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

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a a ass s i hi By Wayne Furr We, the Class of 1961, being of sound mind and body, do hereby declare this to be our last will and testament. Be- fore our departure we wish to bestow our most cherished and valuable pos- sessions on our beloved faculty and underclassmen. These gifts are given with the wholehearted affection of the class. To our superintendent, Board of Directors, principal and assistant prin- cipal, faculty and household stair, we leave the peace and quiet which we are sure will follow after we are gone. We also bequeath to each of them a place in our hearts. To the juniors, we leave our well- earnned senior privileges, our places in the senior class room, and our places in Mrs. Starrett’s mind and conscience. Peggy Autrey bequeaths to Bobbie Poole her love of drinking Cokes. William Barrett leaves his “Kookie” habit of combing his hair to Cecil Cooper. J.W. Bradley leaves his flattop hair- eut to Bob Scarboro. Doug Boone leaves Sylvia Adkins his habit of getting up late in the morning. David Elliott gives his pleasure in assembling and working on hot rods to Fred Shook. Wayne Furr leaves his habit of chew- ing gum to Barney Williamson. Eddie Gobble leaves his football uniform to Charles Williams, who is the only one it would fit. Betty Gibbs bequeaths her love of writing love letters to her boy friend to Yvette Smith. Richard Howell gives his habit of bragging about his hair-raising adven- tures in a car to anyone who will bel- lieve him. Martha Helms leaves her love for listening to records to Mary Webb. Garland Handy leaves his excellence at operating all types of movie pro- jectors to Bobby Cook. Carrie Long leaves her ability to understand and to secure the love of the little girls at Goodwin Hall to Mary Frances Keeling. Janice Leonard leaves her love of napping to James Jackson. Floyd London surrenders his beaten path to Main Building to meet his girl friend to Larry Helms. Shelba Moss bequeaths her loud mouth) to! Pat Piva: Barbara Mullis leaves her quiet ways to Lucille Waldrup. Nancy Setzer leaves her diligence in her studies to Georganne Brown. Philip Hailey wills to Mike Triplett his love of listening to records. Betty Lou Stepp leaves her shoe size to Ruth Caudle. To Joe Wood, Gene Hull leaves his habit of hogging the food. Gilbert Smoot bequeaths his habit of keeping his shoes beautifully shined to anybody who will accept this tedious duty. Donnie Stewart bequeaths to Ray Lockamy his pass catching ability. Knox Riddle leaves his love of watch- ing T.V. to Clemientailirc: Frank Schiretz gives away his habit of staying home after vacation expires to Pat Stuckey. Maurice Ray leaves his mischievious ways to Tony Hawley. Brooks Patterson leaves his habit of being such a “stick in the mud” to Bertha Pierce. Harold Johnson passes on his “Wilt the Stilt” physique to Billy Bledsoe. Martha Whitesides leaves her love of reading to Sue Williams. Hal Wright bequeaths to Lanny Steg- all his love of eating peanuts. Hayward Wright gives his routine of trudging over to the Upper School to buy the Greensboro Daily News to Russell Lockamy. Dewey Umphlett leaves his love of talking about girls to Joey Hall. Don Zimmerman bequeaths his ex- cellence as a student counselor to Sam McCord. In witness thereof, we affix our seal to this, our original and only, will and testament. Witnessed by : Mrs. Jack Starrett Mr. Erwin Mayfield Signed by: The Class of 1961

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Me 22) Dywbuss Garman In the Garden of Eden, planted by God, There were goodly trees in the springing sod- Trees of beauty and height and grace, To stand in splendor before His face. Apple and hickory, ash and pear, Oak and beech and the tulip rare, The trembling aspen, the noble pine, The sweping elm by the river line; Trees for the birds to build and sing, And the lilac tree for a joy in spring, Trees to turn at the frosty call And carpet the ground for the Lord’s footfall; Trees for fruitage and shade, Trees for the cunning builder’s trade; Wood for the bow, the spear, and the flail The keel and the mast of the daring sail- He made them of every grain and girth, For the use of man in the Garden of Earth. Then lest the soul should not lift her eyes From the gift to the Giver of Paradise, On the crown of a hill for all to see, God planted a tall green hemlock tree. ( Last line changed to fit class tree)

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be lass GZ. oft he cy By Eddie Gobble Since I am a free lance journalist as well as a member of the Class of 1961 at the North Carolina School for the Deaf, the editor of The Bugler asked me to do a write-up of our 25th anniversary class reunion held at our alma mater on June 1 and 2, 1986. This is the article that appeared in the July issue of that publication: The Class of 1961 is the largest one ever to graduate from N.C.S.D. The registration period started at 3:00 p.m. on June first. Everyone was glad to see his former class- mates. It seemed that everyone had changed a lot, especially around the middle! The next day Mr. X, the present superin- tendent, invited us all to his house for lunch. The food was elegant and it was nice of him to entertain such a mob. That night we had a banquet in the ultra-modern dining room in the new girls’ dormitory, Frances Davis Hall. Our class president, Wayne Furr, was the toastmaster. Our superintendent emer- itus, Dr. Hoffmeyer, gave an interesting talk on the progress of our school. The rev- ered septuagenarian was certainly in fine fettle and we were so pleased to see him looking so well and feeling exubérant. The campus has certainly grown since our time; it now extends all the way to Interstate 40. Here is a thumbnail sketch of the mem- pers Om nam Glass sono Wayne Furr is a foreman in the linotype “department of The New York Times, is married and has raised five kids. Our class veep, Carrie Long, is a million- aire’s wife and lives in California. I don’t know about her progeny, if any. She does not communicate with us plebeians! Don Zimmerman is now printing instruc- tor at N.C.S.D. Still unmarried, girls. Hal Wright is a mathematics genius work- ing at Cape Canaveral. He is noted for his solid fuel formulas. His better half is the former Bobbie Poole. Knox Riddle is a tobacco farmer at Wilson. He and his wife, Marie Pegram Riddle, only recently returned from Russia where they made a tour of the agricultural areas of that country. Nancy Setzer (still available, boys! ) works for the Tremblechin Company in Kroy Wen, Venus, as a secretary. J. W. Bradley, an electrical engineer, and his wife Martha, nee Whitesides, dwell in Hendersonville and have three cute little girls. Frank Schiretz. a promotor of basketball games, is still on the St. Louis Hawks’ pay- roll. Mrs. Schiretz, nee Dessie Moose, was not able to attend the reunion. Had to stay home with the kids. Mrs. Bobby Ollis, the former Martha Helms, is a mathematics professor at Mass- achusetts Institute of Technology. Yes, it is the same Martha who hated mathematics so she burned her algebra workbook her senior year. Philip Hailey is one of the veeps at Field- crest Mills. Still a bachelor. Doug Boone now holds a position with Burnsville Daily Herald. He is married and his only son is now at West Point. Gene Hull, the oldest linebacker in pro football today, and still with the New York Giants, makes his off-season home at Tex- arkana, Texas. He married his high school sweetheart and all of their four children are grown now. Mr. and Mrs. Brooks Patterson now reside in Chicago, Illinois. Mrs. Patterson was once plump Barbara Mullis, but she is a stream- lined pach now, working in a reducing salon. Garland Handy, the second man on the totem pole in one of the 150 plants of Burlington Mills, came to the reunion with his wife all the way from Portland, Oregon.