Alamance High School - Smoke Signals Yearbook (Greensboro, NC)

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Last Will and Testament X Bobbie Durham, Testatrix We, the Senior Class of Nineteen Hundred and Fifty-Three of Alamonce High School, in the County of Guilford, State of North Carolina, being of sound mind and strong body, do hereby declare this to be our Last Will and Testament. Article I First: To Mr. Whiteley, our principal, we leave a portable telephone to carry to all his classes. We were always heartbroken when he was called out of class to answer the phone!!! Second: To Mr. Morgan, our home room teacher, we leave our deepest appreciation for his help and guidance during the past four years. We also bequeath him some hair dye for the gray hair we've caused him! Third: To Miss Jackson, we leave a bottle of Alka-Seltzer which may help relieve the headaches brought on by the publication of a yearbook. We also leave our thanks for her help and interest in the T953 Edition of Smoke Signals. Fourth: To Mrs. Nichols, our Business Education teacher, we will a stop- watch which will run 60 words to the minute. Fifth: To Miss Everett, our History instructor, we leave a book of famous dates -but of course not history dates this time. Sixth: To Mrs. Farrell, we would like to leave some money with which she may begin planning next year's Junior-Senior. Seventh: To Mr. Hunter, we leave a can of wax to use on that beautiful convertible!!! Article ll The members of the Senior Class have individual bequests to make to the members of the rising Senior Class. First: Cae Causey bequeaths some hair curlers to Jerry Tuttle so he will be able to keep his hair wavy. That gets the girls! !! Cae also leaves a scrapbook to Doralene Hanner so she can get started on the D. A. R. scrapbook. Second: To Cary Ingram, Keith Coble bequeaths the pair of ear plugs that have been so useful to him during the past four years. Cary, iust put them in your ears and you'll be able to sleep through all your classes. The noise won't bother you at all!!! Keith leaves a Detective Kit to Harold Garrett so he can do some super sleuthing next year by keeping an eye on Faye Kivett. Third: Doris Oliver leaves her nerve pills to William Jones. She used them on numerous occasions when she rode to Greensboro with Hot Rod Jones. To Bill Reynolds, Doris leaves another doll to add to his collection. Fourth: Betty Flinchum leaves her unused bus driver's license to Jane Maye. To Patsy Jones, Betty leaves copies of all her favorite jokes. The iokes that Betty tells are so funny that even she laughs at them!!! Fifth: Norman Sharpe leaves Doris Joyce a rattler with which to amuse herself when classes get dull. Sixth: Elizabeth Reece leaves a cookbook to Barbara Welker. Liz knows how to cook and is now looking for someone to cook for!!!

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Alene Hanner wanted to become a secretary. In California, I found that she had become private secretary to Jason and Jason fa law firml, but many say it should be named Jason, Jason and Hanner. Martha Jones, our Most Attractive Girl, had taken pity on the less attractive of her sex and become a hair stylist. Her theory that anyone could be attractive with the correct hair style had made her a very popular lady with a small shop among the elite in Miami. I learned that Billy Moorefield had a most modern farm, but even better, he owned one of the best private libraries in the nation. Mary Ruth Moorefield had put her selling powers to work in an exclusive dress shop in Richmond. Her customers came from everywhere. Many girls in our class had dreamed of becoming a Nurse during high school, but Suzie Neese did more than dream. She had become Head Nurse at the Carolina School of Nursing, at Chapel Hill, N. C. Doris Oliver had a world all her own. She was fashion consultant for the great chain of Ellis Stone Stores. In her iob she met all the most handsome and eligible men in the merchandising business. Ann Rankin, our quiet, controlled girl, had made a name for herself as an eminent lecturer on the art of Sportsmanship. I could still see her on the court, balancing the basketball in one hand and using the other to pull one of her team mates to her feet. Elizabeth Ann Reece had become a Nurse-Receptionist in a dentist office in New Jersey. She looked most efficient in her white uniform. In high school Norman Sharpe was active in 4-H work, winning grand prizes for his beef. I found him on a well paying cattle ranch near Dallas, Texas, and most contented with life. Patsy Swaim was another from our class to enter the nursing profession. I found her doing wonders in the Cerebral Palsy field. Betty Faye Thacker once declared she would become someone important in the Women's All American Baseball League. Even so, I was surprised to find her coaching the top team of the day and expecting to win the 1964 Pennant. In this search for classmates one person was missing. Betty Flinchum seemed to have disappeared from earth. Leaving the Stadium, I almost collided with her. Here, I had found her. She was trainer for the league Betty Thacker was coaching, and doing a fine iob. My errand completed, the problem of returning to 1953 presented itself. I had no intentions of losing ten years of my life. I rocketed toward my space ship, mapped my course and reverse jetted back into outer space. Great Rings of Saturn! I had no idea how far I had gone when I realized that I had found no trace of myself in the future world. What HAD become of me? I had no way of finding out, for there was no way to return to 1963. I again reached the speed of light, and for a second time, I felt the strange transformation, only this moment my gyroscope shattered and the balance was upset. I grabbed my space gear and bailed out. The instant I stepped from it, the ship disintegrated. Some of you will say this is impossible, and some will say it is only the idle dream of a class prophet, but we, our class, will know, and only smile at your doubts, for we are seniors. The world is ours, and to us all is possible.

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Seventh: Billy Morefield leaves Geralene Andrew a note pad to use next year in Chemistry. That subiect was Greek to Bill! Eighth: Pat Swaim leaves a copy of her favorite magazine, Boys' Life, to Louise James. To Barbara Ann Maye, Pat leaves a dictionary. Barbara, study those words and perhaps you'll be a good English student like Pat has been. Ninth: Martha Jones leaves Mary Frances Byrley a pot of black coffee which may help her to stay awake in class!! Tenth: Suzie Neese leaves her position as editor of the Peace Pipe to Mary Ann Hairr. A box of aspirin goes along with the position because it has plenty of headaches! Eleventh: Alene Hanner leaves a copy of Seventeen to Ann Tongret so she may carry on the title of Best Dressed next year. Twelfth: Bertie Forsyth bequeaths Jo Ann Andrew the Love Story Magazine which was left to her last year. Since Bertie has acquired a boyfriend, she doesn't have much time for reading. Bertie also leaves a wristwatch to Hoyle Allred so that he too can be a clock watcher ! Thirteenth: To Harry Holt, Mary Ruth Moorefield leaves her ruler and red pencil in hopes that he'll be a good bookkeeping student. Mary Ruth leaves Gayle Priddy a pair of handcuffs: they may help her get and keep a boyfriend! That's how Mary Ruth got Elgie!! Fourteenth: Ann Ranklin leaves Claude Yow a pair of shoes with elevator heels, in hopes that they will sufficiently increase his height, These shoes have been of great benefit to Ann, she's really only three and a half feet tall! ll! Fifteenth: Virginia Gorrell leaves Kenneth Smith a littIe black book, and she's sure he'll have plenty of information to put in it! Sixteenth: To Richard Grubb, Rachel Haralson leaves the ioke book which was left to her last year. Rachel found so many good laughs in it that she wants to pass it on for your enjoyment! Rachel leaves a can of gasoline to Alan Starr, because she's sure it will come in handy if he ever finds himself in the predicament that she found herself in once. Seventeenth. To Millard Bailey, Charles Durham leaves a rubber hose so he can siphon gas from the school bus, but Millard, don't take too much at a time! Charles also leaves Don Swaim a shiny new car to drive to the basketball games next year. Eighteenth: Betty Thacker leaves her collection of comic books to Charles Rich. Charles will undoubtedly find them extremely educational: Betty Faye did! Nineteenth: Joanne Fogleman leaves a tube of toothpaste to Carol Foust. Toothpaste is the secret of Joanne's sparkling smile! To Dawn Barefoot, Jo leaves a ieep station wagon. Dawn, when you drive it to school, try to arrive on time. Jo never did! l! Twentieth: I, Bobbie Durham leave a State College T shirt to Dana Carson and l hope that she'll be lucky enough to find a guy to wear it! Article Ill In the presence of these witnesses, we, the Senior Class of 1953, do hereby set this seal on this, the 4th day of June, 1953. Bobbie Durham, Testatrix Witnesses: Jenny Lou Kiger Jack Carpentar