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

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CLASS HISTORY It has been nearly four exciting years since we, the Senior Class, came to Carver. Our dreams, thoughts, wishes, and complicated ideas have developed into one glorious victory. Now that we clearly understand life as it really is, and think humbly of the future, we proudly follow the paths as those who have gone before us have trod. We came to Carver marveling at the new environment and trying to imagine what would become of us as we advanced to a greater degree in life. Though the journey has been tedious and oppressive, it seems as though we have struggled only a short period of time since we started out. It has been fun and has provided the majority of us with exciting experiences which served to impart knowledge to us and direct to us the way to man and womanhood. Our Freshman year was extremely exciting. We had many of our members par- ticipating in a variety of activities such as: the Glee Club, Dramatic Club, Thespian Society, football and basketball. In our Sophomore year, our class was well represented in most of the organizations and activities. We were represented in the Glee Club by: Melisande Bitting, Ludell Mack, David Venable, Mary Erving, Ella Tensley, and Ora Wright. Representing us in the Dramatic Club were: Josephine Carter, Margaret Amos, Andrew Hairston, and James Moore. In the Thespian Society: A. J. Hairston, Bettye Wilkins, Barbara Carter, Ora L. Wright, James Moore, and Margaret Amos. In basketball: Delrio Dark and Mattie Moses. In football: Shepard Carpenter, Leroy Moore, David Venable, Vincent Settles, and Thomas Jones. In our Junior year everyone was looking forward to the Junior-Senior prom. We were well represented in each of the organizations and each of the activities on the campus. Miss Carver High” came from our class and we were all proud of her. Our Junior class officers were: President, Ora Lee Wright; Secretary, Lucy Norment; and Treasurer, Fred Anthony. We were proud of Ora L. Wright for displaying her leadership and generosity with us. It is inconceivable for any one of us to tell, or give any conception of the career of this class, but I think I voice the sentiments of each and every one when I say it has been wonderful. To the Superintendent of the Forsyth County Schools, Mr. Brimley, I’d like to expess our gratitude. Thanks for being so sympathetic as to realize that a good, sound institution is necessary for the development of well-trained minds, and for making it possible for us to obtain the advantage of this New Carver Consolidated School. Thanks again, Mr. Brimley, we are indeed grateful to you. To our principal, Mr. Hill, I’d like to say thanks. Thanks for guiding us right when we were going wrong. Thanks for being just as you were when we thought you were erroneous and thoughtless of our feelings and desires, for we understand now that if it had not been ' , for that strong, obstinate guiding hand which you extended us, many of us would have long before fallen by the wayside. Again, in behalf of myself and the class as a whole, I say thanks. To our individual instructors, who have tried to see each one of us as an individual, and who have shared our uneasinesses and disappointments as well as joys and excite- ments, I wish to say thanks to you every one. In closing, it is my gratification in wishing those who follow us out of the portals of this Dear Carver School greater, better, and more successful high school days. Georgia Conrad

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SENIORS PHYLLIS HEGGIE Phyllis Wheatly” Activities: Glee Club. VIRGINIA WALDYNE GOLDEN Dean” Motto: It’s better once than never. Activities: Student Council, Library Club, Paper Staff, Traffic Squad. Ambition: Stenographer, Mortician. ;

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CLASS PROPHECY Believe it or not it’s June, 1960 and I decided I would take a vacation. My first stop was at Washington, D. C., where I visited a friend. Later we decided to visit Freeman’s Hospital. I found that the Superintendent of Nurses was Annie Douglas. Talking with her for a while, I learned that Bobed Eccles, Viola Amos, Tamara Baron, Virginia Hazilip, Ella Tensley, Corraine Coltrane, Lillian Tillery, and Josephine Carter were also on the staff. As Annie was showing me over the hospital I saw Ora Lee Wright, who was dietitian. While there, I also learned that Vance Correll and Leon Randleman were the head doctors on the staff. I had a few hours before my train would leave, so I visited Howard University. I met Esther Wright and she told me she was the Professor of music, and that Leroy Moore and Shepherd Carpenter were the Football Coaches and Charles Caldwell and Vincent Settles were the Basketball Coaches there. From there I went to Detroit, Michigan, to visit my sister. We went to see a parade and whom do you think I saw playing in the State University Band? Delrio Dark was playing Saxophone, Prince Mangum playing a baritone horn, Fred Anthony and Jerry Martin playing trumpets and Shirley Jones, Clenzo Jones and Gwendolyn Thomas playing Clarinets. I left the next day for Chicago after hearing Ludell Mack sing on Broadway at The Birdland Club. We talked about old friends back in our High School days. She told me that our pal Betty Fridy was teaching Physical Education at Price High, and Blondella Seegers was the Dance Director. On the Subway across town to visit my cousin I saw Alleyne Shell who was a Social Worker now working in Philadelphia University, and Georgia Conrad and Waldyne Golden who were Stenographers at Taylor and Goode Company. It looked as though they’ll never part. When I was on the train for Chicago, I was sitting opposite Bettye Wilkins. She told me she was a primary teacher at Dudley Primary School and that Lucy Norment was the music teacher. After arriving in Chicago, I attended a musical recital in which Rosa Lopp was making her debut. While there I saw four Red Cross Nurses, whom I recognized as Margaret Amos, Mae Patton, Dorothy Spease, and Hattie Scales. As we were strolling along, Charles Eller stopped and offered us a lift home. After we got into the car and started, we soon had car trouble. Charles called a garage, and whom do you think was the mechanic? It was none other than Thomas Jones. I thought about our basketball games and the activity bus we used at Carver High School back in 1951. The next day I strolled through Greenland Park and I saw Lillian Lumpkins and James Moore. She is now Mrs. Moore. They told me that Mamie Sawyer, Dorothy Glenn, and Maxine Fulton had joined the Wacs, and Ethel Fuller was a steward on the Chicago Eastern Airliner. I also learned that Jessie Smith, Melisande Bitting, Gloria Dean, Velma Robinson, and Zanelle Fulp were singing in the University Choir. I left Chicago Friday evening to make a short visit over in Indiana. After arriving there I saw Sarah Glenn and she told me she was doing Missionary work there and that Phillis Heggie, Collett Speas, and George Cundiff were on the faculty list at Bloomington High School and Herbert Hines was Principal. She also told me that James Brown, Jimmie Johnson, and Jessie Ferguson were attending Chatham University. The next day was Sunday, so I went to church. Andrew Hairston was the minister and Mary Erving was pianist, and Nancy Claybrooks was singing in the choir. I saw Mattie Moses at church and she told me she was the Girls’ basketball coach at the high school there. I really did enjoy my long vacation. I must be back in California by the first of September, because school starts and I must be ready to begin Mathematics at Los Angeles University. Barbara Carter