Four Oaks High School - Acorn Yearbook (Four Oaks, NC)

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IT ' S IS THE STARS As you approach the modern spacious school you wouldn ' t recognize it to be Four Oaks unless you were a struggling student in the good ole days along with me and could pick out a few reminders of past years overlooked by the architects and masons. people thronging toward this center remind you vaguely of an army headed for a treasured crumb. And why ore all people moving toward Four Oaks High as if by a magnet? Because they are drawn by a in the form of Ann Langster, stage name for Ruth Lassiter. Ruth is the current rage of all movie fans in year of 1962. She is making a personal appearance satisfy popular requests and to renew acquaintance her classmates of ' 52. Some of the early arrivals are a general social hour in the large air-conditioned hall. As soon as I step into the hall, I notice a migh- miiiar walk. It ' s Airlee Barbour, of course. She informs me she is coaching basketball team in Philadelphia and assures me she couldn ' t hold the team together without the help of Shirley Coats, her assistant. As a group of chattering girls breeze by, I hail them because I recognize them to be Geraldine Johnson, Sylvia Brock, Edith Massengill, Flora Lane, and Willa Mae Price. It ' s news to me when they gaily tell me they are typists in the offices of Glenn Barnes, a business tycoon in Chicago. At the fountain nearby I wait for a matronly looking woman to give her little twin boys a drink. When she lifts her head, I know it ' s Doris Baker. She tells me she and Odis have four kids now. As I start back, a tall man knocks my purse out of my hand, and, with his apologies, J. G. Medlin tells me he is publisher of the new magazine in New York, The Roving Eye. It ' s not surprising to hear that Gladys Hatcher and Sollie Holley are his art editors. Shirley Hayes writes serials for his popular magazine. He also informs me that his secretary is Wilma Stanley and his receptionist, Lois Parker. My eye wanders over the ever-increasing throng, and I recognize Doris Jean Allen and Jewel Lassiter, owners of the Rise and Shine Beauty Salon. Their co-workers in this exclusive shop are Betty Lee Baker, Marie Barbour, and Geraldine Beasley. I ask Jewel where she got her stunning hot and she of ants these drawn magnet Ann this here to with having ty fa- a girls ' says she bought it from Bea ' s tham. Hearing a loud hello, I in the furniture business mischievous doings of a pupil Hat Box, owned by Beatrice Johnson and Joyce Gran- look up and see Orville Love and Hilton Byrd. They are Four Oaks. Then I hear someone complaining about the (Sarah Barbour ' s youngster). I smile as I recognize Katherine Cox, Marjorie Barefoot, and Mary Jane Up- church. They are teachers in Four Oaks School and I hear that Four Oaks has two new music teachers— Faye Brown and Jo Ann Lee. Jean Lassiter and Lindsay Parker are coaches of the ball teams known all over the world. Suddenly I cringe as someone gives me a wallop on the back. 1 turn around, furious, but my anger changes to pleasure when I see Woylon Johnsor., Harrison Allen, and Edsel Johnson. Waylon and Edsel are producers of the new films featuring the singing star— Harrison Allen! They tell me they just got in from Hollywood on the Spirit of ' 52, a rocket speed train with a jolly engi- neer, Thomas Price, and an obliging conductor, Bobby Powell. They came to the school in a taxi from Walt ' s Taxi Company, owned by Walton and Durwood John- son. Just then two things suspiciously like Indians tear by with ear-splitting yells, and in hot pursuit are two perspiring and bothered mothers— Evelyn Johnson and Margaret Massengill. Two very efficient looking girls stand near the door. They are Jerline Allen and Louettie Massengill, secretaries to Ray Allen and Shelton Bar- bour, owners of a life insurance company in Four Oaks. Their most promising salesman is Horace Keene. Norma Grey Blackmon, head nurse at Four Oaks Hospital, informs me that her latest patient is Evelyn Hansley who swallowed a safety pin while attending to her baby ' s urgent needs. Haywood Lee, the town ' s favorite doctor, operated, and Catherine Allen, a nurse, assisted. Now it is near curtain time and old friends stream in to hear Ruth, their friend of high school days. All this news I have gqthered will make Iris ' s Idle Ideas interesting when the column appears in The Roving Eye tomorrow.

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Jin FACULTY MR. JAMES BRYAN CREECH Science MR. J. T. HATCHER Principal MRS. RUTH HATCHER Mathematics, Latin MRS. KAY P. WILKINS English, French MISS LENORA PATTERSON Librarian MRS. JARVIS BRYANT Music MRS. NORMA PARRISH English MR. JOHN SANDERSON Agriculture

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