Columbia High School - Columbian Yearbook (Columbia, NC)

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Class History As we, the seniors of '61, look back, it seems im- possible that we are the ones everyone is looking up to, and the ones who are graduating. Our school years in the primary and elementary grades aren't clear in our minds, but most certainly our high school years are. We entered high school with Mr. Fred Johnson as our homeroom teacher and coach. Our first year in high school was a little confusing, but it was filled with plenty of parties and hayrides. It didn't take us long to get used to high schoo! life. When we came back for our sophomore year, we found we had four new classmates--Shelby Phelps, Eugene Kidd, Jimmy Savin, and Holt Shaw. Our second year in high school was a rather quiet one, in spite of our jolly newcomers, Our junior year was exciting and full of fun. We are sorry to say we lost eight of our classmates that year. We 22 gained two, Betsy Lawrence and Leon Jones. We gave our junior play entitled, ''Aunt Samanthy Rules The Roost, which we shall always remember. We started planning for our Washington, D. C., trip almost as soon as school started. We finally left March 17, at 3 A.M. We might have been a little sleepy, but we still had our fun. We came back, all ready to go again. It was a trip we shall always remember. Now we are seniors, and I might say busy ones. We and Mrs. Madge Van Horn started right to work on our '61 COLUMBIAN, so that it would be an annual we would always be proud of. We are looking forward to our junior- senior banquet, our senior play, the ordering of our caps and gowns, and especially walking across the stage and receiving our diplomas. We, the senior class of '61, want to give our sincere thanks and appreciation to our parents and teachers for making it possible for each of us to graduate. JUDY RHODES Historian

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MOST COURTEOUS Linda Patrick—Bibb Swain WITTIEST Mack Clough—Joyce Spruill

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Class Prophecy In 1999, the year of big things, we find the class of 1961 out in the world trying to run things in a modern way. I, PEGGY WALKER, walked into the newest jet air- port in Columbia, and asked for a ticket to the new city of Moonsville. As I looked up, I saw SHIRLEY COOPER, a ticket agent for Davis Airport. I couldsee that EDWARD DAVIS is a big businessman. Over the loud speaker I heard these words, Moon jet loading on Cloud 9, BIBB SWAIN, pilot. As I stepped aboard, FAY ROUGHTON, stewardess, greeted me. After we had blasted off, I leamed that nurse, ANGELA HOPKINS, was aboard giving aid to all the sick passengers. When we landed on Moonsville's runway, I saw a mob of people. To my surprise the Governor of Moonsville, DON CHAPLIN, was there to greet me. Don informed me I was his guest. He thensnapped his fingers and his chauffeur, PAT BRICKHOUSE, pulled up with his 1999 F lying Saucer, which was designed by EUGENE KIDD. On arrival at his multimillion dollar estate, I saw lots of, beautiful girls in 24 carat gold bathing suits. This was no beauty contest; they were only Don's servants. That night Iwas delighted to dine out at Moonsville's largest night club, the Dream Club. The owner of the Club, JAMES FRAZIER, then put the spotlight on his star performers: MARY LOU KIRK, LORETTA BRICKHOUSE, and LINDA PATRICK. This singing trio, called the LM. L, Goof-offs, ' sang their latest hit, On Top of Spaghetti. Just as I was about to leave the Club, the World's shortest lady came up to me. As I looked down on her, I saw it was GWEN BRUNER. She told me she was my guide while 1 was visiting the moon. The following day Gwen took me to Moonsville's Fashion Shop, the Starlight. The owner, J. WARREN SWAIN, styled his own fashions. His first creation was a black ball gown sprinkled with stardust; it was modeled by JOYCE RHODES, world's tallest model. His second fashion was modeled by JUDY RHODES, She modeled a space suit with all its modernbreathtaking conveniences. JOYCE SPRUILL is the animal catcher on Moonsville. She keeps trying to tell people on earth to quit sending animals in those rockets, Since they have not stopped, Moonsville Citizens say, ''We cannot tell the difference between Joyce talking, and the noise of the animals, Neither one stops for anything but food. TEANIE ROUGHTON is the marriage counselor, and her most prominent visitor is BETSY LAWRENCE. Betsy's husband seems to be making love to a truck instead of her. Teanie seems to think Betsy is having hallucinations because there are no trucks on Moonsville. WANDA COOPER is working in the dime store on the moon. Her biggest problem is her boss. He keeps telling her she's making eyes at him, and he cannot work; there- fore, she is thinking about joining the Space Force. FRANCES BRICKHOUSE and WANDA BRICKHOUSE are running a manufacturing business. They are busy trying to keep everyone in new model saucers. The day of my departure the King and Queen of Pluto, PEGGY REYNOLDS and ROY SAWYER, arrived at Moonsville's Airport. FAY WOODARD, the best moon ship driver, brought the ship down with a thud. Fay said she got her training at C.H.S, driving her Sound Side school bus. AsI was returning I picked up a newspaper soI could entertain myself. The headlines read, MRS. VAN HORN, Ski Champion. Herstatement to the press was, I am trying to prove to my Class of 1961 that I can live in their modern world. As I turned the page I saw pictures of our mascots, APRIL CLOUGH and MARTY SIMMONS. They are teaching the latest dance steps, The Twist, at Old C.H.S. When I walked off the moon jet, my boss, Judge MACK CLOUGH, was there to greet me. Hisrather abrupt greeting brought me back to earth with a thud. My exciting week in Moonsville was over and back towork in Judge Clough's musty old courtroom I must go. PEGGY WALKER Prophet 23