Drexel High School - Cavalcade Yearbook (Drexel, NC)

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Long distance.......please . . . Opera- tor .. . Calling Betty Jean Abernathy, 607-J, Drexel, North Carolina .... This is Ramona Cloer calling from New York. Hello, Betty Jean ... As I finished reading your latest novel I couldn't resist calling you. I’ve been wondering for a long time about our classmates. Where is everyone? You know it has been ten years since we were together. Yesterday 1 had a letter from Max Mc- Neely, a famous airline pilot. Carolyn Yount is hostess on his plane. Max sug- gested a class reunion soon. Can you imagine whose picture was on the front page of today’s paper? Robert Baird’s, the most prominent lawyer in Chicago. The Sport page was another sur- prise. Why! the whole page was about Farrell Lambert, manager of the Red Sox. When I went shopping the other day, I met Gerald Cannon and Billy Camp in one of the largest stores here. I learned that they were owners of the store. A letter from Martha Matthews several days ago says she, Ruby Hoyle and Eliz- abeth Reece have a prosperous beauty par- lor in California. Can you tell me what has happened to the others? Yes, Ramona, I think I know. Homer Cline is directing one of the best bands in the South. Of course, I am speaking of the Drexel High School Band. Peggy Berry is an English teacher. Betty Sue Berry and Betty Lou Holli- field are teaching in the primary grades. Believe it or not, Jimmy Yoder is presi- dent of the College here. Prince Deal is the English professor and Maynard Reece the Art professor. The other day I had some news to put in the newspaper so I walked into the office to see Lloyd Rector. There he sat with his feet propped on the desk as he smoked a 25c cigar. You certainly can tell he is president by looking at him. Last week I went to the Drexel Memo- rial Hospital to visit Lloyd Baird, a Civil Engineer. As I walked in, there stood Virginia Baker, his private nurse, advis- ing him what to do about his lumbago. Hugh Fletcher and Imogene Camp are doctors at the hospital. Ralph Powell is president of the Drexel Furniture Co. Frances Williams and The- resa McAllister are his secretaries. Amaryllis Ramsey is teaching piano in Nebraska. Merritt Williams is an insurance sales- man and his wife, Nana, is his private secretary. Mildred Carswell is a telephone opera- tor in Florida. Harry Fletcher and Milford Williams are auto salesmen in Alabama. Herbert Griffin is owner of a drug store in Georgia. Keith Laws perfected an attachment for the telephone that has reduced rates 50 per cent. If you’ll contact the ones in the East, I’ll see those near home and we’ll plan for our reunion. Au revoir, Ramona

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 y Thirty-four girls with their big bright eyes shining with eagerness to start the process of learning, and forty-eight boys - their faces clean — entered Drexel School. Our teachers that year were Mrs. Odes Huffman and Miss Jenny Lee Wil- son. We take this opportunity to thank all our teachers from the first grade up for their thoughtfulness, kindness, and guid- ance in preparing us for high school. The eighth grade is one we’ll never forget, when the boys helped win the war by making bread boards, whenever they could spare time from developing pictures. The most exciting moment of our grammar school days was our graduation from grammar school. By this time 27 of the 82 had either moved away or dropped out. In the ninth grade we were formally introduced to the definition of knot heads” under the guidance of Mr. Hally- burton. Farell Dobb” Lambert came to us from Valdese. To equalize the gain” (Dobb’s suggestion) we lost twelve mem- bers. In the tenth grade Betty Lou Hollifield came to us from Valdese and we lost five members, leaving forty-two of the fifty- five. This year our class had nine members on the varsity Baseball Club. In the eleventh grade we gained Caro- lyn Yount from Montreat. This year the members added honor to the class by maintaining in three years their record in Athletics, winning all games but two. Robert Baird, Farrell Lambert, Lloyd Rec- tor, and Betty Jean Abernathy represented the school in the triangular debate at Ap- palachian State Teachers College and their district at Chapel Hill. The dramatics club gave a series of one-act plays at Christmas and a three-act play at the close of school. The twelfth year and our last year started with a trip to Chapel Hill for Senior Day. This year we lost Ray Powell to Valdese, and Boyden Dean and James Stamey to the Army, reducing our num- ber to thirty-six, forty-four per cent of the number starting in the first grade. Lloyd Rector has continued to add to class hon- ors by winning the district Health Ora- torical Contest. As we write this we are looking for- ward to last months of our high school days, knowing there will be pleasant re- gretting as school comes to a close. Historians Nana Williams Virginia Baker 10

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Senior Superlatives 1. .Most Studious. . . .Hugh Fletcher 2. Friendliest......Prince Deal, Jr. Frances Williams Martha Matthews 3. Most Popular......Lloyd Baird • Theresa McAllister 4. Best All-Around. Amaryllis Ramsey • Farrell Lambert