New Hope High School - Indian Yearbook (New Hope, AL)

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l44df706Zf We, the Senior Class of Nineteen-hundred-fifty-five, of New Hope High School, do hereby declare this to be our last will and testament. We wish to leave to our fellow-sufferers our responsibilities and possessions in the following manner: First: We leave to our Alma Mater our honor and devotion. Second: We leave to our teachers our utmost respect. Third: We leave to the Junior Class our place as dignified seniors. Fourth: Individually we bequeath as follows: John Paseur leaves his habit of playing hooky to Joe Donald Smith. W.B, Madewell leaves his guitar to Jimmy Frazier. Molly Ikard leaves her ability to skip study hall to Joyce Barrett. Imogene Martin leaves her slender figure to Wyllodene Patrick. Benny Esslinger leaves his talent for making speeches to Allen Baker. Barbara Wright leaves her talking in English class to anybody who can get by with Geneva Hilliard leaves her backless dresses to Doris Snow and Tinca Lou Hilliard. Betty McCowan leaves her boisterousness to Alice Hindman. Donald Williams leaves his red hair to R.B. Webster. James Burrow leaves his wit to James Watson. Cecil Parker leaves Martha Atkins, but not for any other boy. June Keel leaves her comments on the teachers to Eula Mae Keel. Herman Clark leaves his :economics book to Lloyd Atchley. Mary Lois Dalton leaves her d ark complexion and hair to Magdalene Martin. Myrmia Jean Smith leaves her intelligence to Marlene Lemley. Thomasine Woody leaves her height to Shirley Phillips. Peggy Ledbetter leaves her winning ways with the boys to Wanda Belle Lee. Minerva Whitaker leaves her flirtation to Burtie Faye O'Neal. Mary Nell Adams leaves her curly hair to Catherine Campbell. Mary Frances Maples leaves--and hopes Frances Clark can get by as she did: Joan Clark and Elizabeth.Hunter leave their ability to get along with Mr. Ealy to Class. Dorothy Snead leaves her reducing pills to Alice Pinkerton. Gurtha Doran leaves her smile to Dora Sue Wright. Lillian Watts leaves her ability to keep a secret to Donnie Martin. Billy Gilbert leaves his ability to get along with the girls to Ferrell Maples. Martha Atchley leaves her sweet disposition to Bennie Ruth Shubert and Betty Stew it. all the members of the Junior 3.11. Mary Key leaves her place in the home economics department to Ruby Lemley and Shelby Jean Meeks. Bobby Spivey leaves his skill at playing ball to Robert Spears. Billy Whitaker leaves his tall, dark, and handsome features to Thomas Earl Jones. Jerry Williams leaves his shyness to Ernest Wright. Sammy Mayo leaves his friendliness to Joe McDonald. John Bunn Woody leaves his post as mayor of Buggs Chapel to Charles Davis. James Stephens leaves his big brown eyes to Billy Ray Cloud. Alton Maples leaves his salesmanship to Joe Hillis. Sherrill Esslinger leaves his crew cut to James Marvin Thomason. Sarah Ann Medlin leaves her high temper to Lyla Lemley. Garna Kate Walker leaves her neatness to Glennis Adair and Flora Mae McKinney. Gracie Bennett leaves her quiet ways to Peggy Keel and Dorothy Owen. Myrtis Grayson leaves her love for hillbilly music to Betty Hall, Betty Madewell, Faye Esslinger leaves her giggling to Lillie Bell Burrow and Shirley Pugh. Betty Stapler leaves her artistic ability to Peggy Martin. Shirley Usrey leaves her blond hair to Nancy Whitaker. Jimmy Vann leaves his pestering ways to Larry Martin and Carl Hugh Warren. Howard Manning leaves his love to Betty Jane Guerin. ' And I, Glennis Sisk, leave my weight to anyone who can take all the teasing that and Mary Frances Ledbetter goes with it. Glennis Sisk and Barbara Wright Testators

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The year is 1965. The place is New Hope High School, where I, Minerva Whitaker, am a teacher of home economics, having succeeded Mrs. Esslinger upon her retirement. The object which turns my thoughts backward and arouses tender memories is a-letter I have just received from one of my favorite high school classmates, Joann Clark, who has recently become private secretary to the President of the United States. And who is the President of the United States in this prosperous year of 1965? Why, none other than Alton Maples, our former class president. Joann, now in the hubbub of the nation's capital, has recently received calls from several other classmates who, she informs me, have given her the latest news about each member of our graduating class of ten years ago. Benny Esslinger is now editor of the NEW YORK TIMES, and Joann says she sees him often: Barbara Wright is the first lady editor of LIFE magazine: Mary Lois Dalton lives in Califomia where she designs dresses for the movie stars: Elizabeth Hunter owns and operates an exclusive dress shop in New York: Geneva Hilliard and Mary Nell Adams are two of the most successful nurses at Mayo Clinic: Billy Gil- bert is a celebrated doctor who studies and practices in Vienna, and Peggy Ledbetter is his very capable assistant in surgery: Sherrill Esslinger is the current heavyweight champion of the world, and John Bunn Woody is his manager. In the field of sports Cecil Parker is the present manager for the world champion New York Giants, and John Paseur is the star forward for the Harlem Globe Trotters. Betty Snow Stapler is studying art in Paris, and her instructor is none other than Bobby Spivey: Molly Ikard and Gama Kate Walker are two of the most highly paid models in Europe: Gurtha Lanier Doran, Martha Maples Atchley, Shirley Maples Usrey, and Imogene Martin Clayton all live in the suburbs of Owens Cross Roads, and they see each other every Sunday as they stroll their children through the park. The former Betty McCowan is living in Florida and enjoying the beaches. She often sees James Burrow, who has made a great success of raising turkeys on his two-hundred acre farm. Thomasine Woody is a missionary to Japan, and she loves her work. June Keel and Myrtis Grayson, who are both doing well in show business, have an apartment together in New York. The former Faye Esslinger and Donald Williams live in Oregon, where he has made his first million in the lumber business. Jimmy Vann is a movie producer, and Myrmia Smith is his leading lady in his first full-length film. Herman Clark is a famous detective with the Pinkerton Agency: Glennis Sisk Edmonds is a well-known poet: and Billy Whitaker has a chain of filling stations across the United States. Samuel Mayo is teaching science in a large South Alabama high school: Dorothy Sneed teaches a kinder- garten class in Nashville, Tennessee. W. B. Madewell appears regularly on the Grand Ole Opry programs each Saturday night, and is a favorite with his listeners. Sarah Ann Medlin's red hair has brought her wide acclaim, for she is now considered the most beautiful redhead in America. Lilliam Watts is a first grade teacher in Chicago: and Gracie Bennett is a guide in the United Nations building. Jerry Williams and Howard Manning, who have gained world- wide fame as explorers, returned home last week from a trip to the heart of Africa. Mary Frances Maples Glover and husband are the proud parents of quintuplets, and, consequently, are much in the news. As the recess period nears the end, James Stephens, the new high school principal, enters to inform me that I am wanted on the telephone. I put aside my letter from Joann and follow as if in a trance. As I pass through the long corridors of our handsome new school building, I see again each happy face of those forty-three classmates of the 1955 graduating class, now widely scattered, but happy and success- ful citizens of our own United States of America. Minerva Whitaker Class Prophet