Alamo High School - Fort Yearbook (Alamo, TN)

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Class We, the Senior Clafs of Alamo High School, be- ing of sound mind and good judgment, and realizing the certainty of parting and the uncertainty of ever meeting again, and in contideroiion of the sleep w« have caused our teachers to lose, do hereby publish our last will and testament on this, the twenty-first of May, in the year of our lord, one thousand, nine hundred ond fifty-four. To Mr. Strange, we leave our appreciation and gratitude for his wise counsel and leadership, and for all of his help in the last four years. To the Faculty, we leave any ability we might have to remember only the good in people, that their memory of us may be only favorable as will ours of them We, also wish to express our appreciation for their many headaches that they have had in teach- ing us. To Mr. Craig, we leave our -carved initials on top of the desk, our bubble gum stuck on the bottom, and all the paper we littered the campus with. To you poor Freshmen, we leave a microscope that you may see your way to the top Sophomores, we leave with you the willingness to work hard and the eagerness to be an upper classmen. To you Juniors, we leave our memories of the past year and hope you will have as much fun as we have had. We also leave with you a disease everyone will always remember, senioritis. The following individuals do hereby bequeath the following: Kathryn Knight leaves her A average to any- one capable of making it. Harold Robbins leaves his ability to find out all information about anything to Jimmy Nichols. Jimmy Kee, after much persuasion, decided to give some of his height to Pee Wee Mathis. George Jones leaves his experienced ability to duck transoms to Robbie Hill. Mary Crossnoe leaves her love for Bells to any- one big enough to get it from her. Cleatus Cagle leaves his love for football to Joe. Sarah Kail leaves her love for English to Barbara Gibbons. James Cheatham leaves his wisecrocks to Red'' Jennings. Janell Laman leaves her sympatny and under- standing about carrying heavy band instruments to Daisy Williams. Benny Uselton leaves his love for Bells to Bob Davis. Gerald Malone bestows his quiet ways on Fred Jones. Mary Nell Turner leaves her originality to Jewel Sue laman. To Norma Williams, Dawn Love leaves her love for Coxville. Byron Privett bequeaths his seat in the study hall to anyone who can sit there an hour. Bobby McCord leaves his ability to get the cor after mishaps to Larry Edwards. Neal Klyce leaves his working ability in D.E. to Billy Joe Freeman. Sarah Webb leaves her love for bus drivers to anyone who happens to like buses. To Nancy Privett, Peggy Cates leaves her spot under the goal. Robert Summers leaves his seat in history to any junior on the borderline. Sammy Ronk leaves his love for the gals to Jere Raines. To Robert Nance, Bobby Gaba bestows his good looks. To Carolyn Goba, Ruth Williams bequeaths her nonchalant ways. Charles Pigue leave! his loud mouth to Wayne Parlow. Nancy Diggs leaves her quiet ways to Kay Thomp son. Noncy Hart leaves her winning personality to Patsy Acor. Roe Nell Hughes leoves his love for sports to Jacky Terry. George Coleman leaves his love for Moury City to Mouse Slayton. Dewayne Curtis leaves his neatness to Robert Cates. Shirley Lowery leaves her chewing gum to Peggy Balentine. Nancy Andrews leaves her D.E. job to Mory Ann Arnold. Elizabeth Cherry leaves her love for Spanish to A SPANIARD Jimmy Cates leaves his big smile and humorous ways to Putt Pittman. Jule Nance leaves his position on the basketball team to Bruce Avery. Joe Bledsoe leaves his happy-go-lucky ways to Jimmy Young. To Gloria Wedgeworth, Mary June Trocy leoves her position on the basketball team. James Cheatham A A A jAAAAl

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Class Prophecy May 20, 1960 Sarah Kail has a job in Nashville as a hosiery saleslady. Neal Klyce is in charge of the sales in that district. I am enclosing all the information that you asked for about my graduating class. I hope it will help you In your book, Memoirs of the '54 Graduates. Robert Summers is now head teller in the Bank of Alamo George Coleman is chief mechanic for Brown Chevrolet Company. Nancy Diggs and Shirley Lowery are working in the Glamour Shop, the new shop now owned and oper- ated by Ruth Williams. Nancy Fewell, formerly Nancy Hart, is now living in Memphis. Kathryn Knight, after marrying Joe Blackwell is living near Humboldt. Mary June Tracy and her husband Mack Goode are farming near Alamo. Their next door neighbors are Sara Webb and her husband Billy Fewell. These are the only ones that are married now, but they say Bobby Gaba plans a winter wedding. He will graduate from Med-school in December. Peggy Cates and Nancy Andrews got good jobs in Memphis after completing their business course. Jimmy Cates, Gerald Malone, Jimmy Kee, ond Byron Privett are farming, but they are going at it on a modern basis. Cleatus Cogle is now coaching football at a small eastern college, where he went after playing four years for U. T. Jule Nance has taken his father's place as Presi- dent of the National Hampshire Association. Sammy Ronk is a chemical engineer now doing graduate work at Vanderbilt, and Bobby McCord is a sporting goods salesman for the Hughes Sporting Goods and Equipment Company. Roe Nell Hughes gave up professional basketball to manage his 85 per cent interest in the company. George Jones is an insurance salesman with a growing interest in the company. PROPHECY Harold Robbins owns a super market in Alamo. « Ben Uselton and Joe Bledsoe are a typical Abbott and Costello on T.V. James Cheatham and Janell Laman have gone in for music. Janell teaches piano and voice in Alamo and they tell me she is doing quite well because very recently she had her new home redecorated by Elizabeth Cherry, another classmate who is in the big money now. James is teaching band now. He also plays a mighty keen trumphet on the side at the Cream Club, owned by Dwayne Curtis ond managed by Charles Pigue. In a hospital room we find Dawn Love taking the temperature of one of the patients. Mary E. Crossnoe who helped me dig up all this is still in Alamo. She hos 35 kids, the whole group between the ages of four and six. They're her kinder- garten. And now I must be on my way. The ship dis- embarks at four this afternoon. I'll be in Africa by the time your book comes out, but I would like to have a copy of your book. You can reach me through the Southern Baptist Mission Board. Sincerely yours, Mary Nell Turner