There were 33 members of Fayette

County High School to graduate in 1952. Three of those are now deceased

and of the remaining 30, 26 were on hand for its 50th high school reunion.

All but five of them live in the general Fayette County area.

Class members remember that

owning your own car or truck was unheard of, and one had to be borrowed

from parents or older siblings to go anywhere. An "outing" meant

trying to borrow enough trucks to go to Indian Springs for a picnic. They

rode in the backs of the trucks, which would be illegal today.

The class went to Washington,

D.C., for its senior trip and chaperons were Mrs. G. Ed. "Ma"

Giles and Coach Harvey McNease. For many, it was the first time they had

been out of the state of Georgia and the first time to stay in a hotel.

Two of the class members are

Charles Ballard and Bobby Butler. Years later, the daughter of Charles

married a son of Bobby.

Among those always invited

to party with them are members of the 1951 class, whose numbers were too

small to have a reunion of their own.

Officers of the class were

Norbert West, president; Betty Jo Mask, vice president; Joyce Davis, secretary;

and Kathleen Adams, treasurer. Serving as co-valedictorians were Jan Adams

Trammell Hutto and Jerry Kirby Bramblett, while the salutatorian was Charles

Ballard.

Those members remaining in

Fayette County remembered that the population of the county in 1951 was

8,000 and is now 95,000.