2,^8,', A Morson Literary Sociotjf^* /kMi Student Council yf4lizabeth Dees Dee" Vester W. Davidson "But 0, she dances such a "One who never turned his way! walked breast back, but No sun upon an Easter forward." day, Student Council Representa- Is half so fine a sight." tive 2, 3. Glee Club 4; Girls' Athletic Association 3, 4. Leonard Dowdee "Doivclee" John Dowd "Then he will talk—ye "So walked he from his gods, how he will talk!" birth In simpleness, gentleness, Boy Scouts 1, 2; Scribe 1, Patrol Leader Glee Club honor, and clean mirth." 2; 1, 2, 3, 4; Dramatic Club 3, 4: Tum- bling Team 3, 4; Science Club Tennis Team 3, 4.