Etowah High School - Chief Yearbook (Etowah, NC)

Text from Pages 1 - 72 of the 1953 volume:

ee ee Dedication With love and deep appreciation, yet with a feeling of unworthiness, we--The Senior Class of Etowah High School,—dedicate this,--''The 1953 Chief}' to our dear friend and adviser, MRS. NELLE DOTSON, who has stood by us with willing loyalty and deep devotion as we journeyed through high school. Foreword Although our school, Etowah, is nestled in the foothills of The Great Smoky Mountains, we have chosen On Top of Old Smoky ' as our theme; since we believe that it potrays best the many ''ups and downs ! of life--school life. In publish- ing this book, we wish to leave behind a lasting memorial and a work of art and beauty of our senior year. . . A thing of beauty is a joy forever: : Its loveliness increases; it will never Pass into nothingness ! John Keats, ''Endymion' Contents TITLE DEDICATION FOREWORD GUL tas CLASSES ACTIVITIES ATHLETICS ADVERTISING Miwek. D. BRUCE, B.S., M.A. Vocational Agriculture Alright, boys MISS JOSEPHINE CURTO, B.S., M.A. English and French Trying is what counts’! MRS, NELLE DOTSON? B.S. Home Economics Quiet, Please ! MR. SAMUEL GEEK, B.S. Social Studies and Physical Education Put your feet on the floor, Danny ! MaeeciyDE PEEK, B:S., M.A. Economics and Physical Education Wouldn't trade the Juniors for any class in school'! Mano iUGCY G. SITTON, B.S. Commercial Take this letter for a copy MR, Hs. te siTTON,-5.S. Science and Principal Pencil and paper for a quiz'' Faculty MRS. CLARIBEL CLARK, B.S. Third and Fourth Grades Are you listening and do you understand now ?''! MRS. MARGARET A, COMBS, B.S. Fourth Grade Still pine, no more moving ! MRS. KATE DALTON, B.S. Third Grade Pretty is, pretty does MISS ADDIE DANIELS, B.S. First Grade Spell it MISS MARGARET GEORGE, B.S. Eighth Grade and Mathematics A little quiz, please MRS. VERA B. MORGAN, A.B. Sixth Grade Hurry ! MRS, EFFIE K. STEPP, B.S. Fifth Grade Everybody makes mistakes ! MRS, LOEE E. TURNER, B.S. Second Grade Use your brain ' MR. W. W. WORLEY, B.A., M.A. Seventh Grade and English Never ashamed not to know, only ashamed not to learn MRS, FAYE WRIGHT, A.B., B.E.D. First Grade Do unto others as you would have them do unto you OFFICERS PRESIDENT - John Love SECRETARY - Maudine Orr VICE PRESIDENT - Danny Johnson TREASURER - Griffin Kilpatrick Sk eter = MARGARET ANN GOSSETT Meg ! The only thing I can't resist is temptation. ' Glee Club 1,2; 4-H 1,2; FHA 1,2,3,4; Beta Club 3,4; Class Secretary 3; Marshal 3; Assistant snapshot editor of ''The Chief ; Junior Play; FHA Parliamentarian 4; FHA President 3; Beta Club Secretary 4. Ah, go sit ona tack! NEIL MARVIN GREER Geezer ! Just a shuffling along.' ' 4-H 1; FFA 1,2,3,4; Basketball 2,3,4; Monogram 2,3,4. Mi Reba 9) LOUISE HENDRICKS NTouw!! Live and learn''! FHA 1,2, 3,4; Glee Club 1; Junior Play. U@Ohpenowe JOE HENSLEY Joseph ! Studying and playing is fun, if I could play all the time. FFA 1,2,3,4; Baseball 2, 3, 4; Basketball 2,3,4; Monogram Club 3,4; Freshmen Class Officer; Advertising Manager of The Chief ; Junior Play; Monogram Club Vice President 4; FFA President 4. Nothing but money is sweeter than honey. ' DANNY JOHNSON Johnson Do unto others before they do unto you. ' FFA 1; French Club 3,4; Monogram 3,4; Boys' Basketball Manager; Treasurer of the Class 3; Vice President 4; Assistant Advertising Manager of ''The Chief''; Junior Play. Some fool stole my book, GRIFFIN KILPATRICK Stack ' 'Tis the mind that makes the body rich. FFA 1,2; Basketball 2, 3,4; French Club 3,4; Beta Club 3,4; Monogram Club 4; Class Treasurer 4; Monogram Club Presi- dent 4; Beta Club Treasurer 4; Junior Play; Business Manager Of hesGhietau John Loves Audrey Hunt. ' JOHN LOVE Burp What is worth doing at all is worth doing well. ' FFA 1,2; Basketball 2,3,4; Baseball 3,4; French Club 3, 4; Beta Club 3,4; Monogram Club 4; Editor of ''The Chief ; Junior Play; Class President 4; Monogram Treasurer 4; Beta Club Vice President 4; French and Algebra Award 3; Marshal 3. Griffin Mae or Mae Not! ERLINE McC ARSON DOD S Vau It is commendable to face life with your chin up, but don't forget to duck! FHA 1,2, 3,4; Glee Club 1,2, 3; Cheerleader 1,2; Monogram 2,3,4; 4-H Club 2, 3; Chief Marshal 3; Beta Club 3, 4; Snap- shot Editor of ''The Chief ; Junior Play; FHA President 2; Project Chairman 4; 4-H Club Secretary 2; President 3; Beta Club President 4; Monogram Club Secretary 4; Home Eco- nomics Medal 2; Class Sec. 2; President 3. Ah-----really ' VIRGLE McCLURE Mack'!'! Push, pull, or get out of the way. FFA 1,2,4; Monogram 1,2, 3, 4; Cheerleader 1,2, 3; Staff member of ''The Chief''; Junior Play. MmmmmmmmmmBoy. ROBERT McCombs Bobby A penny saved is a penny earned. ' FFA 1,2,3,4. 'Take the cash and let the credit go. ' 1953 PAS, Vee PERRY JOE MORGAN Poodle ! Conduct and courage lead to Honor ! FFA 1,2,3; Baseball 3,4; Beta Club 4; Assistant Business Manager of ''The Chief''; Stage Manager, Junior Play; Class Treasurer 1; Marshal 3. We ain't gentlemen. MAUDINE ORR 'Monk' '! T'm as innocent as a new laid egg. '! FHA 1,2,3,4; Glee Club 1,2; Beta Club 4; Class Vice Presi- dent 2; Class Secretary 4; Feature Editor of ''The Chief''; Usher Junior Play; FHA Vice President 4; Typing medal 3; Marshal 3. POn Ww Heck HILDA PARRIS The best is worth working for' ' EARL ALBERT SUMNER NAb Never sit on rubber tacks FFA 1,2,3,4; Monogram Club 2,3,4; Baseball 1,2, 3, 4, 5; Basketball 1,2,3,4; Class President 2; Staff member of the Chief ; Junior Play. Ow Baby. ' ROGER WHITESIDES Shine Don't do today what you can put off until tomorrow. ' FFA 1,3,4; Baseball 2; Basketball 1; Monogram 2, 3,4; As- sistant Editor of ''The Chief''; Junior Play; Secretary of FFA 4. Don't feel bad if you are not very bright when you finish Etowah, because the strong oak begana nut like you. ' Senlors WIXASE b Zar, A — Ce CB , — y Neil Greer, Louise Hendricks Griffin Kilpatrick, Margaret Ann Gossett John Love, Erline McCarson Bobby McCombs, Virgle McClure ee = | Eddie Love a Joe Hensley, Maudine Orr Joe Hensley, Erline McCarson Roger Whitesides, Louise Hendricks Earl Sumner, Hilda Parris Perry Morgan, Maudine Orr hi HL peal FL | ct gael Lae cs Shelia Gossett : three Up and One To Go - We aren't dignified,because we aren't Seniors. We have forgotten the sophistication we knew as learned Sophomores. To prove it, we frolicked with ghosts and goblins and climaxed the Fall Festival by crowning the king and queen of the night. The seniors, we sent out into the world with the traditional banquet... . Unlors OFFICERS Jimmy Allen, Treasurer; Frank Case, Vice President; Katherine Dalton, Presi- dent; Edna White, Secretary. ELAINE ADCOCK JIMMY ALLEN LUTHER BELL GERALD BRESNAHAN BRADY BRIGGS, JR. ROY BROGDEN FRANK CASE KATHERINE DALTON MAE GARREN WOODROW GIBBS LOUISE GRIFFIN JACKIE HAWKINS FRANCES HENDRICKS AUDREY HUNTSINGER Se ES NS He z Ag 02 fa micke 4 ae A = ea) H ae ge sg ge sl: VA RO) AOR Z, i ee a5 Tia 2 ZO aa Bl ODE le Lez) ed = = ets Sag Onn 295 at ae eg zE 183 2 sO As BH dae =o Sam 445 Sia ian MS fy 20h] Hw Climbing Upward We're just the usual run of Sohpomores, ripe enough to tell the Freshmen off. Mrs. Perry guided us through our first year but left the job to Mrs. Sitton for our second season at Etowah. We've had parties, gone skating, took field trips and occasionally studied. Hail to the '53-'54 Junior class, ‘cause we're IT! Sophomores OF FICERS Left to right: Billy Allison, Vice President; Gene Allen, Secretary; Wayne Sumner, President; Jimmie Cantrell, Treasurer. A Sophomores GENE ALLEN BILLY ALLISON HAROLD AUSTIN CLARA NELL BAYNARD JIMMY CANTRELL JANIE COLE LOUISE COSTON BILLY DALTON BOBBY DALTON VIRGINIA DAL TON PATRICIA FLETCHER RANDALL JACKSON LORRAINE MARONA MARIE GRACE METCALF DONALD McCARSON WAYNE MORGAN WYNN MORGAN RUSSEL NIX LARRY OWENS WAYNE SUMNER LORENA WEESE JUANITA WILLIAMS We Have Begun We may be Freshmen, but we were the biggest news on the campus this year. WHY? We have painted and cleaned, we have dramatized and pantomined, we have played, sung, and worked together without dispute or trouble, We may have been the babies, but we have proven ourselves worthy of being called high school students. With Miss Curto as our home-room teacher, we have done much and we plan to do a lot more in the three years yet to come ec eee OF FICERS Left to right: Bobby Drake, Vice President; Jackie Newman, Program Chairman; Joe Allison, Trea- surer; Maymie Jo Sumney, Secretary; Lloyd Wil- liams, President. ap Freshmen HAROLD ALLEN JOE ALLISON JOYCE ALLISON WANDA BRIGGS BOBBY DRAKE BOBBY HUGGINS MINNIE HUNTSINGER MARGARET JOHNSON RUBY JONES SYLVIA J. McCARSON PEGGY McCOMBS VERA MOODY JACKIE NEWMAN CLAIR ORR FREDDIE PARRIS JIMMY PHILLIPS GENEVA PRUITT MARY ELLEN RITTER CHARLES ROBINSON CLARENCE (BUD) STOVER MAYMIE JO SUMNEY EDWIN TALLEY JOE WHITE LLOYD WILLIAMS ea Eighth Grade G. D,. ALLEN MARGARET AUSTIN EV AS OW by ie 1s BOBBIE CANTRELL BOBBY J. CANTRELL ANN COX DONALD CROWDER BERNICE DALTON NORMA JEAN DALTON CECIL GARREN JANICE GREER JERRIE HENSLEY LEWIS HENSLEY MARY JOHNSON THOMAS JOHNSON MARGARET CAROLYN JONES DAVID KILPATRICK LOIS LEDBETTER JIMMY McCALL DOROTHY ANN McCARSON ZANE McENTIRE JEANETTE NESBITT KENNETH NICHOLSON JOAN NORTON LOU ELLEN OWENS CLAY PENLAND RICHARD RITTER SHIRLEY SOUTHER CAROLYN SUMNER FRANCES SUTTLES MARY JANE WEESE EUGENIA WILLIAMS wR |,aBy Seventh Grade DANIEL ADCOCK FREDDIE BAINES MONA JANE BANKS LOUISE BLANKENSHIP CAROLYN BLYTHE FRANK BRADLEY DOUGLAS BROWN RUBY CAMP WANDA CAMPBELL MARGARET CHESTAIN MELVIN CLONTZ BETTY CLONTZ JEANNENE COSTON DORIS DRAKE JIMMY FLETCHER LOWELL FLETCHER VERNON HUGGINS FLOYD JUSTUS ARNETTA LEDBETTER JACQUELINE McCRARY JANICE MOFFITT JAMES NESBITT WEBB NORRIS ANN NIX - DOUGLAS OWENS MARGIE ORR CONNIE FAY OWENS BUDDY PARRIS AUBREY PRINCE EUGENE PRUITT SHIRLEY RIDDLE LULA BELL ROBINSON JOHNNIE ROBINSON EWART SMITH JANICE SNODDY JIMMY SNYDER WANDA SUMNER SYLVENE WILKIE JOE E. YOUNG MR. WADE WORLEY, Teacher } Sepia San SR, NS ‘ Annual Staff Seated, left to right: Maudine Orr, Feature Ed- itor; Neil Greer; Louise Hendricks; Erline Mc- Carson, Snapshot Editor; Joe Hensley, Advertising Manager; John Love, Editor-in-Chief; Earl Sum- ner; Roger Whitesides, Associate Editor; Hilda Parris; Virgle McClure. Standing, left to right: Miss Curto, Adviser; Perry Morgan, Assistant Business Manager; Griffin Kilpatrick, Business Manager; Margaret Gossett, Assistant Snapshot Editor; Danny Johnson, Assistant Advertising Manager. Beta Club le Seated, left to right: Mrs. Lucy Sitton, Sponsor; Virginia Orr; John Love, Vice Presi- dent; Erline McCarson, President; Griffin Kilpatrick, Treasurér; Margaret Ann Gossett, Secretary; Lorena Weese; Maudine Orr. Standing: Mary Johnson, Audrey Huntsinger, Jimmy Allen, Perry Morgan, Randall Jackson, Katherine Dalton, Juanita Williams, Louise Coston. - Mes Cheries NOUS PARLONS FRANCAIS UN PEU, MAIS NOUS NOUS AMUSONS BEAUCOUP Monsieur Jacques Allen, President; Mlle. Maria Metcalf, Vice President; Mlle. Lorenea Weese, Secretary; Monsieur Francis Case, Treasurer; Mlle. Bettinia McCall, Program Chairman; et Mlle. Curto, La Maitresse. 4-H Club eae Gene Allen, President; Florence Robinson, Vice President; Wayne Sumner, Secretary; Mr. Sam Geek, Sponsor. Che Junior Audubou Club MISS MARGARET GEORGE, ADVISER co @.., ee ig ne@ MOTHER -DAUGHTER First Row: Audrey Huntsinger, Pat Fletcher, Clair Orr, Peggy McCombs, Maymie Jo Sumney, Mary Ellen Ritter, Treasurer; Elaine Adcock, President; Edna White, Secretary; Janie Cole, Clara Baynard, Louise Coston, Mrs. Nell Dotson, Sponsor. Second Row: Lorraine Marona, Katherine Dalton, Dolly Jean McKinna, Mae Garren, Wanda Briggs, Virginia Dalton, Minnie Huntsinger, Maudine Orr, Vice President; Vera Moody, Ruby Jones, Virginia Orr, Lorena Weese, Juanita Williams, Hilda Parris, Louise Hendricks. Not Pictured: Margaret Gossett, Erline Mc- Carson, Oi Seco heart ‘Oise Banquet FATHER-SON Joe Hensley, President; Virgle McClure, Vice President; Roger Whitesides, Secretary; Frank Case, Treasurer; Earl Sumner, Reporter; Mr. R. D. Bruce, Adviser. “ ARE Girls’ Basketball Louise Coston, Dolly Jean McKinna, Lorraine Marona, Wanda Briggs, Lorena Weese, Jackie Hawkins, Virginia Dalton, Minnie Huntsinger, Maymie Jo Sumney, Juanita Williams, Mr. Sam- uel Geek, Coach; Clara Baynard, Manager. Boys’ Basketball Left to right: Billy Dalton, Jimmy Allen, Wayne Sumner, Earl Sumner, Neil Greer, Russel Nix, Griffin Kilpatrick, Woodrow Gibbs, John Love, Joe Hensley, Roger Whitesides, Bobby Drake, Bobby Dalton, Harold Austin. In Circle: Mr. Clyde Peek, Coach; Danny Johnson, Manager. County, Regional, and District Champs; perhaps even State, Dorothy Ann McCarson, Margaret Carolyn Jones, Grace Metcalf, Katherine Dalton (Chief), Kathleen Randolph, Mary Jane Weese, Patsy Bell. Monogram Club First Row: Erline McCarson, Secretary; Joe Hensley, Vice President; Griffin Kil- patrick, President; John Love, Treasurer; Mr. Clyde Peek, Sponsor. Second Row; Dolly McKinna, Hilda Parris, Louise Coston, Lorena Weese, Lorraine Marona, Audrey Huntsinger, Jean Owens. Third Row: Roger Whitesides, Earl Sumner, Neil Greer, Woodrow Gibbs, Virgle McClure, Jimmy Allen. Baseball First Row, left to right: Russel Nix, Frank Case,Lloyd Williams, Donald McCarson, Harold Austin, Billy Dalton, Bobby Dalton, Wayne Sumner. Second Row: Manager Harold Allen, T. C. Williams, Perry Morgan, Virgil McClure, Roger Whitesides, Earl Sumner, Joe Hensely, John Love, Coach Clyde Peek. oe iene C lash : my Orve 2over ia. ve SIXTH GRADE, MRS, VERA MORGAN, TEACHER = FIFTH GRADE, MRS. EFFIE STEPP, TEACHER FOURTH GRADE, MRS, MARGARET COMBS, TEACHER THIRD AND FOURTH GRADES, MRS. CLARIBELL CLARK, TEACHER THIRD GRADE, MRS. KATE DALTON, TEACHER SECOND GRADE, MRS. LOEE TURNER, TEACHER FIRST GRADE, MRS, FAYE WRIGHT, TEACHER FIRST GRADE, MISS ADDIE DANIELS, TEACHER Joe Hensley, our Advertising Manager, his motto is: If at once, you do not succeed, try, try, again''...which he did as the following pages prove. ECUSTA PAPER CORPORATION Makers of THE WORLD'S FINEST CIGARETTE PAPER AND OTHER FINE THIN FLAX PAPER Pisgah Forest North Carolina Balfour Compliments of BERKLEY MILLS Located in Henderson County in The Land of the Sky ' Quality Products North Carolina — Compliments of AYERS’ STORE 'The House of Merchandise''! 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Brevard North Carolina Compliments of BELDING-CORTCELLI Finest Products Hendersonville North Carolina WE'VE REACHED THE TOP Not a cloud darkened the sky, that bright August morning in 1940,as a group of thirty-five shy, but eager first graders began their long climb up to the top of that misty covered mountain of education. Miss Blythe took the lead as guide and marching valiantly behind her were;Perry Morgan, Maudine Orr, Griffin Kilpat- rick, John Love, Virgle McClure, Neil Greer, Danny Johnson, Joe Hensley and a number of others, who were destined to fall along the way side. Although the going was rugged and the snow storms numerous, August, 1941, found Mrs. Tur- ner as guide for this little band, who had lost one member in a snow storm. The trail wound upward and more dangerous as in turn, Miss Randloph, Mrs. Parker, Mrs. Stepp, and Mrs. Morgan took the lead. Tears were shed for those who tum- bled into crevices, over cliffs, froze in snow storms; but the group lingered only long enough to pick up new members. Roger Whitesides hitched himself to the towing rope during the third lap of the journey and Margaret Ann Gossett joined the pilgrims while they were resting on the fourth lap of the climb, and they stopped to let Bobby McCombs, Earl Sumner, and Mary Louise Hendricks join them on the eighth turn. While shouting and rejoicing as the group, joined by Erline McCarson, entered upon the ninth lap of the journey, they saw at last their long sought goal in sight. As the weary, yet jubliant, pilgrims stood gazing upward through the snow and mist, striving to see the top, Mr. Peek tightened the climbing ropes, helped repack knapsacks, and gave first-aid to those who were beginning to weaken. Mrs. Dotson relieved Mr. Peek of this job as she chose to finish the long dangerous climb with the little group. Upward and over the tenth ridge, they climbed without disaster, but alas, during the eleventh lap of the climb, though Mrs. Dotson struggled fran- tically, three girls fell into the Pigeon River and were carried with the swirling tide into the sea of matrimony. It was during this phase of the struggle upward that they took out time to present a three-act play under the supervision of Miss Curto and to entertain their elders (the 1952 seniors) with an elaborate feast and frolic on the ''Merry-go-round of Life. Even as the group, in triumph, climbed the last lap of the long journey, evad- ing crevices and gorges, another member of the class, Hilda Parris, was swept down from the mountain into the sea of matrimony, At last, the smoke has cleared from the mountain, our long hike is finished, our days of sorrow and woe are over, our guides are now leaving us on our own as we face the tomorrow. In our hands, we hold the passports to our future, in our minds, we hold pictured of what is be- fore us, but in our hearts we hold dear memories of cherished friends and teachers who helped us, memories of joys, triumphs, and sorrow shared, and memories of twelve years of life,that is now past, seemed so short, As we stand, fourteen triumphant in our climb, we are a bit afraid of what lies on the path down on the other side, but with faith in God in mankind, we are ready to start our trip down, THE 1953 SENIORS Indisputable Facts ETOWAH BRICK Build better homes-Upkeep is less Beauty is lasting-Home is more enduring Hendersonville North Carolina =) ih vy Satis coe % . ie ee es HAUunTAAL TIE geeagiar tse sscceeese eS =] seine te en et es: EEG: ee : EROS = pr rer: as