Linwood High School - Linden Leaves Yearbook (Linwood, NC)

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611155 Prophecy Well, here it is, the year 1973. As I sit back in my easy chair looking at the 1953 edition of the LINDEN LEAVES, I begin wondering what happened to my Senior classmates. As I step out of the door to get into my atomic-powered automobile, which, incidentally, was invented by R. L. Medlin, who is now head scientist in the Atomic Commission, I hear a loud noise overhead. lf it isn't Max Shoaf in his newest invention, the one-man helicopter. The United States has prospered greatly since Richard Broadway became President. He is the youngest man ever to hold that high office. The first place I stop on my tour is Raleigh. Well, if it isn 't Jimmy Walton, now President of the NCAA, giving Don Strickland, the new coach at State, the low-down on the new rules. While I'm here, I think l'll run downtown. The first grocery store I see is Coppley's! Seems that Betty is doing all right after taking over her Uncle's store in Linwood. She has stores all over the United States. From here I think l'll go to Winston. There's Clarice Kearns coaching the Hanes Hosiery girls! I've heard that she finally has a winning team a.fter a ten year slump. l'll zoom up to New York and look around for a while. Look there on that theater sign! Betty Swing starring in Wonder Girl . Betty always was a good actress. I hear that Jimmy Styers is up here somewhere drawing cartoons for LIFE magazine and the NEW YORK TIMES. Not many people ever see him, because he stays busy most of the time. I suppose he is still collecting rocks and brickbats. I think l'll go up around the Great Lakes region for a while. Here I am in Chicago, Illinois. There's Max Lanning in the Zenith Radio and Television Building! Max took a course at State College and has been inventing bigger and better television sets in color. I am in Detroit, Michigan now. There's Alice Swink in the General Motors Company Incorpo- rated! Alice took a course in bookkeeping and now has a steady job with General Motors. I think l'll ride over to California. Here is Hollywood. Look at that sign over there! Brice Kearns co-starring with Paul Taylor in Reno . Brice is taking Bob HOPe'S place, and Paul is doing Fred Astaire's part in the dancing role. Here I am, in Texas, on my way back home. Look at that cowboy over there! If it isn't Gene Fritts! Gene has a thousand acre ranch out here where he raises nothing but Hereford Cattle . Bobby Billings, a new-comer in our class, is doing all right for himself as president of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company. Bobby started out as a salesman but has gradually built himself up. Well, here I ani, back home. I saw everyone except Doris Tarleton and Norene Smith. Al- though not many people know it, Doris married a millionaire, one of Henry Ford's descendants . Norene eloped with her favorite beau right after graduation. No one knows where they are , but I've heard rumors that they are in Hawaii. Boy! I surely am tired! I hear my sister calling me. It must be time to go to work at the barbecue stand, so bye for now! Raym ond Rodger s Prophet .- .-aeaux.. m!'7F'i-L :mn-11-f.'fm:an.,. ..a1'r .,. .

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611155 J Histary When the Senior Class of 1953 started up the long trail that leads through high school, the only thought in our twenty-two eager minds was of the long and tortuous trail we had to climb be- fore reaching the summit--graduation. To gain this height, we knew we had several years of hard work and struggle interspersed, of course, with happiness, friendships, gaiety, and games. As we began our climb up Freshman Hill, Mr. Yarborough was our capable guide, assisted by Mrs. Yarborough and Mr. Gathings. Jimmy Walton was elected President, Max Lanning, Vice- President, Betty Swing, Secretaryg and Paul Taylor, Treasurer. Max Shoaf, From Tyro, joined our hike at this time and proved to be an expert mountain climber. Our Freshman year ended uneventfully and soon we were sitting pretty, a mile or so up in the atsmosphere, on Sophomore Heights. Once again we had Mr. Yarborough for our guide, assisted by Mrs. Yarborough and Mr. Gathings. Our class officers were Jimmy Walton, President, Jimmy Styers, Vice-President, Betty Swing, Secretary, and Max Shoaf, Treasurer. We enjoyed more social activities and prestige this year. We had an elegant class party on the grounds of the Municipal Club in Lexington, and one of our members, Paul Taylor, captured the coveted crown of Harvest King at Hallowe'en Carnival. We were joined along the trail by Marie Tysinger, who left us later in the year. The climb also proved too difficult for other members of our class, who dropped out. In all, we lost Bobby Sechrest, Gerald Cooper, Bobby Jarratt, and Joe Dillard. Losing this many members of our gang was a blow to us, but we only dug our heels in deeper and continued the upward journey. One pleasant morning we awakened to find ourselves sitting high up in the sky on Junior Hill. We discovered Mrs. Cox waiting anxiously to guide us, with Mr. and Mrs. Yarborough backing her. Our class leaders were Jimmy Walton, President, Gene Fritts, Vice-Presidentg Hazel Eudy, Secretary, and Paul Taylor, Treasurer. At Hallowe'en time we were introduced to the gentle art of acting. Mrs. Cox directed us in a. one act play, Twelve O'clock Murder . This play gave us a great thirst for the theatre, and later in the year we gave a western play called The Blundering Herd . The title was apt, but the play did turn out to be a fairly good one, and we had loads of fun rehearsing and consuming tons of hot dogs from Taylor's Drive-ln. Among other honors coming to us was the coveted title of Harvest King, which went to Gene Fritts by a wide margin. At last came the highlight of the Junior year. In April we were more than delighted to enter- tain the Seniors of 1952 with a banquet at the Lexington YMCA. Both boys and girls were hila- riously happy in their first formals. Then in the fall of 1952 we started the last and hardest climb of all- -up Senior Hill. Since Mrs. Cox, Mr. Gathings, and Mr. Yarborough loved to climb too, they stuck with us again. Max Lanning served as President of our class. Max Shoaf acted as Vice-President, Betty Swing, Sec - retaryg and Paul Taylor, Treasurer. Hazel Eudy, an old-timer, and Joyce Berrier, who had joined us on Junior Hill, left us this year, but our ranks were reinforced by Bobby Billings. Many honors came to us during the first part of the yearg Betty Coppley was elected to represent our school as Miss Linwood High in the Davidson County Beauty Contest and also served as Harvest Queen at the Fall Carnival. And now at last we have gained the heights. The view is broad indeed, the vistas more won- derful than we could ever have imagined. But we feel a sadness in our hearts, for now we must say farewell to our dear companions of the trail, to our teachers and guides, to our beloved school, to the gym and all the pleasures of the playground. But let us place our confidence in a Higher Guide and launch out into the great adventure, trusting and unafraid. Betty Coppley Historian 5 Q Q . if 2 4 2 E I I 2 5 l. 5, i E: ia I l i I i 2 2 i iii 5, 1 1 14 QQ 'R 1 is 3. 1 'Z if A H is 3 tl. .8 KE! 26.11.-1' m.:.Z..igL ' H -at -. . b V. . If '-X