Fayetteville High School - La Famac Yearbook (Fayetteville, NC)

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June, 1939 At home DEAREST NAN, Thank you so much for the lovely graduation present. I still can hardly believe that high school days are over. Can you? Do you remember our first day at high school? We were so scared! And then, remember our first class meeting, when we elected officers. If you remem- ber, George Burriss was president, Frank Burton, vice-president, and Patsy Miller was secretary and treasurer. And then we selected for our class colors blue and gold, for our flower the sweet pea, and for our motto Truth Conquers All Things. At Commencement, that year, when Patsy Miller won the Schol- arship prize, we were so proud of her! After that, you left. We missed you 50 much. In September, '36, we began our second year of high school. A few mem- bers of the class were missing, there were a few new ones. For this year Frank Burton was president, Rupert Jernigan, vice-president, Mary Kennedy, secre- tary, and Anne Mclnnis, treasurer. Nothing of special importance happened to us that year. In the fall of 1937, we came back again as juniors. George Burriss and Frank Burton again were president and vice-president. Agnes Howard was secretary and Sam Wright was treasurer. In the spring of '38 we gave a Spanish Junior-Senior CI wrote about thatb. Robert Lee was chief marshall that year. Elise Rouse was the junior debater and Anne Burkehead won the Junior Stedman Essay prize. Then at last we became seniors. We could sit on the front seats in chapel, be the first to leave, and use the senior steps. Our officers for this all-important year were: Sam Wright, president, Mary Kennedy, vice-president, Eddie Joyner, secretary, and Mary E. Johnson, treas- urer. We finally picked these superlatives: Prettiest Girl-Elise Rouse, Most Courteous Girl and Boy-Cantey DeVane and Jack Stubbs, Best All-Round Girl and Eoy-Gladys Sessoms and Harold Townsend, Most Dependable Girl and Boy-Agnes Howard and Rupert Jernigan, Most Popular Girl and Boy- Mary Huske and Eddie Joyner. Donlt you think that we've had four very nice years of high school? I do. Write and tell me how youlve been getting along. Love, Polly. L -i N-16, g.Lxa.L,ELl. LJ 19

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'KQW MILDRED CATHERINE WATSON Alufayr Jmiling, never .rad,' Shelf the kind that never getf mad. Pineland Junior College '34: Basketball '34, RAYMAN LAMAR WILLIAMS He'I a good friend and witty, too, You newer tee him .rad or blae. A lady killer, a Jtadent bright, Whalerfer he doex, he doex right. XVilson High School '36, BETTIE LONDON WOOTEN A lady born. a lady bred, And in addition a fine level haed. Latin Club '36, '37 and Secretary of Latin Club '37: Home Economics '36, 373 De- bating Club '371 Girls' Hi-Y Club '33, '39 and Treasurer of Hi-Y '38 and Vice-President of Hi-Y '39: ,l0urnalism Club '38, '39 and Presidenr of Journalism Club '391 Dramatic Club '39: LAFAMAC Staff '39. SAM WRIGHT With the boyf, he'J a friend maker- With the girlr, he'J a heart breaker. Museum Club '37, Vice-Presiclentg Boys' Hi-Y Club '37, '38, '39 and Secretary '37 and Vice-President '39l Journalism Club '38, '39g Student Council '38, '39g Latin Club '36, '37, '38, '39Q LAFAMAC Staff '39, President of Senior Class '393 Treasurer '38, Social Com- mittee '38, '39. Seniors whose pictures Eu ,Hut Qppsar STACY HAIR WiJe lu rerolrfe, patient to perform, J. L. JOHNSON Fond of athletic! and a good time loo, I. L. ir a friend to me and to lyou. I MARY CATHERINE MELVIN M ' Sober, quiet, patient, and demare- A friend of whom you're alwayr If e. Glee Club '36, '37. JAMES ROBERTS jimmy liket Jporlt. la him they're a treat: He'd rather play football any day than eat. 18

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Miss GLADYS SEssoMs Heaven, Dean of Girls April 26, 1955 LaFayette University New York, New York Dear Gladys, Upon hearing that you were so ill, I decided to write you. That was a year ago. I was disappointed not to find you here, so I take it for granted you're still hanging on. Well, things have happened quickly. After I left you at the hospital, I saw Billy McLeod with Elise C Gay Divorcee D Rouse, and the dire shock of seeing him with a specimen of the female sex was too much. I fainted. When I awoke, I was surrounded by nurses. Eleanor Acker, Marcelle Bullard, Mary Frances Hall, Olga Kanos, Doris Ragan, and Mildred Watson were all looking at me and trying, I guess, to figure out whether or not I was real. In a small while three more nurses, Margaret Tripp, Marilyn Miller, and Jessie Warren came in, fol- lowed by, of all people, Doctor Dick Hurdis and Doctor Sam Wright with his inseparable assistants, Carter Twine and David Trice. With apologies for the on-lookers, Sam asked if E were ready for him to operate. That was too much! I died. After Doctor james Pittman helped them pronounce me truly dead, I was sent to the Lee Tatum-La Marr Williams funeral home. Here Katherine Sanson, Grace Quicke, and Ruby Hubbard, beauticians, tried to fix my hair so that I'd at least be buried a good-looking woman. From the funeral home I was flown to my cemetery in a plane piloted by John Mc- Gugan and jack Lunday. The Zooki of things almost made me wish I were alive again. Then the funeral. Do funerals make you nervous, Gladys? Your being so sick. . . Harold Townsend and Charles Broadfoot conducted my funeral. There were so many prominent people present. Doctor Charles King was there. Doctor Watson Lawhon was among the rest, and he certainly looked sad. They say he still can't make up his mind whether to return to kindergarten or not. CLea Brown is the principal-or principle-have it your way.J The famed business man, james Norris, was surrounded by his secretaries and stenographers, Mayme Ward, Hester Underwood, little Mary Kennedy Cwho is actually beginning to grow -two inches D, Helen Mann, Catherine Melvin, and Mary Louise McNeill. Thurman Bishop, james Raeford, and Howard Brown, the wealthy automobile factory owners, were sad on- lookers. I think they really came to hear Fred Owen make his speech-which was very touch- ing. Robert Bagley and Inez Dew wrote up my funeral for the Happy Herald, Mary Huske's society newspaper which is printed by Glenn Stevens. Robert Sherman rendered Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep , Thelma Beasley sang too, accompanied by Lucille Baker at the piano. Then the funeral ended. They covered me with dirt-not any too reverently, either. Gladys, getting here is an easy matter, but I had to have my lawyers, Mary Elizabeth Johnson and Harris Vinokur, argue Saint Peter into admitting me. Imagine the humiliation! I 'll stand by you, though. ' Not so much occurred until recently. Anne Evans, the New York Times star reporter, died of a broken heart in spite of the faithful administering of Doctor Annie Boone. Anne and I have done a great deal of talking lately. She told me that joe Melvin and Gregory Holmes own the worldis largest department stores, and they have hired, it seems, everything from clerks to stenographers and secretaries-all coming from Fayetteville. Minnie Lou 20