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

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had when he was five years old. His hobby is collecting negatives. His favorite subjects are Algebra and Sciences. Basketball, softball and footbali are his favorite sports. His ambition is to be a postal accountant when he leaves school. Billy Weaver was born totally deaf in Bess- emer City on May 10, 1924. He entered school in 1932. His favorite studies are History and Geography. His hobby is collecting interesting letters from ‘pen pals” in other Schools for the Deaf. Basketball and volley ball are his favorite sports. He hopes to be a dairyman when he leaves school. John Weaver comes from Bessemer City where he was born totally deaf on February 18, 1926. He and Billy are brothers. He entered school in 1934. Science and Arithmetic are his favorite studies. He is very much interested in Scouting. He is an Eagle Scout. His hobby is collecting stamps. Football, track, and softball are his favorite sports. His ambition is to go into the dairy business with his father.

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Class History tly 4 By Gtapys HopcEs The Graduating Class of 1946 was organized in the fall of 1944. Dan Autrey, Claude Barlow, Carl Bunch and John Weaver have been class- mates ever since they entered in 1934. Dan Autrey was born in Spruce Pine on Sep- tember 27, 1924. He entered school in 1934. He was born totally deaf. His favorite studies are History and Mathematics. Collecting stamps is his hobby. His ambition is to be a cabinet maker. Claude Baricw, the president of the Senior Class, was born in North Wilkesboro on July 31, 1926. He entered school in 1934. He was born deaf. His favorite subjects are Science and Arith- metic. Football, swimming and softball are his favorite sports. His hobby is collecting kodak pictures. He hopes to be a machinist when he leaves school. LeRoy Binkley was born in Winston-Salem on February 16, 1926. He entered school in Feb- ruary, 1937. The cause of his deafness is un- known. His favorite subject is Algebra. Volley- ball, softball and football are his favorite sports. He hopes to be a machinist when he graduates. Carl Bunch comes from Wendell where he was born on November 29, 1926. He entered school in 1934. Measles at the age of two caused his deafness. His favorite subject is Mathematics, but he is always interested in Dr. Randolph’s experiments in Science. Football and Basketball are his favorite sports. His hobby is collecting pictures. His ambition is to be a linotype opera- tor. James Dollard was born in Washington, D. C. on January 27, 1926. His home is in Canton, N. C. He entered school in 1933. The cause of his deafness is unknown. He is not totally deaf. He wears a hearing aid that helps him. He is very much interested in Science. His favorite sports are football, basketball and softball. He is a talented cartoonist. He has not decided what kind of work he would like to do when he fin- ishes school. Gladys Hodges comes from Dunn where she was born totally deaf on August 30, 1926. She went to public school for two years before she entered school here in 1934. Her favorite studies are English and History. Her hobby is collect- ing pictures. Her favorite sports are basketball, softball and swimming. She has not decided what kind of work she wants to do when she grad- uates. Irving Reynolds comes from Southport where he was born on April 10, 1925. The cause of his deafness is unknown. He entered school in 1933. His favorite studies are Arithmetic, Algebra and and History. He is more interested in scouting than in sports. However, he was on the football squad for the past two years and likes to pitch horse shoes and play volley-ball. He wants to be a carpenter when he finishes school. Bert Dee Rufty entered school in 1932 from Spencer. He lost his hearing as a result of whoop- ing cough that he had when he was six months old. Algebra and History are his favorite studies. Volley-ball, baseball and swimming are his fa- vorite sports. He aspires to be a dry cleaner when he leaves school. Emily Sexton comes from Plymouth where she was born on December 7, 1927. The cause of her deafness is unknown. She lost her hearing at the age of one. She entered school in 1935. Her favorite studies are English and History. Softball, basketball and swimming are her fa- vorite sports. Collecting kodak pictures and scrap for her scrapbook are her hobbies. She hopes to be a typist when she leaves school. Lorenzo Taylor was born in Arden on August 30, 1925. He entered school in 1933. He lost his hearing as a result of spinal meningitis that he

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Class Prophecy QCOOHDQOQOSE By James DoLLARD One day I came home exhausted after a hard day’s work in my office as contractor for “Dol- lard Construction Company”. I sat down and rested a while before I had my supper. After sup- per my wife talked me into going to the movies with her. She wanted to see Margaret O’ Brien’s latest picture, ““The Life of a College Freshman”’. We went to a very modernistic theatre. Each person had a deep cushioned chair with a foot and head rest. I knew when I went that I would probably have a hard time keeping awake, but my wife kept punching me from time to time. We saw a good news reel and a funny animated cartoon. When the feature started, starring lovely grown up Margaret O’Brien, I settled down to enjoy it. Suddenly I saw Billy and John Weaver on the screen. “That’s funny,” I thought, “I did not know they were movie stars’. And, ‘‘Where is Margaret O’Brien”?, I remember asking my- self. John and Billy were on a street corner. They were dressed up in fine clothes, with expensive diamond pins sticking in white silk scarfs around their necks. You could tell they were millionaires. As they walked alone, I recognized familar scenes and realized that they were in Charlotte. Everybody stopped and spoke to them. Finally they walked into a very modernistic looking building. Just before the scene changed, I saw a big sign over the door which read ““The Weaver Dairy Co.” Then I knew that Billy and John had made a wonderful success of their father’s dairy business. Suddenly right before my eyes sat Emily Gray Sexton. I couldn’t be mistaken, She was smiling as usual and sitting on a spacious lawn in front of a beautiful stone house playing with two cute little children. I knew they were Emily’s children because they looked so much like her. Emily’s face was full of happiness. There were palm trees and beautiful flame vines everywhere and I knew that Emily was happily married and living in the land of her dreams, Florida. The scene switched suddenly to a six-story brick building which proudly displayed a neon sign that read, ““Home of the New Orleans Daily Herald”’, and whom should I see walking into the big revolving doors but my old classmate Carl Bunch. The scene followed him in and I knew immediately that Carl had accomplished his highest ambition. He was a linotype operator on the staff of one of the biggest newspapers in the South. The scene changed so swiftly that I was breath- less. Cactus and sand and wide open places made me realize that I was now in Texas. The scene followed a lone cowboy on a beautiful white horse, driving a fine herd of cattle across the plains. His destination was a very prosper- ous looking home surrounded by fine looking barns. A sweet faced wife and twin daughters came out to greet the cowboy and when he jumped from his horse, I realized that I had been watching my friend, Claude Barlow. It was won- derful to know that he was the owner of a fine ranch in Texas. The most interesting place that flashed be- fore me was the beautiful School for the Deaf in Sulphur, Oklahoma. The campus scene were beautiful. The children I saw were so well be- haved. Inside one of the beautiful old buildings I saw a group of boys standing around a man who was seated at a big desk. I thought the man looked familiar and when the scene came closer I realized it was Lorenzo Taylor. A neat looking desk sign told me that he was the suc- cessful and popular ‘Dean of Boys’ in that Sch- ool.The looks on the boy’s faces told me that they respected him very much. The next thing I knew I was looking at a beautiful swimming pool in the hills of sunny California. Crowds of people were gathered a- round watching a lovely girl who was swim- ming and diving. As the scene came closer I recognized the champion swimmer and diver as