May Day was a popular and much-aniticpated event in local schools for most of the 20th century, dying around in the last few decades. The big day brought races, baseball games, plays, and the traditional presentation of a May Court, with queen and attendants. “Around the World” was the theme of May Day at Hayes Elementary School in 1962. Members of the court, from left, Michael Dalton, Deborah Smith, Gary Becknell, Teresa Carmine, Charles Emory, Claudia Brown, Wade Lewis, Deborah Hogge, Milton Belvin, Claudia West, Vernon Hendley, Vickie Motley, Bruce Jenkins, Martie Lewis, Jesse Brown, Sarah Moscovits, Jimmy Callis, Karan Smith, Jimmy Ashe, Brenda Shifflet, Gary Smith, Rita Newbill, Wayne Grant, Martha West, Roland Wilburn, Martha Hogge. Flower girls, center foreground, were Cynthia Smith, Cheryle Wilburn, Gavnor Williams, Gayle Fanning. Trumpeteers were Johnny Altemus, Gene Connor, crownbearer was Edwin Robins, Norma Jordan was maid of honor and Connie Eagle, queen.
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