Charles D Owen High School - Black Swan / Skirmisher Yearbook (Black Mountain, NC)

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SENIOR SUPERLATIVES Best Looking Peggy Reese and Ed Reese Most Popular Betty Allison and Bobby Glenn Neatest Thelma Brooks and Robert Goodson Most Artistic Vera Hodges and Bobby Glenn Most Domestic Ruth Bartlett and Robert Goodson Most Athletic R e ba Gouge and Ed Reese Sweetest Girl Helen Candler The Girl Flirt Wilma Justus The Boy Flirt Bobby Ritchie Most Reliable Betty Allison and Robert Goodson Quietest Girl Pearl High Quietest Boy Robert White Best All Around Jean Holt and Harold Brown Most Likely to Succeed Barbara Wade and Cecil Nanney Class Baby Joyce Silvers Cutest Girl Freida White Cutest Boy Roy Hendron Adan-Hater Ruth Watkins Woman-Hater Jack Hudson Most Pleasing Personality Barbara Wade and Sherwood Mull Adost Intellectual Cecil Nanney Class Windbag Reba Gouge Class Wit Bobby Glenn Adost Reserved Girl Sara Rice Adost Reserved Boy . Clyde Reese IDEAL GIRL Hair of Thelma Brooks Eyes of Ruth Watkins Eyelashes of Barbara Morgan Nose of Peggy Reese Mouth of Wilma Justus Teeth of Alildred Gardner Hands of Helen Candler Figure of Wilma Justus Legs of Joyce Silvers IDEAL BOV Hair of Wade Rice Eyes of Roy Hendron Nose of Robert Goodson Adouth of Ed Reese Teeth of Bobby Ritchie Hands of Sherwood Alull Legs of Ed Reese Physique of Ed Reese 13

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SENIORS WADE RICE “What’s the use to worry, for you will never get out of this world alive.” BOB RITCHIE “A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold and pictures of silver.” JOYCE SILVER “Jerce” “Where there’s a will, there’s a way.” BARBARA WADE “ Bobbie ” “The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.” RUTH WATKINS “Rufus” “Better late than never.” FRIEDA WHITE “Lucy” “Keep your face always toward the sunshine, and the shadows will fall behind you.” ROBERT WHITE “Rabbit” “It is easier to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong.” 12

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CLASS HISTORY OF I950-’5I On August twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred thirty-nine, one hundred sev¬ enty six-year-olds left the protective shelter of their home life and started forth to obtain an education at the Black Mountain Elementary School. Nine years later eighty-two freshmen took up their duties at Black Moun¬ tain High School. It was under the able guidance of Miss Mary Wilson and Mr. Richard Seawright these green, but bold students managed to survive that eventful year. As sophomores Mrs. W. H. McMurray and Mr. Eugene Byrd were our class councilors. Our junior class had an enrollment of sixty-two members and was under the sponsorship of Mrs. Josephine McCoy and Mrs. Martha Per ley. This year, after much hard work our banquet, planned around the theme of careers, was quite successful. It was a thrill to attend the prom under the direction of Mrs. Paul Trueblood, the senior class sponsor. At the beginning of our senior year there were only forty-six members in our class, because many had dropped by the way side. Some had sac¬ rificed education for the cause of matrimony, others for jobs, and still others for various reasons. We were fortunate enough to have again as our sponsors, Mrs. Martha Perley and Mrs. Josephine McCoy. One of the highlights of the year was the social event of “The Sadie Hawkins Dance,” Dogpatch carnival style. A play based on the life of Dogpatch residents was also given. After twelve years we had reached the goal upon which our eyes had long been set. At last we were near the day to which we had all looked forward too, but it was with regret that we were leaving Black Moun¬ tain High School. As we go forth into life we will always remember “the friendships formed here, and the knowledge gained here.” We will appreciate the guidance and help of our councilors. There will always be fond memo¬ ries of our good times, and thoughts of appreciation for the ones who have instilled within us a desire for character and knowledge. CLASS WILL Sue Reed—wills her dislike for make-up to Gary Biddix. Jean Holt—wills her laugh to Katie Dalton. Vera Hodges—wills her ability to walk out of Mrs. Perley’s class (at times) to Patty Tyson. Carol Simmons—wills her place at the radiator to Wilburn Waters. Pearl High—wills her four front teeth to Bobby Hall. Hazel Bartlett—wills her love of Latin to Steve Kaplan. Burnice Gosnell—wills her ability to read shorthand to Bernice Clark. Freida White—wills her size to Benny Turbyfill. Robert White—wills his ability to sing to Benny Turbyfill. Wilma Justus—wills her peroxide hair to Wilene Ramsey. Martha Garrison—wills her second year Algebra book to Luny Gilliam. 14