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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
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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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