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

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Class Prophecy Little did I think that in this good old year of 1949 my dreams of my high school days would come true. Here I am, at last, on my way to Switzer- land and England-on a big ship for the first time. If only I could see my classmates and see if their dreams have come true tool Suddenly I see a tele- scope. Maybe I will be able to see my classmates now. Yes. I can. there is John Gamble, a famous surgeon in a Washington hospital. Also Alma Harrill. Evelyn Hovis, Harrilee Sigmon, Maxine Hampton, and Nell Jonas hurrying around from room to room-they are busy nurses. I see Mary Martha Nixon, the hospital technician. There is Emily Sue Crowell, a popular patient suffering from heart trouble which started her senior year in high school. There goes Dan Hooverf He's finishing his second year of internship. I turn the glass just a little to the right of the hospital and see a large undertaking establishment. I see P. C. Costner, the owner. His assistant is another classmate-J. R. Smith. I can now see the business section of Wash- ington. On the right is a huge department store. I decide to look inside. Look? there are Jimmy and Hampton Childs, partners. Directly across the street is another large department SIOYC. Here I see Charles Whitlock and Dan Thomp- son. These four seem to be bitter enemies. On the corner is a drug store. There is Erskine Willis, the pharmacist. Next I see a beauty shop operated by Pearl Devine, with Mozelle Ledford as her manicurist. By giving my glass a good turn my eyes are traveling rapidly over the country. Cioodnessf I can see Hollywood and the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios. There goes David Clark across the lot. He is the make-up artist of this large company. I look into Studio C where Bobby Yoder, the casting director. and Dan Stroup, a famous actor, are talking. I leave this studio and go into another. Here I see Virginia Tucker and Violet Seagle who are stand-ins for the movie actresses. I leave Hollywood and can now see New York City. Up on the twenty- eighth floor of a huge skyscraper, I see Charles Eurey, a popular lawyer. His secretary is Margaret Beam. On the twenty-fourth floor, pacing up and down, is James Leonard giving a course in public speaking to about fifteen girls and boys. James Patton is helping him with this work and Irene Avery is his secretary. I hear a big commotion in front of this immense building. I see Edith Abernethy, a reporter for the New York Times rushing to the scene. Passing by in a '49 Cord is Mary Esther Rhyne. It seems that she married a rich man from New York. Wishing to see some of North Carolina and my home town, I give the glass three big turns. It is focused on Raleigh. At Meredith College. I see Josephine Miller coaching the girls in basketball. Watching her is Lala Cloniger, the math teacher. Willie Ruth Hovis is teaching English. I look behind the closed door of the dean's office and see-of all things. another class- mate?-Ethel Dellinger. Leaving the college. I look into the city. At the Department of Agri- culture I see Leonard Blanton and Ezell Schronce, taking care of the Agricul- ture problems of the state. In another office I see George Whit Tobey. Wonder- ing what oflice he has been elected to in my long absence from home, I look on the door and there I see the word Governor Am I proud? And there is Page Eighteen

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Senior Class Histor Could it have been we, who are now full-Hedged Seniors, who entered the portals of Lincolnton High School for the nrst time as awed and widefeyed students? Hard as it is to believe, it is true that we were the ones who made up the Freshman class that hardly-remembered-day not so long ago in Sep- tember, l935, We were no more outstanding than any other Freshman class. We learned our room numbers and our teachers' names. We registered for our required subjects and most of us took Latin. One day we elected our class officers: Aycock, Clark, Lawing. and Ballard: and it was then we began to feel a little more important ,we had a responsibility. After mid-term exams we looked forward to the day when we would be Sophomores. We were beginning to feel much less inferior. We began our Sophomore year. We were no longer handicapped by the name Freshmen, and we developed physically and mentally. Our class ofncers for the year were Clark, Cloninger. Rhyne, and Gamble. We were noted for nothing in particular. We were simply hanging in mid-air between the lowly Freshmen and the lofty Juniors, waiting for the day when we would no longer be Sophomores. But we stepped out on that crisp, cold May morning and picked daisies for our beloved Senior class, and that afternoon, we, the Sopho- more class. made our debut before the public as we carried the Daisy Chain. And we were Juniors? No, never before had, we been so happy or so ambitious. Taking charge of the school paper, true to Junior tradition, we hoped to be the richest class ever. Again Clark headed our class, and again Gamble counted the money. Hoover and Crowell were our other oflicers. A banquet to give the Senior class: this had been our fondest hope for quite a while, lt was predicted by many that we would not be able to give a banquet, but we came through with an enjoyable party. We made our next-to-the-last big step. Vvfe were now Seniors. With Gamble as president and Costner, Hardin and Rudisill, as vice-president, secre- tary and treasurer respectively, we started on through our last year. How swiftly the days have flown? How happy we have beenf And now we are rapidly approaching the goal to which we have so long looked forwarde- graduation-when we will take our last step from high school into the world. MARX' EsTHtER RHYNLQ, Hiszsor-mn, Page Seueiifeen

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Mildred Craig. his secretary. In a large Ladies Ready-to-Wear store are Bertha Holland and Modena Sigmon. In the Western Union oflice is Louise Letherman. Her assistant is Lethia Hoffman. There goes Seibert Lockman strutting along the street. He is the owner of an automobile factory. In another building are Betty Shrum and Mable Heavner giving singing lessons. Going on up several floors. I see Kenneth Proctor, a famous author, writing a book on How to Flay Good Basketball. Moving over to Greensboro to the Womans College, I see Mary Craig Caskey coaching the girls' basketball team. Marie Houser is teaching History. In another room are Nadine Hallman and Lorene Wehunt, instructors in French. Evelyn Turner and Frue Smith are teaching English. Looking into the Bible class I see Kathaleen Ramsey, the teacher. Moving over to Durham I see Chunk Rudisill coaching the Blue Devils at Duke. They're hoping to go to the Rose Bowl this year. If they beat Bick Mullen's A'Tar Heels they will be able to make the trip. Being in a hurry to see the classmates who are in my home town I give my glass a quick turn. It is focused on the Courthouse. There I see Johnny Smith. the commissioner of agriculture. Going around the court square I see Kenneth Barkley. manager of the Barkley Furniture Store. Looking around I see several successful farmers of Lincoln County talking. They are Steve Shuford, Gordon Shuford, Wayne Heavner. Burgin Goodson, Richard Mauney, and Floyd Willis. Going on down the east side of the Court- house I see a new modernistic building. Here I see Clyde Lowe and Ralph Cashion: this is their new office building and they are selling insurance. Edna Denton, Charlotte Elmore, and Gwendolyn Goodson are working in a new fur storage company, and the Dixon brothers. Robert and Harold, have a dry cleaners' establishment. I see a grocery store where Earl Hawkins and Carl Mullen have a thriving business. Moving down the street a little I decide to look into the post office. Inside is Johnny Autin, the postmaster. His wife, the former Elizabeth Lawing, is just coming in. Moving by the police station I see James Martin. a detective, surrounded by several policemen, James Robinson, Frank Boggs, and W. E. Ballard. They seem to be listening to some exciting mystery story. Passing by Belk's Department Store I see Robert Duncan fitting shoes on Edna Bumgarner. Jacob Canipe is also working here. A few doors above this store is a jewelry shop run by Daphine Hoyle. Over this store is the office of John Letherman, a young dentist. I also see Frank Hager, pastor, going into a near-by church. At the edge of the city I see the dye factory which Robert Sullivan founded. Wondering who the teachers are in the High School I focus the glass over in that direction. Looking into Room lOl. I see Jessie Rudisill teaching Ninth grade Algebra. ln the next room is Alda Grigg: she is teaching French. Hubert Yoder is the new Librarian. I have seen all my classmates except one-Mary Nell Hardin. Thinking she may be on the other side of the earth I point the telescope toward India. I see her? She is a missionary. My eyes are too tired to go any farther. but I have already seen all my classmates and know that they are all happy and prosperous so I am conf tented. Knowing that there will be many sights to see in Switzerland and that I must get my beauty sleep so that I will be ready to meet some dukes and lords in England, I decide to retire and rest my weary eyes. MARY SELF, Propheless. Page Nineteen