Pleasant Garden High School - Hi Lights Yearbook (Pleasant Garden, NC)

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FRIENDLIEST PAT FIELDS BURNEY GARNER WITTIEST ALMA MOORE ■ m ae, ca i ,v K5gM«w«SS»i5SB sS-bskSssF ' ’ CHARLES BOGLE

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E iior QUIETEST SADIE CAUSEY KELLY FIELDS GEORGE JACKSON

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entor Oh! Twenty years hence and what a vast change in the lives of the ’51 graduates of Pleasant Garden High! Now let me see—there is Tommy Watlington, a graduate of Georgia Tech. He now owns and operates the Watlington Aircraft Corporation located in Climax, North Carolina. Who is this next person I see? It’s Pat Fields. She married the football coach at Yale University and it looks like she is raising a football team of her own. There goes Bill Jones, who got a job at the Piper Corporation. He started at the bottom and has worked his way up to the position of vice-president. As you pass through the great metropolis of Greensboro you see giant skyscrapers made possible by the architectural genius of Regie Raper. Ramona Densmore, whose future was decided before graduation, is now busy keeping house for her hus¬ band and three boys. After graduation, George Jackson set out to become a great stunt pilot, and right now I see him com¬ ing out of an outside loop in his new Luscomb. Can this next place be Washington, D. C.? Now I see Georgiana Elliott, the first woman president of the United States. She has been very successful in thefield of politics. In spite of her smallness, Frances Armstrong has now become the most famous woman wrestler in the country. Lynn Horney, Kelly Fields, and Hal Thompson are the three most successful farmers in Guilford Coun¬ ty, as you can tell by their large homes and farms. Willomae Nixon, who was always fond of baseball, has done well for herself by becoming a scout for the Cleveland Indians and by marrying a Yankee player. Let’s look in on Doug Curtis. He has become the owner of the largest meat packing plant in North Carolina. Naturally, he needs an efficient secretary, and who else is it but the brilliant, red-headed Faye Corsbie. Alma Cooke, who married before graduation, is very happy in her beautiful home in New York City. Now I see a western scene. There’s Rosa Neelley and Peggy Kirkman. They went West and bought a cattle ranch. Later they struck oil and went out ofthe cattle business. From the Raper Building in Greensboro a radio show has just been broadcast. It was the Golden Voice” of Charles Bogle on that show of shows Winner Take All And Get It Out of Here. As we go on down the street who do we see but Evelyn McClintock. She is arriving at work late again. She is a secretary at Jefferson Standard Life Insurance Company. Donald Hall has just finished writing his newest book on Atomic Energy”, which promises to be an interesting one. This is the fifth one he has written. Now I see a basketball game in progress. I believe Western Kentucky is playing and who have they got for a center but Riley Clapp, who has grown to a height of six feet four inches. There is another radio program in progress. I see Clara Lou Lields, who has become a script writer on the mystery show Lights Out.” After he gained enough experience in the grocery business, Thomas Reitzel opened a large food store, and now his business has expanded to several other cities. Who is this fellow I see looking out into space with a giant telescope? It is none other than Guy Ross, the chief scientist at Palomar Observatory. During schooldays, some of the girls in our class worked at Belk’s, and it looks like it s paid off. Sadie Causey is now the personnel manager and Lois Smith is a bookkeeper. Wesley Lewis is the owner of the largest garage in Pleasant Garden. He got all his experience working on his own car and keeping it in running shape. After years of faithful service, Betty Lou Swaim now has an important job at Founder’s Furniture Co. Marie Venable was going to be a stock car driver, but got side-tracked into being a model. Look for her on the cover of any of the latest magazines. There’s Burney Garner still sleeping! He always liked to sleep late so he made a million dollars just so he could. Edna Jean DeLoach attended Auburn Institute in Alabama and has come back to Pleasant Garden to teach the second grade. She has the noisest class since the Seniors of ’51 were in school. Jack Parks has become the leader of a one-man band and he has his own television program. Do you believe that twenty years will make this all come true? Only time will tell! CHARLES T. WEATHERLY, Prophet