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

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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

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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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SOPHOMORES