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Class of 1950

Excerpt from 50th Reunion Anniversary Yearbook

 

Class History

 

In the year of 1946 and 47 there were 45 students enrolled in the freshman class. Sophey Lazaration was elected president; Jim Harrison, secretary; Kenneth Madison, treasurer. The student council members for the year were Bobbie Carter and Charles Turner with  Mr. Vincent Stouder as the class sponsor. During the year Edward Ulm withdrew and June McHolt entered.

 

In the sophomore year 46 students were enrolled. Quintin Purdy was elected president,  Don Brownfield, vice-president; Dale LaCosse, treasurer.  Sophey Lazaration and Charles Turner were the Student council members and Mr. Gerald Roudebush was the class sponsor.  During the year Alfred Spurgeon, Edward Mead, Dale Carlson, Barbara Lane, Eileen McClanahan, Kenneth Madison, Don Early, Faye Bannister, Mary Logsdon, Russell Penrod, Barbara Robinson, and Mary Mattox withdrew. Also during the year Melvin Rady and Jonathon Richards entered.

 

In the junior year there were 39 students enrolled.  Dottie Bingham was elected president; Dean Dawson, vice-president; Dale LaCosse, treasurer.  Jackie Johnson and Vern Denton were the student council members and Mr. Forrest Kester was the class sponsor. During the year Ellsworth Hansen, June McHolt, Quintin Purdy, Marilyn Scott, Marle Scott, and Betty Hayslip withdrew. Annice Peevey, Jeannine Donaldson and Robert Hixson entered during the year.  The class had their prom May 13, 1949 The theme was "To You, Sweetheart, Aloha" with Ed Loveless and the Satisfiers from Frankfort furnishing the music.

 

As the class entered their senior year there were 34 students enrolled. Donald Brownfield was elected president; Barbara Christenson, vice-president; Annice Peevey, secretary, Dale LaCosse, treasurer.

 

Student council members for the year were Dottie Bingham and Dean Dawson.  Mrs. Ann Younger McPhail was the class sponsor for the year. During the year Wayne Glass, Robert Hixson and Bethel Starnes withdrew while Carol Bohler and Gail Kaupke entered.

 

On April 21, 1950 the class presented the play "Mother Is A Freshman."

 

On May 5th at 3:00 am.17 seniors started on a four day trip through the southern states accompanied by Prin. J.E. Steward, Mrs. Minnie Watt, and Mr Leroy Hickman, the bus driver.  The group arrived about 1:30 pm. at Mommoth Cave, Kentucky, where they spent the night. While there they went on a three hour tour of Mammoth Cave, Saturday morning they drove to Nashville, TN and stayed at the Maxwell House Hotel. Saturday night choice of entertainment was optional and several visited the Grand Ole Opry.  Driving Sunday the party went through Chattanooga to the top of Lookout Mountain and Rock City. They drove through North Carolina and visited the Cherokee Indian Reservation. Sunday afternoon the group went through the heart of the Smokey mountains and continued to Knoxville, TN where they spent the night.  Starting for home Monday, they drove the the Cumberland Gap in the Cumberland mountains and through the central part of Kentucky.  The party arrived in Morocco, midnight Monday. The trip covered 5 states and 1300 miles.

 

Senior Class Poem of 1950

 

Tell us not these years are ended, years in which we laughed and learned.

Tell us not that we must part now, leaving friendships sweetly earned

How these rooms are filled with mem'ries, mem'ries now so sweet and dear

How these empty halls re-echo, bringing footsteps soft and near.

Now we leave these halls of learning, leave to come again no more.

Now we leave familiar places, yearning for the years now o'er.

May we keep these years forever, may they linger; not depart

May these years at Morocco High School live forever in our heart.

 

                                   by Bobbie Carter

 

 

 

 

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