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

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tep resents Pure Juh Homecoming A big parade; the last football game of the ’54 season; a half time crowded with a super band show, sponsor s for senior football players , and the crowning of the queen-all these make homecoming a spectacular success. Five girls were elected by the student body from the fifteen candidates nominated by the football players. In a second election the stu¬ dents chose from the five a queen whose identi¬ ty was not announced until she was crowned at half time. Lucy Sydr r is crowned homecoming queen by co-captains Jack Taylor and Rayno Wilson. Grey Childress gains yardage to set up one of Mount Airy’s nine touchdowns against Wal- kertown. Cheerleaders head the parade on the float of room 203. I Candidates for homecoming queen ready to be in the parade are (bottom) Sandra Midkiff, Peggy Vogler, (top) Elizabeth York, Sarah Doggett, Lucy Syd nor.

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Some Special Over Cooks Zwirp Season Each year M. A. H. S. boys look forward to the second week in February when twirp (the woman is requested to pay) season is ob¬ served. This means that the girls must pay all bills and extend all the courtesies that are ordinarily the responsibilities of the boys. But twirp season has an advantage for the girls also,for it enables them to ask that dream man for a date without being frowned on by Emily Post. A mock trial is held to try and punish all offenders of the rules and regulations. All the fun is culminated in a formal dance given the last night of twirp season. Top left: Bob Tyndall enjoys the courtesy of Maryann Johnson at refreshment time. Left: It’s “thumbs down” for some unlucky culprit as the jury decides “guilty.” Below: J udfje Wally Shelton looks sternly at the not too un¬ happy group of offenders haul¬ ed into twirp court. V Si u SZ j | 55 r] » } ■ i 1 Beth Ashby, Edwin Goad, and James Sitison ( standing) Sarah Springthorpe and Tommy Kerr (seated) 1 find that crime does not pay as they wear ap¬ rons and black hose and carry books in suitcases or little brothers’ wag¬ ons . 16

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Senior Enjoy Peak Of Social Good food, good company, and good fun made the senior banquet a suc¬ cess. Seated around the table from left to right: Dick Phillips, Glenda Snow, John Martin , J udy Pruett, Nan¬ cy Tharrington, G.L.Gentry, Penny Boyles, and Charles Carter. Faculty members enjoying the sen¬ ior banquet are Mrs.Anne Pruitt, Mr. E. W. McLeod, Jr., Mrs. Tom Mackie, Mrs. H. M. Finch, Mr. Finch, Mrs.L.B. Pendergraph, Mr. Pendergraph. These seniors relax before they start their night of dancing. Left to right: Buddy Smith, Betty Royal, Mary Jo Jones, John Clifton, Bonnie Blue and Howard Pruitt. 18