Mount Pleasant High School - Tiger Roar Yearbook (Mount Pleasant, NC)

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MASS HISHIRY In the year of '45 we were at last in high school. ln our minds we wondered, but with our determination we knew we could tackle anything which should come before us. Our advisors were: Miss James, Miss Haines, and Miss Kuhn, to whom we owe much for the help they gave us in our new experience. Presidents of the three sections were Ann Crowell, Dorothy Swar- ingen and Geneva Litaker. Representatives to the Student Council were Walter McDonald, Joan Petrea and Betty Mae Cauble. Many member of the class joined various clubs and athletic teams and the year was a very successful one. The next year we came back with a determination to make our Sophomore year even greater and more successful, knowing now what was expected of us as high school students. Our advisors were Miss Haines and Mr. Webster. Student Council members and officers were elected. In Miss Haines room: President, Lorene Ritchieg Vice-President. Howard Millsp Secretary, Margaret Plottg Treasurer, Jeanette Millerg Student Council member, Walter Mc- Donald. ln Mr. Webster's room: President, Betty Mae Cauble: Vice-President, Ann Crowellg Secretary, Geneva Litakerg Treasurer, Vernice Allman: Student Council member, Charles Fortune. Spring came quickly and we left our second year ofhigh school feeling that we had com- pleted a very profitable year. The following fall found us Juniors and ready for any task set before us. Miss Haines and Mr. Webster were our advisors. We elected our officers for the year. In lvliss Haines home room theywere: President, Howard Millsg Vice-President, Joan Petreag Secretary, Joyce McDonald: Treasurer, Ruby Smith. In Mr. Webster's home room: President, Betty Mae Caubleg Vice-President, Mary Barringerg Secretary, Vernice Allman, and Treasurer, Geneva Litaker. ' One of the most outstanding events for the year was the Junior-Senior Banquet at Hotel Concord, which will always be remembered as a very happy occasion. We presented the Junior Play, 'Let Us Be Glamorous, directed by Mr. Roy Webster. Students taking part were Betty Jean Sikes, Geneva Litaker, Edna Canupp, Betty Cauble, Mary Barringer, Dorothy Swaringen, Joan Petrea, Betty Mason, Ben Cline, Kindred Cox, Harry Goodman, and-Howard Mills. Just before our Junior term ended we had a hay-ride and picnic supper. A good time was had by all. At last we had reached the top. We were now Seniors with 56 members. We realized that our high school days were soon over and that we must make this the best year of all. We were happy to have as our advisors Miss Haines and Mr. Webster. Our officers were: President, Howard Millsg Vice-President, Walter McDonaldg Secretary, Edwin Earnhardt: and Treasurer, Ben Cline. Student Council members were: Dorothy Swaringen and Betty Mae Cauble. Our class colors are ,blue and gold and the class flower the red rose. Our motto is: 'Now we launch, where shall we anchor? And now we reach the hour we have looked foward to for twelve years - the hour we re- ceive our high school diplomas! Our joy, however, is tinged with sadness, for our school days together are over. We leave hoping that our years have not been in vain and that we have con- tributed to Mt. Pleasant High School will serve as an inspiration to the classes to come. The curtain is drawn on our history as students of Mt. Pleasant High School. AEach of us will keep making history but not like the history we have made together these four years. 22

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MOST ORIGINAL Dorothy Swaringen Walter McDonald NEATEST Jeanette Miller Edwin Earnhardt MOST ATHLETIC Margie Burris Paul Petrea MOST POPULAR MOST FLIRTATIOUS Ann Crowell Joan Petrea Flake Mills Flake Mills '21

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PINIPHHIY As I lay in bed a few nights ago, waiting for sleep to come, I began thinking about the nearness of the time when my classmates and lmust leave high school and start out on life's road. I was wondering what the future held for us and what we would make of our lives. Then sleep came and with it a dream. In this dream I saw many people coming nearer and nearer. I recognized the first three as Louise Kluttz, Betty Mason, and Margie Burris, all in nurses' uniforms. Then I saw Ann Crowell, Joan Petrea, and Dot Swaringen, studying hard for a college exam. Next on the scene came aMajor League baseball game. Paul Petrea is pitching and Ross Troutman is holding first. Another member of the Senior class has taken to athleticsg she is Margaret Plott, softball slugger. Charles Fortune is standing in the doorway of Fortune's Studio and Camera Shop. Now I see many efficient secretaries, among them Lorene Ritchie, Vernice Allman, Nel- lie Bost, and Dot Moose. Mary Barringer seems very content as she paints another beautiful picture in her own artistic way. Interior Decorator Doris Furr and Fashion Designer Mary Louise Fisher are happy in their work, too. We are also making headlines on Broadway. Flake Mills is starring as Romeo in Shake- speare's 'Romeo and Juliet. Edna Canupp is a comedienne. Gale Morgan now operates the South's Largest Seed House' with his partners, Wade Ritchie and Ben Cline. I see Walter McDonald and Glenn Safrit strolling on a college campus. A giant passenger plane leaves the airfield. On it as stewardess'es are Betty Wagoner and Alice Corl. Managing nice homes of their own are Joyce McDonald, Lillian White Talbert, and Jeanett Miller. Patrick Wishon is a Railroad President and on one of his trains are Harry Lee Goodman as engineer and Harold Little as conductor. Big farm owners and operators are John Walker, Gene Moose, Joe Cress, and Guy Bost. Lloyd Ritchie and Wilber Lewis are still at their old tasks of driving a bus, only now it is a Greyhound bus. In Evans College of Commerce I see Betty Mae Cauble, Margaret Honeycutt, and Betty Jean Smith, banging away at their typewriters. Helen Ruth Rimer and Ruby Smith are tele- phone operators. Two buyers in big department stores are Juanita Burleson and Betty Casper. Margaret and Miriam Walker are teaching school and Josephine McLester and Dean Simp- son are teaching Kindergarden. A famed television artist is Betty Jean Sikes. Still other outstanding men are Earl Earnhardt, owner of the furniture manufacturing firm Kendred Cox and Edwin Earnhardt, F.B.l. agentsg Alan Fink, traveling salesmang and Ad- miral Jimmy Hagler. The people faded into a distance and I awoke with the sun shining in my window. I thought what a pleasant dream I had had. There was only one thing wrong with it: it still left me wondering what would happen to me. Class Prophet Geneva Litaker Z3