Elkin High School - Elk Yearbook (Elkin, NC)

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SUPERLATIVES 1. Jean Eiclson . Most Athletic Sam Shugart . Most Athletic 2. Jenny Transou Most Popular, Best All- Around. Best Personality Jack Pardue . Most Popular. Most Original. Best All-Around. Best Personality, Friend¬ liest, Best Dressed 3. 4. 5. Jean Brown Clifton Boger Most Dignified Most Dignified Anne Elmore .... Best Mannered Hal Stuart . Best Mannered Barbara Phillips . Most Attractive, Best Dressed Bob Lawrence . Best Looking 13

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1 1 . Dixie Carter . Cutest 4. Tip Freeman . Cutest 2. Louisa P.oth . . Mast Original. Wittiest 5. Oliver Rushing . Wittiest 3. Joan Olsen . . . Best Sport, Friendliest Bill Jurney . Best Sport SENIOR Sue Shugart . Most Ambitious , Most Studious. Most Industrious . Most Apt to Succeed Winnie Luffman . . . Most Intelligent Hal Stuart . Most Studious, Most Intelligent. Most Ambitious , Most Apt to Succeed, Most Industrious ! 12

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LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT We, the members of the graduating class of 1949, having successfully com¬ pleted our high school careers, wish to leave some remembrance, although it be small, of our personal characteristics, traits, and possessions. Being of sound body and at least moderately sound mind, we do hereby make this our last will and testament, hereby revoking and voiding all previous wills by us heretofore made. For at any previous time we cannot be held responsible for the state of our mind. We sincerely hope that the heritage we leave with those who follow us will bring back pleasant memories and will inspire future students to higher realms. I, Jean Brown, bequeath my lovely protruding incisors to Polly Bivins. I, Jack Pardue, bequeath my long, cur¬ ly hair to B ob James. I, Colleen Darnell, bequeath my ability to make oral talks to Jimmy Lashmit. I, Anne Elmore, bequeath my undying love of Coach Watts to some one in next year’s chemistry class. I, Oliver Rushing, bequeath all the rent I have paid on my well-used booth in Turner’s to Dale Aldridge if he is will¬ ing to make regular payments. I, Kay Cheek, bequeath my way with the teachers to Nancy Gambill and Greta Cheek. I, Buddy Welborn, bequeath my posi¬ tion as last man on the scrub team to Mickey Wagoner. I, Sam Shugart, bequeath my ability to brown nose’’ the teachers to Alvin Eld- ridge. I, Ruby Elinchum, bequeath my red hair to Maxine Couch. I, Ervin Guyer, bequeath my ability to almost get by without a driver’s license to David Erancis. I, Sara Martin, bequeath my seat in D. O. to anyone who is lucky enough to get it. I, Vanice Gentry, bequeath my five feet to Beatrice Snow. I, Norma Sue Hayes, bequeath my Betty Grable figure to Edith Miller. I, Bill Jurney, bequeath my corkscrew arm to the lucky person who’ll be using the electric mimeograph machine next year. I, Jim King, bequeath my fascinatin’ way with wimmen’’ to Charles Graham. I, Sass” Phillips, bequeath my crew cut to Bonnie Jane Hall if she thinks she can use it. I, Hal Stuart, bequeath my position on the football team to Jim Harris. I, Jean Eidson, bequeath my love for basketball to anyone who is willing to stick out practice every day. I, Tip’’ Freeman, bequeath my LiF Abner shoulders’’ to A. C. Cockerham. I, Clifton Boger, bequeath my ability to appear dignified to Abie Harris. I, Gilda Money, bequeath my naturally blond hair to Jerry Barnett. I, Ethel Milan, bequeath my freckles and all that goes with them to Anna Lee Osborne. We, Bob Lawrence and Sonny Black¬ burn, bequeath our six shooters to Bob Creed if he thinks he can handle them. I, Dixie Carter, bequeath my cute nose to Joanne Darnell. We, Nathan Lovelace and Garth Payne, bequeath our old faithful trombone to any one with wind enough to play it. I, Roberta Woodruff, bequeath my quiet manner to Dannie Travis. I, Jerry Wall, bequeath my bow legs to Mary Liles Freem.an. I, Philip Mathis, bequeath my height to Johnny Stroud. I, Sue Shugart, bequeath my Einstein brain to Jackie Caudel. I, Sally Transou, bequeath my sweet Southern drawl to Mary Jo Hudspeth. I, Conrad Tharpe, bequeath my position as manager of Graham and Click to Helen Moncus. I, Ruth Phillips, bequeath my happy married life to Jim Harris and Frances Crowe. Continued on Page 21 14