Graham High School - Wag Yearbook (Graham, NC)

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Last UAll and Cestament We, the graduating class of Graham High Qchool, in the year of Our Lord Nineteen Hundred and Fifty-one, do hereby give and bequeath all our treasured possessions and worldly goods as seemeth proper and fitting to the best of our judgment in this Our Last Will and Testament. To our school, we leave our appreciation for the things we have accomplished andi our sincere wishes for the future. To the High School Faculty, we leave our sincere appreciation for’all they have done for us. To the Student Body, we leave our undying love for Graham High School and hope that the students in the future will find as many pleasant moments within the halls of good old G.H.S. as we did. Sylvia McAdams wills her three years’ experience in Latin to anybody who can pass it in two years. Patricia Brittain wills her scholastic ability to John Andrews. Tommy Zachary bestows his athletic ability to Douglas Smith. Ann Shoffner entrusts her talking ability to Barbara Moore, Ralph Shaw leaves his originality to Teddy Thompson. Doris Massey leaves her good English Grades to Charles Belcher. Martha Browning's ‘‘Good Citizen ’ title is left to Nina Boswell. Charles Storey wills his vocal ability to Don Holt. Tommae Brittain wills her ‘‘Biggest Flirt’’ superlative to Annie Lou Pugh. Carol Slaughter bequeaths her freckles to Mary Lou Okey. Rudolph Mullins wills his tall stature to Glenn Pierce, Peggy Jeffreys wills her love f or basketball to Betty Burch, Jack King leaves his dancing ability to George Guthrie. Betty Jo Shepherd wills her love affairs to any one desiring them. Billie Jo Wilson leaves her mischievousness to Josephine Davis. Polly Allen leaves her shorthand book to Barbara Moser. Peggy Robinson leaves her haircut to Suzanne Fretz, Pat Griffith leaves his love for the Burlington girls to Jerry Jeffreys. Bennie Johnston wills his good grades to Donald Pickard. James McPherson just leaves. Peggy Shanklin Testatrix

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Class His tory Experiences by the score--a few sad ones, but most of them happy--have been a part of our school life since that fateful day in nineteen thirty-nine when we, timidly and with a few mis- givings, first walked under the large white arch and made our debut at Graham School. In that first year we made new friends, who were to be our classmates for the next twelve years. Soon our first year was over and after a short summer vacation, we entered the second grade, where we settled down and began learning our reading, ‘riting, and ‘rithmetic in earnest, Grades three, four, and five passed quickly as we continued laying the foundation for our higher education. In these years there was much fussing because’ we had been separated from our classmates of past years. However, most of our problems were soon forgotten as we made new friends, Then came grade six and our classes were now held upstairs. We were really ‘‘bigshots”’ then, going to classes on the same floor as the high school students. That year we entered into intramural sports with the other grades, and some of the great athletic talent of our class began to develop. Grade seven passed rather slowly. We were still studying the same subjects of the past few years, and there was still that sluggish geography to learn. Now we were in the eighth grade and only one year away from high school. This year we began changing classes on a small scale. The trip to Raleigh was eagerly anticipated, and it proved to be every bit as interesting as we had expected. Various class projects helped the year to pass quickly, and almost before we knew it, we were through with the elementry grades and ready to enter high school. At last we were Freshmen. Being a Freshman isn’t anything to rave about, but we were reall y proud to be in high school: The upper classmen would often provoke us, but there were enough ball games, parties, and other activities to offset that. That monster called High School bewildered us a bit, but the year was gone before we found time to worry. Then we were Sophomores. The studies were a little harder, but we were a bit more pre- pared, We settled down to the grind of learning biology, history, and Latin, We were repre- sented well in all sports and those who were not athletic served as library assistants or glee club members, : During our Junior year we were called on to sell magazine subscriptions to help raise money for our big project--the Junior-Senior Banquet. After long months of planning, the night of the banquet finally arrived and we all stepped out in our formals, many of us for the first time. We enjoyed being Juniors and looked forward to the next year when we would be Seniors, The Class of Fifty-one has now begun the last of twelve happy years in G.H,.S. The school year has just gotten well under way, and we are now enjoying the honor of being Seniors. We are very proud to wear our beautiful class rings, which we thought would never arrive, Our chests fill with pride as we see the assembly rise when we walkin, Before long there will be those much dreaded exams. After exams are over we will complete our annual and take that long awaited Washington trip. Then all too soon graduation will be here. Soon the Class of Fifty- one will leave, but not forget, dear old Graham High. Hal Farrell, Jr. -Historian

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Class Prophecy As I rest on my magic carpet, a million miles from everybody, I look out and see what the future has in store for our classmates. There is a lot of commotion in the city of Graham. Election day has arrived and Paul Bunn, Ivey Gilliam, and Harry James are running for Mayor. Jimmy Brown, Ralph Shaw,.Richard Cole, and Jack King make up our strong police force. Billy Self is the town's photographer, As we move along Main Street, we find that same little brick school house, but the office is quite different. Doris Massey has replaced Mrs. Rives, and of course the new principal is William Black. Now we find Billy Jo (Wilson) Powell taking her husband’s bell bottom trousers to the Slaughter - Wilson Dry Cleaners. Charles Storey, with Martha Browning, his pianist, is making a world tour enter- taining veterans. Pat Brittain’s radio program is sponsored by Johnston's Chewing Gum Factory, Dot (Helm) Isley’s Grocery, Griffith's Used Car Company, and Andrews’ Gro- cery. Barbara (Thompson) Whitt has finally settled down in Elon with her hen pecked hus- band. Dr. Dan Radar and his partner, Dr. Trilby Pugh, have set up a neat little hospital covering ten acres, In the sports’ field we find Tommy Zachary, Franz Holt, and James McPherson be- coming very famous basketball players in the hearts of the American people. Nira and Zane Sledge are professional coaches. Peggy (Jeffreys) Teer is happily settled on a nice little dairy farm milking cows. Betty Jo Shepherd is working for the F, B.I, with Peggy Shanklin, Ann Shoffner, and Sylvia McAdams helping her chase down good looking criminals. Hal Farrell, president of the bank, and Betty Lou Ivey, his secretary, are letting a lot of money run through their fingers. Ernestine Blackwood, Jeanette Wallace, and Lota Mae Logan are still big wheels at Rose’s Dime Store, Bob Moser, Rudolph Mullins, and Dick Vestal are Uncle Sam's favorite sons. Ned Lewis has quietly taken over General MacArthur's job. The world is in terrible shape!. Dan Webster is cartoonist for the Burlington Times News. Tommae Brittain and Evelyn Elmore are known as the Quiz Kids of North Carolina. Josephine Okey has finally married Joe Linens, Lee Ivey and Billy Garrison are now each seeking their fourth wife. “Louis Jarmon and Douglas Ratliff are partners in a two hundred acre farm. Rose Horne is still trying to atch on to a rich husband, a doctor for instance. Polly Allen, Joan Linens, and Betty Allison are bookkeepers for the United States Treasury Department, with Peggy Robinson top adviser. Whoosh! The wind brings my magic carpet back to Graham High School in the year Gayle Peggy Jeffreys Prophet