Shelby High School - Cruiser Yearbook (Shelby, NC)

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LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT We, the Senior Class of Nineteen Hundred and Fifty, being of sound mind and foolish heart, do hereby present this our '4Last Will and Testamentf, Most of all, we request that the classes mentioned below accomplish all we have tried to do. ARTICLE I. JUNIORS To the ,Iunior Class we leave the honor, prestige, esteem, and glory of being next yearls seniors. Also, to these Juniors we leave the following articles: ffor better or for Hworsernj 1. To Bill Brewer, Henry Higgins, diplomatic manner. 2. To '4lVlimi', Royster, Patsy Shullis friendliness. 3. To Ronald Dickson, S-En. BEckl'ey's enthusiasm. 44. To Blake Hudson, Benny Allenis position on the squad. 5. To Carolyn Hollis, Carolyn Webbis gift of gabf' 6. To gl-,QLQfmm5, uHorace'7 Kennedyis car. 7. To Ben Weaver, Skin Bridges' football shoes. 8. To Paul Smith, Dick Lackeyis knowledge of backfield plays. 9. To ,lean Buchanan, Mary Harbison's knowledge. 10. To Dick Byers, ,Iimm ris desk in English. ll. To Barbara Allen, Irene Peck's way with the opposite sex ARTICLE II. SOPHOMORES To the HSophsH we leave the task of being hosts at the i51 Junior-Senior. fAfter this you will appreciate the true meaning of honest work.l To these Sophomores we leave the following: I. To Bob Ingle, Wallace Horne's Hwhot hoppenedf' 2. To Joan Mauney, Larry Champion's musical talent. 3. To Dean Carver, Sam Wilson's Buick. 4. To Sonya Calhoun, Betty Tugman's method of getting homework. ARTICLE III. FACULTY To our school faculty, who have unselfishly and persistently kept our nose to the grindstone, we leave our blood, sweat, and tears and most of all our deep appreciation for their untiring efforts. ARTICLE IV. As executors of this our Last Will and Testament, we name Miss King and Miss Fellers. fMay luck go with you.l ARTICLE V. We, the undersigned, knowing the Senior Class to be of strong back and weak mind, do hereby affix our signatures as witnesses to this Last Will and Testament. .lack Whisnant, Testator Witnesses: Deacon ,Iones The Mule Train ,Iohn's other Wife 22

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CLASS PRUPIIECY As the balmy air stirred slightly across the airfield, causing little whirlpools of dust to twist upward, and as the enervating rays of the sun bore down unmercifully on the huge mechanism, my heart beat fast and hard with the anticipation of the event soon to be un- folded. The airospeed plane was ready for its test Hight with me as the only passenger. ls it too soon, too risky, to try such an experi- ment? Perhaps lid better postpone this trip until tomorrow. But wait! With a jerk and sputter from the eight engined jet airospeed I was shooting through the stratosphere at an unrecordable speed. A crack of thunder, a streak of light- ning, and then-darkness! A voice from the clouds broke the dead silence saying, 'LThis is the course of the future-the year 1960.77 That was all. Cautiously looking out the window, l stared with amazement. 'aElect Trusty Henry Higgins President posters were being plastered over the entire City of Washington by campaign manager Hugh Miller. The election was re- ceiving write-ups in the You Read It Daily, founded and edited by John Washburn. Busi- ness manager Alton Arrowood was rushing society editor Patsy Stubbs on her article covering the elaborate dinner given by social- ite Mary Stone, honoring Elease Dean and Justice Jenkins, stars of Broadway's newest musical. Leaving this fair city, I peered wistfully out the window hoping to see more of my classmates, but, alas, our machine, lost in the future, must search for the present. The towering skyscrapers, the scurrying people warned me that I was approaching the great metropolis of New York. Directly before me stood the Whisnant Edifice, tallest in the world, named for its owner J ack Whisnant. Architect Bill Ellis and contractor Willis Proctor amazed everyone by their seemingly impossible performance. Manager Bill Bass had just rented a studio to Eloise Jarrett, world-renowned beauty, who was opening a modeling school. Her first students were Carolyn Moore and Blanche Rainey. Also in the building was MThe Fashion Book , a dress shop owned by the Tugman twins. As the plane sailed on, I began looking forward to the next place of investigation. Chicago, the windy city, was even more Windy from the heated debates between the two umadw scientists, Benn Drum and Norman Gold, over whether or not to introduce the chemical combination effecting perpetual youth. Molly Newton, famous soprano, with her accompanist Louise Bumgardner, had been given the key to the city by Mayor, Iimm W lker. Don Wright, recently named G Outstanding Citizen of the Year , by Lions Club president Sammy Wilson, had expressed his appreciation of music by making a sizable donation to the Community Concert Associa- tion, headed by Mary Louise Harbison. Slipping through the feathery clouds, the airship passed slowly enough over the Uni- versity of Texas to let me see coaches Dick Lackey and Benny Allen putting their boys through a few rigorous drills. Professor Ray Lutz, head of the mathematics department, seemed to be having difficulty keeping his pupils awake during class. Librarian Carolyn Washburn was diligently working on a display for the books '4My Experience in Arty by ,Io Willis and uMy Trip Through the Congow, by explorer Bill Smith. On the beach of sunny Florida I saw magnesium millionaire Shem Blackle akin his annual ,three months? vacation. nventor Wallace Horne was slowly going insane trying to find a new method for delivering telegrams, while his nurse Audrey Garrett tried to keep him calm with a double dose of medicine prescribed by Dr. Falls. After a sudden drop, swift and steep, the plane stopped abruptly. When I realized this was Shelby, 1950, an air of satisfaction flooded my being to know the promising future await- ing the Senior Class., Patsy Bland, Prophet Qs - fa Ii: x Q

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Ulm CLASS 0F 1951 0 F F I C E ll S BILLY BREWER .A.A .A.....,. .,,... P r esident BEN WEAVER ,... ,... V ice-President J IM CANNON E..., .... T reasurer BLAKE HUDSON L.... .... S ecretary 23