Altamahaw Ossipee High School - Tomahawk Yearbook (Burlington, NC)

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1 9 4 8 FAVORITES BEST ALL ’ROUND Pete Way Billy Tickle MOST ORIGINAL Grace Lane Jones Carlton Murray WITTIEST Grace Lane Jones Gilmer Barker FRIENDLIEST Grace Troxler Pete Way MOST ATHLETIC Jeanne Croucii Carlton Murray MOST POPULAR Jeanne Crouch Pete Way - { 16 )

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CLASS PROPHECY It seems to me that the class prophecy is al- ways a means of flattering, complimenting and scattering everybody’s future dreams. We al- ways mix a portion of gossip, imagination and falsification into the pot and stir it well. In this case we, Billie Tickle and Grayce Lane Jones, are chief cook and bottle-washer! First, we pick up in our spoon, Vernon Barber. Oh, do we have to pick him up first? Well, who’s next? It’s none other than Judith Hensley, famed soothsayer and mind-reader of Altamahaw and vicinity. Miss Hensley has just received her last mail-order lesson. No. X 52, also as a premium, a crystal ball was enclosed with the lesson. Although her mail-order course and crystal ball proved unsuccessful. Miss Hens- ley still carries on general gossip. She has been able to keep up with every happening since our graduation and we will relate every happening exactly as she has told it to us. Vernon Barber keeps bobbing up so we have no other choice than that of telling you what he has amounted to. He has become the proud father of 13 children. Gilmer Barker has been a constant advisor to Vernon and has given him pointers on raising the family’s garden. Mr. Barker is the well known Agricultural Commissioner for Clover Garden, Altamahaw, Ossipee and a small section out toward Elon. The children are quite healthy from the good vegetables and excellent care rendered by Ver- non’s wife, the former Margaret Smith, but not long ago one of the three sets of twins took the measles. Dr. Pete Way, a quack doctor, was called immediately. He arrived promptly enough with his pretty amber-headed nurse, Lucy Mills, who almost forgot her sample First-aid kit, that she had won from a box top contest. It was a battle between life and death when the two, realized that Lucy’s vanishing cream wouldn’t do the job. Pardon us a moment—why did you ever think it could be true? We heard a big commotion, and went to the window to see what the affair seemed to be. It was a host of crusaders, led by Carlton the Courageous who said, “Step out, my friends, into a better world which some of you will never see . . . unless you do step out.” Ap- parently Mr. Bundy has left Mr. Murray in charge of his Man’s Advancing Civilization class again for old times sake, because the last news- cast has it that the principal is making his way to Washington, where he plans to head off Carlton’s plot to make the President sign a Mag- na Carta. When he arrives, we are sure he will be greet- ed by Jo Ann Bouldin, first woman president. Miss Bouldin sends out so many vetoes that it keeps her record-breaking stenographers, Emily Cantrell, Louise Dunevant, and Talmadge Wil- liamson, constantly on the go. What has happened to the Kernodle girls? Well, you remember Ann, who couldn’t keep her mind from wandering to Monticello. She is teaching the first grade and Annie Kate is teach- ing music at Monticello and Busick. Hazel is the lucky leading lady in Burlington's Little Theatre group. One of the most famous musicians of the class is Betty Jean Somers, who has toured Africa with her harp. Her most popular selectoin is “Bingle, Bangle, Bongle.” Billie Sue Sutton has become a missionary and travels with Miss Somers on some occasions, while Grace Troxler keeps rec- ords to be published in “Gulliver’s Travels.” Boyd Sutton is still an eligible bachelor, but he often visits with the Mr. and Mrs. William C. Purcell, the Eldridge Gilliams, Mr. and Mrs. Buddy Pruit and of course the Barbers that we mentioned earlier. Carolyn Crutchfield and Judith Baughn Hens- ley recently took an airplane trip and learned that Mary Jane Smith had become employed as an air hostess with the Altamahaw Airlines. You know something! I just turned around to find Billie Anne Tickle has deserted me. She left a note for me to tell you that she has at last gone to join her old flame, Carlton the Courage- ous. I suppose I may as well end the class prophecy by simply saying that I’m still all fagged out! I’ll never catch that man. Grayce Lane Jones Billie Tickle t 15

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MOST INTELLECTUAL Jo Ann Bouldin Billie Tickle BEST LOOKING Jeanne Crouch Boyd Sutton LOUDEST and QUIETEST Louise Dunevant Billie Anne Tickle MOST DEPENDABLE BIGGEST FLIRT MOST LIKELY TO SUCCEED Ann Kernodle Carolyn Crutchfield Hazel Kernodle . Vernon Barber Betty Jean Somers Gilmer Barker 19 IS FAVORITES - 5f 17 j -