Tarboro High School - Tar Bo Rah Yearbook (Tarboro, NC)

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Prophecy Let Dorothy. Lady Sunshine, Keep them both always quite merry. Rosa Harris, dean of women there. And Lessie. dietitian. Will have portraits made | by Elsie Ford That will win in competition. Doris will model stunning gowns. Mattie write a lovelorn column; And Joe, a portly politician, Will become extremely solemn. Irwin. New York ' s best-paid chemist, Will work in May ' s new chemist shop. James Cratch will make the sandwiches For Bennie Brown, the cop. Oscar, a well-known architect. Will plan Beatrice a home; While Alton. U. A. ' s famous flyer, Over all the world will roam. Hazel Brown will forsake her post As a Phys. Ed. director, So William Duncan, our dry cleaner. Can become her sole protector. Phoebe Jane, behin ' d the desk Of a library in some town, Will buy books from Winnie ' s bookshop. And on light fiction frown. Dene, ever grace itself, Will be dancing with Astaire While Anne, a gay divorcee. Will have given three husbands the air. These things hold true for just a while, Until some bright spring day ' Twill be Ringtime in Spring- time, With romance holding sway. Prophets: sarah heilbroner Elsie Ford Loraine Edwards Page Seventeen

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THE TAR-BO-RAH Prophecy Another catchy little phrase That suits our purpose here Is Ringtime in Springtime . . . We ' ll make its meaning clear. The fortunes of the Seniors, Told in picture and in rhyme, Will all come true, so we believe, Within the proper time. They ' ll follow many different trades. And be successes, too. But eventually they ' ll imitate Our Susie and our Hugh. Herbert will be a naturalist, Hazel Briley ' ll be a teacher, While those of us who know him best Think George will be a preacher. Beulah ' s future holds for her A column of society. As a hostess. Lois Jean will be A model of propriety. The paper published by Robert Knox Will have Sarah for its poet. While Dan. as journalist, will write And let the whole world know it. Warren will be a photographer For Clinton ' s picture show, And Johnnie, as a banker, Will help their fortunes grow. Margaret will pose in lovely gowns That our Winifred designs, While Mabel will edit Made- moiselle After Edith Taylor resigns. David ' s fight for championship Ed ' s radio station will bring; While songs that Loraine Edwards writes Dorothy Lancaster will sing. Blanche and Lucy, both beauti- cians, And Virginia Coley, graduate nurse. Will live together in some big city And pool resources in one purse. Charles Fountain, president of Duke. And Frances, his secretary,

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THE TAR-BO-RAH Last Will and Testament STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA ) COUNTY OF EDGECOMBE TARBORO HIGH SCHOOL CITY OF TARBORO I We. the class of nineteen hundred thirty-nine, in full possession of a crammed mind, well- trained memory, and almost superhuman understanding, being about to pass out of this sphere of education, do hereby declare this to be our last will and testament. ARTICLE I To Mr. Mahler, in appreciation of his many services rendered, we pledge our loyalty and support. ARTICLE 1 To our highly esteemed and honored faculty we bequeath our enviable record in aggressive- ness, obedience, and excellent grades — to be bestowed upon that class which shall equal our perfect standards — in case there should ever be such. ARTICLE 3 To the Class of 1940. we will our co-operative spirit, our dignity, and the honor of pub- lishing a 1940 TAR-BO-RAH. To the Sophomores, we leave our good grades and best wishes for their success in the upper classes. To the merry Freshmen, we leave the hope that they some day achieve their worthy ambition to become Seniors — even such as we. ARTICLE 4 The individual members of the Senior Class make the following disposition of certain per- sonal properties: To Anna Fluck Bud Shook ' s tact To Richard Thayer Hugh Best ' s business ability To Betty Edwards Margaret Anderson ' s athletic ability To Estelle Abrams Dorothy Mobley ' s figure To Virginia Hagans Edna Weeks ' s neatness To Julius Sadler Thurman Strickland ' s masculine nature To Jean Cherry Lorraine Edwards ' s vocal chords To Dercum Strickland Lynn Williamson ' s ability to j;rk sodas To Gal Bardin Anne Fountain s lack of seriousness To Earl Purvis Doug Powell ' s winning smile To Gwendolyn Bateman Elsie Ford ' s quietness To Grace Winslow Winifred Rosenbaum ' s perfect coiffure To June Bourne Dene Creech ' s driving ability To Benjy Trueblood Bill Smith ' s self-assurance To Lillie Bunting Phoebe Harris ' s grades To Belle Drake Virginia Coley ' s giggle To Ottie Graham Watt Smoot ' s way with the ladies To Alice Howard Sarah Tieser ' s wit To Lucille Smoot Elizabeth Weeks ' s way with the horses To Vernon Fountain Leslie Fanny ' s dignity To Bunny Shugar Harry Palmer ' s athletic ability To Manse Bogey Thurman Strickland ' s physique To Hortense Liles Lucy Rogerson ' s self-control To Johnny Hudson Dan Walters ' s jitterbug ability To Ruth Bond Lois Bateman ' s vivacity ARTICLE 5 We. the members of the Senior Class of Tarboro High School, have put our hands and seal on this twenty-eighth day of April. Nineteen Hundred and Thirty-nine. The Senior Class of Tarboro High School. (Signed) ANNE FOUNTAIN, Testator. Witnesses: LYNN WILLIAMSON Johnny Johnson, Douglas Powell. Page Eighteen 1939