Franklin High School - Retrospect Yearbook (Mount Airy, NC)

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COMMENCEMENT Thursday, June Third Processional Invocation ♦ v Ch o r us, ,? B 1 o s s the Lore ?? fc r « t (.Congregation Standing) IvanofT High School Chorus Address .Rev Frank Jordan, P.a.stor Eiipst Methodist Church Chorus, ' ? Corne, there The Lillies Bloom” - -Thompson Girls 1 Glee Club Awarding of,Medals.Mr.JvG. Hiatt Mr.Ralph Wiggin Awarding of Diplomas. . Mr.-H.S. Broome, Principal Benediction . . . . . ; . . . Marshals Helen Stone (Chief) Annie Laura Lambert • Rosa Nichols Myrtle Phillips , ' Wanda Golding Louis Allred Morris Hodge Honor Students Wilma Frances Broome ; . Edgar.Hodge Jimmie Shelton Pauline.Thomas Frances. Quesinberry • Lucille Leftwich Bernice Noonkester ; : ; Betty Lou Lawrence Nat Jones

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I L Agl 1 SENIOR PLAY ’’Meet My Wives” by Jay Tobias Characters , v . Donald Byrd . .Billy C.Belt on Betty Lou Lawrence .’ ' Wilma ' F» Broome .Baxter Smith Billy Zanders, in ' love ' with Ann.- Hank Ivans, his pal. ....... Tessie Feimberger, the Dutch cook. Loretta Ware, who rules the rooso. A1 i x War e , h e r hu sb an d. Cuddles T a Rose, a chorus girl . . Katherine Blackburn Miss Prudence Whitney, who want to wed Frances Quesin-berry Ann Whitney, her younger sister. , .Bernice Noonkester Claf Swanson, essie’s boy friend. ..... Mat Jones Mrs, Thurston Thwacker, Alls’s Mother-in-law Hester Quesinberry Uncle Zebediah Zanders, Billy 1 s uncle. , . Edg ar Hodge A ' A ' ' A ' A ' ;« A ' -I ' A ' Time: An early fall evening « W , H Place: A in a Midwestern City vU « v ' y O O ' i r -i r a ' a N ' r Synob-sis of Acts Act I: Act II: The livin ' ? room of Alix and Loretta Ware’s home, about six o’clock of an afternoon in early fall The same as Act I. A few minutes later. Act III. The same as in previous acts. A minute or two after the close of Act II. A ' U A ' A A ' A ' A ' A ' W Music . . .Mildred Beamer 2 tage Manager. . Jack Miller and Donald Blackburn Director..Mrs! William R. Locklear r Emergency Director Miss Louise. Kendall I,. ' - ' Furniture by Courtesy of Fuller Furniture Comoany Marshals: Lucille Lefjbwicfy Mary Lou Hooker, Adele Caudle, auline Thomas., Albert Easter, Bobby Holder. ' ‘ WW :;c A ' A ' =! ' A ' rjrn WMM m mm wjfw

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I r j. ' •f hie) Or 4 o 3V NAT JONES A11 classes , that 1 have graduated front FFranklin School since 19.29 have been an honor to this Alma Ma¬ ter and we believe that the Class of 1948, my class will carry on this tradition 0 • . We entered high school in v. 1944, fifty-three strong. We t tero green, young and. sophisticated and thought we had to study. We numbered so many and were so ignorant we had to have two home room teach¬ ers , Mrs, Pearl Hatcher Starling ana Mrs. Louisa Johnson Jordan, Due z o th§ fact that we were in two rooms, we did not effect a class Organization. Our social life was rather limited. We had a Christmas party in our home rooms. and our class par¬ ty in the gym - ' ■■■■ ' .. ;; ' ’ ' ' 1 But we were trying to learn th r;opes ' of ‘’high school. Slowly, but surely our class ’ was winning honors. The following w ere Boy Scouts: Bill Belton, Nat Jones, Ivan Bowman Donald ' Blackburn, Donald Byrd, and Jimmie Shelton. In basket ball, Billy Grey Bel¬ ton and Baxter Smith were beginning to make aa name for themselves. Katherine, Wilma,:and Betty . Itried their luck .at , cheer leading, so you see we were be¬ ginning to. take our ' part-’in the extra curricula act¬ ivities of the High School. By the close of our Fresh¬ man year we numbered only fifty, but we.were look¬ ing forward to our Sophomore year. Forty-five important Sophomores returned for our second year in High School and all our greenness was gone--This year all forty-seven of us had Mrs. . Star¬ ling as our home room teacher, and did we have ; a mer¬ ry classl We organized our class with the fbllowing officers: . ».■• . ■ • » 4 ‘ l r .f ' , , President. .... Billy G, Belton ; Vice-President . ...Jimmie Shelton Secretary. . . . . v v -Edgar Hodge , t Treasurer. .... .Gladys Gravley k Again Billy Grey Belton , and Baxter Smith were making a name for themselves and ■ our class in basket ball. As Baxter ahd Billy Grey,played ball, Frances Quesinberry and Adele Caudle lead yells. One rather f