Dade County High School - Wildcat Yearbook (Trenton, GA)

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Class History As a happy crowd of six-year-olds, our present dignified seniors jostled into the first grade room on that never-to-be-forgotten day in September, 1947, to experience our first day of school. Of these forty-six red-eyed, snaggled-toothed youngsters only nine have reached the coveted goal of seniors at Dade High. These are Terrell Gass, Tommy Wheeler, Betty Jo Barton, Riley Puckett, Roy Clark, A. C. Troxtel, Rochelle McBryar, Larry Greene, and Albert Quinton. Our class increased considerably in the next eight years of grammar school. Joyce Castleberry from Rising Fawn joined us in the third grade and Bettye Harrison from Ider joined us in the fourth. Mary Lois Clark from Mount Olive and Joan Stowe from North Dade came to us in the sixth grade. Eddy Joe Selvey joined our ranks in the seventh. In the eighth grade we welcomed students from several other schools. From North Dade came Paul Dugan, Jackie Carroll, Judy Strawn, Joyce Carver, and Patsy Hartline. The ten who joined us from New Salem were Jimmy Allen, Clifford Abbott, David Moore, Jerry Gray, Melvin McKaig, Jerry Kouns, Melba Bradford, Jerry Hughes, Glenda Moore, and Raymond Massey. Jimmy McCarty came from Rising Fawn, and Rufus Ross, from Aiken Junior High in South Carolina. Two more new faces appeared in the freshman class. John Gothard came from Lookout Junior High, and Sherman Moore, from Fort Payne. These students, when sophomores, welcomed Nancy Parker from Central. Our Junior year marked the last half of our high school career. We were engaged in many interesting activities, for instance, the Junior play and the Junior-Senior trip, which was a boat ride. Now we have finally reached our long anticipated goal. As seniors, we lost Joyce Vaughn to Rossville, and Wanda Arnold joined us from Kirkman Technical. The Seniors have participated in many activities this year. Rochelle McBryar was elected as the senior representative on the student council and she was also Home- coming Queen. Melvin McKaig was elected class president. In the Beta Club we have four seniors - Jackie Carroll, Paul Dugan, Rochelle Mc- Bryar, and Joyce Carver. There were eight members of our senior class on the football team this year. They were Larry Greene, Jerry Gray, Tommy Wheeler, Melvin McKaig, Jerry Hughes, Jerry Kouns, David Moore, and Clifford Abbott. Rochelle McBryar represented us as football cheerleader. We had three boys on the basketball team. They were Larry Greene, Tommy Wheeler, and Roy Clark. The three girls that played on the girls' team were Betty Jo Barton, Rochelle McBryar, and Judy Strawn. This completes our history. Every class that follows will have a history of its own. To make it the very best history though, follow these few remaining words of wisdom. Be wise and patient, look to the future while in the details of the present, and keep smiling. Bettye Harrison Joyce Carver

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JOAN STOWE FHA Club 10,11,12 FHA Song Leader 12 FHA Officer 11 FT A Club 12 Glee Club 9,10,11 JUDY STRAWN FHA Club 10 4-H Club 10,11,12 Library Club 10,11 Wildcat News 11,12 Glee Club 9,12 Basketball 9, 10,12 FBLA Club 12 Class Officer 11 Homecoming Candidate 10 Social Club 10,11 Office Staff 10,11 Annual Staff 12 Letterman Club 12 A. C. TROXTEL TOMMY WHEELER Track 10,11,12 Football 10,11,12 Basketball 9,10,11,12 Baseball 10,11,12 Letterman Club 12 4-H Club 9 Social Club 11

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Class Prophecy On a cool autumn evening in 1962, as Mrs. Fricks is sitting in her old rocking chair watching television, her mind goes back to the graduating class of 1958-59. She recalls the many separate roads of life her seniors have taken. David Moore is chief engineer on Wagon Triin. As she passes through Trenton, Georgia, she finds an Old Maid’s Home bearing the sign, Bachelors Wanted. operated by Joyce Castleberry and Betty Harrison. Joan Stowe was recently given a screen test for the picture, The Red-Headed Step Child, at the Tivoli Theater. Jerry Gray is now running a bus line from Lookout Mountain to Chattanooga, Tennessee for female passengers only. Patsy Hartline and Jimmy McCarty have found themselves a quiet home away from the noisy seniors. Raymond Massey is playing Down Yonder on his guitar while Clifford Abbott buck dances. A. C. Troxtel and Roy Clark have climbed the ladder to success. They are washing the windows of the Empire State building and have finally reached the top. Melvin McKaig has just been promoted to the professor of Science at Yale University. Joyce Blackstock is running a florist shop. Her favorite flower is the Bachelor's Button. Riley Puckett has moved to California where he sells sun tan lotion to the bathing beauties. He accom- modates his customers with a free application. Charles Albert Quinton is now manager of the Shop-Rite Super Market. Jimmy Allen owns half interest in the Kayo Service Station at New England. Larry Greene is helping Tommy Wheeler build a rocket to the moon. Rosey intends to stay ahead of the Joneses. After a few years of practice on school desks, walls, tables, and piano, Eddy Selvey has become a professional carver. Betty Jo Barton is the basketball coach at Dade County's new gym. Wanda Arnold has acquired a job as a Touch-Up girl in Miller's Beauty Shop. Jerry Hughes is now taking speech lessons from Rufus Ross. This helps strengthen Jerry's voice to sell the Wildcat News. Joyce Carver has recently been made Superintendent of Nurses at Kill or Cure General Hospital. Sherman Moore, the famous athlete from Dade High, has received his cup for being World Middle Weight Champion. John Gothard is still taking life easy. He is manager of the Beauty Sleep Mattress Company. Jerry Kouns is still drinking Lookout Mountain water, trying to grow up. Nancy Parker, Mary Lois Clark and Judy Strawn are starring as the Three Unholy Ones in Jackie Carroll's and Paul Dugan's new broadway hit, The Teenage Gansters. In bringing an end to Mrs. Fricks’ dream she hears the announcement on television that Rochelle McBryar has been crowned Miss America of 1962. Nancy Parker - Rochelle McBryar