Buckingham Central High School - Buccaneer Yearbook (Buckingham, VA)

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CLASS PROPHECY I stopped at a restaurant to get my lunch and whom should I see but Lynda Reynolds, Alma Banton and Jean Turnes serving the tables. I talked with them while I ate and they told me about Pearl Wright and Louise Ragland being on a talent scout show, and what a good home economics teacher Barbara Charlton was. It was getting late so I started to my hotel room. I met Eugene Fair going to a square dance. He said Jack Wood and Marian Gregory were on their way to fame in The Mar ' s Movie Studios. Naomi Bryant and Ruby Horne showed me to my hotel room and while we chatted they told me Albert Wright was piloting an airplane school bus propelled by atomic energy. I told them I had met everyone except Frances O’Bryant and Page Crute so they assured me that Frances was still looking for a man with money. I saw something strange out my window but it was only Page Crute sitting on the moon painting a picture! Then a space ship whizzed by and whom should be aboard but the faculty of B. C. H. S. for the session of 1950-51. Fushia Fender We often think as the days go by That soon we ' ll be leaving Central High. We ' ve made the grade by earnest strife, Now we ' re ready for a different life. We ' ll say good-by and then recall All our friends wandering in the hall. Our many classes day by day Kept us from falling along the way. We leave the halls of our dear school, We think of all the different rules We didn ' t like so very well, But to all the teachers they were swell. Though the hard work we had to do Made us think we would never get through, But there was always fun and play To keep us happy from day to day. Now as we leave dear Central High In our hearts we know that by and by, When things are rough and all goes wrong, Our thoughts of Central will linger long. Lorene Jones 20

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CLASS PROPHECY After months of hard work my senior year was coming to an end, and exhausted, I sank down to what I thought would be a peaceful rest. My mind being filled with incidents of my high school days, both happy and sad, I was taken into a swift whirl of a nightmare. Without any strength to refrain I was being taken up, up, and up by a stream of radar to a strange land of Mars. As I explored this strange land in 1960, I was astonished to meet all my classmates dressed in queer green suits. I saw Jackie Dowdy as a scientist looking down on the earth at the familiar places. Claude Anderson, Herman and Wesley Banton were trying to organize a planet ball team while William Agee and James Davis were arguing about the makes and models of cars. Marguerite Agee, Lorene Jones and Juanita Wiseman were at a housewives ' meeting getting information on how to please their husbands in this strange place. As I passed by a hospital I heard Mary Patteson and Ann Shepherd discussing one of their patients, Warren Harris who was home from the army with a broken leg. Riley and Rudd Patterson were getting their dentist ' s outfit set up to start working on Estene Jones ' school pupils teeth. I went farther out into the country and I happened to see a neat little cottage occupied by two old maids, Ruby Manis and Frances O ' Brien. Billy Waycaster, Harold Glover and John Moss were growing a new kind of planet vegetable on their farm. On down the road Fushia Fender was helping her husband on their dairy farm, while Jeanette Oliver was getting the little Lanns ready to go to school. I passed by a church next to find Shirley Thomas and Kitty Shumaker helping to decorate for Bobbie Glover ' s and Earnest Christian ' s wedding. Roy Shores was crying because he had lost Kate Talbott to another man. I happened to meet Jean Toney and Elizabeth Taylor who were William Maxey ' s and Billy Llewllyn ' s respective secretaries. They said their friend Marie Fulcher had a job in a national bank. Charles Wooten was elected president of Mars and passed a rule no more homework for students, while Franklin Ragland being a member of the Congress rejected this rule. Suddenly I heard a queer noise and Kayo Nicholas was whizzing around in a space ship. Franklin Shumaker was right behind him trying to figure out the mystery of radar. 19

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LIST WILL till TESTIMEIT We, the Class of ' 51, of Buckingham Central High School, having met all the require- ments of our school, upon leaving, wish to make these last bequests: I, Marguerite Agee, do bequeath my figure to Shirley Ragland. I, William Agee, do bequeath my agriculture grades to Harry Pearson. I, Claude Anderson, do bequeath my position as center for the basketball team to Donald Coleman. I, Rae Ayres, do bequeath my short hair to Rose Marie Jones. I, Alma Banton, do bequeath my happy days at B. C. H. S. to anyone who likes a good time. I, Naomi Bryant, do bequeath my good behavior to Rodney Word. I, Barbara Charlton, do bequeath my ability not to giggle to Lillian Taylor. I, Ernest Christian, do bequeath my position on the basketball team to Lyle Ranson. I, Page Crute, do bequeath my quiet brother to some cute B. C. H. S. girl. I, James Davis, do bequeath a supply of chewing gum to Annie Mae Mason. I, Jackie Dowdy, do bequeath my ability to make straight A ' s to Jasper Maxey. I, Eugene Fair, do bequeath my ability to get to school on time to anyone who gets here later than I do. I, Fushia Fender, do bequeath my dimples to Lucille Toney. I, Marie Fulcher, do bequeath my brown eyes and hair to Ethel Wooten. I, Bobbie Glover, do bequeath my ability to argue to Bill Meek. I, Harold Glover, do bequeath to Patsy Dunnevant and Joan Poole, a pack of cigarettes. I, Warren Harris, do bequeath my position as Vice-President of the Beta Club to Austin Bishop. I, Ruby Horne, do bequeath my natural curly hair to anyone who wants it. I, Estene Jones, do bequeath my basketball suit to anyone who is big enough to fill it. I, Billy Llewellyn, do bequeath to Skeet , the handsome looking well-fed rat in my locker. I, Lorene Jones, do bequeath my green eyes to Georgie Shumaker. I, Billy Maxey, do bequeath my geometry book to C. C. Shumaker. I, John Moss, do bequeath my ability to flirt with Frances Shumaker to C. C. Shumaker. I, Kayo Nicholas, do bequeath my ability to be late to class to Jackie Coleman. I, Frances O ' Bryant, do bequeath my ability to study to Warren Duty. I, Riley Patteson, do bequeath to Allan Shepherd my position on the basketball team. I, Rudd Patteson, do bequeath my position on the baseball team to anyone who is capable of keeping it. I, Mary Patteson, do bequeath my ability to be in class on time to Patsy Dunnevant. I, Franklin Ragland, do bequeath to Phillip Kitchen my ability to bum cigarettes. I, Lynda Reynolds, do bequeath my ability to keep quiet to Frances Wright. I, Phyllis Rosen, do bequeath my ability to flirt with all the boys to Paula Hill. I, Ann Shepherd, do bequeath my excess weight to Frankie Throckmorton. I, Roy Shores, do bequeath my ignorance to anyone who wants it. I, Franklin Shumaker, do bequeath my ability to flirt with the girls and get by with it to Glenn LeSueur. I, Kitty Shumaker, do bequeath my No. 1 basketball suit to anyone small enough to get in it. I, Kate Page Talbott, do bequeath my ability to eat candy in class and get by with it to Joan Poole. I, Elizabeth Taylor, do bequeath my seat in English Class to anyone who wants it. I, Shirley Thomas, do bequeath my ability to have a good time at B. C. H. S. to Sue Gilliam. I, Jean Turnes, do bequeath my height to Alice Wooten. I, Jack Wood, do bequehth my Model A Ford to anyone who thinks he is man enough to drive it. I, Charles Wooten, do bequeath my ability to talk to the girls to Johnny Poe. I, Mary Lee Worsham, do bequeath my slim figure to Lucille Toney. I, Albert Wright, do bequeath my position as president of the F. F. A. to anyone who is capable of the job. I, Pearl Wright, do bequeath my ability to get along with people to Junell Rafferty. We, Herman and Wesley Banton, do bequeath our ability to play baseball to Kyle Knott and Potts Jamerson. We, Gladys Jamerson and Louise Ragland, do bequeath our talkative ways to Elizabeth Harris and Barbara Jean Guill. We, Ruby Manis and Frances O ' Brien, do bequeath our blonde hair and blue eyes to Peggy Hardiman and Sue Gilliam. 21