Rolesville High School - Blue Devils Yearbook (Rolesville, NC)

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DISIOR On a sunny day in September 1948, we, a group of mischievous children, descended upon the first grade c l a s s r o om s. Mrs. Broughton and Mrs. Doby were put in charg e of riding herd on us for our first year of instruction. Mr. Wallace was our prin- cipal at that time. Many of us were very excited to say our Bible verses to Miss Zura Williams and Miss Woodlief, our second grade teachers, because awards were present- ed by C. B. M. Faye Hailey and Dennis Perry joined us that year. Mrs. Sh e a was our third grade te a ch er. The multiplication t able was one of our problems that year. Mr. Davis came to Rolesville as our principal that year and stayed until we completed our n i nth year. Our fourth year found us separated again. Mrs. Winston and Miss Fuller tried to potmd arithmetic into our heads. In our fifth year, Mrs. Boyan and Mrs. West were our teachers. They were very p at i ent and under- standing. Douglas Pearce joined us that year. In the sixth grade, Mrs. Batten and Mrs. Applewhite g uide d us. I'm sure we all remember Mrs. Applewhite leading us in singing. Mrs. Ihrie and Mrs. Baldwin were o ur teachers in the seventh grade. Both of them taught us many things and were very kind to us. Mrs. Applewhite and Mrs. Carnes taught us North Carolina History fat least they Q9-dj. Our Orientation Day w as the one r e al highlight of the yearg also we enjoyed square dancing that year. Mary Murphy, Sammie Pridgen, and Dudley Tucker joined us that year. ln September of 1956, a group of greenhorns entered the ninth grade. We took the usual amount of teasing from our upper classmates and could hard- ly wait until we ourselves would be upper class- men. Mrs. Brown and Mrs. Lowie had to put up with us that year. A football team was or g an i ze d that year. However, we lost four of our classmates at the end of the year: Sherman Marshall, Alfred Hicks, Roy Perry, and Rebecca Watkins. At the beginning of our Sophomore ye ar, Mr. Lanier joined us as our principal. He has been a great help to us ever since. Our group of seasoned Sophomores was guided by Mr. King and Mr. Price. Mrs. Williams joined us as our English teacher. She really tried to pound Julius C ae s ar and Silas Marner into our headsg let's hope she was success- ful. Shirley Watkins and G aylon journigan quit at the end of that year. Our Junior year had many h i g h l i g ht sg among them were: the Jtmior Play, It's AGreat Life , and the junior-Senior Banquet with the theme of A Song ln My Heart. David Mason and Jerry Gordon with- drew during that year. At the beginning of our Senior year, the class consisted of twenty-seven m e m b e r s since B e tt y Carter, Roy Rogers, and Jack Rogers had deserted us. All of uswere disappointed to know that we could not have a Senior trip to Washington. But, we have looked back with fondmemories over the twelve years spent in school, and we hope that our future will be as happy. We were fortunate to have had Mrs. Lanier and Mrs. Williams as our S enior sponsors. We are grateful to the m for all the help and guidance they have given us. FAYE PEARCE Historian

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SENIOR OIRECIOR JOSEPHINE FAYE PEARCE F,H.A, 1,2,45 F.T.A. 3,4, Vice-President 35 Science Club 2, 3, 45 Glee Club 1,2, 45 Class Reporter 25 Social Science Medal 25 Beta Club 2, 3, 45 Usher at Iumior Play 35 Marshal 35 4-H 4. CHARLES DENNIS PERRY Football 1, 2, 3, 4, Captain 45 Monogram Club 1, 2, 3,45 Paper Staff 45 F.F.A. 1,2,45 Treasurer 45 Class President 2,45 Best AllAroLmd 45 Friendliest 4. ELEANOR RUTH POOLE Class Vice-President 15 Class Secretary 35 Student Council 1, 25 Beta Club 2, 3,4, Secretary 3, Presi- dent 45 F.T.A. 2, 3, 45 Basketball 1, 2, 3, 4, All- Conference Team 3, Most Valuable Player 35 4-H 15 Marshal 1, 2, 35 Monogram Club 1,2,3,45 F.H.A. 1,2,3, Song Leader 25 Science Club 2, 45 Glee Club 2, 45 Waitress at junior-Senior Banquet 25 Waitress at Father-Son Banquet 25 Piano 1, 25 junior Play 35 Social Studies Medal 35 Business Manager of Annual 45 Most Athletic 4. SAMUEL IV ERY PRIDGEN, III F.F.A. 25 Science Club 3,4, Vice-President 3, Presi- dent 45 Alternate Bus Driver 3,45 Best Dressed 4. LILLIE FRANCES STALLINGS 4-I-I 1,25 Student Council 152,35 Glee Club 15 Class Reporter 25 Class Treasurer 25 Office Assistant 2,3,45 Waitr ess at Junior-Senior Banquet 25 Waitress at Father-Son Banquet 25 Waitress at P. T.A. Banquet 25 Library Staff 2,35 Beta Club 2,3,4, Vice-President 35 junior Play 35 Science Club 2, 3, 4, Reporter 25 Paper Staff 45 Junior Representative to Annual Staff 35 Editor of Annual 45 lst Runner - up in Miss Rolesville Contest 45 Best All Around 4. CECIL RAY STELL F.F.A. 1, 2, 3, 45 Baseball 35 Football 3. DUDLEY NORMAN TUCKER F.F.A. 1,2,3,4, Sentinel 45 Glee Club 1, 25 4-H 15 Student Council 45 Best Personality 4. CORA-BECKIE UNDERWOOD F.l-I.A. 1,3,4, Treasurer 3, Historian 45 4-I-I 3, Vice- President 35 Science Club 3,4, Secretary-Treasurer 45 Waitress at junior-Senior Banquet 25 Piano 1,2,35 Paper Staff 45 Annual Staff 45 Most Attractive 4. EVELYN SUE WALL Glee Club 1, 2, 3, 4, Secretary 25 Class Treasurer 15 F.I-l.A. 1, 2, 3, 4, Vice-President 3, Pre s i dent 45 F.F.A. Sweetheart 15 Class Vice-President 25 Student Council 35 Class Assistant Treasurer 45 Monogram Club 2, 3,4, Treasurer 35 Beta Club 2, 3,4, Vice- President 45 Science Club 25 4-I-I Club 15 junior Play 35 F.T.A. 2, 3, 45 Office Assistant 45 Annual Staff 45 Basketball 1,2,3,45 Captain 45 Paper Staff 45 Marshal 35 Most Popular 45 Best Dressed 4. BARBARA ANN WATKINS Class Treasurer 15 Class Song Leader 25 Library Staff 1,35 Glee Club 1,25 4-I-I Club 25 Science Club 2, 35 Beta Club 2, 3, 45 Waitress at junior-Senior Banquet 25 W aitress at Father-Son Banquet 25 Waitress at P. T.A. Banquet 25 junior Play 35 Office Assistant 3,45 Paper Staff 45 2nd Runner-up in Miss Rolesville Contest 45 Class Prophetess 45 Class Reporter 4. LINDA CAROLYN WEATHERS F.l-LA. 1,2,45 Glee Club 1, 2, 45 Class Song Leader 15 4-I-I 1, 2, 3, 45 Usher at Junior Play 3. ELEANOR LOUISE WILLIAMS Class Secretary 1,45 Class Treasurer 2,35 Glee Club 15 F.,H,A. 15 Monogram 2,3,45 Basketball 1, 2, 3, 4, Co-Captain 35 Beta Club 2, 3, 4, Tr e as urer 3, 45 Science Club 3,45 Waitress at Junior-Senior Banquet 25 Waitress at Father-Son Banquet 25 4-I-I 1,25 Marshal 35 Paper Staff 45 Annual Staff 45 Best Per- sonality 4. LONNIE THOMAS WILSON F.F.A. 152, 3, 4, Sentinel 45 Glee Club 2, 35 Foot- ball 1,2,3,45 Baseball 2,3,45 Monogram Club 2,3,45 Office Assistant 3, 45 Wittiest 4.

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Who was it that said there was no success in the hearts and minds of those 1960 Seniors of Rolesville High? Was it you? Yes, it prob ably was. But do you know. . . ADA MAE BARI-IAM, better known as Lanet Lane, a glamorous movie star, is suing for her fifth divorce. Her divorce lawyer, DONALD BUNN, has become as famous as Perry Mason, the television character. RACHEL BELL has become a foreign missionary in Africa and is trying to convince the head-hunter tribes to trade their shrunken heads for Bibles. ALMA CHALK, marriedto Ruffin, her ex-steady, is now living on one of the finest tobacco farms in Eastern Carolina. EVELYN EVERETTE is now a beauty operator in Las Vegas and has become an expert gossiper. FAYE HAILEY, who owns her own beautysalon, is constantly trying to get her customers' hair to curl. CORA UNDERWOOD and FRANK HO DG E are very happily married. Theyhave in Florida an ultra- modern home, which Frank, now a famous designer, planned. Cora is thinking seriously about rtmning for Mrs. America. JACK MASSEY, now a p r o f i t a ble beef cattle producer in the West Indies, is supplying Swift and Company with his fine beef. WAYNE MERRITT drives a 1970 Ford and is jack Kochsman's top hell-driver. ALICE MITCHELL, an airline hostess, is flying all over the world and still looking for her dream lover. QR. RJ TED MITCHELL, a c olone l in the army, has recently been commended by the President for de- veloping robot control. MARY MURPHY, who still p r e fe r s English to other subjects, is thoroughly enjoying teaching at Columbia University. EVA LILLIE PEARCE has her own T.V. show and has taken Miss M arg ar et's place on the Romper Room. pnophecv DOUGLAS PEARCE and DENNIS PERRY have a special customized garage in California. They are selling hot rods for 525,000 each! FAYE PEARCE, who is famous in the medical field, is now a laboratory technician at Duke. ELEANOR POOLE, now a history teacher at the new modernized Rolesville High School, is firmly trying to convince her freshman students that Columbus first discovered America. ELEANOR WILLIAMS and SAMMIE PRIDGEN are, as we expected, married. Eleanor, while working at the Johnson Publishing Company, is struggling hard to become an ideal housewife. Sammie is teaching French at a Tennessee University. FRANCES STALLINGS, the private secretary of the Duv all Insurance Company of Raleigh, North Carolina, is combining her career with marriage. CEC I L STELL plays football for the Baltimore Colts and holds the record of h aving the biggest feet on the entire team. DUDLEY TUCKER raises thoroughbred horses in Kentucky. One of his horses Kentucky King won secondplace in the Kentucky Derby this year. Con- gratulations, Dudley! SUE WALL is an outstanding model for the Look m a g a Z i n e. During her spare time she keeps books for the Hall and Hall Incorporated. CAROLYN WEATHERS has her own singing pro- gram on WFVG in Ft. Worth, Te xas. One of her latest records sold over a million copies. Keep up that success, Carolyn! TOMMY WILSON has re ached his goal in boxing . He is now the heavyweight Champion of the world. And I, BARBARA WATKINS, am a receptionist for the Byron and Cooper Incorporated of Paintsville, Kentucky. ' BARBARA WAT KIN S Prophetess