Elkin High School - Elk Yearbook (Elkin, NC)

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Yes trme marches on' Why rt seems only a few years ago that we were senrors graduatrng from Elkrn Hrgh School but now our tenth Class reunron rs on We the class of 1948 rnvrte you to lrsten to what each member has done and rs dorng srnce he left Elkrn Hrgh Ruby Alexander seems to be gorng places Ruby rs now secretary to the Presrdent of the Lnrted States She can take drctatron at the rate of two hundreds word a mrnute Paul Blackburn another graduate of the 1948 class rs helprng the Presrdent wrth all the world problems to Duke bnryersrty and graduated rn 1957 as a physrcal educatron rnstructor At present she and Wallace Wade really are puttrng those poor boys through some drfhcult exercrses We are proud of Sam Adams college record He played rrght halfback on Carolrnas foot a team hrs entrre four years and became an all Amerrcan player Sam rs now coachrng at Wrllram and Mary and rs the glee club rnstructor too Martha Hayes plays the prano for Harry james orchestra Recall how she beat out the boogre durrng lunch hour at E H S Well you should hear her now' Why Harry james rs practrcally frnancrally broke tryrng to keep Martha s salary hrgher than any other orchestra leader can offer her We hnd Peggy Walters rn New York workrng rrght along wrth Martha Peggy seemed to haye the abrlrty to wrrte poems and storres and even wrote Elkrn s Alma Nfater whrch rs dear to each student s heart She has wrrtten qurte a few of the popular songs today and rs gettrng pard for rt Remember how bad Lrbby Royall always wanted to learn to play tennrs All the New York papers are full of her name and prctures She rs the natron s tennrs champron joan Gross a world famous harr desrgner has a shop located on Yrfth Avenue Gene Nrcks left Elkrn as soon as he graduated and got along frne wrth all the professors at N C State At present he rs makrng., brg money wrrtrng jokes for Bob Hope rn Hollywood Sterlrng Brownrng frnally got there Hollywood that rs She rs Brng Crosby s busrness manager lrene Sloop who rs now an actress rn Hollywood recerves more fan marl than any other star We hnd john Cockerham our class presrdent rn a small town located rn the state of Wash rngton john rs dorng well for hrmself He rs a certrfred publrc accountant Harry johnson rs a successful doctor rn Greensboro but takes trme of? each afternoon to lrsten to hrs favorrte old radro program over WKBC Joe Young and Betty Newman are also located rn Greensboro jo Youngs dream rn hrgh school of becomrng a certrhed publrc accountant has been realrzed She rs grvrng qurte a few people competrtron No wonder' jo was always an understandrng person Betty Newman rs teachrng a class of hfteen organ puprls twrce a week Wrlma Lou Nrchols rs clrmbrnr, the ladder of success She has a whole thrrty mmute program every week over statron WKBC It was reported that Lynn Olrver and Alrce Blake Dobson are teachrng at Salem Academy Lynn rs head of the musrc department whrle Alrce Blake rs the forergn language teacher Doswell Gentry hmshed medrcal school not long ago at Duke Unrversrty and has an ex cellent practrce rn Wrnston Salem Evon Ray rs a Powers model and any one may hnd her prcture rn the fashron magazrnes Johnny Wagoner better known as fess rs now grven the honorable trtle of Professor He rs a history teacher at Wake Forest College whrch rs located rn Wrnston Salem Betsy Rrchardson was sard to be the best dressed woman rn the world rn 1955 Betsy traveled extensrvely but she and Ed frnally stopped fussrng long enough to get marrred and are very happy We hear that Brady Osborne a settled bachelor rs coachrng the grrls physrcal educatron class at Central Hrgh rn Charlotte Wonder why Kathleen Burchams resrdence rs rn Charlotte too' No she rs not usrng her personalrty on one certarn person Kathleen rs an rnterror decorator and enroys her work Bobby Johnson took the posrtron last year as rarlway agent of Burch statron Bobby reports to us that busmess rs boomrng and there rs plenty of room for advancement Era Richardson marrred Delmar Vanhoy before graduatron and rs lrvrng on a farm near Elkrn where she has a famrly of three Lookrng at the Elkm Tnbune staff, we hnd Margaret Clrck s name Yes she rs rn charge of the art department and rs also a co owner of the paper jrm Parker rs manager of Chathams baseball team jrm announced only a few days ago that the team wrll play the Brooklyn Dodgers thrs summer Fred Hemrrc and hrs wrfe have burlt a beautrful home rn Elkrn At present, fred owns a large darry but rnsrsts on strll delrverrng the mrlk hrmself jrm Cockerham drd not work rn a grocery store most of hrs hrgh school days for nothrng He owns a charn of grocery stores and for pastrme plays the prano for the Rebels Myrtle Lou Smoot may be found at Belk s, where she rs rn charge of the ready to wear de partment Betty Sue Cockerham has an rmportant yob at Chatham Manufacturrng Company She rs Thurmond Chatham s secretary' fProplJer:y rontrnued lo page 141 CLASS PROPHECY . 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A A - .f 4 - 4. . 4, . 4 . . . , , . . -. - -4 . . . . 1 yye ye years aazo the Senaor Class of as or most ot at enterea tae lo ars ot yaraous sL1O lor the aarst tame anal optamastaeally tlemanaleal an La ueatron Ut tae tnrty aye mem ers af tae t .ass of an srxteen haye tompletetl thear entrre tyyelye years toyeether an the Ilkan sehools laselye lyeeata thear elutataon an IKM6 an the llkrn llementary Sehool lhey are am antl lohn Loekerham 'Klaee Blake Dobson bara Holeomb Vyalma lou Naehols Gene Imeks lam Parker Betsy Raehartlson Labhy Royall Iohnny Wagoner lo 'lounu anal Mareatet Llaek lour others starteal at the same tame an the North Llkm Ilementary Sthool Ihey are Arnella Carter Nusae Lauyer Nlartha Hayes ana Bobby lohnson The other senaors yaanetl these earher an the erale ar an haeh staoal The most unusual eyent of our elementary selaool eareer yyas that yye spent a yart at our ourth year an the hauh sehool bualalrne beeause our room at tu elementary sahoo la at been t am aazea by a yyantl storm sses to roam the halls ol l H S Wye yere wrou. ta t a e y haea st aa laualalmg that year r any jokes ysete matle about our uettane lost mtl e ne tontaasetl l at sa 1 t hnally emerazeel as freshmen Already beang veterans ol a year of haeh sehool late as freshmen yye yyere yyellatlyusteel and knevy the teaehers anal routane Lake all freshmen yye hal that nuye sell assurante that only lreshmen ean possess. We learneal a ureat eleal that year but yye alaal not partaeapate an many attryataes Xlass Naney Abernathy antl Mass Alaee Daxon yyere the freshmen sponsors Dunne our sophomore year yye beeame more ayy are ol our responsabalatres Neyeral al us vaent out lor yaraous sports Mr R H Abernathy yyas our sponsor that year ln our yunaor year yyrth the elalruent help ot Mrs Reete brllram our atlyaser yye enteretl wholeheartedly mto the elutxes anal responsrbalataes that yaere ours We sponsoretl a Mass I lkan Hauh contest, vyhach proyed very sueeesstul the tatle beanq yyon by 'lommy Io Darnell Our elass ranes came an December of that year Our class otlaeers yyere Irbby Royall presrtlent Gene Naeks yaee presaelent Peggy Walters seeretary anal Dosyyell Gentry treasurer ln Apral yye entertaaneal the senaors at a banquet at the Y M C A yyath musae by the Rebels Seyen members of our elass yyora letters for thear athletae abrlaty anal others yyon tlasrmetaon an speakane and an staente Ihe year yyas ehmaxeel on elass .lay when yye earraeel the tlarsy ehaan lor the senaors antl sane a lareyyell s any. to them We entereel our senaor year y hath has been a bust one yyath an enr yllment or thrrty nye students anelutlma, three yeterans Our elass ottaeers yyere Iohn Coekerh am presrtlent Dosyyell Gentry' yaee presatlent Pegey Walters seeretary and Gene Naeks treasurer Seyeral senaors lettereal an sports anal seyeral he-lel rmportant othees throuehoaat the sehool Our senaor sponsor thas year yyas Xiass Fmma Cooke anal she has been a very eapable one Thas year the Izlkan Sehools beeame a eaty sy stem untler the leatlershap ol Mr Nl H Carpen ICI A neyy lauhtetl athletae taelel yyas eompletetl thas year also Thrs as the seeonal year The Llk our annual has been publashetl antl yye shall alyyays remember the thouuhts yyhaeh yye haye yyratten here We are yery eratetul to our parents tor the opportunaty of attenalane haaah sehool antl to our teachers for thear thouuhttulness anal eonsaalerataon for us throuuhout the years yae yyere yyatla them Wrth larth an our homes ehurehes antl sehool as a basas me look loryy artl to the laature antl yylaat at holtls an store tor us NlargaretC,l1ek Hastoraan Class ol ll?-lb CLASS HISTORY

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