In the spring of 1974, Ruth Hart Harris ’52 and Hattie Henderson Ellis ’53 published a brief history of the first fifty years of Charles H. Darden High School’s history. Here, with annotations, is the memorial booklet in its entirety:

• Christine Armstrong — Ethel Christine McDaniel Venters Smith Armstrong (1912-1999) was the daughter of George and Minnie Hicks McDaniel.
• Mary D. Bass — Mary Della Wilkins Bass.
• B.T. Barnes — Beatrice Taylor Barnes.
• Connie Banks — Connie Freeman Banks (1915-??) was the daughter of O. Nestus and Willie Hendley Freeman.
• Odell Barnes — Odelle Whitehead Barnes.
• E.M. Barnes — Edward Morrison Barnes.
• Hartford Bess — Hartford Eugene Bess.
• Hattie Ricks — Hattie Mae Henderson Ricks.
• Martha Barnes
• Norma Darden — Norma Duncan Darden.
• Maria Delaney — Maria Richburg Delaney (1901-1982) was a native of Clarendon County, South Carolina. She and husband George A. Delaney (1893-1957) migrate to Wilson prior to 1930.
• Cora Farmer — Cora Lee Rountree Farmer (1900-1990) was the daughter of Jack and Lucille Bergeron Rountree. She married Paul F. Farmer.
• Minnie Ellis — Minnie Virginia Woodard Ellis (1903-1986) was the daughter of James and Jennie Farmer Woodard. She married James Cornell Ellis in Wilson in 1928.
• Pauline Harris — Pauline Artis Harris.
• C.W. Hines — Carl Wendell Hines.
• William Hines
• Lula Hayes — Lula Mae Sutton Hayes.
• Robert Locus — Robert Locus (1912-1986) was the son of Luther and Eula Alston Locus.
• Mattie Randolph — Mattie Burnett Randolph (1899-1998) was a native of South Carolina.
• Sarah Shade — Sarah Luvenia Shade (1910-1992) was the daughter of Isaac and Estelle Lane Shade, see below.
• S.J. Satchell — Spencer Jordan Satchell.
• Willie Smith — Willie Hargrove Smith (1896-1983) was the daughter of Lawrence Hargrove.
• Walter Whitted, Sr. — Walter Craig Whitted (1890-1975) was the son of James A. and Tempie Jordan Whitted. He was married to Helen Beckwith Whitted, below.
• Cora Fitch — Cora Whitted Fitch (1918-1987) was the daughter of Walter and Helen Beckwith Whitted.

• I.W. St. Clair — Irvin Webster St. Clair.
• Lucille St. Clair — Lucille Weaver St. Clair.
• Alvin Pryor
• Ruby Collins — Ruby F. Collins is listed in the 1925 Wilson city directory as a teacher at Wilson Colored High School. She resided at 111 North Pender Street.
• Virginia Edmunds — Virginia L. Edmunds is listed in the 1925 Wilson city directory as a teacher at Wilson Colored High School. She resided at 602 East Green Street.
• Estelle Shade — Estelle Lane Shade (1880-1961) was a native of Pocomoke City, Maryland. She and husband Isaac Shade, a pharmacist, settled in Wilson before 1920.
• Annie Dupree — Anna Mae Parker Dupree (1905-1999) was the daughter Silas and Mahalia Parker Parker.
• Alice Jones — probably, Alice Albright Jones (ca. 1892-1957), who was born in Lexington, North Carolina. In the 1930 census of Wilson, she is listed as a boarder in the household of Rosa Carter at 8808 East Vance Street.
• Helen Whitted — Helen Delzelle Beckwith Whitted.
• Mattie Baker
• Artelia Barnes — Leo Artelia Barnes Jones Davis.
• Thelma Barnes — Thelma Barnes Byers.
• Louise Cherry — Louise Cherry Sherrod.
• Nancy Dupree  — Nancy Dupree Nicholson.
• Julia Hicks
• Susan Peacock — Susan Peacock Prince.
• Bessie Speight
• Marie Thomas
• Cora Bryant
• Frank Hicks
• Ruby Peacock — Ruby Peacock Sherrod (1906-1975) was the sister of Levi and Hannah Pike Peacock. She married Clarence Sherrod.
• Della Whitehead — Della Whitehead Murrain.

• Freddie Blue — Frederick Blue is listed in the 1930 Wilson city directory as a student living at 1220 Carolina Street. He was the son of Joseph and Ella Blue.
• Delvell Chapman — Delzell Chapman is listed in the 1928 Wilson City directory as a school teacher residing at 201 Stantonsburg Street. In the 1940 census of Kinston, North Carolina: farmhand Delzell McNeil, 35, widow, with her mother Hattie Chapman, 67, widow, at 203 Springhill. Both reported living in Wilson in 1935.
• Elaine DuBissette
• George Grogan — George Grogan is listed as a student residing at 719 East Green in the 1925, 1928 and 1930 Wilson city directories.
• Catherine Hines
• Martha Parker — Probably the Martha Parker, born about 1909, who was the daughter of Allison and Mary Hilliard Parker.
• Magdeline Parker
• Ruth Strong
• Addie Speight — Addie M. Speight is listed in the 1928 Wilson city directory as a school teacher living at 700 East Green Street.
• Mildred Taylor — Mildred Taylor (1909-??) was the daughter of James and Mamie Spicer Taylor.
• Ester Battle — This may have been Esther Battle, born about 1905, who was the daughter of William and Nonie Battle.
• Mary Barnes
• George Brodie — George Edward Brodie (1907-1985), a Johnston County native, was the son of George and Gertrude Brodie.
• Mary Dawson
• Beatrice Faulkland — Beatrice Faulkland Kanakanaka Williams (1907-2007) was the daughter of Willie and Pearl Barnes Faulkland.
• Milton Fisher — Milton Wallace Fisher.
• Mary Haskins
• Walter Patterson— Walter Patterson (1905-1957), a Robeson County native, was the son of Silas and Zelphia Covington Patterson.)
• Sarah Shade — see above.

• W.H.A. Howard — William Henry Alexander Howard.