Graham High School - Graham Yearbook (Bluefield, VA)

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Senior Class Will We, the Senior Class of Graham High School, realizing we have many valuable possessions to dispose of, and knowing that our days in high school are num- bered, do make, publish, and declare, this our last will and testament, making all previous wills null and void. To our sponsor, Mrs. Bruebeck, we leave our un- dying l-ove and devotion and regret, knowing that she will never lead another senior class just like us. To our principal, Mr. Gillespie, we bequeath our sincere thanks for his guidance through our high school years. To the faculty, we are happy to leave a dozen boxes of aspirin to soothe the long headaches we have bestowed upon them. To the future Seniors Qand present juniorsj we leave all our privileges which the faculty so grudgingly allowed us, also we leave our dignity and powers of intellect. We, the Seni-or Class, dispose of our possessions as follows: Ernest Honaker wills his cute ways to Thomas Fife. Luther Friday', Barrett wills his athletic ability Lo jimmy Wells. James Bates leaves his bench warmers position on the basketball team to Billy Dishman. Clifford Compton wills his arguing ability to jimmy Haun. To his regret, Gene Devoor must leave his chewing tobacco for jack Richardson. Walter Devor wishes to leave his shotgun and bear traps to Howard Jackson. Leon Gill wills his ability to get to school on time to Jimmy Mahood. jack Harmon gives his brooms and wastepaper cans to Paul Burton. Clarence Hill Wills his ability to get his English assignment to Everette Thompson. Billy Longworth wills his corney jokes to Garnet Summers. Harold Mathena gives his juke-box slugs to jim Fd Turner. slack Nash leaves his seat in the laboratory to Buddy Moore. joe Oblinger gladly leaves his long hours in the office to Robert Warden. Earl Shaw wills his wine bottles to Billy Denarclo. Bobby Smith, the pool shark, wills his eight ball to Billy Pruett. jackie Wysor wills his determination to fly an air- plane to Dot Pritchett. bl. G. Baily wills his candid camera to Charles Weeks. Lee Roy Flowers, leaves his ability to skip class and go car riding to Mackie Gilliam. Robert Gillespie leaves his ambition for good grades to jackie Scott. Rufus Harmon sacrifices his masculine figure to Page 14 johnny Hodnett. Wallace Kerley wills his beautiful limousine to jimmy Dishman. Roy Neel shows his generosity by giving his F's on history to john Oblinger. Billy Pippin wills his model airplanes to Bubby Wysor. Frank Thompson wills his ability to talk himself out of trouble to Kent Shelton. Freeman Turley Wills his zoot-suit to L. G. Mathena. . Eugene White wills his handsomeness to Gordon Barrett. Gene Gentry wills his long legs to Curtis Spracher. Iva Anderson wills her diamond and wedding ring to Ruby Belcher. Leta Anderson would like very much to put her red hair and temper off on lean Stephens. Thelma Bosewell wills her ability to get in every- oneis way to joe Horne. Mary Broyles, Nancy Harvey, jackie Christian and Perle Mae Barbour give their Amen corner in History class to Eva Lee Hylton, jean Stevens, Benton Harmon, and lla Wilson. Mabel Burnett wills her ability to skip list period English class to Ann Coleman. Margaret Carbaugh wills her freckles to Beulah Havens. Nelda Carter wills her ollice files to Dot johnson. Shirley Compton wills her way with the men to Donna Hawkins. Aileen Crabtree wills her Beaver boys to Francis Winfrey. Shirley Mahood, being very fond of her glamour does not wish to will it. Eleanor Moses gives her modesty to Francis Purtee. Phyllis Peery gives her Navy blues', to Doris Leftwich. Wanda Smith wills her long distance romance to Betty Whitley. Helen Bell wills her boisterous ways to Martha Christian. Nancy Reed and june Brooks leave their romance of the screen to Norma jean Peery and Francis Burkett. Peggy Burton gives her determination to get ahead to Elizabeth Brewer. Arlene Goosby wills her farm work to Rebecca Barkesdale. jo Ann Harmon wills her dimples to Marcella Shawver. Marjorie Harmon wills her many A's to Sarah Miller. Jane Holsopple gives her musical ability to jimmy Blankenship. 5 Betty Ellen Long gives her outeof-town dates to .Betty Nelson. fC0ntinued on Page 4Sj

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Senior Class Prophecy Last night I dreamt I went to Bluefield, Va. It was very warm and the streets had that dusty look of August, and the leaves hung listless on dull trees. Women were walking about in cotton frocks and the men were hatless. There was a smell of waste-paper, orange peel, and burnt dried grass. The surroundings, as they so often do in a dream, seemed changed, and there were only a few things which were familiar to me. just outside of town, l came upon a little white, vine covered cottage, surrounded by a low picket fence with roses climbing all along the top. Being tired, I stopped at the cottage to beg a drink of water and much to my surprise the pretty housewife who answered my knock was Mrs. Brebeck, our former senior sponser. As we talked, the postman, who I recognized at Walter Devor, drove up with the afternoon mail, and included in the parcels was an announcement of the marriage of Miss Mae Morgan, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Amick Morgan of War, West Virginia. How well I remember the day Iva and Amick were married back in 1942 on Christmas day. This started me wondering what had become of the rest of the class of '43 annd I imme- diately began inquiring about my former classmates. I learned that G. Bailey became the new minister at the Methodist church recently. He preaches on Sunday and drives the school bus during the week. Ernie Bertock, who was fighting in New Guinea during the war, liked it so well there that when peace came once more, he wired Wanda Smith that if she wanted to marry him she would have to live there, so Wanda boarded the next ship and hasnit been heard from since. , Pearlie Mae Barbour operates the swankiest beauty salon in Southwestern Virginia. She turned out to be the second Helena Rubenstein. Arlene Goosby was America's second Amelia Ear- hart and her fate was very much the same as Amelia's. She was last seen flying east over Falls Mills Lake. Margaret Carbaugh is teaching English at Gra- ham and among her pupils are many children of our former faculty and they are having as difficult time as we had back in '42 and '43. Joe Oblinger is the proprietor of Joe's Smoke joint, the miost noted gambling house east of the Miss- issippi River. Very often Chief of Police Gene Devor takes joe down to the town hall flor questioning by Judge james Bates. But Judge Bates, who is very sympathetic person, always decides in Joeis favor. Leta Mae Anderson and Aileen Crabtree decided to lead the Saunders twins to the altar and the result was disastrous for when it was over Leta had married Ernest, and Aileen had married Everett. It was to have been the other way around. Bill Longworth was recently made editor of the Bluefield Daily Telegraph and Sunset News, and Eugene fDocJ White was made president of the Chicago House Furnishing Company. These are two of Bluelield's most prosperous business men. Eleanor fAbej Moses and Harold Mathena are residing in New York and Mr. and Mrs. and are Washington. Eleanor is a famous Powers model and Harold is a senator from Virginia. the President of Columbia Robert Gillespie is University. Among his faculty we see the names of Peggy Burton, Jo Ann Harman and Gene Gentry who are professors of Geo. Politics and also Rufus Harmon and Thelma Boswell who are teachers of Economics. Among the students of this noted University is Freeman Turley, Jr., son of Dr. and Mrs. Freeman Turley of Chicago. Mrs. Turley was formerly Margaret fPerkQ Painter and Dr. Turley is now chief of Staff at City Hospital in Chicago. - Luther fFridayj Barrett is football and basket-ball coach at Notre Dame while his wife, formerly Miss Shirley Compton, remains at home and has charge of their twenty room mansion. Friday will always be remembered for his outstanding playing, especially in basketball back in '4-3. A Jacqueline Christian married a handsome doctor from Lewis Gale in Roanoke, Virginia where she was in training. All reports say she couldn't be happier. Mr. and Mrs. Earl fArtieJ Shaw are now living in Billsbuy, Virginia where Earl is in charge of a large power plant which is located there. Mrs. Shaw was Miss Nelda Carter. Louise Teague, Roberta Mize and Helen Bell have established an old ladies home for wealthy widows who haven't any relatives or any place to go. Shirley Mahood ran away with a fellow from Sarver's Garage. I will always remember the day Shirley got her new front tooth and how, for weeks later, she was annoyed by curious classmates and on- lookers who wished to view that spectacular piece of art which filled such an important place in her life. Mary Broyles and Mable Burnett are two of Blucstone's most prosperous farmerettes. Their crops consist of everything except corn, of which, they say, they get enough of on the radio. Betty Ellen Long is living in the cream of society. Her husband, Fred Kitts, is with the Metropolitan Opera Company which lately has been touring exten- sively throughout Europe. LeRoy Flowers, Clarence Hill and Ernest ,Hon- aker are partners in a Clinic called The Come to Us If You Want to Risk Your Life Hospital. They aren't doing so well and can't understand why. Bobby Smith is the governor of Virginia and Marjorie Harmon is his private secretary. I knew Marjorie wasn't learning all that shorthand for nothing. Peggy Lam-bert and Jackie Wysor are giving mar- ried life a try and so far so good, so what! Leon Gill invented a hair tonic and when he tried fConlinued on Page 45j Page 15