Marshall High School - Islander Yearbook (Marshall, NC)

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user (lea Prophecy One summer evening while out strolling, I suddenly grew tired and lay down beside a tree. I must have fallen asleep for now I find myself on the street of a strange city. I see the sign Tipton’s Department Store. I open the door and walk in and sure enough Jack is proprietor. I decide to see a movie. I am really surprised when Alma Payne and Barbara Runnion appear on the screen. Now the scene changes and I find myself riding in a car approaching the Golden Gate Bridge. Yes, there are some familiar faces, Eldridge Clark and Everette Riddle are helping paint the bridge. I stop at a theatre. As the curtain comes up the first thing is a solo by Mrs. Eldridge Clark, the former Evelyn Reemes. After leaving the theatre, I walk down the street and stop at a super market. Who would have guessed that our own little Mary Helen Rector had married Lloyd Roberts, the owner of this large store. She tells me that Altha Ball, wife of one of the wealthiest farmers of Madison County and the mother of two darling little girls, is now living in this town. She also says that Coleen Reece still hasn’t made up her mind about who she likes best, so she is still teaching dramatics at Marshall High School. I leave the store and happen to meet Clyne Rector. He is taking his last stroll before leav- ing for South America. He is now in the Air Force and tells me Marvin Woodson, Mark Smith, and Bobby Ramsey have left the week before, and he was to join them there. I go to the airport to catch the next plane leaving for Washington, D. C. Imagine Robert Riddle as pilot and Blanche Bridges as hostess! Arriving in Washington, I hailed a taxi and am I surprised to see Raymond Wallin is the driver. He tells me of Mr. and Mrs. Herchel Roberts’ hotel. Mrs. Roberts is the former Mary Alice Payne. I go to their hotel and after registering we chat over old times. They tell me Senator George McKinney, Hugh Fisher, who is now an en- gineer, and Loreen Lewis, well known dress designer, are coming for dinner tonight. The next morning I start shopping and meet some office girls who have started for work. Yes, it is the old familiar crowd: Mary Rice, Katie Nix, Hildreth Rector, and Minnie Lee McKinney. I then stop by a news stand and picking up a paper I notice the headline Leroy Ducker has been elected mayor and E. J. Coates and Atlee Barbour are the aldermen. This arouses my interest and I see it is the ‘News Record’ from Marshall, so I buy a copy. The news staff was an- nounced on the front page; Norman Connor is now editor. Also on the front page was Bennie Davis’s picture, star player for the Boston Red Sox. Turning through the paper I see an ad- vertisement from the Rice Beauty Salon. Virginia Carol is now owner, with co-workers Faye Riddle, Louise Thomas, and Nannette Hall. On the society page I see that Gerry Chandler, who is teaching English in a high school in South Carolina, Edyth Sams, science teacher in Idaho, Louise Collins, now teaching business education in a private school in Texas, and Clara Ramsey, who is teaching home economics in Florida, are spending the summer in their home town, Marshall. Next the picture of two nurses catches my eye. Altha Briggs and Christine Ward are now head nurses in the Orthopedic Home in Asheville. I now notice the financial report of the Bank of French Broad. It was submitted by the bookkeeper, Mrs. J. N. Ponder. Why it couldn’t be anyone but my old classmate, Betty Dockery. The scene quickly vanishes and I awake to find only a few short weeks ago I had received a diploma from Marshall High School. But, it does make one wonder where will this class be a few years from now!

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G bee History : A conversation between two small children was interrupted by the loud cry of many youngsters, ‘‘the bell, the bell is ringing!’ Soon the doors were opened and all the kids poured into the schoolhouse, carrying their brand new tablets and pencils. Such was our first day of school. However, the months and years passed until we were in the third grade. There our troubles began. Namely, the multiplication and the division tables. We could never remember whether the teacher said 6x7 equals 42 or 7x6 equals 42. How happy we were when books were checked in and we started for home. Only in a short time, we returned to keep moving on the road to graduation. We can never forget our good old high school days. Our friends, our teachers, and our dear old building on the island. We as freshmen though WE were THE STUFF. After all we were in high school! We were rather good because we learned the whole poem of “Thanatopsis’’. You know how it goes, “To him who in the love of nature holds.” And French days! Would you believe that one letter would make so much difference! Anyway, our teacher did. When it came to brains in that class, there was only a very faded ‘“X”’ to “mark the spot”. We can never forget our algebra classes. To us it was really a pain because we didn’t have very “mathematical minds”. Why did x plus y equal 1, when the next letter of the alphabet was 2? Among all our memories, we shall cherish most our excitement of our trips to Washington and New York. Also, the measurements for our white and blue caps and gowns. Yes, we can truthfully say we’ve had a swell time in school, despite the home- work! As we march down the aisle during graduation many of these thoughts will crowd into our minds. We shall soon be stepping out into a strange world; strange to us because we must then assume the responsibilities which rightfully belong to us. But, we can always look back on our high school days at Marshall High School with a wonderful, but rather sad remembrance.

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Superlatives PRORART TE Ss GDR, [pete 9 eects ee MOST STUDIOUS CLASS PROPHET MOS Tae VB RT ©) tS eee BEST PERSONALITY MOST CAPABLE FRIENDLIEST MOSES LGN TEE, Doe ene eee MOS EGLO VA [tek oo eee MOST TALENTED MOST DRAMATIC MIST ORIGINAL MOSTSPOPULAR CLASS ROMEO AND JULIET CLASS GRUMBLER Bennie Davis and Katie Nix Gerry Chandler Raymond Wallin Marvin Woodson Atlee Barbour and Clara Ramsey Norman Connor and Faye Riddle Bennie Davis Carol Rice George McKinney and Louise Fisher Betty Dockery Mark Smith and Clara Ramsey Clyne Rector and Mary Rice Christine Ward Mary H. Rector, Lee Roy Ducker and E. J. Coates ...Marvin Woodson and Mary A. Payne George McKinney and Edyth Sams E. J. Coates and Louise Thomas Nannette Hall Marvin Woodson Norman Connor and Loreen Lewis Everette Riddle, Robert Riddle and Louise Thomas Alma Payne Hildreth Rector Hugh Fisher and Altha Briggs Coleen Reece Minnie Lee McKinney Clyne Rector, Jack Tipton and Katie Nix Clara Ramsey and Louise Fisher Marvin Woodson, Altha Ball, and Bar- bara Runnion Eldridge Clark and Evelyn Reemes Bobby Ramsey and Blanche Bridges