Clayton High School - Clahischo Yearbook (Clayton, NC)

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MASS PIIIIPHHZY l returned home, after working in California since graduation ten years ago, While unpacking my trunk, I found an old Clayton annual, Leafing through it, I realized that the members of my class had turned out well, The former Adair Whisenhunt sits in the White House beside her beloved husband Troy Page, Jr, , who recently was elected President of the United States. Dan Knott, now a lawyer, has a very fine practice and also a capable secretary, Anne Austin, Oh, yes! Leamon Benson has taken Mr, Waters' place as Principal of Clayton High School, Betsy Ragland has just recently been crowned Miss North Carolina of 1962, She will soon enter the Miss America Contest. Murray Coats has become a fine Doctor with Leona Benson as his nurse, Margaret Crowder was content to stay in Clayton. She is now manager of the La Salle Beauty Salon, along with her assistant, Lexine Jones. Oh, yes, Sam Beddingfield has gone into the model airplane business, And Carolina's basketball team is doing fine, now, under the hands of their coach, .Toe Barbour. Frances Harperjoined the WACS,The United States Armed Forces will really go places now! Ellendale Byrd doesn't have much time for her old friends in Clayton since she and Margaret Truman have become pals, They will soon start on their fourth trip around the world, None will forget Douglas Harrison. I-le is now a clown in the Barnum and Bailey Circus. How things change--even the circus. Leonard Moore has become a judge, and is kept busy, He is now at home for arest, after a case in which Phillip Fish pleaded guilty to first-degree murder, Our class poet, Doris Daughtry, has just published a new book of poems entitled Poems for the Weary, which promises to be a best seller, Daphene Allen is now designing in Paris. It seems that we had a scientist in our class, Larry Ross has just finished his latest in- vention, ,a rocket ship to the moon, Donald Phillips will be the first passenger, He wants to see if the moon is really made of cheese, And Betty Hamilton has started a Rooster Farm here right in Clayton, Only her roost- ers stay in a play-pen instead of a chicken-pen, Camilla Wall has set up a business of her own, She is running a peroxide store, It sells for Sl, OO an ounce now, Mamie Davis is doing well with her horse ranch in Californiag that is, as long as she sticks to horses and leaves Van Johnson alone, And last of all, Harol-d Crabtree, the pride of the senior class, has taken Jersey Joe Walcott's place as heavy-weight champion of the wo1 id. A sellout crowd is expected for his next fight. Prophet ,.,. Mary Alice Canady

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MASS HISIIIIIY The years have passed, and now as seniors we Sit and reminisce of our Sghgol days. Remember how we entered the lst grade with our proud mothers holding our hands ? Why, we were almost growng--just think, we were going to school! Mrs, Gulley welcomed us, We felt we already knew her because she had taught most of our brothers and sisters. Miss Massey, the other first grade teacher, was new, but soon, we knew her well. The years in grammar school passed quickly, What fun we had! But to be in High School was our great ambition! Just think, we didn't have to sit in the same room all day, but could change classes. And our subjects had such high sounding names. Not arithmetic, but algebrag biology, instead of just plain science, and some even attempted a foreign lang- uage, Having entered the first grade with eighty-six, we were surprised when we had only forty-eight students to enter High School., I'm sure our teachers would have been happy had we lost a few more, Mr. Crutchfield, our home room teacher, never said much except Write l, 000 times, 'A minute lost can never be regained'. The next year Miss MacMillian took us in hand and tried to quiet us, but without much success. Our Junior year we had our play, THE CUSTEPCS LAST STAND, Giving a playwas more fun than we had realized. Our Junior-Senior Banquet was lots of work, but how proud we were when we finished it! Our theme, The Last Roundup , seemed very appropriate Now as seniors, we are about to leave Clayton High. The years have been too short. Our senior play was a grand success. The Juniors treated us to a fine banquet. With the comniencement march still ringing in our ears, we say goodbye, some with tears in our eyes but yet, with a feeling of accomplishment of a task well done. We hope that we leave to those who are to follow, the inspiration to do better than we have done. And we also hope to achieve our goal which is: To be a success in life, Anne Austin. . . Historian