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

Text from Pages 1 - 48 of the 1955 volume:

sas Wo basta iis a iia Rneey 1959 Volume VI Published By The Annual Staff of BLOWING ROCK HIGH SCHOOL Blowing Rock, N. C. EVELYN CRAIG Editor-in-Chief ROGER E, HARTLEY Business Manager GEORGE HOLLARS VALERIE MILLER TED DOTSON We Pay Tribute To DEDICATION MRS. DUKE HOLLAR | For her years of service through guidance and understanding and her trust and faith in our generation, we, the staff of the 1955 Breezes , do humbly dedicate this volume to a dear and lovable lady. ANNUAL STAFF ‘eecsitnsrnrnnrnrnetnestlnaanseamnunnnasantintin HERP IONES CO. ” Standing: Ted Dotson; Valerie Miller, Associate Editor; George Hollars; Roger Hartley, Business Manager. Sitting: Evelyn Craig, Editor. Principal MR, JAMES M. STORIE Bachelor of Science, 1942, Appa- lachian State Teachers' College, Master of Arts, 1950, Appalachian State Teachers’ College MRSS Jie Y.ODER MRS. D. J. WHITENER MRS, DUKE HOLLAR MRS. JOE WINKLER MRS. J. W. BEACH MRS. KENT BROWN MRS, GLENN WINKLER MRS. R. C. GREENE MRS. E. B. FOX, JR. MRS, PAUL EDMISTEN MRS, R. B. DAVIS MRS Tal (Gn TEEINI IZA ——_ ee ee et aieeeetiineniatiandl ee eee io Serre BAY - mr FA” a a 9 Oe N Te Ee eS tee EVELYN ELIZABETH CRAIG Shorty Home Economics 1,2; Glee Club Annual Staff Associate Editor and Editor 3,4; Marshal 3; Mon- ogram Club 4; Senior Superla- tive 4; Class Officer 2,3,4; Basketball 2,3,4. DOIL MELVIN FORD Dribbles Basketball 1,2,3,4; Glee Club 1,2; Baseball 2,4; Bus Driver 2,3,4. JAMES EDWIN DAYE Eq Baseball 1,2,3,4; Basketball 2, 3,4; Senior Superlative. Standing, left to right: Evelyn Craig, Reporter; Roger Hartley, President. Sitting, left to right: Anne Lett, Secretary-Treasurer; Bill Moody, Vice-President. MARY CAROLINE GREENE Carrie Class Officer 1,2, Presidy :t 3; Glee Club 1,2; Home Economics 1,2; Class Historian; B..sketbull Basketball 1; Glee Club 1,2; 1,2,3,4; Marshal 2, Chief 3; Home Economics 1,2; 4-H Club Monogram Club 4; Senior Super- We lative. BETTY MAE FOSTER Angel TED WAYNE DOTSON Portly” Class Officer 1,2; Glee Club 1, 2; Baseball 1,2,3,4; Basketball 1,2,3,4; Annual Staff 4; Mon- ogram 4; Senior Superlative; Marshal 3. SENIORS | CAROLYN HARTLEY Peg Glee Club 1,2; Library 1; Home. Economics 1,2; 4-H Club 1. ROGER ELLIOTT HARTLEY EARL C. HOLDER Fuller Peter Guss Class Officer 1,2,3,4; Class Baseball 1,2,3,4; Basketball 1, President 2,4; Baseball 1,2,3, 2,3,4; Monogram Club 4; Senior 4; Basketball 1, 2, 3,4; Class Superlative 4; 4-H Club 1. Superlative 4; Annual Staff 3, 4; Business Manager 4. OF 1955 LOLA ANNE LETT Annie Pearl Class Officer 1,2,3,4; Glee BILL M. MOODY Club 1,2; Home Economics 1,2; Gape Monogram Club 4; Basketball 2, Class Officer 1,3,4; 4-H Club 3,4; Senior Superlative; Class 1; Bus Driver 3,4; Basketball 1, ’ Prophet. 2; Monogram Club 4. ROBERT WADE HOLLARS COLEEN TRIPLETT Sticker Basketbail 1,2,3,4; Home Eco- nomics 1,2; Glee Club 1,2; Senior Superlative; Monogram Club 4; 4-H Club 1; Library 1, 2s SHIRLEY MAE HOLLARS Shirl Home Economics 2; Glee Clut 1; Senior Superlative. BARBARA ANN WHITE Bobbie Basketball 2; Glee Club 1,2 Home Economics 1,2. SENIOR CLASS PROPHECY Ten years have passed since our class of 1955 graduated from Blowing Rock High School, and last week at our class reunion at Blowing Rock all of us had a lot of catching up to do. The first thing most of us talked about is the change in our Alma Mater. All the old school buildings have been torn down and replaced by completely new and modern ones, and Roger Hartley is now the proud principal. | found that Evelyn Craig is still jerking sodas at Harris’ Drug Store, and trying to catch all the good-looking boys, but Caroline Greene has left Harris' and is now spending most of her time sitting on the steps of radio station WATA in Boone singing Our First Affair. Earl Holder and Edwin Daye tell me that they are now great rivals in the field of baseball, Earl playing for the Boston Red Sox and Ed for the Brooklyn Dodgers in the World Series this year. Coleen Triplett is now the wife of a professor at Draughn's Business College but being married doesn't keep her from making eyes at the referees at the college basketball games. Ted Dotson is living in Aho now and he's been having trouble with his in-laws. It seems that they all have different views about how Ted, Jr. should be brought up. Carolyn Hartley is still going with her boy friend, Shorty, but she just won't say yes. Barbara White tells me she is still baby-sitting, but with her own six children (two sets of tripletts) now instead of with someone else's. After seeing Doyle Ford last week, | think he is still living up to his reputation of best dressed man in Black berry and is now driving a cadillac around in them thar hills. Betty Foster is still getting threatening letters from a certain girl about Eddie in Lenior. Better watch out, Betty, she might do something drastic! Shirley Hollars says she has been trying her best to stow away ona ship to Japan because that's the only way she will ever get to see Ralph again. But somehow she always gets caught. Wade Hollars is really living it up these days. A rich uncle he never knew he had died and left hima sizable legacy and Wade is having the time of his life. Two members of our class, Bill Moody and Mayne Coffey, couldn't attend our class reunion, but they had written letters to several members of the class explaining their absence. Mayne is now navigator of one of the largest ships in the American Steamship Line and was on his way to South America at the time. Bill now owns a large cattle ranch in Texas and since he is chief veteri- narian for the ranches located in his area, he couldn't spare the time to come all the way to Blowing Rock. Inciden- tally, oil was discovered on his land recently and he is quite excited about that. Well, | must be going home to Kentucky now. Joe, Jr. will be giving his daddy a pretty hard time! SENIOR CLASS HISTORY This is a story of a marvelous class--the most wonderful class that ever happened at old Blowing Rock, namely the class of 1955. Its life continued but four short years, yet every day of those four years was crowded with events. When we, the members of this remarkable class, have all achieved the fame and honors that are bound to come to us, the memories of these four years will linger in the hearts of each and every one. But | must get back to the beginning of my story. It was in September, 1951, A.D., that this brilliant group of boys and girls first made their triumphal appearance in the halls and on the campus of Blowing Rock High, and from that day until the day of graduation there was more intellectuality in the atmosphere of that institution than was ever known before or probably will ever be known again. ; We had varied characteristics and peculiarities, so it will not be difficult for you to guess that there were heroes and heroines in the basketball and baseball games during the freshman year and the years that followed. With the coming of the next September, we received a new name. Because of our skill in acquiring the customs of the school, we were renamed Sophomores, and the process was called by a native name, promotion . Since several of the members decided to follow other courses rather than continuing their education, our enrollment decreased. n the thi i : ; ! e third year, owing to an old educational custom, we became Juniors, and our promotion made our sense of importance increase our of all due proportion. This was a year of hard work as well as fun. The whole class along with the help and patience of Mrs. Irene Davis, our s i : , ponsor, worked hard to f Pat pt which wes indeedithe nighelighties thelyean! ’ raise money for the Junior-Senior banquet At last came the senior year with all its dignity and importance and its great feeling of superiority overall the other classes. One of our most impressive events of the year was the senior play, Your Face Is Familiar which was a hilarous 3-act comedy. Then came the thoughts and preparations for graduation--the selection of the motto, the class flower, the class colors, the speeches, the caps and gowns, and all that enters into commencement. k Soon we will all be separated and each will go hi i i ; ) go his own way. Whether it be higher education, a job, or marri if each just remembers our class motto If God Be With Us Who Can Be Against Us , The class willtes fa ea Class of 1955 LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT We, the members of the Senior Class of Blowing Rock High School, County of Watauga, State of North Carolina, in the year of our Lord 1955, being of sound mind, body, and what have you, and having no hard feelings toward the faculty, do hereby make and declare this to be our Last Will and Testament: To Mr. Storie, we bestow the responsibility of supervising Blowing Rock High School without our inspiring and able assistance. To the Junior Class, we bequeath our outstanding dignity, our good behavior and quiet manners and all sup- posed privileges of the Senior Class. 1, Betty Foster, do hereby will my ability to get to school on time and to get out of the Senior play to Ruby Hodges. 1, Coleen Triplett, do hereby will my position on the basketball team and my ability to flirt with the refrees to Mary Keller. ; 1, Shirley Hollars, do hereby will my title Most Dignified to Cornelia Gryder. 1, Ted Dotson, do will my seat in the back of American History class to any boy who doesn't hold hands and doesn't stomp cockroaches. 1, Bill Moody, do hereby believe in taking everything with me. 1, Barbara White, do hereby will my ability to “baby sit to Bob Coffey, so he won't have so much trouble learning later on. 1, Doil Ford, do hereby will my ability to get along with everybody to Doss Keller because he needs it. 1, Roger Hartley, do hereby will my title Wittiest to John Moody. 1, Edwin Daye, do hereby will my title Most Dignified to Joe White. 1, Earl Holder, do hereby will my title Best All Around to Vern Coffey. 1, Caroline Greene, do hereby will my sweater girl figure to Ann Reid. 1, Ann Lett, do hereby will my position as secretary-treasurer fo the Senior Class to anyone who has little enough sense to take it. 1, Evelyn Craig, do hereby will my abilities to work on the annual to George Hollars, because he'll certain- ly need it. Any beneficiary attempting to interfere with the provisions of this document, shall not only be deprived of all rights and privileges therein granted to him or her, but shall be sentenced to hard labor for one or five years, according to the discretion of the court. Class of 1955 MASCOTS MICHAEL MILLER LOIS HOLLARS i SENIOR cueny OR MUSICAL COMEDY? py LEONARD BE fo} THE WORLD WE LIVE IN: PART X ICEBOUND BARRENS OF THE ARCTIC TUNDRA wT 20 CENTS JUNE 7, 1954 {UA per. oF, MOST DEPENDABLE Edwin Daye - Anne Lett SUPERLATIVES NA Chany eR What js i Six APP Egy fa for SpPiVsT mi for transsenia Mehpary £955... 35 vent Made MOST HANDSOME - MOST BEAUTIFUL Ted Dotson - Evelyn Craig SENIOR SN cage Ces LM JUNIORS Left to right: George Hollars, President; John Moody, Vice-President; Valerie Miller, Secretary-Treasurer; Bobby Coffey, Reporter. FRANK AUTON BOBBY COFFEY TOMMY COOKE BAXTER EDMISTEN DAYTON GRAGG BUD GREENE DAVID GREENE GEORGE HOLLARS DOSS KELLER JOHNNY KNIGHT JOHN MOODY BILLY MILLER BENNY ROBINSON JOE WHITE JEAN BAIRD LUCH BRADSHAW CHRISTINE FORD RUBY HODGE JOYCE HOLLARS HAZEL HUFFMAN VALERIE MILLER JEANETTE PAYNE RHETT ASHLEY MARILYN BOLICK LUTHER CHRUCH VERA COFFEY FRANK GREENE CORNELIA GRYDER ROSALIE HANNA CHARLIS HENSON KATE HOLDER RUTH HOLDER DOROTHY LENTZ COY MILLER BONNIE JEAN PAYNE ANN REID RUTH ROBBINS DENNIS RUPPERT VIRGINIA SPANN DELORIS STORIE SHARON SUDDERTH ALLEN TRIPLETTE BARBARA TRIPLETTE WILLIE WHITE EVERT WILLIAMS JAMES WRIGHT Rhett Ashley, President; Kate Holder, Secretary-Treasurer; Marilyn Bolick, Reporter. Not Shown: Tommy Cannon, Vice-President. SOPHOMORES FRESHMEN Earl Ford, Vice-President; Linda Bolick, Secretary; Nancy Trivett, Treasurer; Mary Keller, Reporter. Not Shown: Thomas Buxton, Presi- dent. OLETA AUTON CURTIS BAIRD LINDA BOLICK JERRY BURNS THOMAS BUXTON VERN COFFEY EARL FORD R. K. HARTLEY VAUGHN HARTLEY SHIRLEY HENSON SHIRLEY HODGES FAYE HUFFMAN | a MARY KELLER ELEANOR ROBBINS CLARENCE SPANN SHIRLEY TOLBERT KENNETH TRIPLETTE NANCY TRIVETTE CHRISTEN COOK 4 JOE HIGHT 4 JOE SHAIA GIRLS’ BASKETBALL Se Left to right: Evelyn Craig, Anne Reid, Virginia Spann, Coleen Triplett, Mary Keller, Joyce Hollars, Mrs. Paul Edmisten, Coach; Anne Lett, Caroline Greene, Cornelia Gryder, Barbara Triplett, Nancy Trivett. BOYS’ BASKETBALL Standing, left to right: H. C. Lentz, Coach; Roger Hartley, Doss Keller, Earl Holder, Doyle Ford, Baxter Edmisten, Bill Moody, Man- ager. Kneeling, left to right: Coy Miller, Ted Dotson, David Greene, James Wright, Bud Greene. CHEERLEADERS Left to right: Jean Baird, Chief; Pat Coffey, Marilyn Bolick, Cora Broyhill, Linda Bolick, Sharon Sudderth. MONOGRAM CLUB sais ale Left to right: Ted Dotson, Vice-President; Barbara Triplett, Secretary- Treasurer; David Greene, President. Left to right: Bill Moody, Bobby Doyle Ford. . BUS DRIVERS Coffey, Billy Miller, Tommy Cooke, HOME ECONOMICS CLUB Mrs. E. B. Fox, Director 4-H CLUB Mrs. R. C. Greene, Director Left to right: Mrs. Fred Young, Mrs. Carl Ford,-Mrs. Dowd Robinson, Mr. Cloy Pennell, Janitor EIGHTH GRADE SEVENTH SIXTH Cin, ae FOURTH GRADE SECOND GRADE ADVERTISEMENTS MAULDIN DISTRIBUTING COMPANY Phone 2-9326 243 2nd Ave. S.W. P. O. Box 614 Hickory, N. C. Distributor: TOM’S TOASTED PEANUTS TOM’S PEANUT BUTTER SANDWICHES AND TOM’S CANDIES Compliments of Dr. Pepper-Grapette Bottling Company Third Avenue Phone 4591 at Compliments of Miss Shirley Bole GOODWIN WEAVERS, Inc. Blowing Rock, N. C. Boone, N. C. Compliments of Shelby Ysgow | oe ROY TINSLEY The Compliments of HOP MOUNTAIN SHO Mr. and Mrs. CHARLES BROWN Mountain Craft Crafts and Soveniers NN SN} Congratulations BLOWING ROCK LASS OF 1955 ove PHILLIP 66 SERVICE GREEN INN At Intersection of 221 and 321A ie Blowing Rock, N. C. _ “x Blowing Rock, N. C. Robert Wade Hablars Bill M. Moody A ed “Wayne Oh) ison Doi NC. de ord RAZOOK’S Roger . Hartley Blowing Rock, N. C. acho (ce “White 322 King Streg, ! AM-4-3625 Sa aeee) at Compliments of Compliments of COFFEY’S GROCERY ARNOLDS Skyland Blowing Rock, N. C. Blowing Rock, N. C. ce ee ore ee EN eee A ‘ . HILL SIDE DAIRY PRODUCTS, Inc. GRADE ‘A’ PASTEURIZED AND HOMOGENIZED DAIRY PRODUCTS In Glass Phone 194 Or Cartons 4 Boone, N. C. a Congratulations 195 5eGRASS ; Compliments of HANNA’‘S ORIENTAL SHOP A FRIEND Blowing Rock, N. C. Sarasota, Florida ror roo) (Ss ores) (3-3 nee Compliments of the YONAHLASSEE MOTEL Blowing Rock, N. C. Blowing Rock, N. C. Compliments of PARKWAY HOTEL PPP PS EPL FE EF EEE PEEP IFPI PE SOD OD OOOO Compliments of | The : ROCK GIFT SHOP (ere ee ee eee ee er ree oe ero eee eee oes se ) G er ee | Congratulations to The Graduating Class of 1955 RHODODENDRON MOTOR LODGE : | : | EPP PF FPO aS Compliments of VANCE RECAPPING Full capping on all trucks and passenger cars. Do ee BOONE, N, C. | ) EPP PPP PPP FPO ee re aa oe | 5) PPP PP oe ree ie Compliments of DINNER BELL GRILL a Specializing in CHICKEN, OYSTERS AND FRENCH FRIES Co er oe re PALMER'S PHOTO SHOP School Pictures, Portraits, Cameras ‘Boone's Best’ Boone, N. C. a) ere ee eee ee se ee ee Terror rrr rrr rrr rrr SPP PPE PY Compliments of AUNT EMMA’S LUNCHEONETTE Located on 321 East of Blowing Rock PP PPP Oe a OS PPP PPE PFE POP REINS-STURDIVANT of Boone, Inc. FUNERAL DIRECTORS Phone 24 Boone, N. C. Compliments of CUSTER’S RESTAURANT ear er rw) iF COP r ere errr eo ersee sr 4 me ¢ ) 4 § 4 4 ‘ $ 4 4 t i) t $ { 4 ' 4 PIP SF BBP FP B-P- P PPP PF PP PP PP SWOFFORD’S General Electric Appliances Goodyear Tires Modern Recapping, RCA Television Sales and Service Phone 225 Boone, N. C. ee ee ee eee eee eee FPP FF SF FFF FFF FEF FFF EP FPF EE POO OOO CAUDILL’S The Shop for Ladies and Men BOONE, N. C. a + | Cc LS DL BB LPB LBBB EBB PB BBP IPB IP EIEIO BOONE DRUG CO. W. R. Richardson O. K. Richardson “The Rexall Store’’ Three Registered Pharmacists Boone, N. C. Telephone 17 nee ee e_) io PPP PPP Or | Compliments of K M RESTAURANT BOONERINeEG “GOOD LUCK TO CLASS OF ‘55” Compliments of Wilson's Construction Company NMainastreet) —-) Diala4 76 ormo52 1 Licensed General Contractors BLOWING ROCK, NORTH CAROLINA Residential —- Commercial — Industrial Construction Repairing —- Remodeling —- Additions —- Renovations Estimates Furnished Without Obligations “It’s Always Cooler In Blowing Rock” Compliments of Compliments of GOODNIGHT TH A E BARK BROTHERS PRODUCE Blowing Rock, N. C. B N.C oone, N. C. eeEenv OME ices Tine Me ee a a a a a a ee a ; ) Compliments of Compliments of } MARTIN COTTAGE STALLINGS JEWELRY | Blowing Rock, N. C. Boone, N. C. | cs cs silat la a Fa : —) HARDIN HARDWARE COMPANY M. H. GAS COMPANY ESSOTANE GAS G. E. APPLIANCES Phone 406] BLOWING ROCK, N. C. a rr i) Compliments of THE FARM HOUSE BLOWING ROCK, N. C. ere) OES ES EP FEF PF BFF III I_ PIPPI LEIP Compliments of Blowing Rock, N. C. ar ae i ee eee mre) | | RIDGEWAY MOTEL ee eee FPP FSF EF FPP OO SF PP PPP PPP PPP OO OD Compliments of Blowing Rock, N. C. | GREENE'S GROCERY Ee or rer rr rrr) PINE COURT e 4 Compliments of Blowing Rock, N. C. | PPP PIPPI PP a ete Serer nest WATAUGA PRODUCE Co., Inc. Boone, N. C. Buyers and Distributors CABBAGE, BEANS, POTATOES and ARMOUR’S FERTILIZER Cra a ' eet a rere yy C7 ror rrrrrrrrrrre- te Compliments of WAGON WHEEL GRILL Blowing Rock, N. C. See eee eee eee ee ( es ee Compliments of . APPALACHIAN MOTEL Blowing Rock, N. C. =) PPP PPP PIP FPSO POO H. P. HOLSHOUSER REAL ESTATE — INSURANCE Rentals Lots Sales Homes PHONE?2 131 Blowing Rock, N. C. fore R. G. ELECTRIC CO. Electrical Contracting Westinghouse Appliances DIAL 4206 Blowing Rock, N. C. Co MONTALDO'S Charlotte, N. C. Blowing Rock, N. C. CONGRATULATIONS To The CLASS OF 1955 ( With Special Congratulations to the Staff of “THE BREEZES” for, Once Again, Making This Annual Possible. 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