Columbia High School - Columbian Yearbook (Columbia, NC)

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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

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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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Last Will and Gestament We, the Senior Class of Nineteen Hundred and Sixty-one, being of sound and slightly weakened memory due to the fact that we have been overtaxing it lately, do hereby make and declare this to be our Last Will and Testament. ARTICLE I To our Parents we leave many thanks, our greatest respect, and our sincere appreciation for making all this nossible. ARTICLE II To Mr. Nichols and our Teachers, we leave our appreciation for their kindness, guidance, and patience, which we surely taxed, for we realize we couldn't have made it without them, ARTICLE III To Mrs. Van Horn, our Senior Advisor, we leave our greatest thanks and sincere appreciation for all she has meant to us during this, our last year in school. ARTICLE IV ; We leave the following to the classes to come: joys, trials, and errors, THE COLUMBIAN, and all the other things which go into your high school days. Section I To the Freshman Class we leave our congratulations on passing the test of your first year of high school. Section II To the Sophomores we leave the thought of becoming Juniors and wish them much luck. Section III To the Juniors we leave the privilege of becoming Seniors, a squeaky desk, which needs fixing, and Mrs. Cunningham's bookkeeping class. ARTICLE V LORETTA BRICKHOUSE, leave my ability to catch and hold a boy to Jackie Smith. PAT BRICKHOUSE, leave my ability to get along with Don to anyone who can, WANDA BRICKHOUSE, leave Harvey Lee to anyone who thinks they can get him. GWEN BRUNER, leave my height to Shirley Cohoon. DON CHAPLIN, leave my studious ways to Herbert Brickhouse, Jr. MACK CLOUGH, leave my taxi service to my brother David, to keep Highway 64 company. SHIRLEY COOPER, leave my quiet ways to Thadine Hopkins. WANDA COOPER, leave my ability to argue with Edward Davis, and get away with it to Brenda Hales. EDWARD DAVIS, leave, I hope. JAMES FRAZIER, leave my courteous ways to Gene Woodward. ANGELA HOPKINS, leave my naturally blonde hair to Leonda Newberry. EUGENE KIDD, leave my ability to dance like a monkey to anyone who can imitate me. MARY LOU KIRK, leave my mischievous ways to Teresa Jones. BETSY LAWRENCE, leave my ability to stand up for my rights to Gloria Jane Walker. LINDA PATRICK, leave my cheerful attitude toward life to Nancy Hassell. PEGGY REYNOLDS, leave my ability to joke with Mrs. Combs to anyone who can get away with it. JUDY RHODES, leave my ability to boss Eugene to anyone who wants to try. JOYCE RHODES, leave my dark hair to Barbara Brickhouse. FAYE ROUGHTON, leave my sunny disposition to Brenda Spencer. TEANIE ROUGHTON, leave my ability to get along to Nan Davenport. ROY SAWYER, leave my tall dark looks to Royce Reynolds. BIBB SWAIN, leave my big blue eyes'' to Charles Basnight. JOYCE SPRUILL, leave bus 26! to Robert Kidd and hope that he takes good care of it. J. WARREN SWAIN, leave my dark, wavy hair to Curtis Smith. PEGGY WALKER, leave my soft voice to Marilyn Brickhouse. FAYE WOODARD, leave my glasses to Donna Ormand. FRANCES BRICKHOUSE, leave the task of writing this Last Will and Testament to some unsuspecting Junior. Melanie PRP RRR RR PRR RRR Re RH HY ee ee The Seniors of '61 FRANCES BRICKHOUSE Testatrix Signed, sealed, published and declared by the Senior Class to be their Last Will and Testament in the presence of us, and in the presence of each other, do subscribe our names as witnesses thereto, Witnesses Iradge 2 en ee