Edneyville High School - Whispering Pines Yearbook (Edneyville, NC)

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Phyllis Hudgins and Maurice Bradley BEST DRESSED Frances Searcy and Charles Drake MOST LIKELY TO SUCCEED Hazel Rhymer and Marvin Brevard MOST ATHLETIC 21

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Ercelle Garren and Maurice Bradley MOST POLITE Elsie Fowler and Flay Newman FRIENDLIEST Hazel Rhymer and Maurice Bradley WITTIEST 20

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Senkn Class flistaty The present senior class of Edneyville High School started on the long, strenuous road to suc¬ cess in the early autumn of 1939- We entered vari¬ ous schools in the county, among which were Edney¬ ville, Balfour, Fruitland, and Bat Cave. During the second year, many of us missed school because of the whooping cough epidemic. In the third grade, our chief worry was the mul¬ tiplication tables. Then in the fourth and fifth grades, most of us struggled along with our frac¬ tions and long division. When we reached the sixth grade, the schools were consolidated. Our class was greatly increased in size. After a long, hard year in the seventh grade, we entered the eighth in high spirits. Because of the crowded conditions, fourteen lucky seventh graders were added to our group. In 1947 we entered the ninth grade and began adapting ourselves to high school procedure. In the tenth grade, we took our first trip to the smokies. Everyone had a wonderful time. Last year, we, as Juniors, ordered our class rings of which we were very proud. Our Junior Play Silas Smidge” and our Junior-Senior banquet were great successes. This year we Seniors are looking forward to graduation, ' after which we will step out to take our places in the world as men and women. We, the Seniors of 1951, would like to express sincere thanks to all of our teachers for their kind understanding and sympathy toward us during the past years. Chirstine Justus, Historian Senkn C ass Ptopecy Hi, there folks!! This is your roving reporter bringing you the good word on the graduating class of 1951. Of course it has been some time since I saw all my old classmates but after a little detec¬ tive work, I discovered what they’ve all been doing since we graduated. Tess Ledbetter has been teachingat Edneyville High School since her graduation from Eastern Carolina Teacher’s College. She tells me Wm, Enloe and Joy Rhodes are now married and were at the school the other day on a lecture tour. Wallace Bradley is now major of Gerton, N. C., a very influential man, I hear. He says our old pal Harold Meyer is a retired captain in the Navy,living down in St. Petersburg, Florida. Tom Ledbetter and Jimmy Rogers can be seen at most race tracks soupin’ up hot rods.” Their right hand man is Harold Owensby. Just couldn’t do without him. Burdette and Treva Green have formed an Old Maids’ Society after many unsuccessful attempts to get a man. Honorary members are Joyce Smith, Hazel Lyda, Marie Lyda, Imojean Garren, and Maxine Moore. Most of our classmates seemed to have entered the field of matrimony. Those following this ever- popular trend are Lois Griffine, Harold McKinnish, Marlene Rhodes, Carolyn Sunmer, Armelia Vaughn, and Etta Mae Allman, I saw an announcement in the paper about a new book written by one of America’s favorite young Authors, Miss Melba Drake. It’s called How To Keep A Man - After You Get Him.’’ One of Hendersonville’s most popular young lawyers is none other than Charles Drake. He is said to have two of the most efficient secretaries in the land, Elsie Fowler and Christine Justus. Lucky Guy!! Frances Searcy and Phyllis Hudgins run a successful hot dog stand on the Chimmey Rock Highway. Get’em all the way!! Joe Holbert is city jailer at the thriving city of Fruitland, N. C. Says he sees Flay Newman and Marvin Brevard around there quite often. Flash!! Just got an important bulletin from Washington. Maurice Bradley is now Secretary of Treasury.” He’s in the money at last. Boyd Nix, Jimmy Davidson and Billy Green have joined forces; sure they will have a very suc¬ cessful business. They always were fond of cars. Anna Lou Bradley and Hazel Rhymer have finished nurses training and are giving the men patients a thrill at the Valley Clinic. Ercelle Garren is secretary to Bobby Metcalfe who is in the oil well business out in Texas. We hear he is seriously thinking of taking Jesse James in as a partner. Jean Sumner has the very important job of sell- in tickets at the new Edneyville Drive- ' In Theater. She says their best patrons are Estolene Edwards and Gladys Connor. Leon Lyda has taken the place of Clark Gable in the affections of the nation’s women. Well, who would have expected anything else?? Our two old married students Lola Love and Dorothy Barnwell are the parents of three kids a- piece. Those lucky kids, having such nice girls for their mamas . Well, this is your roving reporter Barbara Corn saying Tune in ten years from now for more news of the 1951 graduating class of Edneyville High School. ’Bye.” Barbara Corn, Class Prophet 22