Liberty High School - Scrapper Yearbook (Liberty, NC)

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SENIOR SNAPS 1. Making Up 2. “Tater” 3. Candid Pose 4. “Little Walt and “Dinkie” 5. Valedictorian and Salutatorian of ’49 6. “So Tired” 7. Petite Mam’selle 8. Carefree as the Day is Long 9. Dignified But Lazy 10. “Tea For Two?” 11. Bringing in the Corn

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C iaSS f rophec PROPHETIC REMINISCENCES OF THE CLASS OF 1949 The members of the Class of 1949 have been very much in¬ terested in psychology--many of them having taken profound courses in such awe-inspiring phases of the subject as psy¬ choanalysis and psychiatry. Naturally they got all wrought up. so uhen the world-renowned psychiatrist. Professor Abdullah Freudson-Brilling, came to town and opened a consulting room for the mentally unfit and the intellectually unsettled, or un-any- thing, they all went to be psychoanalyzed. Of course, no one ever found out what the Professor told them, but it was generally reported that they were most anxious to learn in what field of endeavor they would be most successful. And now comes the exciting part of my story. Last night 1. too. had occasion to enter Professor Abdullah preudson-Bril- ling’s office. No. not because of my mental weakness, merely to collect the rent. My father owns the building. And what do you think? You don ' t do you? Well, I ' ll tell you. The professor wasn’t in and to kill the time I sat down to read the Professor’s magazine, but all I could find was a black-cov¬ ered notebook. It was filled with closely typed notes. Just as 1 was about to close it, I saw, to my amazement, the names of my classmates. I looked again and discovered thatthese notes were the Professor’s private and genuine opinions of those who had consulted him. Iconfess it without shame: I read that notebook. Idetermined that my friends should not be misled. I would find out what the Professor really thought they would become. And what I found out! I copied it down so I’d not forget. JIMMY COWARD, a stolid slow-rr:oving chap, who will never display either speed or animat on can be trusted never to hurry. He will be a plumber’s assistant -the one who goes back for a monkey wrench and can’t find it. He will continue this restful occupsHon until he dies of old age. RICHARD ST ' s a strange case, troubled by a recur¬ rent dream in whit . is a canary being chased by a cat. He told me he thought the dream meant that he would be the keeper of a pet shop. Quite wrong. He will be a great singer. He is one now, mentally, but not vocally, but will be in years to come. In 1960 he will be singing the title role of any opera youmayname in the Cosmopolitan Opera House. MARY ELIZABETH MARTIN is a charming type, domestic and capable, but with a slight inferiority complex, due to the unfortunate fact that once she received only second prize in an international bread-baking contest. She will be a lecturer on homemaking--the kind who tells people over the radio how to build a front porch out of packing boxes and how to feed ten peo¬ ple seven days on 23 apiece. She will always be a cheerful and model housekeeper, JIMMY ELLIS belongs to the great body of people who have a superiority complex. He will be a naval officer and target shooting expert, He will be noted for his inability to swim and his skill to sing sea chanteys. MARY ELLEN BOURNE is a very ambitious person whose hobby is crocheting bathmats. In 1968 she will become the six¬ tieth president of the United States elected by the Independent Party. She will run in 1964 but a vote cast by her campaign manager will defeat her. JOE OVERMAN is one of the most interesting cases I have studied. In the near future you will see in tlie newspaper that he has become a famous inventor. Among his best known products are. Restwell mattresses for oyster beds and exercises for re¬ ducing one’s oncome tax. DOROTHY O ' BRlANThas charm and grace. She will live in peace and plenty all her life, a housekeeper deluxe, and happy w ife. EDNA STEPHENS is a type with few ideas, but loves public¬ ity, She has a good voice, can sing two entire songs without losing the tune, and doesn’t mind doing anything as long as she is well paid for it. Ten years from now your favorite motion picture cathedral will be displaying a sign saying, “Miss Stephens talks, sings, dances, and plays three musical instruments, in¬ cluding a vacuum cleaner. Don’t miss it!” ELMER ROBINSON has an athletic body which makes him the ideal type for a sports promotor. He is deeply interested in athletics, but plays pinochle himself. He will keep a racing stable with the race track built up the side of a house, keep a stable of racing snails, lie back in a hammock, and gaze at the coal gray stone of the track, as his faithful snails crawl up and on to victory. BETTY STANFORD has artistic ability, keen business sense. A dozen years from now she will be a wealthy cosmetician pro¬ prietor of YE BEAUTIFIER SHOPPY--Alterations While You Wait. People--men as well as women--will enter looking like sixty and emerge looking like sixteen. She will become a very famous skin renovator and always bean excellent advertisement for her business. JOHN ALLF.N BROWN is a splendid example of perfect self-control. He never stutters nor stammers, has nobadhabits, and doesn’t mind how late hours he keeps or with whom he keeps them. He can talk very rapidly. Five years from now he will be awarded a gold medal by the International Academy for the Pre¬ servation of Speech as the world’s most redoubtable radio an¬ nouncer. JFAN WORKMAN has beauty, which won her beauty queen her Senior year in high school, and will continue to win laurels in this field. She will become a famous beauty consultant in a swank Fifth Avenue salon. CALVIN BROWER, president of the 1949 Liberty graduating class. Because of his ability to accept the factthat “the customer is always right. he will become owner of a large chain of drug stores. BETTY LANGLEY is the kind of person who belongs to no type in particular, A dozen years from now she will be found as a private secretary to the head of a huge corporation, typing all his letters backwards. HENRY SHOFFNF.R is the type who likes to keep late hours. This undoubtedly explains the occupation he will choose. As proprietor of a large dairy farm, he makes the deliveries him¬ self, just for fun. As a milkman, he can ride around town all night, without fear of inquiring glances from policemen and night watchmen. MARTHA DICKENS, a rare type, is of great interest to a psychiatrist. Evidently someone, when she was young, praised her to excess for something she did, and she has never recov¬ ered, Her delight and skill in getting others to work while she watches, and her ability to answer all questions, sometimes correctly, point to but one calling--that of a school teacher. Fifty years from now, still going strong, she will be found in our school, bossing not only her own pupils, but everybody ' s on the floor. ODELL SMITH is a very interesting case.An over-devel¬ oped imagination and an under-developed digestion are produc¬ ing a wonderful result--the ability to concoct the weirdest tales at practically a minute’s notice. Being an intelligent young man, he will turn this talent to account. He will become a real estate salesman, selling Florida lots by the gross to inhabitants of Labrador and igloos to the inhabitants of the Sahara Desert. VERAL LAYTON is a lover of Nature. She will one day dis¬ cover some of its deepest secrets, for example, why an oyster isn’t a tadpole, and similar never-before solved problems. DA.NNER FERGUSON is the type of person who argues, morning, noon, and night. Most of the time he wins, whether he ' s right or wrong. He will become a great lawyer. JUANITA HICKS is a case that is most unusual. Because of her keen ability, she will be an architect, and will design a tab¬ ernacle in memory of Billy Sunday. The men’s visions are too narrow. EDWARD DODSON is a very ordinary case, having no out¬ standing characteristics. Because he is not energetic, he likes to sit and watch things. One day he will be seated behind the desk in his office of DODSON ' S BEST TOILET SOAP. His motto, carved above his office door is, “I Keep the World Clean. DAPHNE FERGUSON, an able Home Ec. student inhigh school, is studying Interior Decorating in New York, where she shares an apartment with OCTAVIA GILMORE, who is owner of a large cafeteria there. GENE LEACH is--what is this I see about him? Gene, born August 14, 1930, is the executive type, a leader of men. He will be governor of North Carolina in 1963. HELEN FARMER is a very ordinary case. She is not easily discouraged and never gives up. Five years from now she will be seated at a desk in a large public building--the library. When she isn’t doing research work for anyone, she reads the latest novel and lets those who search for information wail. BOBBY SMITH. RAY MC MASTERS, and GEORGE YORK, who always had their heads together on Mrs. Johnson’s English class, have combined all their resources, mental, physical, and otherwise, to become owners of a large cattle farm. ANNE WARD is a nervous inquisitive type. She’ll be a re¬ porter and because of her intense interest in everyone’s busi¬ ness and her cast-iron nerve which enables her to penetrate where she is not wanted without embarrassment, she will be an excellent one. In ten years lime she will be a celebrity known as “Polly Pry of the Graphic News. She will be so alert that she will interview a criminal while he is committing the crime and get tomorrow ' s news last week. DWIGHT STALEY and JACK SMITH will remain as happy and carefree as ever. They will be prosperous owners of the S and S SERVICE STATION. SHIRLEY KIVETT is the quiet, domestic type. 1 see her ex¬ pressing her personality among pots and pans, muffins and pud¬ dings, She is preparing an elaborate dinner announcing the en¬ gagement of MARY FRANCES JONES and her- sailor. LANE YOUNTS. MARJORIE DANIELS is a quiet serious type and one day we shall see her in a small but exclusive Fifth Avenue dress shop where, with her two top designers, RACHEL COX and LUCY NANCE, her original creations are all the rage. Charlie Carter Prophet 16

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1. Best-All-Around.Richard Staley, Octavia Gilmore 2. Best Citizen.Marjorie Daniel 3. Best Looking.Jean Workman, Jack Smith 4. Most Dependable.Gene Leach 5. Most Athletic.Mary Martin, Jimmy Coward 6. Most Popular.Mary Ellen Bourne, Charlie Carter 7. Most Courteous.Odell Smith 8. Best Dressed.Jimmy Ellis, Betty Lois Langley 9. Most Carefree.Henry Shoffner, Edward Dodson 18