Mount Airy High School - Airmont Yearbook (Mount Airy, NC)

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THELMA MAYBERRY Taylorsville High School ’25, ston-Salem High School ’27. Worst fault: Speeding up the ■ er. Ambition: To have charge of a cial school. Comment: One who never tu back on work, but marched strai ward to success. CLAUDE MONDAY Baseball Team ’25, ’29; Basketball Team ’25, ’29; Football Team ’25, ’29; English Club ’29; Monogram Club ’29; Assistant Business Manager Granitecr ’29. Worst fault: Public speaking. Ambition : To be mayor of Galax. Comment: “Greater ' men than I have lived, but I don’t believe it.” NORA McKNIGHT Science Club ’29; Latin Club ’29; En¬ glish Club ’29; Assistant Circulation Man¬ ager Graniteer, ’29. Worst fault: Being too conscientious. Ambition: To be queen of Mexico. Comment: “Studying is her recreation.” HUGH SAWYER President Science Club ’28, ’29; Circula¬ tion Manager High Spots, ’29. Worst fault: Forever distributing The Greensboro Daily News. Ambition: To build a subway to Pilot Mountain. Comment: “Principle is ever my mot¬ to, not expediency.” KATHERINE MONDAY Commerical Club ’25, ’29; Monogram Club ’29; Basketball Squad ’29; English Club ’29. Worst fault: Excessive use of tongue. Ambition: To get in the spot light. Comment: Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. Page nineteen

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rAN IT RUTH JOHNSON Treasurer Senior Class ’29; Science Club ’29; English Club ’29; Reporter High Spots ’29; Picture Editor Graniteer ’29. Worst fault: Clawing the ivory. Ambition: To play Pitjowitzoski’s “Sad Wail in K Minor” without missing a note. Comment: “A still tongue maketh a wise head.” ELBERT HULL Football Squad ’27, ’28, ’29; Baseball Squad ' 27, ’28; Captain Baseball ’28; Bas¬ ketball ’28; ’29. Worst fault: Love of home-life. Ambition: To out-slam “Babe” Ruth. Comment: The only blossom on our pair tree. MARGARET LEWIS High Spots Staff ’25; Dramatic Club ’26; Literary Club ’26. Worst fault: General attitude. Ambition: To be able to think deeply, loudly, and at length. Comment: “I prefer silent ponderance to loquacious folly.” ROBERT JACKSON “Ye” Debating Club ’26; Science Club ’28; President Junior Class ’28; Secretary Senior Class ’29; English Club ’29. Worst fault: That wild-looking look of his. Ambition: To take a rocking-chair to Spanish class with him. Comment: “All great men are dying, and I’m not feeling well myself.” VIRGINIA MARSHALL “Jin” Literary Club ’26; Science Club ’27; Com¬ mercial Club ’29; English Club ’29; Typist High Spots; Typist Graniteer. Worst fault: Breaking dates. Ambition: To vamp Washington’s mon¬ ument. Comment: Everyone loves a lover. Page eighteen

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B rANITE k %i 5 HALLIE MOORE English Club ’29. Worst Fault: “Gimme!” Ambition: To get everything that’s com¬ ing to her. Comment: “Sagacious, bold, and turbu¬ lent of wit.” WILLIAM SIMPSON Science Club ’25; Reporter High Spots ’25, ’28; Ring Committee ’29; Testator Sen¬ ior Class ’29; English Club ’29; Assistant Editor-in-Chief, Headlines Editor, High Spots ’29; Class Editor Graniteer, ’29. Worst Fault: I can’t tell it. (Imagine my embarrassment!!). Ambition: To sell a boat load of post holes to the Sultan of Turkey. Comment: “Much study is wearisome to the flesh.” HALLIE NELSON Latin Club, ’28, ’29; English Club ’29. Worst fault: Te lling fairy tales. Ambition: To be a Zigfeld chorine. Comment: “ ' Unthinking, idle, pretty, and young, I laugh’d and danc’d and talk’d and sung.” PAUL SURRETT “Red” High Point High School ’26, ’27; Com¬ mercial Club ’29. Worst fault: His monstrous bow ties. Ambition: To sing soprano. Comment: “I’ll make a commotion in every place.” MARY E. PATRIDGE “ Bet ” Basketball Team ’26, ’29; Captain Bas¬ ketball Team ’28, ’29; Latin Club ’28, ’29; Monogram Club ’29; Personals Editor High Spots ’29; Science Club ’ 28, ’29; English Club ’29. Worst fault: Holding that pose. Ambition: To be a physical director. Comment: “On the athletic field she shines For other honors she never pines.” Page twenty