Breckinridge Co., KY High School News

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Class of 1928

Ruby Jarboe (Jackson), Living in Oklahoma
Luchy Cashman, Security Bank
Grace Miller (Davis) Teaching
Grace Porter (Lampton)
Anna L. Sandbach (Beard), Home
Nancy Kinceloe, Working Rural Resettlement Office
Edgar Day, Working for Armours, Leitchfield
William Seaton, Farming
Hubbard Board, Working for Hightway Department
Homer Robinson, Preacher
T. J. DeJarnette, Farming
Enda Robinson (Brisco), Working, Louisville
Goldie Galloway (Gillion), Cloverport
James Taylor, Drug Store, LaGrange
Mary Sue Thompson, (Day) McDaniels, Ky
Thelma Marlow (Willis), Brandenburg
Mildred Hall, Nurse, St. Elizabeth Hospital, Washington, D.C.

Class of 1929

Mildred Beard, Working, Louisville
Charles C. Adkisson
Catherine Carter (Martin)
Clifford Dowell, Farming
Roscoe Kiper, Home
Velma Galloway
Clyde Keys, Chevrolet Motor Co. Tell City, Indiana
Kathlee Lennon
Woodrow Pile - Liquor Guager
Mary Rose LeMaster, Married living in Indiana
Orval Tabor, Teaching, Garfield
Sally Snyder (Kirivin), Louisville
Edna Mae Wilson, Laboratory Technician, Alabama
Baynard Fox, Preaching, Stephensport
Bessie Beasly, Married living in Richmond, Ky.
Eldred Robbins, Farming, Sample

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The following are exerpts from the Breckinridge County High School News, Vol. I, Published at Hardinsburg, Kentucky, dated Saturday, January 9, 1937, Sponsored by Junior Class [Submitted by Linda Burnett Kistner]

JUNIORS INTERVIEW CLASSMATES
As a result of a class project between the Junior and Senior class the Juniors have interviewd the Seniors as to what they intend to do after high school graduation. This of course is to be a serious nature but the remainder of the interview is mixed with sarcastic expressions. This article will continue in the paper until an interview of every member has been published.
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CECIL GALLOWAY
Cecil Galloway was born July 28, 1918, near Mook, Kentucky. Cecil's home is at SeRee, but during the school year he resides at Kingswood. He is five feet, eleven inches in stature and weighs one hundred and fifty pounds. His hair is straight and of the shade, usually termed as dish-water blond. Having a desire for roving about Cecil attended school at Shrewberry, Hayes, Wilson, and Breckinridge County High. He is a member of the Future Farmers of America Club and considers Agriculture and English his favorite studies. "Football is my favorite amusement," he says, "I attend the games of our school, and on Saturdays listen to the grames being broadcast over the radio." His favorite author is Cooper. "Well", he said when asked to tell us something that he does fairly well, "I think I court Miss Cecil Drane fairly well, but I don't know maybe you had better ask Miss Drane what she thinks." He considers his most interesting experience a trip with the Future Farmers Club. He did not mention where they went but he said that best of all he liked the visit to the zoo. "Especially", he said, "I liked to linger about the monkey's cages." Cecil would like to go to college at Bowling Green or at Lexington after this year's doubt of being a Senior is over.
By Ann Winchester
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ALFRED MOORE
BIRTH: I was born about 3 miles from McDaniels October 26, 1917.
RESIDENCE: Glen Dean, Kentucky
DESCRIPTION: I am about the average height and weight and have short bow legs. However, these do not detract much from my good looks. I have brown hair, brown eyes and several freckles.
SCHOOLS ATTENDED: Beech Grove, Montgomery in Louisville, Glen Dean and B.C.H.S.
ACTIVITIES: Football.
FAVORITE STUDY: None of them.
FAVORITE AMUSEMENT: Nothing amuses me more than good music or to see Mrs. Beard listen so intently while I recite aloud some good poem I have learned in her English Class.
FAVORITE AUTHOR: Of all the authors I have read I choose Zane Gray as my favorite.
SOMETHING I DO FAIRLY WELL: I think I eat fairly well.
MOST INTERSTING EXPERIENCE: I consider my most interesting experience the morning the bus got stuck in the creek and I had to carry Roberta Moorman ashore.
PLANS AFTER LEAVING HIGH SCHOOL: After leaving B.C.H.S. I plan to take up engineering.
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WALTER CARTER
BIRTH: Dyer, Kentucky, April 22, 1919
RESIDENCE: Hardinsburg, KY.
DESCRIPTION: Black straight hair. Dark blue eyes. Reasonably large ears and a Roman nose. He is 69 inches tall. He wieghs 120 pounds.
ACTIVITY: An earnest student is he. His activity is studying Latin.
FAVORITE STUDY: He is so great a lover of books that it is hard to tell his favorite. At present it is Bookkeeping.
FAVORITE AMUSEMENT: Wrestling is a great amusement for him but his favoite is not that. What then could his favorite be but hunting?
FAVORITE AUTHOR: Cooper
SCHOOL ATTENDED: Hardingsburg, Kentucky
SOMETHING I DO FAIRLY WELL: One thing he does fairly well is to get his English. This of course, is with little effort on his part; but he is gifted in that subject.
MOST INTERESTING EXPERIENCE: As he thinks back over past years, taking Latin is his most interesting experience although there have been many other very interesting ones.
PLANS AFTER LEAVING HIGH SCHOOL: He is not fully decided what he will do after leaving high school. He thinks perhaps he will get a job, or he may be a bookkeeper.

Left to right: Walter Carter (holding his pony), Charles Carter, Orie Kelm Jr., Bernard Kelm, James Hessler. On the pony - (right to left): Mildred Bailey, Hazel Bailey, and Nephew (do not have name). My brother (Bernard) and I (Orie Kelm,Jr.) graduated from Breckinridge County High School in 1942. Photo taken about 1932. Photo submitted by Orie Kelm, Jr.

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RICHARD LEE PILE
BIRTH: Harned, Kentucky, January 15, 1917
RESIDENCE: Harned, Kentucky
DESCRIPTION: Mr. Pile having been crowned Mr. B.C.H.S. two years in succession might be termed good-looking. He has slightly blonde hair which is never out of place, blue eyes and high cheek bones. He is very neat in dress and always has the appearance of a well groomed person.
ACTIVITIES: Football and Basketball
FAVORITE STUDY: Above the arguments of his English teacher Richard declares that Math is his favorite study. Mrs. Beard probably believes English to be his favorite study as he has never failed to take any course in it less than twice.
SOMETHING I DO FAIRLY WELL: When asked this question Richard said very sarcastically, "I think I comb my hair fairly well."
MOST INTERSTING EXPERIENCE: He considers his most interesting experience the Junior and Senior trip to the Mammoth Cave, Tennessee, Georgia and other places of interest.
PLANS AFTER LEAVING HIGH SCHOOL: After leaving Breckinridge County High he says he intends to enter a Business College, then try his luck in the Business world.
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MAURICE PAYNE
BIRTH: Hardinsburg, Kentucky, August 18, 1919
RESIDENCE: McQuady, Kentucky
DESCRIPTION: I am about 5 ft. 8 1/2 inches tall. I have sandy red hair and an enormous amount of red freckles. I have large ears and a roaming nose. It roams all over my face. I have a sharp chin, and dancing green eyes.
ACTIVITIES: Tap dancing and boxing
FAVORITE STUDY: Of all the subjects I have studied in school I choose Math as my favorite.
FAVORITE AMUSEMENT: I can think of nothing more thrilling and amusing than speedboat riding with Bettye Glasscock.
SOEMTHING I DO FAIRLY WELL: I can build and repair an engine fairly well.
FAVORITE AUTHOR: It is very hard for me to decide on my favorite author. I like Robert Frost and Harold Bell Wright.
MOST INTERESTING EXPERIENCE: I consider my most intersting experience when I was about 10 yrs. old. I had to remain at school to explain why I was carrying a cob pipe in my shirt.
SCHOOLS ATTENDED: McQuady and B.C.H.S.
PLANS AFTER LEAVING HIGH SCHOOL: After leaving B.C.H.S. I plan to enter Bryant and Stratton Business College in Louisville. After completing a business course there I am going to take up aviation.
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EMMA THOMAS COMPTON
BIRTH: February 24, 1919, McDaniels, Kentucky
RESIDENCE: McDaniels Kentucky
DESCRIPTION: I am of average height and am rather slim. My hair is medium brown and straight as a poker when it is not curled. My eyes are an indefinite shade between gray and blue.
SCHOOLS ATTENDED: "I attended the McDaniels School and the Rhodes School while I was in common school. I have attended Breckinridge County High School for four years."
FAVORITE SUBJECTS: "Of all the subjects I have studied in high school, I thnk English and Latin are my favorites.
FAVORITE AMUSEMENTS: I like to read good books in my spare time. I also like to go horseback riding. I enjoy the wind blowing my hair as I go galloping along. I love to go on long hikes and tramp through the woods, climb cliffs, and see all the interesting sights of nature.
FAVORITE AUTHOR: As I am a lover of good books I like most any modern author. I like Zane Gray for western stories. I think Mark Twain has a splendid sense of humor and I enjoy all of his books. My favorite poet is Edgar Allen Poe. I think his poems are beautiful when they are read aloud.
SOMETHING I DO FAIRLY WELL: There is nothing I can do real well, but I think I can cook fairly well.
MOST INTERESTING EXPERIENCE: As yet I have not had very many interesting experiences but I think the first day I came to B.C.H.S. is the most interesting. I knew nothing about the building and could not find any of my class rooms. It was rather embarassing then but it seems funny now to think of the time when I a green freshman went into a dignified senior class.
PLANS AFTER LEAVING SCHOOL: I have no definie plans but I will probably go to college, but where, I have not decided.
Hazel Kiper

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Breckinridge Co. High School 1940 Yearbook

This is what my dad wrote in his senior yearbook from 1940 --(Linda Burnett Kistner)

MEMOIRS

My memories and love for the institution where this book was edited by the Senior Class of 1940, cannot be expressed in oral words, nor can it be expressed in writing. The best four years of my past life were spend in the Breckinridge County High School, at Hardinsburg, Kentucky.

Just about all I can put down on this sheet of paper is, that no matter where I shall spend the remainder of my life and no matter what kind of work I will be doing, my heart and thoughts will turn back to B.C.H.S., the teachers, and the students.
Paul H. Burnett
Class of 1940

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