Casar High School - Knob Yearbook (Casar, NC)

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PROPHECY On July 1, I arrived at Casar and made arrangements to stay at the new tourist court owned and operated by Donald Shack Mode. It wasn't long until I discovered that Sue Spake Lackey and husband Jack had set up their own bakery and had well established routes leading out of Casar. On July 4, 1965, at 8:00 P.M. a great and happy crowd met at Casar High. After being separated ten long years there was quite a bit of excitement, but pretty soon everyone settled down and started filling in the gap between 1955-1965. Since I had met several of my classmates on the way in. I was more interested in hearing from the ones Ihad not seen or heard from. Ruth Ann Price said she was teaching at the Baptist Orphanage at Thomasville, N.C. Christine Johnson is still a tele- phone operator at Charlotte, and is planning a big wedding soon. Mrs. N. F. Costner, Jr., the former Antha Brackett, and her little Butch, Jr., were home for a vacation. They now live in Chicago where Butch owns a chain of grocery stores. Charlene Parker was making her home in Shelby where she is now head nurse at the Shelby Hospital. Another great surprise came when I learned that Anne McNeely Hoyle was keeping books for her husband, Miller, in their prosperous lumber business. Then, last of all, I talked with Mrs. Bobby Downs, After chatting with herfor several minutes, she told me that she and Bobby had built them a new home at Hick- ory, and Bobby is manager of the Spring Factory. After the party was over I went back to the tourist court to spend the night. The next daylleft for my home. As the bus carried me on my way back home,Idecidedthatm visit was well worth the time for I had seen Y or heard from all of my classmutes and found that everyone of them had made good. Betty McNeely Benfield Class Prophet W .3 .llll if A 7 J lf EIN s W 1 W L li M m is

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PROPHECY You can't imagine how excited I was when I received a letter, while in Europe as secretary to the Ambassador to Yugoslavia, saying the class of 1955 was having a reunion on July 4, 1965. I hadbeen in Europe for several years,without hearing from or see- ing any of my classmates. I was so thrilled after receiving the letter from Mrs. Bobby Downs, the former Pauline Eaker, that I started arranging for the trip immediately. Since my vacation was coming up in a few weeks, I decided to spend my time in the United States visiting my classmates and to climax my visit by attending the class reunion. After boarding the plane and getting settled for the trip, Iwas really surprised to look into the hostess' face and find that it was Mrs. L. J. Wright, the former Bernice Downs. We chatted for a few seconds, and she told me that Larry Costner was the pilot of the plane.' When I reached New York, Iwas held over for a few hours so I decided to look around for some entertainment. While walking around I noticed a poster saying that the Sauline Players were at the theater giving a performance of On Broadway . This sounded interesting to me so I decided to see the play. When I was buying my ticket, I was startled to know that Herman Melton was manager of the show and J.W. Hunt was star actor. When I left the theater Iwas hungry, so I went into a nearby cafe to eat. When I had finished eating, I walked over to the cash register to pay my bill. Here I met George Ann Fredell working as cashier. She said she was thinking about traveling before long. Upon boarding the train for Tennessee, I discovered that Don Deviney was engineer and had been for four years. Later Iarrived in Tennessee, and, not knowing anyone, things seemed a little lone- some, sol went window shopping to kill time. While I was loitering in front of Harvey's store, a lady with a little blond girl came by and stopped. The voice didn't sound very strange, and the face had a familiar look, but Iwasn't sure until she shut her mouth. I was surprised to know that it was Mrs. Jack Shelton, the former Margie Brackett. She invited me over to her house to have lunch and meet the rest of her family. After lunch we watched boxing on television. Here I discovered that Billy Joe Gragg was one of the heavyweight boxers and had been hailed as a second Jack Dempsey. Knowing that Margie Brackett and Jo Ann Cooke were close friends in high school, I asked Margie to tell me about Jo Ann. Jo Ann was making her home in Nashville, Tennessee. Because of Jo Ann's mischief in school,it wasn't such a shock to hear she was writing up the jokes for Minnie Pearl and Rod Brasfield on the Grand Ole Opery . After leaving Tennessee, my next stop was at Asheville. There Ihad to wait about forty minutes for a bus connection. While I was sitting at the bus station a sign across the street caught my attention. The sign read, Queen's Used Car Lot . I decided to kill some time by walking up the street and back. As I Walked by the car lot the man said to me Step right in, lady, and let me sell you a car. My answer was Sorry, sir, but I'm' not interested. But as quick as I had answered him, something told me to take a second glance, and to my great surprise it was Garland Queen. He said about all he was doing was using the best car on the lot to chase women.

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