Blowing Rock High School - Breezes Yearbook (Blowing Rock, NC)

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SHEINI HONS | SHU MPHEIRIL YAN TE IDWIES MOST DIGNIFIED MOST BEAUTIFUL, MOST HANDSOME Max Greene, Mary Tolbert Mary Kent Brown, Steve Pierce JULY 25¢ MOST BASHFUL MOST POPULAR Max Greene, Audrey Lentz Roby Weaver, Mary Kent Brown

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CILANS S PIN) Palate 7 Pan American Air Lines New York, New York October 21, 1969 Dear Roby: How | wish you could have been with me for the class reunion last week, but since you were taking part in the World Series, | know it was impossible. It is hard to realize that 15 years have passed since we were graduated, but it is true, and time has made many changes. Most of the schools in Watauga County have been consolidated and now there are 1,211 students in our school alone. Old Blowing Rock High School has finally collapsed, and inits place are new air-conditioned buildings with beautiful architecture. Oh, at last they have a new gymn. It has a seating capacity of 4,000 persons. You should see Audrey Hollars. She is jerking sodas at Storie's Soda Shop . At present she is still single, but still try- ing. Poor James Craig has been married three times and divorced twice. You should see his last wife. His children, her children, and their children, really make a houseful . Philip Spann is teaching school in Blowing Rock in Mrs. Davis' place, and his pupils say he really knows his English. All the members of our class who were there were invited to the beautiful estate of Mrs. Bud Bentley, the former Audrey Lentz. Bud struck oil down in Shulls Mills a few years back, and now they're living in luxury. Max Greene is now head of the Agriculture Department at North Carolina State, and still is a confirmed bachelor. Another boy of our class who has made good is Edgar Hart. He has his own radio mystery program entitled Horror At Midnight . Willie Edmisten finally gave up typing to persuade Nola Gragg to become the MRS. . He is now pursuing another fair lassie. Nola is now the Head of all the nurses at Duke Hospital in Durham. James Coffey bought the Bark from Dewey a few years back. | think he does a pretty big business out there. | saw in the Watauga Democrat yesterday where Mrs. Billy L. White announced the birth of a twelve pound baby boy. They'll call it Junior . Mary Tolbert is now working as a secretary in Collin's Body Shop in Boone. | hear there's to be a wedding soon. Steve’ Pierce's experience on the annual staff proved a great help, since he's now Editor of the Watauga Republican . Now | have told you about all of them, and | want you to write me a longletter soon and tell me all about you and Jean. Sincerely yours, Kent P. S. | am still making eyes at a very handsome pilot who has a wife and three children. | haven't lost all hopes yet. Gal AGS Om Llbleonle@ rR. 1. History repeats itself, so says a well-known and ‘oft-quoted adage, so do not be surprised if our history resembles a great many other class chronicles you have read. However, there is still enough difference to give us a personality of our own. Four years ago in September, 1950, a group of frightened freshmen entered the halls of Blowing Rock High School, under the direction of Mr. H.C. Lentz. The four years ahead of us looked long and difficult, but with much determination we worked hard tobe one stepnearer the top. This year, to our great joy, we were able to participate in sports and we had a large repre- sentation from our class. Beginning our second year we entered the halls of learning again, but webore the proud title of sophomores. Witha bigger and better feeling than that of the previous year, we began to enjoy the excitement of being in high school, sowe didn't let study interfere with pleasure. Asa result, several members fell by the scholastic wayside. As we turned the next chapter in our history, we find a jolly bunch of juniors to face a year of hard studies along with fun. This year came the long-awaited Junior-Senior Banquet, which proved truly worth waiting for. In addition to the Junior- Senior Banquet, many of our people were participating in sports, clubs, and other extra-curriculars. Three short months brought us the usual hardships, and also the dignity which pertains to no one but seniors. In September, 1953, we found ourselves, sixteen in number, assembled in Mr. H. C. Lentz's room, our classroll revised, and we were soon hard a t work again. It is usually supposed that seniors tackle almost anything that come their way. Ina large measure we have been able to do this, but we still have Senior English with which to contend. However, we hope to get this off soon. We are proud to say that we have proved successful in tackling the job of publishing the fifth annual of Blowing Rock High School; also we have presented the annual senior play, a mystery comedy entitled The Night Owl . We have laughed and talked together, worked and failed together for four years. The ties that gently hold us will soon be broken, and one of the smallest classes in the history of the school will in sorrow, mingled with happiness, leave dear old Blowing Rock High School. We look back over the years that we have successfully passed. Through many storms, and by much hard work, we have reached a place where we hope we have attained much knowledge, and we look forward to our life in the world with a deter- mination to enter college or business life with the same spirit that has brought us this far. We will soon receive our diplomas. Then we are going to scatter to the four corners of the world, to play, to suffer, to work, to marry, or whatever it may be. But after all, one might ask, What does it all amount to? What will we know of it forty years from now? To be truly serious, we will still be proud of our dear old Blowing Rock High School. But to be more serious, we hope that she can be just as proud of us.

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SIN @iReS Wie RAT IVIES MOST LIKELY TO SUCCEED MOST DEPENDABLE Steve Pierce, Audrey Lentz Audrey Lentz, Bud Bently KEEP IT UP: MOST ATHLETIC BEST ALL AROUND Peggy White, Roby Weaver Nola Gragg, William Edmisten