Lincolnton High School - Pine Burr Yearbook (Lincolnton, NC)

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I if 5 I 1 l i l t l I ll i As I drifted on down south, I saw an immense Transfer truck. Foy Goodin was the owner, and Marvin Houser his driver. Other familiar faces appeared to me in Raleigh. Martha's Beauty Shoppe is very efficiently operated by Martha Moore, with Alma Rhodes her manicurist. The the State Capital Building, I saw the Agricultural Department. James Long is supervisor for governmental projects in North Carolina. The scenery became more and more familiar even through the misty haze. As I looked down on Greensboro. I saw Edith Kendrick. a very important teacher of Mathematics in one of the High Schools. I also noticed Raeford Starnes. a traveling salesman for Shuford's Electrical Sup- plies. Paul Shuford is the owner and James Quickel the local representative. Scanning over the country-side to Charlotte. I saw a very large dairy. I found that Robert Mauney owned it and is prospering with the staunch cooperation of Richard Mauney. The city of Charlotte revealed a number of classmates. Among them was Elizabeth Finger. hostess in a cafeteria. Margaret Long. instructor in a Business College. Hazel Knight, Educational Director in the First Baptist Church, and Martha Sherrill, a bookkeeper in Beams Lumber Yard of which William Beam is the sole owner. I next saw my dear old home town. Quite naturally. the High School Building appeared first. There I found Dorothy Crooks a Shorthand teacher. A small brick building had been erected on main street since I left. There I observed Stella Lingerfelt and Mable Robinson very good seamstresses for the town. On a window over one of the department stores, I saw Quickel, Attorneyfat-Law. That was Bill. The department store was Warlick Brothers. Hal Plonk was a clerk in the shoe department. Erank Rhyne is Postmaster. and a very good one. It is surprising to note that they are the only ones left from our class in Lincolnton. However. Jeanette McGinnis and Pansy Huss are managing a large poultry farm near Crouse. Ruby Ingle is teaching Home Economics in a High School in the County. A Geometry book is being used there. written by Nellie Lee Elmore and Ina Mae Hovis, They have given special notes for those who do not understand the subjct. Ralph Bradshaw and Joe Barkley are Policemen in Shelby. My prophetic vision then carried me to Huntersville. Violet VanStory is practicing medi- cine there. Blanch Summey is her nurse. Then, to a little schoolhouse 'way up in the moun- tains. Virginia Houser is dean of the girls and Katherine Helms is teaching History. Next I had a glimpse of Wilmington where Vivian Lipe is superintendent of a Training School for Nurses. Laura Virginia Self is a co-worker with her. Roddy Cline is. imagine. a dentist in Wilmington. Helen Lockman and Alma Weaver, The,Dixie Sisters. are singing throughout the South. They were making their first personal appearance in Wilmington. Farther down the coast. in Charleston, South Carolina. I saw Dennis Cloniger. happily located as an instructor of Taxidermy in a college. I just glanced at Rock Hill, South Carolina. and saw Mary Belk, a dietitian in a hotel. In Lancaster. Alice Ewing and Ponese Auten are the waitresses in a popular Ice Cream Parlor. As I further viewed South Carolina, I looked down on Gaffney. In Limestone College was Lillian Rhyne head of the English Department. In Clemson Military College I recognized Craig Weaver announcing a basketball game where Emanuel Allran is coach. George Hine is official reporter for The Greenville Times. On to Atlanta, I met with Ruth Adams, a telephone operator, back in her dear old state of Georgia. Ruby Kuck is there. too, and is becoming the second songbird of the south. In Tallahassee, Florida. I happened to see Chloe. Barlow, private secretary to the governor of that state. Next to New Orleans I went. There I saw Evelyn Abernethy and Hazel Armstrong. as designers of formal evening gowns. In Savannah. Georgia, was Rueben Iiord, an expert pharmacist in a modern drug store. By this time I felt myself slipping from the planet, but I held on long enough to glance out West. Claire Hardin owns and manages a delicatessen store in Oklahoma City. Charles Echols is an interne in Mayo Brothers' Clinic in Rochester. Minnesota. with Herbert Finger and Robert Rudisill there also. Then I went to California. but I was truly slipping and I had to hurry. I saw in San Francisco, in a very exclusive beauty salon. Dorothy Ballard designing coiffures for the movie stars. Then I had a long gaze into one of the studios in Hollywood where Elizabeth Mauney. the famous actress, was radiant with joy as the final scenes of her latest and best picture were being hlmed. As I felt myself moving down into space, a glance to the far east revealed Mary James Seagle, a mannequin, modelling dresses for the most modern dress shop in Paris. Ah! I see the good old Earth again. and by some strange phenomenon. I found myself once more, in the little station in Wyoming ready for the outgoing train. JENOIS PROCTOR. Class Prophetess. Page Seventeen NINETEEN THIHTY-EIGHT

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Senior Class Prophecy -1938 As the Class of lfllfi was contemplating its coming commencement exercises, it fell to my lot to forecast the futttre of these fair damsels and gallant young men. After vainly endeavoring to cultivate what is commonly known as second sight. I conclttded that prophetic vision was not my strongest point: btit in the summer of lU5O. it was my good fortune to learn the fate of those yoting ladies and gentlemen who were once carefree and happy school girls and boys in the old historic town of l.incolnton. It came abottt in this way: I was called ottt Vsfest on business and while passing through the state of Wyoming the train was wrecked and the passengers were forced to alight at a small station. I wandered about the place impatiently waiting for the outward hound train. when I noticed a big black cloud in the north, Almost immediately it became dark and I felt myself being whirled around and lifted very rapidly ttpward. After what seemed an hour of constant whirling I found myself in a strange place. XVhen I dared look arottnd. I saw an old man coming toward ms. He had a long white beard which nearly reached to the ground. Ile inquired who I was and whence I came, I told him and he said. You are now on one of the inferior planets of which I am the high priest. Yott came to me in a cyclone and there is but one way to return, That is by allowing yourself to be put into a trance. To this I readily consented, The high priest made some strange signs and I soon felt drowsy. The first thing I realized was that I was looking down on the Iiarth, and I-oY In Chicago I saw Sylvia Rudisill and Helen Bandy playing in the Phil-harmonic Symphony Orchestra. Then I saw a huge building which is headquarters for a larg: chain of grocery stores. Harry Costner is the president and Ruth Britt the secretary. Next I saw Marshall Field, the largest department store in the world. where Clara I.ee Devine is a clerk and Ruth Vtfise a cashier. Bright lights attracted my attention and I saw Harold Craig as owner and manager of a theatre in Chicago. .Jimmy Mundy's latest pictttre. Musical Merry-GofRound. has been called back for a return engagement Another array of lights. and Margaret Ramsaur, the charming lyric soprano, had just entered Metropolitan Opera House, The scene changed and I looked down into New York. How immense it seemed! My eyes fell immediately on an up-to-date Jewelry htore in which Clara Mae Brotherton, as manager, is very prosperous. I scanned The Metropolitan Isife' Instirance Building, where, to my surprise, Frances Killian is a bookkeeper. There, too, on a street was Frances Robinson looking for some important person in New York in order to get an interview for The New York Advocate, a daily paper. of which Billy Hoffman is lzdttor-infChief. More bright lights! I saw Virginia Elliott. a very attractive chortts girl, in The Midnight Follies, on Broadway. As I moved farther along. I observed an aeroplane flying from New York to Charlotte. I looked in and saw Celestine Abernethy, a charming air hostess, and Bob Garrison the pilot. As I glanced at the passengers, I saw Ildna Shttford returning to Charlotte. She had been to New York to btty novelties for Keeners Department Store in Charlotte of which Bill Keener is head. Then. to my surprise. I fottnd myself looking down on Vassar College. Delighted, I found Norva Jane Porter. an excellent basketball coach for the girls, ttsing many points from Miss Hoke's training. In my trance, m.y vision being carried a little farther south, I espied Baltimore. There I saw l.illian Crowell in formal evening dress. a social debtttante. Then I looked into a huge building. Johns Hopkins Hospital, where Rachel l.eonard and Helen Carpenter are attentive nurses. On leaving the hospital, I noticed a small but neat ofhce on one of the businesss streets. This proved to be headquarters for Madolyn Thorne. interior decorator. A glance toward Annapolis revealed Norman l'air as a lieutenant in the United States Navy. As I passed over Boston, the only outstanding event was a Charity Board meeting in the City Hall with the president. Mildred Chronister. The National Capitol, The Wliite House, XVashington's Monument all thrilled me, but Congress was in session. I found Sadie Barineau there, the first Congresswoman from North Carolina. Dimly at hrst. then clearer. I recognized a city, Memphis. Tennessee. I immediately saw the radio station, XVMX, where Ifrmintrude I ittle was giving a daily broadcast on Successful Taffyfmakingf' NVhen she had hnished, Jake Rhode. a popular announcer, gave the station identihcation. Page .Yt.x'1een THE PINE Bllllll lll

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warp ..-1, ,V i .1,-.,- , .- f js, J' 'E I i l Last Will and Testament XVe. the Senior Class of Lincolnton High School. do hereby give our Last Will and Testament to our underclassmates. I. Rachel Leonard. do hereby will and bequeath my height to Mary Lillian Jonas. I hope she will soon grow some. I. Chloe Barlow. hereby will and bequeath my bops and curls to Charlotte Ramsaur: may she have better results than I. I. Bobbie Garrison. do hereby will my seat on the first cornet row in the band to Dan Hoover. I. Sadie Barineau. do hereby will my Chatterbox Complex to Mary Martha Nixon: may she use it to good advantage. I. Harold Craig. do hereby will my ability to skip without getting caught to Harold Dixon. and hope that he carries it on with as good a record as mine. I. Herbert liinger, will my handwriting ability to Clyde l.owe so he can write his own excuses. I. Bill Quickel. do hereby will my typing ability to Reuel Newton. so he wont have to get some one to type for him. I. Iioy Coodin. do will to Risden Burris my ability to develop pictttres. I. Ponese Auten, do hereby will my ability to play basketball to Virginia Cabrial, hoping that she will make the team. I. Marvin Houser. do hereby will or bequeath my title of the most studious boy to Dan Stroup with the hope that he will live tip to it. I. Clara l.ee Devine. do hereby will to Maxine Hampton my ability to be quiet in sludy hall. hoping that she will be quieter than I was. I. Willvtir W.irlick. do hereby will and bequeath my ability as a pool-shark to Chuelly Newton and I-ambie Hoover hoping they will get to be as rich as I am. I. Mariie I.ee Perkins. do hereby will to Ifssie I-ee Wilson my knowledge of Ciovernment. hoping she will enioy it as much as I did. I. Mary Alice Ifuring. do hereby will my height to Harold Schrum so he will be large enough to play basketball. I. Helen Carpenter. will to Daphine Hoyle my height in the hope that some day she will grow up. I. Nellie l.ee Elmore. do hereby will my typewriter to Johnny Smith. hoping he will tise it as much as I did. I. I.illian Rhyne. do hereby will and bequeath to Margaret Parker my seat in the study hall. hoping she will have as much fun as I have. I. Ruth Vvlise. do hereby will my place as a bench warmer to Jessie Rudisill. hoping she will get as much fun out of it as I did. I. Norman Fair. hereby will my position on the football team to Red Sullivan with the hopes that he will not get hit as hard as I did. I Billy Hoffman. do hereby will and bequeath my astounding knowledge of French to Robert Red Sullivan, with the hopes that he will use it to a profitable extent. I, Raeford Starnes. hereby will my conceitedness to David Clark with the hope that the girls won't evade him as they did me. I. Blanche Summey. do hereby will and bequeath my l937 PINE BURR to Frank Abernethy. so he can look at the basketball pictures as much as he likes. I. Ruth Adams. will to Jessie Rudisill my ability to flirt at the out of town basketball games. provided she gets as much good out of it as I did. I. Hazel Knight. do hereby will my place on the basketball team to Pearl Devine, hoping she will use her tallness to her advantage. I. Ermintrude Little. do hereby will and bequeath my ability to flirt to Coy Stamey. Jr. I. Roddy Cline. will the pleasures I received as President of Senior Class to my successor. I. Johnny Auten. do hereby lawfully will to David Clark my position at right end on the football team. I. Frances Robinson, do hereby will my seat in study hall to Nadine Hallman. hoping she enjoys it as much as I did. I. Mabel Robinson. do hereby will and bequeath my wedding ring to Marie Heafner. From the looks of the romance between she and John Morton she will need it before I do. I. Sylvia Rudisill. do hereby will and bequeath my French knowledge to Mary Agnes Cochrane who. I hope, will master the French accent as well as I did. I. Dot Crooks. do hereby will and bequeath to l-ib Shrum my place in Miss Roseman's room for four periods. and hope that her conduct grades will not be as low as mine were. I. Edna Shuford. do hereby will and bequeath to Elizabeth Shrum my ability to give General Science tests for Mr. Cashion at lunch, for I know he will need her. Page Eighteen THE PINE BURR ll