King High School - Cabin Yearbook (King, NC)

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LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT The class of 1950 of King High, during four happy, Pleasant, and prosperous years has obtained many assets-regretfully, we leave these walls of learning. To King High School we leave the fond hope that as the years go by it will progressg that our Student Council will succeed, and that the inter- est of every student in our school will increase. To the Faculty: To Mr. Felts: A student body who can obey some of the school rules. To Mrs. Voss: A Senior Class who can work faster on the annual and be quieter. To Mrs. Stevens: A library in a room separate from the study hall. To Mr. Neal: A good basketball team and someone to look after the tenth grade room while he coaches the team. To Mrs. New- som: A larger commercial room and someone to help her do all the work assigned to her. To Mr. Harmon: Officers for the F. F. A. who can per- form as well as the Senior officers have this year. To Mr. Keiger: A new home room-preferably in high school. To Mrs. Duncan: Success in her guidance program. To Mr. Fowler: A home room of girls instead of all boys. To Mrs. Patterson: Some new equipment for the Home Economics department. To the Juniors: Rex Ashburn wills Doyle Cromer his G. I. haircut and to Jack Jones his ability to fix posters for basketball games. Betty Lou Searcy wills Mable Venable her cute little laugh. Edna Earl Edwards wills her ability to act and to Macie Watts her curls. Norma Lee Boyles wills ure games! Crow McGee wills his ability to tell jokes to Bill Watts so he can keep the rising Senior Class amused, and to Dennis Moore his ability to sell ads for the King's Cabin. Helen Turner wills her cuteness to Jean Watts and her quietness to Nell Baker. Use a lot of it, Nell. Norma Faye Edwards wills her title biggest baby to Sally Meadows. Jane New- some wills her faithful black and white saddle shoes to Audrey Faye Hau- ser. Wear them every dayg they are still wearable. Ola Jane Sells wills her friendliness to Peggy Hall. Cleo Bennett wills to Pete Westmoreland her ability to act and to Macie Watts her curls. Norma Lee Boyles wills her heartaches to Rachel Burge and her bashfulness to Betty Lou Lawson. Rugh Knight wills Melvin Southern her ability to speak her mind, so the Senior Class will have someone to express their opinion. Elwin Bennett wills his bus to Jack James. Good luck, Jack, and remember to be careful and on time. Peggy Lou Denny wills her blue eyes to Odessa Smith and her willingness to cooperate to Frances Wall. Robert Rierson wills to Orbin Kiser the privilege of keeping the rising Senior Girls supplied with chewing gum. It does help you get along with the opposite sex. Dean Hartgrove wills his bashfulnes to Sherrill Gray Hall and Junior Fulk. Johnny Newsome wills Dean Robertson and Leo Whitman his ability to attract the girls. May the best man win. Oneda Boyles wills to Mary Frances Long her ability to count money for the lunchroom tickets. Rich- ard Johnson wills his position on the basketball team to Paul Nance. Good luck in all the basketball games! To Roy Lee Harris, he wills his extra units hoping Roy Lee will graduate next year. Margaret Hooker wills her seat in the Senior Class to Annie Sue Spainhour and her General Science book to Carolyn Voss. Lena Faye Tedder wills her superlative. most likely to get married, to Etta Denny. Moyer Bennett wills his cherleader's sweater' to Robert Smith. Keep the players in high spirits with some snappy cheers! Lorene Lawson wills to Sybil Sizemore the back seat on our bus so she won't have to raise her voice. Sara Ferguson wills Lorraine Robertson her books and book reports so she can spend her Sen- ior year playing basketball instead of reading. Marcus Kiser wills his brown hat to Royce Slate and his seat on bus 35 to Dee Laine Mabe. Witnessed by: ,,...., .,,. ,......,...... ..........,. ...,,,,,. , , , , ,. ..., .. r ,CSealJ

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CLASS HISTORY In the fall of 1946, thirty-nine wise-foolish freshmen entered the toughest struggle thus far in our education at King School. All the girls except six occupied the Home Economics Department with Mrs. Lois Robertson as home room teacher, while the boys had as their home room. the science room. Mrs. Louise Campbell served as home room teacher the first half of the year and Mrs. Glen Moser, the latter part. We had plenty of excitement that Christmas when the boys joined the girls in the Home Economics Department for a fun-for-everyone party. Of course, everyone enjoyed themselves tremendously. In the spring the boys' basketball team won the grade tournament and was presented a well-deserved trophy. I In the tenth grade, all of us were together in Mr. Neal's home room. We elected for our officers that year the following: President, Richard John- song Vice President, Betty Lou Searcy: Secretary and Treasurer, Lorene Lawson. That year we made much progress in athletics. Norma Faye Edwards, Edna Earl Edwards, Lena Faye Tedder, Jane Newsome, Ruth Knight, Richard Johnson, and Dean Hartgrove made the high school basketball teams, and Crow McGee made the high school baseball team. For entertainment that year, we had a party at the Club House. Mr. Neal was unable to attend. so Mrs. Stevens acted as chaperone. In the spring we had a weiner rDaSt at Reynolds Park. Naturally, all of us thought this was exciting. Our Junior year is still considered our most eventful year. The Hallo- we'en Carnival, which we sponsored, was one of the outstanding events of the year. We soon found out, though, that the preparation for it was much more fun than cleaning up afterwards. At Christmas Mrs. Stevens gave us a party at the American Legion Hut. She had everything .vell-planned, and after presents were passed out, everyone was so exhausted from the games we had played, we were ready to go home. May 14th, 1949, was the day that was looked forward to by all the Jun- iors and Seniors. You guessed it-it was the Junior-Senior Banquet which was to be held at the Cavalier Grill. The Juniors soon learned that we would have to settle down and really get to work, or there would be no banquet at all. With the urging and encouragement of Mrs. Stevens, we made a success of it, come May 14. It was a semi-formal affair with the boys wearing new suits and the girls wearing flowing evening gowns. The marshals that year were as follows: Betty Lou Searcy, chief 3 Sara Ferguson, Richard Johnson, Norma Faye Edwards, and Ola Jane Sells. At graduation exercises, 1949, Edna Earl Edwards and Sara Ferguson were announced as the girls to represent our school at Girls' State in Many have dropped out of school since we were freshmen, so our Senior Class of 24 is not very large. In December, we gave our Senior Play, Shiny Nose, and at Christmas we assembled at Mrs. Voss' house for a party which was enjoyed by everyone. Yes, we all know that the end of our school days is drawing nigh,'? and we should like to express our thankfulness toward the high school faculty and our principal for all the help that they have given us.

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CLASS PROPHECY It is December 12, 1963, and Moyer Bennett and his wife, the former Frances Westmoreland, and I, his business secretary, Sara Ferguson.. wife of a well-known New York lawyer-are leaving New York to at- tend a business conference in Buenos Aires. When we arrived at the sta- tion, we discovered that Dean Hartgrove was the engineer of the large Diesel locomotive. He told us he had been married since 1954 and had one daughter almost two years old. He had seen Betty Lou Searcy about a week before this. She had married a band director and was playing in the band. When we stepped on the train, whom should we see but Mr. and Mrs. Robert Rierson! Mrs. Rierson was the former Lena Faye Tedder. Beside them sat their twin sons, Ralph and Ray. Their home was in Nashville, Tennessee. On a tour of the country, they had stopped in Washington. where they had had dinner with Oneda Boyles, now Mrs. Jack Statton. Oneda is working with the Civil Service there. Oneda told them that dur- ing Thanksgiving she had visited Norma Lee Boyles, who lives in Win- ston-Salem. Norma Lee had not yet married but was making plans to marry the vice president of the Western Electric firm. She had also seen Ruth Knight. Ruth had married Roger Hauser soon after graduation and is a happy housewife with four children. Stopping in Richmond, Virginia, we went to dinner at the V. A. Rest- aurant. We were greeted by the manager of the restaurant, J. Robert Hauser. The name sounded familiar, so I asked him if he knew anyone from King, North Carolina. He said that he surely did, because he had married Jane Newsome in 1953. Learning that Jane was an X-ray tech- nician at one of Richmond's large hospitals, we went by the hospital for a short visit with her. Jane said that last week she had met Norma Faye Edwards, who was coaching a fine basketball team at Richmond's largest high school. The team was very successful, and Norma Faye was happily married to a business executive in Richmond. Our next stop was Winston-Salem. We went to the First National Bank to collect some information that we needed for the conference. Someone familiar came into view. It was Peggy Lou Denny-of course, she is mar- ried now. After graduation she began working at the bank. Now she had risen to the position of teller and was expecting another promotion soon. In 1954 she had married Richard Foster, a prominent lawyer. They are living in a fine home in Winston-Salem with their children, a son and a daughter. She asked if we had seen Lorene Lawson in New York. We told her that Lorene was modeling for John Robert Powers. She has become very famous now and has married her childhood boy friend, Richard Johnson. Richard is a mechanical engineer in New York. They had just returned from a trip to Europe before we left New York. Our next stop was Atlanta, Georgia. Moyer decided that he needed a shoe shine. We stopped at one of the street corners, and as Moyer sat down, thesshoe shine boy looked up. We were surprised to see Crow McGee. Imagine Crow being a shoe shine boy! He told us he was doing this to get publicity, because he was running for the State Senate the next term. He had married Margaret Kenny, and they had three little McGees. Crow told us that when he made a business trip to Miami he had visited a large trucking firm owned by Rex Ashburn. Rex had been living in Florida since 1953. He had been married for two years to a pretty girl he met there.