Marion High School - Hylander Yearbook (Marion, NC)

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SENIOR CLASS PROPHECY While at the docks we saw a Navy ship come in. Aboard it was Lieut.-Com. joe David Holt, jr., who did not get enough of the Navy during the war. D. is not the only one who did not get enough mili- tary service. Bill Mclver is a Major in the Infantry and Bobby Gladden is still flying for the Air Corps. Imogene Elliott and Inez Lawing, still as inseparable as ever, are singing on the radio. Hayward McGee is a news com- mentator. Some of the class who always had a talent for art are finding that it isn't bad at all as a profession. Among those are Hugh Gladden, Frances Miller, and Mary Ann Elliott. Helen Wilkerson is now managing her own five-and-ten-cent store in Spartan- burg, South Carolina. Carl is the Mayor of Spartanburg. Several of our boys playing professional football are: Kenneth Toney, Thurston Foxx, and Ernest O'Dear. Others are play- ing professional baseball. They are Harold Buchanan, James Lee Jones, Bill Roland, and Calvin Webb. Charles Mask and Ray Condrey now own a chain of grocery stores. They are very successful. Phillip Odom is a con- ductor for the C. C. 84 O. Railroad. Five of the girls in our class are models: Betty jo Flack, Edna Parker, Colleen Styles, Virginia Penland, and Wilma Wat- kins. Madame Zolga seemed to be such a capable woman that I decided to ask her a question she couldn't answer-just to see if I could stump her. I asked if any of my classmates were in Europe, and if so, what they were doing. To my surprise she told me. Margaret Ledbetter, now a famous scientist. is touring Europe giving lectures on 'The Discovery of the Un- known Elementf' With her is Theta Payne, the Florence Nightingale of our day. Other nurses from our class are Frances England, Dorothy Dean Burgin, Irene Hunter, and Maxine Jarrett. Raymond Hawkins is the head doctor at johns Hop- kins, and his head nurse is Mary Nichols. Barry Buchanan is a noted surgeon. We had a number of musically inclined people. Elizabeth Ann Stepp is now the soprano soloist with the Metropolitan Opera Company. Thurlene Murray, who has accomplished much with her piano, is preparing to tour North and South Amer- ICQ. Florence Buckner, Louise Hollilield, and Hattie McNeely are fashion de- signers in New York City. Bernice Bow- man, Kathleen Head, and Bernice Eng- land have opened up a very swanky dress shop. Evelyn Fleming and Kathryn Evans are still playing basketball. They are work- ing as athletic directors for various girls' camps. Ann Tainter owns a chain of suc- cessful drug stores, and James Ledbetter is the proud owner of Shorty's Soda Shoppe. . . . . Bong, Bong, Twelve bells, I had no idea it was so late. I got up, paid Madame Zolga, and stumbled out of her presence, in a daze of facts which I de- sired to impart to my classmates, but which I knew they'd never believe. MARY' CATHERINE SIEBASTIAN, Clary Prnplael. Tizwzfy-i'e1fw1

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-ugilizllti Tzvenl y- fix SENIOR CLASS PROPHECY HAVING ALWAYS had a yen for strange and mysterious adventures I slipped one night into a place bearing the important title of Madanze Zolgtzlf S641lIt'6.I--S66 the Par! and F1r!zn'e. When the strangely- dressed woman turned her eyes upon me and asked my desire, I mumbled the words, I want to see the future. I was curious to see what was going to happen to all my classmates of '45. First, we visited the Town of Marion. We went into the World News office and saw Carl Pemberton, the Editor. The paper has improved greatly under Carl's man- agement, both in size and features. Among his staff are Doris Davis, Society Editor, Mildred Styles, Head of Household Hints, and Mabel Copeland, the beloved Aunt Nina, writer of Aunt Nina's Lovelorn Column. Next, we went to Bost's Jewelers, owned by Buddy Bost. He was busy. Paul Jones, a successful dentist, was buying a diamond bracelet for his wife. Farther up the street I saw a cafe which had the following sign: Jeanette Brown, Owner and Manager. Inside was the pres- ent Marion High School Principal, Billy Hawkins. Knowing how ambitious our Class of '45 always was, I was not surprised to find the next scene laid in Washington. We saw Senators Junior Robinson, Eston Ross, and Louis Wall. Louis is going to run for our next Vice-President. Also in Washington are Ruth Lentz, Ruby Owensby, and Ruth Byrd working as stenographers. Geneva Rumfelt is op- erating an exclusive beauty shop. It seems to be the gathering place for all the so- ciety ladies in Washington. Naturally, with all the beauties in our class, I thought some of them would be in the movies, and as I thought of it there we were in Hollywood. On the 20th Cen- tury Lot we saw Pete Gibbs and John Mack Laughridge, the Charles Boyer and Van Johnson of our day. They were discussing Mozelle Atkins, the most beautiful actress in Hollywood. Mozelle has just won the famed Oscar for the best performance of the year. There in one of the biggest cafes was its owner Elizabeth Lentz. Two of her regular customers are Wayne Jamison and Gorman Ledbetter, famous comedians. Jack Laughridge and his Dirty Dozen are playing a long engagement at the Mocambo. Many of our class I found were teach- ers. Billy Walker is an English professor in the University of Florida. Faye Ayers and Ralph Toney are athletic directors in the University of Alabama. Some of the class preferring high school teaching are Addie Lee Gaddy, Historyg Margie Lee Frady, English, and Bobbie Martin, Third Grade. Jeannette Rader is the band di- rector in the Seattle, Wash., High School. She is doing graduate work in oboe. Next, Madame Zolga took me to New York City. We were just in time to see a big ship dock. The first person I saw was Wilma Fowler. Wilma is now one of America's most notable authors. She is just returning from Europe where she had been collecting material for her lat- est book, Europe Since V-Dayf' Also on the ship was Betty Jo Brooks who had been studying Paris fashions. Betty Jo is a fashion designer for Vogue magazine. These two stopped to speak to the ship's captain, who turned out to be Maurice Melton.

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Tf2irlr1'-vig fi! LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT We, the Senior Class of 1945, leaving with our poor brains, bad memories, and not understanding our actions or our- selves, do hereby publish this, our last will and testament with the hope that it will do someone more good than it has done us. 1. I, Wayne Jamison, leave my ability to worry the teachers to Bill Giles. 2. I, Ruth Byrd, leave my courteous ways to Barbara Gladden, 3. I, Bebe Ledbetter, leave my ability to play loud to Roy Davis. 4. I, John Mack Laughridge, leave my curly hair to Howard Hoover. 5. I, Mary Catherine Sebastian, leave my position in band to Betty jo Ellis. 6. I, Wilma Watkins, leave my ability to date servicemen to anyone who needs it. 7. I, Faye Ayers, leave my sportsman- ship to Sara Anne Proctor. 8. I, Mabel Copeland, leave my fickle ways to Ruby Wilkerson. 9. I, Paul jones, leave my wooful ways to Lynn Crawley. 10. We, The Swoon Crooners,', leave our Swoon Crooning to Margaret At- kins, Celia Hawkins, and Lila Earle Har- rison. 11. I, Phillip Odom, leave my quiet ways to Guy Nichols. 12. I, james Ledbetter, leave my ability to tell tall tales to G. W. Biggerstaff. 15. I, Edna Parker, leave my dimples to Doris McCurry. 14. I, Kathleen Head, leave my . . . Oh well! I'll leave anyway. 15. I, Thurston Foxx, leave my ability to hobo to anyone who can run fast enough. 16. I, Ralph Toney, leave my weight to Hugh Edward Ellis. 17. I, Jeannette Rader, leave my sweet ways to anyone who can find enough ra- tion stamps. 18. I, Hugh Gladden, leave my hero, Hoot Gibson, to any woman hater. 19. I, Colleen Styles, leave my wit to Ivis Bost. 20. I, Ernest O'Dear, leave my Charles Atlasu book to Franklin Pace. 21. We, Pete Gibbs, Eston Ross, and Bob Gladden, leave our Sinatra voices to whoever wants them. We, the class, leave to Mr. Beam our thanks for being our friend and confidant throughout our four years of high school. To Mr. Poole, we leave our gratitude for the patience he has shown us during our high school years. To the faculty, we leave our sympathy for the trouble we have given them dur- ing our days at Marion High. LIBBY ANN STIZPP, Tefmlnr.