Nakina High School - Pow Wow Yearbook (Nakina, NC)

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LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT Realizing that we are nearing the bend of the river, we, the Senior Class of Nakina High School, County of Colum- bus, State ol North Carolina, being of relatively sane minds and vivid memories, do hereby make, publish and declare this to be our last will and testament, hereby rescinding all previous wills made by us. ltem l-To the Faculty lol All the assignments we foiled to hand in. lbl All borrowed unreturned pencils. Item ll-To Mr. Jones We will the many excuses we wrote and ask that he keep them on file to compare with the handwriting on those our children bring to him in future years. Item Ill-To the Juniors l, Maxine Blackman, will my natural curly hair to Wilma Dutton. l, Elbert Buck, will my ability to have good times at NHS to Vaughn Reeves. l, Barbara Canady, leave to Shirley Moore my ability to play forward the last three minutes of a game. l, Charles Clewis, will my ability to hit with a game basketball to anyone who needs it. l, Thetus Connor, leave my love for flirting to Joyce Ann Gore. l, Mary E. Cumbee, refuse to leave Harry anywhere or with anyone. I, Wilbur Duncan, will my clever way of cutting classes to Francis lewis. l, Katherine Evans, leave my love for bookkeeping to Pearl Ray Watts. I, Dorothy Faulk, leave my ability to keep my love affairs to myself to Edna Mae White. l, Audrey Formyduval, leave my skill to drive to Eugene Mclleithan. I, Willard Formyduval, need everything I have, so l iust leave .... We, Faye Gore and Estelle Suggs, bequeath our ability to have a big time regardless of where we are to Alease Formyduval and Evelyn Ward. l, John Gore, leave all my ability for flying to Clavin Reeves. l, Shirley little, leave my love for shorthand to Margaree Evans. l, Charles long, will my aiblity to hit a set shot to Ray Canady. I, Harry long, leave my ability to talk plain to Trenton Elderdice. l, Herman long, will my quietness in school to Ella Gray Clark. l, Claude McKeithan, leave my fast talk to Jackie Ward. I, Katie Mclfeithan, leave my ability to get other girls' boy friends to Wilda Clewis. l, Virginia Piver, leave my love for the Watts' to Jeanette lee. l, Olen Puckett, wish to leave my curly hair to all eleventh grade girls who want permanents. l, Pearlie Mae Register, will my ability to go steady to Mary Hayes. l, Othell Simmons, leave my wolf techniques to Tom Ray. l, Garland SUQQS. leave my lover-boyish ways to liston Hawes. l, William Suggs, leave my books where I have left them all year-in the library. I, Doris Ward, leave my love for the Williams High School boys to Jeanette Suggs, hoping she'll be as successful as I have been. l, Guy Ward, leave my love for skipping school to Ster- ling Ward. l, Linwood Ward, leave my love for being late for class to Darrell Stocks. I, Mary Ward, leave my love for commercial work to Gloria Russ. l, Nellie Ward, am willing to ga, but leave my ability for getting there last to Mary Gore. l, Herbert White, will my love for the Whiteville girls to Bobby Faulk. ltem lV-To the Sophomores and Freshmen We leave any usable obiects found anywhere in the school. In witness thereof, we, the Senior Class ot l955, do here- by set seal on this will on the fourteenth day of December in the year of our lord, Nineteen Hundred and Fifty-live. Witnesses: DORIS WARD WlLlARD FORMYDUVAL

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CLASS PROPHECY lt had been a beautiful day and the seniors had enioyed a fishing trip, and now were returning to the shore to climax a memorable day. I decided to row alone around the bend of the river as I pondered over the future and what it held in store for our class. Suddenly I realized there was a trailer where Madame Zordie had come for a spring vacation. She could help me with our class prophecy. As I swept past the small curtains little did I realize an atmosphere such as this could be so effective. l found myself so completely ab- sorbed in what Madame Zordie began to reveal that I could see the images in the crystal ball as they began to form pic- lures. First coming in view on the crystal ball was a building of very modern design with the inscription, Hotel HamiIton, owner and manager, Herbert White. ln a flash it seemed that an ocean wave would splash against us, for there before us was the yacht, Columbus, speedily parting the waters as owner Othell Simmons and family were enioying a summer cruise. Othell is now producer of the television program, Be Yourself. Hardly had the waves smoothed out when in the crystal ball stood a building several floors high, and uni- formed girls appeared, each carrying two dozen red roses as they entered for graduation services. We knew it was a group of trained nurses. Two well known doctors, Garland Suggs and Guy Ward, were with them. As the group of girls passed, I recognized Maxine Blackman, Shirley little, and Katherine Evans. A further look in the future showed each of the girls after a short career, applying their profession to a happy family life. The next building was also several stories high and on the fourth floor operating in the long distance Telephone Service Department were Mary Frances Ward and Pearlie Mae Register. Both are active in the civic and re- ligious affairs of their community. The wide open highway made me know we were then out in the country. Ohl Yes, the first thing we saw was Charles Clewis fishing on the banks of the Ohio River, where he was trying ta get food for his twelve children. According to his home and the others it seemed to be a very prosperous com- munity. The beautiful new church building made a picturesque scene with its steeple towering toward the skies. From a bul- letin posted in the church we learned that several had con- tributed various services and supplies-brick from the Elbert Buck Brick Yard of Nakina, roofing from John D. Gore 8- Sons Building Supply, Pireway, landscaping by Billy Suggs Bull- dozer Co., Bug Hill, and shrubbery from the Olen Puckett Nursery of Guideway. These men had formed a male quartet and render special music for church services. Not far from the church was the lin-lease Dairy, owned by lin- wood Ward. Then entering another city we found Dorothy Faulk as manager in the readysto-wear department of a ladies shop. She seemed to be managing all right for she was wearing a diamond, but we were unable to find out the wedding plans. Estelle Suggs and Faye Gore were working in the same de- partment as bookkeepers. Dot told me that Faye and Estelle are very efficient secretaries. Next in the crystal ball came the huge research building of Du Pont Laboratories. We learned that Barbara Canady had been working there since graduation from college. She is also pianist for The National Boy's Choir. l think she is trying to win that good-looking choir director. Another graduation scene then came in view and among the students graduating from the Theological Seminary was Claude Mclleithan. Claude had been very popular among his classmates, and an inspiration to many. The globe then takes the form of a classroom where Nellie Ward is teaching high school English. She works in the summer at the Open Air Camp as assistant director of athletics. I then took another look, and I saw two nice looking soldiers, Hermon long and Wilbur Duncan, with their wives. Herman and Wilbur have been quite successful in their military career. Then running from the dug-out at the Nakina stadium was Charles long, ready to make that much needed run for the Pro Club of Nakina Indians, striving to win the North Carolina champion- ship. Charles is the proud father of three young sons, who idolize their baseball father. We found Harry Long, manager of the team, still a bachelor. But who is that cute blond in the stand that keeps smiling at him? The crystal ball then showed the form of a letter writ- ten on army stationery. lt was a letter from Royce to Doris Ward, telling her that he is coming home. I wonder what effect this news might have on her work as a secretary for the insurance company where she has been working since graduation. Next we saw that Thetus Connor had ioined her best friends in the WAC. She has kept up her ever famous appeal to boys- Flirting Audrey Formyduval emerges from the door of his funeral home and started down town to see if there have been any wrecks. He constantly thinks of the extra work he must do now that he is doing his own embalming. Speed seems to be the future for Willard FormyDuvaI for we then saw him in an Air Farce iet as he left the field. The vibrations were so forceful that they broke the crystal ball, and I must cross zny bridges as they come to find out what life has in store or me. KATIE MCKEITHAN, Class Prophetess

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