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

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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

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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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LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT m e, Black Mountain High School Class of 1952 A.D., being of insound mind and unsane accord, hereby bequeath our earthly and scholarly possessions to the following unfortunates. Mr. N. C. Shuford is hereby appointed executor. Joyce Wells - offers her job in the office fourth period to any Beta Club member who dares take it. Roger White - wills his football uniform to Dave Mundy, basketball uniform to William Perry, and baseball uniform to Wilburn Waters. Mary Lou Giard - leaves her job as editor of the HIGH TOP to David Mundy (if he gets elected, of course). Jimmy Poteat - wills his peg pants to Mr. Shuford. Sybil Joyner - leaves her knowledge and brain to David Mundy and Steve Kaplan. Marian Simons - wishes her lonesome senior year to Anna Marie Molloy. Elaine Allison - leaves her love of Georgia (not Jim) to Madge Wilhide. Fred Williams - wills his English textbook to Jim Glenn. Barbara Allred - leaves her joking with Mr. Byrd in French to Ruby Mattox. Donald Turner - wills his voice to Mr. Richard Wilson Seawright. Kathleen Bartlett - leaves her ability in shorthand to Faye Williams. Bill Taylor - wills his position as class windbag to another, John Corkran. Ola Mae Bartlett - leaves her ability in shorthand and ability to be quiet to Jo Lena Allen. Junior Sparks - bequeaths his hair to Mr. Byrd. Gary Lee Biddix - leaves her seat in English to Jerry High, and her laugh to Katie Dalton. Arnold Runion - wills his unusual handwriting style to Mr. Nesbitt. Ann Burnette - leaves her chemistry and Latin II seats to any dope who will take them. Joe Robinson - bequeaths his love for “the wide open spaces’’ to Bobby Hall. Connie Dougherty - wills her freckles to John Williams, her Latin II and library seats to anyone who dares to risk them. Dave Roberts - leaves his basketball uniform to his brother. Jewell English - bequeaths her doll, Mortimer Snerd, to Jackie Sarti. Dick Ramsey - wills his football uniform to “Wayne Cordell”. Evelyn Franks - leaves her stiff walk to Clara Propst. Jerry Prescott - bequeaths his love of farming to Jack Farr. Rita Gasperson - wills her tuba to Nancy Wilson, and hopes that she has many friends to carry it for her. Margaret Harrison - leaves her love for food to Mrs. Wade. J. C. Odom - bequeaths his studious manners to John Williams. Doris Higginbotham - wills her short hair to Dick Kelly and her “Roman” eyes to Betty Austin. Phillip McMahan - leaves his “steady” ability to Dale Wrenn and Terry Guthrie. Harold McIntosh - wills his ability to translate Latin to David Mundy, and hopes that he will get to read Caesar next year. Barbara Justus - leaves her baton to Nancy Wilson. Norma Justus - bequeaths ability to help Jack with English to Bobby Hall. Larry McCall - wills his golfing ability to Mr. Shuford. Jack Joyner - leaves his place as most reserved boy to Jimmy Penland. Joan Kelly - leaves her talent of monkey imitation to Naomi Elliot, and her love for Cliffside to Opal Gilliam. Robah Johnson - wills his excellent usage of English to Mrs. Perley, Joretta Nichols - bequeaths her basketball uniform to Buzzie Brown. Grady Holt - leaves chicken business to Mr. Seawright. Eloise Norton - leaves her basketball co-captainship to Madge Wilhide. Wayne Fox - wills his school bus to anyone who can’t drive. Anna Rue Osteen - bequeaths her curly hair to Bettye June Roberts. Charles Davis - leaves his red hair to Ed Buchanan. Jo Ann Norton - wills her shorthand reading ability to anyone who will take it. Bobby Dickens - bequeaths position as annual photography editor to Steve Kaplan. Nancy Padgett - wills the whole ' school to Betty Stephenson. Bill Cooper - leaves his shoes to Bud Wilhide. Betty Penland - leaves her ability to joke with Mr. Shuford to Katie Dalton. Freddie Calloway - wills his typing speed to Mrs. Mary Woody. Stuart Byron - leaves his French II grades to David Corkran. Carolyn Plemmons - leaves her long eyelashes to Shirley Vess. Stanley Burgin - wills his height to Bud Wilhide. Lucy Runion - bequeaths her place in the upstairs hall to Patsy Reynolds. Bob Bradley - wills the chewing gum under his seat in Mr. Byrd’s room to John Buck¬ ner. Joe Foster - leaves his girls to any handsome junior who has a million dollars. Eddie Calloway - bequeaths his position as class flirt to David Mundy.