Cleveland High School - Clevana Yearbook (Cleveland, NC)

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than' ff Class Dae June2 164 Settung The New Exclusuve Hotel Cleveland Cleveland North Caroluna Occasuon Reunuon of Class of 54 of Cleveland North Caroluna As I saunter leusurely across the lobby cranung my neck to see uf any of my former classmates have arruved yet I notuce that everyone us headed toward the ballroom of the hotel Not seeung anyone I know I go along wuth the crowd Are my eyes deceuvung me or us that Vurgunua IRed Hot Mamab Davus sungung a sultry torch song whule everyone suts stunned by her exotuc charm' When Vur gunua funushes her song I look around and see that our old gang has funally arruved Sunce I always was unquusutuve I decuded to fund out what my fruends had been doung all these ten years Over there us a group of nurses Shurley Ketchue Nellue J Barrunger Frances Graham and June Powlas are talkung about the dufferent places they had been Shurley and Nellue J have lust been un Italy helpung to open up a new Inter natuonal Hosputal June has toured the Unuted States wuth a group of nurses umprovung hosputal condutuons and Frances has been un Alaska wuth Genelda who us a mussuonary Together they have helped many Eskumo famulues to have a better outlook on lufe Why here comes Paul Fos er un the unuform of a Grey hound Bus Druverl I guess hus experuence druvung the communuty bus for school trups has come un handy As the crowd drufts un to the dunung room I fund myself besude my old fruend Lous Poteat who says that she has become a famous haur stylust un Columbus Ohuo and has her own exclusuve Beauty Salon We fund a table sut down and begun remunuscung old tumes About that tume Jerry Funk and Jack Wooten loun us They stop to chat awhule and durung the conversatuon someone mentuons Jacks old school bus no 61 Jack says that he us now work ung wuth the Dodge Company desugnung school buses QHe us really tryung to get even wuth the Dodge Company for even makung 61 I Jerry tells me that he ts one of the vuce presudents of Southern Raulway now Im sure hus general busu ness course has helped hum especually sunce he came to class about half the tume As they leave Barbara Wulhelm and Nell McCubbuns greet us Barbara us now the head secretary and offuce manager for the F BI un Washungton D C and Nell us an entertauner un a U S Canteen un France where her husband us sta tuoned at an Aur Force Base Our food arruves and Nell and Barbara move on to theur table Just as we have funushed our dessert a wauter unforms me that I am wanted on the phone When I get to the desk to take the call I see a very pleasant and effucuent swutchboard operator holdung my call When I complete my conversatuon I look and fund that the swutchboard operator us none other than Muldred Shupung If I want to be on tume for the program I had better hurry but I have such a bad toothache I dont know what to do As I go flyung down the hall I run unto Nellue Barrunger She asks me what us wrong so I tell her about my tooth A wucked gleam comes unto her eyes as she says Open up wude and dont fa I I: , 9 I X 2 . I . G , I ' ' . 1 . . a n s I a - n l 'Ig . . '. ' . I -lil n u I n I D I L, I . I ' . . . . . . . 8 I . Mu . . ' I . . ' ' ' . . l . ' 7 ji M , Ji' , ? J 'Nh

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Statistics The statustucs revealung that unuque and semu versatule Cleveland Senuor Class of T954 are astoundung and rather unbeluevable for thus class of waggush pranksters and brawny not brauny laymen I fund some unterestung duscoverues Accordung to a school wude survey whuch has been taken of the T954 Senuor Class ut has been observed that gurls legs are longer than those of the boys However we cannot be too sure sunce neuther has been measured except by undurect means The boys are known to spend theur leusure tume loafung and flurtung whule the gurls spend theur tume powderung theur noses and hopung ut pays off Lookung over the funal hugh school IQ sutuatuon Muss Oakley has funally decuded a good defunutuon for I Q means I quut Shootung craps us a favorute game playung hooky us the most popular Our favorute foods are baked rooster and shrump cocktaul unfortunately punto beans are the most commonly eaten In the movue busuness Marulyn Monroe was hughly mentuoned as the well rounded entertaunment although the vote was unanumous from the boys sude the gurls won out for Burt Lancaster by vurtue of hus buceps and wavy haur By means of travelung most of the class owns Cadullacs so they say but grape vunes fun Scotch Irushj and Pogo stucks otherwuse are mostly used If started from Iookung over hus own shoulder on test days flsnt that logucal'PJ Our favorute teachers are coach and Muss Oakley they seem to know the least about us The weught category seems to be very duffucult to grasp For the boys ut us 90 pounds per flab whule for the gurls ut us 'IIA pounds per muscle If that sounds out of proportuon lust take notuce The suze of the gurls rungs are from 5 2f3 to 9 3 5 whereas the boys suzes range from 8 3 4 to ll I 2 Yes we have no Dentusts or Doctors here but only dutch duggers and stump grubbers ln addutuon we have a gurl wearung a 1017 shoe and au boy who almost wears a foot of shoe on each foot CII' I Whenever the patter of these luttle feet are heard one ummeduately knows that Bull Somers and Phyllus Roseman approach Other physucal trauts unclude a large varuety of gurdle suzes massuve use of Royal Crown Haurdressung a Iumuted use of Dume Store Cosmetucs also varuous other methods and devuces noted to boost one s outstandung beauty For a hobby most of us work cross word puzzles and for the rest well we lust use cross words Here It us regretted that the most popular cross words and cuss words have been censored Thus us the furst tume most of these umportant statustucs have been revealed and for most of them we hope ut wull be the last MARY NELL BARRINGER Statustucuan , , , , - , 2 , . - . I I I ' ever you should see a student with a long crane-neck, iust recall where it first ' ll II ' 1 , . fl I 1 l I ' 1 , . W , D . . I . . . . I . H . ,, 1 - - I I I Il - If l

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Prophecy bIte Im not so sure I want NeIlIe explorIng my teeth but anythIng IS better than a toothache Whlle she works some kInd of magIc on my tooth she tells me she IS now the nurse of her favonte dentlst CI can lust Imaglne how she laughs everytIme she helps pull a tooth I I feel much better now so I contInue my way down the hall towards the ballroom for the program Suddenly I hear two mas cuIIne VOICES sIngIng I Been WorkIng On The RaIIroad I turn around and there stands Ray Myers and Worth MuIIIs When they fInIsh theIr song I InquIre as to what theIr occupatIon mIght be Together they answer lust what the song says Worklng on the RaIlroad Fmally I reach the ballroom As I walk In I see that Im late so I sbp Into a seat In the back I look to see who are In the seats next to me and Io and behold It IS the former MISS Oakley now Mrs Hunter Spoon her husband and two sets of twIns One of the IWIDS IS sayIng somethIng but I cant quIte understand what he IS sayIng but fInalIy after IIstenIng a IIttIe more Intently I dIscover he IS speakIng In French I wonder where he learned It? The program progresses as Mr Osborne our former prIncIpaI now the Presldent of Harvard UnIversIty QIVES a talk on Schools Then and Now An other InterestIng feature of the program IS a talk on How ThIngs Are BeIng Run In WashIngton by Barbara Eller who IS Indeed an authorIty on the matter sInce she IS Secretary to the North Carollna Senator In WashIngton After the program IS over we are InvIted out Into the hall to see a serIes of amusIng puctures of our selves sketched by a famous artIst Lorene Hamulton who IS wIdeIy known for her clever art work WhIIe I am IaughIng at the sIIIy portraIt of myself I hear a famIIIIar laugh behInd me so I turn and there IS Becky Barber who Informs me that she IS teachIng Home EconomIcs In the newly erected Home EconomIcs buIldIng at Cleveland Im sure all her students IIke her and learn a lot StartIng toward the SXII I see DennIs McDanIeI ambIIng along unhurrIedIy DennIs tells me at the present he IS lust Ioaflng and IookIng for a Iob As I head for the door I see a great swarm of chIldren and all of them look lust IIke my former classmates Its funny nobody has told me they were mar rIed but Im sure they are because nobody elses chIIdren could look IIke these FInaIIy at the door I bump Into BIII Somers now a famous pro basketball player wIth the Boston CeItIcs BIII says hIs team IS goIng to Wln the world champIonshIp thIs year I arrIve at my car and dIscover It wont start so I ask a passIng gentleman to start It for me The gentleman happens to be George HIpp who now has hIs own long dtstance truckIng outfat After George starts the car and leaves I shIft gears and start off but somethIng has gone wrong because Instead of gomg forward my car IS wrapped around a telephone pole Oh dear I must have had It In reverse I never really dId know how to drIve a car anyway Upon hearIng the crash three young men rush up to see what has happened I peek out of my shattered wIndshIeld and see Steve Wuamett LudIe Thlgpen and RIchard FInk Sldndlng by my bent car Steve and LudIe tell me not to worry because they can TIX the motor of my car luke new In theIr Auto Flx It Shop RIchard says he wIII try to take some of the dents out of the body at hIs tInsmIth shop KnowIng my car can be fIxed I feel better already but Oh me what wIIl my husband say when I show hIm the repaIr bIII ' I guess hell make me pay It wIth my lab technncaans salary I wonder If class reunIons are really worth It PHYLLIS ROSEMAN I 5 HAXEXA Class Prophet Pfp I'-IDR 4 A FJ f ' ll I ' I 9 - u I e' - . . . . . 1-'-Pc . . . . ,, . . ,, . . . . . . .i ' I ll ' ' ll , . . . , . . I ' ' I - . . 'ft K ' I I I ' I I . . . . . , . ' I I ' I I ' t ' ' Il II I f - ' . . . ,, . . . . ,, . . . . I I 9 . . . . X N, 1 1 9 . s s . Q . . , 1 . . , . . , . I . . , . , , . . I - I I 1 . . . . . . . I 5 ' 1 . . . . . . , ' I , . 1 I I , . ,, . . ,, . . , . - 1 ' I , . n 1 I ' Il - r - I r , Q ' ' ' ll I ' . f X - ss -:I , ,O s O , 0 ' 5-.. I -.1