Bethany High School - Pine Burr Yearbook (Reidsville, NC)

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mmmm I ' lay 8, 1952 Dear Chigger; Today is a great day in our history. Do you remember v liat this day is in memory of? V ell, it has been exactly ten years since v e graduated from letheny High School. From v hat I have learned, there are quite a few changes since I last saw you and the rest of my school pals. I was listening to my radio the heard Jack Drookbank announcing the R ball gane. !Ie introduced Odali Kevaiam, nor of California, dio v as attending the other night and ose Bowl foot- tlie Gover- ‘■:ame . if ter the game Oscar Ha -ncs a ' .nd his orchestra, v lth Betty illlsms singing, kept me comfort for an hour or so. At ten o ' clock Ome :?oore and his i mi Tl iteur Program furnished me another hour of sv oll” entertalmient . This morning I v as looking at the paper a,nd saw Thomas Adkin ' s picture. He is the successful owner of an airplane factors in Stokesdale. In o ir old homo tov n section I road an article about Dudley Dodson and Robert iilley, two of I-merlca ' s best Future Fsrm.ers. I received a letter day and ho said that his He is owner of the world ' s from Thomas McCollim to- dreem had largest always wanted it, in come true, and at haaison. He reelly garage :rv the place he also told me of Dorothy Gent] shop there. By the way, did Is ley and Lillian Troxler are classed as vnerica ' s best Rod Cross ITurses? operating know that beauty uby Chigger, have you hosrd from Clifton Norman, Jack Carter, and Harry Rakestraw? I haven ' t heard from them this v eek. As you know Jack and Harry have been in the IJ. S. Army ever since two months after grrcbaation and Clifton left for Pittsburg to make his fortune as soon as ho got his dix loma.

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. octtlod :w York ■o xjxth t] ;ao Cura- had le Noman ana Kobacca H dov n in Kcrnorovill o, h ' .C. I r Tiriea today ana tc . i i. olvin hoor Nov; York Yanicoot . Nollio nooro ningo, Gortruao iioorc, ana Saai beauty palor in Stokesaalo, N.C I met aI Joe Wall and Edr ' r LcCollum on tlie dtrcot today. They wore otill thumbins ao they wero during our old school days. Yhey told uis that L ' ajorio LnColliiin ana buaio Wall are secretarios for Wado Iraiian and Kirby Williams vrho oierato a big steel i’actory at Su ' vnicrficld . I v as talcing a toi.rr to California last v oek on an .imoric.n Airlinor and saw Ssral ' Harris tie Stevrardoss on it. I stoppod in California, for several days and saw Francos Tal- ley and Jaunita Carter who v ero orlvers for tie Aiiiorican Rea Cross -’inibulanco division. I cauc on by tl ' o v;a-y of Baltimore v i.oro I met Sybil Young. She was housekooping v l ilo her husband, Sam, brought in tl ' .o money. The? woro very hap-o?r. up ovor t. ' o phone you ti ink was tin Ian Ilene Griffin, sterc tl ere. I found that I Wall sa- xng tl Ty -y are nov; od a letter f become rlrs . in Louisiana eeil, Chigger, there have been many cnang we parted from Bethany, but xz seems the, chooi f rianas lave boon prosoerous. since our s Your friena Virgina Payno and ainio Rakostzmw coac ' . two of . ' vi-iorica’ s best bas-.-.etbali. teens ana tl cy v;ill meet to nigl t for the VGorla Championship at Nov York City. d