Benson High School - Tatler Yearbook (Benson, NC)

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Edith was such a successful school driver that she now drives a bus in New York City. We see that Rose Marie Dixon has brought her professional girls basketball team with her ton : ght. She married that great athlete Jack Lyles and they now have five boys. Enough for a basketball team. Lila Dorman just walked in briskly. Lila, now dean of women at East Carolina, really makes the co-eds walk the chalk line. We see a crowd of males standing beside the door and whom do you suppose is in the middle of them? Vennie Hardee. Vennie graduated from col- lege last year and was voted the girl that most fellows would like to be stranded with in a con- vertible. Remember she was voted biggest flirt in our high school graduation class. Mary Alice Ryals has really made a name for herself. She is a great opera singer and actress. She is now married to her third mil lionaire husband and is thinking about opening a tire company. June Dale McLamb, who is a private children ' s nurse, has not made much head way. June Dale has always dreamed of being happily married and raising a family but never seemed to find the right man. Lois Godwin, Inez Sorrell and Lou Jeania Barlett all are dancing with their husbands. Lois married a rancher from Texas; Inez, a tobacco auctioneer; and Lou Jeania hooked a North Carolina Senator. Vera and Sara Godwin are old maids, which sur- prises everybody. Shortly after graduation they opened a small dress shop, which grew into the world ' s fashion center. Janice Langdon looks I ke a movie star as she waltzes around with Morris Woodall. Janice is a model for a shampoo company. Her carrott top has brought her fame. Morris is director of the National 4-H Club Members and still just loves to make speeches, Janie McLamb finally decided that she was getting no where picking cotton, so she went to Wyoming, bought a ranch, and settled down with fifty horses. LeRoy Young still hasn ' t learned to dance, but since he has such a large family I guess he hasn ' t had time. He had a head start on all the other boys. Jean Clifton is just being escorted in by her hus- band. Jean is now manager of the largest dime store in New York. Her husband still works for a dairy. Margaree Stewart looks stately in her WAC uni- form. She fell in love with a recruiting officer and now she ' s in for four years. Faye Woodall and her fiance, Blandon, have been sitting in the corner talking all evening. Maybe they ' re finally making wedding plans. After all, they ' ve only been engaged sixteen years. Joyce Parrish took a job as a waitress in a small Italian Restaurant in New York. Soon she married the owner and now she lives on Italian spaghetti. Well, the band has started playing Goodnight Sweetheart and everyone is leaving. The dance was a big success and so was the class of 1952. GlaM Paem SENIORS HOPE S-well memories of Benson High E-ver more dear, N-ever to be forgotten I-n our later years; O-n to the fame and glory of our life R-esting not a moment ; S-eeking the victory of past years strife. H-oping to achieve the goal O-f our High School days ; P-ushing on and upward, E-very gesture in an honest way. GladA, Monty Dear old Benson High School We ' ll remember you forever, The days of the Golden Rules and The years we shared together. Memories of you will never Fade from our mind A dearer or more precious Friendship, we ' ll never find. The years have come and they have gone Faded into the past. Our eyes look toward a more Adult and difficult task. The dreams of our Ambitions and our hope coming true, Of graduating High School In nineteen fifty-two. 17

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looking 9nt the tf-utwie It ' s Homecoming of 1968. As all the old grads of Benson High School return once more to represent their Alma Mater, we look around the dance floor and see that our old classmates of ' 52 haven ' t done badly at all. The band has started playing the first number, and we stretch our necks eagerly to see who will be the first couple on the floor. Well, it ' s none other than David Auman and his date. We hear a few whispers here and there and listen more carefully because we would like to know what progress David has made. Someone has just said that he owns a chain of Veneer Plants throughout the South. David is still a bachelor rolling in money, and no longer drives a ' 40 Ford, but now he has a Cadillac and is always cruising around still trying to find a girl to suit his tastes. He ' s dancing with Peggy Coates who has really changed in these past years. She is still a rather quiet person and not married yet. She is now typist and general office worker for a local firm and is looking for the right man. Well, here comes Cat Coats jumping like mad. Bryan, a beach bum from way back, spends his summer life at Carolina Beach away from all the clems and he chooses Florida life in the winter. He no longer has the policy if you can go you can date anybody, but is now happily married to a fine little gal from up Raleigh way. As the music plays softly on and the floor becomes crowded, we begin looking around once more and spot a couple sitting at a dimly lighted table far over in a corner. We take a closer look and find that it is Walter Gregory and his loving wife, Ro- chelle. They look just as happy as the day they were married, which was five years ago. They have a small son now and naturally he is Walter, .Jr. All of a sudden there is a loud fanfare and in walks the million dollar television comedian, Owen Hall, with his sultry wife, Nancy Sugg, who has taken Tallulah Bankhead ' s place on the Big Show. After the applause dies down and the music starts, we see Tommy Johnson dancing by. That is — we can almost see him. He ' s dancing with Dorothy McCall and there ' s a little difference in size. Tommy now owns his own Shoe Shine Shop and dresses like a king. Dorothy is married ; she ' s also a Registered Nurse and is very busy trying to raise a family. We now see W. C. Lee and his wife. W. C. has now taken over his father ' s grocery store and has turned it into a Super Market. Making millions. Charles Marler just walked in. He is dating two girls tonight. He has a construction company now and the girls just love that sweet charm. Pontiacs, too. The band begins to play the Star Spangled Ban- ner and everyone rises with his hand over his heart. (Then to everyones surprise in walks the President of the United States, Howard Moore. Everyone is pleased with Howard in the position of President be- cause he doesn ' t take cruises down the Potomac, as he gets seasick.) After the President takes his seat, we see one of his old classmates go over and shake his hand. Why, it ' s Billy Norris. Billy is quite a star now. He plays pro baseball and has taken Ted Williams ' place with the Red Sox. Well, well, now we see Miss Betty Bell seated on the side lines surrounded by several young men. Betty is now supervisor of nurses in one of the nation ' s largest hospitals and still has very definite qualifications for the man that she is still looking. We now see Jackie Blackmail (or should we say Smith) entering with her husband Robert. Jackie became a Powers model shortly after she finished High School but gave up her career to marry Ben- son ' s wealthiest man. Graham Pleasant seems to be the center of attrac- tion now. Graham worked so hard at Belk ' s during Christmas that he made enough money to buy the store. He now owns all the Belk Stores in the South and is making a cool million. Next we see Delia Brady. She is now private secretary to the President of a large firm in Wash- ington. She has won wide recognition as the only secretary who can take dictation at 200 words a minute and sit on the boss ' s lap all at the same time. Doris Carroll, now up on the band stand getting ready for her next song, is a famous torch singer and can out shine Lena Home singing Can ' t Help Loving That Man. James Raynor, whom we see tripping the light fantastic in the middle of the floor, is now a great actor. He was discovered by a talent scout who was looking for a man to play the part of Rudolph Valentino. There is a lot of commotion in one corner and everybody turns and stares. It ' s Waylon West who has been with Barnum and Bailey ' s Circus since his graduation from high school. Everyone gasps as he picks up a table in each hand. I guess you know his job with the circus is the strong man. Edith Clifton has just entered with her husband. 16

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1. Doris still looks like a chicken; 2. Coats ' Kid; 3. Chief-cheerleader; 4. Carrot-top; 5. Pret- tiest Girl; (i. That was just the beginning; 7. How ' bout a cat; 8. Our President; 9. She never speaks a word; 10. Age of Innocence ; 11. Wittiest girl; 12. Student Council Secretary; 13. Basketball Captain; 14. You were a doll, David; 15. Dorothy— before. 18