Red Oak High School - Oak Leaves Yearbook (Red Oak, NC)

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I. II. III. IV. V. that i VI. VII. .fadf will and Zgedtament We, the 1950 senior class of Red Oak High School, county of Nash, state of North Carolina, being of sound mind do hereby make this our Last Will and Testament. To the faculty we will our deepest respects for the many kind things they have done for us during our trying years. To our parents we give our love and appreciation for making this graduation possible and promise to do our best with the knowledge we have acquired through school. To our school we leave our undying loyalty and the hopes that it may prosper in the years to come and become a bigger and better school. To the juniors we leave our many senior privileges which we never received and also the privilege to wear our new caps and gowns next year Kif we get theml. To the sophomores we leave our ability' to disagree on everything with the hope that it will be vice-versa with them. To the freshmen we leave our dignity, our nice teachers, and the hopes that they may enjoy their years in high school as much as we have. 1. I, Mattie Shearin, do hereby will and bequeath to Harold Bennett my speed in typing. 2. I, Walter Pittman, do hereby will and bequeath to Clifton King my wavy hair so he won't have to set his every night. 3. I, Milton Jones, do hereby will and bequeath to A. J. Rose my place as bus driver so he can have an excuse to go to Nashville every day. 4. I, Barbara Flowers, do hereby will and bequeath a warning to all the Junior girls to leave my fellow alone. 5. I, Marilyn Strum, do hereby will and bequeath my love for talking to Jane Edwards. 6. I, Mary Jo Griffin, do hereby will and bequeath my ability to get a new boy friend every week-end to Frances Hayes and Elsie Rackley. fDivide them equally, girlsl. 7. I, Roslyn House, do hereby will and bequeath my ability to play basketball to Daynelle Creekmore and Gladys Shearin. 8. I, Mary Ellen Avent, do hereby will and bequeath my love for Nashville to Peggy Sue Fisher and Barbara Sue Etheridge. 9. I, Donald Teachey, do hereby will and bequeath my place as biggest flirt to Rudolph Whitley.

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Billy, on the other hand, stayed at home to keep up the farm and has been taking some outside jobs of painting and carpentry work, too. However, it seems with all the farming competition of his classmates, he doesn't have very much extra time. Along with Billy, Curtis Rose, Bobby Proctor and Milton .Tones have become the leading farmers around the Red Oak district. The results of their prosperous crops is evident to everyone by their large farms and vast improvements. The conversation drifted back to the girls of the class, and the first question asked was how Jackie Skinner was enjoying married life. I saw her last Christmas and she seemed happier and more satisfied than I had ever seen her. She has a beautiful home and told me to tell any of you I see to come and visit her. Jackie said she heard from Sylvia Proctor occasionally and from her letters she seemed to have landed in the boat of happiness, too. There's really no reason why she shouldn't be. That husband of hers is practically a millionaire, but I've never met a nicer or friendlier man. Sylvia has everything to satisfy her and knowing her it will take just that to make her content. Some of the class are hard to keep up with, but not Barbara Flowers. We all remember when she used to make sketches in the sand and then brush them away with her foot. Now those sketches are really paying off, and it would take a lot of brushing to destroy all the drawings strewn over the country with her signature. We had all the class now except two, Margaret Armstrong and Marilyn Strum, the two bosom pals. The last we heard from Margaret she had completed her journalism course and had advanced to the position of assistant editor of the Chicago Times. Margaret really took a step from home and Marilyn took it with her. She took a job on the Chicago Times staff as a secretary, so they are still together. Well, they say I can leave tomorrow, and with mel can take this little journal of thought about my classmates of 1950. Here it is 1958, and even though we're separated, all going our chosen ways, we find the same hearts and voices to greet us whenever we meet. Tomorrow is another day just like all the rest, yet in reality it is one step forward. We will all return to our various occupations, they to theirs and as for me, back again I go to await the return of another school year. This time maybe to teach history, maybe math, or maybe by then to find a different occupation in some other field. Who knows? Who can tell? For all of us, only will tell. 'I' 1 Y . Xl!-1 QI ' 'lf M MOTTO: Forget the past, grasp the present, and look to the future. CLASS COLORS: Green and pink CLASS FLOWER: The White Rose

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10. I, Curtis Rose, do hereby will and bequeath my good looks and pleasing personality to J . C. House so he can be sure to get a pretty girl to take to the banquet next year. 11. I, Edna Lewis, do hereby will and bequeath my pretty hair to Marie Lewis and Myrtice Marks. 12. I, L. A. Green, do here by will and .bequeath my place as most intelligent to John Ira Fisher. 13. I, Betty Violet Keen, do hereby will and bequeath my quiet ways to Dolly Truiselle. - 14. I, Theresa Ward, do hereby will and .bequeath my lovefor an argument to Carolean Moore. 15. I, Edna Joyce Griffin, do hereby will and bequeath my witty ways to Nancy Lee Vick and Margaret Radford. 6. I, Patsy Trusselle, do hereby will and bequeath a few pounds' of my weight to Jean Proctor and Mary Eaton Avent. KTake all you want, girls.J 17. I, Margaret Armstrong, do hereby will and bequeath my love for agricul- ture to Molly Rose and Pattie Carter. ' 18. I, Charles Sutton, do hereby will and bequeath my ability to aggravate girls to Allen Currin and Patrick Hedgepeth. 19. I, Sylvia Proctor, do hereby will and bequeath my speed limit of forty-five miles an hour to Jean McIntyre. 20. I, Bobby Proctor, do hereby will and bequeath my dark hair and sparkling eyes to Ronald Capps. 21. I, Edwin Shearin, do hereby will and bequeath my place as most studious to John Taylor. 22. I, Billy Vick, do hereby will and bequeath my quiet ways to Grover Edwards and Mitchell Lynch. 23. I, Jackie Skinner, do hereby will and bequeath my top locker to Clifton Dozier and Harold Bennett so they won't have any locks falling on their heads next year. Signed and sealed this nineteenth day of May, 1950. Witnesses: vb' A 4 4 Testator, Betty Violet Keen S 50 Q' Jacquelyn Skirmer M Ell A t ary en ven sl- A 4 I I 3 ' .Viv v E