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

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Class History PREVIOUS RECORD OF 1953 SQUAD One sunny autumn day in 1941, the stadium. Black Mountain Grammar School, was crowded with students and parents, who had come to see the brand new first grade team of 128 members perform in their starting game. A few years passed; years of preparation in learning the plays of reading, writing, and a- rithmetic. The team developed from water boys to bench warmers, and some even got to play in the big games. Then one day, the now much larger members prepared to enter a very important game on anewfield, Black Mountain High School. Madam coaches Woody and Walker, and master coach Seawright, led the striving team of 99 members to a very successful season during the ninth grade. The real spirit was kept at top-rate by the Mistress Captain, Evelyn Cooper, and her cheerleaders. That year also scored a big hit due to the publishing of the program “The Ninth Newcomer ’’. The next year found the 85 members ready and prepared to run any play which might con¬ front them or try to block their way. During this quarter, the team was successfully led by Miss Waugh, Mrs. McMurray, Mr. Byrd, and Captain Wilburn Waters. The Junior team, being one of determination, tackled problems of concession stands which were composed of magazine sales, Halloween Carnival, and other money-raising funds. They played a well-fought game during the first half so that they would be in good shape for the Junior- Senior Banquet and Prom in the last quarter. Tokens of class rings were also obtained by the team. After playing with their team mates for three years, many gave their places on the squad to the new substututes; who followed and came through with shining colors. That year ' steam was proud of its coaches, Mr. Byrd, Mrs. Headlee, and Miss Saunders, and much praise went to the president, David Corkran, for outstanding signals which he gave to the team. Now that the senior squad is approaching the final game of the season in June, each team mate is determined to run down the future’s field and score a successful and outstanding touch¬ down, which will place them in the starting lineup for whatever may be their life’s goal. The team of 56 well deserving seniors, sparked by captain, Rose Candler, owes much of its season ' s success to its patient head coaches and friends, Mrs. Perley and Mrs. McCoy, for without them, its last game would have been a failure and a loss. As they, carrying the title of “Graduates of 1953 , march out of the high school stadium, they will recall the guidance and friendliness of their team mates. However, their fondest wishes will still be in the red brick building as they cheer the other teams on to victory. Ann Sawyer Class Historian

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Senior Statistics VIOLA MARTHA MELTON Without friends life would be as a flower garden without flowers. Library Club 2,3; J.C.L. 3; Glee Club 4; F. H. A. 1,2,3. LAURA CELESTE McCALL Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Bob Jones University Academy 1; Charlotte Bronte Literary Society 1; Glee Club 1-4; Journalism Club 2, 4; Beta Club 3, 4; Baton Corps 4; Library Club 3; Annual Staff 3, 4; Student Council 2,3,4; Library As¬ sistant 3. ANNE MARIE MOLLOY Love to one, friendship to many, and good will to all. Beta Club 2, 3, 4; Journalism Club 3,4; “B”Club 3, 4; Annual Staff 4; Student Council 4; J.C.L. 2; May Court Attendant 3; Best Citizen Award 2. SHIRLEY IRENE MULL Never a tear dims the eye, that time and patience will not dry. F.H.A. 1,4; Glee Club 2; J.C.L. 3,4; ‘B” Club 4; Basketball 1,2; Cheerleader 3,4; Student Council 4; Annual Staff 4; Journalism Club 3,4; Football Queen 3; Winner of county essay contest 3; Beta Club 2,3, 4. DAVID MUNDY Cur ? Journalism Club 2, 3,4; Annual 3,4; J.C.L. 2,3,4; Student Council 3,4; Chief Marshal 3. STUART NANNEY Any road worth taking leads up hill. F.F.A. 1,2, 3,4; Student Council 4. YVONNE LOUGINIA NANNEY Nowthe heart is so full that a drop overfills it. We are happy now because God wills it. Glee Club 2, 3, 4; Beta Club 2, 3, 4; Journalism Club 4; Annual Staff 3,4; Student Council 4; J.C.L. 3,4; F.H.A. 1,2. BRASKAA. ODOM Always look to the brighter things in life. “B” Club 3, 4; F. F. A. 4; Football 3, 4; Baseball 3, 4; Basketball 3,4. A. C. OWNBEY To live as every day were the 1? t. 4-H Club 1; Glee Club 2, 3, 4; StudentCouncil 2; Band 3, 4; F oik Club 3; J.C.L. 2; F.F.A. 1,2,3,4; Mars Hill Music Clinic 3,4. THELMA HARRIETT PAYNE Keep your face always toward the sunshine, and the shadows will fall behind you. F.H.A. 1,2,3; J.C.L. 3; Le Lieves 3; Beta Club 4; Student Council 2, 3; Basketball 3,4; “B’’Club 4. JIMMY LEE PENLAND Never d o today what you can put off and do tomor¬ row, and pray that it never comes. F.F.A. 1,2, 3,4; “B” Club 2, 3,4; Football 3; Bas¬ ketball 1,2, 3,4. CLARA BEATRICE PROPST A true friend is the greatest of all blessings. Glee Club 4; Beta Club 4; Foik Club 1,2,3; J. L. C. 3,4. WINSTON RIDDLE Anything worth doing at all is worth doing well. F.F.A. 1,2, 3, 4; Camera Club 3; Football 2. BETTYE JUNE ROBERTS A gun can only shoot as high as it is aimed. F.H.A. 1,2, 3,4; J.C.L. 3,4; Le Lieves 3; “B” Club 4. LOIS MADELINE ROBINSON All I am or ever hope to be I owe to my parents. F.H.A. 1,2, 3,4; J.C.L. 3,4. NORMA ANN SAWYER Living to learn, learning to live, doing to serve, serving to do. Beta Club 3,4; F.H.A. 1,2, 3, 4; Journalism Club 3,4; ‘ B” Club 3, 4; Annual Staff 4; J.C.L. 2, 3; Glee Club 1,2, 3; Cheerleader 2, 3, 4; Writer of news co¬ lumn 4. CLIFFORD SAMUEL SMATHERS What cannot be cured must be endured. F.F.A. 1,2; “B ’ Club 2, 3,4; Camera Club 3; J. C. L. 3; Football 1,2, 3,4; Basketball 3, 4; Student Council 1,2, 3, 4. EVA ANN SMITH Happy am I; from care, I’m free! Why aren’tyou all, contented like me? F.H.A. 1; Student Council 2,3; Glee Club 1,2,3; Band 2, 3, 4; Journalism Club 2, 3, 4; Beta Club 2, 3, 4; J.C.L. 3,4. SHIRLEY JEAN STONE A smile is as Good as Gold. Glee Club 4; J. C. L. 3; Foik Club 1,2; Le Leives 2; F.H.A. 3. DOROTHY ANN TAYLOR Keep your face always toward the sunshine, and the shadows will fall behind you. Journalism Club 3,4; Glee Club 3,4; Beta Club 4. HELEN MARIE TURNER It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. Glee Club 4; Folk Club 2. MADGE MARIE WILHIDE Though it tarry, wait for it, for it will surely come. Beta Club 2, 3,4; Journalism Club 3,4; F.H.A. 1,4; “B” Club 3,4; Glee Club 2; Basketball 1,2, 3,4; J. C.L. 3,4. PEGGY JO WILLIAMS Happiness is cheaper than worry, so why pay the higher price. Cheerleader 3, 4; Basketball 1,2; ‘B ' Club 4; Jour¬ nalism Club 3,4; Annual Staff 3,4; Beta Club 3,4; Student Council 3; Glee Club 2,3,4; F.H.A. 1,2. RUTH AGNES JORDAN Life is what you yourself make of it. F.H.A. 1,2, 3,4; Glee Club 4. EMILYE HAWKINS F.H.A. 1; Beta Club 4; Student Council 2; Band 3, 4; Journalism Club 2,3,4; J.C.L. 2,3; Glee Club 2, 3,4; Baton Corps 4.

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Class Prophecy 1975 ALL-AMERICAN GRID SQUAD PICKED Laurence Allen and A.C. Ownbey made their first million by selling their patented vanilla covered chocolate popsicle. Madge Wilhide is now director of the Physical Education department of the combined Swan- nanoa and Black Mountain schools. Those serving under her: Jim Isley, blowing up footballs; Bobby Hall, modeling sports equipment; and Ruth Jordan and Betty Jane Freeman, mending bas¬ ketball nets. B.C. Candler, president of WEE FINGER CANDY COMPANY, has recently hired the fol¬ lowing finger experts: Head Manicurist, Shirley Stone, Assistants: Katie Dalton, buttering the fingers; Bettye Roberts, guming the drops. Eva Smith now makes horse blankets which are modeled by Jim Levine’s prize race horses . Arnold Jones defeated Dot Taylor, alias Marylin Monroe, for the World’s Middleweight championship. Referee for the bout was Earl Jordan. Steve Kaplan, nationally known photographer of Esquire Magazine, has recently visited France, where he took pictures of the Parisian doll. Mademoiselle (Inga) Christensen. Also he met the notorious co-authors, Anne Marie Molloy and Johnny Atkins, who have just completed their book, “La Petite Martin’’, which is a biography of the first woman president of France, Sara Martin. Peggy Williams, famed Dare Devil trick driver, has just completed her tour of the U. S. in her hot-rod designed by pit-men, Andy Cook and C.L. Freeman. Nurses Betty Austin, Rose Candler, Ann Sawyer, and Shirley Mull, upon arriving at the Crackpot Hospital were thrust into bed, being mistaken for patients. The noted pediatrician. Doctor Braska Odom, alias Fingers, has completed his first suc¬ cessful operation. Result-patient died. Yvonne Nanney, soprano soliost, made her debut at Carnegie Hall, accompanied at the twin pianos by Nancy Dougherty and Celeste McCall. Preceeding the performance, Prima Balleri¬ na, Emilye Hawkins presented “Swan Lake. ’’ Jimmy Glenn was apprehended by Forest Ranger Corkran for poaching, and was later con¬ victed in court by Judge Jack Kirstein. Hedda Hopper reports: The premire opening of the smash hit, Blondie and Dagwood, star¬ ring Thelma Payne and Clifford Smathers, will be attended by Rudolph Valentino (Jack Atkins) , and his leading lady, Evelyn Cooper. Highlighting the party was the new sensation, Valeen Cooper, replacing Mel Blanc in his voice characterization of Porky Pig. David Mundy, prominent Wall Street broker, financed a sight-seeing tour of New York for the following representatives of various organizations: Guiding the tour was Luny Gilliam, bus driver. Jimmy Penland.Campaign Manager of Pogo for President Opal Gilliam.Society of Prevention of Cruelty to Wives Naomi Elliott.Preservation of Gray Goat Whiskers. Mittie Melton has recently opened her new ladies apparel shop, “Mittie’s Musts ’’, featuring the newest look in Lois lingerie by Robinson, and Helen’s Hosiery. Judge Winston Riddle has acclaimed Staurt Nanneys ’ termite farm ‘‘most likely to collapse. ” In the Korean theater, Donald Fortune was made a five-star general, replacing the late Ge¬ neral Taylor. The wedding bells will soon ring out a happy future for Geraldine High. Attending her will be Viola Melton as Maid of Honor and Brides Maids will be Allie Bartlett and Clara Propst.