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[Newspaper name spans all five columns] THE EAGLE
[Dateline spans all five columns below newspaper name] Vol. II — No. 1
TAYLORS HIGH SCHOOL, TAYLORS, S. C.
Tuesday, September 29, 1959

[Column 1]
Council Holds
First Meeting
September 11

Jimmy Turner, president of the
student body, presided over the
first student council meeting. This
meeting was held September 11.

In order for the council to function
properly, the members must
clearly understand all parts of the
constitution. The president went
over each article in the constitution
and points that were not clear were
discussed.

Mrs. Pou, who is to be the new
sponsor, suggested several projects
the council might adopt. These
porjects were discussed. Two projects
needing immediate attention
were voted on and accepted. The
council will take charge of the seating
arrangement in chapel and will
sell Taylors High banners and pins
as a money making project. Definite
action on the above projects
will be taken at the next meeting.

[Title and first paragraph span the middle of columns 1 & 2]
Taylors Students Tour
U.S., Europe and Asia

France, England, Germany, and Switzerland were the
countries to be toured by Bobby Johnson and his family when
they left New York June 17 abroad a Pan American Jet for
a six hour flight to Paris, France.

Arriving in Paris, the Johnsons
stayed at the Hotel Ambassador.
They took a guided tour of Paris
which included the Eiffle Tower
and other points of interest. They
also rode out to Versailles Palace
built by Louis XIV, just outside
Paris.

The Johnsons toured Germany
and Switzerland by car. Bobby
reports that the countryside in Germany
is the neatest and most beautiful
that he has ever seen.

In Switzerland, Bobby took a two
hour cable car dide[ride] up Mount
Jungfraujoch the highest in the Swiss
Alps. He took a fifty minute ride
through a tunnel shich he described
as being below zero.

In London, Bobby and his family
stayed at the Park Palace Hotel
overlooking Buckingham Palace.
They visited the Tower of London
where they saw the Crown Jewels,
Buckingham Palace, Windsor
Casle, and other outstanding
sights in and around London.

In Zurich, the Johnsons visited
the flower show which Bobby

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described as fabulous. From there
they drove to Geneva where they
saw the palace where the "Big
Four' conference was held.

Bobby found the Europeans to
be quite friendly especially the
Swiss.

When asked what was the high?[Misprint rather than hyphen]
light of the trip, Booby immediately
answered, "The trip home".

The Johnsons borard the Queen
Elizabeth in Southhampton, England
July 3 and spent five days sailing to
New York. Bobby found the different
classes of people on the ship to
be quite interesting and the food
supereb. The entertainment was
found to be quite up to par with
"The Shaggy Dog" playing in the
ship's theater. At night there were
parties and dances with an orchestra
and in the daytime there was
shuffleboard and ping-pong on
deck. Incidentally, Bobby son second
place in the Queen Elizabeth
Ping-Pong Tournament.

On July 8 the Queen Elizabeth
docked in New York and the An-[Ansel]
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[Image spanning the bottom of columns 1& 2; image shows two teen boys leaning on a car with a teen girl sitting in the driver's seat with the door open]
[Image caption]
Left to right: Bobby Johnson, Ethelene Alewine and Alex Patrick.

[Top of Column 2]
Plans Completed
For New School

Early in the tear the citizens of
Greenville County voted
overwhelmingly in favor of a bond
issue which would provide the money
for renovation and erection of
school buildings all over the
Greenville school district.

The already inadequate facilities
of the school buildings at Paris
and Taylors had been taxed far
beyond limitations for several years.
beginning with the war babies'
boom and continuing on a much
larger scale. Conditions were
agravated by the literally thousands
of children that were thrust into
the schools with the "mushrooming
growth" of the surrounding areas.

Although the plight of the
schools was all too appearent,
because of lack of funding, nothing but
hopeful promises could be given to
anxious parents and onlookers.
However with the filling of the
coffers of the school district by the
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[Column 3, article 1]
Five Join Taylors
Staff For '59-'60

Taylors High School was very
fortunate to get five new teachers this
year. As this school gets under
way, you will be getting to know
them better. To give you a head
start in this, we have found out
some things you might like to know
about them.

Our new girl's coach, Miss Judith
Blanchard, has a freshman
homeroom and teaches phyiscal education
and General Science. Her hobbies
are music and sports, and steak
is her favorite food. As her pet
peeve, she lists ""People who talk
when I'm talking."

A new eighth grade teacher is
Mr. Earnest Blackmon. He teaches
English and History. His pet peeve
is 'wise guys'". He has observed
that Taylors High is well organized
and has friendly people. Photography
and water-skiing are his hobbies
while steak and French fries
are his favorite foods.

Mrs. Cynthia Gowan has a
senior homeroom and teaches
English 11 and 12 and senior
citizenship. She tells us that chocolate
toll is her favorite food and that
she enjoys cooking and reading.
When asked her pet peeve, Mrs.
Gowan stated, "I don't have one
now but I'll probably have one
before the end of the year. "

Mr. Thomas Lowe completes the
all-male eighth grade faculty. He
teaches history and science. He
says he likes apple pie, model
airplanes, hunting, fishing, and
racing. He found T. H. S. students
to be warm and friendly with a
good attitude toward the teachers.
He doesn't like students to talk.

Mrs. Patricia Henderson has a
freshman homeroom and teaches
biology and chemistry. She likes
sewing and reading as her hobbies
and steak as her favorite food. She
confides that washing dishes is her
pet peeve.

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Officers For
Classes Named

The following people were elected
to lead their classes in the '59-
'60 school term. The eighth grade
officers are as follows: Judy
Edwards, president; Karen Shultz,
vice-president, Phyllis Poole, secretary,
Randall Keenan, treasurer.
In the ninth grade the officers are:
president, Jimmy Moore; vice-
president Janet Blackwell; secretary,
Bonnie Reynolds; treasurer,
Jane Moon. The tenth grade
officers are: president, Gary Downey;
vice-president, Danny Cunningham;
secretary, T. J. Ingle; and treasurer,
Jean Fondy. The juniors have as
president, Alex Patrick; vice-president,
DeLane Misenheimer; secretary,
Sharon Davis; treasurer, Rose
Hudgens as class officers. The
senior class officers are: Dale Leake,
president; Stuart Gilmer, vice-president;
Becky Roper, secretary; and
Johnny Carlisle, treasurer.

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Use The Library

The library is open. Assistants
are on duty every period to help
with your library problems.
Unfortunately two study halls are in
the library, so during third and
sixth periods, research clsses can
not go to the library as groups.

Some new books are on the
shelves and others will be added as
they arrive.

[Title and article span columns 4 & 5]
Ethelene Alewine Is
Named Miss Hi Miss

Ethelene Alewine, a senior of the 1960 graduating class,
has been chosen as Miss Hi Miss of Taylors High School.
Ethelene is president of the F. H. A., secretary of the Beta
Club, secretary of her home room, and she is a cheerleader.

Ethelene was chosen because she
is outstanding in scholarship, personal
attractiveness, leadership,
and character. She has been a
leader throughout high school and
was one of the honor students last
year. Ethelene was a Junior Marshal
and was chosen to delegate
from her state to attend the National
F. H. A. convention in Chicago.
She represented the Junior Class
in the beauty section of Les
Memoirs.

Some time in the spring, Etheline [Ethelene]
will be honored by a week
end at Winthrop. For eleven years
the Johnsonian[bold] has exteneded this
honor to include North Carolina
high schoools within an approximate
100 mile radius of Winthrop as
well as all high schools of South
Carolina. Each girl's picture will
be in a special edition of the Winthrop
newspaper The Johnsonian.

[Image in column 4 of the headshot of Ethelene Alewine a teen girl]
[Image caption]
ETHELENE ALEWINE

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Key Club Lists
'59-'60 Officers

The Key Club met on Friday,
September 11th, to elect the
following officers: Jerry Johnson,
president; Donny Dempsey, vice-
president; Charles Sims, secretary;
and Jerald Dempsey, treasurer.

The Key Club will begin its
second year at Taylors this semester.
It is already carrying out a safety
program for the school. Members
of the club are on duty in the
mornings, at noon, and after school.
Ther slogan is "Protect the Pee
Wees."
The plans for this year include
a beauty contest and a big social
following it.

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Seniors Measured
For Class Rings

What size is your finger? Did
you get the "old English T" or the
'Facet cut."

These questions could be heard
being asked following first period
Thursday, September 10 whenthe
seventy-three members of the senior
class were measured for their
rings.

Miss Sarah Gault, a representitive
fromHales Jewelers in Greenville,
measured the seniors and answered
questions concerning the rings.

The smallest finger in the senior
class is Betty Ellison's size five
and David Arlege has the largest
finger with a size twelve.

According to Miss Gault, the
Taylors seniors will be the first
to receive their rings in the fall.

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Work Begun on Annual

The Annual Staff has begun
work on the '59-'60 edition of the
"Les Memoirs". Plans are being
made for the biggest and best annual
yet. Pictures are being made
and will include grades seven
through twelve. Announcements
concerning subscriptions will be
made soon.

[Column 5, Article 2; title spans columns 4 & 5]
Enrollment Reaches
1,085 As Term Opens

The doors of Taylors High School
and Elementary School opened
Tuesday, September 2 for the
beginning of the '59-'60 school year
with a total of 1,085 students
attending.

Beginning this year the first
through the twelfth grades are in-
elementary school and the seventh
through twenfth[twelfth] grades are
included as the high school. In the
past, the first through the eighth
grades were the elementary school
and the ninth through the twelfth
grades were the high school. This
is being done in order to acquaint
the seventh and eighth graders
with high school life so that they
will more easily fit into the role of
the high scholl when the new
school is completed.

In the high school there is a
total of 544 students. The eighth
grade leads the list with a total of
112 students while the seventh and
tenth grades tie with ninety-five
students each. The eleventh grade
rates next with seventy-eight
students while the senior class claims
seventy-three members, the largest
in the history of Taylors High
School.

With the increase in students the
classrooms are being used to their
fullest advantage. One home
economics class know as the "sewing
room" has been given up to an
eighth grade class and the other
"home ec" room has been partioned[partitioned]
into two classrooms.

Due to the changes that have
been made it has been observed
that the classrooms are not as
crowded as they have been in the
past.

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Reception Given

The principal and teachers of
the Taylors Elementary and High
Schools were honored at a reception
given for them September 14
at the Taylors School. The Rev.
Jack Nanney, pastor of the First
Baptist Church of Taylors, opened
the meeting with prayer.

The reception was held in the
dining area of the school. The PTA
officers, principal, and teachers
stood in the receiving line.