Yadkinville High School - Yadkinian Yearbook (Yadkinville, NC)

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Glass Hisfofuj Forty-seven seniors were graduated from Yadkinville High School on May 31, 1952. This, our class, was the largest ever to graduate here, but we had our meager beginning, too. Ten students from Forbush Grammar School brought the total number of freshmen to seventy in 1948. Mr. B. S. Linville and Miss Arlene Williams had the somewhat dubious distinction of being our homeroom teachers. Scared and green, all seventy of us chose Betty Ann Anderson and Lewis Brumfield as our presidents. Besides our studies and other activities, we had lots of fun following the boys' basketball team which captured the Yadkin Valley Tourna- ment. We picnicked at Reynolds Park in Winston-Salem. Ignorance was bliss because we enjoyed everything that year. By the end of the year we were beginning to adapt ourselves to this new mode of life, but by that time we were sophomores. Miss Alice Dixon and Miss Mary Harding, as our homeroom teachers, were forced to listen to our silly giggles all year. This period of our high school history will forever be lost in oblivion, except for the fact that our boys' team won the Journal-Sentinel Tournament. We lost about one-third of our class these two years to jobs, marriages, and other schools. In 1950, we emerged as jolly juniors. Were we busy that year! Our homeroom teachers were Mrs. Claude Davis and Miss Ethel Marie Hall, who has since become Mrs. Richard Kelly. Class presidents that year were Pattie Cranfill and Betty .lo Hutchens. Football was reinstated here for the first time in fifteen years. Sue Ratledge represented us in the Piedmont Bowl Beauty Contest. Immediately after school started, we began working for and arguing about the Junior-Senior Banquet. A new precedent was set by having the banquet at home in our brand-new gymnasium and high school building. In February, several members of the United States History Class took a memorable jaunt to Williamsburg, Virginia. Handle With Care was our junior play. With Willie Grey Smith as chief, junior marshals were Sue Ratledge, Bonnie Williams, Betty Ann Kiger, Lois Wooten, and Lewis Brumfield. Of course, we picked daisies and cried when the Seniors of '51 left. Beginning school in 1951 presented a new and pleasant change, since we were seniors. Miss Mary Harding and Mrs. Leo Wagoner were our sponsors. Lewis Brumfield was elected president of the class, Betty Jo Hutchens, vice president, Anne Speer, secretary, Geraldine Vestal, treasurer, and Willie Grey Smith, reporter. Right after school started, we received our rings, soon after eiecting Willie Grey Smith as the editor of our annual. Patsy Redding was our P' , -L' 1 . . . iedmont Bowl representative. Things started rolling right in the spring of 1952 when the juniors gave us a lovely banquet Then events began ilin u , , , ' P 9 P in rapid succession-the play, an unforgettable trip to Washington, class night and a picnic for the juniors. Graduation on May 31 was almost an anticlimax to this exciting whirl of ha e ' . W h our own way. Time marches on! pp nmgs it mixed emotions, each of us went

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fasf an 7-esfamenf We, the Senior Class of 1952, of Yadkinville High School, State of North Carolina, in forty-six indi- vidual parts, being of sound mind and body, and after considerable consultation and discussion, do make and publish this Last Will and Testament. ITEM I - We give and bequeath to the school our Undying loyalty. As a token of our regard for our Alma Mater, we wish to label the high school building with ten-inch lettering, YADKINVILLE HIGH SCHOOL. This will be our farewell gift. ITEM II To the faculty, our benefactors, since we have no material wealth, we leave a world of appre- ciation. ITEM III To our principal, Mr. Buchanan, we leave our sincere gratitude for all he has done for us and for the school. We are especially grateful for his faithfulness in helping us with our annual. ITEM IV We leave our deepest appreciation for the time our sponsors have given us. We ask forgiveness for the many trying times and worries we have given them. ITEM V To the Freshmen we leave the ripeness of our experiences to help them overcome their green Freshmen days. To the Sophomores we leave our more serious moments, since they already have all the light- hearted moments they need. We give and bequeath to the Junior class forty- six distinctive rays of light that each member may have one to guide him as he walks in our steps. We bequeath the following to individuals: Richard Driver's cuteness to Bill Dull. Sue Ratledge's and Wilma Gentry's neatness to Nora Spillman. Bonnie William's intelligence to Nell Spillman. Anne Speer's cheerleading ability to Patty Long. Darold Weatherman's good looks to Delano Dinkins. Lloyd Willard's wittiness to Edgar Reavis. Lydia Hall's music ability to Ferne Harrison. Nancy Long's mischievousness to Barbara Ann Cornelius. Margaret Cheek's basketball ability to Janet Haynes. Barbara Prim's dependability to Ethel Marie Myers. Robert Trivette's athletic ability to Bobby Dinkins and Bobby Holcomb. Lewis Brumfield's cigarettes to Sanford Willard and Billy Whitaker. Loretta Reavis' beauty to Joan Wooten. Betty Ann Kiger's popularity to Kathryn Williams. Mary Sue Sheek's personality to Shirley Todd. Georgia Church's and Hilda White's giggles to Juanita Phillips and Peggy Jo Hutchens. Barbara Adam's and Geraldine Vestal's faith- fulness to their boy friends to Scottie Sue Adams. Betty Ratledge's natural curls to Betty Hudspeth and Jo Ann Atwood. Joe Cashion's practical iokes to Johnny Reece. Harce Dean Cornelius's fascinating alcgility with the women to Floyd Wilmouth. Nellie Todd's sweet disposition to Betty Hutchens. Billy Wyatt's bus driving to Lonnie McCollum and L. H. Vestal. Allen Sneed's laziness to Donald Kimmer and Walser Bates. Mary Nell Hutchens' bobbie pins to Beatrice Williams. Lawrence Nance's sincereness to Robert Shore and Lowell Todd. Lois Wooten's pretty black hair to Scottie Sue Adams. Pattie Cranfill's typing ability to Ruby Taylor. Martha Branon's blonde hair to Margaret Wooten. Patty Howell's ability to get married to Shirley Todd. Gene Wagoner's chewing gum to Bobby Cook. Dorothy Steelman's and Reta Johnson's quietness to Jean Hutchins and Louise Hawks. Billy and Bobby Casstevens' stage management to Harold Nance and Harold Dinkins. Betty Jo Hutchens' and Willie Grey Smith's lead- ership ability to Nell Spillman. Marie Brown's smile to Chester Wooten. Allen Sneed's funny books to Roy Goss and Bobby Collins. Fred Royal's grin to Bruce Davis. Patsy Redding's friendliness to Betty Lou Riggans. Peggy Hoots' cuteness to Patty Long. Betty Ann Anderson's false teeth to anyone who might need them. Velma Wagoner's office work to Alma Jean Pendry. Lessie Church's kindness to Juanita Hutchens. Hattie Branon's happy-go-lucky ways to every- one. We hereby appoint our principal, Mr. R. P. Buchanan, sole executor of this Last Will and Testament. In witness thereof, we, the Senior Class of 1952, do hereunto set our hands and seals, this, the 31st day of May, 1952.