Fair Grove High School - Twig Yearbook (Thomasville, NC)

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Patricia, child you’ve wondered why your Granny spends so much time looking at this old black book, so come here and I’ll tell you about it and myself. It’s my old high school annua 1, The 1950 Twig” and the story of my class mates. If you wish I’ll tell you about them. The smallest girl in our room Jo Ann Fonts acquired great recognition as a violinist. And Rich- ard Beck became well-known as the director of the Great Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall. Most of the people reach great heights in some way or another. James Holshouser reached the top as a great artist of nature; and James Myers as a shrewd business man, builder of pre-fabricated houses. Bunk Kennedy and Donald Dorsett also set up a good business of running the town’s most used pool room. Bill Reece became a Deputy Sheriff and John Watford an important policeman. Donald Beck became familiar in this country and several others as The Ambassador from the U. S. When traveling by air he always employed Lerov Coggins to pilot his plane for him. Jerry Bodenheimer organized a hill billy band with Earnest Lambeth as assistant director and vocalist of the western songs. Vonnie Beck acquired the title of Clark Gable the second.” He had as his director Carol Myers. She also directed other movies; some with Barbara Anderson acting like a second Betty Hutton. Maurice Coman was costume designer for these movies. Some famous writers are in here too. Jo Ann Hedrich holds the job of writing scripts used on the John Collett-Evelyn Suggs Coneduan Act. Then there’s Junior Nance, the whit who always writes the chuckles for the Greensboro Daily Paper. And Edith Bevan the Thomasville News Writer for The Dispatch. Lorene Proctor was Colleen Beck’s personal secrtary in Colleen’s occupation of political orator. Bar- bara Hamilton became make-up director for a Ladies Magazine. Jo Ann Smith became a Home Economics teacher, and Ruth Ward a kindergarten teacher, in a school nursery. Polly Rothrock stayed single and runs a pet shop, while long-legged Lucille Hightower became a teacher for acrobatic swimming. Faye Bumgardner traveled as a saleswoman and Bernice Beck was her director and sold cosmetics. So that is the happy story of the class of 1950 which ended well.

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Ida±t M i[L and We the Senior Class of Fair Grove High School, being of meager minds and feeble bodies, do here- by declare, assert and relate by due process of all law and order, et cetera, et cetera, that this parch- ment bears our last will and testaments as stated below. Thus said, we who are escaping make these, our last bequeaths and bequests: Article I. I, Leeroy Coggins, do bequeath my outstanding intellect, colossal vocabulary and assort- ment of medals to Richard Hughes. Article II. I, Edith Bevan, do impart my flirtatious nature, and my come hither” look to Amogene Lambe. Article III. To Betty Beck, I, Lucille Hightower leave my elaborate height. Article IV. To Margaret Jarrett, I, Faye Bumgardner, will my motorcycle. Article V. I, Donald Dorsett, leave my entire collection of freckles with lotions of love to Junior Smith. Article VI. To Max Cranfield, I, Walter Lee Kennedy, bequeath my complete index of tardy excuses. Article VII. I, Evelyn Suggs, will my constant gabble and chatter to Evelyn Blackburn. Article VIII. I, Ernest Lambeth, will my mathematical precision to Dale Kennedy. Article IX. I, Jo Ann Smith, will my special made hair waves and curlers which keep the ripples in my own golden wig to Sylvia Sowers. Article X. To Betty Joyce Connor, I, Jo Ann Fouts leave my vitamin pills and to Jack Stiles my small figure. Article XI. I, Barbara Hamilton, will my place as chief cheerleader to Frances Coman or Nancy Little. They will be chosen by the one who has the loudest yell, and my name as Weasel” to Grace Hensley. Article XII. I, Patty Clodfelter, will Romeo to Nancy Embler and my courting place in the li- brary to Clyde Dickens. Article XIII. To Junior Smith, I, Vonnie Beck, will my ability to leave school to hoe wheat. Article XIV. 1, Junior Nance, will my legs” to Betty Joyce Connor. Article XV. To Sylvia Sowers, I, Ruth Ward will my dry wit. Article XVI. I, John Watford, will my horse laugh to Lois Gordon. Article XVII. I, James Holshouser will 20 pounds to Charles Westmoreland. Article XVIII. I, Billy Reece will my ability to date Queenie” to Tommy Pearson and my school bus to Jerry Manuel. Article XIX. I, Lucille Hightower, will part of my slenderness to Libby Freeman and part to Sylvia Sowers. Article XX. To William Bodenheimer, I, Colleen Beck, will my voice so soft and sweet. Article XXL To Doris Holshouser, I, Barbara Anderson, will my name Queenie.” Article XXII. I, John Collett, will my No. 12 to Golda Garner. Article XXIII. To C. L. Money, I, Richard Beck will my blond hair. Article XXIV. To Norman Hill, I, Maurice Coman leave my cooking and sewing ability. Article XXV. I, Carol Myers, leave my sweet disposition to Coy Lomax. Article XXVI. I, James Myers, will my good health to Frances Craddock. Article XXVII. I, Donald Beck, will my nickname Red Crow” to Peggy Slate. Article XXVIII. I, Bernice Beck, will my book learning to Darrell Floyd. Article XXXIX. I, Jo Ann Hedrick, will my love for English Grammar to Odell Gallimore. Article XXX. I, Jerry Bodenheimer, will my singing ability to Ralph Bodenheimer, and my whis- kers to Kenneth Morris so he can shave. Article XXXI. I, Lorene Proctor, will my answers to my history questions to Ronald Dennis. Article XXXII. I, Pauline Rothrock, will my dark brown tresses to Kirby Slate. Article XXXIII. To the Sophomores, we leave all the carvings and etchings on the walls and desk . Please continue all clever remarks and tit-tat-toe games which were left uncompleted probably on ac- count of some rude teacher. Thus spoken, we take our leave sealing this the 26th day of May nineteen hundred and fifty. WITNESSES: THE SENIOR CLASS Bugs Bummy Pistol Packin’ Mamma Barbara Hamilton, Lawyer.