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

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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

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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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LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT We, the graduating class of Nineteen Hundred and Fifty-One of Carver Consolidated School, in the city of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, being of sound minds have assembled here for the purpose of stating our last will and testament. Since we have tried to be honest, as well as just and generous in our distribution of the many gifts which we how possess, we have finally reached our decisions. There- fore, we hereby give these possessions to certain designated persons whose name shall be recorded herein. We sincerely hope that those who reecive them will accept them as sacred tokens from those who have gone before. To Mr. Hill, our beloved principal, the Senior Class leaves a New Carver Consolidated School. To our Faculty Advisers, Mrs. M. T. Earl and Miss V. V. Alexander, the Senior Class leaves its gratefulness for their infinite patience and interest. To the Junior Class the Senior Class wills the front seats in the Auditorium. To Hattie M. Davis, Rosa Lopp wills her ability to sing and to Delois Doub and Annie B. Philson her eyes. Melisande Bitting wills her shorthand ability to Juanita Gambill and legs to Helen Steele. Georgia Conrad wills her stenographical ability to Margaret McQueen and her ability to translate French to Laverne Harper. To Annie B. Philson, Mary Ervin wills her ability to wear socks and to Henry Shouse her ability to get her lessons. To Carl Lash, Jessie Smith wills her speaking ability and to Vernell Smith her shorthand ability. Gloria Dean wills her quietness to Alliner Talbert. To Claudette Martin, Virginia Haizlip wills her ability to sing. Lillian Tillery wills her personality to Edna Stokes. Phyllis Heggie wills her ability to translate French to Covater Cooper and Thomas Warren, Herbert Hines wills his Tenor position in the Glee Club to John Matthews and height to Jerry Saddler. Ora Lee Wright wills her ability to get along with others to Naomi Spann and her position as President to Sadie Brown. Velma Robinson wills her Secretary book in Glee Club to Hazel Caudle and seat in English Class to Charlmous O’Farral. To Fannie Wilson, Hattie Scales wills her neatness and her shape to Eleanor Morris. Thomas Jones wills his ability to drive the Activity Bus to James Payne. Make use of it. Leon Randleman wills his neatness to Hubert Jones. Charles Cardwell wills his ability to play basketball to Ernest Howie. Ludell Mack wills her ability to sing to Mattie Bitting, her popularity to Hazel Caudle and the privilege to talk to Ervin Conrad to Bettie Johnson. Bettie Wilkins wills her position as majorette to anyone that might be so fortunate. Clenzo Jones wills his position in the band to play First Clarinet to Ruthie Byrd. Dorothy Scales wills her quietness to Covater Cooper. Mae F. Patton wills her ability to talk to Laura Knox and position as Secretary of Y-teen to Norma J. Wiley. Shepard Carpenter wills his ability to play football to Steve Adams and Jerry Saddler. Dorothy Glenn wills her friendliness to Louise Thomas. Tamara Baron wills her ability to get along with people to Josephine Scott, and height to Laura Winfield. Josephine Carter wills her petit waistline to Carrie Bitting and hair style to Annie B. Philson. To Troy Mitchell, Charles Eller wills his ability to drive the bus and to Ervin Conrad his popularity. Lucy Norment wills her position as manager of the girls basketball team to Betty Amos and to Bobby Hunt her ability to play the Bell Lyre. To Annie B. Philson, Waldyne Golden wills her ability to be girlish rather than flirtatious and Alberta Lowery her Stenographical ability. ferry Martin wills his ability to play in band to Carol Welch. Leroy Moore wills his ability to play football to Richard Herman and football letters to Melvin Pinkney. Benjamin Smith wills his height to Ralph Hauser. Melvin Sheff wills his height to Roland Eller. To Mildred Cain, Ella Tinsley wills ten pounds of her weight and music ability to Dallas Eccles. Maxine Fulton wills her friendliness to Mary Greene and her ability to get along with others to Teloria Brooks. Coraine Coltrane wills her quietness to Ollie Butler. To Frankie Murray, Lillian Lumpkins wills her clothes. Carlet Speas wills bus number 92 to William Harley. William Smith wills his ability to drive the bus to William Keaton. James Brown wills his quietness to Rudie Smith. Barber Carter wills her position on the Cheering Squad to Margaret Tillery, her popularity to Jettie Kimbrough, and her heart to Steve Adams. Margaret Amos wills her position in Student Council to Eloise Mason. Moses Robinson wills his position in Student Council to William Harley. Ethel Fuller wills her friendliness to Mattie Bitting and looks to Laura Winfield. Zanell Fulp wills her ability to speak to Marion Jones and her ability to express herself properly to Vecolia Jessup. Blondella Seegers wills her eyes to Eloise Mason; her competence to Claudette Martin and her dramatic ability to Inez Hart. Willie Little leaves Robert Hunt his drum sticks and to Vance Gilliam his job as office assistance. In witness hereof we have signed, sealed and published this our last will and testament. Viola Amos, Testator