Hookerton High School - Ho Hi Echoes Yearbook (Hookerton, NC)

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CLASS PROPHECY Six-fifteen almost time! I hurried around, straightening this and that, getting everything ready. It was almost time for the eighteen graduates of 1954 to start arriving for their grand class reunion in 1964, Yes, it has been ten years since we, as a class, were together. First to arrive was Dr. Jack Carroll, who is almost as well known in Hookerton as his father. Arriving just a few minutes behind him, Jane Carroll who is now his nurse, brings along his satchel, just in case of an accident. Margaret Morris arrives next with her two children. It seems Alaska agreed with her but she did make it back for our reunion, A crowd rushes in next. Bill Shackleford and his twelve children. Bill says they’re cheaper by the dozen. .Just behind Bill is Roland Jones who is now a Christian minister. They’ve been making plans for the christening of Bill’s youngest child. That inseparable twosome, Bobby Daniels and Douglas McLawhorn arrive next. They were overheard discussing plans for Bobby ' s airbase in North Carolina, where Douglas will be manager as well as pilot. As usual Barbara Clemmons and Melba Darne entered together, right be- hind Bobby and Douglas. After going to school for nine months Barbara set up her own Beauty Parlor in Hookerton. Melba does her secretarial work and bookkeeping. After doing such nice work for “The Hookerton Spirit” Billy Ray McCoy de.cided that he liked newspaper work. He now owns his own newspaper in Raleigh. West Point lost one of its students for a short while, Lonnie Price, who is there studying to be an officer came home for the reunion and also to see Jean Tyson who is waiting for him in Snow Hill, Joan Eason, Hookerton’s own school teacher, arrived next with her husband. It seems she’s been too busy to start a family yet. When Sidney Dixon arrived we could tell that he came prepared to fix our television set. After finishing school he took an electronics course and is now a grade A T. V. fixer. That great explorer William Clark came in next. He’s giving Congo Bill great competition as a game hunter for national museums. Next to arrive was Jimmy Ray Creech. From the looks of things he ' s all right as manager of the Kinston Tobacco Co. My old life-time friend, Travis Sugg and I, Franklin Jones,sat discussing our old classmates. He told me about his last year’s tobacco crop and I, in turn spinned the tale of how the fish are biting on my farm near Trent River. Our reunion ended with the refrains of our school song, written by our classmate, Melba Darne, floating across the way, bringing backmemories which will never be forgotten, Franklin Jones Prophet

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LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT In this year, nineteen hundred and fifty-four, we the Senior Class of Hookerton High School, city of Hookerton, county of Greene and state of North Carolina do hereby make and declare this, our last will and testament. Article I To the Junior. Class, we leave our best wishes that they will succeed the many trials ahead of them in the coming year. To the Sophomores, and Freshmen we leave the many good times that we had going to basketball games on “Ole Phanny.” We also leave our sincere hopes that they will use their time wisely so that as they follow in our foot- steps they will be more suited for the responsibilities placed before them. Article II To the faculty, along with our deepest thanks, we leave a years supply of aspirins. We feel sure thatwith the oncoming seniors they will find a need for them. Article III As individuals, the Seniors generously leave the following: Travis Sugg leaves his school bus to anyone who is capable of handling the route . Bill Shackleford leaves his handsome face to anyone who has the physique to go along with it. Jean Tyson leaves her flirty ways to no one. She couldn’t get along without them. Lonnie Price leaves his curly hair to James Edward David. Jane Carroll leaves nothing; she ' s taking it to college with her. Douglas McLawhorn leaves his long, lean and lanky appearance to Franklin Taylor. Jimmy Creech leaves his ability to stay “in” with the teachers to Jimmy Johnson, Margaret Morris leaves her stubborn ways to anyone who will take them. William Clark leaves his artistic ability to Ethleen Beaman. Roland Jones leaves anything he’s got to anybody who wants it. Joan Eason leaves her bashful ways to Linda Pittman. Sidney Dixon leaves his ability to skip school to Roger Mewborn. Franklin Jones leaves his love for basketball to Robert Earl Carraway. Billy McCoy leaves his “wanted column” to some less fortunate member of the Junior Class. Jack Carroll leaves his brief case to Curtis Daniels. Barbara Clemmons leaves her love for hamburgers and french fries to Anne Hardy. Bobby Daniels leaves his country style loving to anyone who cares to try it. Melba Darne leaves only because she has to. Melba Darne Testator

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