Madison High School - Wildcat Yearbook (Marshall, NC)

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Last Will and Testament We, the Senior Class of 1952 of Madison High School of the city of Madison, County of Rock- ingham, State of North Carolina, hereby request your presence to witness on this solemn occasion the presentation of our beloved possessions and to bear in full our Last Will and Testament. We the class of 1952, consisting of around 37 geniuses, beautiful women and handsome men, make known this, our Last Will and Testament in order that you may benefit by the things of such a prosperous class. Article 1: To our honorable faculty we give back all the intelligent answers we were too lazy to put on paper. We shall give them honor of an excellent example to set before their moronic classes providing they do it with all the reverence and respect due. Ellen Bullock leaves her quiet disposition to Alma Newnam. Billy Reynolds leaves his speed on the football Held to Billy Beach. Nellie Blair leaves her cheerful disposition to Dawn Atkins. Delphine Wall leaves her best all around disposition to Jerry Brown. Norman Moore hands his shyness to Walter Stevens. A. G. Webster leaves his talkative disposition to Siewers Wall. Lee Anglin bestows his love upon Ellie Bogen. Betty Gentry surrenders her laziness to Mary Cecil Brown. Sadie Nelson bequeaths her easy-blush to Herbert Collins. Peggy Southern yields her corny jokes to Ann Price. Billy Gentry concedes his sincerity to all the Juniors. Nancy Jo Webster leaves her intellectual ability to Dub Rumley. Vickie Washburn leaves her mischievous ways to Marilyn Shelton. Mary Jane Atkins leaves her ability to play basket ball to Carolyn Reynolds. Othelia Hall confers her feminine ways upon Luhona Kiser. Louise Dodson leaves her desire to ride in a Hudson to Joy Gann. Gail Manning leaves enough of her units so that her sister, Gloria can graduate in three years. Ann Hand leaves her originality to Mickie Ore. Lee Ann Joyce leaves her conscientious ways to Pat Swann. Loretta Holt leaves her sweet ways to Virginia Priddy. Marie Minter leaves her winsorne ways to Jimmy Brown. Rose Pierce leaves her ability to do 4th year English to all rising Seniors. Norma Jean Fuller leaves her desire to study to Don Anderson. Olyian Bullins leaves his quiet, attractive ways to Rex Mabe. Joan Joyce leaves her ability to get two diamonds in one year to Daisy Lou Lawrence. Joan Ragsdale leaves her ability to get a man to Anne Jo Lawson. Louise Wilson leaves her ability to stick to one man to Nancy Jo Washburn. Roger Lewis leaves his ability to be seen but not heard to Cantey Johnson. Stafford Stevens leaves his friendly ways to Arther Mashburn. Bobby Clark leaves his witty ways to T. L. Knight. Carlton Rierson leaves his desire to play ball to Jiles Cardwell. Jack Webster leaves his nice manners and dignified ways to Robah Flint. Lula Mae Manuel leaves her flirty ways to Faye Nelson. Leon Tucker leaves his love of sports to Gary Carter. Elizabeth White leaves her humble manner to Doretta Ramsey. Eunice Dodson leaves her value to the school to Faye Shelton. J. Lee Ramsey bestows his silly ways upon Bill Gregory. Carlton Clark leaves his good physique to Owen Bullins. By Othelia Hall I 13 il

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Class Prophecy As time rings down the curtain on our classes in Madison High, I find yet a moment left to dream. The last bell rings, and as our footsteps leave a lonely echo in the halls, my fancy flies far into the future. The time is ten years hence, and through a mist, I see my classmates dreams fulhlled. Suddenly the roar of a crowd jars me. It is the 1962 Madison Local's Basketball team, crashing to victory with none other than Mary Jane Atkins for a coach. The mists of time clear, and I see more plainly two figures in white emerge, who I recognize as Nellie Blair and Nancy Jo Webster. They are registered nurses at St. Leo's Hospital, where they give their best, as they have done for ears. y I find Ellen Bullock living on a farm near Ellisboro with a small family. Eunice Dodson is lending a helpful hand to the Dean of Women at Peace College in Raleigh. Louise Dodson, so patient and kind is a house mother in an orphanage. My mind strays to Gnd Norma Jean Fuller in leading a Baptist Orphanage. Betty Gentry is a cigarette girl in a night club in Washington. As I take in on Othelia Hall, I see her working hard as a seamstress for Raleigh Haberdasher, a department store, in Washington. D. C. Ann Hand has been associated for many years with Macks 5 and 10 cent store in Madison. Loretta Holt is conducting a day school for small children in Raleigh. Joan Joyce finally married Frankie, after many years of courtship and settled down on a little farm near Madison. Lee Ann Joyce graduated from Appalachian State Teachers College and is now teaching school in Walnut Cove. After many years of anxiety, Gail Manning is now wearing both rings of her schoolday's flame, Ray. The Red Cross has acquired the valuable services of Lula Mae Manuel. Marie Minter is an able music teacher in a grammar school at Draper, N. C. Weary and tired from her hours oflabor in a boarding house for college girls, I Find Sadie Nelson very busy planning meals and cleaning house. I see Rose Pierce making her way to the States: Rose has been teaching school in England for four years. As my dream continues, I see another classmate Nancy Price is a big name in teenage hat designing. Way down in Tennessee I spy Joan Ragsdale. She seems very happy with her husband and three children. Peggy Southern has been a telephone operator for Bell Telephone Company for a number of years now. Behind the scenes I see many of my classmates playing a number one role in society as wives and mother. Among them, I pay tribute to Patsy Vaughn who is wife of the year. My dream now takes me to California where I spy Delphine Wall who is now a music lover and teacher and I con- gratulate her on being Number one teacher of the year. Closer home, I find my classmate Vickie Washburn coaching basketball at Reidsville High along with Ronny Somers as the boys coach. Elizabeth White, whose quiet and unassuming manner has made many friends for her, is writing the lovelorn column in a big newspaper. Through the future I hear Louise Wilson playing the piano at Mt. Tabor Methodist Church where her husband, Charles, is choir director. As my search for the Seniors of 52 continues, I find Lee Anglin as a doctor aiding coach Leon Tucker's ailing football players in Pulaski, Virginia. Olyian Bullins, Norman Moore, and A. G. Webster are master farmers and are progressive leaders in Agriculture work of Rockingham County. As I look ahead on my list, I see Bobby Clark as adviser of a hosiery mill in Asheboro, N. C. Billy Gentry is a tobacco auctioneer for Peppers Warehouse in Winston Salem. In the distance my eye lights on an ambitious Naval officer stationed at Norfolk Virginia. He is none other than Roger Lewis. J. Lee Ramsey fast as a streak of lightning, is a professional stock car driver. My dream of the future continues, and I find Billy Reynolds and Carlton Clark playing professional ball for the New York Giants while Carlton Rierson is a star pitcher for the Cleveland Indians. Stafford Stevens is a very busy man who owns Amoco service stations throughout the United States. As my dream draws to a close, I hardly see a trace of Jack Webster but gradually I recognize him as a Professor of History at William and Mary College, Virginia. All this is most too much for the dreamer and once more into reality I awaken. These pleasant views of our class- mates can become a reality with our best efforts and also with the aid our beloved friends, teachers, and parents can give us. Louise Wilson Gail Manning l17l

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Class Poem Now that our school days will soon be at an end, We will go forth a new life to begin. Let's not allow our friendships to perish, For we have a great many memories to cherish. Many have been our troubles and trials, Though we've been through the years with a smile. But our happy days will be much greater in number, So now let us not allow ourselves to slumber. Our teachers have been so grand through the years, So let's all stand and give them three cheers. They've been so patient, we appreciate all they've done. Though sometimes they've been harsh, each of our hearts they have won. All the parties, games and picnics at which we had fun, Each good time we've had, no one has forgotten a one. We'll never forget the studying we did for a test, When each one wanted to do his best. Basketball, baseball, football and all the rest, We the class of SZ always did our best. Good sportsmanship has always been our goal, And we worked at it with all our heart and soul. Even though our paths will lead each of us a different way, Let's all try to make our lives better day by day. We'll always remember our standards and the golden rule, And stand up for the things which we've learned in school. By: Joan Reynolds Marie Minter Othelia Hall l19l