Johnston County High School - Hawk Yearbook (Smithfield, NC)

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So, as my mind was still being entertained by the wonderful thoughts and memories of my classmates, I returned to my Pontiac to drive back to the brook and the weeping willow. Once again I looked into the dark waters. As the shadows of the day lengthen into the darkness of the night these words appeared before my eyes. Go now. Return in 1976. Gaze into my waters in another ten years and the activities of your classmates shall be revealed unto you again, Who am I? I'm one of your classmates too. But since the cool, running waters of this brook have so clearly foretold so much about us, 1et's keep on thinking of our Class Prophecy, as coming from the All Knowing Brook

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CLASS PIWPHECY One afternoon while I was sitting by a brook under the shade of a beautiful and wide-spread weeping willow tree, I contemplated the future of my classmates. As I looked into the dark brook, I saw these words. We have crossed the brook but the ocean lies ahead. I also saw these words. Gaze into this brook and what you want to know, will be revealed unto you. Before me I saw a modern hospital that had been constructed by none other than Reginald Holmes. Willie Smith, who is an architect, had designed the one hundred twenty-five-bed hospital. Reading the names of the medical staff was like reading from a Who's Who. Most of the names on the roster, belong to classmates of Dr. Ellis Lee Jones. Dr. Jones is a senior surgeon. Grace Walker, a heart specialist, James Smith, an eye-ear-nose and throat specialist, and Bettye Jean Barnes is an optometrist. His nurses? They too are classmates, Florence Bradley, head nurse on the chi1dren's wardg Minnie Dublin, Alice Jean Gales, Sarah Penny and Joann Royal are working on the maternity floorg Carrie Sanders, Hunter Sanders and Earlene Watson are comforting and treating the patients in the clinical section of this beautiful hospital! My time was very limited! I left the bank of this brook of revelations and the shade of the beautiful weeping willow tree to motor in my '66 Poniac through the well-remembered section of Belmont. Come to Mattie Lassiter and Lina Altman's Beauty Salon Alice Jean Peacock, manicuristj' These were the words on a sign to my right as I turned at the corner of Massey and Collier Streets. I didn't stop. I was too anxious to.go onl Further more, my attention was completely captured by the precious sight of my dear Alma Mater, the Johnston County Training School. As I parked in front of the school, the driver education students rode by in a 1966 Mercury! Later I learned hat the driving instructor was Lindsay Williams. As I visited the classes, I found that some of the teachers were Joseph Mitchener as science teacher, Hattie Haley as home economics, and Charlotte McClamb as mathematics and English teacher. The music teachers were Lizzie Clark and Marilyn Frazier. Ann Hilliard and Alea Vinson were librarians. James Hines had taken Mr. Randall's place in the brick masonry shop. Barbara Arrington, Ella Archibald and Eddie M. Sanders were the new elementary teachers. Melvin Powell was the director of girls' athletics and Hubert Avery was the director of boys' athletics. While sitting in the front hall near the receptionist's desk, I selected a newspaper from the magazine rack and was delighted to read that James J udkins is an X-Ray technician now, He has opened an office on the third floor of the Empire State Building. Donnie Nixon has at last be- come a dentist. Lou Glenda Allen has her own dress shop on Fifth Avenue. James Barbour, Earl Parker and George Benton had received their master's degree in engineering. Harry Obey has become a well known Presbyterian minister. Jean Benton is an assistant librarian at the Library of Congress. Della Carroll had recently opened Carroll's Business School in New Mexico. She took Etta Joyce Saunders, Alice Faye Williams, Mary Jean Smith, Dorothy M. Williams, Annie Rose Bell and Irene Blackmon with her as members of her faculty.

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NNUAL STAFF 34km-.M 'XY Q ZQ . Charlotte Mclsamb . . . George Benton Alice Faye Williams James Hines Etta J. Saunders Marilyn Frazier . James Judkins Joseph Mitchener , Willie Smith . James Barbour , . Ellis Jones