Carver High School - Memories Yearbook (Winston Salem, NC)

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PROPHECY Well it’s September, 1959, I am on my way to Los Angeles, California, where I secured a stenographer job with Brown and Barlow’s law firm. Before securing this job, I decided to visit some of my friends in other states. My first stop was in Greensboro. While walking around I found myself on A. T. campus, and who do you think I saw on the football field as coach, none other than James Mack, and his assistant Aldine Cloud. Having only an hour to stay, I returned to the station, and caught my train going to the big city of Washington, D. C. I went to visit my cousin in Freeman’s Hospital; while inquiring at the desk, I found that the superintendent of nurses was Juetta Palmer. Chatting with her for a short while she told me that Eveline Pinkney, Merlyn Brooks, Cora Martin and Mary Hunter were also on the staff. As Juetta was showing me around the hospital I ran across Beatrice Allen as dietitian. I had a few hours before my train would leave, so I strolled down Pennsylvania Avenue. There I saw Elsie Canfion and Virginia Glenn leaving Cartez Peter’s Commercial School. From there I went to Detroit, Michigan, to visit my brother. We went to see a football parade, and whom do you think I saw playing in the State Military Band? Aurthur Eldridge playing a saxophone, William Allen, Willie Tillery and Jakay Ervin playing trumpets. After the parade I settled for an evening movie. As I entered the lobby room I saw Mary Brown selling candy behind the candy counter. The picture was very exciting. Can you imagine whom I saw on the screen? Sarah Hairston playing as Shirley Temple and Lucy Manns as Betty Hutton. The next day was Sunday: my brother and I went to the great Michigan Catholic Church for morning worship. At three o’clock, everyone was asked to be present for the broadcasting program. George Mills sang a solo, a beautiful one. Pauline Williams was pianist for the choir. On our way from church, we strolled through Belle Island and as we strolled through the park, I saw Bertha Glenn and Ernest Chandler. Although she is Mrs. Chandler. They told me that Carolyn Eller was going to Wayne University and getting her master’s degree in the field of mathe- matics. I ran across Nellie Banner in a nurse’s white uniform. She said that Juanita Plowden has a beauty salon at One Hundred and Twentieth street. We stopped in and had a manicure. Mary Covington and Mildred Moses were her operators.

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CLASS HISTORY It has been almost four years now since we, the Senior Class, came to Carver, and an interesting four years it has been. We have our fears, dreams, wonders, bewilderment, and confused ideas developed into one glorious feel- ing of triumphant victory, now that we are on the threshold of life as it really is, life as we will know it in years yet to come; life as those who proudly marched out of Carver before us are now living. We came to Carver straining our every sense, trying to imagine what would become of us in all the long years that lay ahead of us. It now seems as if we only rode through a very short tunnel and are now emerging and saying to ourselves ’twas not bad at all.” It has actually been a great deal of fun, and has supplied most of us with scores of wonderful experiences which we could never have forgotten had we chosen some other way to man and womanhood. Our Freshman year was very exciting. Our class officers were as follows: President, Pauline Williams; Vice President, Juetta Palmer; Secretary, Dorothy Spease; and Treasurer, Daisy L. Levan. Even though we were just getting over the excitement of being in High School, our class was recognized in almost all of the activities and organiza- tions on the campus. Alma Joyce and Pauline Williams received dramatic honors from the play The Groom Said No”. Juetta Palmer held an office as President of the Y-Teen Club and Aldine Cloud, Earl Witherspoon, Edward Patton, and James Jones represented the class in football and basketball. The only thing we could look forward to in our Junior year was the Junior-Senior Prom. This year the members of our class had become better acquainted with the organizations and activities of the school. Sarah Hairston, Alma Joyce and Earl Witherspoon became members of the Thespian Society. Pauline Williams, Eveline Pinkney, Mary Hunter and Lucy Manns represented the class in the Glee Club. Juetta Palmer received a gold basketball from the Central Carolina Athletic Association which was held at Winston-Salem, North Carolina. It is impossible for any one of us to tell, or give any idea of the career of this class, but I think I voice the sentiments of each and everyone when I say it has been wonderful. To our principal, Mr. Hill, I’d like to say thanks. Thanks for being just as you were when we thought you were wrong and inconsiderate of our feelings, whims, and desires, for we now see that had it not been for the strong, firm, guiding hand you extended us, many who are now proudly wearing class rings would have long before fallen by the side of the road. Again in behalf of myself and the class as a whole may I say thank you. To our individual instructors who have struggled with us, and tried to see each one of us as an individual, regardless of our number, and have shared with us in sorrow as well as in joy, may I say thank you every one. In closing, here’s hoping better, more successful High School days to the classes that follow us out of the portals of Dear Ole Carver. JUETTA PALMER.

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PROPHECY (Continued) My next stop was in Chicago and I was accompanied by two of my schoolmates, Earl Witherspoon and Edward Patton, who said that they would get their M. D. degree in January, I960. It seems as though they’ll never part. When we arrived in Chicago we decided to visit Bowan’s University. While strolling around on the campus I saw William Brown and Billy Friday leaving the dormitory with French books in their hands. I thought about Miss Alexander. My time was limited so I couldn’t stay too long on the campus. When we left there we started directly to the train station. On our way there we met James Jones and what do you think he is doing, giving driving lessons in a dual control automobile. He stopped and we had a short chat. He said he had trained many children, but they were not as hard to learn as he was, when in High School. I stayed in Indiana two weeks I was able to see most of my school- mates. Shortly after arriving in Indiana I attended a musical recital in which Beatrice Joyner was making her debut. On my way from the recital I saw two Red Cross nurses, whom I recognized as Margretha Evans and Dollie Shell. Suddenly I had a blowout, so I went and called the Bollings Service Garage. Henry Mitchell was driving the wrecker. As I reached my apart- ment there was a large fire across the street; the fire alarm trucks were raging the city. I recognized two of the firemen as Elerman Martin and Ulysses Wilson. My next stop was in Little Rock, Arkansas. I heard that Alma Joyce was the dean at Santhra University, so I went over to see her. While I was on my way over I met Annie Clement, who said she was the coach of the girls basketball team at Santhra University. She and I went over to the campus, where I saw Alma. We talked for a long time; she told me about Isabelle Bellinger. She said Isabelle was in California working as a dress designer, and Lee Audre Lewis working as a hair designer. I really did enjoy myself with all my friends, and now I’m off to start my carer as a stenographer in Los Angeles, California. LILLIAN MILLS.