Oakhurst High School - Oaklog Yearbook (Charlotte, NC)

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JUNIOR CLASS OFFICERS Charles Honeycutt President David Myers Vice-President Lorinna Wilson Secretary Norma Roberts Treasurer Mrs. Thornton Sponsor Mr. Pascal Sponsor Paoe Tweiitv-oiie

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CLASS PROPHECY Oakhiirst, N. C., I960 Dear Jack: 1 have just gotten out ot the LI. S. Navy. I was astounded to find how Oakhurst has changed in the last ten years. .My first day at home, I decided to go to town. I started down Monroe Road, when I noticed Kiser’s Grocery. 1 entered the store to find Sidney Kiser w ' aiting on Mrs. Sonny Hoagland (formerly Mary Ben Hilton). Mrs. Hoagland is now ' editor of the Oakhurst Times, “The Fore most Paper of the Nation.” Sonny has to stay at home haby sitting. As I was leaying. I saw Johnnie Hall, Sidney’s deliyery boy, carrying a box of rotten yegetables. 1 asked him what he was going to do w ' ith them. He said that Bobby McLean and his Tennessee Mountain Boys were appearing at a local theater, and such might be used. Down the road 1 vyent, until I came to the Blue Bell. The name vyas changed to Taylor’s Tayern. Johnny Ketchum, the curb seryicc boy, w ' as busily w ' aiting on customers. Behind the counter was Peggy Taylor. VL ' hile the vyaitress, Joan Bennett, w’as getting my order, I noticed an Oakhurst Times lying on the table. On the front page it was stated that Marilyn Coffer had become an interpreter for the United Nations Language Translation Department. There was an adyertisement on the second page w ' hich read, ‘Team to Dance the Cockman W ' ay. Jimmy Cockman and Janet Bullard, instructors.” On the sports page, I noticed that Bill Furr w ' as putting the Oakhurst Clippers through a lengthy workout for a forthcoming game. Wayne Kiker, the new w ' orld’s lightweight boxing champion, will fight an exhibition bout in Chicago,” w ' as the news. An adyertisement on the next page show ' ed a picture of Thomas Mullis, a prominent tobacco farmer of eastern North Carolina, saying, “I’ve been smoking Luckies for nigh on to tw ' cnty years.” I turned to the back page and found a beautiful poem by Thomas R. Scott, our former class poet. Joan finally brought my order. I ate hurriedly and had Peggy to charge it. As I left the cafe, I noticed a new ' building being constructed. There was a sign w ' hich stated, “C. D. Maske’s Construction Company.” I met Colleen Wallace; she said that she ds private secretary to Alayor Terry Wilson. She reported that Peggy Crump and Patsy Connell are teaching at Oakhurst University. I decided to go to the show ' . I paid the cashier. Ruby Lovelace, and went into the theater. Clarence Ritter w ' as taking up tickets. The picture w ' as Shakespeare ' s great play, “Hamlet.” Gene Whitcomb played the role of Hamlet magnificently. Next came a fashion show ' . Among those modeling were Murl Foard, who modeled the new brief bathing suit w ' hich came all the w ' ay up to the knees, and Peggy Davis, modeling a coon fur coat. The fur came from some coons the great hunter and trapper, Grady Cook, had killed. The new ' s reel started— Harvey Kissiah w ' as voted baseball’s manager of the year for piloting his team to a w ' orld series victory. Margaret Almond, a trained nurse, has found a cure for ingrow ' ing toenails. Marguerite Bartlett won the National Typing Championship. (I recalled she had w ' on early fame in Oakhurst High School.) Beatrice McCorkle and Peggy Randall were showing their paintings at a national art exhibition. I met Frances Yerton outside the theater. She is a Bible teacher at Oakhurst University. Frances told me that Ruth Abernethy is singing at the Aletropolitan Opera Company and that Newton .Martin and Herman Morris ow ' n and operate the “Oakhurst Library.” I later learned that Bob Willard is now editor of a sports magazine and Deloris Williams is coaching the Oakhurst girls professional basketball team, with Doris Warwick and Peggy Williams as managers. How is your new ' firm, “The J. E. Stegall Trucking Company,” getting along- That accounts for all of us, I believe. Ever your ol’ classmate, Bruce Page Twenty

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JUNIORS Demetris Austin Jimmie Baetcom Mack Baucom Jane Biggers Jean Butler Suzanne Clark Nina Faye Colson Hazel Cornell J. D. Dalton Donny Deason Johnny Dobbins Fommy Fincher Libby Furr Ray Carrison Dorothy Anne Godfrey