Gibsonville High School - Yell O Jak Yearbook (Gibsonville, NC)

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SENIOR CLASS PROPHECY Nelda Allen will go to California to be a beauty operator for movie stars at Twentieth Cen- tury Fox. Lucy Mae Byrd has chosen marriage for her life-time career and will probably maneuver herself to that great metropolis, McLeansville. Ruby Cook will be another Clara Barton army nurse. Tommy Andrews will someday return to old Gibsonville High where he will begin his teach- ing career by relieving Mrs. Wynne. Carol Love is going to California to be a secretary for a good looking boss or maybe a hand- some movie star, who knows? Frances Miles will live near Blue Circle and help manage Moser ' s Furniture Store. Billy Childers will be an All-American football hero in 1951. Virginia Baldwin will be none other than Whisett ' s No. 1 beauty operator. Joan Cates will motor west, marry a rancher with an exclusive dude ranch, and have four colts of her own if her luck doesn ' t run out. Mary Ingle will be another Florence Nightingale to carry stars and stripes as a Navy Nurse. Helen Smith will work in Long ' s Finishing Mill in Burlington until she succeeds in find- ing a man. Vance Foust will be Greensboro ' s manager of the A P meat market. Lucy Fogleman is advertising for a farmer husband from the sunny state ! Sue Haley, as fate will have it, will go to W. C. to study art for designing at exclusive Bonds. Dickie Huffman, upon returning from the Army Air Corps, will be the owner and editor of The Gibsonville Daily News. Nancy Hoffman will make a rather nice little business woman for Horace. Shirley Ingle will be the feminine Perc Westmore of M. G. M. as a cosmetologist. Virginia Whitesell is going to be a famed Power ' s model. Hazel Miles will participate in matrimony and travel over the forty-eight states with Elmer. Doris Simpson will be the beauty operator whose sign reads, You, too, can be beautiful! Barbara Wilson will be found with a white collar job on a handsome boss ' knee. Harlin Matkins will enter a technical university or trade school, then settle down to rear a football team of red-headed boys. Th elma Sears has a look in her future that will reveal Ben Franklin ' s manager and hubby Benny. Jack Smith will own a Pan-American Air Line and establish the main office in Gibsonville, North Carolina. Jennings Randolph will be the future undertaker of Loman and Key. Bobby Rudisill will go to Duke University and play football, then return perhaps to Gibson- ville to marry and teach science and mathematics. Robert Pruet, on returning from the Army, will probably go to college in Florida to con- tinue his education. Carl May will someday own and operate a Gibsonville Municipal Airport. Robert Hinton will accept an invitation to wear the white and blues of Uncle Sam ' s Navy. 13

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LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA Guilford County City of Gibsonville Gibsonville High School WE, THE SENIOR CLASS OF 1949, considering ourselves the best class ever to enter, leave or otherwise come in contact with the finest school in Guilford County, having added new crevices to our brains by wading through Macbeth. A Midsummer Night ' s Dream. Silas Marner. and a million and one themes and still being of sound body and excellent mind, do hereby declare this to be our last will and testament to be exe- cuted in the following order: Article I, To the Faculty Item I — To the principal, Mr. James, we leave a can of wax polish and all the hopes our little hearts can mus- ter that he may add more polish to our much improved school. Item II — To Mrs. Wynne we leave a fine tooth comb to be used for the sole purpose of having her hair combed on study halls. With the comb we extend our hand in gratitude and thanks. Item III — To Miss Campbell we leave our hopes that more handsome men teachers (like Mr. Casey) will enter our school staff. Item IV — To Mrs. Madren we leave a vacuum cleaner. Quote Mrs. Madren, I have the ' messingess ' bunch of pupils in this school. Unquote. Item V — To Mr. Casey we leave our study halls. (Relax coach, you ' ll get your chance.) Item VI — To Mrs. Vickery we leave a pair of sound proof ear muffs. (No hope, ' teach, ' scientists still unable to produce silent typewriters. ) Item VII — To Mr. Bowling we shake the saw dust from our heads and leave it as a memory of our shop work. Item VIII — To Miss Mclntyre we leave the labor, heartaches, backaches, and slavings of next year ' s annual. (May God bless her.) Item IX — To all teachers in general we leave our hopes of better years to come. Article II, To The Classes Item I — To the ' 49- ' 50 Senior class we leave our caps and gowns along with a pile of battered text books. Item II — To the ' 49- ' 50 Junior class we leave Moby Dick, themes, broken pencils, and our crossed fingers. Item III — To the ' 49- ' 50 Sophomore class we leave Silas Marner, MacBeth, and boots with which to wade through them. Item IV — To the ' 49- ' 50 Freshman class we leave a bit of encouragement, Fear not, your days shall not be long. Article III, To The Individuals Item I — Hazel Miles leaves her quietness in school to Edna Whitesell. Item II — Nelda Allen wills a pack of red dentyne chewing gum and her ability to pop it to Peggy Thomas. Item III — Mary Ingle leaves her ability to blush to Margaret Kellis. Item IV — Frances Miles leaves her Miles of tallness, to Emma Lou Sookwell. Item V — Lucy Fogleman wills her shortness to Ruby Jean Hudgins. Item VI — Robert Hinton leaves his football suit to Harold Scott. Item VII — Virginia Baldwin wills her smile and various hair-dos to Mary Sue Dunn. Item VIII — Tommy Andrews leaves his dancing ability to James Thomas. Item IX — Jack Smith leaves his good times to Jack Flynn. Item X — Ruby Cook leaves her ability to do two themes in one night to Betty Lou Dunn. Item XI — Virginia Whitesell leaves her long blond hair to Monte Hinton. Item XII — Jennings Randolph leaves his time-proven bus to Floyd Doby. Item XIII — Carl May leaves his carefree ways to Donald Allred. Item XIV — Helen Smith leaves her ability to capture boy friends to Shirley Grayson. Item XV — Lucy Byrd bequeaths her freckles to Patricia Faucette. Item XVI — Joan Cates leaves her unexcelled energy to Thelma Younger. Item XVII — Vance Foust leaves his hard starting No. 2 bus to Madison Klotz. Item XVIII — Shirley Ingle bequeaths her reputation as a big mouth cheerleader to Marlene Gerringer. Item XIX — Bill Childers leaves his position on the football team to Benny The Meat Ball White. Item XX — Carol Love bequeaths her black hair to Nellie Gray Levens. Item XXI — Barbara Wilson leaves her happy-go-lucky feelings to Clara Boone. Item XXII — Doris Simpson leaves her ability to catch Mr. James ' attention on Economics class to Norma Jean Reid. Item XXIII — Harlin ' O Matkins leaves his Irish fighting spirit on the football field to Lloyd Cheek. Item XXIV — Nancy Hoffman leaves her sharp reaction answers to all jokes to Carolyn Barber. Item XXV — Sue Haley leaves her drape shape to Arbutus Johnson. Item XXVI — Thelma Sears leaves her fiirting ( gee, I can ' t help it ) ability to Eugenia Trogdon. Item XXVII — Bobby Rudisill leaves his love for ' opposum hunting to Dolly Mae Westmoreland. Item XXVIII — Richard Huffman leaves the basketball team to Beefy Farrington. Item XXIX — Bob Pruet leaves his air of importance to Odell Dowd. Item XXX — Frank Montgomery leaves the school movie projector to Harold Younger. Written, signed, sealed, and delivered this, the 23rd day of November, anno domini, one thousand nine hun- dred and forty-eight. Harlin Matkins, Testator. Witnesses: Miss Lannie McIntyre, Adviser. Mr. Gerald D. James, Principol. 12

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JUNIORS Betty Lou Allen Donald Allred C. J. Baldwin Carolyn Barber Braxton Belvin Clara Boone Lloyd Cheek Floyd Doby Betty Lou Dunn Mary Sue Dunn John Dawson Odell Dowd Pat Faucette Jack Flynn Marlene Gerringer Hazel Gillispie Shirley Grayson Harold Hawks Monte Hinton Paul Howerton Ruby Hudgins Carson Ingle Margaret Kellis Madison Klotz 14