Greenville High School - Tau Yearbook (Greenville, NC)

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HISTORY As seniors we again chose Carl Denton to lead and direct our class; Peggy Williams was elected secretary; McDonald Bland, vice-presi- dent; and Howard Proctor, treasurer. Again we had a successful business venture in the sale of stationery. With characteristic enthusiasm, we entered into our many Senior activities. The annual staff was elected, pro- ducing the newly retitled yearbook, “The Tau.” We sponsored an original Christmas program and contributed a decorated tree to the chil- dren’s ward at the hospital. We will never forget the thrill we received while hearing and taking part in “The Messiah.” The color and originality of our senior play “Annie Laurie” made all our hearts burst with pride, and our well-planned Senior day was a day that will always warm our hearts. With all our excitement in making plans for our gradua- tion day, a new feeling came over us — a feeling that could make us remember our past with wistfulness and a tear in the eye; and, yet, make us proudly say, “We have aimed high, and we reached higher.” “Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be. The last of life, for which the first was made.” Robert Browning [25}

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HISTORY Today as we look back over our past life in Greenville High School our chests swell with jjride, for indeed we have something to be proud of. Our accomplishments speak for us and they exclaim how successful we have been. Four years ago we made our debut, and we promptly announced that our motto would be “Aim high, but reach higher”, and that we have done. Lavender and white were chosen as our class colors, and we recognized ourselves as the great Forty Niners. As Freshmen, we worked as an organized group. Our first officers were John Farley, President; William McLaw- hon, Vice-President; and Lois Waldrop, Secre- tary and Treasurer. Under the leadership of these officers, we sponsored one of the most successful dances ever presented in the school, “The Freshmen Follies.” Thus it is evident that the Forty Niners were not slow in their search for fortune and fame. The following year as Sophomores we elected Donald Rose, president of our class; Carl Denton, vice-pre.sident; Joanna Bunch, Secre- tary; and Lois Waldrop, Treasurer. During the year we sponsored the Coronation Ball, and the originality of the dance won the praise of many. Time can never take away the memories of our junior year, for we crammed so many activities into nine short months that we were forever doing something. Our officers were Carl Denton, president; Walter Wilson, vice-presi- dent; Dot Wilson, secretary; and Fred Brooks, treasurer. With the co-operation of the class, our officers and committee chairmen, we conducted a suc- cessful magazine sale and presented a junior- senior that shall not easily be forgotten. Frances Bendall, Fred Brooks, Dot Whiteley, Walter Wilson, Bettie Anne Young, Barbara Clement, Sam Northrop and Dot Stauffer were our class marshalls. £ 24 }

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PROPHESY Your prophet’s eyes have grown dim with proof-reading and her hands shaky from head-line writing as she begins her twenty-first year of being editor of the Universal Syndicate of “Green Lights” here in the small balcony room in Greenville High School. For this special ’49 alumni issue of the world-famous 365 page paper, all members of the cla.ss will be found and written up in their respective positions. This, of course, will require a short tour ol the universe by yours truly in Spyridon Sideris’ speedy new rocket ship. It is really a fast num- ber. It lacks only five m.jj.h. more to reach Speedy’s own track record. Several former graduates are already known through their fabulous achievements. Fred (Money-Bags) Brooks has reached great heights as the president of the Universal Government; and former S. C. A. president, Rufus Stark, holds the slightly less spectacular office of President of the United States. Not to be outdone by the males, Carolyn Bowen (the former “Smiles” Rowlette) has married into royalty and is now Queen of the World. As your prophet boards the Rocket special, piloted by H. B. Heath and James Allen, .she finds two more of the class of ’49, Elsie Briley and Elma Ipock, who are now competent air hostesses. On leaving Greenville High School, the pas,scngers gaze down upon the beautiful antique building. Of course it is slightly crowded with seventy-five people in each class, but former grad- uate Superintendent Donald Rose, aided by his secretary Anne Forbes and typist, Gordon Brown, is working on the plans for a new school. Feeling pangs of hunger, the party makes its first stop at one of the branches of Brady’s Quintriple Inn, where they are greeted by Dot Wilson Brady of the class of ’49. She shows them through the great restaurant and introduces them to the two head dietitians, Eleanor Alphin and Anne Gaboon. From these two inventors of the new French fried hot dogs, the party learns of the radio program, “The Swamp of Dreams,” sponsored by Brady’s and put on by former N. F. L. members Louise Batson, Barbara Clement, Teresa Saieed, and Roy Hardee. The next stop on the universal tour is New York. There your prophet finds Lytle Batchlor and Sam Northrop directing traffic on Times Square, where a special radiator has been installed for their convenience. Other forty-niners found in the big city arc models Frances Bendall Donnelly, former Miss America, modeling coats from Brodiers’ to help her husband through medical school; Eleanor Norris is the new Maybelline eye girl, and Betty Morton the newest advertisement for Lovely-Lash Wave Preparation. Famous Bongdorf-Foodwoman dress and bathing suit models are Frances Venters, Anne Dunn, Sarah Sellers, Alice Jones, Marc|uerite Staton, and Ruth Page Allen, whose husband, Douglas Allen, manages the Bongdorf corporation, with the assistance of model photographer, Elvin Ray Jones. Your prophet decides to stay over for the New York theatrical events, as many of the graduates have entered the world of the footlights. Singing in the musical, “Down in the Park” are Carl Denton, former class president; Bobby Odum, Charles Watson, and Eugene Wright. Renowned torch singer, Louise Gurganus, is using her class ties with the operatic stars, Gilbert Windham and Juanita Stokes, to try to get a part in Ken Owen’s latest opera, “El Comino de Las Phantoms.” As the weary Green Lights editor makes her round of the night clubs, she finds Arturo (“Pete”) Andrade, accompanied by Gene Baker on the guitar, singing Mexican love songs. Dancing to the songs are the rhumba-swaying twins. Dot Stauffer and B. A. Larkins Edwards, wife of Raby Edwards, well- known movie star who stars in a production entitled “The Eyes.” Often another forty-niner, Robert Mayo, shares star honors with Edwards with his specialty “The Raven.” [ 26 ]