Kings Creek High School - Babbles Yearbook (Lenoir, NC)

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Senlors -- we-er Roscoe VVh1ttmgton Betty Ann Wilson art thou Romeo? Allled Youth 1 2 3 4 Basket- flass Secretary 4 Dramatlcs 3 ball 1 2 3 4 Softball 1 2 3 4 Allled Youth 4 Basketball 1 2 4 H 1 3 4 Baseball 1 2 3, -1 To stay out of the army Dramatlcs 3 Not Plctured Shlrley Brookshlre Ehzabeth Grubb Wllla Dean Laws O .5 is o 3. V. Q , f 2 0 Romeo, Romeo! wherefore Always on the jolly side ',, l ! Y Y 3 3 Q 5 I Y H 3 I I 7 S 5 1 1 ' - , rx v I I 7 ! ' ' ' '

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X 3-Z Not Plctured Desmond Reld fG0ne DZHCIDEJ Sidney Stokes A hkeable guy Beta Club 4 Rlpples Staff 4 - 'N Annul Staff 4 Ellen Tolbert Sweet as a plckle 41-I1 2 3 GleeClub3 4 Soft ba 1 2 3 4 Annual Staff 4 Saw ive Seniors Geraldme Robertson Sallor Beware Class Pres1dent 1 2 Class Secretary 3 F H A Secretary 4 Glee Llub 1 2 3 Allled Youth 2 3 4 Cheerleader 2 Basketball 3, 4 Basketball co captam 4 Dra matlcs 3, Bus Drxver 4 Annual Staff 4 Softball 4 4 H 1 2 'EA Jean VIIICQ Hlgh wlde and handsome Alhed Youth 1 2 5 4 A Y Secletary 4 Beta Club 3 4 F H A Presxdent 4 Dramatlcs 3 Class Secretary 2 3 Rlpples Staff Annual Staff 4 Basketball 1, 3 4 Basketball co captain Basketball captam 4 Softball 3 Geraldlne WValker Clever as a Fox y Beta Club 3 4 Beta V168 Presx dent 4 4 H 1 2, 3 Dramahcs 3, Allxed Youth 1 2, 3 4 Annual Staff 4 Rlpples Staff 4

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Class Hlstor The Freshman Class of 49 50 numbered forty two Twenty six of us have stuck to our guns and are now ant1c1pat1ng graduation Nineteen members have been together all through our twelve years learn1ng Sidney Stokes, a prominent member of the class and one of the nineteen was sticken wlth polio the summer of 44 but has kept up with us in hls studles This IS his first year of regular attend ance since the time of h1s illness After our first excitement of entering high school had subsided, we began to get into the swlng of high school hfe, under the watchful eye of Mr L. C Hollar Although we were rather shy and quite awed by the mlghty upper classmenj' we elected our class officers, with Peggy Carlton as President and then got rto work Even though we were Just Freshmen and had few parties and outside act1v1t1es, Jean Vmes a new me uber began to show prom1se of bemg the star 'alayer on the basketball team. Smce then she has fulfilled that promise Then, before we realized what was happenmg, we were sophomores Now we were full fledged high school boys and girls We elected Geraldine Robertson as our President, and Mrs Mabel Thomas became our home room teacher The class took part and sold food on Election Day to try to make money for the Junior Senior Banquet which we would glve our Jun1or year We were now J nmors With Douglas Tester as our President, we new faced the responsxbihty of giving the Seniors a banquet 1n the spring We sold candy for a month or two and sold food at the Ha.llowe'en Carnival Three members of our class were in The Perfect uentleman, a contest play d1rected by M1ss Dolores Arndt The play was pre- sented to the school, the PTA, and at Lenoir Rhyne College at Hlckory where rt won an A grade Because of this it was presented at the Umverslty of North Carolina In Chapel Hill, where it won honorable mention At last we are Semors To us now falls the honor of publishing the school annual and glvmg the senlor play The play Tiger House, was directed by our principal Mr J M Laxton. Then, too, we were honored by a banquet, given to us by the Jumors ln the prmg We were now plannmg a class trip to Washington in the late spring Our high school lrfe has been spiced wrlfn the Joy of a class tnp each spring Our Freshman year Mr Hollar chaperoned a tr1p to Brown Mountain Beach where we all had a wonderful time Our Sophomore year, we went to Lake Hickory under the eye of Mrs Vine Our Junior year we went back to Brown Mountain Beach wlth Mrs Betty Richardson as chapercne We hope our successors have as much fun m high school as we have Historians Joan Icenhour Ruth Kirby Desmond Reld Class Prophecy The room darkens a hght forms in the center of the maglc crystal ball The hght changes and takes on the appearance of a bulldmg What IS this emerging It is a medium S1Z6d brick bulldmg w1th tl c sign Icenhour and Hlcks Motor Builders Inc There are Joe and Doyle two of our old classmates from Klngs Creek High work ing on their successful busmess establishment They have as their typlst another of our old classmates Charlotte Dillard whom we haven t heard from in ages That was three of our classmates Lets see lf we can see the rest We Ruth Kirby and Joan Icenhour, are vxsltmg a Swami here 1n Charlotte where we happened to meet Ruth had Just come ln on a tram from her Navy camp 1n Bambrldge Md I had Just been down town to buy some supphes from the hospital where I work as a secretary Now the Swann says the plcture has dimmed but now lt grows hght ag-am. There are three smart-lookmg WAVES Walklllg down the street ln Maryland We recogmze them Instantly for they were always together at school They are Betty Ann Wilson Margaret Barlowe and Jean Vines Agaln the picture changes Now we see a large bank in Chicago, headed by the distinguished Claude Church He calls ln his private secretary who also graduated from Kmgs Creek. She is Juanita Cantor now marrled to a busmess man Please Swami fell us what has become of Claudla Andrews She was always the llfe of the class when we were in school She 187 Well what do you know? A lecturer' That sounds Just like her for she always d1d hke to talk ' Off we go mto the wild blue yonder What's this Music coming out of a crystal ball Who is it Swann The Air Force comes marclung through Ah, I see we are represented here by Ellen Tolbert and Roscoe Whlttmgton Two more school buddies are together agam, but under different clrcumstances The former Ora Lea Phllhps now 1. socialite and the wife of a wealthy bus1nessman, 1 havmg her hair dressed by the exclusive cosmetologist Mademoiselle Wanda fHarr1son of coursel My the scene hanges ql11Ck.ly Now I hear a slren There seems tc have been an accident ln New O v , - - . . . . ' ' ' ' H fi IY . , . . . ' D , . . o 1 0 I . . . . . . . . - - 7 - . n ' I u n J ' , L. . o . I . . 1 . . . . . H . ' KA ' I ' , 1 , ' . . . ' . , . . . . . V . . , u u I y , . . . H I . , . . 7 in more activities this year. We sponsored a movie . - 1 ' . 5 . . - l , . ' . ' . . . 1 ' Y 1. , , i, . h , - . . . . 1 , . . 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