Fuquay Springs High School - Greenbriar Yearbook (Fuquay Springs, NC)

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WITH TIME COMES CHANGE-THANK GOODNESS

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OUR CLASS H I STORY It is hard to believe that four years ago we were freshmen. It took us a little while to get used to being addressed as a freshman, but when we did, we were really a part of the school. The proud wearers of the green and white on the basketball court were Roger Honeycutt, Mabel Cotten, and Lucille Haire. Jean Turner helped with the cheers. Roger Honeycutt and Clinton Spivey did a wonder¬ ful job on the baseball team which won the County Championship. Jerry Sherron and Maynard Smith helped out on the football team. The class was represented in the Student Council by Don Holloway. One year later and we were Sophomores! We really enjoyed F. F. A. and F. H. A. initiation night. Then we could return to the freshmen some of the cruelty which we had received. This year Don Holloway and Max Ashworth made the basketball team. Barbara Adams became a cheerleader in order to help cheer for them. Roger Honeycutt and Annette Fleming represented the class in the Student Council. With Mabel Cotten as class president we began to get ready for our Junior year. After a short vacation we returned for our Junior year which was filled with happy events. This year Mabel Cotten and Roger Honeycutt represented us in the Student Council. Roger was elected as Vice-president of the Student Council. Don Holloway lead the class as president. Twenty-one members of our class were very proud to wear Beta Club pins. We presented three one-act plays under the direction of Miss Vivian Burton for our Junior play. The Junior-Senior Banquet and Dance was the highlight of the year. The theme was Hawaiian Starlight, and it was so pretty that it was worth all the work put into it. It wasn ' t long before we realized that we were Seniors! It was a little hard to become accustomed to that title. With Jimmy Wagstaff as the class president and Roger Honeycutt as president of the Student Council we proceeded onward toward graduation. Barbara Adams lead the cheers with Martha Harriet Jones, Ruth Burchette, Jo Ann Johnson, Jean Turner helping at the games. Jean Turner was chosen as the football sponsor for the home-coming game with Cary. We were real excited and proud to show our class rings to underclassmen, and to exchange calling cards. Our class officers were Jimmy Wagstaff, president; Donald Cotten, vice-president; Ruth Burchette, secretary; and Zelma McGee, treasurer. Although our four years at Fuquay High were short, we have had many happy experiences, and made acquaintances that will remain a part of us forever. As we leave our school it is not with regret that we say Goodbye, but we wish to express our gratitude for its affording us the four happiest years of our lives.

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SENIOR CLASS PROPHECY Who was it that said there were no signs off success in the hearts and minds of those 1954 Seniors of good ole Fuquay High? Was it you? Ah, yes, no doubt. But do you know . . . While preparing for my summer vacation I decided to find as many of my fellow graduates as I could. I am, incidentally, Ruth Burchette, now teaching commercial courses in a very modern¬ ized Miami, Florida, Junior High School. My first ambition was to travel back to Fuquay. As I stopped by the Cream Center, I found that Eugene O ' Connel is now owner and operator. Still good milk shakes, boy! Connie Burch, always faithful to his job, operates a cafe where he sells anything from girls ' hairpins to barbe¬ cued rabbits. I stopped at the high school. Much to my amazement Bobby Pollard was principal. He and one of his meticulous teachers, Martha Harriet Jones, were discussing one of their many prob¬ lems. I wonder who out-talked the other! Annette Rowland was secretary of the school. Max Ashworth, coach of the Fuquay Falcons now, stopped in at the office to say hello and to comment on his all wins and no losses. I learned that Mabel Cotten ' s dreams of being a laboratory technician shattered when she became coach of Hanes Hosiery Basketball Girls in Winston-Salem. Did you know that Miss Thompson is still saying, Get your rows straight, good Seniors ? Among those in the medical field in Fuquay were L. C. Davis, town ' s most reliable physician, and Donald Taylor, well-known dentist, who has discovered a new chemical—molecular acid— which is really important in making false teeth. I stopped by to see Mary Nell Bradley who is a successful pharmacist in her own store. Gathered in the drug store were Jimmy Powell, presi¬ dent of the Fuquay Ford Motor Company, and Charles Stephenson, judge of Fuquay Springs Re¬ corders Court. Jimmy was trying to sell Judge Stephenson a Ford. John Midgette, managing editor of The Independent, has just hired a new columnist, Ray Bowden. Ray ' s work in journalism has been praised highly by the subscribers. Kay Currin has her own weekly column on interior decorating. She is very superior in this work. Kay Byrd is business editor of the rapid-growing paper. Of course, I then drove out to Willow Springs. Annette Fleming is now happily married and employed in her husband ' s business, William J. Stephens ' Merchandise. There, to purchase feed for their cows were Sam Garrison and Maynard Smith, operating Cairo Dairy and supplying the country with its many products. (By the way, Maynard, what happened to your football career?) Some of those farming farmers were there, too. Braxton Griffin, Drexel Jordan, Dwight Wilson, and Wallace Young were all arguing with Bobby Rowland (who owns over half of the farms in Willow Springs) about the number of pounds of tobacco per acre each could yield. They said that Waylon Beasley, surveyor, measured their land wrong. Gone to join their better half in the armed services were Janet Pope, Pearline Tart, Zelma McGee, and Winifred Mills. Winifred has just completed her first novel entitled Strangers in Love. Too bad Rachel Harvell and Margaret Coley got married and quit their jobs as.census takers of New York City. But I did find out that the hilarious Jimmy Wagstaff has his own panel What ' s My Line in New York over CBS-TV. Members of his panel are Nellie Dupree, Don Holloway, Patricia Pollard, and Frances Horton. Just the other day, Marvin Haire was their guest. His line was designing women ' s bathing suits. Those girls who have become executive secretaries are: JoAnn Farmer of the Wester-Lloyd Firm in Raleigh; Shirley Baird of the F. B. I. in Washington; Jean Turner of State Prison (who is none other than the warden ' s wife); Barbara Sherian of Long Long Insurance in Chicago, Illi¬ nois; and Peggy Sandy of Balientine ' s Dairy near Needmore. JoAnn Johnson and Barbara Adams really fooled fate by choosing their vocation. JoAnn sells Tussy products. Do you suppose she just likes Midnight ? Barbara is a distinguished so¬ prano in the Metropolitan Opera House. Can it be that she will be the singing lead in Carmen ? I visited WFVG and was just in time to see the Smile Awhile Boys consisting of Phillip Barnes, Clinton Spivey, Billy Kinton, and Eugene Champion. Guess what they were picking off ? Wake Up, Irene. Their guest star was Gaynelle Stephens, popular vocalist, who has just re¬ turned from the Waves. They told me that Dwight Smith is now a great concert pianist in Atlantic City. Another Liberace, huh? It is with regret that Uncle Sam summoned Donald Cotten, Durwood Thomas, Bobby Stephen¬ son, Jerry Sherron, and Roger Honeycutt before they could begin their careers, especially Roger, who hated to part with his inseparable Mercury. . . . and now in 1964 as I gaze back over these past ten ywars, I marvel at the success and happiness that seem to cling to those Seniors of 1954. 25