C M Eppes High School - Eppesonian Yearbook (Greenville, NC)

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CLASS PROPHECY June 19, 1968 Dear Diary, I ' ve had a most wonderful day! 1 met REGINALD GRAVE, who, backed by his wife-secretary, RUBY EARLY, is designing a missile station for outer space. Later, he took me for one of those exciting rocket rides, and as we zoomed through the universe, he entertained me with news of our classmates. Who could do that better than Red I Five of our classmates, I learned, are teaching . DOROTHY BAKER heads the physical education department at Vermont Junior Col lege, Montpel ier, Vermont. GLORIA HOPKINS is a dancing instructor on her staff. GERALDINE MOVE teaches typing at the Davenport Municipal Col I ege in our hometown. . .Greenville, North Carolina. Ambitious EMMA HEMBY teaches French at McGill University, Montreal , Canada; while SHIRLEY JONES is an exchange teacher in Port-au- Prince, Haiti . BETTY JO WARD, BARBARA GAINER, and LENA CARR are doing well, 1 was told, in social work. Betty Jo is in charge of the T ravel ers Aid Bureau at the New York International Airport; Barbara is a special consultant in Family Welfare Service, Quezon City, Phillipine Islands. LENA CARR is a case worker with the Hennepin County Department of Welfare, Minneapolis, Minnesota. ED WEATHINGTON and GENEVA PORTER are psychiatric social workers at the State Mental Hospital , Augusta, Maine. MILBON COBB has establ ished a mental health clinic in nearby Winooski . DR, CHARLES DICKENS (our own Charlie Mack) has just received his L.R.C.P. from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. ANN COBB and E ARLENE MOVE are stenographers, and BETTY WORSLEY is the dietician in The Dickens Heart Clinic, Rochester, New York. JANE JEFFERYS is employed by theCook County Health Service, Chicago, Illinois, as a dental hygenist. PEGGY LOFTON supervises the business of the service. MARGARET SIMMONS is supervisor of nurses at Johns Hopkins Hospital . BETTY KNOX and MAXINE JONES are nurses at Will ' s Eye Hospital in Philadelphia. LORETTA DUPREE., aggressive girl !... has just founded a school for nurses in Tokyo, Japan. JEAN BURNETTE is a stenographer in the office of Attorney KENNETH H . GREENE . . . dear old Kenny! . . . in Baltimore. EMOGENE HARRIS, directing her own band, is filling a I imited engagement at the Coliseum in New York. CURT IS MOUNING, also, is currently starring on Broadway in the play A Visit to Mars. MAE BAKER and BRENDA WEATH INGTON are models in Les Soeurs, a dress shop in Cleveland, owned by JO LINDA and MAGGIE WARD . The famous Lene dresses, designed by ICELENE SHORT , are very much in demand there, I understand. DELORES LITTLE is a big business executive. Imagine ! She is executive vice-president for publishing of Time, Inc. at Chicago. WILLIAM HOLLIDAY and DAVID JAMES are employed by the firm as artists for Sports Illustrated. DORIS TEEL last year received the Joseph W. Lippincott Award for notable professional achievement in library research. Doris is research I ibrarian at the New York City Library. MATT IE WILSON operates the switchboard there. PATRICA THOMAS and MARY ANDERSON operate a most fashionable beauty shop in Los Angeles. Lt. Col . BARBARA WATSO N is assistant director, headquarters, WAF, in the Pentagon . Captain BOBBY JERNIGAN and Ensign JOSEPH HARDY are making careers of the Navy. JULIUS JONES has been appointed supervisor of recreation for the city of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. MARVIN DUNCAN has gained renown as a geologist as a result of his studies on the craters of the moon. I knew our class v ould produce some outstanding engineers! Reginald informed me that JOE ANDERSON, who is an electrical engineer, is supervising the construction of the first electrical highway. Also popular in the engineering field are JAMES HINES, LAWRENCE HARRIS, and EDWARD LEWIS, who have combined forces to form their own aeronautical engineering firm. JAMES JOHNSON, a chemist, has developed a vaccine to combat diseases contracted by visits to the moon. Now, Diary dear, I, GLORIA NIMMO, the celebrated concert pianist, must prepare myself for my recital tomorrow night at Carnegie Hall. I hope it will be a success! Goodnight!

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CLASS HISTORY it is to live twice when we can enjoy the recol lections of our former life. September 1 , 1954. . . eventful day ! . . . marked the triumphant entry of one hundred three of our classmates into high school. Mr. Leroy Foster, Mrs. M. G . Thompson, and Mr. Frank Wilson, Jr. , were our advisors. Charlie Dickens, Lawrence Harris, and Barbara Norris were presidents of the three sections. Four members of our class won school-wide recognition: Jane Jefferys was chosen Miss N. H . A. ; Kenneth Greene and Bobby Jernigan played fullback and halfback, respectively, on the footba I I team; and Ruby Early was named Miss Eppes by popular vote of the student body. We were very proud of The Huron Club, a group of ninth-grade boys organized to combat juvenile delinquency. Reginald Graye was elected presi- dent, and Mr. D . A. Barnhil I was faculty advisor. The class picnic at South Greenville Park was a fitting cl imox to our first year in high school . Time will discover everything to posterity. Realizing the truth of this old adage, we buckled down to more serious study our sophomore year under the guidance of Mrs. S . L. Davenport and Mrs. O . B. Myers. Donovan Phillips and Charlie Dickens were section presidents. Dorothy Baker was chosen class queen. Mi I bon Cobb and Bobby Jernigan earned certificates in masonry. Edward Lewis won the Algebra Award; and David James, the World History Award and the Art Award . Kenneth Greene and Bobby Jernigan became out- standing players on the footba! I team. Our year ended successful ly, and as we departed, we entertained thoughts of being busy juniors in just a few months. As every thread of gold is valuable, so is every moment of time. Every moment of our junior year was precious ! We were greatly excited over thoughts of the Junior-Senior Prom; at the same time, we knew we could not let our excitement over the prom jeopardize our scholarship. Miss E . L. McConnel I and Mr. A. E . Murrel I , our advisors, guided us successful I y through the year. Joseph Anderson joined our ranks after having spent four years in the Air Force. Reginald Graye was elected president of the class. Lena Carr was named class queen. Curtis Mouning received a certificate in masonry. Several leaders emerged from the class this year: Edward Lewis was vice- president of the Student Council; Donovan Phillips, president of the Chemistry Club; Gloria Hopkins, president of the Library Club; and Lawrence Harris and Edward Lewis, preside nts of the two units of Le Cercle Francois. Five of our classmates were signally honored thisyear: Emma Hemby won the French Prize; James Hines was cited for having given the best male performance in the Eastern District Festival of the North Carol ina Drama Association; Geneva Porter took second place in the local Omega Talent Hunt; Donovan Phil I ips and Joseph Anderson had paintings on display for the Centennial Celebration of the National Education Association in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, June-August 1957. At the end of this year, Donovan Phillips was per- mitted to enter Morehouse College as a freshman on the Ford Accelerated Program. Our Junior-Senior Banquet, The Stork Club, was the culmination of a year ' s planning and work. There was just one word to describe it. . . swel legant! Jean Burnette, Loretta Dupree, and Doris T eel were marshals. To every thing there is a season and a time to every purpose under the heaven. Our senior year was truly the season to seize time by the forelock and look to the future. Mrs. E. B. Graves and Miss Ruth Staton were our advisors. Mi I bon Cobb was elected class president. Icelene Short was class queen. The senior class seemed to have a monopoly over presidencies: Milbon Cobb, our class president, was also president of the Student Council and of the Hi-Y; Peggy Lofton , the Safety Patrol; Emma Hemby, the N . H . A. ; Jean Burnette, the T ri Hi-Y; Edward Lewis, the Band; Jane Jefferys, the F.B.L.A.; Barbara Gainer, Senior Girl Scouts; Gloria Nimmo, the Library Club and the Eppes Little Theatre; Reginald Graye, the High School Glee Club; and Emma Hemby and Marvin Duncan, the two units of Le Cercl e Francois. Kenneth Greene was captain of the footba I I team, and Reginald Graye and Marvin Dun can were co-captains of the basketball team. The end of the senior year terminated successfully with the p u b I i s h i n g of the 1 958 edition of the EPPESONION. The true past departs not; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and recognized or not, I ives and works through endless changes.

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SENIOR most dependable Kenneth Greene Emma Hemby best personality Gloria Nimmo William Holliday most intellectual Jean Burnette Joe Anderson 1 most likely to succeed Doris T eel Edward Lewis