Charlotte Technical High School - Technique Yearbook (Charlotte, NC)

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SENIOR SUPERLATIVES Most Sincere Pauline Bell Irvin Douglas Most Dignified Sue Johnston Irvin Douglas Most Mischievous Martha House Richard King Most Studious Pauline Bell Wendell Sloan Most Athletic Catherine Borders D. R. Martin Wittiest Martha House Jack Camp Biggest Bluffs Lula Deese Richard King

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SENIOR SUPERLATIVES Best Looking Midgie Carnes Jack Price Most Popular Bibbie Conder Lewis Kerr Heart Breakers Catherine Borders Bill Rimmer Best All-Round Ruby Drake Wendell Sloan Most Likely To Succeed Pauline Bell Wendell Sloan Cutest Virginia McGinnis Bill Rimmer Best Dressed Bibbie Conder Bill Rimmer

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CLASS PROPHECY Is there one who has not, at one time or another, felt the desire to know the future? I. being no different in this respect from other people, felt this desire come upon me. I wandered upon a hill to be alone while I pondered over the future of my classmates and tried to fathom what was in store for us. As I sat there contemplating, I suddenly beheld a spectacle of light speeding toward me from above. The spectacle drew nearer and revealed itself to be a space ship. While I sat awe-stricken, the space ship landed nearby. There came immediately a fanfare of trumpets as a creature — who was a cross between an old person whose life had been lived and a young person whose future was just beginning — stepped out of the ship. I sat dumbfounded as this creature said to me, ' William Warren Rimmer, you have been chosen to visit the planet Futuria. There you will see yourself and your classmates in the future. The next thing I knew, we were landing upon a field. It was a kind of athletic field. When I climbed out of the ship. I saw a large sign which read, Coach Louis Fatback Kerr ' s Notre Dame Huskies will play Coach Jack Ears Price’s Georgia Tech Steam-rollers this afternoon. November 21, 1954. So Louis ' and Jack’s fine football records had netted them coaching positions in two of the country ' s top colleges. Well. I wondered, what will come next? Upon entering the city 1 saw the McIntyre Theater, owned and operated by none other than W. O. McIntyre. Starring in his great show, It Will Catch Up With You, were Richard King. Martha House, and Midgie Carnes. Richard and Martha were doing a double comedy act. They kept the audience in the aisles. (The aisles were the only way of getting to the door.) Midgie won world wide fame and praise for her rendition of Who Broke the Lock on the Hen House Door? She composed this song after having discovered that three chickens and a pound of laying mash had been stolen. After the show I went outside and found a newly wedded couple, D. R. Martin and Helen Alexander, arguing with Betty Evans, a renowned newspaper columnist, on the subject of The Antiquity of Microbes. The ever helpful Jack Camp, great artist and poem writer, helped them settle their dispute by writing a poem entitled Lines Written on the Antiquity of Microbes. The poem was as follows: Adam Had ’Em. I asked Jack why he had become an artist and a poem writer when he had studied to be a business man. He explained with another poem which read: Hired! Tired! Fired! I left him in his revery because I saw Ben Christen- bury climbing a set of stairs across the street. Ben. who was well-known because of his experiments with electrical motors, was hauling a large electrical motor to the top of a hill to see whether it would run as well on top of the hill as at the bottom He should surely become famous with the outcome of this experiment: he needed no help from me. The thought came upon me to hail an Air Bus, one of the many busses of the Air Bus Line, owned by Myrtle Kelly. Beatrice Flowe, and Dorothy King, wealthy descendants of Doris Duke Cromwell. I wasn ' t surprised at all to see Carroll York taking tokens and Bill Wheatley driving because they had always loved busses. They were very happy because when business was good they were paid well, and right now business was good. The first persons I saw on the bus were Kathryn Howie and Catherine Wright, who were the owners of a chain of Five and Ten stores. They were happily engaged in a conversation with a group of handsome movie stars, who were triyng to become acquainted with them. I turned to look at the other passengers. I saw Virginia McGinnis reprimanding four small children for kicking some passengers on the shins. She said she was happily married, and that her husband, James Taylor, was a captain in the Navy. When .1 asked about some of the other seniors, she said that Pauline Bell and Catherine Borders were spending their vacations in South America. Their secretarial work had been so strenuous that they were taking a rest. Virginia, being now at her stop, left me to ride the next block with L B. Eddins. L. B didn ' t talk much because he was busy. He had become a very wise and famous philosopher, and he was writing a philosophy which began as follows: The trouble with most folks is due not so much to their ignorance as to knowing so many things that aren’t so. I got off at the next stop to keep from showing what I didn’t know. Before me was a large waffle shop named We Cook ’Em, You Eat ' Em. owned by Doris Edwards and Sue Johnson, who were very happy because people were eating more waffles every day. While I was there, I met the famous lawyer. Bill Rimmer. who had drawn up a will for a rich financier He let me read the will after I had promised not to divulge the contents to anyone else. It read: I have nothing. I owe much, the rest I leave to the poor. Gurgling happily over the tidy sum he had received from his client. I left to go over to talk with Myrtle Sikes and Clara Bowers. Myrtle told me that she and Clara had opened an exquisite Women’s Shop, which handled the most chic clothes from Paris. Page Sixteen