Siler City High School - Seniorogue Yearbook (Siler City, NC)

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Chicago. And Buddie McLaughlin has finally made good. He’s the head football coach at Illinois, expecting to produce a fine team this year. Marcelene Stanley never quite forgot her days in Oklahoma City, so she went back to run a modern new hotel. Emogene Dixon is there too, running a beauty parlor. Clifton Ward owns a huge stock ranch in Dallas, Texas, supposed to be the largest in the world. Annie Jean Cheek has become a Mrs. whose husband is very successful in the financial world. They live in Kansas City. Frances Elkins is the secretary for a huge business cor- poration in Tulsa. Pauline Inglett went down Florida way, where she is a cigarette girl in one of the night spots of Miami. Betty Rogers is still small, but she gets around in a large way. She’s married to a big business man in Portland, Oregon. She travels every- where. And Mildred Kennedy went with Nancy Langley to be stenog- raphers for a factory in Helena, Montana. I believe I’ll consult the television again. There’s Martha White walk- ing across the campus of University of Tennessee. Maybe she’s on her way to a certain football game. Now what is this I see! Surely it isn’t Ruby Blair sitting on her boss’s knee, diligently practicing her shorthand! Why we always t hought Emily was the flirt of our class. Belle Henderson finally outgrew Pittsboro. She’s at the University of Virginia where she’s nearing completion of an auditor’s course. I see another University--- Michigan. There’s Jean Churchill, a dignified professor of English — and liking it too. Now I see the bright neon signs in front of a picture show. And Julia Stout, of all people, is running it — way out in Wisconsin. Now, what? Nurse Rachel Hall quietly closing the maternity room door of a hospital in St. Louis — with something in her arms. A baby? No, on second glance, I see it’s a doctor! My she’s become really efficient in her endeavor to be a nurse. There’s Emma Jean Dark walking along the street in Chicago. So that’s the reason Buddie got that coaching job. And now I see a perform- ance of Barnum and Bailey’s huge circus. They tell me Betty Lou Burke is one of the star performers and has just been everywhere there is to go that’s interesting. Well, I really believe that’s about all I can see now, so I’ll take it easy the rest of my trip. I’ll just look at the blue sky above me and the outline of the snow-covered ground below. How unusual this Alaska scenery is! Gyles Buckner, Prophet. 19

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PROPHECY SHADES OF BUCK ROGERS! Here I am on my rocket ship heading for Alaska. Cruising along at a slow rate of 1,000 miles per hour, I think back on my days in school. My, that was a fine graduating class of mine back in the year ’48. I believe I’ll tune in on my television set, that great invention by Bobby Gene Johnson, and see what all the members of that class are doing now. Goodness! I see a whole group of them out in sunny California! Clyde Whitley must have learned a lot by being head of our class. Here he is president of the University of Southen California, and is he a big success! And look over there — handsome Jack Allred and his cute bride, Bobbie Jean Fields. Jack’s a leading star at Dewey Dowd’s movie studio. Also in Hollywood, Donald White is a famous playboy celebrity. And Rachel Phillips has a “figure building” business there. Wow! She had enough of a figure already. I don’t see any other familiar faces or names. I believe I’ll punch this button. My, what do we have here? New York City with all its attrac- tions. There’s Babe Whitt posing for a picture in a bathing suit. Of course — she’s a very much sought-after model. Is that Clara Gilbert on the stage of the Metropolitan? She’s practicing for a new opera about to open, and she has one of the leading roles. There’s Marshale Moody. She’s a lawyer there in New York. She hasn’t lost a case yet. Mary Harris has made a name for herself too as a singer — only, she wins her popularity in a swanky night club. Clyde Williams owns a huge rocket designing company. His plant is located near the big city. He is reported to be one of the richest men in the world. Now what is that going on over there at Madison Square Garden? Why, it’s George Davis doing some of his stunts as a star pilot in Billy Clapp’s huge air show. I’ve heard they travel all over the world. I believe I’ll turn back home for a peep. What do you know! Several of my class have stuck to good old North Carolina. There’s Ray Smith lecturing to a geometry class. He’s a professor at Duke University. What a change he has made in his ambitions. I think that little house over there belongs to Emily Williams. I see that she finally married and moved to Pittsboro. Doris Hancock isn’t a career woman either. She married a certain guy we used to tease her about and lives in Siler City. Come to think of it, I’ve heard quite a bit of news lately of other mem- bers of my class. Nellie Gee is the head nurse in a modern hospital in 18

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LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT NORTH CAROLINA Chatham County Siler City High School We, the seniors of Siler City High School, realizing our superiority over all other classes of our school and that our school days are numbered, and wishing in so far as possible to preserve for our class some of our excellent traits and talents, do make, declare and publish this as our last will and testament. Item I Rachel Hall leaves her love for singing to “Sis” Jackie. Item II Billy Clapp wills a few of his extra pounds to Jack Boling. Item III Martha White leaves her desire to go to Bonlee to Polly Stone and Julia Dell Blair. Item IV Jack Allred leaves his flirty ways to Herman Kennedy. Item V Frances Elkins wants her quietness to go to Emma Ruth Darden. ( You’ll have to leave off the giggles, Offie. ) Item VI Bobbie Jean Fields leaves her ability to blush to Christine Smith. Item VII Julia Stout transfers her French book (slightly worn) to anyone lucky enough to get it. Item VIII Gyles Buckner wills his timidity to Bobby McLaughlin, who certainly needs it! Item IX Emily and Emma Jean transfer to Lydia their tardy record. ( It’s a good thing you have a car (??) to get you there. Lydia.) Item X Donald White leaves his love of laughing to some “sad sack.” Item XI To Betty Lou goes Mary’s pop-corn machine. Work comes first, love last ( in this case ) . Item XII Bobby Gene Johnson leaves several inches of his height to Robert Emerson in hopes it will enable him to reach the basketball goal. Item XIII Doris Hancock leaves her rare ability to play basketball to the up and coming little Janice Alexander. Item XIV Clyde Williams gives his love for reading to Doug Smith. Item XV Emogene Dixon bequeaths her desire to go to Goldston to Eunice Gilliland. Item XVI Pauline Inglett leaves her habit of asking questions to Dalton Smith. Item XVII Dewey Dowd leaves his height to Ann Straughn. Item XVIII Buddie McLaughlin bequeaths his athletic ability to Sandy Siler. Keep up the good work! Item XIX Nellie Gee wills her title as “Best Dressed Girl” to some lucky lass. Item XX Jean Churchill leaves to Jean Presnell her curly locks on rainy days. 20