Marshall High School - Islander Yearbook (Marshall, NC)

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Ger History Let us open now the mystic album of memories. October, 1940, we see ourselves entering school on a warm autumn day. We enjoy running and playing in the sand. All life is an excur- sion, an adventure. Flip over a few pages. We are in the fourth grade. Our country is at war and the boys enjoy playing war games. Our lessons are harder. We have long division and Geography. We speak of the far-off time; “When I get to high schdol” as though it were a hundred years from now. We are glad on the warm spring day when school is out for a few weeks. We are gladder on the autumn day when school begins again. 1948. We are at last in high school. We are excited by changing classes and by having a different teacher every hour. 1949. The days of our youth are truly our golden days. The ‘new’ of high school has worn off but we discoved other things to interest us. 1950. As a newborn baby discovering that he has a hand we are discovering that we have a head to be used. We learn something of our country’s past and present in Mr. Brigman’s History class. (There are 640 acres in a section of land. We are never to forget that.) Our long-awaited class rings finally arrive. 1951. We are Seniors at last. It does not seem so long. Last month, it seems, we were in the first grade. Last week we entered high school. Today we leave. We are excited over our Senior trip and Junior-Senior banquet. The happiness and excitement of graduation is tempered slightly by saddness at the thought of leaving Marshall High School.

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‘Supe Sian MOST ATHLETIC Tommy Caldwell and Joyce McKinney CLASS PET Charles Crowe CLASS BABY Betty Joe Reid CLASS MONKEY Bobby Ponder MOST LOYAL Johnny Clark BEST VOICE AND SPEECH Larry McElroy and Geneva Hensley MOST LIKELY TO SUCCEED Ned Crowe and Claudia Fox BEST CITIZENS Jimmy Ramsey and Wilma Jarrett MOST HANDSOME BOY Eugene Shipley PRETTIEST GIRL Birma Boone MOST STUDIOUS Johnny Clark and Ruby Payne CLASS PROPHET Peggy Ward MOST AMBITIOUS Spencer Roberts and Wilma Coates BEST PERSONALITY Calvin Metcalf and Sadie Stines MOST CAPABLE Lewis-Bryan and Belva Roberts FRIENDLIEST Charles Crowe and Zane Wallin BEST LEADERS Sanford Silver and Jewell Marlor BEST SENSE OF HUMOR Ed Reece and Christine Davis WITTIEST M. T. Morgan NEATEST Jimmy Ramsey and Joy Payne MOST COURTEOUS Arnold Rice and Ruth Deaver MOST INTELLIGENT Larry McElroy and Peggy Holland MOST DIGNIFIED Betty Ann Caldwell MOST TALENTED Ted Flynn and Dorothy Ball MOST DRAMATIC Ruth Randall MOST POPULAR Don Payne and Sadie Stines CLASS ROMEO AND JULIET Eugene Shipley and Birma Boone CLASS GRUMBLERS Tommy Caldwell and Peggy Holland CLASS FLIRTS M. T. Morgan and Ernestine Whitt

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Gis , rophecy As we switched in desperation to our reserve fuel supply, and crossed our fingers in the hope that Lady Luck would be with us, we suddenly spied below us tall buildings extending upward into the clouds. We landed, using the last drop of gas taxiing up to the hangar. I was greeted by the airport manager, a man who was vaguely familiar. “What town is this? Charlotte?” asked Peggy. ‘No, this is Marshall,” said the manager. Imagine my surprise! After being away for fifteen years I could hardly realize that this town had expanded so rapidly. An even greater surprise was yet to come; the airport manager was Bob- by Ponder, one of my old classmates at M. H. S. I decided to explore the town and rented a car from the Ramsey U-Drive-It Service, owned by Jimmy Ramsey. I saw also Betty Jo Reid, Zane Wallin, Claudia Fox and Calvin Metcalf, who were renting one of the new Cadilacs from Jimmie to go on a tour of the Smoky Mountains. They said they were just in from Duke University, where they taught. I visited Marshall High School, and who should greet me but the new principal, Larry Mc- Elroy. Hearing loud screams, we dashed to the third floor only to discover that it was the Latin Class taught by Miss Peggy Holland. Later, I watched the undefeated M. H. S. Tornadoes, coached by Charles Crowe and Tommie Caldwell, run through a short practice session. After stopping by Bryan’s Furniture to see Lewis, I decided to find my classmates who I learned were living in various cities in the Eastern United States. My first stop was Detroit, Michigan, where I visited Sanford Silver, president of Ford Motor Co. and learned that one of his secretaries was Dorothy Ball. One of the swankiest stores in town was a dress shop run by Birma Boone and Jewell Marlor. That night I stayed at the Hotel Mor- gan, one of the twelve hotels owned by M. T. Morgan. I happened to meet Johnny Clark outside the First National Bank where he was second Vice-President. I said good-bye to Detroit and flew to New York where I expected to find quite a few of my old friends. I was met by Mayor Spencer Roberts. He presented to me, among other things, tickets to the stage play, North Atlantic, co-starring the famous actors, Eugene Shipley and Joyce McKin- ney. In Boston, I saw Geneva Hensley and Ruth Deaver who were well known dress designers. They told me about Ruth Randall and Ruby Payne who were head nurses in the Boston Hospital, and of Don Payne who was president of a large department store there. I spent the following night in Pittsburgh, Pa., and learned that Ed Reece owned a coal mine in that section. And guess who was his confidential secretary! Joy Payne. I then went to Jacksonville, Florida. where I was Christine Davis, and Ernestine Whitt who owned a Beauty Shop. They told me about Ted Flynn and Arnold Rice of the “Rice and Flynn Law Firm”. By the way their secretaries were Belva Roberts and Wilma Jarrett. From there I flew on to Maimi to see Ned Crow who owned an electrical repair shop, and Sadie Stines who was superintendent of nurses in one of the larger hospitals. Sadie told me about Wil- ma Coates who was now a missionary in Africa, and of Betty Ann Caldwell who is now Mrs. Wally Bearse and that she and Wally are living in Washington. I had visited and learned the whereabouts of the seniors of 1952, so I decided that w ould be best for me to return to my secretarial work with a law firm in Richmond, Virginia. It was com- forting to be aware that each, in his way, was doing very nicely the work for which he was pre- pared.