Belmont High School - Clarion Yearbook (Belmont, NC)

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SUPERLATIVES

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M o o ' mg ment of the Carolinas. There was Margie Chaney proudly receiving the trophy for State Tennis Champion. But what's this? Why, it's Clyde Stanley receiving a trophy for Heavyweight Champion of the State. QClyde certainly has grown up.l Gazing on the other side of the boat. I saw a college campus on which a sign read: Catawba College-Founded 1851. Nearby a group of young men were practicing football, and James Abernathy was the coach. Not far away was a small cottage in which Grace Walters lived with her husband. An adorable little boy named Jimmy went toddling in. For a while I closed my eyes, thinking of all I had seen, but I was too much interested in what the water told to stop now. What else could I see? Again I looked into the water and saw a building dominated the scene and Neon letters distinguished it as W. B. T. The announcer, I saw, was Jack Rumfelt, and there was Betty Holton conducting a program Hints to Housewives. Charles Wilson was the electrician and Winifred Thrower was Hostess of the studio. The jokes used were furnished by Ted Williams. greatest authority on original jokes. As the scene faded, I saw a sign which read: Ellington and King Publishing House. Uames Ellington and Clinton King must have been the founders.J Our boat glided along and there was Mercy Hospital and two of my classmates, Ruth Lingerfelt and Hazel Haas, dressed in nurses' uniforms were entering the grounds. And there was the Presbyterian Hospital with two other of my classmates, Helen Abee and Ruby Stewart, in training. Our boat was caught by a breeze and carried into a cove. The water reflected a beautiful scene with a large stone building in the foreground, the Mint Museum, where Willard Michael's famous master-pieces were being exhibited. We drifted back to the main water route, and I saw a building bearing the name Cigar Manufacturers, Proprietors-Samuel Horsley and Zane Huffstetler. Clt seemed as if Sam and Zane had decided to make the practical jokes pay for those cigars contained fire crackers.J Elizabeth Jenkins was their bookkeeper. As we glided along there was another sign bearing two familiar names: Capps and McGinnis Doughnuts. CI knew that was Mattie Lee Capps and Katherine McGinnis.J As we circled through the rocks to a calmer place, I saw nymphs dancing around. No, it wasn't: it was Emma Stowe, Clara Null, and Rachel Harding as models in Ruth Wingate's ready-to-wear shop. Finally there appeared a sign which was most familiar: Current's Tea-Room. I saw that Dorothy Glenn, Margaret Stewart, and Vernon Hicks were waitresses. Traveling along, I noticed another large sign, advertising the new car: built by Wade Robinson and Lloyd Kelly. , We moved along slowly, and there was a large farm near Gastonil Where David Smith was breeding horses. Moving on down-stream, I saw a Veterinary Hospital and a sign which read: Veterinarian- J. K. Carpenter, Most Famous Horse Doctor. The boat drifted back toward land, and I saw the new school of which we had dreamed so long. Charles McLean was the principal and Margaret Murphy was the math teacher. On the principal's desk lay a copy of Virginia Howe's book, How to Accomplish the Most. I saw gathered in the auditorium a large group whom I recognized as some of my class- mates. Among those gathered were: David Dagenhart. Superintendent of the Climax with Robert Ramsey as foreman and J. B. Wilson the bookkeeper. The wind carried their con- versations to me, and I interestedly listened as they talked to each other. Did you know that Edna Cunningham and Dorothy Stroupe are the librarians of the new Public Library and that Pattie Hooker and Pauline Bess have charge of the Social Welfare office? No, but I did know that Kelly Ostwalt, our Fred Astaire of Belmont, has opened a studio. What about Marjorie Smith? I see she has a lovely home on the Point Road and has married a lawyer. Kate Forbes is home for a vacation. I guess you knew that she is private secretary to W. C. Fields. Over in one corner of the auditorium I could see a group of boys and I noticed that two were dressed in navy uniforms. They were Neal Ratchford and Ned McMillan who were home from Annapolis on a furlough. Their discussion centered around C. P. Armstrong and his love for railroads and his whole yard of freight cars. I gazed around among the group trying to find Mary Frances Gresham, and there she was talking as usual. The wind brought me news that she was married but was working as secretary for Virginia Howe. The wind began to blow hard and it carried our little boat near shore. I looked deeper to see my own future. but saw nothing so I drifted back to the shore and mounted zngyp white horse. I passed unnoticed into the black depths of the forest as the old boatman disappeared from view. Page Twenty-one

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