Middleburg High School - Carrier Yearbook (Middleburg, NC)

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Class History With our days at Middleburg High School coming to an end, we, the class of ‘54, wish to look back over our happy school, faculty, and many friends, We entered the first grade to learn ‘reading, ‘riting, and ‘rithmetic in September, 1942, Miss Frances P. Harris was our teacher, Miss Mary Martin was our second grade teacher, with Mrs. Holloway replacing her and later Mrs, Blum replacing Mrs. Holloway. Miss Thelma Duncan taught us in the third grade. Weentered the fourth grade with Miss Winnie Burt to teach us show to travel with her geography book. oe : s Miss Peed was our teacher in the fifth grade, We journeyed on to the sixth grade. with, Miss Nannie Burt as our : teacher, We're proud to say that we enjoyed fe seventh grade, even focich it was hard, with Miss Mary Young as our teacher, She took 1 us ‘On two educational trips in that year, We will long remem wed ‘ paper we obliteds: “The Liberator, while in the eighth grade, Mr. C. C. White, our teacher, took us on trips to Chapel Hill and Durham, which we enjoyed, The Drewr students joined us this year. r we pecan eG mart in high school activities, It was hard gh school regulations but we pulled through, Mrs, Carl Will- teacher, cia dae ca McColl, Mr, E.O. Young, Jr., Miss Freshmen! At last! - at first to get adjusted iams was our home roo! Ailene Mewborn, and 1 year we really en Mr, W. A, Talton highlight was the g ye de At last we were upperclassmen and we had a d were proudly shown off. We had the same teachers this year all Bit one; fred Hale replaced Mr. Talton. We shall in In 1953 when we passed through the doors of our dear High School, we could hardly believe that we were Seniors, We had the same teachers. Under the direction of Mrs. McColl we presented two one-act plays, Petticoat Handicap and Kidnapping Betty, both of which were a big success. This year the Juniors gave us a lovely banquet, We published our annual and took a tiip to Washington this year also. After selecting our superlatives and planning our Class Day exercises, we realized that our year was almost over, May we now give our thanks to dear old M, H. S. for giving us the many privileges of studing and playing on the campus which we no longer will call our home, CLASS HISTORIAN 3 MINNIE FREEMAN

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PETTICOAT HANDICAP Petticoat Handicap Bill Grayson ---------- Eugene Mustain Janice Lee ----------- Minnie Freeman Penelope Pettingill ----- Shirley White Mrs, Cordelia Perkins --- Tiny Poythress Myrtle Burphoffer------- Grace Burdick Mr, Kramer ----------- Fleming Wester And were presented by The Senior Class Cast of Characters KIDNAPPING BETTY Kidnapping Betty Sally Perkins ----------- Lucille Miller Dan Fielding -------------Jack Royster Betty Meadows ---------- Betty Harton Nat Meadows ------------ Bruce Jordan Molly Fielding ---------- Nancy Spain Bud Simpson ------------- Gene Short Joanna Fielding ---------- Mary Perdue

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Class Prophecy What will become of the senior class of '54? This is the question that seems to face every graduating class,It is a privilege to write the prophecy of such a promising class-- but where should I begin?? If I could take a crystal and look into it or consult a witch doctor, it would be simple, However, in this period of miraculous discoveries and in- ventions, in which we are graduating something faster is needed to keep up with this class of '54, As I jumped to my feet to the sound that hit my ear,I was amazed to see a super atomic space ship. This was exactly what I needed, I grabbed my high altitude suit and headed out the door to meet my husband return - ing from a grocery trip into town on our private spaceship.I just could not wait to check up on my classmates to see what had happened to them. I had always liked excitement and being the housewife of a business man with just one spaceship was not too exciting. I met him on the roof top landing and climbed in, set the controls for the year 1969 and sat back, Of course, my husband didn t mind--all men in this age are henpecked, We sailed through space and before we knew it we had landed in a strange, very big, and prosperous town. AsI was walking around I saw a very familiar face. It was none other than my dear old pal Mary Anne Perdue, She told me that this was Middleburg and she would show me the town. She had a job which was very promising in more ways than one; she was working as receptionist for a handsome, young doctor. She said it wasn't the job she wanted, it was the doctor. While we were rolling on land ships (nobody walks anymore) down the street a foreign street ship stopped beside us, it was none other than Minnie Freeman. She had done well since her marriage to Lucius and discovering the uranium pile, We were talking over old times when I heard a very familiar voice calling to us. I couldn't be- lieve my eyes, but sure enough it was Nancy Spain, She couldn't talk very long because she was already late for the contest to pick Miss Middleburg and she was number one contestant, We left here and saw a man dressed in a naval uniform. It was Fleming Wester. He said that he was a commander of the ship The U, S. Wave-Hopper. We had been there but a minute when we saw someone running toward us. Asshe came closer I recognized her as Lucille Miller, She was now a Paramount star and had just finished her latest picture The Redhead from Manson, She said she hadn't been able to stop running since our senior play. She also told us that Shirley White had her pick of good-looking men be- cause she was captain of the U, S, Marine Corps. She said that Grace Burdick had settled down a Middleburg after traveling around the world several times and finding no man to suit her. We talked for a while until it was time for lunch then we went into one of the restaurants and the first two people we saw were Jack Royster and Bruce Jordan, They were here on vacation, Jack said that he liked Biology so well at Middleburg that he was now teaching it at N, C, State College along with George B. Blum, Jr. Bruce said that he had proved to his former coach, Mr, Pryor that he could make the Tiger Team, He is pitch- ing and striking out not dbnly the Yankees, but every other team, They said that Eugene Mustian was happily married to a girl who was in the Junior Class fifteen years ago and said that Tiny Poythress had finally hooked her Greystone man and they had started a little granite business of their own, Just as we had finished dinner and prepared toleave we heard a shot and who should appear but F, B, I. agent Gene Short, who is also the king of Dragnet. Gene is now in- vestigating his second case. He never found the fellow in his first case, Just as we had made our last stops in the town of Middleburg, I realized it was gett- ing late and time for me to say goodbye to Mary Anne, We said our goodbyes and I stepped into my space ship and zoomed back to the year of 1954, Betty Lee Harton Class Prophet