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

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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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Prophecy Contlnued York One of the engmeers at Du Pont has been m an automobzle accxdent They are rushmg h1m to the hospltal where one of lus fnends works She 18 the former Peggy Carlton R N He IS Jerry Carlton. Is it safe for two Carltons to get togetrer' Number please' 'Ihat vo1ce! Its very famxlxar Naval Base please' That volce IS fanmhar, too I know who they are' The operator xs Wanda Klrby and the woman callmg 13 the former Geraldme Robertson Geraldlne IS callmg her husband to tell lum that thexr httle boy has a cold. I thank you ' The applause rolls forth as Arletta Barlowe the dlStlIlglllShBd Presldent of the North Carolma Home Demonstration Clufb, com pletes her speech .rt ine State Conventxon She al ways d1d seem the best leader of the Class, but now she has proved lt What's that SVV'2.I'l'l19 You say there's blg news' At last' The famous sclentlst Sidney Stokes has discovered a new way of sphtmg atoms I wonder if he attnbutes hls success to the Phys1cs teachmg of Mr Laxton Wah Wah Poor llttle thing, IB a pm Stlclnllg 1t Tlus chlld looks fa-mlharl Oh I see rt resembles Last Wlll We the Semor Class of n1neteen nunareu and Lflfty three, of Kmgs Creek Hlgh School, m the county of Caldwell the State of North Carolma, bemg of sound mmd and reallzmg our unpendmg departure from th1s school do hereby declare and make thls our last w1ll and testament Artxcle I To Mr Laxton we wlsh to express our thanks for the mterest and leadershxp he has shown us durmg the past year To our teachers we leave our deepest apprecxatlon for thexr efforts toward m creasmg our wxsdom. AIIICIS II To the undergraduates we leave our best wlshes and hope .hey have good luck ln the years to come Artxcle III Durmg our years of school we have accumulated mdlvldual qualltles whlch we would hke to pass on to oertam underclassmen They are as follows I, Doyle Hlcks do Will my wavy halr to Clyde Church I Peggy Carlton do w1ll my temper to Gale Coffey I Wanda Klrby do w1ll my seat In the lunch room to Betty Sue Haas I Wanda HRITISOD do w1ll my false teeth to Thelma Coffey I Ora Lea Phllllps do w1ll my long halr to Mr Land fnot that he needs :tj I Arletta Barlowe do w1ll my shapely JIIPS to Gracle Tolbert I Eugene Greene, do w1ll my ablhty to dnve a school bus to Thomas Pennell I Claude Church do w1ll my crew cut to Frank Barlowe I, Ellen Tolbert, do w1ll my cute ways to Betty a small read headed gxrl that had been m the class It must be the daughter of the former Mary Crotts Roll those logs down here ' My, someones glvmg orders' Who -ould lt be g1v1ng those orders but Bob Marley, the blg lumberman I see m the papers that he IS havmg a htte legal trouble Could I g1ve you some advmcc Bob Go to the lawyer on 5th Street I thmk he w1ll pull you through for he 18 ably assxsted by the best secretary m the busmess, Geraldlne Walker Oh Swaml there are Just two other people we wlsh to see They are Eugene Green and Desmond Reld De you see them Oh no' You dont mean lt! But lt lsn t too hard to belleve Eugene Greene the head of the F B I ls on the traxl of the notorious bootlegger Dangerous Desmond Reld Well I cant w1sh elther of them luck for they were both mem bers of our graduatlng class rn 1953 Thank you Swann and what IS your fee' What' Why that s outrageous' You cant mean that It w1ll cost us f1fty cents for no more than that. Well here lt IS and I hope you use It well Good--by I-rophets Joan Icerhour Ruth Klrby nd Testament Sue Laxton. I Geraldme Walker, do w1ll my ablllty to type to Hlldred Barlowe I Joe Icenhour, do w1ll my looks to Wayne Carroll I Margaret Barlowe do w1ll my parklng place at Crump s Barbecue to Janet Hall I Juamta Cantor do w1ll my curly halr to Janelle Jones and Mabel Cantor I Mary Crotts, do w1ll my youthful fxgure to Kathleen Wllson I Jerry Carlton do w1ll fhrtatxous ways to B111 Ianey I Betty Ann Wxlson do w1ll my fnendhness to Mary Ahce Helton I Roscoe Whltztmgton do w1ll my Job at Popular Grlll to Davld Cregor I Jean Vmes do w1ll my fat to Mr Laxton flt seems he hkes to dlscuss xt m class I Geraldme Robertson do w1ll my ablhty to catch a sallor to Mane Vmes I Claudla Jean Andrews do w1ll my mls chlevlous ways along VVIIIII my comb to Shlrley Brookshlre I, Desmond Reld do w1ll my lazmess to Ronald Summerlm I Bob Marley, do w1ll my fat to B111 Walker I Sldney Stokes do will my fountam pen to Emlly Austm, because she needs lt. I Charlotte Dxllard, do w1ll my black naturally curly han' to Gwendolyn Laxton. I Joan Ioenhour, do w1ll my 1'h8'llIl13tlZ,, to Nell Walker I Ruth K1rby, do w1ll my ablhty to shp around to Dorothy Hollar LYou could use xtf-eh, Dot'J Testatnrs Joan Icenhour Ruth Kxrby 0 . - . . I - . . . . . . . . . . . . 4, 1 , . . ... 1 . -- , .. . . , . . I . - . , .s - - 1 , . . 0 U , . . .. . . , -1. n ' . . . . . . - . Q 1 ' ' u 1 ' , . , . . . . - 1 ' . . . . 7 . - - 1 - - . , - Q' ' . - 1 f.,- .. ' 9 , . I . . . , o U ' . , , ' 1 1 - ' . .. 1 1 - ' . . Q 1 n 0 ' . . . . . . . . . . . , ' , . . . . . .. . . .. , , 0 . . 1 . . . . . . .. ' 1 , . . . .. . . I . ,- ' 1 . , . V . ' o ' 1 1 1 , . . s Q 0 . , . . ' . 7 ' 1 - , , . , . . . . . .- , . . . - 1 1 Y Q . a a ' -L ' 1 1 . ' 1 1 D 1' a , . . .. .v. . . , , 'i . ,. . : . . . .. , , n n' n, . . , . . . f 1 .3 . ' . . , . . . . , , - I s 1 , 1 1 : , . . . - . . . .. . . , 1 1 , , . , . . . 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