Carrollton TX High School - Diploma - Nannie Margaret McKamy

GRADUATING CLASS 1934

As freshmen, we like other freshmen didn't know what it was all about. The class wasn't organized until about a month after school started. Mr. Berryhill was elected sponsor. Just before Christmas that year, Mr. Berryhill said something about a Christmas book drive. He said it came every Christmas. We thought Santa Claus was the only thing that came at Christmas, but when Mr. Berryhill told us to get some books, those 53 freshmen spread all over North Teas and brough in more books than all the other classes together.

Then came the lazy year as sophomores. Miss Stark was elected sponsor, and Mrs. A. W. Clem was appointed class mother by the P. T. A. The class officers were Nannie M. McKamy, Juanita McCombs, Katherleen Nix, and Ursa Keneipp. That year we hardly showed at the book drive.

At the end of that year we could hardly realize we were jolly juniors. Truly, the junior year is a jolly year for everyone. This year Miss Stark was reelected for sponsor, and Mrs. Keneipp was elected mother. The class officers were Kathleen Nix, Frederick Mayes, Ursa Keneipp, and Melvin Neely. Along about Christmas we flared up and bravely said we'd win the book drive. That was a tight race, but we came out victorious with the freshmen a close second.

Then came the year we all hated. We were supposed to be dignified seniors. Miss Stark and Mrs. Keneipp ran for sponsor and mother again and both were elected unanimously. We repeated the book drive. Victory this year. Of the 53 who began in the freshman class, 23 are left. These 23 have come through the ignorant freshmen year, the lazy sophomore year, the jolly junior year and the dignified senior year.

Nannie Margaret and Melvin are the only ones left over from the wiggling squirming class of 1923.

Elm Fork Echoes - The Peters Colony Historical Society of Dallas County, Texas. Vol. 4, No. 1, April 1976