Mount Holly High School - Holly Hawk Yearbook (Mount Holly, NC)

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CLASS HISTORY Poets are fond of referring to life as a great sea or ocean. Very well. 1 hen what are the rivers that supply the sea but the colleges of the country? And tracing the colleges back toward their sources we find each one originating in the junction of the little streamlets issuing from the schools of the land. Our own class history indicates such a riverlet, one that has (lowed steadily along until it Iras reached the meeting place appointed by the course of study. It may be traced down through the classes to a certain day in September 1936 when we presented ourselves at the rooms of Miss McFee and Miss McCormick. We knew not what the years to come held in store for us. As the stream expanded we had emerged into the second grade under the guidance of Miss Goldie Kale and Miss Ida Rankin. Each year the course of our riverlet changed and we found ourselves flowing to a more prosperous future. 1 he realization of school activities came to us in the sixth grade. Our first basketball tournament was held and some of our bovs went out for football and other sports. I his attitude stayed with us until the night to which we had been looking forward for so long a time: the night we graduated from Junior High to Senior High. As freshmen our class was increased bv a number of students coming down from Lucia. Our leaders were Mrs. Hill and Miss Montgomery. An honor was bestowed upon six of our students. They were chosen Beta Club members. This was the first time that freshmen had been chosen as members. Having mastered (we thought) the school, we reentered the next year under the leadership of Miss Lipscomb and Mr. Sigmon. By tire time we had a party in the bee hive, we knew full well that we had much more to learn at dear old Mount Holly High. With Miss Norris and Miss Lipscomb as our sponsors, we found ourselves the next year following the tradition of jolly juniors with vague contacts of the dignity before us for the coming year. Our ingenuity blossomed with the inauguration of the first annual I Iarvest Lestival. After many months of hard work came the long-awaited Junior-Senior Banquet at The Ship-Ahov in Charlotte. By the time we became seniors, the cost of broadening our knowledge had narrowed our number to forty-seven, under the guidance of Miss Norris and Mr. Lowler. This year our minds have become more mature, and we are seriously thinking about entering the turbulent ocean of life. At the first of the year some of us had not fully decided which boat we would take; but whatever our destination we are determined to “strive for that which is honorable, beautiful, and high. Sarah Wilson and Tommy Lee Everhart Class Historians Page Fourteen

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ES Best All-Round Joan Howard Yates Springs W ittiest Billie Jean Mattox A. C. Hollar SUPERLATIV Most Talented Dolores Ward Frank L. Rankin, Jr. Best Looking Dolores Ward Demarcus Nantz Most Studious Betty Jean Gaddy Frank L. Rankin, Jr.

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LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT We, the Senior Class of Mount Holly High, being of sound and disposing mind and memory and about to enter into a new phase of our lives do hereby make, and declare the following as our last will and testament: First; to our Superintendent, Principal, and our beloved teachers we return all the unsolicited advice, information, and reproofs which shall at the time of our departure be in, upon or about our minds and memories, feeling that anything given away so freely and abundantly must be of little value and not worth retaining in our minds and memories. Anita Bailes wills her ability to get out of third period study hall to Patsy Thomas. Billie Carter leaves to Barbara Davenport her typing technique hoping that she can use it to an advantage. To Frances Hollar, Sally Clark bequeaths her artistic ability and her place on poster committees. Betty Je an Gaddy nulls to Jack Hinkle her quiet and timid manner. Geneva Hager leaves to Eunice Arrants her well-groomed hair. To Slim Williams, Joan Howard wills her place on refreshment committees. Margaret Jackson bequeaths to Dewitt Beatty her petite ways. Vertie Pearl Loftin nulls here love for athletics to Ruth Campbell. To Jo Ann Fuller and Perk Kale, Emily Luckey leaves her nice, quiet disposition. Billie Jean Mattox bequeaths to Margaret Jones her ability to get a man. Naomi Nixon nulls her secretarial ability to Barbara Derr. Bessie Presslar leaves her love and friendship for her classmates to Dorothy Clemmer. Pearl Robinson bequeaths to Betty Jane Stroupe her dark, dashing eyes. Betty Jo Sisk wills her tremendous height to Rachel Smith. To Rachel Wilson, Dolores Ward leaves her position as office worker and her delight in interrupting classes. Sarah Wilson wills to William Luckey her argumentative tendencies and her speaking ability. Jean York bequeaths her ability to work around Mr. Church to Peggy Stack. Max Beckham leaves to Wells McConnell his shyness and timidness, realizing his desperate need for it. Bill Caston wills his stuttering to Hugh Kistler. As Ernest Cauthen always makes it a point to be on time, he wishes to leave to Don Fox an alarm clock in order that Don may carry on where he left off. Norman Cox bequeaths to Jack Loftin his championship as heavyweight boxer. John Frank Dameron nulls his love for aggravating and teasing the girls to Don Putnam and Ralph Edwards. To Jack Lawing, Wilbem Davis nulls his left jab so he can use it in his next fight with Billie Short. Tommy Everhart nulls to James Overcash his studious manner. Thomas Franklin leaves to Henry Smith his ability to start fights at the Fruit Basket. To James McManus, Bobby Gabriel bequeaths his good looks and ways with the girls. Paul Green leaves the licks he gets from Mr. Fowler to Charles Helms. Robert Hall wills to Mason Carver his good looks. Sonny Hall leaves his ability to build boats to Perry Spittle. To Wayne Wallace, A. C. Hollar bequeaths his sly and clever manner of getting away with a lot of mischief in Miss Lipscomb’s room. Clyde Howie wills his excellent grades in English to Don Fortner. Jack Jolly leaves to Joe Abernathy his valuable position on the football team. To Jim Putnam, David Loftin bequeaths his love and admiration for all girls. Bill Loftin nulls his best and most eloquent speaking voice to Milton Craig, Jr. in the hope that he will combine it with, his already humorous line and charm many an audience. So that Betty Craig can take sunbaths in the winter as well as in the summer, Bill McClain leaves her a sunlamp. Melvin McDaniel nulls to Richard Lawing his comical giggles. To Frankie Cloninger and Herman Pressley, Demarcus Nantz nulls his position as chief soda jerker. Frank Rankin leaves his well-rounded and well-developed personality to Eugene Ellington. Bobby Rhyne bequeaths to Nottie Jefferson his ability to get along in French. Yates Springs nulls his love for football to Bovd Lawing. Pete Stack leaves his ability to stay in school an extra year to play football to Bill Painter. Lee Talton bequeaths to Eugene Luckey his technique of one-arm driving. Charles Taylor wills his high averages in all his subjects to Henry Smith. Jim White leaves to Mike McIntosh the ever perfect way in which his hair stays in place. Bob White bequeaths his ability to work algebra problems to Billie McKinney. To Bunky Carpenter, Tommy Whitesides leaves his bus. Ralph Wilson wills the good looking girls in Cramerton to John Jolly. Pete Williams bequeaths to Harrill Black his love for racing. We make, constitute, and appoint our beloved sponsors, Helen L. Norris and B. Riley Fowler, to be executrix and executor of this our last will and testament. In Witness Whereof we have hereunto subscribed our names and affixed our seal this the 22nd day of January, A.D. 1948. Dolores Ward and Bill McClain Page Fifteen