Mount Olive High School - Mohi Yearbook (Mount Olive, NC)

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the CIASS hlSlTOl2 At the beginning of the 1950-51 school year, ninety-one frustrated, talkative freshmen entered the institution of learning in Mount Olive, North Carolina- namely, Mount Olive High School. This step meant more than just another grade in school. It meant working out schedules, deciding on subjects and learning to be in class on time. Our choice of officers for that year were Lorena Britt, President, Mark Cherry, Vice-President, and Joyce Kornegay, Secretary-Treasurer. We began our second year of high school with a little more civil attitude. The tasks of 0ffiC6rShip were placed upon Lillian Barwick, President, Kay Mitchell, Vice-President, Mary S. Britt, Secretary, and Oscar J ones, Treasurer. Other interests attracted some of our classmates for we had only sixty-nine of them enrolled in the tenth grade. One of our celebrities, Margaret Guy, was elected Miss Chamber of Commerce by the student body. She reigned over the Christmas Dance in 1951. Our junior year bulged at the seams with activities, but could one expect any better than have a fairy- god mother to protect theml Only fifty-eight classmates remained to tell the story. This fairy-god mother led us to share half of the receipts of the Halloween Carnival and later on to a successful production of Come Out of Your Coma . We elected Mary S. Britt, President, Kay Mitchell, Vice-President, Oscar Jones, Secretary, and Boyd Wilson, Treasurer, to lead us by the light of the magic wand, It was during this year that Kay Mitchell was selected representative of our high school for Pickle Festival Queen. Jane Andrews won second place in the county in the World Peace speaking contest. Oscar Jones placed second in the state on a French examination. We now had reached the fourth milepost--Seniorville. Jane Andrews was elected President of our class, Mark Cherry, Vice-President, and Helen Bazernore, Secretary-Treasurer. With Kay Mitchell editor- in-chief of the annual, our fairy-god mother led us over mountains and through valleys toward a bigger edition of the Mobi , Only forty-one members remained to carry the burden, It seemed that the institu- tion of marriage had captured quite a few sheep of the flock and for the first time, the superlative, Mrs. Married Senior appeared on the slate. As all seniors, we are grasping for that final straw--caps and gowns. Lillian Bar wick- - -Historian

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MARY JO WIGGINS F, H. A. 1, 2, 3, Fashion Show Winner 3g Student Librarian 1. SGH IGI? BOYD ELI WILSON Con Basketball 1, 2, 3, 4g Football 2, 3, 43 Class Treasurer 3g Annual Staff 43 Glee Club 1, 2,3g Boys' Quintet 2g Athletic Association 43 Science Club 45 Superlatives. JUNE WOLFE Superlativesg F.F.A. officer 2,3g Glee Club lg Bus Driver 4g Science Club 4: F. F. A. 2,3,4g Alternate Boys' State. GENE WOLFE Miser F. F.A. '2,3,4, officer 2 Club 1g Bus Driver 4. if sf

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the class pnophecy As I gazed into the magic eightball, I saw the lives of my classmates, ten years since graduation, unfolding before my eyes. The first peer in the eightball revealed an ultra-modern Reducing Salon, run by Austin Anderson who is now a trim one-hundred and Efty pounder. My next glance showed that Gene Wolfe had transformed the Wayne Theater into a successful night club with Mabel Cannon as the featured entertainer. Gene had made so much money in the business that he hired Carl Ginn to keep his books. HE kept his money! Lo and behold, who do I see nowl Oscar J ones, the singing cowboy, and his sidekick, Ruth Herring, singing over station MOI-IS. 'I'he rising stars are accompanied by Boyd Wilson on his trusty guitar, His voice has not failed him either. Jane Andrews Smith's training as a nurse is put to good use, now that she has eight little Smiths. Mary Ann Cooke decided Tuffy wasn't coming home, so she moved to Georgia and opened a theater where Tuffy proudly wears his uniform as ar1 usher. Anne Carol Broadhurst, another roving girl, is now a part of the Greatest Show on Earth . She is a barker for a Fat Lady side show. June Wolfe is now the country's leading jockey. He has ridden seven Kentucky Derby winners, which brought in quite a bit of money. The owner of the winning horses, who is none other than Kenneth Best, also made his fat bank accotmt even fatter. Then who to my eyes should appear but Glenn Daughtry, running with all his might toward the goal for a Washington Redskin touchdown. While on the sidelines the assistant coach, David Sideburn Taylor, jumped and shouted with joy! ln the grandstand I saw Rosa Lee Goodson and Helen Bland, Rosa Lee is a make-up artist for a movie studio, and Helen is now a famous model, having got her start as Beauty Queen of Mt. Olive High School. Doris Cashwell is very busy as manager of a chain of department stores, while her husband stays home and keeps house. Mary Jo Wiggins, who loves to crochet, now has her own business and employs Joyce Anderson who never quite made it to the altar or to Rex. She did not heed Gather Ye Rosebuds while ye may . . .