Kernersville High School - Retrospect Yearbook (Kernersville, NC)

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OUTSTANDING SENIORS On the following pages, the RETROSPECT Staff salutes the Outstanding Seniors of 1951-52. We believe that their achievements have been so great that they deserve special recognition for the honors they have won. ELAINE CREWS Her achievements are great; her activities many; but Elaine has been chosen an Outstanding Senior because she has so capably held the office of President of the Student Organization this year. Throughout her high school years, Elaine has won both local and county recognition for her Student Organization work. She has worked diligently with the band, F. H. A., and is, this year, a member of the Beta Club. We commend you, Elaine, for your superior work. WILMA FLYNT For her superior traits of character, outstanding leadership, above average scholarship, loyal service to the school and her co-operative attitude toward the students and her teachers, she has been named Civitan Award Winner for 1952. Wilma is serving this year as editor of the BEEHIVE and is student sponsor for the Teen-Age Recreation Club. Her activities are many and varied. She is school reporter for the Winston-Salem Sentinel, scorekeeper for the athletic department, and secretary of the Beta Club. In addition to her school work, she takes an active part in church work, and, she is in every respect an Outstanding Senior. The RETROSPECT salutes you, Wilma. COLLEEN CARTER Through her entire school years, Colleen has shown outstanding leadership ability, and the highest scholarship qualities. She has played a large part in club activities, and has represented her room in the Student Organization. She is vice-president of the Beta Club. Perhaps her greatest honor came when she was recently chosen Valedictorian for the Senior Class. It is for this honor and the capable way in which she has handled the editorship of the RETROSPECT that we consider Colleen an Outstanding Senior. MARICOWLES DUNLAP Though she has only attended Kernersville School for three years, the students and faculty recognize her as an outstanding student. In the field of music, she is a superior pupil; but we of the RETROSPECT Staff salute you, Maricowles, for winning Salutatorian. SALLIE GREENFIELD She was chosen DAR Good Citizen for her Senior year on the basis of her many activities, high scholarship, and cooperative attitude. During the past summer she represented North Carolina at an International Girl Scout Encampment, and later she represented the United States on a national radio broadcast. It is easily understood why we consider Sallie an Outstanding Senior. We of the RETROSPEC T Staff wish to join her classmates in predicting her “most likely to succeed.” 28

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Wilma and Dr. Colleen were talking away just like they used to in 6th period study. Yes, I said Dr. Colleen. After getting her A.B. from W. C., Colleen went on to get her M. A. from Carolina, then her P.H.D. from Columbia. Now she has her M. R. S. from Larry. We never thought our Wilma, “biggest flirt’ in the Senior Class would be a preacher's wife. However, wonders never cease, so today Wilma is as busy as she was in high school days, running the parsonage for the First Baptist Church in St. Louis for V. W. The other teacher in the class, besides Colleen, was Mary Lillian. After graduation from Meredith, Mary Lillian came back to teach. Some of her pupils are the children of the members of the Class of ’52. As I looked around the room, I thought about the far away places some of my classmates had come from. There were JoAnn and Jean who had- come from Florida. Nobody was much eae when JoAnn and Jean, being best friends all through high school, had a double wedding. Roger Hester came from Washington, D. C. He’s the farmer who went to town and he’s now in the Agricultural Research Department in Washington. Barbara Ragland came all the way from France. Her hard work in French class plus her personality landed her a job as secretary with the American Embassy in France. Barbara flew over on the same plane on which Kay is an airplane hostess. Kay has certainly seen a lot of the world, but mainly from an airplane. Several of my classmates had kept the homefires burning, though. Goldie became a nurse and stayed right on here in Kernersville; she’s in the children’s ward of Kernersville’s new Memorial Hospital, and the most cheerful nurse there, too. All the big trucks you see these days have Parrish Trucking Company on the sides. Ten year ago, H. V. started out as a truck driver, but now he owns his own Kernersville Company. Most of the class looked definitely ten years older, but mot Annie. She hadn’t changed a bit. They say the Kernersville schoo! children are all crazy about her since she runs the Cafeteria. All the girls were raving about Shirley’s new hair style. She finally told us it was a Faye original. Yes, Faye Marshall gave up her job as a secretary and became a hair designer. I talked to the two Marys, both of whom are running homes and keeping their jobs. Mary Southern is society editor of the Winston-Salem Journal and Mary Pegram is head of the 4-H work in Forsyth County. By the way, both Marys married their Jacks as we all thought they would. Donnie and Wylene were two of our classmates who went into some field of medicine. Wylene took her nurse’s training at City Hospital in Winston-Salem. Donnie is Atlanta’s leading dentist. If you want to know what the weather will be like week after next, Wilson Gwyn said just to call him at the Weather Bureau. He’s got Wiley Sim’s job now as chief weather prophet. Gertrude kept right on playing basketball after graduation for Hanes Hosiery. She’s now the “most athletic girl” in the country. Charles asked some of the more talented members of the class to present a program. First was Maricowles at the piano. All those years of practice were worth it and we all followed her career as a concert pianist with great interest. Then Betty Alyce, Jeanne Gray, and Nancy sang for us—just like old times. Nancy recently won the Mrs. America contest in Atlantic City. It's a good thing Jeanne Gray likes to cook, because being David’s wife means cooking twenty-four hours a day! Betty Alyce married the soldier she was writing to in high school days. Last but not least on the program was Rufus. We had to laugh at the same old jokes he used to pull in high school when we voted him “wittiest boy.” The Rufus Jones show ran Milton Berle off television years ago. After the program, we thought Sam had disappeared, but we finally found him asleep just like he used to be in Senior English class. J. C. can afford to sleep though. he’s now farm agent for Guilford County. As I started to leave, I saw three of my classmates whom I hadn’t talked to. Naturally, I had to find out what had happened to them. Joe’s made quite a fortune for himself selling his patent medicine. It goes by the name of either “Joe’s Special” or ‘“Vance’s Cure-All.” After 10 years, Robert is still the class’s most eligible bachelor. He’s trying for his fourth world record as a stock car racer next week. While Robert is breaking records on the ground, J. Van is breaking them in the air. He’s a jet pilot and he recently broke the world’s record for around the world flying. What happened to me after graduation? Well, remember my love for a uniform? For myself I chose to wear the green uniform of a Girl Scout Director and I also chose another uniform or rather, I should say, the right man in the uniform. This is what happened to each member of the Class of 1952. I predict that the days ahead will continue to be bright and happy for each one, but gone forever are the golden days of youth when we were school mates together. : er 07 C'est fini!

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ELAINE CREWS President of the Student Organization