Graham High School - Wag Yearbook (Graham, NC)

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We, the Forty-Niners, Bequeath . . . WITNESSETH, we the graduating class of Graham High School, in the year of Our Lord nineteen hundred and forty-nine, being of fairly sound mind and unusually sound body, do hereby execute this, our last will and testament, to-wit: To our beloved home town of Graham and to all the world, we leave our esteem and belief in prosperity and happiness of its future. To our Alma Mater, Graham High School, we leave everything of value that we possess except our cherished memories, which we will carry with us through the years, and treasure more as time goes by. To the High School faculty we leave our personal property including our unused credits and surplus grades, together with our heartfelt thanks and a promise to ever build on the ample foundation they have built with us. To the Student Body we leave our loyalty to our Alma Mater and our football ability, together with our good behavior and splendid grades. J. W. Sharpe wills his football ability to Bill Frick. Nancy Moore leaves her love of horses to Lorraine Layton. Joretta Tysor wills her dependability to Jimmy Lyon. William Hill leaves his excess weight to Jimmy Walker. Jane Thompson leaves her scholastic -ability 'to Ann Russell. Carol Stockard wills her red hair to Mary Ella Martin. Barbara Hill's ability to sing is left to Burleigh Wilson. Jimmy Fogleman leaves his basketball ability to Tommy Zachary. Mildred Ratliff bequeaths her good citizenship to Edna Jones. Frankie Wilson leaves her diamond to Margaret Russell. Eddie Smith leaves his Algebra book to Bill Sizemore. Emma Jean Bason leaves all of her love for Carolina to the Duke fans. Jack Cathey wills his sports ability to David Michels, Jr. Lucy Via entrusts her typing ability to any Junior that needs it. Jackie Vlffhittemore leaves what few freckles she has to Mildred Brad- s aw. Bobby Moser leaves his love of football to Berkley Stutts. Bobby Fuller wills his penny-bumming business to anybody who is broke. Betty Jane Adkins wills her job as cashier to Billy Joyce Johnson. Duane Cheek leaves his Spike Jones antics to Billy Jo Wilson. Annie Mae Sharpe leaves her good grades in English to Betsy Whit- temore. ELLEN SYKES, Testatrix 'Ei 17 E+

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pretty well since she married a bank president. . . Now that Spike .jones and his City Slickers have been forgotten, everyone should hear the new band that has taken his place, Pudd Cheek and his White's Hill Rinky Dinks. . . Annie Mae Sharpe and Betty Jane Adkins are running a dress shop in Saxapahaw. . . Auman Hunter is now the supervisor of the Colo- nial Stores of North Carolina. . . Attention Fat People: William Hill is opening a large reducing salon in this vicinity. . . Carol Stockard has just been promoted to the head laboratory technician at Duke Hospital. . . Floyd Allison, after ten years in the major leagues, has now been made manager of the Cleveland Indians. . . Mildred Ratliff is the private secre- tary of the president of the Rose's Dime Stores. '. . Flash from the football highlights: Jesse Andrews, that shifty back, has just finished the season with the Chicago Bears, high scorer of the professional football leagues. . . Emma Jean Bason, the famous artist, is opening an art school in this vicinity. . . Martin Mortensen has just graduated from a high school teacher to a position as history professor at Elon College. . . Ann Robertson is a missionary in China now. . . Rachel Bulla is in New York drawing designs for dresses for one of the largest dress companies in the country. . . Ernest Allison has just been promoted to the position of manager of the Graham and Alco Theatres. . . Ellen Sykes, the great pianist, is making a tour through the countries of Europe and Asia giving concerts in the larger cities. . . Moon's Fashion Shop has a new manager, Sarah Wheeley. . . Clucky News! Eddie Smith has just added another 160 acres to his large chicken farm out in the southwest. . . Mary Virginia Buhler is quite a big-wheel in the church she attends. She is the choir director and the president of the Women's Auxiliary. . . Attention Housewives: There is no such thing as meatless Tuesdays any more, so all of you drop around to Fuller's Meat Market for all of your meats and for the lowest prices in town. . . Clara Brewer is the wife of a millionaire businessman. . . Attention Mothers! Frankie Jane Wilson is president of the Ajax Baby- Sitting Agency. . . Flash from the basketball highlights: Jimmy Fogleman has been made manager of the Washington Capitols of the Professional Basketball League. . . Harry Wilson is now the owner and manager of the new and modern Ford Motor Company of this town. . . Pete Rich is now the head engineer of the aeronautical engineer division of the Pan- American Airlines. . . Ruby Webster may be quiet, but it seems to me that she is doing pretty well. She has married the millionaire for whom she was the secretary. . . Jimmy Pickard, the great lawyer, has opened his ofhce in Graham, and I hear that he is the one to see if you are in trouble. . . Tom Welch is now the first shift boss of Travora Manufacturing Co. . . Jack Moser, the millionaire businessman, seems to be doing well with his cigarette factories. . . john Owens is now the sole owner of the Owens' Wholesale Company, which was formerly The Bradshaw Wholesale Co. . . Jane Thompson is jerking sodas, but instead of being an employee she is the employer of her own soda shop. . . Nova Boswell and jean White are very efficient secretaries. They have recently been promoted and are now secretaries for the president of the National Bank of Alamance. . . And now that I have told you what I see in the future I wish to tell you that I do not guarantee my predictions to be absolutely right, but I feel sure that each and every one of the Seniors of '49 will make a success in whatever they may do, reaching their goal at the end of the unknown trail. Bonny FULLER, Prophet -wtf 19 13+