North Carolina School for the Deaf - Clock Tower Yearbook (Morganton, NC)

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on December 20, 1925. He entered school in 1933. He likes all of his subjects. He is greatly inter- ested in sports, especially football and basketball. that won the Western Championship in North He was the captain of the boys’ basketball team Carolina last year and the Gold Medal trophy in the Valdese tournament this year. He hopes to be a linotype operator when he leaves shcool. Inez Williford, President of the Class comes from Elm City. She was born totally deaf on February 18, 1926. She entered school in 1933. Eng'ish composition is her favorite study and reading is her favorite pastime. Dancing and basketball are her favorite sports. She likes cost- ume jewelry. Her hobby is collecting snapshots. She hopes to be an office girl when she graduates.

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Class History oS By Inez WILLIFORD The Graduating Class of 1945 was organized in the fall of 1944. Rosa Lee Corbett, Betty Brad- ley, Harold Whisenant and Inez Williford have been class mates ever since they entered school ime 1933. Doris Alexander was born in Columbia on July 23, 1923.2 She ‘entered school in 1933. She lost her hearing when a bad case of measles left an abcess in her ear at the age of six. Her favorite studies are English Composition and Current Events and her favorite pastime is reading and hiking. Her hobby is collecting picture post cards. She enjoys all sorts of sports, espicially bowling. Her ambition is to become a model. Musie Andleton, Secretary and Treasurer of the class was born in Enfield, August 30, 1926. She entered school in 1935. The cause of her deafness is unkown. She can hear a little. Her favorite studies are Science and English. She spends most of her leisure time reading. Her hobby is collecting perfume bottles. She is a football fan and her favorite sport is swimming. Her ambition is to secure a position as a typist. She would like to go to a Business College. Iona Baggett was born in Kelford on Sept- ember 21, 1924. She was born deaf. She came to school in 1932. Mathematics is her favortie sub- ject and basketball is her favorite sport. She has been on the varsity basketball team for four years. She was captain of the team this year. She hopes to be an office girl when she finishes school. Betty Bradley came from Hendersonville where she was born deaf on August 23, 1925. She entered school in 1933. She is a beautiful swimmer and diver and plays basketball. Her hobbies are collecting china dogs and pictures of mov ie stars. She wants to work in an office when she leaves school. Thelma Brown entered school in 1932 from Kinston. She was born deaf on December 11, 1924. Her favorite subjects are algebra and Dr. Randolph’s experiments in Science. Her favorite pastime is sleeping. She has an unusual hobby— collecting empty lipstick cases. She doesn’t take any active part in athletics, but she likes basket- ball and swimming. She wants to be a nurse when she leaves school. Shelton Cartwright comes from Powells Point near Jarvisburg where he was born on May 29, 1927. He entered school in 1934. Infantile paralysis at the age of three was the cause of his deafness. His favorite subject is mathematics and reading is his favorite pastime. Swimming and track are his favorite sports. Collecting “scrap” for his scrapbook is his hobby. He is more inter- ested in scouting than in any other sport. His ambition is to be a linotype operator, but he hopes to be able to go to Gallaudet College first. Rosa Lee Corbett comes from La Grange. She was born on May 24, 1926. She entered school in 1933. She lost her hearing as a result of spinal menigitis that she had when she was six years old. She has a deaf brother who graduated last year. Literature and reading are her favorite studies. Resting is her favorite pastime. She is not interested in athletics, but likes to attend football and basketball games. She hopes to be a housewife when she finishes school. Rassie Peterson entered school in 1935 from Day Book. He was born in Ervin, Tenneessee on October 25, 1925. He became partially deaf from diptheria when he was about a year old. He first attended public school, but his loss of hearing retarded him. He came to this school at the age of ten. Miss Nan Jeter was his first teacher and his last teacher. His favorite subjects are Science and speech reading. He has always been so deeply interested in woodworking that he has practically ignored athletics. He has not decided what kind of work he would like to do when he finishes school. Harold Whisenant, Vice President of the Class comes from Morganton where he was born deaf

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Class Prophecy GOOOQOMOOO By Doris ALEXANDER One very hot afternoon after a hard day in school followed by an exciting game of soft- ball, I was so dead tired that I slipped into the club room and sank down in an easy chair. It was cool. I relaxed and was so comfortable that I could feel myself going to sleep. The next thing I knew it was a beautiful, clear warm day in the year 1955. I was strolling down Fifth Avenue feeling lonely and blue. I had done a hard day’s work modeling and my boss, the famed Mr. Powers, told me I could have a three months’ vacation. Wondering what I would do, an idea flashed into my mind. I would visit each and every one of my old class mates. I had not seen them since way back in 1945, I went home and packed up and got ready for parts unknown. I took out my yacht which was anchored at Hudson Harbor and sailed into Newport News. Leaving my yacht, I went on the streamlined street car to Musie Andleton’s home. At first she did not recognize me because I was not the same old gal she used to know back in school. The beauty expert in New York had changed me completely. When I explained who I was, she exclaimed, ““Why, Doris Alexander, am I happy to see you after all these years.” She told me she was a typist in the shipyard office and that she wasn’t doing so hot either. I told her what I had planned to do and she wanted to go along with me. We took off in Musie’s helicopter and flew down to Morganton. We hovered over our old Alma Mater for just a few minutes. Every- thing was new and very modern in this Post- war World. Even the stores in town were so modernized that we could hardly find a familiar place. We landed and went into Kibler’s drug store. There sitting across from us was a tall, lovely lady who turned out to be Iona Baggett. She was amazed at seeing us there. She was happily married and living in Burke County. She toid us she was working in an office at the Drexel Furniture factory. I asked her for news of our old classmates, She told us that Betty Bradley was now a famous movie star and that she had changed her name. She was a very beautiful woman and a talented actress. ‘Next on our list was Thelma Brown. We had heard she was a nurse so we flew down to a big hospital in Kinston. We asked to see Thelma. The Head nurse told us that Thelma was a very successful and a very popular nurse. She could make the people recover rapidly with her cute ways and winning smiles. Thelma came down to meet us . We were surprised to see a ring on her left hand. She shyly told us that she was engaged to a doctor. She was so happy that she hardly knew what she was doing so we bade her good luck and went on our way. We then flew down to Elizabeth City to see our tall lanky friend Shelton Cartwright. His mother told us that he was in South Africa, We exclaimed, “South Africa! What is he doing down there?” She was beaming with pride and told us that he was a well-known chemist. She showed us a picture of Shelton, Lo and behold, he had a beard! We thanked her and told her we would visit him there later. Then we set sail for Detroit, Michigan. We had heard that Rosalee and Rassie Peterson were working there in an automobile factory. Just as we landed we saw Rosalee. She took us with her to meet Rassie, her husband, who was work- ing at the factory. He showed us around. The beautiful streamlined cars of pastel shades thrilled us. No sooner had we taken off again than we arrived in California. What a small world! We were so hungry that we went to the Brown Derby. While we were waiting for our orders to be filled, a rather tall dark man with a little moustache came up to us and said, “Pardon me, but haven’t we met before?” We recognized him at once as Harold Whisenant. How strikingly handsome he looked in his uniform! He was a pilot on a passenger plane that flew from Hollywood to New York. He told us that his wife always flew with him when she was not busy making pictures