Morganton High School - Cats Tale Yearbook (Morganton, NC)

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,QMCL,9JLaSLa SE IDR EL SS HISTUHY IN THE AUTUMN of nineteen hundred thirty-nine, a class of freshmen climbed over a bar into an entirely new measure, and with a forlorn and bewildered at- titude viewed a new arrangement. Finally we dis- covered this strange method of schooling wasn't bad and perked up enough to elect for class officers the following: President, Charles Vernon, Vice-President, Harold Mitchell, Secretary-Treasurer, Hilda Lane. We achieved the highest glory by carrying off first honors at Stunt Nite. Our stunt was The Touchdown, in which Plato Wilson and Faye Griffin starred. The football team under Coach Reinhardt's able guidance won the Western Conference for the first time in many years. The band, with some of our class mem- bers, went to Charlotte to the National School Music Competition Festival and received an honor rating. We went back to pen with the first movement of our work finished and ready to begin the second. As sophomores our head officers were: President, Harold Mitchell, Vice-President, Bill Connelly. The band was composed of many of our members: Bill Denton, Curtis Fleming, Alfred Perkins, Bob Rhyne, Wilrose Smith, Kate Lee Coburn, jimmy Henritzy, Harold Kincaid, Susan Walker, Ralph Harbison, jimmy Hoyle, Frank Patton, jean Anthony, Gene Bishop, Margaret Carter, Henrietta Walton. Again the foot- ball team claimed championship in the Western Con- ference. We presented a skit from Bird's Christmas Carols at junior Stunt Nite and found that quite a few members were still children at heart. When the school term came to a close, we felt we had com- pleted a successful year and were ready to become upperclassmen. At Last, we had attained the halfway mark and could now keep perfect time with the daily routine. Busy as could be under our new officers: President, Harold Mitchell, Vice-President, Sam Ervin, Secre- tary, Susan Walker, Treasurer, Plato Wilson, Statis- tician, Bill Denton, Historian, Laura Mundy, we earned money for the entertainment of the seniors. After the attack by the japanese on December 7, 1941, our class with a grave determination prepared for the changes they knew were to come. Stunt Nite was held by the juniors who took first place with their presentation of the pantomime, Lord Ullin's Daughter. The football team won the West- ern Conference Championship for the third consecu- tive year. Sam Ervin was Vice-President of the Student Coun- cil, and the Honor Society inducted from the junior Class for membership in the organization the follow- 1 Twenty four ing: Margaret Carter, Mary Louise Watkins, Martha Walton, Bill Carter, Bill Denton, Hilda Lane, Susan Walker, and Sarah Kibler. The Commencement Marshals for the Senior Class were: Hilda Lane, Margaret Carter, Henrietta Walton, Sybil Absher, Susan Walker, Bill Carter, Glenn Patton, Bill Den- ton, Curtis Fleming, and Harold Mitchell. Spring came, and the class honored the seniors at the annual banquet, which helped terminate another booming year. Seniors, just the pronunciation of the word gave us a feeling of power. We held the burdens of the school on our sturdy shoulders, while our heads were in the clouds. Our class officers were: President, Bill Denton, Vice-President, Betty Alwran, Secretary, Margaret Carter, Treasurer, Glenn Patton, Statisti- cian, Alfred Perkins, Prophet, jimmy Hoyle, His- torian, Laura Mundy. In the Student Government, Harold Mitchell was President, and Theresa Duck- worth and Plato Wilson were Council Members. Betty Alwran, Henrietta Walton, Mary Alice Leonhardt, Frances Bradley, Louise Mooney, Theresa Duckworth, Kate Lee Coburn, Harold Mitchell, and Sam Ervin were taken into the Honor Society. junior Stunt Nite was held in February with the seniors giving King for a Day. During the year, the Victory Corps was organized to help prepare the seniors for their inevitable war work. Salvage drives were carried on with great zeal, and a point system of rationing was begun. - On April 16, the annual senior play directed by Miss Gray was presented by the talented actors of the class. The title of the play was Gabriel, Blow Your Horn! a delightful mountaineer comedy that kept the audience in stitches. Those taking part were Frances Bradley, Margaret Ross, Henrietta Walton, Hilda Lane, Betty Simpson, Dorothy Ann Harbison, Plato Wilson, Thurman Watts, Bob Rhyne, Glenn Patton, George Ramseur, and Bill Connelly. A banquet was given by the juniors for the en- joyment of the seniors. Near the end of our school year, we felt we had accumulated a vast store of knowledge, not only in books, but in the art of mak- ing friends. Yet we knew we had much more to learn. Thus we have raced up and down the scales, until at last we have reached the highest point and are ready to tumble over the top of the staff in the world beyond and seek our fortunes. It took the notes of each of us to finish a lovely selection, and we hope that this masterpiece will long be remem- bered in dear M. H. S.

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SE miss lmfowiffw RAMA WATTS Good Mannrrs Club. 1: Ameri- canism Club, 2: Chorus, 3: WAACS. 4. Here is one who is apt to land in a radio studio because of her good looks, her fine B:- tellect, and her really lovely roire. Rama, we always know when you are passing by about dusk for your song is heard, blended with the night. LULA ALICE WHISNANT Good Manners Club. li Strol- lers' Club. 2: Chorus. 3, -L. A girl who is always in a hurry. getting things donegpractieing her music, studiying geometry, yanninf somet .ing for fun. ou wil always find Alive with a pleasant smile and llff1'llYfl'l'l7t' T HURMAN WATTS Debating Club, 1: Brid e Club. 4: Manager Students' store, 4. Red is one of the best natured seniors: you will 111+ ways find him helpful, trying to please, esperially the girls. And you should hear some of the intelligent uuestiofns he asks in c'henI.istry.' Red really gets along well in his work and has devoted nineh time to the Greasy Spoon. JULIA WHISNANT Art Club, 1: Hobby Club. 2: Dancing Club. 3: WAACs, 4. Date: 1953 . . . Julia, a tall brunette, telephone operator in New York City. Yes, that's what Julia, who graduated with us at M. H. S., wanted to be. and she is. Do you still roller! 2 looks, and she too believes post rards, or does New York 'XT There's something about a uni- S'N'if'f!l 769011 11010 bu8'!lf , ' 'JA' form. '4 . I I f fr-1 BETTY LOU WILLIAMS ONEDA WILLIAMS Good Manners Club, 1: Strol- Knitting Clubfb fvvx lers' Club, 2: Knitting Club, 3: H , . I . f WAAQRS 4. eies a senio nhom yoj: ' might find e a book, for Another attrartive blonde in she loves t ad. Oneda has a the Senior Class is Betty. She pleasant e, la s eet person- was quite an outstanding figure ulzty ty hair a d eyes, and in the WAACs, and her uni- . 1'eser'ne anner Inch. form suited her To-a-Tee. We all ad i and Qytiglor. can always count on a smile xg I from Betty Irhererer we meet f :flu her. ff' .7 i 5' if si PLATO WILSON KENNETH VAN WYATT ' Debating Club, 2: Statistician. 12th Grade 23 Junior State Guard. 3: Hi- Dramatic Club. 1: Photography Y. B. 4: Business Manager of Club, 5: Chorus. 3: Junior CA1-'S TALE, 4., State Guard. 4: Band, 1, 2, 8, 4. Egr3 gfhe constant jack-pot Wyatt is a boy who- will im- gom-, the author of '-1 just pre-ss you Ce-wwally qirlsi- His ai'n't able, the talented actor, 8111077 NOUN'-V. 11100317111 'llmll' is our rapable business man- TWTS. Und blffflfi, 'NUT Def flfm ager. Plato has grand qualities, from the beginning. Ken pays 41 sense gf lmnwr, and u wink solo baritone, is a jitterbug for all the girls. from way back, and does all right with girls out of town. He's one for the hooks. S THE SE IUH5 WHU ARE CAMERA 5HY CATHERINE ADAMS FLOY MILLIGAN jf SALLIE BECK J. C. ENGLAND JIMMY MOFFITT ARTHUR BRITTAIN RUTH HEAD WILLIE Ross MARY LEE CANNON BILLIE LOUISE HOGAN I-IAZEL WAKEFIELD 1 VANCE CLONTZ HARLESS MADE RUBY WALL HENRIETTA EDMONSON ANDY WILSON , . .n I . mty-three it A 4 , ,,...i.sA+4..n

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I if I 1 1 . n I v 1, 'r smug M9 -mn f 1mm kff EL SS PHUPHEEY HERE I AM, james B. Hoyle, national known lecturer on How to Keep from Getting Hurt. While touring in Philadelphia I ran into some friends, Rudy Ashton, Presley Bingham, Frank- lin Fox, who own a large industry-The Iron 8: Steel Works. They iron all day and steal all night. In Atlantic City I got a hotdog at the stand on the beach, run by Cecil Leonhardt and Robin Hedden. Approaching Baltimore via plane I saw the big airplane factory, Glenn L. Patton, Inc., camouflage designed by Ralph Harbison. On the outskirts of the city was George Ramseur on his 2,000-acre farm. New York City really had a lot from our 1943 graduating class: Lloyd Eakers running a cafe across the street from Bill Cash's theater, largest in the world, at that time starring Betty Simpson and Platon Wilson in The Eyes and Ears of the World, written by Kate Lee Co- burn. Up the street was Bill Denton's Burke- mont Hotel, with Walton Avery and his or- chestra playing. Near by was Rama Watts sing- ing at the Canary Club, where j. C. Hoyle was owner. Faye Griffin was modeling dresses along with Irene Watkins, Ruby Wall, Nan Walker, and Will Rose Smith. Auda Lee Loftin had a Pit Barbecue on Fifth Avqlue, with Margie Lloyd and Frances Newton doing the serving between dates with Wall Street Brokers. Mary Sue Thompson was running a pressing club with Rudell Smith as seamstress. Looking for a meal, I ran into Jimmie Henritzy, New York guide, who took me to Hazel Hern's Boarding House. Ruby Lee Clarke and Betty Alwran were operating a drug store on Park Avenue and behind the counter were Oneda Williams, Mary Louise Watkins, and Alice Whisnant. In Detroit at the furniture meeting, Elbert Swink, Arthur Brittain, Bob Morris, and Shir- ley Smith were attending. I stopped in St. Louis and saw Betty Lane, now Mrs. Kincaid, help- ing in her husband's grocery store. As I wan- dered down the street-on the lawn of Sarah Kibler's home, a meeting of the F. H. H. was in session. Attending this were Martha Walton, jean Anthony, Frances Bradley, and Eleanor Huffman, now Mrs. Oehlbeck. Those not pres- ent because of illness were Margaret Carter and Susan Walker, both married to doctors fwhich were their employersj. In Reno judge Sam Ervin, III, was presiding over the fourth divorce of Muriel Higgen- botham. In Salt Lake City, I found Billie Louise Hogan, Elizabeth Hoke, and Mary Lee Houck all working for the Red Cross. There Hen- rietta Edmonson was operating a library. In Texas I saw Fred Causby and Leroy Duck- worth, owners of the B-2 Dude Ranch, where Aileen Epley and Elma Golightly were learn- ing to ride horses fin huge hatsj. At the Killum Ded Hospital in Los Angeles was Dr. Melvin Mabe, with lone Benfield, Sallie Beck, Mildred Gallion, Hazel England, Raye Drum, Edna Cuthbertson, Coline Coffey, Lucy Phillips, and Grace Pipes all attractive student nurses, with Hannie Henderson, head nurse. In Hollywood I found the following: D. A. Harbison, scene designer, jean Wake- field and Mable Stroup, costume designersg Lena Setzer, make-up director. I then caught a Clipper for Hawaii with Pilot Gene Harrill and Hostess Ruth English. On the plane were jeane Hardin, Mable Har- bison, Mildred Bowman, Naomi Cagle, Vir- ginia Branch, Ozelle Brittain, Nannie Lou Cox, and Rosa Lee Garrison on their summer vaca- tions from teaching and stenographic work. Arriving back in Hollywood I saw Gene Bishop doubling for Veronica Lake, also such well known actresses as Betty jean Foxx, Mary Markas, Laura Mundy, and Gloria Pruett. While there I read in Peruna Harris' paper, The Scandal Rambler, that Curtis Fleming and Margaret Ross were married with Lillian Morris as maid-of-honor. Also Miss Henrietta Walton was chosen Miss America with Sybil Absher and Inez Lingerfelt as runner-ups. Ella Mae Mitchell and Evelyn Lindsay were co- partners of a jewelry store in Oregon, with Haskell Reid as watch repairer. In Seattle, Blanche Hoyle and Giroud Hudson married twins in a double ceremony. Back to Chicago, I saw jack Snipes' bowling alleyg Ross Gilbert and David Conley's hard- ware store, near Lena Beach's beauty parlor with Evelyn Beach and Jerome Anderson as beauticians. There Mildred Adams was married to an inventor who made rockers for electric chairs. Across the street from Nelle Curlee's delicatessen shop Ye Doughnut Shoppe, was a WAAC recruiting station with Raye Hally- O Twenty five