Griffith High School - Blue and Gold Yearbook (Winston Salem, NC)

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PROPHECY (Continued) Mary and Martha Reich are still milking cows down on the farm wait¬ ing for the day when two good looking twin boys will come along to marry them. Sue Skidmore is flirting with the interns at Baptist Hospital. I think she is struck on the idea of having a doctor for a husband. Dallas Shields still won’t give Barbara Holcomb a date. What’s wrong, Dallas? Peggy Knouse finally accepted Fred’s diamond and they are now happily married. Joan Smith and Elva Teague are now working for some rich old man as stenographers. The crystal ball started to glow a bright red and then suddently turned to a dark cast when she said she saw Peggy Jenkins down on the farm— pushing little baby chicks in the water. Roger Sides is making a fortune baby sitting. Nancy Dickerson is a hair designer at the high class Konnoak Hills Beauty Parlor. Wilma Fishel is having a hard time trying to keep Jack Moorefield away since she is married. Mary Alice Wilson is general manager of F. W. Woolworth’s. Nancy Doub is floor-walker at Kress’ five and dime store. Clayton Miller is beating his brains out auctioneering tobacco. Peggy Faircloth has a contract with Howard Hughes, that well known zillionaire” of California. Norma Hartman has taken Lois Lane’s place as a reporter for the Daily Planet. Peggy Ragsdale is now living happily in a little four room cottage since her marriage in 1950. Jewel El ledge has changed her cloth coat for a mink, a Salisbury Road address for Beverly Hills, but there is still the same long string of male ad¬ mirers. Harold just came down to breakfast to find the telephone ringing, both kids crying and his wife, the former Vernelle Stanley wringing her hands because she had just burnt his toast. Life gets tee jus! Patsy Connell hasn’t gained a pound—busy gal, how could she between keeping up with her Tripplettes” and appearing at Carnegie Hall, accom¬ panying her Tripplette?

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PROPHECY The Senior Class decided to take a trip to California, since they were the Class of ’49 and therefore thought the title forty-niners” would fit in nicely. Early in the summer, all the Seniors set out in a covered wagon. Everyone was overjoyed with the trip and enjoyed the scenes along the way. As we were crossing the vast desert in Nevada, we happened to come across a band of Gypsies. There was one old Gypsy in the band who claimed to be very skilled in telling fortunes. Immediately all of us began asking her to tell our fortunes. She readily agreed but refused to dip into the future beyond the year of ’59. She gazed into the crystal ball and told us the following: Tommy Allen has finally talked Ruth Gray’s father into letting him have her. Ruth is rocking a bald-headed baby to sleep while Tommy is making eyes at some other blond. Kennon has retired as a football star from Mars Hill College and settled down to comfort his loving wife, June Johnson. Gray Einstein” Elliott is steadily employed at Chapel Hill as a pro¬ fessor of all general knowledge. Allen Bird-Legs” Harrison is setting on a nest of parrot eggs. Colleen Black Ruby Black, and Melba Burgess are all working at Gibson’s Ice Cream Parlor under the supervision of Maxine Thomas. Jake” Johnson is now owner and manager of a rabbit farm. He is in fur up to his neck. Mack Matthews has lost his job in the lunch room and is now a street cleaner. Dewey Black is general owner and manager of Silver’s Grocery Depart¬ ment. Jessie is a big time operator with a still on every hill in Yadkin County. Tommy Everhart has been recognized as the second Babe Ruth of Griffith School. He has a total of 94 home runs out of 95 times at bat. Bobby Reeves and Nancy Hayes are still feudin’, fussin’, and fightin’.” No one knows whether they will get married or not. As the crystal ball began to change colors we saw Lib Spach and Mar¬ jorie Pope in New York modeling for a fashion designer. Jimmy Moore is a Rear Admiral in the Navy. Bill Enscore is still going to Griffith School trying to get his diploma. Bettie Ann Carroll is teaching the first grade at Arcadia High. Ruth Foltz and Ruth Miller are playing professional basketball for Hanes Hosiery. Bill Skidmore has taken over his father’s job of driving the bus for the Cardinals.

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PROPHECY (Continued) Geneva Ragsdale is prospering as the manager of Imperial Insurance Co., now covering the twelfth floor of the Nissen Building. Charlie Rierson was found flat on his back under a 1934 Ford in a service station on the corner of Konnoak Drive and Clemmonsville Road. Bobbie was standing on the steps of the house across the road yelling for him to come to dinner. Just as she was about to tell my fortune, the crystal ball glowed with a peculiar green color, whirled around and around, then blew up—right in her face! After assuring ourselves that our Gypsy friend was unharmed, we thanked her and continued our journey to California. BILL NIXON.