Nahunta High School - Chieftain Yearbook (Pikeville, NC)

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SS PIIIIPII CY As I look out into the future lives of the 1952 Senior Class, I see Robena Blackmon in her modern all electric kitchen. Just as she takes the burnt biscuits from the oven, Grifton walks in with a frown on his face, because he has to wait still longer for dinner. Well, Ray is still at home, working. Oh, I see, he is plowing a forty-acre field. Gosh, who's that stopping at the end of the field on a new Ford? Yes, it is Eleanor. She has stopped to finish getting their wedding plans. In a studio of learning, a noble radio announcer, Bill Stuckey, tells the people about the latest hit tunes. Now he is dedicating a song to his old classmates and their Senior Sponsor. Yes, you guessed it. The title of the song is Birmingham Jail. Sam Hall, with his ability to make things that will always work, is now manager of a television firm. He supervises the making of TV sets. I can hardly see Louphemia, but I can tell that she is wearing a fur coat and leading two small chil- dren. You bet, she finally went to Alaska and married her long-waited for boy-friend. I see Dorothy and her loving husband, Charles, at one of the largest farms in Wayne County. They are driving a new Buick. Who is that I see with a BIBLE? Oh yes, it is Arabella, proclaiming the Gospel to the foreign people. Melvin is standing near by with their baby. I hear music. Who could it be? None other than Elga, singing at Church. Franklin is sitting on the front seat, waiting, as he has often done before. ' Hip, hay!-I, 2, 3, 4! Fall In! Marchl- I, 2, 3, 4i Gene Lamm finally got drafted. He marches con- tinually from morning until night, since he didn't have to walk any in high school. You know, going down stairs for an excuse so he could enter class. I see Mary Lois doing the week's ironing for her Mother. She doesn't have but five more minutes to finish, because she finally has a date with Linwood. She need not worry though, because Linwood will surely be late. Click, click, click, click. Jean Creel is typing away. She is secretary for a private business firm. Jean still has a pleasing disposition. David and Charlie have gone into the farming profession together. Someone asked them how they became so successful. They replied, We owe it to the math, geometry and algebra we learned in high school. Whoop! I Jimmy, don't be so harsh with those boys! They couldn't help it if they lost the game. Absolutely, Jimmy is a baseball coach, and he really loves to argue with the Umpire. His actions are explained by the fact, that he has lust been called to active duty in the Air Force at San Francisco, Cal. John 3:16. Frances Gay has finished her four years at the Free Will Baptist Bible College in Nash- ville, Tennessee and she is now a religious worker in her local church. Her much devoted husband helps her in her work. Gene Edgerton appears on TV shows all over the country, as he demonstrates to the world his ability to sing. In his spare time, Gene thrills the girls with his flirty ways as he did back at dear old Nahunta. I can't see Frances Robbins doing a thing, but relaxing on her front porch. She is living in a white house in the city limits of Goldsboro. Her husband works at Dewey Brothers, and naturally, he brings in the grub. Donald Scott with his ability to work geometry and algebra is now a professor at N. C. State. He is an Engineering Teacher. All the boys in his class iust love the way he always wonders from the topic of discussion. Ernestine is still as quiet and neat as she always was. She is a beautician in her own modern beauty parlor. She dearly loves her work. After many years of weary and wonder, Bettie Lou has finally finished her four-year Home Eco- nomics Course and she has reached her destination in marriage. That is, to that low, black-headed basketball coach, Norwood Talton. Now, Betsy is resting in peace, reckoning her troubles away with Shorty, Jr. WRITTEN BY: Bettie Lou Bunn.

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SILLIEST BEST PERSONALITY Gene Lomm Gene Edgerton Dorothy Fulghum Frances Goy MOST ARTISTIC Som Holl Bettie Lou Bunn BIGGEST BABIES MOST DIGNIFIED Jimmy Boss .leon Creel Dorothy Fulghum Gene Edgerton

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L 'l' WILL All TESTAM NT We the Class of 1952, of Nahunta High School, being of perfect mind and full of sad memories do ordain and establish this our Last Will and Testament. To all the underclassmen we are leaving behind, we bequeath our ability to drive the teachers mad. And to the whole Freshman class we bequeath our dignity. Ernestine Parrish leaves her ability to catch out of state boy friends to Hazel Nichols. Mary Lois Williams leaves her ability to tend to everything to Peggy Gurley so the Seniors next year won't get lost in their troubles. Arabella Grantham leaves her curly hair to Carol Aycock. Lindwood Brown wills his laziness to James Creel. Robena Blackmon leaves her ability to translate French to Mildred Ferrell, because she surely will need it next year. Elga Wells leaves her beautiful singing voice to Helen Stuckey. Sam Hall bequeaths his ability to mind his own business to PSQQY Crawford- Eleanor Hare leaves her loudness to Raymond Ed Peedin so there will be some noise in school next year. Frances Robbins bequeaths her flirty ways to Hilda Gurley, since she doesn't already have any. Jimmy Bass leaves his ability to eat in class to Bayron Hare. Dorothy Fulghum leaves her babyish ways to Joyce Strictland. Louphemia Pearsall leaves her basketball suit, No. 8, to any lucky Freshman who happens to make the team next year. Gene Lamm leaves his bus driving ability to the next girl driver who comes along. Melvin Wells leaves his supply of cute remarks to Bobby Fields. Jean Creel leaves her nice, quiet ways to Harold Richardson. David Berry leaves his cute little Freshman girl friend to Junior Daughtry. Charlie Jones leaves his love for the scientific method and the proper procedure to E. C. Gurley. Frances Gay leaves her ability to type to Lois Holland. Bettie Lou Bunn leaves her ability to win publicity, without even trying, to David Harper. Donald Morris leaves his ability to wiggle out of trouble to Junior Daughtry, Bayron Hare and Otis Hinnant. Gene Edgerton leaves his ability to play brilliant basketball to Tommy Howell so there'll be a star on the team next year. Ray Hawley leaves his blond curls to Mr. Jones. Bill Stuckey leaves his knowledge of words and their pronunciation to Mrs. Vernelson. Lastly, we do made and ordain our esteemed Principal, Mr. Hollowell, to be the only and sole exe- cutor of this our Last Will and Testament and we do hereby utterly disavow, revoke and annul each and every other former testament, will, legacy, and executors by us in any way before this named, willed and bequeathed. Testifying and confirming this and no other to be our Last Will and Testament. Whereof we have set our hands and seal this 27th day of May, in the year of our Lord, Nineteen hundred and fifty-two. W. P. HOLLOWELL.