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PROPHECY They told me I must prophecy, but alas I am no prophet. As I pondered all weak and weary, I tried to dip into the future to see what my classmates would be doing ten years hence. As I nodded before the firelight I closed my eyes to think. Soon I was fast asleep. Suddenly it seemed as if 1 were wide awake and I saw my classmates as they will be in 1964. First, I saw Elsie Hodges Davenport settled down at home caring for theirfour children while Leonard is the mana¬ ger and owner of Davenport ' s Meat Market. Jill Laughridge is back at F.H.S. coaching basketball. All the players seem more interested, especially the boys. The Slabtown and Welch Bridge Community Beauty Shops are owned and operated by Wanda France and Dorothy Sechriest. They have more customers than they can accommodate. Norma Faye McHone is secretary to the Governor of North Carolina. She got her start by helping in the F.H.S. office in 1954. Roy Beasley has the biggest duck and fish foundation in dog-patch. He got his start from the little pond he had down below his house while he was in high school. Our housewives are Mildred Easter, Sarah Jones, and Ernestine Collins. Mildred finally finished dairy training at Lawson ' s Dairy, but she is now caring for the children. She likes this better than tending to cows. Sarah is very happy living in the Cana Virginia Hotel tending to the six kids while Willie is striving for a promotion as dish washer at the State Line. Ernestine is being kept busy tending to their twins, Jim and Joe, and working on the Cole Farm, Route 10, New York, trying to keep Paul fat. Jewell Holder and Cleo Stanley are married and living down in the heart of Bunker Woods farming and building a large barn to take care of their livestock. They spend their night time tending to the six kids. If you go to Washington, stop by the basement of the White House and see Christine Angel doing secretarial work for the President. She got her experience by graduating from Franklin Business College at Toast. Jean Williamson is now employed by the Slabtown Music Conservatory giving music lessons to all young people over fifty. Oklas Harold and Leroy Hawks now have a used car lot located near Buck Shoals Pond. They have a lot of trade. They got their mechanical experience by working on Okie ' s car, pushing it up hills and riding down them. Mac Gwyn is driving a corn meal truck from Toast to Pine Ridge. He has about five customers, stopping from house to house, to serve them. After graduating from State College where he majored in agriculture, Donald Frye is now raising White Legorn chickens on his chicken farm at Lowgap. Blackberry Cabs are owned and operated by Woodrow Jackson, located at Bannertown - day and night service. Quick Service Always is Woodrow ' s slogan. A new addition to Bill Monroe ' s Band is Willard Niston. He plays the mandolin, banjo, or guitar. He started his career at F . H.S. playing between the acts of plays. James Wood is owner and operator of the Toast Meat Market. Specializing in horse legs and hamburger meat. Joe Bunker, James Shelton, and Wilburn Blackburn are driving airplanes for the Piper ' s Gap Airlines owned by David Hall and Hampton Beamer. They make non-stop trips from Piper ' s Gap to the airport in Dobson. The patients at Pilot Mountain Hospital are under the care of Shirley Draughn, Sue McKinney, Joyce Hill, and Joy Mae Thomas. Not many patients, but what few there are, are really sick. The nurses received their training at the Hunter Hospital in France. Iris Nichols is back at F.H.A. teaching the first grade after completing her education at Guilford College. All the kids seem to love their pretty teacher. Mona Scott, Dot Beasley, and Mary Lou Bowman are charming hostesses working with Eastern Airlines. Their headquarters are in New York City. Jackie Coe is married and living with Roy who is in the Air Force in France. She is also taking her basic training now, while Nancy Hooker is learning to swim along behind the ship of which Tommy is Captain. Pat Hall is still rambling around working here and there. She can ' t decide whether to settle down now or not, or which man she wants. Pat Jones is very happy now. She is married to Bobby. They have four children. Pat is serving as bookkeeper for Bobby at his service station. Roland Jones is now owner and operator of the Plastic Plant. After being a steady employee for ten years he final ly made it. Bobby Gunter is working at a barber shop shining shoes. He got his start from his nickname Shine at dear old Franklin. Bobby Hodges, who is coaching football at Lambsburg, has won all his football games so far, and has been voted the most outstanding coach for five consecutive years. Fred Wilson owns a big business concern in Winston-Salem. He sells watermelons in the summer and salad and turnip greens in the winter. Donald Harold is teaching swimming lessons to a school of 100 girls. All the girls seem to like their instructor. Reid Vernon and Roger Shelton are with a circus. Part of their job is to sit and let people pay to look at them. Another job is training lions. Mable Gravley and Douglas Nichols are the two best dressed models in Pilot Mountain. They got their start by being the best dressed at school. Wade Macey has his own band organized. He is making personal appearances throughout the summer season in Atlantic City. Vance King is chief executive of the Modern Television Channel, located at Laural Bluff. His able assistants are Max Hiatt and C. W. Faulkner. Just then the clock struck twelve and I awakened with a bound, but the vision I had seemed so clear that I had to tel I my classmates. Dot Beasley PROPHETESS
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ITEM V To All Freshmen Classes at Franklin, the desire to become Seniors with four years of many activities. The following gifts are distinctively our own to pass on to others; 1. Oklas Harold s ability to get along in two English classes goes to Hugh Simmons who can ' t get along in one class. 2. Bobby Gunter and Christine Angel ' s inability to follow instructions to Blanche Boyd who delights in precision. 3. Mildred Easter ' s laugh to Barbara Harrell who has never been seen to smile. 4. Woodrow Jackson and Willard Niston ' s habit of courting to Gray Morrison who has never been seen courting. 5. The ability of Vance King, class president, to Selben Snow, Junior President, to crystalize class cliques into a functioning class. 6. Dot Beasley and Dot Sechriest ' s chuminess to Gary Holder, the Lone Ranger. 7. Roy Beasley ' s knack of saying yes ma ' am to James Marion, who is so apt to say UH-HUH, 8. The lady-like manners of Mary Lou Bowman to Elaine Bunker who is so tomboyish. 9. Wilburn Blackburn ' s lack of punctuality to Faye Hiatt who is promptness personified. 10. The athletic ability of Jill Laughridge and Max Hiatt to John Caricoe, who doesn ' t know a basketball from any other round object. 11. Iris Nichols ' stubborn hair to Jo Ann Tolbert whose hair stays put. 12. The sparkle of Nancy Hooker ' s eyes and her love of conversation to Raymond Holder who never sparkles or talks. 13. C. W. Faulkner, Jr. ' s ability of adapting himself to any group or situation to Wayne Tolbert who never knows what to do or say. 14. Donald Frye ' s many talents to Senator Golding whose only talent is being a man of the world. 15. The mischievious ways of David Hall to Troy Hodge, who pretends to try to be good if he isn ' t. 16. Norma Faye McHone ' s flirtatious ways to Jewell Gwyn, providing Jewell won ' t out flirt her. 17. The popularity of Hampton Beamer to Wilbur Hawks who wants to be a ladies ' man. 18. Shirley Draughn ' s pleasant manners to Pat Estes who Is following close in Shirley ' s footsteps in activities at Franklin. 19. Joyce Hill is always first where she belongs, when she belongs. This characteristic she leaves to Bruce Scott who has the knack of never being in place. 20. Elsie Hodges Davenport ' s way of collecting money from the Seniors, a dime or dollar, to next year ' s Senior C lass Treasurer. 21. That pretended pout of Joe Bunker ' s to Rex O ' Neal who carries a ready smile. 22. Ernestine Collins ' silken curls to Gail Snoddy whose hair is too, too straight. 23. The aching allergies of Reid Vernon to Robert Clifton, who never has an ache or pain. 24. The diminutive figure of Jackie Coe to Nelda Joy Vernon who could use it. 25. The melodious voice of Fred Wilson, the tingling fingers of Wade Macey to Curtis Gentry who neither sings nor plays. 26. The shy way Roger Shelton has of breaking promises to Thomas Nichols whose word is his bond. 27. The tactful way Wanda France has of knowing everyone ' s business and still not being nosey to Norma Dean Woodruff, who can ' t keep up with her own affairs. 28. James Shelton ' s timidity and bashfulness to Heath Quisenberry who is neither timid nor bashful. 29. The chic appearance of Mable Gravley and Roland Jones to Edna Wilson and Kenneth Horton to be models for ' 55. 30. Jewell Holder ' s manner of contentment to Frances Nixon who seems always struggling for more and more happi¬ ness. 31. The frankness of Mac Gwyn to Douglos Easter who makes you wonder what is behind his facial expression. 32. Pat Hall ' s pleasant ways to Nelda Jean Chappell, who often sours on the world. 33. The exclusive way of Donald Harrell to J. W. Belton who is just J. W. every day. 34. The lovely complexion of Pat Jones to Ernestine Phillips II to add glamour to next year ' s class. 35. Leroy Hawks ' attitude of living and letting live to Oslar Handy who can be a pest. 36. The ability Sarah Jones has in Senior Class correspondence to next year ' s class secretary. 37. The personality of Bobby Hodge to Robert Ward who almost has enough of his own. 38. Our red heads. Sue McKinney and Joy Mae Thomas leave their flaming locks to the Junior Class to brighten their way. 39. The quiet, friendly ways of Douglas Nichols and Cleo Stanley, to Gilbert Hawks, who can add these to his already strong personality. 40. Shirley Smith ' s placid manner to Billie Hooker who never seems to be quite sure of herself. 41. Mona Scott ' s ambitions to Ernestine Phillips 1 who has only one ambition, to be in love. 42. James Wood ' s ability to knock the chip off his own shoulder instead of letting someone else knock this off to any Senior who starts off wrong. 43. Jean Wil liamson leaves her hair fixing talent to Louise Beasley and Bonnie Mosley who have so many different hair arrangements. 44. Eva Jean Moxley ' s ability of causing people to think she is not friendly, when she really is, to any Junior who wants to live in a world of their own. 45. Our little mascots ' , Linda Coe and Philip Taylor, way of winning the hearts of the Seniors of ' 54 to all future class mascots. In witness whereof, we the Senior Class of 1954 have set our hands this twenty-eighth day of May, in the year of one thousand nine hundred and fifty-four. Joyce Hi 11 CLASS TESTATOR
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