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

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CLASS HISTORY M ln 1946, trembling somewhat, but determined to make good, about sixty freshmen entered high school. For four years these freshmen have striven for the day which now approaches-graduation day. Our class advisors were Miss Kuhn and Mr. Shive. The student Council representatives from our class were Rose Watts, June Fortune, Katrina Hammill, and Bobby McAllister. During our freshman year many members of the class joined various clubs and athletic teams. This was the year the F.H.A. Club was organized. We were out of school only a short time when the bell rang again for another year. During our Sophomore year, our ad- visors were Miss Cox and Miss Sides. Although we were a divided group, we chose class oflicers. The president of the two sections were June Fortune and Bobby McAllister. The following fall found us juniors ready for any task set before us. All of us realized that half of our high school days were over. Our new leaders were Mrs. Harbison and Miss Sowell. The class oificers were: President, Bobby McAllister, Vice-President, Betty Gillespieg Secretary, Jerry Harwoodg and Treasurer, Billie Cline. The two student council representatives from our class were Doris Barrier and Rose Watts. During our eleventh year, we sponsored the Junior-Senior banquet, which will always be happily recalled by those who attended. A three-act farce, The Daffy Dills, was presented by twelve of us Juniors. The directors were Mrs. Harbison and Miss Sowell, and students taking part were: Gilbert Heilig III, Rose Watt, M. L. Cline, Billie Cline, john Suther, Jean Lowder, Marie Litaker, Jerry Harwood, June Fortune, Edward Crowell, Betty Gillespie, and Katrina Hammill. A week or two before school closed, a bus load of us took a day's trip to the mountains in Asheville. We visited the Biltmore Estate. The group of juniors who went thoroughly enjoy the trip. The night following the close of school we had a hay-ride and Weiner roast. For many of us, this was the last time we saw some of our classmates until the first day of school during our Senior year. At last, we are Seniors! The final round and the most important, for many of us are receiving our last instruction in school and shall enter into business upon graduation. In our Senior Class there are forty-eight members. We are happy again to have as our class advisors-Mrs. Harbison and Miss Sowell. Our class officers are: President, Gilbert Heilig III, Vice-President, Bill Watts, Secretary, Marvin I-Ioneycuttg and Treasurer, Bobby McAllister. The class sponsored a float in two Christmas paradesg the one at Concord, and the other at Kannapolis. For our Float, we chose to use the Manger scene with a chorus. At Concord we won third place, and at Kannapolis we won second place. We were very proud of winning prizes in each parade. Billie Cline, one of our Seniors, who had been crowned queen at the High School Car- nival, preceded our float in a beautiful Buick Convertible. Now we have reached the hour we have looked forward to for twelve years-the hour we receive our diplomas. Our high school years are at an end, and we are proud of the record which we have left behind. Although we are proud and happy, we are also sadg for our school days together are over. We sincerely hope that the Senior Class of 1950 has helped in some way to improve our school. JEAN LOWDER, Historian. anim Ufass We, the Class of 1950, are glad If ever on trial for the problems at hand, For all of the carefree life we've had. Always let honesty take the stand. You and I together have fought. We know not what tomorrow will bring: For love and Happiness we all have sought. To some success and happiness, to some a tragic thing. Now is the end of our happy school days. Though your burdens be many and your joys seem few, May your lives be filled with blessings, These are the things God intended for you. As we travel our chosen ways. So, Let not your heart be troubled, I hope your joys will be many Neither let it be afraid, And your heartaches very few. For such experiences we're richly repaid. These are my best Wishes, in the future, for you. And when out of this earthly life you must bow, And now, as The old order changeth, You shall hear our Master's welcome, Yielding place to new, Well done, my child, Enter thou. Let us live our lives as we've been taught to do. MARY Lois SAP?

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ALVA WALTFRS From morning to night he's so 'o ous and bri hrf' l Y g JOYCE WATTS Thou art the star for which all evening waits. VIVIAN WHITLEY Blue were her eyes as the fairy flax, DON YOST I shall laugh myself to death. BILL XVATTS My mother taught me to be good, At least as good as I was able. ROSE WATTS The rainbow Comes and goes, And lovely is the rosef' FANNIE WHITLEY We call it only pretty Fanny's waysf, I Iftkvg xii? OI-ff

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CLASS PROPHECY W Last week I decided to take a trip to the moon in my brand new Rocket Ship. So I packed up, and here I am. While I'm here I think I'll take a look on earth and see what my old class mates of '49 and '50 are doing. The first place I see is a beauti- ful white house in the suburbs of Greensboro. Why, there's Katrina Hammill with her two lovely children! She seems to be very happy as a preacher's wife. V And there's June Fortune! She is a retired sport's editor living with her millionaire husband. I hear he has oil wells in Texas. I wonder if any one has gotten to New York. Of course I should have known Doris Barrier would. There she is in her big business office giving orders to her many secretaries. Now who is that coming out of that large studio? Why, its Althca Smith! That is her own Art Studio. She is doing well in the Art business. And there is Sides' Furniture Store. Lefty is certainly getting up in this world. In a large colonial home in Virginia, I see Rose Watts with her three children. All with red hair. My, what a big hospital! And there is Nova Beatty coming down the corridor. There seems to be a very important opera- tion going on. Wonder who the doctor is? Why, it's a Dr. Alva Walters. XVho would have thought he would become a world famous doctor? Edward Crowell owns that nice big theater on Times Square. He shows only the best movies. I can see a lot of nice homes down there. There is jerry Harwood and Hoyle Swarringen's. Hoyle is doing well in the Grocery business. Other housewives are Nadine Moss, Ethel Cress, Fannie Whitley, Vivian Whitley, and Evelyn Burris. All their husbands are in business and doing well. Their homes are beautiful. Thereis Yost Construction Company owned by Don Yost. They're paving the roads of Rimertown. Rev. Wade Fink is doing a lot for the Mount Olive congregation. They've just finished building a new church. I see a large cloud down there. But it's only the geese settling down on jean Lowder's goose farm. Out in Hollywood I see Marie 'Bird Litaker in her own private oflice. She is a gag writer for the comedian Elmer Snodgrass. There's Emma jean Safrit walking down Hollywood and Vine. She's quite .4 successful model now. She is going into Frances Penninger's Beauty Shoppe. Frances owns a string of shops from the Atlantic to the Pacific Coast. Betty Gillespie owns an exclusive dress shoppe where all the actresses buy their clothes. Back in Mount Pleasant I see Gilbert Heilig owner and proprietor of Heili'g's You Name It, We Got It Merchandise. I see Moose Lumber Co. is doing well. It is owned and operated by joe and John Moose. We have a few secretaries from our class. Among them I see one boy, Ray Sides, the only boy in short hand class. Mary Lois Sapp is also very successful. M. L. Cline, Ned Faggart, and David Honeycutt are very successful farmers. M. L. specializes in seedsg David has the cutest pigs, and Ned has a little of everything. All those new brick homes going up are being built by Bobby Casper. He's the fastest brick layer in the country. He is build- ing one for Ann Sossaman and her family. Her husband runs the new bank in Concord. . L There seems to be quite a commotion in Washington. But it's to be expected with John Suther and Marvin Honeycutt, both lawyers, on the same case, but on opposite sides. I'll never forget the Way tho'e two boys could argue. They're still at it and getting paid for it now. There's one in every class and I guess Pearson Tucker is ours. Hc's just a truck driver but his wife and children love him just the same. And there is Plotts We Aim To Please Laundry. Owned by Bill Plott himself. Ray Safrit who was voted mort original is using his own original ideas in catching crooks in his Safrit Detective Agency, Inc., with Ned Ritchie as his right ha'1d handy man. The Cleveland Browns football team is on top this year thanks to that rip-roaring fullback Bill Watts. Gene fAlbertJ Cline has just put into production his latest Hydrogen burning automobile. Thomas Hess is now head man of Props! Construction Company. And there is Ol' Mount Pleasant High and I seem to see a familiar face. It's Cotton Page, and he's still a Junior. Well that's all but Bobby McAlliser ard myself. Bobby is trying to raise a team of Choo-Choo Justices. CWe have a good start with five already.J His McAllister Super Market is doing a big business. - BILLY CLINE, Propbrf.