Cleveland High School - Clevana Yearbook (Cleveland, NC)

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LAST WILL AMD TESTAMENT We, the Senior Class of Cleveland High School, being of sound mind and sane judgment and by our own desire and intent, do hereby execute this document as our final testament. First: To our parents we bequeath our undying love and most sin- cere appreciation for making it possible for us to achieve a high school education. Second: To the faculty we do give our deepest gratitude for their consideration for us as a class, and for their understanding which has been so helpful. Third: I, Dorothy Davis, will and bequeath my Physics Book to Betty Ann Keply. Fourth: I, Charles Waller, do will and bequeath my ability to blush so easily to Bobby Cline. Fifth: I, Lala Swicegood, will my blue jeans, loafers, and bobby-sox to Ruby Graham. Sixth: I, Doris Wood, bequeath my place as chief cheerleader to Roy Beaver. Seventh: I, Preston Barber, do will and bequeath my dancing ability to Willie Mae Graham and my place by every girl’s locker to Eddie Pennell. Eighth; I, Joe Graham, will my position as left tackle on the football squad to Kenneth Kyles. Nineth: I, June Clodfelter, will and bequeath my place as school store manager to Ruth Wilhelm. Tenth: I, Ramona Allen, do bequeath my polka-dot blouse, that took me two months to make, to Miss Erwin. Eleventh: I, Nola Kyles, will my pleasant plumpness to Marcella Beeker. Twelvth: I, Tommy Douglas, will and bequeath my superiority to skip classes to Robert Love. Thirteenth: I, Dollie Allen, do will my lack of speech to Lois Smith. Fourteenth: I, Ruth Witherspoon, do will and bequeath my smallness to Phillis Roseman. Fifteenth: I, Billy Wilhelm, will my place as best looking senior to Sam Beeker and my popularity to Geraldine Myers. Sixteenth: I, Mary Alice Christie, will and bequeath my feminine ways to Dotty Plummer. Seventeenth: I, Larston Reitzel, do will the following: My place as Cleveland comedian or Bob Hope to my dear friend Cotton Bar- ringer, my unorthodox way with the women to Pete Snider, and my phone number to Dot Campbell. Amen! Eighteenth: I, Peggy Beck, will and bequeath my height and blonde hair to Phillis Myers.

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Ruth Southers is now teaching Home Economics at Statesville High School and is doing a wonderful job. The quiet Clara Mae Thigpen is now married to R. L. Steeleman, the boy who controlled her heart all through high school. Two nurses that are devoted to their professions are Betty Sue Kyles who is head nurse at Longs Hospital and Nola Kyles director of nurses at the Good Samaritan Hospital” in Charlotte. Several girls in the class of fifty decided on secretarial work as their career. Doris Wood is now typist for a large newspaper. Nattie Galligher is a secretary for an auto company and is now engaged to the boss’s son. Ruth Witherspoon’s tiny figure has been for the best of her abilities. She is now secretary in the large Brickmas Ice Company, which requires alertness and quietness. Peggy Beck is a secretary in the offices of Erwin Cotton Mills in Cooleemee, her good typing grades putting her on the ladder of success. The cokes in our glasses had long vanished when I decide I have to say goodbye with a promise that I'll write just as soon as possible. After spending the first two days at home I decide to visit the little town of Cleveland. The first place to go was the high school. The school has been enlarged a great deal since I was here last. It now possesses a band, and the faculty has increased more than three times in number since 1950. I go slowly up the steps, enjoying all the added beauty. As I enter the office, whom should I See first but, Mrs. Floyd Holt, the former June Clodfelter, who is Mr. Spears secretary. Lala Swicegood, who graduated from Appalachian with a high degree in Mathematics (her favorite subject) is now teaching Mathematics at the high school. Preston Barber, a former Davidson Football star, has now taken over the coaching duties at the school. I learn from Preston that Jimmy Bame is now a great brain surgeon at the Walter Reid Hospital and is doing a fine job. Dr. Bill Wilhelm, the great fullback for Cleve- land in forty-nine, is now an expert Horticulturest and owns his own nursery in Salis- bury. Although Larston Reitzel hasn’t reached the height of his ambition as President of the United States, he is a handwriting expert for the F.B.I. As I’m coming through Cleveland I stop at Wilhelms for some gas and whom should I see but Betty Smith with her oldest son, Robert, Jr. Returning home I see a small rambling farmhouse on a sloping hill and whose name should be on the mail box but Mr. G. R. Myers. As I go slowly up the drive way, I see his charming little wife, the former Geraldine Cline. After sampling some of her delicious coffee and cake I continue on my way. Just as I arrive home the phone rings and my dear friend, Mary Alice Christie, invites me to spend the night with her at her apartment. She now has a kindergarten of her own. After talking late into the night I think as I go off to sleep, My, how things have changed and how wonderful everyone has done.” And then I close my eyes with a sigh- How I dread to get back to the city away from this Carolina quietness.”

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Nineteenth: I, Lucy Warren, will and bequeath my place as school pianist to Betty Gray. Twenthieth: I, Ray Powlas, bequeath my excellent agriculture record to Billy Moore. Twenty-first: I, Wilbert Hall, will my seat in the English class to anyone that has the luck I did. Twenty-second: I, Ruth Southers, do will my place in the lunchroom to some industrious junior. Twenty-third: I, Helen Lippard, will my right to sell drinks on Friday night to Don Lyerly. Twenty-fourth: I, Clara Thigpen, bequeath my ability to keep one steady boy friend to Martha Shook. Twenty-fifth: I, Walter Pennell, will and bequeath my ability to sing bass to Jack Galligher. Twenty-sixth: I, Nattie Galligher, will my excellent typing skill to Peggy Gentle. Twenty-seventh: I, Dena Swicegood, do will my friendly smile to Betty Graham. Twenty-eighth: I, Betty Kyles, do will and bequeath a part of my long hair to Joyce Ann Barber. Twenty-nineth: I, Betty Smith, bequeath my faithful bus (No. 56) to Kathryn Steele, provided she learns to drive it. Thirthieth: I, Gilbert Myers, will my algebra skill to Charles Hamilton, hoping he doesn’t have to stay three years as I did. Thirty-first: I, Geraldine Cline, will and bequeath my superiority at making announcements for Mr. Spear to Joyce Graham. Thirty-second: I, Jimmy Bame, will the cast from my broken leg to any injured football player next fall. Thirty-third: I, Dorothy Graham, will my cheerleading uniform to Jo Hendrix. Thirty-fourth: We, the physics class, do will and bequeath all the answers to physics problems to Miss Lefler. Thirty-fifth: We, the first period home economics class, do will our dear teacher, Miss Erwin, a much quieter department. In Witness whereof, I, Betty Smith, have been authorized, directed, and delegated by the Senior Class to bring together its Last Will and Testament and with its help do hereunto set my hand and affix my seal, on this, the eighteenth day of May, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and fifty. Betty Smith Testator Witnessed by: Doris Wood , Walter Pennell , Peggy Beck