Nathanael Greene High School - Greene Leaf Yearbook (Liberty, NC)

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adt if! anal Zed tamenf We, the Senior Class of 1950, of Nathanael Greene I-ugh School, having reached the end of our High School days, being sound of mind and body, do hereby declare this our Last Will and Testament. ARTIC LE I We leave with our parents our gratefulness and sincere appreciation for their ecnourage- ment and faith in our ability to finish the task they started us in. We now feel that it is a job well done, thanks to them. ARTICLE II To our faculty - for the ever patient and understanding teachers of the primary and grammar grades, who spent many trying times with us, we have a deep gratuitous feeling of a foundation well laid. To Miss Swaim we leave our new and hardly soiled literature books with the disappoint- ment that we didn't learn to love MacBeth as she does. With Mr. Garrett we leave our ragged and completed chemistry books and the desperate pleading that no one else shall have The Burden to carry. To Mr. Holt, Bless his poor heart , we leave all the remaining high school to keep him in good humor. With the teachings of Mr. and Mrs. Redmon we leave the assurance that we will all make good housewives and farmers. To Mr. Hinshaw we leave our regrets that we did not always adhere to his sound advice. But, Mr. Hinshaw, Hope springs eternal within the human breast, and perhaps in later life your advice will see us through. ARTICLE III Our friends and supporters of the school, although there were times that we feared you were letting us down you never did, we bestowe upon you the best of wishes and thanks for your assistance in financial and moral support. ARTICLE IV We leave our gratitude to Charlie Comer for keeping our school clean and warm. Through sunshine, rain, sleet, and snow --- he's on the job. ARTICLE V Twenty-seven contented yet heavy hearts, beating faster as each minute nears the last to be spent in our dear school, leave it with the desire that it will be bettered each year. 60

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Claus Prophecy Good evening ladies and gentlemen! This is station N.G.H.S. broadcasting from the auditorium of Nathanael Greene High School. We are gathered here on this day of January 23, 1950 to look into the future ten years. In other words, we are going to prophesy the works of every senior of 1950 ten years from now. 1960 here we come! We see Maggielene Amick as a happily married woman. Jim Bouldin made the plans for their home in Ramseur and it was completed the winter of 1950. Hazel O'Briant and Robert Poe are living only two blocks away from them. Ethel Garrett is filing insurance at Jefferson Standard Life Insurance in Greensboro. Donnie Shoe is also working in Greensboro. She is head operator of day duty at Bell Tele- phone System. She and Ethel have an apartment together. Doris Moore and Mary Dot Dalrymple, after completing their business courses at Bur- lington Business College, were married in double ceremony. Dot married her boss man. And listen to this, Patsy Staley has a 1960 Oldsmobile and is having a beautiful home erect- ed on the Greensboro High Point Road. Nellie Sullivan is a doctor's assistant at Bowman Grey Hospital. Lorena Levens made that great upward step. She is now teaching piano at Guilford County consolidated schools. Gene Frazier is part owner of Burlington Mills, Inc. where he is textile engineer. He has come a long way since graduation from High School. Leona Coble is working hard in her own tailor shop located in Cobleville, five miles north of Julian. Audry May has moved the store up to Welker's Crossroads, on the Kimesville-Greens- boro road, where it has become a self-service grocery, a great need of the community. Edward Reitzel had his first art exhibition last October, 1959. It was a great success. He and Bill Clapp are seeing a lot of each other in Chicago where Bill is playing center field for the Chicago Redwings. Nancy Lambert is now one of the top-notch night-club singers in America. Crowds at the Astor Roof, where she is now playing, are breaking all records. We hear that the movies are making a bid for Nancy's talent - both as singer and actress. Nancy has realized her high school ambition in terrific fashion. Jaynee Greeson and Charles Brown are a happily married couple now. They have their own beautiful home, two little boys, and a flower shop, where Jaynee is now the secretary. Talking about marriage, Doris Arrington and Tommy York were married in 1952 and are living near Liberty. They have a little girl with long natural curls just like her mama's. Roy Garrett has his own shoe store in Julian and Ernest Smith is running Smith's Dairy in Kimesville. Mark Lyerly is coaching basketball at Lenior Rhyne College. Clarise Jenkins, our high scorer of 48-49, 49-50, is also in the basketball field. She is coaching basketball at Liberty High School. Johnnie Lee Greeson is still around having a good time. She is chairman of enter- tainment at the Greene Township Community Center. They tell me she has some swell square dances held there. I musn't forget Gene Shoffner and Harold Flinchum by all means. They were two great jokes. So full of life. Harold is out West tending his oil wells and Cyou guessed it! making lots of money. Gene is president of Kimesville Ford Motor Company and he ovms half of Kimesville Lake. That certainly is a nice place of entertainment. People from all over the county come there in the summer. Betty May and Annie Ruth Linville are nursing at LaGuardia Field Air Base Hospital. And believe me they are really working hard. Betty didn't even get to go home for Christ- mas. Mary Hemphill is writing magazine articles for Better Homes and Gardens and Ladies Home Journal . She also has a column in the Julian Times . Yes, Mary is married and very happy, too. And now our time is about up. These prophecies may or may not come true, but if they should or the majority of them should, no graduating class would ever be more pleased than we ourselves. But, we don't all expect to reach the highest goal. Here is to us the best of luck . Nancy Lee Lambert Class Prophet 59

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fad! will and Zedtamenl ARTICLE VI Doris and Maggie will their amazing ability to wrap a man around their finger to Carolyn Slawte r . fun Clarsie and Annie Ruth leave their outstanding ability to play basketball to Patricia Staley. Edward leaves his excellent drawing talent with Wade Garrett. Lorena leaves her desk to her brother, David. Doris wills her heighth and neat bangs to Dotty Blackard. Roy wills his .Titterbuggin feet to Ralph Wilson and his morning smoke to Bill Staley. Johnnie wills her small figure to Betty Jo Brower. Mary wills her long black hair to Mary Lee Moore. Patsy bestowes her mischevious behavior upon Pearl Coble and hopes she has as much in school as she did. Jaynee hopes that Sara Ruth Noah will use the frank sincereness on all styles, make- up and etc. that she leaves her. Gene and Harold wonder if there are any two junior boys who can take over their many pranks, jokes, horse laughs, and he-mannish nature of good humor. and and Ethel leaves her ever-lasting patience with Gene and Harold to Modine Greeson. Mary Dot wills her ability to do algebra to Delano Lambert. Nellie leaves her french and chemistry books to anyone who is lucky enough to get them make good of them. Ernest leaves his love for farmall tractors to Odell Hyatt. Audry wills her glasses to Annie Lee Clapp, so that she may see through French. Leona wills her quiet timid ways to Billie Sullivan. Hazel wills her basketball suit to Joan Coble and hopes she can fill it as she did. Nancy leaves her desk to anyone who will promise not to erase anything written on it, her cheer leader skirt to Delano Lambert. Mark leaves his calm personality on the basketball court to Bill Shaw. Betty leaves her cooperative school spirit with all the juniors and hopes they will take advantage of it. Bill leaves his winning personality to Connie Woodard. Gene Frazier wills his ability for filibustering to any of next year's geometry students. Donnie leaves her appreciation with her classmates, schoolmates, and the members of the faculty for encouraging her to complete her high school course. end To the Juniors, we Seniors, wish to leave any boxes of cards we might have left at the of the year and hope they have luck enough to sell them - plus the ability to publish an annual. Donnie Shoe Te stator 61