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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FRIENDLIEST Barbara Clemmons Bobby Daniels CLASS PESTS Melba Darne Bill Shackleford SENIOR BEST ALL AROUND Joan Eason Jimmy Creech