Rosman High School - Oriole Yearbook (Rosman, NC)

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CLASS WILL We, the Senior Class of 1954, of Rosman High School, in the county of Transylvania, the state of North Carolina, being of sound mind and realizing our impending departure from this school, do hereby declare and make this our last will and testament. ARTICLE I To Mr. Tilson and the teachers we leave our deepest appreciation for their efforts toward in- creasing our wisdom. ARTICLE ll To the buildings and buses we leave our deepest sympathy after the care we gave them for the past twelve years. ARTICLE Ill To the Junior Class we leave the job of publishing The Oriole and raising funds for a trip to Wash- ington, D. C. To the Sophomores and Freshmen we leave our hopes that each of them will attain the goal we have now reached. ARTICLE IV During our years of school we have accumulated some well-known articles which we would like to bestow upon specific underclassmen. They are as follows: Austin Alexander leaves his ability to play basket- ball to Bradley Snipes. Ed Paxton bequeaths his persistent presence in the office and his love for women to Harold Whit- mire. Shirley Galloway wills her ability to play bas- ketball to Pat Burton. Pat Bruner leaves her liking to wear blue ieans to Louise Passmore. Clara Bert Callaham leaves her ability to be quiet and not get demerits to Stella Glazener. Willa Beth Carter wills her quiet ways to Laverne Smith. Christine Jones leaves to Shirley Holden and Shirley Jomerson her absenteeism from school. To Polly Petit, Mae Whitmire bequeaths all of her laughs and cute iokes. Jerry McCall bequeaths his tobacco chewing to Butch Lance. Dan McCall leaves to Pete Owen his ability to compose poems. To Junior Holland, Donalee Passmore leaves his Page Fourteen ability to stay out of school, provided he will do make-up work when he returns. Jimmie Lee bequeaths her job as editor of the school paper to Annette Cassell. To Barbara McCall, Clara Belle Fisher wills her sense of humor. Betty Jean Powell wills to Margaret Owen her ability to become friends with everyone. Sonny Galloway wills his ability to draw pic- tures of women and cars to Harold Staton. Frantz Whitmire leaves all of his Monkey Shines to Benny Cassell. Bill McKinney leaves his shyness to David Butler. Olivene Jones leaves her ability to blush to Freda Owen. Mary Jane Jones wills her big smile to Dorothy Whitmire. Hazel O'ShieId leaves her thanks to Mr. Warren for teaching her to be a good bookkeeper. Dora Mae Whitmire leaves her thanks to Mrs. Hogsed for allowing her to get out of study hall to type the news. Tom Mahoney wills to Floyd Jones his ability to go fishing on school days. Daniel McCall wills Katie Brown the ability to tie tin cans on the school bus to play with on the way to school. Edith Galloway bequeaths to Shirley Winchester her knack of getting her fingers hung in type- writers. Lester Gillespie bequeaths his ability to get along with women to Roy Galloway. Odell Powell leaves to Joe Ben McCall his ability to sell dopes at the basketball games. Thelma Petit leaves her trips to the post office to Beverly Nicholson. Perry Fisher leaves his good looks to Larry Pat- terson. Clara Dean Parker leaves her ability to type to Margaret Orr. ARTICLE V The Senior Class wills to any worthy class the privilege of sitting at their back table in the lunch- room. We seniors learned many interesting things while eating our lunches at that particular table. Testators: EDITH GALLOWAY SHIRLEY GALLOWAY CLARA BERT CALLAHAM

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CLASS HISTIIHY I am sitting in my comfortable rocking chair watching TV when a special feature entitled Mem- ories of the R. H. S. Class of '54 appears on the screen. It is under the direction of Mr. E. F. Tilson, and his assistant advisers for the first scene, which starts in the autumn of 1950, are Mrs. Lucy Bryson and Mr. Ed Williams. A debate on Heredity versus Environment is taking place in a health-class. Another incident is the Farewell Party given for James Galloway who went into the Army. The end of this first scene was a picnic at the Pink Beds to celebrate the completion of our fresh- man year. A few had decided the School Script was too hard and had left us. Scene two opens with our introduction to biology with a new teacher, Mrs. Whittington. Curtis Barton particularly liked to tease our pretty teacher. Too, it was during this scene that while we were on a field trip that a fire broke out in the woods from un- identified sources. However, we were becoming ful- ly aware of the necessity of hard work as well as some play to get us through this year. The third scene places on us the responsibility of presenting our class play, Desperate Ambrose , of sponsoring the Junior-Senior Banquet which had as its theme Southern Plantation. From our group was selected a girl's trio and the boy's quartet, but the event that really provided prestige for us was the measuring for our class rings. From the sidelines of this third scene, we recall that there were thumb tacks in the chairs of the speakers from Ecusta, and there was a swimming party before school time on that last day of school. The fourth and most memorable scene of that movie reel rolls before our eyes. Our rings arrive, then our calling cards and invitations come. Through- out the year we work cn the school paper, the an- nual, and raising funds for our trip to Washington, D. C., at Easter. We are measured for our caps and gowns, we enioy and appreciate a banquet given in our honor by the Juniors. There is the presentation of the Senior Play, Are You Kidding , the Bacca- laureate Sermon, and finally, Graduation, where we hear a roll call of those who shared and completed four wonderful years at Rosman High. Historians: EDWARD PAXTON OLIVENE JONES HAZEL O'SHIELD Page Tlzirtrcu

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