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

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Bethany High School Reidsville, North Carolina May 29, 1972 Dear Nick, It is very difficult for me to keep my eyes off feelivision which, as you know, was perfected last week. However, I’ll try to stop long enough to let you know some of the things I have seen and heard about the Seniors of 1952. I hope that you can take time from your job as coach of the Mighty Gorilla Five to lend an ear to my juicy bits of gossip. You are indeed lucky to be coach at the only school whose basketball team comes into the world equipped with fur suits! Frances Paschal is really going places with her mail order courses of How to Make Friends and Pull the Wool Over Their Eyes. These courses are guaranteed to bring you results in ten days or your twenty - nine cents will be refunded. The thing that has startled me most was to learn that Daisy was still MISS Covington and running a lonely hearts club for others who are also unfortunate. Her advice is sought by everyone in town. Clyde Hanks is still sitting around reading the magazines that he subscribed for in the school magazine campaign of 1951. His favorites seem to be Parents and Life . Penn Jones doesn ' t belie his name. He now models gay shirts and bright trousers for his own agency, PENN - ME - UP - JONES. He is just recovering from a bad fall - - he hung his toe in his watch chain. Can you imagine Loraine Price being a Mrs. with five little towheaded boys? She says that she has her basketball team already, but that now she needs five more for a second string. Carl Shelton ' s knack for dependability has led him to be quite a jack of all trades on the farm. Carl says that there is nothing that he likes better than to settle down after supper and read those lonely hearts columns. He just can ' t understand what happened. Look on any girl’s wall today and you will see Bobbv Alley ' s blushing face. His latest movie, My Purple Past left Bobby’s face in permanent technicolor. Ruth Allen ' s love for the Navy forced her to join the Waves. Her many duties take her to every port - - just imagine the excitement that could cause the Navy. Speaking of the Navy, do you remember Jimmy Knight ' s wavy hairthatused to make us all seasick? Jimmy also joined the fleet and sailed the Hawaiian Islands. If you think that he would look good in bell - bottom trousers you just ought to see what a hula skirt does for him! Jimmy claims that he can keep up with the best of them.

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flisfafti). May 23 was just another day until the sixth period came. Mr. Bourne’s voice boomed! Get your classes into the auditorium. Be sure you keep up your nice behavior. The auditorium was dark and the movie projector was ready for use. A movie! exclaimed the student body. Yes, a movie of twelve eventful years in the lives of seventeen Bethany High School Seniors. We saw flashed before us Miss King and Mrs. Pearman trying to console and entertain the numerous scared and excited first graders of 1940. Others who tried to guide our feet in the right direction were: Miss Rierson, Miss Small, Miss Johnston, Mrs. Bickers, Miss Brown, Miss Bradley, Miss Norris, Miss Harmon, Miss Gillispie, and Mrs. Morgan. The film changes and we see thirty - two freshmen, wide - eyed and exhuberent, with uncalmed anticipation wondering what that home room teacher would resemble and where they would keep their books. Mrs. Pratt answered our various questions about our new adventure into high school. Election showed that Penn Jones was to be our first President and to help him: Vice President, Nick Smothers, and Secretary - Treasurer, Barbara Ann Overby. Weiner roast and initiations were occasions for much merriment. The scene is changed to Room 31 where Miss Blackwell welcomed the girls and Mr. Pope the boys as 10th graders. A Christmas party and picnic at the Battleground and a weiner roast at Woollen’s Store helped us to realize how much fun we could have together as a class. Junior year is flashed before us in bold black letters reve aling Miss Louise Johnson our sponsor. To help her with the many activities of the year, we chose as our class officers Nick Smothers, President; Claudia Mae Williams, Vice President; Daisy Covington, Secretary - Treasurer. This was really the year for work. First came our Brunswick Stew. Excited yells echoed down the hall as we heard the welcome message: Your rings are here. Barbara Ann Overby entertained the class with a party. The intermural basketball tournament was won by the boys and girls. Our most important and joyous occasion was, of course, the Junior - Senior Banquet. All day was spent in decoration and just wishing everything would go according as planned. That night you could tell that some of us had spent hours before the mirror. Here we are as dignified seniors, and Miss Huey is our sponsor. Nick Smothers as President has much business to attend. How many invitations do you want; what size cap; and how long does your gown have to be? Carl Shelton as Vice President; Bobby Alley as Secretary; and Daisy Covington as Treasurer will assist Nick. The annual must go to press, said Daisy Covington. Play tryouts will be held tomorrow is announced. Weiner roast, Halloween and Christmas parties and Junior - Senior Banquet was enjoyed by all. Graduation day, long will it be remembered. The future is just around the corner and may we put into practice the many things learned at dear old Bethany High. The curtain falls, feet march back to class. HISTORIAN BETTY JO COMBS

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I suppose you have seen some of Ray Isley ' s advertisements, Eye Isley, Tracer of Lost Persons - - - especially good in finding girl friends, This is one job in which Ray declares that he doesn ' t mind working over time. Betty Jo, while going to school at Bethany, developed her lungs to such an extent that after finishing school she found that she could not talk below a bellow. The last I heard of her she was the Champion Hog Caller of both Rockingham and Guilford Counties. If you ever need a used car, and wt Jo mean a USED car, go to Foulk’s Used Car Lot on the corner of Bethany and Pine. Kenan is making a killing on his original model which he put together in his spare time, The Chevordbakerson. It is supposed to be the fastest thing on wheels. Kenan claims that he made it especially for Miss Huey. Claudia Mae Williams is at the very top of the ladder of success, but she did not have to climb it. She flirted, smiled, giggled, and talked her way into stardom. She is the star of all the afternoon soap opras. She’s Stick ' s Other Wife , Young ’Widder’ Williams , Claudia Faces Life and When A Girl Marries all rolled up into one. Lincoln Griffin is running the snazziest eating joint in town. It is the favorite hangout of the younger set. Lincoln has grown another six inches and lost twenty - two pounds he has had to work so hard. Not long ago one of his helpers slapped him into a bun, , sprinkled on some onions, spread on mustard, and served him to a customer before he realized his mistake. Did you hear the awful news about Claude Hudson? For weeks no one saw or heard from him. Then one day I saw an old mountaineer ' s sign of Furs for Sale . I looked among the rare rabbit and weasel pelts and realized that the third from the end was poor Possum , caught at last but grinning just as big as ever! What am I doing? I m still at Bethany, of course. 1 have a full load this year, too. I’m teaching English, history, math, science, home ec. , typing, physical ed. , and agriculture. I hardly have time to keep up with my gossip. Why don ' t you and the others stop by to see me sometime? Love, Barbara Ann Overby