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

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JUNIORS Bernard Butler Tobie Craddock Bobby Farrington Bobby Gerringer Joan House Larry Hughes Horace Isley Kenneth Johnson Peggy Johnson Harold Johnson Madison Klotz Grace Loye Bobby Manness Hazel Murph Annabel Smith Norma Webster Jean Welch Eugene Wheeler Rebecca Whitesell Jeanette Younger 12

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CLASS HISTORY As seniors, we are now looking forward to graduation, the goal for which we have longed many years. Now the future lies before us, but we can face it with courage and faith for we have built a firm foundation while at Gibsonville High School. With the closing of our school days, it is fitting and proper for us to record some of the pleasant memories in our high school years, for soon these pleasant years will only be a memory. In September 1946. 65 green excited and frightened freshmen began their long and tedious climb toward graduation. For the first few days everything seemed to go wrong. Lost and disgusted we wandered from class to class. However, with the assistance of our two homeroom teachers, Mrs. Vir- ginia Ferguson and Mr. Henry Huff, our problems were worked out and we began to feel our natural selves again. With four required subjects we stayed rather busy trying to prepare our lessons. As the year passed we enjoyed changing classes and the other freshman privileges. Naturally with the coming of Spring the boy ' s fancy turned to baseball; as a result many began their high school base- ball career. Very soon the year was over and we left the portals of G.H.S. for a much needed summer vacation. Soon we found ourselves back in scho ol again with much more confidence as sophomores. By this time our ranks had thinned to about 51 members. With Mr. Henry Huff as our homeroom teacher we braved a little less strenuous year since our selection of courses was more varied. First year typing under Mr. E. C. Klontz was offered to some of the luckier ones who had a free period. Many of us enjoyed Glee Club for the first time under the direction of Mrs. Virginia Ferguson. Our trip to the county contest at Allen Jay was a real thrill. Another pleasant incident during our sophomore year was a delightful trip to our state capitol. Returning we stopped to see the beautiful Duke Gardens. As May rolled around, with the completion of exams we adjourned, anxiously awaiting our Junior year. Having finished the halfway mark in our high school career we entered the third year as an easy, gay, carefree group of Juniors. During this exciting and happy year Ralph Thompson, James Thomas, Margaret Kellis, and Jack Rook were elected President, Vice-President, Secretary and Treasurer. Miss Amy Campbell, our homeroom teacher, proved a wonderful asset in helping us with our Junior Class Play The Wacky Widow. To add to our joy the long awaited class rings arrived about the same time we made a pleasant trip to historic Williamsburg, Virginia, with Mr. James, our principal, as chaperon. Next our thoughts turned to the annual Junior-Senior Banquet at the Alamance Hotel. One event followed so close upon another that the year rolled by and before any of us realized it one of the best years we had ever known was gone. In less than four short months we were back again rather feeling our importance. We had at last reached the goal for which we had been striving. We were seniors! In the early days of first semester we elected as leaders of the class: Lloyd Cheek, President, Carolyn Barber, Vice-President, Margaret Kellis, Secretary, and Braxton Belvin, Treasurer. Ronnie Kellis and Kay Riley were chosen as class mascots. Outstanding events during our senior year were publishing the Yell-O-Jak annual, our school paper, Black and Gold, the senior play Scatterbrain. under the direction of Mrs. Lacy Gane, the Junior-Senior Banquet at Meyers Garden Room, and of course the annual trip to Washington. D. C. with Mr. James and Mrs. Julian Lindsay as chaperons. Commencement exercises under the direction of Mrs. R. H. Wynne, our homeroom teacher, concluded a happy and memorable year for the largest graduating class in our school history. As the doors of G.H.S. close behind us, we pause in reviewing the many fruitful hours spent here. We know we will miss them as we go into the different phases of life. We will not forget these pleasan- tries for we are proud of the things we have accomplished here. HAROLD YOUNGER. Historian. il

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Last Will and Testament NORTH CAROLINA, GUILFORD COUNTY GIBSONVILLE HIGH SCHOOL We, the seniors of Gibsonville High School, realizing our superiority over all other classes of our school and that our school days are numbered, and wishing in so far as possible to preserve for our class of our excellent traits and talents, do make, declare and publish this our last will and testament. Article I — To the Faculty Item I — To the principal, Mr. James, we leave all of love and appreciation for the many things he has done for us. Item II — To Mrs. Wynne we leave all the patience we can muster to help her teach the Seniors to write themes next year. Item III — To Mr. Vickery we leave all the minuses he gave the Economics class. (Especially Scotty.) Item IV — To Mrs. Vickery we leave a bottle of Grow Fast so that next year she may be able to touch all basket- ball forwards on the head. Item V — To Mr. Casey we leave all the extra money refunded from our trip to Washington. With this, we desire him to buy new tires for his Chevy — The way he takes certain curves he will need them. Item VI — To Mrs. Madren we leave all the geometry problems which her Seniors had to struggle through. Item VII — To Mrs. Gane we leave the hope that she has better luck with her French students next year. Item VIII — To Mr. Bowling we leave the shop and all the machines so that he will not get lonesome. Item IX — To Miss Mclntyre we leave our thanks for helping with this annual, and also the troubles she had teach- ing some of the Senior Girls to sew. Article II — To the Classes Item I — To the ' 50- ' 51 Senior Class we leave our caps and gowns along with the midnight oil we burned writing themes. Item II — To the ' 50- ' 51 Junior Class we leave our deepest sympathy to be used while studying and struggling through Moby Dick. Item III — To the ' 50- ' 51 Sophomore Class we leave our ability to march in a single line to chapel and all outside programs. Item IV — To the ' 50- ' 51 Freshman Class we leave all our fears of our first year in high school, and our library period with the hope that they may be able to check out books other than Activity Period. Article III — To the Individuals Item I — I, Shirley Grayson, give my skill in cheerleading to Joan House. Item II — I, Marlene Gerringer, will my typewriter with all of its good luck to Jeanette Younger. Item III — I, Mary Sue Dunn, leave my struggles with the annual to Madison Klontz. Item IV — I, Norma Jean Reid, leave my giggles to solemn looking Kenneth Johnson. Item V — I, Evelyn Ledbetter, regretfully bequeath my worries and frets with the Black and Gold to Jean Welch. Item VI — I, Ruby Jean Hudgins, leave my extreme height to Grace Loy. Item VII — I, Don Allied, bequeath my ability to use peroxide to Beefy Farrington. Item VII — I, Carson Ingle, leave my French ability to Eugene (OUI) Wheeler. Item IX — I, Clara Boone, will my beautiful smile to charming Rebecca Whitesell. Item X — I, Harold Scott, sorrowfully leave a few of my extra pounds to Earl Hancock. Item XI— I, Paul Wagoner, will my sportsmanship to Bobby Maness. Item XII — I, Betty Allen, will my study habits to Tobie Craddock — Come on Tobie — Good luck! Item XIII —I, Monte Hinton, bequeath my blonde hair to Annabelle Smith. (You know some boys prefer blondes.) Item XIV — I, C. J. Baldwin, leave my excellent ability in shopwork to Larry Hughes. Item XV — 1, Jerry Shepherd, leave my stylish school attires to Horace Isley. Item XVI — I, Betty Lou Dunn, bequeath my shyness in school to quiet little Bernard Butler. Item XVII — I. Ruth Ingle, leave my bashful ways to Peggy Johnson. Item XVIII — I, Jack Flynn, leave my way with the girls to Bobby Gerringer. Item XIX — I, Carolyn Barber, will my sparkling brown eyes to Hazel Murph. Item XX — I, John Dawson, unwillingly leave my office job to Harold Johnson. Item XXI — I, Pat Faucette, will my polite ways to Norma Webster. Written, signed, sealed, and delivered this, the 5th day of December, anno domini, one thousand nine hundred and forty-nine. Witnesses: Miss Lannie McIistyre, Adviser. Nell Levens, Testator. Mr. I. H. Vickery, Assistant Adviser. 13