North Cove High School - Conasoga Yearbook (North Cove, NC)

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Class of ' 59 in ' 47 First and Last Class of ' 59 in ' 59 mi

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Class History It was a cool, crisp September morning in ' l947 that the doors of North Cove opened to a group of shiny faced, scared to death kids. Fifteen tiny voices, barely audible, whispered: Leslie Brown, Ray Byrd, Wilma Carpenter, Frances Cline, Roy Dale, Zelda l arris, Loretta Hensly, Ellen Hollifield, Rosa Hollifield, Clarence Holtsclaw, Jack Lonon, Wayne Ollis, Stanley Swofford, Royce Wiseman, and Jacob Wright, There were many others, of course, but they have, by ill chance, forsaken us. Slowly but surely we acquired the rudiments of readin , writin , and ' rithmetic, and somehow we managed to get through the primary and elementary grades. In the eighth grade Josephine Foxx, Chalmers Tipton, and Kenneth Garaventa joined our ranks. Finally that great day arrived - High School! The first couple of weeks we were thoroughly and completely initiated. We elected Kenneth as our class president, and Mr. Johnson ' s firm hand guided us through our Freshman year. That year we obtained a new member, Dennis Biddix. In the tenth grade we had a new teacher, Mr. Childers, who was to prove himself as a faithful and dear friend to us all, as well as a wonderful teacher. He was our home room teacher that year. We elected Royce as our class president. In the eleventh grade we had Mrs. McNeil as our home room teacher. The highlights of that year were the Junior play and the Junior -Senior Banquet. Ralph Brendle joined us that year. Royce was class president again that year. We are finally SENIORS! Mrs. Brummitt is our home room sponsor and is ably directing us through our last year. This year we elected Jacob class president. Again we added a new member to our class, Calvin Pittman. This year we as Seniors have mixed feelings. We are happy be- cause we are about to reach a goal for which we have struggled strenuously twelve long years, and at the same time we are sad be- cause we realize that soon we must bid good-by to our cherished friends and classmates.

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Last Will and Testament I, DENNIS BIDDIX, do hereby leave my ability to be a good citizen to Linda Boyd and hope she uses it well. 1, RALPH BRENDEL, do hereby leave my ability to wreck school buses to Bill Smith. I, RAY BYRD, do hereby leave my pitching arm to Howard Stock- ton and hope he doesn ' t throw it away. We, LESLIE BROWN and KENNETH GAREVENTA, do hereby leave. I, WILMA CARPENTER, do hereby leave my studious ways to Ronnie Swofford, because we all know he needs them. We, FRANCES CLINE and ROSA STOCKTON, do hereby leave our ability to lay out of class to Jean Cline and Jean Robertson. I, ROY DALE, do hereby bequeath my lazy ways to John Butf, because I need to get rid of them. I, JOSEPHINE FOXX, do hereby bequeath my conceited ways to Janice Wright, and good looks to Joyce Brooks, and hope she gets more good out of them than I did. We, ZELDA HARRIS and ELLEN HOLLIFIELD, do hereby will our ability to see our boyfriends every night and get away with it. I, LORETTA HENSLEY, do hereby bequeath to Sandy Gale Hensley, my ability to goof off in class and catch up on the last day, and I hope she doesn ' t wait too long. I, CLARENCE HALTSCLAW, do hereby bequeath my ability to slip out behind the building and smoke to Bobby Vance, and hope that he gets as much nicotine out of it as I did. I, JACK LONON, do hereby leave my ability to slip off to P. G. to Douglas Taylor and hope that he has as much luck as I did. I, CALVIN PITT MAN, do hereby leave my black hair and the formula for keeping it black to Billy Dean Stockton and hope that Old Fort likes it as well as P. G. did. I, STANLEY SWOFFORD, do hereby bequeath my good standing with all the girls at Linville Falls to Richard Williams and I sincerely hope he gets as much out of it as I did. 1, ROYCE WISEMAN, do bequeath to Richard Williams my ability to get talked about by a certain lunchroom employee and hope that he sues her for slander. I, JACOB WRIGHT, do hereby leave my ability to get along with the teachers and get out of class to Billy Washburn and also my con- ceited ways. I, CHALMER RAY TIPTON, do hereby bequeath my kind and studious ways and ability to skip English to Jimmy Huskins and Junior Biddix.