Maury High School - Mecca Yearbook (Maury, NC)

Text from Pages 1 - 25 of the 1958 volume:

120 DEDICATION ' Oh Let not Time decieve yoU you cannot conquer time. W. H. AUDEN Like many others, this man whom we honor has lived a life of service to others, not only in his militffi ' y life but as a friend and teacher of the future citizens of America. In his many woys he has set the course of many young lives in the directic i of high ideals and better living through educa- tion, He stresses the fact that the way to a nobler living is paved with books. What manner of man is he? He is o Christian gentleman faithful in his witness; a loving father, interested In his trust; a responsible guardian, tireless in his concern; a loyol citizen, responsive to every need; a true friend, ready to lend a helping h ond; a willing servant, humble in his task for good will; a humon being, aware of his limitations. He is a man who can truthfully say: 1 love life; I am able to live it. As a token of CHjr respect and admiration, we are happy to dedicote our seventh volume of the MAURY MECCA to MR. BRYANT TRIPP and it is our privilege to wish for him many more happy, successful, years in his chosen profession. How it swellsl k ' ' •? How it dwells on the future! how it tells of the rapture thatimpelstothe swinging and the ring ' ingofthe bells, bells,: bells. DORIS BEAMAN ) ' fditor MRS. JUANITA OLIVE Sponsor LINDA MAY Business Manager MAURY MECCA STAFF Business Manager, Linda May; Editor, Doris Beaman; Sponsor, Mrs. Olive; Art Editor, Nelson Tugwell; As- sistant Art Editor, Leon Butts; 10th Grade Representative, Bobby Murphrey; 12th Grade Representative, Vernette Albritton; Assistant Editor, Kathryn Meadows; 11th Grade Representative, Martha Mae Rouse; Assistant Business Manager, Mary Nan May; 9th Grade Representative, J. D. Hughes. FACULTY MRS. MURPHREY MRS.JSEAMAN MR . ALLEN MR. LOYS MAY Principal MRS. OLIVE MR. HOWELL MRS. FORREST MR. KING MRS. MURPHREY MRS. PHILLIPS MRS. NEWBY MRS. CARRAWAY MRS. SPIVEY MRS. CRAFT MRS. LIVERMAN MRS. EDWARDS MRS. MOYE SENIOR FAVORITES MOTTO We do the difficult now; the impossible takes a little longer. COLORS Red and White SPONSOR MRS. JUANITA OLIVE MASCOTS CHRISTY ALBRITTON MICHAEL WALSTON SENIOR CLASS OFFICERS ANDREW HUMPHREY Presider TOBY TRIPP yice-Presidet JEAN MURPHREY Secrefai REBECCA MURPHREY .Treosun LINDA MAY ReporN JAMES SHACKLEFORD Project Chairmc DORIS BEAMAN Project Committe CAROLE JOHNSON Project Committe VERNETTE ALBRITTON Athletic Association 3,4; Basketball 1; Beta Club 2,3,4, Officer 3; Bus Monitor 3; Cheerleader 2,3,4, Co-Chief 3, Chief 4; Class Officer 2; F.H.A. 1,2, 3, 4, Rallyl, 2;F.T.A, 1,2, 3,4, Officer 2,3; G 1 e e Club 1 ,2,3,4; Junior Play; May Court Attendant 4; Office Staff 3,4; Piano 1,2, 3, 4; Senior Superlative; Track 1; Yearbook Staff 4; 4-H 1 . DORIS MOORING BEAMAN A th 1 e t i c Association 1,2, 3, 4; Basketboll 1,2,3; Beta Club 2,3,4, Officer 2,3,4; Class Officer 1,2,4, Pres- ident 2; F.H.A. 1,2, 3, 4, Officer 3,4, President 4, Rally 1, 2,3,4; F.L.A. 4; F.T.A. 1, 2,3,4, Officer I, 2,3,4, President 4; G lee Club 1 ,2,3,4; H 0 m e Ec. Lab Assistant 3,4; Junior Play; May Court Attendant 3; Office Staff 2,3; Senior Superlative; Yea rbook Staff 1 ,3,4, Editor 4; 4-H 1; Marshal 1,2,3; Beta Club Sweetheort 2; Tournament Queen 2; Farmer ' s Day Queen 2. BILLY CARRAWAY Bus Monitor 3; F.F.A. 1,2, 3, 4; Junior Play; Senior Su- perlative. LINDA FAYE HILL Snow Hill High School 1,2; F.H.A. 3,4; Glee Club 4; Junior Ploy; Senior Superlative. p Z ROYCE HORNE Basketball 1,2; Bus Driver 4; Class Officer 3; Glee Club 3; F.F.A. 1, Camp 1; Senior Superlative. ANDREW HUMPHREY Beta Club 2,3,4; Bus Driver 4; Class Officer 3,4, Pres- ident 4; F.F.A. 1,2,3, Officer 3; F.L.A. 4, Officer 4; Library Monitor 4; Senior Superlative. CAROLE FAULKNER JOHNSON Athletic Association 2,3,4; Basketball 1; BetaClub 2,3, 4; Cheerleader 2,3; Track 1; F.H.A. 1,2, 3, 4, Rally 1, 2; Glee Club 1,2, 3, 4; Junior Play; Marshal 3; May Day Attendant 4; Office Staff 3; Senior Superlative. BILLY JONES Athletic Association 3,4, Officer 4; Boseball 1,2,3, 4; Basketball 1,3,4; Bus Driver 4; F.F.A. 1 ,2,3,4, Contest Team 2,3,4, Field Day 3,4; Glee Club 1 ,2,3,4; Moy Day Escort 3; Office Staff 4; Senior Superlative. Beta Club 2,3,4; Bus Driver 3,4; Bus Monitor 2; Closs Officer 1 ,2,4; F.H.A. 1,2, 3, 4, Officer 3, Rally 1 ,2; F.L.A. 4; F.T.A. 1,2, Officer 2; Glee Club 1,2,3, 4; Home Ec. Lab Assistant 2,3; May Queen 4; Office Staff 3,4; Popularity Queen 3; Senior Superlative; Yearbook Staff 2,3,4, Business Manager 4; 4-H 1 ,2. JEAN MURPHREY, Athletic Association 2,3,4; Basketball 1,2,3; Beta Club 2,3,4, Sweetheart 3; Bus Monitor 2,3,4; Class Officer 1,4; F.H.A. 1,2,3, Rally 1,2,3; F.L.A. 4; F.T.A. 1, 2,3,4, Officer 4; Glee Club 1 ,2,4; Library Assistant 4; May Day Festival; Attendant 3, Ma i d of Honor 4; Pop- ularity Queen 2; Senior Superlative; Track 1; Yearbook Staff 3. REBECCA MURPHREY Beta Club 2,3,4, President 4; Bus Monitw4; F.H.A. 1, 2,3, Rally 1,2,3; F.L.A. 4; Glee Club 1, 2,3,4; Home Ec. Lab Assistant 2,3; Junior Play; Office Staff 2,3,4; Piano 1,2; Popularity Queen 4; Senior Superlative; 4-H 1 , 2 . EARL NORRIS Glee Club 1,2,3; Senior Superlative. JAMES SHACKLEFORD J 4 Bus Driver 2,3,4; Bus Monitor 2; Class Project Chairman 4; F.F.A. 1,2,3; Senior Superlative. WESLEY SMITH Bus Driver 3,4; F.F.A. 1,2, 3, 4, Camp 3; Field Day 1 , 2,3; Office Assistant 3; Senior Superlative; Track. VANCE TAYLOR Baseball 3,4; Basketboll 1,2, 3, 4; Bus Driver 3,4; Bus Monitor 2; F. F.A. 1 ,2,3,4, Camp 4; Senior Superlative. TOBY TRIPP t . ' A ' Bus Driver 4; Bus Monitor 3; Class Officer 4; F.F.A. 1, 2,3,4, Camp 4; Glee Club 1 ,2,3,4; Junior Play; Lib- rary Monitor 4; Senior Superlative. _ NELSON TUGWELL Bus Monitor 4; Class Officer 3; F.F.A. 1,2, 3 4, Officer 4, Contest Team 2,3,4, Field Day 3,4; F. L.A. 4; Of- fice Staff 4; Senior Superlative; Yeorbook Staff 4, Art Editor 4. . vK ' f- CAROL WALSTON Glee Club 4; F.H.A. 1,2, 3, 4; Junior Play; Senior Su- perlative; 4-H 1 . CLASS POEM HOI FOR CARO LINA! Let no heart in sorrow weep for other days; Let no idle dreamer tell In melting lays Of the merry meetings In the rosy bowers; For there is no land on earth like this fair land of ours! Ho! for Carolinal that ' s the land for me; In her happy borders roam the brave and free; And her bright-eyed daughters, none can fairer be; Ohl is is a land of love and sweet liberty! Down in Carolina grows the lofty pine. And her groves and forests bear the scented vine; Here are peaceful homes, too, nestling ' mid the flowers; Oh! there is no land on eorth like this fair land of ours! Then, for Carolina, brave and free and strong, Sound the meed of praises In story and in song From her fertile vales and lofty granite towers; For there is no land on earth like this fair land of ours! WILLIAM BERNARD HARRELL CLASS HISTORY Now that the long awaited time has arrived and we are playing the r o 1 e of seniors In high school, we cannot help letting our minds wander back a few years. It was years ago, it seems now, when we were so young and graduation so far away. Little did we know then of howtime slips by and people grow up over- night. That ' s how it happened to us. Only four short years have passed but whot o lot has happened. Our first poignant memory brings to our mind the first year we entered high school. After being in separate classes for eight long years, it seemedvery strange to us to be one united group. We had forty members and what a happy year we had. Along with hard work aid troubles, we enjoyed many parties sponsored by our teacher, Mr. Bryant Tripp. 1 think the hl -llght of our freshman year to everyone was the party we had in Rebecca Murphrey ' s pack house . It wee a cold night in December but everyone enjoyed freezing to- gether. In 1955, after a long tol Isome summer , we began oursecond year of high school. Wehad a smaller class but with our same sponsor, Mr. fcyant Tripp, we again enjoyed a successful year. This year our favorite outing was a weinner roast at Farmv i 1 1 e Park. It was in the early spring and, after eating, weallwent riding. You can believe that no aiefelt likegoing toschool the next morning because we were allsneezing. In 1956 everyone was anxious to see school start back because we were finally juniors. How proud we were! We were under the leadership of Mrs. C. T. May. We presented our first play that year and al- though we enjoyed practicing it, we felt a little bad after it was over. We also planned and prepared o banquet for the seniors. We used SOUTH OF THE BORDER as our theme and had every lovelybanquet and prom. This year we were also given Hie privilege of going to Washington with the seniors. The week we spent there will long be one of our favorite memories. We had a wonderful time but it ended too soon. ' Realizing that we had only one year of high school left, we entered our senior year with tired minds but a great determination to be the best seniors Mrs. Olive had ever had and make ito year that we would long remember. Now that It is almost over and we have about finished making high-school memories we look back with little regret at the times we have spent together at Moury. We only hope that the up-coming classes can leave behind memories as happy as ours. Yes, it was good to be here and may the distance of days to come not obscure the reality of life os we lived it, amid laughter and tears, successes and sorrows, toil and leisure. Each passing year on life ' s journey will sharpen our yearning for the privilege that cannot be ours, to live once more our days at Maury. The Seniors of ' 58 DORIS BEAMAN Historian BEST ALL-AROUND Doris Beaman and Andrew Humphrey SWEETHEART and HEART-THROB Carol Walston and Billy Carrav«w , • MO T POPULAR Jean Murphrey and Wesley Sm MOST COURTEOUS Rebecca Murphrey and Andrew Humphrey PERLATIVES • WITTIEST An Williams and Nelson Tugweh MOST ATHLETIC Jean Murphrey and Vance Toyloi LAST WILL and TESTAMENT State of North Carolina County of Greene School of Maury We, the Senior Closs of Maury High School be i n g of sound mind but knowing that all too soon we must leave these portals, and wishing to dispose of our various possessions and to bequeath some of the Ideals bestowed on us during our stay here, do hereby make and publish this our last will and testament. ARTICLE I. To Mr. W. L. May, we the Seniors bequeath our gratitude for his fairness andsquareness toward all members of the student body. ARTICLE II. To our Teachers we leave our appreciation for preparing us for our role in life. We also leave our apologies for all the gray hairs and wrinkles we ' ve caused you. ARTICLE III. To the upcoming Seniors we leave our position in Mrs. Olive ' s homeroom and to the rest of the student body that which we don ' t leave, you can take. ARTICLE IV. To all girls who fuss aboutstroighthoirand, especlallyto Lynda Worthington, REBECCA MURPHREY leaves her curly hair. ARTICLE V. To sad and solemn Hilda Vaniford, TOBY TRIPP leoves his ability to render wise cracks. ARTICLE VI. To bolstrous Patricia Carraway, LINDA HILL leaves her quiet and easy ways. - ' - ARTICLE VII. To Bud Carraway, BILLY CARRAWAY leaves his liberty in calling Mrs. Olive ' s husband by his first name. ARTICLE VIII. To Carolym Cosh, CAROLE JOHNSON leaves her ability todo the Impossible as well as the difficult. ARTICLE IX. To Johnny Mack Jones, VANCE TAYLOR leaves his athletic ability. ARTICLE X. To her sister, Linda Bel le Murphrey, JEAN MURPHREY leoves her ability to attract a Champ . ARTICLE XI. To all who have helped him graduate, BILLY JONES leaves his deep appreciation. ARTICLE XII. To Kathryn Meadows, CAROL WALSTON leaves her position os baby of the Senior Class. ARTICLE XIII, To Billie Faye Sumrell, JAMES Shack SHACKLEFORD leoves his very pleasing personality. ARTICLE XIV. To Martha Mae Rouse, LINDA MAY leaves her school bus with hopes that she will learn to drive before filling it with passengers. ARTICLE XV. To Morgaret Linda Murphrey, NELSON TUGWELL leaves one of his freckles hoping she wi I I wear it with pride as he does his crop. ARTICLE XVI. To Leon Butts, ANDREW HUMPHREY leaves his ability to take his books to school. ARTICLE XVII. To Bobby Beaman, EARL NORRIS leaves his muscular physique, ARTICLE XVIII. To Donald Carter, ROYCE HORNE leaves his good looks and husky ways that attract wimmin . ARTICLE XIX. To Linda Carol Bowen, DORIS MOORING BEAMAN leaves her secrets on how to catch a man. There ' s one drawback though {it only works with red heads) 1 ARTICLE XX. After five years of racking his brain WESLEY SMITH leaves waving his bonds in the air and shout- ing the word diploma at the top of his voice. ARTICLE XXI. To Mary Nan May, I VERNETTE ALBRITTON leave my purple and gold garter to wear with the chief cheerleading suit that I ' m also leaving. ARTICLE XXI I. And also I, on this, the Twenty-second day of May, In the year of our Lord, one thousand, nine hundred and fifty-eight, do-sign and seal this testament, as my last official act. VERNETTE ALBRITTON Testator: MRS. JUANITA OLIVE While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity. THE SENIORS ' 58 Ring out wild bells, to the wild sky. The flying cloud, the frosty light; The year is dying in the night; Ring out, wild bells, and let him die. ALFRED TENNYSON IN APPRECIATION This page is very small to give to one who has given so much, but we hope that this deed can, in its small way, express our appreciotion to Mrs. Olive for her untiring patience in her constant struggle of showing us the way to a better life. Credit for the good annuals we have had in the pastyears goes to Mrs. Olive. She got us off to agood start by organizing our staff and started us working. We will always be indebted to her for the time she has given up so that we could make up for the time we wasted during school hours. We have the deepest admiration and love for Mrs. Olive and wish to thank her for everything. CLASS PROPHECY Ten years have passed since the Seniors of 1958 departed from the Graduate School of Maury. I hove been asked to Nvrite a report on their activities and this I have done with great pleasure. Last week I was invited to a coffee hour at the home of a North Carolina Senator. Upon arriving 1 found that the hostess . was none other than LINDA MAY, one of my former classmates. I learned that Immediately after graduation, she had married BOBBY NETHERCUTT who was then o student at N. C. State College. After Bobby graduated he was elected to the Senate, and, so Linda would have something to occupy her idle time, she attended college and is now teaching in the Primary School for the children of the Senators, Representatives, Cabinet Members, and the President. She has abeautiful homein Washington a few blocks from the White House and 1 really enjoyed my visit because Linda had a lot of news for my report. She seemed to know what everyone had done. I was surprised to learn that BILLY JONES, now the basketball coach of Yale University, Ismarried and has five children. Yale has won all its games since Billy became her coach. DORIS BEAMAN is Home Economics Teacher at the University of California. Her husband is also a coach and his team has a record almost as good as that of Yale. They have lost only one game In ten years and that was to the University of North Carolina back in 1960. Doris is having a time between teaching and looking after Carson Jr. and Robblynn DeSuee! BILLY CARRAWAY married his childhood sweetheart, Carolyn Cash. He was working at DuPont at Grifton and the super- visor became aware of his great abilities and gave him promotions, one after another. Through his hard work he become Pres- ident of DuPont at Wilmington, Delaware. Carolyn Is after him to retire and spend his leisure time recording songs for R C A Victor . Mrs. Julius Hughesv the former JEAN MURPHREY, is a housewife for her farmer husband. They have eight children. He became one of the wealthiest men In Greene County when he found oil on his property. TOBY TRIPP surprised everyone and majored in English. He had a hard time with English in high schoo I but was a vdilz in college. From many offers, he elected to teach English at the University of North Carolina. JAMES SHACKLEFORD is married and has four children. He became an undertaker and his first customer was President Eisenhower. ' ROYCE HORNE joined the Air Force and was sent to France. He learned to appreciate the hours spent In the library re- ..‘‘■ing Je suis, Tu es, II est“ for Mrs. Olive. Royce is back in the States now and has advanced to the position of General. V: NETTE ALBRITTON seems to be the only one In the class of ‘58 who hasn’t married. She lives in Miami, Florida and is doing very well teaching English at the University. Incidently, she is dating the Governor of Florida. CAROLE JOHNSON decided to take a four year business course and after taking it, her husband became Governor so now she is the First Lady instead of a bookkeeper. Because of their good friendship, CAROL WALSTON and LINDA HILL areteachersat Hardbarger ' s Business College. Carol teaches shorthand and Linda teaches bookkeeping. They both married local boys. WESLEY SMITH decided to become a detective for the F.B.l. and Itsagood thing for the U. S. that he did. Hekeptone of our top secrets from falling into enemy bonds. NELSON TUGWELL attended East Carolina College and majored in Business. He is nowteaching at King ' s Business College In Raleigh where he sees our former principal Mr. Whltford. Mr. Whitford is now President of the College. VANCE TAYLOR surprised us all by becoming a math teacher. He is employed at Wake Forest College where he teaches geometry. EARL NORRIS joined the Navy and became a great Admiral. His deeds on the seas have pushed John Paul Jones ' s deeds from the history books. ANDREW HUMPHREY ' S ambition was to become a Colonial Store Manager. Because he was such a hard worker he has be- come top man in the management of all Colonial Stores. I, REBECCA MURPHREY, hove not been left behind in this stream of progress of the 1958 Seniors. As a result of the en- couragement from my beloved French teacher, I have become a language interpreter for the U. S. Department of Foreign Affairs. Incidently, Mrs. Oliye also had great luck. One of her wealthy uncles died ond left her a huge sum of money. She and her family are now touring France and are talkingof buildlnga home there since Mrs. Olive has been offered the job of head pro- fessor at the Sorbonne. I am very proud of the accomplishments of the 1958 Seniors and my deepest appreciation goes to Linda Nethercutt for sup- plying me with the necessary information that went intothe writingof this report which willappear tomorrowin the NEW YORK TIMES. REBECCA MURPHREY Prophet JUNIOR CLASS OFFICERS WILLIAM CARR AWAY Preside DONALD CARTER Vice-Preside MARY NAN MAY Secreta ELINOR NETHERCUTT Treosur KATHRYN MEADOWS Historic PAYE BRANN Report BOBBY BEAMAN BOBBY BOWEN FAYE BRANN MOLLY JEAN CARRAWAY WILLIAM CARRAWAY CAROLYN CASH DONALD CARTER GERALDINE DAVIS EDWARD JONES JEAN JONES MARY NAN MAY KATHRYN MEADOWS LINDA BELLE MURPHREY MARGARET LINDA MURPHREY DONNA NEWCOMBE JEAN NEWCOMBE ELENOR NETHERCUTT RAY THOMAS NETHERCUTT CATHERINE NORMAN EMMA FRANCES REDDICK MARTHA MAE ROUSE EDITH SHACKLEFORD WERTHIE MAE STANCIL MARGO STOCKS 1 1 III 1 r ' ■ 1 Hp V ||||H|k ' ’jt Br - - ' ■ FAYE SUGG SUE SUGG BILLIE FAYE SUMRELL DONNIE SUMRELL DONNIE WALSTON LOUISE WHITLEY LAVONNE WILLIAMS JANE WORTHINGTON LYNDA WORTHINGTON RICHARD WORTHINGTON SOPHOMORE CLASS OFFICERS President .Vice-President Secretary Treasurer Reporter HERMAN BRAXTON JOHNNY MACK JONES. JUDY WALLS ELLA GRANT WILLIS MURPHREY WLDRED DAVIS ELLA MARIE GRANT HERBERT GRAVES LEWIS GRAY KENNETH HEATH PATSY HILL J. D. HUGHES JOHNNY MACK JONES EMMA LOU JOYNER CAROLYN MAY BILLY MAYO JAMES MOORE DOROTHY MOORING JAMES 1. MOORING ROGER MOYE GERALDINE MURPHREY WILLIS MURPHREY MARGARET MYERS BONNY NEWCOMBE KENNETH SKINNER STANLEY TAYLOR HILDA VANDIFORD CAROL WADE ROBERT WADE JUDY WALLS JOHNNIE SUE WEBB EDWARD WHALEY ROBERT WHITLEY KENNETH WORTHINGTON W yMt U iMW kXKmm FRESHMAN CLASS OFFICERS BOBBY MURPHREY President BILLY HILL Vice-President JULIAN JONES .Treasurer GENE ALBRITTON Porliamentarian HOOKER THOMAS Secretary BILLY BEAMAN Reporter GINE ALBRITTON BIU-Y BEAMAN LILLIE DEAN BOONE BOBBY CARRAWAY ELLEN CARRAWAY P ATRIC IA CARRAWAY JI VyiY-CASH BARBARA CROOM HARRY DAIL LjNWQOD DAUGHTERY DOROTHY EAKES NINA PAUL EDMONDSON JAMES FAULKNER LINDA HARRELL RO HEATH BILLY_HILL jUL[AN_ JONES E IA JOHNSON ID A M AE LEE WILLIAM LEE MARiyE MAYO FREDDJE ROSE MEADOWS SHELB Y JEAN MOORE BEIIY LOU MURPHREY BOBBY MURPHREY EDOAR MURPHREY eONNIE MURRAY ANN NORMAN CAROL PARKER M ARGAR ET ROGERSON EDWARD ROUSE ROUSE JE.NNY SHIRLEY KA.Y SUGG HOOKiEJ’-HOMAS kay . e vandiford HOMER VAUGHN B ETTY LOU WADE LINDA CAROL WALSTON t- ■m m ' 1 V 5J ' ; ki.