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

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LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT To our principal, we, the Senior Class, leave gratitude from the depths of our hearts lor all the efforts you put forth to make our career at FGHS a profitable one. To the faculty, we leave the underclassmen in your capable hands, your constant struggles, that you may spur them on to assume the essential basis for a good education. lll To the Class of '55: l. Bobby Suggs wills his love for stock car races to Frances Snyder. 2. Charles Surratt wills his ability to learn Macbeth to Sherrill Floyd. 3. Mary Floyd wills her ability to get a boy friend to Tinia Ember. 4. Doris Carpenter wills her shorthand book to Arlene Hill. 5. Helen Swaney wills her black hair to Patricia Snider. 6. Betty Freedle wills her ability to skip classes to Maxine Harris. 7. Loretta Dorsett wills her ability to do the Charleston to Dorothy l-licks. 8. Richard Sechrist wills his love for sports to Jimmy Cline. 9. Donald Poole wills his ability to make excuses to Jimmy Newsom. IO. Marlene Suggs wills her ability to get along with people to Norma Albright, who really doesn't need it. ll. And l, Doris Smith, will my chair on the front row to Fonda Embler. IV To the Class of '56: We leave the encouragement and the hopes that you will attain your goal with success. V To the Class of '571 We bequeath our fondest hopes and extra strength that your three years in high school will be the best ever. DORIS SMITH, Class Testator. Sponsored by THOMASVILLE HARDWARE

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CLASS PROPHECY Hi Peanut, I ran across Helen Swaney, you remember her, the little black-haired girl with bounds of energy? I saw her at the Air Port where I was buying tickets to Hawaii-l've iust finished ECTC and have a chance to teach down there-well to get to the point-I saw Helen at the Air Port and she's a Stewardess lor Pan American Airlines. She meets the most amazing people. She told me that she had seen tn person that great comedy team-Suggs and Floyd. You remember Mary Lewis and Bobby, don't you? It seems they went to Hollywood and became a howling success. While I was at the Air Port, Richard Sechrist came in to buy a ticket for Florida. He says he's coming dawn to help your huge Athletes Haven you're running. By the way-congratulationsl I never see any ol the ata crass ol '54, our gosh, do I hear about them. Have you heard about Marlene Suggs and Jeanene Rothrock being in Africa doing great religious work with the natives? Oh yesl and that Margaret Pierce-she always was a great one for dramatics-well she's on elegant Broadway star now. Is it true that you have the great coaches, Jerry Doby and Donald Poole helping you down there? How did you ever manage to get them? And did you know that Joann Elliott besides keeping house for Donnie and the two boys is managing all of Leach's Coles? The last time l saw Betty Freedle, she was a little ole' nurses' aide at the Thomasville Hospital but new-I read in Life magazine she is in demand at every hospital in the United States. Peggy Segers when she wrote And, by the award for his safe drivin way, I is living a nice quiet life in the little town of Segersville-they named it after her that great book of hers. read in the paper the other day that Albert Parrish received some kind of g at Johnson Motor Lines. And do you remember how Sherrill Morris always had so much ta say in class? I read yesterday that he's one of the few When you wrote and School I didn't realize t great men trying to keep the tillibuster in action. I hope he succeeds. asked me to send news of all our old classmates from Fair Grove High here were so many. Doris Carpenter is assistant to her father now and they're managing a chain of Drive-ln Trheatres from coast to coast. Ohl and I almost forgot to mention Loretta Dorsett Wall had twins the other day and they're the cutest little fellows I Talk about Stock Car Man, you've never seen Remember when Max he's started buying and Have you ever heard She was Chief Cheerlead Jerry Stiles had such who realized it. I guess New York. And that Bill Nifong, VB SVBI' SBSH. Drivers and you've never seen the beat of Charles Stewart and Leon Dennis. driving until you see them. They're heck on wheels. Hughes's father gave him that Chevrolet-it seems he liked them so well selling them. He's really working up a neat business. of a school for cheerleaders? Well, Delores Clinord sure did start one. er at Fair Grove and at college too. She's got a lot to teach them. a good speaking voice at school, and it sems we weren't the only ones you read that he was chosen one of the ten best orators in the state ol What do you think of his teaching the Great Charlie Justice's children how to play football. Looks like yau'll have to include him in your All-Stars. Doris Smith has started a Private School for Girls, but I reckon you've heard about the famous Smith School for Girls. Einstein got himself a great assistant when Edward Hicks helped him prove how many atoms are in a breath of air-or something like that. Someone sent Joyce Fout's picture into the studios at Merto'Golden-Mayer and they liked the looks of it so much they sent her a contract for life. And you remember Marie Gabby Anderson. She's taken Judy Canova's place on radio and T. V. and she really is swell. You've probably heard of Young's Construction Company and the head man is none other than Willie Joe Young. And have you heard of the elaborate horse ranch that Betty lou Leonard is running in Texas? Now, let me see I classmates of '54, think that's everybody. Write and let me know if you know any news of our You and Richard be sure and produce a bunch of All Stars at that Athlete's Haven of yours. Just Write to Me in Hawaii- Bye now, PEGGY JONES Sponsored by BLACK LUMBER CO. ff' E 'v