Swain County High School - Ridge Runner Yearbook (Bryson City, NC)

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Mrs. Maroney: Truth was never put in plainer words. You know Elizabeth Col¬ ville—well, if you could expect good behavior from any of them. I’ve always said it would be from her. But after what she did the other night. I’ll never have faith in any of them again. Mrs. Hezron: I ' m shocked myself! I just can ' t imagine her doing something so awful. What in the world was it? Mrs. Maroney: I really shouldn ' t be repeating this because I told Mrs. Silence I wouldn’t breathe it—but I know you won ' t tell anyone so I’ll tell you. She drank a root beer-■!!! Mrs. Hezron: Why, Mrs. Maroney, I can hardly believe that she would do a thing like that. But if you say so. I know it must be true. Oh, yes, I knew there was something else I wanted to tell you. 1 heard that Catherine Totherow. Pauline Jhones, Ethel Campbell, Helen Cloer, and Leavenia Jacobs had all entered the National Typing Speed Contest. That Catherine Totherow is really fast —on the typewriter I mean, of course. Don ' t misunderstand me, for you know I wouldn’t say a word to offend anyone for anything in the world. But while we are on the subject of speed, did you ever see anyone drive a car as fool¬ ishly as that Gertrude Davis. She just goes like fury all the time. Just this morning she scared me speechless. I had started across the street. The light said go—so naturally I thought I’d be safe—but heavens above, no one is safe with her at the wheel of an automobile. She came racing down the street just as though she owned the town—and the way she blew at me, you would have thought she had the right of way! Clara Belle Shook: I’m sorry to interrupt you ladies, but I have to catch a plane leaving in 15 minutes, and I must call a taxi. Would you mind too much hang¬ ing up for just a minute, please. Two receivers are slapped back on the hook instantly—and Clara Belle is glad that she had accepted the job in New York and will not be in town tomorrow to hear what a rude person she is to interrupt an important telephone conver¬ sation. Mrs. Hezron and Mrs. Maroney feel that they have been imposed upon terribly and immediately write to the telephone company insisting on a private telphone. PAULINE CRISP, Prophetess Page Nineteen

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Class Prophecy- Operator: Number, please. Mrs. Hezron: 4405. Mrs. Maroney: Hello. Is that you, Mrs. Hezron? Well. I thought that was your receiver coming off the hook. As I ve said, I can always tell yours if it comes off by itself—but you know how it usually is—all the receivers coming off at the same time. Looks as if the war has been over long enough now for us to get off this Party Line. But land sakes, ever since the telephone company hired Sara Hill as a telephone operator, the only line Lewis Gregory ever has on his mind is that line he shoots her. as we used to say when we were back in school. Mrs. Hezron: Why yes, he keeps that telephone pole by her window worn slick making repairs. I guess we shouldn’t complain though. They ' ve never gotten poor Vergie (Thomas) Montieth ' s line fixed yet from the time that dare-devilish Joe Estes fell through it with the parachute that had the rat holes in it. She needs her phone almost as badly as we do ours. Poor thing! I ' ll bet she hasn’t heard a word we’ve said. Mrs. Maroney: Just wait until you hear what I’m going to tell you now. You re¬ member that ad Harold Davis put in the paper last week for a woman to take care of his kids. Well, when Mary Anna Watson, Deanne Parrish, Betty Lou Moffitt, and Edith DeHart all applied in person, and found he wasn’t married but merely operating a goat ranch, they left him a fit customer for J. C. Free¬ man, who is selling one of those new fangled earphones that picks up sound from permanent waves that Joe Almond invented so he could find out what his wife, Frankie, talked about in Robert Orr’s Permanent Rave Beauty Salon. Mrs. Hezron: I always knew that Eugene Elliott would climb and go high. Bobbie Lee Keeter, you know she is working for Senator Zebulon Weaver Byrd now, said the last time she saw him, he was still climbing; and that some credit for his success would probably go to Charles Moffitt’s latest window cleaner, for it sure makes those White House windows shine. Mrs. Maroney: Speaking of Washington that just reminds me, Lawyer Olin Crisp has just gotten a Patent for Professors Bennie Robinson, Maurice Ashe, and Frank Parton ' s new invention—the tooth brush for lazy people. Pauline Crisp bought one, and she told me that you wear it as you would a locket, and that when you get up in the morning and yawn the locket opens, the tooth brush comes out with paste on it, and brushes your teeth before you finish yawning. Mrs. Hezron: Wouldn’t that be the very thing for Dr. D. B. Conner to use in his hospital if they would put a thermometer on it so that his nurses, Lois Gregory, Ruth Jones, Elizabeth Tisdale, and Aileen Welch, could take the temperature without wasting any energy. Mrs. Maroney: While we are on the subject of inventions, I hear that the faculty of the Swain County High School, including Jean Childers, Evelyn Cochran, Mildred Greene, Alta Jean Watson, and Fannie Burr Cagle, have offered those noted scientists, Bates and Monteith. a write-up in the school paper if they would include a direction finder for their new class room spit ball detector. Mrs. Hezron: They tell me those students just can ' t think of enough things to do for aggravation. Why, O’Neal Muse said his son, Frisby, was suspended from school for trying to act the way his daddy told him the students did back in the class of ’45. Mrs. Maroney: Not changing the subject but did you see that ad in last week’s paper that the Thomasson-Wright Matrimonial Bureau is running. It surely seems to accomplish its purpose. It stated that its latest members, Mildred Rogers, Nellie Mae Stillwell. Blanche Thomas. Vinnie Ball. Evelyn Burchfield, and Jeannette Cable, had all received proposals—and that Jeannette Cable, former member of the WAVES, had turned two of them down on account of their having flat feet. Did you ever hear of anyone advertising and then being so particular? Mrs. Herzon: Isn’t it appalling what these editors allow in their papers now? When the Lindsay girls took over the Tuekaseegee Bugle, I thought things would be different. But sakes alive—there ' s no accounting for this younger generation. Page Eighteen

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Lest We Forget 1. Aw, Blow it out. 2. Sheure! 3. The wall across the street. 4. Grow Bush. 5. George. 6. The Faculty. 7. Mrs. Wood and Miss Long as Senior Sponsors. 8. “Pssst, How long is it until the bell?” 9. The Sophomore-Senior Ban¬ quet. 10. “Macbeth”. 11. Aw Shucks!! 12. What’s Cookin’? 13. Bennett ' s”. 14. Outside of that-!! 15. The announcements. 16. The absence lists on Satur¬ day. 17. No wonder men leave home!! 18. The basketball game between the faculty and the girls team. 19. ' 44 and ’45 love affairs: Frankie Estes and Joe Al¬ mond; Doris Thomasson and Brevard Brown; “Pug” Wright and Jimmy Gray; Bobbie Lee Keeter and “Butch” Robin¬ son; Juanita Earls and Odell Seay; Gail Bryson and Harold Cope; All the girls and “Charlie” Moffitt; Nina Cable and Curtis Revis; “Blackie” Estes and Jonnie Maples; Elizabeth Tisdale and Harold Dugan; Dan Conner and Nor¬ ma Jean Burnette; Pearl Am¬ mons and Perc Estes. 20. That Mr. Taylor is a poet. 21. That Robert and Mary Anna are always on time for school. 22. Mrs. Wood and her dramatic gestures. 23. Afternoon activity periods. 24. The class of ' 45. 25. The election of the president and vice president of student body. 26. The absence of a junior class. 27. April 12, 1945. 28. May 8, 1945. Page Twenty