St Johns High School - Blue Devil Yearbook (Darlington, SC)

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We, PIERCE GANDY and VOIOHT GANDY, along with the economic clsss, leave peace and quiet to the eighth grade. I, BETTY KINSEY, will my ability to fix store windows to Sara Josey, hoping that some day she111 be a big-time dime store operator. I JAMES WALKER, do will my beef to the markets down town, hoping that prices will soon go down. I BILLY TRAPP, give my talent for playing the trumpet to anyone who wants it, while I go and take over Harry James» band. We, BILLY BATES and JOYCE ELMORE, leave our shyness to Buddy Hudson and John Meggs and hope it will help them a little. If BARABARA KNIGHT, will my flirting ability to Betty Lou Morris, Eleanor Norwood, and Cleva Mae Oliver, hoping they’ll knock them off their feet. We, BILLY LOWE and KENNETH BRYANT, lesve all our detention slips to Weldon Odom arid Kenneth Carter, knowing that they will find occasion to use them. If BILLY U20PARD, leave my tumbling ability on the mat to Franklin Sessoms. If JUNE RUTHVEN, leave my experience of crossing streets to all of you students hoping that you will stop, look, and listen. I, LAMONA HAM, leave my position as the bsby of the class, to the Junior girl who was born last. I, FRANCES HAM, will my friendliness to Peggy Reeves knowing that she will carry the torch high. WE, THE SENIORS OF »49 leave our Joy, happiness, love, and tears to our classmates following us to be pondered through the years, and to our teachers and leaders, we will our gratefulness for helping us do our duties with great success. Thanks everyone for giving us your best. We shall keep it and treasure It with all we possess• 13

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I, BUNDY BYNUM, leave my regular attendance ???????to the entire Junior class, knowing full well that my shining example will inspire them to new attendance records• 'Ve, GUY FORREST AND BOBBY FUSSELL, bequeath, with much regret, the St. John’s girls to the younger set. I, BETTY LYIES, leave my stupid ways to Gene Harrison for the rest of his days. I, JETTY CAROL MO BUSY, leave the crown that I do possess to the May Queen of »49, here’s wishing her success. I, ROBERT HARRINGTON, do leave to Miss Entzminger some correction fluid, for her memographed tests. I, BETSY ROSS, do will my ability to portray monkeys to Murphy Paulling, knowing that she’ll not have to strain to make one. Also my valuableness and cooperative ness I give to Jane McKee. I, WAYNE WEAVER, do will my ability to speak French to the next amabassader to France. We, MADELINE DAVIS, VIRGINIA FLOWERS, CLARA JEAN HUFFMAN, the brides elect of St. John’s High, leave our past matrimonial success to the lovelorn Juniors, Jane McKee, Pat McGill, Peggy Baxley, and especially Bill Dennis. I, WILLIAM ROGERS, do will my way with women, my fleetful feet on the dance floor, and my charming personality to Tommy Yates, knowing that he can hold the position I, LEXIE MARGARET STOKES, do will my way with men, my fleetful feet on the dance floor, and my charming personality to Sara S. Evans, knowing that she can fill the bill (and I dou t mean Ace. ; I, ROY PEAVEY, do will my ability on the basketball court to Corny Carnes, may he be the top sport. I, EDWIN YARBOROUGH, my oratorical ability do give to Albert Coggeshall, long may he live. I, JAKE PRIVETIS, do will my winning ways with the teachers to Honey Boy Evans?? knowing full well that he’s a daring creature. I, EMMETT FUIZ, do leave to you dopes, my ability to be witty and give with the Jokes. I, ALVIN EBWITT, do will my cuteness, unselfishness, bashfulness, and all to the one and only Junior, Don Small. I, PEGGY ELLIOTT, a brain In my class, do will my Intelligence to Grace Thomas, long may it last. I, ARMSTRONG HOWARD, do give to Billy Simpson my ability to pay attention In English Class, hoping that he can get away with It. I, BLONDELL WARREN, will my quiet ways to Sara Jean Flowers, knowing that It is impossible to shut her up. I, FRANCES HUTCHINSON, do leave my honor to walk up the front steps to all the up- coming seniors. I, L. E. CROMER, do will my ability to park cars for the Key Club to the rest of you members of the Key Club, hoping you’ll enjoy the rainy days. I, I, NORMAN RICHARDSON, do will my Joy of camping and fishing to Roxie Ella Moody, hoping she’ll have better luck than I. 16

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CLASS PROPHECY Class of 1949 Springtime with Its many voices beckoned us Into the open. We strolled down Spain Street Into the Park, enjoying the new freshness of the season. The last rays of the evening sun hardly penetrated the thick foliage, casting an eerie light throughout the forest. We hastened our footsteps In the direotlon of home when we heard muffled footfalls behind us. Turning, we saw In tattered clothes an old hag bent over her walking-stick. Her cackle rang through the forest as she gllirpsed the terror In our eyes. Fear rooted us to the spot and we were un- able to run as she advanced slowly toward us. Peering for a moment into our startled faces, she cackled again and thrust a small box Into our trembling hands. Without a word she turned and disappeared Into the gathering darkness. Our hearts in our mouths, we fled swiftly out of the park and safely home. After sitting awhile in the bright cheerfulness of the living room, we summoned enough courage to open the box. From the box we took a wrinkled sheet of paper. This is what we read: June 7, 1959 Dear Betsy and Betty Carol, You will be very surprised to find this letter to you dated 1959, but as it seems, this is the prophecy of you and your classmates of the Class of 1949. As I was gazing in my crystal ball last night, this was revealed to me: Roy Peavey is now No. 1 basketball coach of the U. S. His team has won the National Championship for the past three years. June and Emmett are married and are raising horses to enter each year in the Kentucky Derby. Dot Goodson, fashion editor of the women’s magazine, Gaze , has been voted one of the ten best-dressed women in the U. S. for 1959. Voight Gandy is head of the S.P.C.A.-—Society for the Prevention of Cruelty of Animals. Norman Richardson and Wayne Weaver are hard at work on a French grammar with a new accent • Betty Lyles is the successful inventor of a new work-saving device that is taking the country by storm. Demonstrating this kitchen device are Betty Kinsey and Blondell Warren. You would never guess it, but Ina Claire Pryant is a stewardess for Delta Airlines. Lexie Stokes, head of the Historical Society of South Carolina, is writing a New History of S. C. to be taught in all S. C. schools. Billy Trapp and Louise Martin are on a concert tour in Europe. Jeannette Dickson is the newest member of the Jimmy Durante show. Together they are Television’s No. 1 laugh-team. Madeline Davis and her famous musician husband are directing a mixed chorus heard every Sunday over a nation-wide network. Doris Adams and Barbara Knight are teaching anatomy to nurses at Duke Hospital. Edwin Yarborough, South Carolina’s youngest senator, is noted for his filibustering. Joyce Elmore taught kindergarten for a few years, then married a rich widower with five children. Orin and Perry Andrews own a large farm and are living happily with their families . Virginia Flowers is busily raising little Howies— LaVerne, the fighting woman editor, heads the excellent staff of Crowley’s Tribune. The heads of her business staff are Marcell Ludlam and Marilyn Weatherford. Billy Bates is a prominent druggist in Columbia, is business in- creased so rapidly when he invented a miraculous beauty lotion that made old maids of forty-five look like sweet sixteen again, that he had to take Billy Leopard on as a partner. Billy Rogers resides in Wew York,where he has a correspondence school of lovemaking by mail ---he guarantees success in six easy lessons. Cleo Atkinson operates the Matrimonial Bureau in artsville. She is happily married to one of her applicants. 19