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

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CLASS PROPHECV ’ ' [♦fue to the large charge she received in a science show at B.M.H.S. , Jo Ann Kelly is now making $750 a day generating power for the Carolina Power and Light Company. The case of Grady Holt, Eddie Calloway, and J. C. Odom, counterfeiters, was brought before Judge Bill Taylor of the Supreme Court by Stan Burgin, prominent Washington lawyer. It seems the boys forgot that Lincoln’s picture is on the $5 bill instead of Hamilton’s. Jerry Prescott, county agent, has been contriving with Wayne Fox to invent a Shmoo. Rita Gasperson and Jewell English are on their first trip around the world. They made their fortune by bottling their smiles and selling it to pessimists. Jack Joyner, well known sports writer, says that Jimmy Poteat, University of Kentucky star, will be the top man of basketball this year. Roger White will take all in football, and Larry McCall, famous pro-golfer, is his favorite to win the National T ournament. Donald Turner, disk jockey at radio station KORN, was almost fired for breaking a record by crooner Junior Sparks. Lucy Runion is now personal secretary of Billy Cooper, French interpreter for the United Nations. Elaine Allison, Norma Justus, and Joretta Nichols have been awarded the Nobel prize in medicine for their outstanding experiments with athlete’s foot. Barbara Justus, pharmacist, supplied the chemicals and air-wick. Gary Lee Biddix has been offered a contract by Mel Blanc to laugh for his Daffy Duck cartoons. Dick Ram sey, president of “Dewberry’s Department Store’’, has hired the follow¬ ing department heads: Eloise Norton, in charge of left hand pencils; Joyce Wells, in charge of broken records; Ola Mae Bartlett, in charge of tooth picks and bottle caps; Anne Burnette, in the lost patience department; and Evelyn Franks, changing $3 bills. Marion Simons, who gained her knowledge in her senior year, is running a lonely heart’s club. A new automic shaving device, invented by Stuart Byron and Bobby Dickens, is doomed to failure. The reason, Bob Bradley tried their machine and is minus a nose. Mary Lou Giard has reached the height of her career in becoming the editor of the Daily Blab. Rumor has it that Phillip McMahan and Dave Roberts are engaged in a “corn growing’’ contest. It isn’t known yet whether the outcome will be liquid, vegetable, or verbal. Doris Higginbotham, Barbara Allred, Jo Ann Norton, and Sybil Joyner have been awarded a gold medal for safe driving. Robah Johnson is a tester for the “Snoozy Mattress Company’’. If you have freckles, there is hope for you. Charles Davis has just completed a secret formula for removing them and has made the initial test on Connie Dougherty. It removes the freckles miraculously. Of course you have no skin left, but then skin grows back. Anna Rue Osteen has become a firebug. Neighbors reported that they saw her chuckling to herself and throwing books in a huge fire. After struggling with shorthand and bookkeeping for years, she has finally given up. Senator Joe Foster says he will support Govenor Harold McIntosh if he chooses to run for re-election on the Dixicrat ticket. Freddie Calloway is now chief taster in Kathleen Bartlett’s “Tasty Pie Factory’’. Nancy Padgett and Margaret Harrison, after taking courses as beauticians, have set up a shop where they specialize in double chins and split hairs. Fred Williams was recently elected President of the Swannanoa Valley Coon Hun¬ ters Club. Co-Authors Arnold Runion and Joe Robinson have just made their first million on their book, “How to Beat a Pinball Machine. ’’ Carolyn Plemmons and Betty Penland are old married women now.

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CLASS HISTORV 1 IT welve years ago, in the fall of nineteen hundred and forty, one hun- J dred thirty-one scrubbed, bawling, frightened, and few joyful tots embarked upon the Black Mountain Train of Education to ride the rails of Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic. Of the one hundred thirty-one passengers who started the journey here in the first grade in nineteen hundred and forty only 24 have completed the journey to the end. Other members of our class have been picked up at different stations along the way. Many of our former passengers have preferred to remain at some of the stops along the way. The only outstanding part of our trip before we reached high school was the trip to Washington D. C. as eighth graders. We started our high school careers, under the engineering of President Harold McIntosh, with an enrollment of ninety-six eager freshmen, brim¬ ming with that naive self assurance that only freshmen possess. We entered our sophomore year with an enrollment of eighty-six; Harold was again president. Several of our class were officers and active members of various clubs. By the time we had become Juniors the train had become a beehive of activity. The main functions being under the auspices of our class spon¬ sors, Mrs. Trueblood, Mr. Nesbitt, and our president Norma Justus. Dances were given, magazines were sold, and other means of raising money were devised to finance our biggest event, the Junior-Senior Ban¬ quet, which had a motif of “Best Wishes’’. The other big event was the arrival of our rings in March. In September, nineteen hundred and fifty-one, we began our senior year under the sponsorship of Mrs. Martha Perley and Mrs. A. M. McCoy. Our president was Roger White. Of course, most of us were not as happy toward the end of our journey as we had thought we would be, twelve years before. Through the years many friendships have been made, which will mean fond remembrance for all. In June, nineteen hundred and fifty-two, the passengers will disembark: from the train, which has brought them safely from the wilderness of ig¬ norance to the station of our intelligence. Many will travel to various parts of life where they will best serve their fellowmen and country. We will always be grateful to our parents for providing us with the opportunities to receive a high school education, and to our teachers for the patience and consideration they have shown throughout the years that we have been with them. Our faith in our homes and our school is the basis of the confidence with which we face the future. Class Historian Barbara Justus

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SUPERLATIVES Best All Round. Most Likely to Succeed Most Dependable . . . . . Best Personality ..... Most Athletic ........ Most Studious. Cutest.. Most Popular.. . Neatest. . . Most Domestic ....... Class Baby. Sweetest.. „ Biggest Flirts.. Most Reserved ....... Best Looking .. . . Most Original .. Class Wit .. Class Windbag. . Jewel English David Roberts . Sybil Joyner Harold McIntosh .... Marian Simons Wayne F ox . . Mary Lou Giard Bill Taylor . . . Joretta Nicholas Roger White .Sybil Joyner Bill Cooper .Joan Kelly Charles Davis Doris Higginbotham Harold McIntosh . . . . Marian Simons Joe Robinson .Evelyn Franks Jerry Prescott .... Norma Justus Larry McCall ........ Joan Kelly Philip McMahan . . . Barbara Allred Eddie Calloway ...... Ann Burnette Jackie Joyner . . . . . Elaine Allison Dick Ramsey . . Connie Dougherty Jim Poteat . „ , Gary Lee Biddix Larry McCall ...... Jewel English Bill Taylor IDEAL BOY AND GIRL Ola Mae Bartlett.HAIR.Joe Robinson Marian Simons. EYES. Arnold Runion Jo Ann Kelly..NOSE. Grady Holt Sybil Joyner.. MOUTH...Bob Bradley Elaine Allison.. TEETH.Roger White Rita Gasperson. HANDS...Dave Roberts Barbara Justus. LEGS.. Jimmy Poteat Norma Justus...FIGURE . ...... PHYSIQUE Dick Ramsey