Beaufort High School - Mainsail Yearbook (Beaufort, NC)

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SENIORS HENRY FAISON SAFRIT • Hen Wit and wisdom are born in a man. Hall Patrol 2,3; Beta Club 3,4, Vice President 4; Varsity Club 2,3,4; Hi-Y 3,4, President 4; Foot- ball 1,2,3,4; Basketball 3,4; Student Council 4; Boys' State Alternate 3; Banquet Waiter 1; Band 1; Latin Club 4; Senior Superlative. MARIE FISH STOLLER She has the beauty of a queen. Entered B. H. S. '54; F. T. A. 4; Annual Staff 4; Senior Superlatives. JAMES ROLEN WHEATLEY, JR. Jimmy There's honesty, manhood, and good fellowship in Thee. Glee Club 1,2,3; Beta Club 3,4; Student Council 1,3,4, Vice President 3, President 4; Student Council Award 3; Student Council Convention 1, 4; Hi-Y 3,4, Vice President 3; Prayer Group 3,4, President 3; Newspaper Staff 1; Annual Staff 4; Latin Club 4; Banquet waiter 1; Boys' State 3; Senior Superlatives. KENNETH WAYNE WHITEHURST Wanus If he says he will, you may depend on it. Glee Club 1,2,3,4; Band 1,2,3,4; Student Council 2; Hall Patrol 2; Beta Club 3; Hi-Y 4; Annual Staff 4, Business Manager; Library Asst. 3,4; Latin Club 4; Senior Superlatives. BETTY LOU WILLIAMSON Betts All I know is that I know nothing. Entered B. H. S. '54; Varsity Club 2,3,4; 4-H Club 1.2,3; Glee Club 1,2; Basketball 1,3,4; F. H.A. 1,2,3; Annual Staff 4; Tri-Hi-Y 4; Basket- ball Manager 2. ARCHIE WALKER WILLIS Itchie Let him speak, otherwise he cannot be happy. Glee Club 1,2,3,4; Hi-Y 4, Chaplain 4; Prayer Group 3,4, President 4; Boys' State 3; Bus Driv- er 4; F. T. A. 4; Student Council 4; Football 2; Annual Staff 4. HAROLD HAINES WILLIS, JR. Knights Like a powderpuff, he's made for women. Banquet waiter 1; Football 1,2,3,4; Best Blocker Award 4; Baseball 3,4; Hall Patrol 1,2,4; Hi-Y 4; Varsity 2, 3,4; Jr. Varsity Basketball 1; Senior Superlatives. CHARLES LESTER PAKE Rock Why take life seriously? You'll never get out of it alive. Varsity Club 3,4; Football 2,3,4; Banquet waiter 1; Senior Superlative.

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CLASS PROPHECY As I was rummaging through one of my old trunks the other day, guess what I found--my old school annual, The Mainsail 55. Here it had been for ten years since graduation from high school and I had heard from but a few of . my old classmates. As a chemist for the Government, I don't get around much, but now on this new assignment, inspecting various Government Labs around the country, maybe I'll find out just what happened to my classmates. Finally, the day arrived when Dr. Henry Safrit, a fellow scientist, and I were to leave New York. Who do you think was driving the taxi which tookus to the spaceport--none other than Clarence Rhue. It seems that Clarence is having trouble making ends meet with six kids to support. Not only is he a preacher, but he also drives this taxi weekdays. When we arrived at the space- port, we were surprised to see Virginia Hassell, who has just produced a rec- ord-breaking show on Broadway, and her leading man, Harold Willis. We did- n't get to speak to them. The reporters were keeping them busy. Say, those men over there look mighty familiar. Why, it's Herbert Mason, Archie Willis and Stephen Dudley- -and they're wearing Space Patrol Uniforms. Yes, Archie, Herbert, and Duck have at last realized their ambition. You'll never guess who was our rocket stewardess--Anne Hill! During the trip to Los Angeles,Anne told Henry about many of our old Classmates. Gehrmann Holland and Murray Pittman are coaches at two of the leading universities in the nation. Barbara Piner quit burlesque to marry Charles Pake, the big oil millionaire. Janice Murphy is teaching in one of the South's leading Nursing Schools. J.W. Alligood and Bernard Hall have just won National recog- nition for designing and constructing the country's largest spaceport at Chicago. Wayne Whitehurst and Sammy Magill are the managers of the South's second largest drug store chain. Of course, many of my former classmates are just plain housewives. Jessie Dixon, Julia Congleton, Nancy Knox, and Mary Buttry are married now and have families in Carteret County. Patty Jean Lewis divorced her first husband and is now living at his expense in England. Poor Faye Mason is still an old maid school teacher. Goodness knows, she has tried, but every time they get scared and run away. Ada Mae Lewis is a big fashion designer in the North. Her nearest rival is Billie Jean Lewis, who runs the largest chain of beauty salons on the East Coast. James Holland and Ted Conway are now big men in the fishing industry. I am told that both are fast becoming millionaires. Doris Avery is the secretary of Tommy Lewis, a wealthy gentleman farmer in Virginia. Charlene Harrell is a noted nightclub performer. Husky Bruce Edwards is a successful wrestler, destined to be a champ- ion some day. Pretty Geneva Hardesty and talented Virginia Davis are outstanding business women in stocks and bonds on Wall Street. The Reverend George Bridges is the Billy Graham of the day, leading the Southern Baptist's North Carolina Conference. Pat Hill is the wife of a newspaper re- porter in Canada. Suddenly, Henry interrupted, Isn't that Martha Gibbs sitting over there? And sure enough it was. Martha and her husband were on their way to Europe to visit Lynn and Marie Stoller, who now live on the coast of Italy. Before long, our rocket landed in L. A. There in the spaceport terminal we saw Bobby Guthrie, who is Betty Williamson's agent. Betty's new picture Heart Beat, they say, is a wonderful success. We were met at the spaceport by Mary Ann Chadwick, who is the chief secretary and lab assistant of Dr. Smith, whom we are visiting here in L. A. Dr. Safrit and I were glad to hear about so many of our old classmates. Maybe we'll be able to see many of them at a class reunion some day. I must say, I don’t know of a more successful class in the whole United States.