Glenn High School - Glenn Echoes Yearbook (Kernersville, NC)

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CLASS It was a cold windy day in the year 1966. As we descended the steps of the huge passenger plane, we were both astounded by the long runways and many hangars that made up Smith-Reynolds Airport. We had been informed that it was one of the largest iet bases in the east, but it seemed gigantic compared to the airport that had been there ten years ago when we had boarded a plane to Europe. Crossing the runway we began discussing our high school days and decided to find what all our classmates were doing. We stopped the first taxi we saw and as we were telling the driver our destina- tion, we realized that it was none other than Larry Willard. After telling him we had been out of the country for the last ten years he began filling us in on the details. Don Snyder, a famous game hunter, had just returned from Africa where he had been hunting lions. While Don had been shooting lions, Olene Swaim and Inez Idol had been shooting basketball with the world famous Globehoppers. Larry next informed us that Gayle Phillips had gone to New York to make ballet dancing her career and Louis Rothrock was the matinee idol of thousands of teenagers. We also discovered that cupid had been working overtime. Phylis Reid had married an army ser- geant and moved to Florida and Laura Head had trapped a Texas oil millionaire. We weren 't surprised that Martha Hanes was now Mrs. Wayne Bailey. Soon we reached our destination,thanked Larry for the informative ride and set out to buy a news- paper and reserve a hotel room. Walking down the street we met Mary Ellen and Geep Walker and their nine little stairsteps. After talking to them we continued down the street where we saw a large depart- ment store which was owned by Benny Leonard. As we proceeded down the street, we heard a familiar voice. It was David Swaim using his good looks and strong voice to sell newspapers. We stopped, picked up a local paper and saw on the front page a picture of North Carolina's new governor, Charles Walker, standing with his campaign manager, Charles Stewart, the celebrated laywer. The story of the heroic rescue of two children was in the headlines. Fire Chief Ralph Amos had saved the lives of the children of Ronald Watson. Turning to the Sports Section we found a picture of Norman Howerton, the famous baseball pitcher, who had iust signed a five year contract with the NewYork Yankees. As we were reading captions under the pictures we noticed that Tommy Teague was taking pictures for the paper. We always wondered why Tommy spent so much time in the dark room. After finishing the paper we said goodbye to David and began to search for a hotel room. The hotel we chose was a large ultramodern building. Stopping at the desk we were surprised to find Joann York working as the desk clerk. We asked Joann to direct us to the manager whom we were soon to find out was Douglas Angel. Douglas began tel ling how he and Alton Teague, the well-known architect, had de- signed and built the hotel. Douglas also said that Wayne Gross, Bobby Grindstaff and Lindsey Brown, three more of the boys with whom we had graduated, had formed a small dance band and were beating out time to the tunes of the popular song writer, Sandra Sapp. They were appearing in his floorshow that night and were featuring as soloist none other than Barbara Templeton. We explained to Douglas that we were testing our detective instincts by trying to find out what all our old classmates were doing. Douglas said that Janet Kimball was the best source of information in town . The next morning we got an early start and set out to find Janet. We found her working at a radio station as an announcer. After all the usual greetings, Janet began talking so fast we could hardly keep up with her lsame ole Janetj. Almeda Bovencler and Virginia Britt had gone to Colorado and established a Lonely Hearts Club for poor souls like us. James and Wallace Smith had formed the Smith Tombstone Company. Wallace is in charge of the verse department and James is in charge of the size and shape of the stones which hold down the heads of people. Some of the girls had also followed the medical profession and were making incisions and patching them up. Roma Smith was head nurse at Walter Reed Hospital and Jonnie Hine and Bernice Ledford were working at a local hospital.

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PROPHECY Janet then informed us that David Smith and Patsy Wood had been looking around for an office to hang their shingles on. They had both gone to school and studied to be dentist. Hold on to your chair, patients. Working as auctioneers were Dewey Hopkins and Grady Teague. Who would have ever thought they could talk that fast. Ann Pierce, a real crazy blonde, was using her good looks to impress the whole world by working for one of the leading designers in France. While everyone else had been forming businesses, Arnold Cope had become the youngest five-star general in history and Wayne Vogler had become a member of the U. S. Navy. Wayne never did like water but we hear he has become interested in the WAVES. Ann Smith and Sara Davis, two of the secretarial students, were now employed by the Western Electric Company in Winston-Salem. A few of the boys were using their muscles to make a living. Alon Wyatt, a professional wrestler, was getting his head pounded against the canvas quite often, and HubertClodfelter was the World Cham- pion weight llfter. If you were enemies of these boys you had better keep your distance. Using their crazy antics to make people laugh were Bobby Moore and Jimmy Smith, who were well- known comedians. Janet continued to tell us about the rest of the class. Buddy Fore, who was a real sports car fan, was designing his own cars and Gamer Mahaffey was one of the maior stock car drivers in the world. Shirley Stinson and Ann Mullis had combined their talents and were operating a large beautysalon. Trying to make Winston-Salem a safer city in which to live, Arnold Snyder was directing traffic on the corner of Fourth and Main Streets. Boy, how he must have changed. Darwin Solomon was now the president of a large company which furnished transportation to the moon. He was designing his own space ships and sending them to the moon and other planets loaded with people who were going to make their homes there. One of the girls, Pat Kinnamon, who had taken the fatal step before she finished school, was still happily married and was chasing eight small children around a penthouse in New York. Janice Lawson has been very busy for the last few years. She has recently become editor of one of the leading fashion magazines. Arnold fSleepyJ Auman had finally gathered enough energy to get a iob. He was testing matresses in a local department store . The West had attracted Harold Willard, who was running one of the most popular dude ranches in Texas. One of the most frequent visitors to the stork room of General Hospital was Charles Enscore who was now the proud papa of nine little boys. At that rate he will have a football team in two or three more years. Janet concluded her rundown on the class of l56 by telling us that Gale Smith and Ann Anderson had gone to Canada and were employed as travel agents. After thanking Janet for the information, we departed to catch the next plane out of town. From Winston-Salem we were going to fly back to Europe to continue working as foreign correspondents. CAROLYN ROUTH, JEAN BROWN Class Prophets