Pictured here is a ninth-grade class at Salem High School in 1947. On the front row (from left) are students Ruby Carswell, Barbara Roper, Rudell Roper, Joan Buff, Bertina Carswell, Morene Dale, and Joan Bass. On the middle row are students Elsie Roper, Leila Roper, Julia Poteet, Betty Crotts, Betty Mooney, Evelyn Webb, and Betty Ann Turner, as well as the teacher, Mrs. Blane Bollinger. On the back row are Principal L.C. Broome and students Claude Williams, Donald Connelly, Manuel Brittian, Tommy Garrison, Fay Swink, Robert Pruett, Millard Duckworth, Paul Dale, and McKinley Arrowood. Mr. Lofton Carr “L.C.” Broome served as the first principal at Salem from 1946-52. He had previously served as principal of Mull School from 1941-45. This image was submitted by Robert A. Pruett to Picture Burke, a digital photograph preservation project of the N.C. Room of the Burke County Public Library.
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