Oxford High School - Oxonian Yearbook (Oxford, NC)

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RUTH WILSON Mixed Chorus lg Girls' Athletic Association 2. JEAN CAROLYN YEA Rom Home Economics Club 1, 2, 3. 4: Membership Chairman 35 Girls' Glee Club l, 2, 33 Band 1, 2. 3, 45 Color Guard 3, 4: The Owl staff 35 Associate Editor 3: 4-H Club 3, 4: Secretary 35 Science Club lg Girls' Athletic Associa- tion 2g Quill and Scroll 3, 4. Miss EUGENIA Bovn, SPONSOR SE IORS va -V-, H 95,24 'f ., N., f ,Miva hash DONNA JEAN YANCEY Debating Club 4: Vice-president 4: Bible Club 3, 45 President 3. 45 Home Economics Clubg Historian 49 Dramatics Club: 4-H Club 3, 43 Vice-president 3: Girl 's Glee Club 2, 3, 4g Mixed Chorus 2, 3, 4: Ac- companist 4: Student Govern- ment lg Class President 23 Class Secretary 3: Vicespresident Home- room 33 Color Guard 2, 3, 4: Owl Reporter 3. DICK YOUNG Football 3, 4: Band 1, 2: Boys' Athletic Association 4. Miss HELEN WILKIN. SPONSOR MASCOT Neil Norwood Fifteen

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GENE SEABoL'r Boys' Athletic Association l, 2, 3, 4: Football 1, 2, 3, 4: Basketball 2, 3, 4. BETSY TURNER Basketball 4: Glee Club Accom- panist l, 2, 3, 4: A Capella Choir 4: Girls' Athletic Association 2, 3: Home Economics Club 1: Cheerleader 2, 3, 4: Chief 4. BETH WATKINS Science Club 1: Color Guard 2, 3, 4: 4-H Club 2, 3: Home Eco- nomics Club 2. 3. 4: Historian 3: Secretary 4: Bible Club 2, 3, 4: Secretary 3: Girls' Athletic As- sociation 2, 3, 4: Vice-president 4: Basketball 4: Manager 4: Mixed Chorus 3. EDGAR McCoy E1LsoN Intra-mural Sports 1, 2, 3. Fourteen 2 J SEN IDRS .QV 2 ' v W., :fiff 1, X I r , Q fi l. . :,.3 - , V 4.5 Q . al HINNANT SUITT Boys' Athletic Association 1, 2, 3, 4: Vice-president 3: President 4, Football 1, 2, 3, 4: Co-captain 4. SARA K. WALKER Home Economics Club 1: Girls' Glee Club 1, 2, 3, 4: Mixed Chorus 1, 2, 3, 4: Dramatics Club 4: Mikado 1. ANNIE RUTH WHEELER Home Economics Club 1, 2, 3, 4: Girls' Athletic Association 2, 3, 4: Science Club 1: Dramatics Club 4: Library Club 4. KATHERINE WILSON Girls' Glee Club 1, 2, 3: Girls' Athletic Association 3: Mixed Chorus 1, 2, 3.

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Senior Prophecy By Patsy Banks It was a beautiful day in the year 1960 when Betsy Hobgood called me and told me that the class of '50 was going to hold a reunion. She and Donnie Dean were getting in touch with all of us, although both were very busy teaching English at Oxford High. I told her it was a wonderful idea to get us all together again, and find out how the past ten years had dealt with us. Betsy said that many of our classmates were married. Ann Buchanan and Grady had settled down in California, where Ann had finally gotten warm. She was always freezing back in our high school days. Libby Peele and Taylor Currin were farming in Bermuda. They were very happily raising a new kind of pineapple. Grace Hamme and Arthur Oakes had married and remained in Oxford. Arthur wanted to move out West, but Grace persuaded him to stay at home. Jean Clark and Oney Seabolt had also joined the ranks of the happily married. Jean was teaching voice and Oney had converted his car, the Blue Goose, ' ' into a truck and was hauling lumber. Katchy Royster and Sidney Cutts had stayed in Oxford too. Katchy was teaching music at the high school and Sid was the best tobacco auctioneer in Oxford. Others of our class who were married included Beth Watkins and Margaret Boyd. By the time Betsy had relayed all this information I knew the telephone call would take all her week's salary, so I said 'fgood-bye and told her I'd get to Oxford as soon as possible, for I was very anxious to learn how the rest of my classmates had fared. I decided to catch a plane early the next morning, and who should be the pilot-none other than Nellie Parrott, who said she was looking forward to our class reunion. She told me that Thomas Hobgood had set up a Hlling station for the Camel Caravans at an oasis in the Sahara Desert, and was having a thriving business. Jacquetta Baker had graduated from Harvard University and was now first adviser to the President in Washington. Upon landing, I boarded a taxi, which was driven by Edgar Wilson. I asked him if he knew about the reunion. He said he did. He also told me that Tom Ragland, Cissie Niles and Mari- anne May had gone into business together and were teaching modern art in Chicago. Ed Mea- dows, Thomas Chappell and Nat Burwell were playing professional football, while William Pritchett, Weldon Currin, Gilbert Dickerson, and Lynwood Hughes had become cowboys and were owners of the Bar-X Ranch in Texas. Edgar dropped me by the high school. It hadn't changed very much. Down on the athletic field, Harold Currin, now coach of Oxford High, was putting the team through their paces. He was having a rather hard time of it, so I didn 't stop to talk to him but went on inside to speak to Donnie Dean, who was trying to teach a trem- bling Freshman how a sentence should be properly diagrammed. She said Betsy Turner and Naomi Johnson had become glamorous movie actresses, and Norris Cole was the best gangster actor on the screen, making all the girls swoon when he showed his physique. Brent Adcock had opened a dancing school for professional jitterbuggers, and was teaching them his own per- sonal technique. Gene Bullock and Mildred Currin were professional models for john Robert Powers. Joan Parker and Daisy Mitchell were down in the gym, teaching phys. ed. to the girls. Jean Belcher, Barbara Elliott, jean Yeargin, and Dixie Elliott were stenographers for the large law firm headed by Buck Hicks and Titus Dickerson. Hinnant Suitt was doing a brilliant piece of acting in the latest Broadway hit, Come to Papa. Doug Currin's dairy was working so well that he had to employ Gilbert Averett, Stanley Milton, and Howard Critcher to help him milk the cows. Carol Knott was their office girl and Dot Ragland kept the books. About this time the bell rang for classes to change and I was swept out into the hall by the mad rush. I only had time to yell to Donnie that I would see her that night. Sixteen