Central High School - Blue Flame Yearbook (Hillsboro, NC)

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Class History In September, 1955, we the class of 1959, made our first appearance in high school. For eight years we had looked forward to the time when we would become high school students. We still feel grateful to our elementary teachers. We realize the great responsibility they had in preparing a group of boys and girls for high school. We were a class of one hundred twenty-five when we graduated from the eighth grade and entered high school. Miss Gloria Jones, Mrs. Audrey Burt, Mrs. Grace McMullen, and Mr. James Yourse were our fresh- man teachers. We elected our class officers in each division and got to work. Members of our class were eager to participate in the various extra activities of the school. Among those in the band were Marie Jones, Alice Mayo, Jacob Brown, Parker Bradsher, James Bradsher, Dallas Burnette, Mary Woods, Hilton Villines, Carolyn Traynham, Charles Wells, James Lyght, and Loy Long. In the Glee Club were Phillip Jones, Marjorie Gattis, Ruby Hughes, Myra Cooper, Joseph Thompson, Joseph McBroom, and Joe Whitted. On the basketball team were Marie Jones, Alice Mayo, and William Wade. Helping to enforce the school laws on the patrol squad were Marie Jones, Marjorie Gattis, Joseph McBroom, and Phillip Jones. All girls were privileged to join the N.H.A. and the boys joined the N.F.A. and we were all members of the 4-H Club. A flick of the wrist and the year was completed. We lost several of our classmates and were now a group of one hundred three. As before we elected officers in each division, with Miss Margaret Bizzell, Mrs. Anita Bryant and Mrs. Maurine Jones as our sophomore teachers. Our activities were a bit numerous this year. Our school purchased a new activity bus and we made many educational trips. We visited the planetarium, The State School for the Blind, The State Hospital for the Mentally Retarded at Goldsboro, tobacco factories in Durham and Greensboro and also colleges in the same area. Some of our students continued to participate in the same activities as during our freshman year. Marjorie Gattis was added to the basketball team. Jacob Brown and Dorothy Baldwin were added to the patrol system. Crowning our glory this year was the selection of Alice Mayo as our Harvest Festival Queen. In the fall of 57, our Junior class was a happy group of eighty-six. This year our Junior teachers were Miss Martha Chavious, Mrs. Delores Simpson, and Mr. Fred W. Whitfield. We elected over all officers this year. Levi Carson was elected president; Doris Holman, vice president; Shirley Breeze, secretary; and Hilton Villines, treasurer. Our hearts were saddened when on February 14,1958, Valentines Day, our beloved school departed its many years with us during a fire which burned it to the ground. The fire, taking along with it thousands of dollars worth of equipment, started around 4 o'clock in the morning. After two weeks vacation we were again settled down to work. We were in a new building primarily built for elementary grades but was being used for the high school department until the new building was completed. The heights of our activity for this year was the Junior-Senior Prom. We had anticipated this event for many years, looking with envy at the girls dressed in their beautiful gowns escorted by gentlemen in their tuxedos, who called for them bearing the most lovely bouquets. This year we were participants and we thoroughly enjoyed it. This event was held in the Cedar Grove School Auditorium on April 11, 1958. Our final year began in September, 1958, with Mrs. Catherine Stanback and Miss Helene Dix as our Senior Advisors. Doris Holman was elected president of our class and we dignified Seniors began work- ing on the many tasks that were before us. Levi Carson was vice-president and was also elected presi- dent of the Student Council. Secretary, Marie Jones; and treasurer, Bertha Torain. The outstanding ventures of our Senior year were the presentation of a class play, the trip to A T College in Greensboro on Senior Day, the preparation for graduation and the publishing of the annual, of which Marjorie Gattis was named Editor and Chief. It was a great pleasure to publish the school annual. Let’s hope everyone will enjoy and treasure it in the years to come. We will forever be grateful for the privilege of attending this school and for the guidance and en- couragement of our parents and teachers. When we receive our rings and especially our diplomas, the history of our class as a group ends, and each member will write his own history by his future deeds. Janice Shaw, Historian

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MOST DEPENDABLE Marjorie Gattis and Hilton Villines FRIENDLIEST Jacob Brown, Elvinia Chavis Myra Cooper, James Bradsher BEST LOOKING Veatrice Farrish and Gennie Yellock BEST DANCERS Bertha Torain and James Fuller WITTIEST Mary Whitted Fannie Ross, William Torain 30

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Class Prophecy of ’59 Be seated, and listen while I shall forecast for you the future of each member of the Class. Come join the seniors as we make our round, We’re going to take you all over town, It's this way, and that way, whatever we do, There's lots of good fun we'd like to show you, So hurry and get to your places. With a bright smile on your faces, For we're glad to have you go with us, On this our Senior Merry-Go-Round. Listen, I hear music. It sounds like the voices of Dorothy Parker, Dallas Obie, Shirley Satterfield, and William Wade. Their voices will always be remembered by their classmates, because singing was always their first love. Lower the gang plank folks! Do you see what I see? None other than Vollie Villines, Gennie Yel- lock, Leon Wade, Charles Wells, and James Bradsher who are now in the United States Army. Alice Mayo, Hattie Vinson, Elvinia Chavis, Mary Breeze, and Myra Cooper are among the most distinguished secretaries in New York. They were always interested in typing in High School. Say, who are those smiling nurses coming down the hall in Lincoln Hospital? Bertha Torain, and Evelyn Torain of course. Who wouldn't get sick just for them to hold your hand? Janice Shaw and Carolyn Traynham are. also nurses in Paris, while Mary Bates is attending a Modeling School there. Look! A new building is being added to Central High School with Stuart Allison, Louis Burton, Otis Fearington, and Dave McAdoo working as brick masons. They really seem to be making a fortune. They sometimes get to chat with Doris Holman who is a teacher there. She tells them that her students are just darlings . Marjorie Gattis, Veatrice Farrish, and Mary Whitted are married and are very efficient wives. Maybe their Home Economics did them good after all. Take a letter please, Miss Marie Jones. She is a secretary to the President of a school in Electri- cal Engineering. The president is Jacob Brown. As we all remember, Parker Bradsher started his career as a husband early. I've heard he had to build larger barns because he is buying new machinery. What he learned in Agriculture must have been worth a lot. Say, what's this? Buy your tickets for the baseball game tonight. Curtis Crisp, James Fuller, Rother Mebane and Curtis English, formerly of Efland, North Carolina, are stars for the Boston Red Sox. Well, all I can say is I bet it's going to be exciting. Pictures Live Forever is Faye Lynn, Mary Woods, Minnie Rainey, and Annie Harrelson's slogan. They are now wonderful photographers. I hear they have quite a way with children. Mary Cates, Annie Cates, Lucy Sneed, Dorothy Baldwin and Roberta Long are taking life easy; they haven't decided what they plan to do as a career. Jannette Allison, Nancy Villines and Fannie Ross are partners in a dress shop in New York. Next to their shop William Beasley is making suits for famous singers. Hilton Villines and Levi Carson are now partners in a beautiful Florist Shop in Durham, North Carolina. Thanks to Mr. Murfree for what they learned in Agriculture. Cora Chambers, Annie Terrell, Bettye Breeze and Calvesta Chambers who attended De Shazor's Beauty College in Durham, North Carolina, are now working in Raleigh. A new drug has been discovered by two of our utmost druggists; Wallace Hughes and Phillip Jones. After 25 years of chewing Spearmint Chewing gum, Robert Beasley has gone into business for him- self. He has William Torain and Wade Tapp as his co-workers in the Beasleymint Factory . Joseph Tompson, Monroe McAdoo, Joe Whitted, James Lyght,’ and Charlie Whitted now own barber shops in Washington D.C. and Greensboro. Loy Long has gotten old, grizzly, and gray and is still trying to jive young ladies. Joseph McBroom and Clyde Tinnin are now driving for the National Stock Car Races. Joseph prom- ises not to try to wipe any more pebbles from his eyes. I suppose you wonder what the Merry-Go-Round holds for me. My it looks interesting, but right now, as you can see, I'm too busy with the future of my classmates. 32 Ruby Hughes