Appalachian High School - Laurel Yearbook (Boone, NC)

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OUR YEARS A Dramain Four Acts ACTI Time: 1943-44 PLaceE: APPALACHIAN H1cH SCHOOL Freshmen Enter Appalachian ........ Very Green School Term Increased Eight to Nine Months Tweltth:- Grade Added ..............2... Oh! Oh! Oh! ACT II TimME: 1944-45 PLACE: APPALACHIAN HicH SCHOOL - Appalachian Admitted to Southern Association Football Revived Agriculture Shop Constructed INGORE “LAG 9 ee No Esquire! First Annual All-Sports Banquet .. Indigestion! First Gym Team Organized ............ “Muscles” May Day Banquet, Class of 745 Guests of °47 ACT III Time: 1945-46 PLAcE: APPALACHIAN HIGH SCHOOL We E. Day: Class-of-’47 Playmakers Enter Dramatics Con- test Easter Dance for Classes of ’47 and ’48 by National Honor Society Basketball Team Wins Conference Champion- ship Debating Team Goes Through Semi-finals Reereation Room: Opened ............... No Neckw ACT IV Time: 1946-47 PLAcE: APPALACHIAN H1cGH SCHOOL Communication System Installed ... Roger and Over! Student Store Added .... No Strong Beverages! Honors Won by Appalachian in Harvest Fes- tival. Class of ’47 Publishes First Edition of THE LAUREL Steel sLockers Installeds 220 n= Finally! Easter Banquet, Class of ’47 Guests of Class of 48. May 23 — Graduation Day ..........-. HOORAY! er me i gpm or RO OOH WHF © Galo)

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MILDRED TEMPUBA ON “Middie” Girl Reserve (Hanes High) ; Dramatics (Hanes High) ; 4H Club; Modern Science; Glee Club. Winsome, lovable, coy. I, Mildred Templeton, leave my excess knowledge of Geo- metry to Donald Stilwell. ZB AeL RUB ve School Service Club, 2; Mon- itor, 1; Bible Club, 1; 4H Club, ) Agreeable, friendly, quiet. I, Zella Triplett, wall my plantation on Elk to Fred Mil- ler. MILDRED WELBORN “Mid” Home Ec. Club, 2; School Service, 1; Monitor, 2; Secre- tary and Treasurer Junior OClkisss: INeal (Geese, ie Bilge Ohéiloy, 2: Gemal, smiling, a budding soda-jerk. I, Mildred Welborn, will my independence to Carolyn Claw- son. WILLIAM RALPH WINKLER “Wiggle” Dramatics, 1; Glee Club, 3; Assembly Club, 2; Science Club, 2; Photography Club, 1; Laurel Staff. Flashy, witty, Barney Oldfield I, Bill Winkler, will my rac- ing ability to Elmo Moretz. BYRD LOWRANCE “Lucky” Pte coeee ey Club; Varsity ‘ MARIE, TRIPLETT Sole e Cad President Bible Club; Vice- President School Service Club; President, Junior Red Cross; Homeroom President, 1; Girl SCout: ‘Pretty, cordial, demure. I, Marie Triplett, leave all my artistic ability to Glenn Wilcox. NELL VANNOY Glee Clubay 35) Monitors! Paper Staff, 2; School Service Glinbwale Reticent, reliable, a gad-about. I, Audrey Nell Vannoy, do will and bequeath my extra book reports to Virginia Greer. JOHN W. WILLIAMS, JR. President Student Body, 1; Band, 3; Football, 2: Drama= tiCSaEomOTatoncalanGontestum ls Handbook Committee; Laurel Staff. Ambitious, friendly, neat. I, Sonny Williams, will my utmost love and regard for Cove Creek to David Edmis- ten. GEORGE COOK i Pete I. F. A.; Library Assistants : Baseball. Flirtatious, pleasant, happy. I, George Cook, will my abil- ity to get by on American His- tory without studying to Mar- tha Qualls. Hlappy-go-lucky, fond of the girls. I, Byrd Lowrance, will my dating ability to Buck Robbins. i aN Ne lOO te Oe Or Ore Ore Ore Orn Orr WOOF Oo RRR RR RNR NR RRA Ne

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SENIOR CLASS PROPHECY It was the first spring afternoon of 1947, a time when one tires easily, feels dreamy, and begins to wish that school days were over. I got home early, fell down across the bed and began to stare at the ceiling. Suddenly a strange thing began to happen! The whole ceiling became a moving picture. I was amazed! At first I could not understand it, but later I sensed that it was a vision into the future and from time to time the year 1965 appeared as if on a screen. I felt. rather than saw, a likeness between some of these figures and some I had seen else- where. Eventually it dawned on me that here were my classmates passing in review before me — members of the class of 47 of Appalachian High School. In retelling this vision I cannot recall all details, or perhaps not all of the persons, but I shall jot down some of them as I remember them. Among the first I saw was Johnny Councill standing on the front veranda of the White House congratulating Sally Penick who had just been chosen Miss America. Jack Idol I saw as a star football player at West Point. and almost in the same moment I viewed Bill Aldridge, a professional basketball player for the Bamboo Bulldogs. In Boone. N. C. I saw Claudeen Garland working at the Edmisten Grill, and Annie Mae Carroll washing clothes for the children of Ralph Hodges’ ex-wife. There also Marline Hodges was head undertaker for the Wilson Funeral Home, and Edsel Hodges was teaching Geometry at Appalachian. There. too. was Merrill Norris who was sponsor for the N. H. S. He had iust secured Erma Norris of The Sunshine Singers, and Sonny Williams, Mayor of Cove Creek, to be the entertainers at the annual banquet. Still in Boone, J. W. Cuddv and Harrv Clav had become “handy men” for the Sewage Disposal System. Mary Sno Haynes was dietitian at the Watauga County Prison Camp. I saw that item in the Rutherwood Times, a big newspaper owned and edited by Frances Hodges. In Hollywood, Fred Hodges had won the Oscar for the best Lover of 1965, V. J. Honey- cutt had supplanted Roy Rogers as a screen attraction and Ada Belle Moretz had become a second Jane Russel. The scene shifted once more to Boone and Watauga County, and I saw Zella Trinplett had become a prominent dress designer for Hunt’s Department Store. Just out of town, Mildred Templeton was manager of the Butter Goat Farm. At A. S. T. C. Mildred Welborn was coaching basketball. Not far away, Willa Jean Norris was operating the Todd Tourist Home, and Brooke Stanbery was married to Glen Ford and was raising tobacco. In New York, Mildred Culler had become the Judy Canova of radio, and Marie Triplett had become the country’s No. 1 “Strawberry Blond.” There, too, I saw Mary Sue Clawson as her sister's manager for the play “Skinned Onions,” which ran true to its name. Betty Lou Clawson was both the author and leading actress in this play. At Boone again I saw Ruth Norris as a boogie-woogie dancer at Edmisten’s Tavern, and learned that Bill Winkler had invented a new Ford car that would go around a curve on two wheels — a feat that had never occurred to Bill back in high school days. Again at Boone — J. C. Greene was principal of Appalachian High for Sentimental Reasons. Bonita Greene had replaced Mrs. Winkler as History Teacher there in 1950. She told me that Betty Ruth Greer had become a world-renowned tight rope walker, and that Mary Sue Greene was Republican Congresswoman for that district. Out West Maurice Nichols had become a prominent politician, Mary Smith was operating a Dude Ranch, and Virginia Moretz was preparing to become Mrs. Van Johnson. I saw Burlon Shore as — just Burlon Shore. Mary Moss had become a great opera singer. G. J. Keller Was still a Senior at Appalachian. : The new Crochet Department at A. H. S. was in charge of Gladys Lookabill. Archie Clawson was running a Greyhound bus between Cove Creek and Bethel and Max Clawson (now with five children) owned a big dairy farm. Truman Critcher and Stewart Cook were in the uniform of brigadier-general. . Earl Hamby was the owner of a big fruit stand at Perkinsville, and Al Honeycutt was operating a pony express through the wilds oi Africa. To hasten on — I saw Nell Vannoy as the famed Bamboo Blond, Max Hardin teaching a course on How to Drive Safely, Bernice Brown running a Hot Dog stand at Valle Crucis, and Helen Hodges as a Powers model. Billie Jean Michael and Genevieve Moretz with their husbands and children were occupy- ing duplex apartments at Rutherwood, and Floyd Scott was a bell-hop at Daniel Bocne Hotel which was managed by Grace Steelman. Byrd Lowrance and George Cook were flying freight planes from Boone to Mountain City, Tennessee. At Boone again I saw Ray Stansberry running for sheriff of Watauga County and — a blast hit my ears — the five o'clock whistle and the vision was gone. ee ee ee ee mem Cm. 4) Ee ee ee ee er ee er er me ( 20 )