Stokesdale High School - Memories Yearbook (Stokesdale, NC)

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LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT For twelve years we have dug for a hidden treasure at Stokesdale High School. Going from room to room with guiding instructors there have been some discouraging moments in searching for this treasure but we somehow let our enjoyable memories overcome our discouragements. Having in a measure accomplished our goal we feel we have acquir¬ ed sufficient wealth to leave some of our treasures to our underclass • men and teachers. So on this, the twenty ninth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and fifty six, we the senior class of 1956, consisting of twenty-four unselfish members, now draw up a last will and testament: To Mr. Wilson: We leave all our written excuses for being out of class. To Mrs. Richardson: We leave all our bad habits and next years seniors. To Miss Essa: We leave the banged up and broken typewriters. To Mr. Southard: We leave our many thanks for the help in stuff¬ ing our heads with mathematics and Geometry. To Mr. Joyce: Our best wishes in t r a i ni ng h i s ball clubs since losing so many senior players. To Mrs. Hamid: Our appreciation for helping our boys to learn to get along with girls. To our grammar grade teachers. Many thanks for pulling us through the grades. To the Junior Class: We leave our seats in chapeland our cherish¬ ed moments in seeking our treasure. Joy Ann Pegram leave s her ambitious ways and will power to the rising Juniors. To whoever you think should have it, Jean Ha 1 b r o o k leaves her position as Miss Stokesdale. Roger Wilson wills his ability to work algebra to Carey Fulp. Wallace Wilson wills his high temper to Lester Shelton. To Wiley Pegram, Roy Payne leaves all his Greensboro girl friends. Roger Pegram leaves his ability to get along with Northern girls to Fred Self. To David Malloy, P. D. Swain leaves his height and ability to play basketball. To the teachers, Larry Friddle leaves his smart remarks. To Priscilla Vernon, Cenobia Lawrence leaves her engagement ring. Eldridge Tysor wills his Hot Rod to Arnold Payne. Myrtle Matthews leaves her long blonde hair to Margie Sherron. To Jean Pearman, Orlanda Pope wills her popularity. Bonnie Robertson leaves her good Sportsmanship trophy to Bennie Pope. Barbara Vernon leaves her ability to talk to anyone who thinks they can manage it. To Gail Hudson, Evelyn Cook leaves her chewing gum. Sarah Middleton wills her abilityto play basketball to VickeyFriddle. Howard Perdue wills his quietness to Lang don Ammen. Phyllis Jones leaves some of her height to Rachel Rierson. David Middleton wills his good looks to Jack Williams. LeonMurphy wills part of his knowledge, keeping enough, ox course, for his own security, to Buddy Pegram. Patricia Clark wills her position as chief cheerleader to JoAnne Holland. Raymond Pegram leaves his ability to succeed in Geometry Class to Judy Wilson. Cenobia Lawrence Sarah Middleton

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CLASS PROPHECY When the class elected me to write the prophecy I thought to my¬ self, why classmates I can ' t ever think. I har dly know what ' s going on in this busy world today, much less know what ' s going to happen in the future. With this in mind I got busy and observed my classmates, and this is the way I see them today: There ' s no variety in furniture in Bonnie Robertson ' s home-just rocking chairs. She has been rocking for years just waiting for the plummer to return. For Roger no one knows much about-he talked so slowly that he married before he knew what was going on. We were surprised as well as he. Eldridge Tysor is still in school-studying English. It loves him so! Roy Payne b o u g h t some dummies to be his girl friends so they couldn ' t complain about his osculatory inadequacy. Phyllis Jones and Howard Perdue talked so little that their tongues went on a strike for longer working hours. Wallace Wilson, unlike Lot ' s wife who turned into salt, kept getting sweeter and sweeter until he was nothing but sugar. Joy Ann Pegram, Cenobia Lawrence and Jeanne Halbrook live in the office but it is not the principal they like; it is the salesmen that appeal to them. Larry Friddle and P. D. Swain have put on so much mileage South - westard from Stokesdale that they have built a tunnel of love as a short cut. Needless to say they don ' t use it on the way home-because the longest way around is the sweetest way back. We might suggest a cheaper way. It was always hard to get David Middleton to move once he sat down. He sat down up at His Little Margie ' s and is still there. Or landa Pope always had so much on her mind that it was hard for her to remember anything-but her dates. Leon Murphy walked around with his head in the air, because there was so much in it. He stumped his toe one day in the hall--now he watches where he ' s going, and we think he ' s going somewhere too. Raymond Pegram and Jean Holland held their temper as long as they could, then they exploded-now they are in 99 different parts. During one of Myrtle Matthews glorious blushes her head burst into flames. With no eyes to see, ears for to hear, or mouth for to talk, life just won ' t be worth living so she expired. Roger Pegram almost worried our typing teacher to death. Now he ' s decided to behave himself in class. Pat Clark almost lost her voice cheering on the cheerleader squad. Now she walks around groaning, Let ' s go, Blue Devils! Evelyn Cook wrote so many airmail letters it almost broke her up, so she decided to just go herself. Now she ' s in Mississippi; or I might say with that guy in uniform. Sarah Middleton was always crazy about uniforms. But she was too particular about what was in them. Now she has decided to join the Lonely Hearts Club. Barbara Vernon walks around in a daze--too much of that Rocking¬ ham County community. Watch out fora new home on highway 158East. Barbara Vernon

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MOST LIKELY TO SUCCEED Joy Ann Pegram-Roy Payne MOST ORIGINAL Sarah Middleton-Roger Wilson MOST TALENTED Bonnie Robertson-Wallace Wilson