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

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SUPERLATIV ES == Upper right: Quietest’ 4) eee ee ele VLOore Upper tejt: Best looking couplets eee eee Billie Taylor and Don Hall Leji: ‘@utest .. .. Soa) rene leermic find Lower left: Most studious couple . Hilda Neal and Richard Brown Lower right: Best dressed . . . . Billy McCuiston

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Ted Hames, an Academic Senior, the class treasurer and Editor of the Clock Tower, comes from Cliffside. He was born on November 15, 1929. When he was a little boy, he always had trouble with his ears but the cause of his deafness is unknown. He entered school in 1939. He had polio during the epedemic in 1944 and couldn’t move his legs for almost six months. Now he is a great athlete. He is a football hero. He played in the all star Optimist Bowl Game in Asheville and has won all sorts of honors in track. He hopes to be a printer when he finishes school. Doris Hardison, an Academic Senior, voted the best all round in the class was born in Washington, North Carolina, on August 7, 1929. She lost her hearing as a result of serious trouble that she had when she was a baby. She entered school in 1937. Miss Ada Rankin was her first teacher. She loves to tease. She was the Maid of Honor in the court of the 1951 May Queen. She would like to be a typist when she finishes school. Billy McCuiston, a Vocational Senior, comes from Belews Creek in Guilford County. He was born deaf on September 7, 1931. He came to school in the fall of 1939. Tennis is his favorite sport. Dry cleaning and pressing has been his vocational work for the last five years and he hopes to get a job in a cleaning and pressing company in Greensboro when he finishes school. He was voted the best dressed boy in his class. Pete Moore, a Vocational Senior, entered the Primary Department in the fall of 1938. Mrs. Tucker Walker was his first teacher. He was born in Tar Heel in Bladen County on October 15, 1931. He lost his hearing when he was four years old as the result of a serious illness. Pete was voted the quietest in the class. He is interested in baseball and volleyball and was manager of the boys basket ball team in 1951. He has worked in the dry cleaning and pressing shop for the last four years and hopes to get a good cleaning and pressing job when he finishes school. Mary Mozingo, an Academic Senior, comes from La Grange where she was born on August 25, 1930. She was born deaf. She entered school in 1937. Mrs. Edna Kerr was her first teacher. She is a finger nail biter. A big plant, which will manufacture nylon is going up near Mary’s home. She hopes to get a job as filing clerk there. Hilda Neal, an Academic Senior, entered school in 1938 from Bear Creek in Chatham County. Miss Betty Watrous was her first teacher. Her birthday is on Christmas Day. She was born in 1929. When she was three years old she was seriously burned about the neck and face. Her parents think that the burns caused her deafness. She was in the hospital for a long time. Hilda’s favorite pastime is reading. She was voted the most studious in the class. She wants to be an office clerk when she leaves school. Margaret Routh, a Vocational Senior, comes from Charlotte. She was born on August 1, 1931. Scarlet fever when she was one year old caused her deafness. She entered school in the fall of 1937. Sewing is her favorite pastime. She would like to get a job in the alterations department of a big department store. Billie Taylor, a Vocational Senior, entered school in the fall of 1938. Her home is in Burlington where she was born on December 31, 1930. She was born deaf. Swimming is her favorite sport but she has played on the varsity basketball team for three years. By popular vote she was chosen May Queen for 1951. She would like to get a job as a filing clerk in a print shop when she finishes school. Bessie Wommack, a Vocational Senior, is from Winston-Salem. She was born on December 21, 1931. By the time she was two years old she had lost most of her hearing but the cause of her deafness is unknown. She entered school in the fall of 1938. Miss Lucille Pearson was her first teacher. Bessie is vice-president of the class. Sewing is her favorite pastime but when she finishes school she hopes to get a job in a big carbon plant about two miles from her home. Thus endeth a brief sketch of the members of the Graduating Class of 1951. May their future be as bright as their past has been pleasant and may they fulfill the expectations of their friends and teachers and hold dear the memories of school days that are ending.

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fee | = - CLASS OF . 1951 Upper left: Neatest . . . . . . . Dorothy Casey Uppenmriznt. Most athletic couple ..... =. : Doris Campbell and Ted Hames Lacie esteem. 6.) . . . Richard Absher Lower right: Most popular couple . ..... =. Doris Campbell and Ted Hames Lower left: Best allaround . . . . Doris Hardison