Central High School - Breaker Yearbook (Elizabeth City, NC)

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CLASS PROPHECY May 30, 1959 Dear Carolyn, I received your letter yesterday, and I was very glad to hear that you and Carol had another child. I seem to have lost count, which is it, the fourth or fifth? I have been visiting around quite a bit and have heard about some of our old classmates. Last November, Vernon Smithson and I went to Duke University to see the Duke-Carolina football game. Duke's new half-back, Allen Ray Temple, really made a name for himself that day. You know, he married Rita Hilbert. Since he is busy playing ball at college, Rita is making their living patching up the broken bones and sprained ankles of the football team. After the game while we were struggling through the crowd, I noticed a meek little character that looked very familiar to me. We caught up with him and guess who it was? Earl Williams' Not much to my surprise, I learned that he was now a professor of Mathematics at Duke. He said that he was publishing a Math book. By the way, what beauty salon do you visit? Elizabeth Ballance's Beauty Salon is now open in the four hundred block of Main Street. She really has a nice place. A few weeks ago I went to have my hair fixed, but I practically spent the day there waiting on Elizabeth to fix Miriam Perry's hair to suit her. You know she is very particular now, since she is modeling dresses for Madges' dress shop. Annabelle Whitehurst has her studio on the other side of Raleigh where she is teaching professional singing and cheerleading. Ann Scott has found her life work as a private secretary to the editor of LIFE magazine. By the way, the first P.T.A. meeting will be held next Thursday; Dennis Earl Pritchard, recently elected president of the association, will be installed soon. Robert Edney, now the judge of the Central Court, will be voted in as honorary member. You can imagine my surprise when I learned that Earl Eubanks has become a famous doctor and undertaker combined. His assistant is none other than Thomas Edward Stevenson. I understand they have a very profitable business. Lindsey Hudson seems to be doing all right too. The other day I noticed a huge truck whiz by. The driver turned out to be Lindsey, who seemed to be in a big hurry. Mr. Mrs. Hudson are running a goat farm and had to go to the city, to sell two goats before they died. Loyce White and Betty Taft are in business together. Loyce is coaching the All Star Girls of E.C.T.C. with Betty as manager. They haven't won a game yet. By the way, I am now Mrs. W. H. Cartwright. I'm very happily married, and have twins, named Gerry and Billy. Well, Carolyn, I must close, because one of the twins is crying and I have to cook supper for Bill. Love, GERALDINE 12

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THE SENIOR CLASS HISTORY In the year of 1945 we entered high school. It was in this year that we had five members from Newland to join us, which made us twenty-six in number. Our home room teacher was Miss Martha Sawyer who had to put up with a lot of our silly notions about high school. It was in this year with the girls dressed as boys and the boys dressed as girls that we were initiated into the FHA and FFA. Most of us survived the freshman year but a few dropped out to take another course in life. All of us tried to be pretty mean that year in all our English Classes with everything from tripping the teacher to putting the waste paper basket over the door to fall on the teacher's head. A group of us left school one day without permission and went to a cafe for dinner but we got caught. Then when the fat stock show came along we all went with or without permission. There were no classes that day. Then as Juniors we got along fine except for a few in French. We gave a play The Campbells are Coming which was a hit, in fact we gave it twice. The biggest thrill was the Junior-Senior Banquet. We decorated the gymnasium in colors of both classes, which were green, yellow and white. It was really very pretty with the candle light and all the pretty evening gowns. This year we had a Mother-Daughter Banquet with soap for gravy. And then we became Seniors. The worst part about it is missing the Seniors of last year. We have tried to be dignified but we have found that very difficult. Our biggest pest is Thomas Ed. He has given quite a few of us paddlings with books, um-m-m rather hard with having to sit down all day long in school. Nothing exciting has happened this far but we are looking for excitement before long to hasten the time until graduation. 11

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LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT We the 1949 Senior Class of Central High School with sound minds and bodies, having obtained the necessary units for graduation through the help of our parents and teachers, and now prepared to find our places in the world, do hereby make, publish, and declare this to be our last will and testament. ARTICLE I. To The Faculty Item I. To Mr. Basnight we bequeath our appreciation for what he has done, and also for what he hasn't done. liem II. To. Mrs. Pritchard, who has a quiet manner, we leave a noisy bunch of Juniors and a swell home room. Item III. To Miss Brite we bequeath the fertile soil of Central. Item IV. To Miss Galloway we leave a toast to the construction business, and a dump truck loaded with rice. Item V. To Mrs. Sharber we bequeath a book entitled How To Pound Civics into Freshmen Heads . Item VI. To Miss Humphery we leave a cook book. Item VII. To Mr. Grimes we will a stack of geometry books which, we, the seniors, have already fully mastered. Item VIII. To Mr. Tripp we leave a most successful basket- ball team—we hope . . . ARTICLE II. To The Junior Class Item I. We leave the class of '50 the many privileges of being a senior. Item II. We will to the upcoming seniors our seats in the auditorium and also the privilege of going to the buses first. ARTICLE III. To Various Individuals Item I. Earl Williams leaves his typing ability to Ann Pritchard. Item II. Elizabeth Ballance leaves her book on How to Reduce in Six Easy Lessons to Nora Lou Sawyer. Item III. Loyce White leaves her athletic ability to Ann Teubner. Item IV. Allen Ray Temple bequeaths his good driving to Bobby Sanders. Item V. Miriam Perry leaves her points on how to catch a man to Yvonne Twiddy. Item VI. Betty Taft wills her ability to foul out of a ball game to Marilyn Carter. Item VII. Annabelle bequeaths her position as head cheerleader to Polly. Item VIII. Geraldine Winslow leaves her exceptionally good looks to Mattie Cox. Item IX. Vernon Smithson wills to Jack Williams a cue- stick in the 3rd rack of Hurdle's Pool Room. Item X. Dennis Earl Pritchard leaves his title as a Night Hawk to Roy Godfrey. Item XI. Thomas Edward Stevenson leaves his nick-name Roly-Poly to Punchie. Item XII. To Betty Lou Wyatt, Robert Edney leaves the keys to Bus No. 2 so that she can stop uptown whenever she likes. Item XIII. Carolyn wills her ability to sing Christmas CAROLS to Ike Harris. Item XIV. Earl (Itchy) Eubanks leaves his ability to scratch to Melba Bundy. Item XV. Lindsey surprisedly, wills Thelma to James Fore- hand for next year. Item XVI. Rita Hilbert wills her position as editor of the Splash to Carolyn Ives. Item XVII. Ann Scott leaves her ability to be quiet on class to Gene Singletary. Having made public our last will and testament, we, the members of the 1949 Senior Class, do hereby leave the above mentioned things with all good will and sin- cerity. Signed and sealed this seventh day of January, I'an de grace, one thousand, nine hundred, and forty-nine. MIRIAM PERRY, Testator 13