Greenville High School - Tau Yearbook (Greenville, NC)

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PROPHESY The prophet attends the newest Broadway drama, North Carolina Williams’ (Mrs. Howard Proctor) “Streetcar Named Disgust,” starring Sam Fleming, Tommy Hannaford, and Jane Langley. Her husband, Howard, handles the business and the production, assisted ably by handsome James Harvey Ward, Walter Wilson, and commercial artists Jack Morgan and Dot Whiteley. Just outside the theatre the editor of the Christian Science Progressive, former Green Lights editor R. W’. Tyson, glides up in his Rolls Royce and persuades the Greenville party to visit LaGuardia Field, which has been remodeled into a stadium seating 200,000 fans. There the world-famous Green Ghosts, Joe Alligood, MacDonald Bland, McRay Bland, Bobby Fleming, Raleigh Lee, William Mac Lawhorn, Ben Roberson, Bob Corey, James Balance, James Buck, and Jimmy Briley, all coached l)y John Farley, are defending their World Championship title for the fifteenth time. During the stopover, the contestants for the New York Beauty Queen title parade onto the field. Southern beauties, who were once forty-niners, Freda “Baby-Face” Sutton, Virginia “Lashes” Tripp, Helen “Legs” Rowland, and Grace “Waves” Haddock far outshine all the other glamorous girls. Much as your editor hates to depart from .so many famous forty-niners, she makes a cjuick trip to Mars in order to catch a glimpse of Mrs. Emily (Rice) Howard and Mrs. Thorburn (Whitehurst) Minges, who are operating the Planet Delight Shop where they are specializing in the sale of Rice Krispies and Pepsi-Cola. Nurses working there to take care of greedy customers are Nancy Jo Smith, Virginia Speight, and Carolyn Whitehurst. After a brief greeting to the former graduates, your tired prophet begins her flight back to earth, but just before she drops off for a short cat nap, she is startled to hear from the ship’s radio a special broadcast by Allen Churchill, now following in the oratorical steps of the great “Winnie.” As a background for his speech, a skit entitled “Oh, There’s Great News Tonight” by the famed author, Peggy Carson, is presented, featuring Peggy Tucker, Billy Tucker, Lou Ellen Keech, Steve Moss, Kenneth Gray, and Barbara Jenkins. This program is sponsored by “Reworgriah” (hair- grower, spelled backwards), a preparation invented by Josephine Parkerson. Taking care of the Saturn and Earth branches of the firm are Hazel Western and Larry Ricks, respectively. About the time the program is completed, your exhausted prophet lands at Greenville High School to find that the Annual Staff has taken over the Lights editorial room. Realizing there is but one thing to do, she does it — she takes to her bed with Joanna Bunch’s latest hook How to Keep Your Temper and Get What You Want. [ 27 ]

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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 ]

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LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT We, the graduating class of 1949 — better known as the forty-niners, who, after five years of hard labor see the end of one phase of a happy journey drawing near, do hereby bequeath all our worldly possessions, moral virtues and intellectual attainments to those we leave behind. Article I, to the future dignified Seniors, we leave our lonely but cherished senior privilege, fearing that they may lose it with one step in the wrong direction. Article II, To our school, G. H. S., Mr. J. H. Rose, Mr. O. E. Dowd, and the faculty; we leave our w ' armest appreciation and gratitude for the many ways in which they have helped to make our lives more complete. Article III, To the student body, we leave G. H. S. hoping that they will continue to uphold the high ideals and standards of our alma mater, which we shall love forever. Article IV, Fred Brooks, the “Brain”, and Betty Ann Young, the “Genius”, leave their brain power to be equally distributed among Franklyn Brown, Frances Sigmon, and Vernice Howard. Article V, Billy Tucker leaves his unbounding energy to Tommy Lupton. Article VI, Ken Owens and Robert Mayo leave their chemistry notebooks, which are master pieces, to the chemistry department. Article VII, Bob Corey and Kenneth Gray leave all their wasted time to Rodney Fulcher and Ray Sears, hoping that it will be put to good use. Article VIII, Carl Denton leaves his ability to jitterbug to “Coon” Williams and Peggy Joyce Barrow. Article IX, Howard Proctor, Elvin Ray Jones, and James Harvey Ward leave their vast vocabularies to Martha Gilbert and Augusta Overton. Article X, Steve Moss leaves his ability to get along with the teachers to anyone who may need it. Article XI, Eugene Wright and McRay Bland leave their quietness to Jake Stauffer and Louis Clark. Article XH, Elsie Briley, Grace Haddock, Fima Ipock, and Virginia Speight left! Article XHI, Anne Forbes leaves her sweet disposition to Ellen Sawyer. Article XIV, Eleanor Norris leaves, promising Jimmy she’ll always be true and instructing him to do likewise. Article XV, Barbara Clement, Peggy Carson, and Helen Rowland leave silently. Article XVI, McDonald Bland and Betty Morton leave their good looks to Jimmy Cox and Barbara Russell. Article XVH, Tommy Hannaford, Sam Fleming, and Peggy Tucker leave their dramatic ability to the dramateers. Article XVI 1 1, Larry Ricks, H. B. Heath, and Joe Alligood leave their cute physiques to Dallas Clark, Floyd Stokes, and Bob Watson. [ 28 }