Hamlin High School - Pied Piper Yearbook (Hamlin, WV)

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PROPHESY SENIOR CLASS Ladies and gentlemen by a small miracle, the Senior Class has borrowed Charles Yea- ger’s famous jet plane to carry us into the future to see where Ruby's and Mary Lee's Angels will be twenty years from now, and if they are still angels. We have a full gas tank and up we go into the wild blue yonder. Our first stop is-New York-that place of fun and frolic. It is said one can find most any specimen of humanity here. We shall see! ! Ah, here's a modeling agency, let's go in and see if any 01 those so called Angels’ have drifted in here. Well, what’s this we see? The little gal who walked away with the title of 'Miss Lincoln County, way back in 1949. None other than Dot Spurlock, who is now star model sitting on her boss' knee, and we thought she was just bragging when she said she was going to New York. Since we are in New York we may as well drop in some theatres. Wow! What’s all that racket on the stage? Oh! now I see. That famous trio of singers, Helen Salmons, Lou Dean McComas, and Mildred Huffman are trying to convince the stage manager, Jackie Leach, that the song, Beautiful Brown Eyes, is a popular song. Poor Jackie. Let's dash over to Chicago now and see where those yelps and blood curdling screams are coming from. There is a fight raging on the docks at the rate of a mighty gale. It seems Otis Salmons and Charles Kimble have finally realized their life ambition. They are famous detectives of law and order. A small puppy has swiped some sausages from a local store and Otis and Charles have been assigned the dangerous task of bringing the culprit to justice. Hey! What was that object that just whizzed by? There seems to be some smaller objects dangling along behind the thing! I should have known. It's just Junior Walden in his new plane taking his twelve kids out for a joy ride. Junior, does your wife know you are being so care- Chicago is getting too rough for us let's move on to good old West Virginia. 1 notice several of our Seniors have settled in and around the large city of Hamlin. There's our old friend, Jackie Lovejoy, once a big basketball hero. He is working very hard, scrubbing floors in Mr. Lovejoy’s new penthouse. Don't tell anyone but rumors are that Jackie is polishing the apple for his eight children. You see, Mr. Lovejoy is still Principal at Hamlin High School. Wow! Look at that beautiful building. It's the new Hamlin High School. That's not all, the Smith brothers go to school there now. Their pretty mother, Mrs. Margaret Smith sure has done her part in bringing fame to Hamlin High. In a round-about-way, of course. Say! Look at that large advertisement for the Double Bubble Gum Company. Walking behind a hugh bubble is our famous bubble dancer, Peggy Jarrell. Peggy, we thought you were going to be a stenographer. Since we're in Hamlin, let's go around to the Ole Drug Store and jerking sodas and winking at the same time is none other than Mrs. Jack Dot Harmon Plott. Some day she may inherit the joint. Good work, Dot. On to Virginia. Here on the beach of the ocean we see Opal Grass and Clara June Barrett fishing. Someone told them that fish hides were valuable, so they thought since people were successful in selling mink skins they wouldn't have any trouble with their fish trade either. Good Luck, girls! You'll need it. less ? 24

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NAME Dorothy Spurlock - - Lois McComas Patricia Plumley - • Betty Yeager----- Patty Steed ------ Helen Barrett----- Mabel Sowards---- Dorothy Harmon - - Peggy Jarrell----- Jean Carper ------ Jackie Lovejoy--- Jackie Leach----- Bill Curr.y------ Lawrence Barrett - Jay Walden Jr.--- Grover Bias ------ Millard Dailey--- Otis Salmons----- Hercile Barrett - - • Ray Lovejoy------- Bill Hager ------ David Burns------- Lester Hauldren — Donald Sowards — • Raymond Stewart - • Charles Kimble — • Mary Stowers------ Troy Huffman------ Dovetta Pauley--- Ruth Plumley----- Margaret Smith — • Mary Williams---- Maxine Pridemore « Cleta Moore------- Janice McComas - - Clara Barrett---- Doris Chaney----- Mildred Huffman - - Lou Dean McComas Helen Salmons---- Opal Grass-------- Velva Slone------ Peggy Stewart----- Ruth Dailey — - — Esther Salmons — • Mildred Thompson ■ Vonnie Adkins----- Ellen Reynolds - — Erma Lee Craft - - AS Tint J fm0N!ES AMBITION I M-] FUTURE Model---------------- —-----------------Scrub Woman Secretary - - — Fan Dancer Housewife---------------------- Lady Senator Secretary - - Barker Secretary —------------------------------- Ballerina Secretary - - Lady Wrestler Housewife --------------------------------Old Maid Housewife----------------------------------------Bubble Dancer Secretary-------------------------- Torch Singer Housewife - -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- - Loving Mother Coach------------------------------ Junk Dealer Lawyer-------------------------------------- Bartender Pilot---------------------------------------Crimebuster Pilot-------------------------------- Ozark Yodier Pilot - - - - - ---------------------Wine Taster Doctor - -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Pool Shark Husband-------------------------------------Gravedigger Hobo---------------------------Telephone Operator Coach----------—---------------------------- Bouncer Taxi Driver--------------------— Champion Typist Marine-------------------------Henpecked Husband Engineer - -- -- — - -- -- -- -- -- -- -- - Horse Doctor Poultry Man ------------------------- Atom Tester Pilot------ — - ---------------- Garbage Collector Bookkeeper--------------------- Boogie Man Jr. Sailor-------------------------------- W ater Man Beautician---------------------------------- Waitress Sailor — --------------Husband to a South Sea Queen Singer--------------------------------Blues Singer Housewife--------------------------- Mother of ten Housewife--------------------------Mother of twins Loving Mother - - Step-Mother Secretary — — - -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Hash Slinger Artist----------------------------------------Housewife Doctor - - Model Housewife----------------------Bubble Gum Blower Housewife —-------------------------------- Designer Housewife ------- — - -- -- -- -- -- - Heart Collector Singer —-----------------------------Dish Washer Singer-------------------------------y -Soda Jerk Teacher------------------------------------------Dancer Lady Detective-----------------------------------Matron Beautician----------------------------------------Sales Lady Teacher--------------------------------------------Army Sergeant Teacher------------------------------------------Loving Wife Teacher ----------------------------- Blues Singer Housewife--------------------------------------Congress Woman Teacher--------------------------- Ten Cent Clerk Housewife---------------------------------------Dancing Teacher Z3

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Say there's a big three ring circus here. The signs look as if there is a main attraction on the flying trapeze. Ah. the two main actors are our two old friends. Maxine Pridemore and David Burns. They've sure come a long way from all those A's in school. Way over here on Slaw Street and Lettuce Avenue we see a large cafeteria. This place has co-owners. None other than Pat Plumley Atkins and her hubby. Bill. They don't even have to run to the bank for change like a lot of business places. They have their own private mint in their basement. Not bad if you can get by with it. Up we go again for Washington this time. Mmmmm! There goes two distinguished looking Senators up the front steps of the White House. Boy! Am 1 surprised. I expected to see anyone here but these two. Raymond Stewart and Junior Bias. How did you put that deal over boys ? Now we'll cross the street to see the great lovely dresses in the store window. The tags read. '‘They are designed by the famous Jean Carper. Those frocks are so lovely, let's go in and have a closer look at them. Here comes the Manager now. Say, he looks vaguely familiar. Now 1 know who he is, Lawrence Barrett. 1 can understand how you grew that handsome mus- tache, Lawrence, but where. Oh, where, did you acquire that French accent? As we start journey back to good old U. S. A. I see a small tramp steamer. The captain of this little ship looks like someone 1 used to know. Let’s go down a little closer and get a look-see. No wonder he looked familiar, I would recognize that pipe anywhere. Troy Huffman still smokes that huge machine he calls a pipe. With a contraption like that, the ship doesn't need a steam boiler. Bill Curry has at last let his hobby (cars and girls) get the better of his character. He has invented a car that will carry at least fifteen girls and makes at least one hundred twenty miles per minute. Here's one for your diary, we see our old classmate, Vonnie Adkins Jones zooming down Joy Along Avenue in her T-Model Ford at a high rate of speed, with the twins Johnie and Vonnie bobbing joyfully up and down in the back seat. We find Velva Slone in her study deep in thought, she has a problem. The people of France have decided that she knows more about the French language than they themselves, and have offered her a position teaching their native language. But, then there's the President's chair patiently waiting. How is your Spanish? We are now South of the Border, and just below we see twin ranches; they are called the Circle M and the Circle H. It seems that Rancheroes get together just at sundown around a campfire and strum their guitars. Look! Just outside the campfire sit a tall, handsome senor, and a senorita not so tall, and--yes, we actually saw the senor holding the senorita's hand. Bill Hager and Cleta Moore haven't changed a bit. Flash! Headlines ‘Major General Ruth Dailey and her fifteen man army entertained the whole Russian Army last night and this is the report of the gala session: four hundred soldiers have fractured skulls, seven thousand want a new set of teeth for Christmas, three thousand soldiers were given dishonorable discharges for retreating in the face of an enemy and two hundred soldiers have not regained their consciousness! (Well it's about time Russia became a Peace Loving Nation.) We're in a state called Maine now, probably so named because the main part of Hamlin High School has settled there. Just around the corner Guynith Peggy Stewart owns a nice little beauty shop. Almost all the boys in this vicinity have wavy hair. Isn't that a nice college just ahead! Our classmate Mary Stowers proves the fact that the Senior Class of '49 certainly contained brains. Miss Stowers is the honorable principal. Why not look around before we leave this brain building? Coach Ellen Reynolds is prac- ticing her famed Maine Bobcats, in the gymnasium. (Bobcats--sounds familiar.) Inci- dentally, this team is world-wide known. They have only been beaten by one team, The Hamlin Bobcats. 1 knew that word sounded familiar. Just outside of this city there nestled among flowers and shrubbery, set a group of lovely homes. Let’s ring the bell of this brick one. Well, what next! This bell chimes, I love little Willie, and here to greet us are twins named Willis and Phyllis. This is beyond a doubt the home of Mrs. Mary Petrie Williams. Just down the street Clara June Barrett owns a pet shop--and Oh! dear she specializes in Birds. We didn't say what kind, did we? The Hamlin Hep Cats just scored a touchdown! Hurrah! Hurrah! We won! Who's that yelling her tonsils out? Why, Coach Lois McComas, of course. Incidentally she has developed one of the greatest girls' football clubs in football history. Her team could lick any of youp puny boys' teams, too, I betcha. 25