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

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CLASS HISTORY We started on one of the most eventful and hardest tasks of our life in September, 1939. This was the time when we first explored the mysteries of reading and writing. ' This was a very trying experience but as we were young and willing to learn, it was soon conquered. For eight long years we applied what we learned that first year, adding more each year for the time when we would become Freshmen in high school At last this time came First we were Freshmen. Most of us felt the same way that first day as we did on thaf long ago day in September, 1939. We were, according to the Sophomores, the most stupid Freshmen in years. The one thing that was hardest for us to learn was that we still had rules and these had to be obeyed. To help us with this we had Mr. Hugh Cox and Mr. B. J. Mickleson, as our teachers, and Leroy Sasser, as our class president. Then we were Sophomores. This year Mrs. Morse and Mrs. Blackburn were to help us over the bumps. Again Leroy Sasser was president of the class. The two most outstanding things that hap- pened were the selecting of our classrings and the Halloween Carnival. The money from the Carnival was to be used for our far off Junior-Senior. It wasn ' t as far off as we thought. Next we were Juniors. Many of our classmates had fallen out by now. Miss Louise Tunstall had left us due to the sickness of her mother but in her place came one of our best loved teachers, t Mr A W. James We elected David Miller class president. This year we had many important things to do. The first big job to come to us was Stunt Night. This was easy compared to the next job, that of the Junior Play. The money from these two was used to finance the last and hardest job of all, the Junior-Senior. We had to work to get this put over, not only for just the weeks before it came off but for years before. After the gym was all ready for the big night we were very proud of the good work that had been done. Everyone said the gym looked better than they had ever seen it. To finish the year right we got our rings. Now we are Seniors. At the beginning of the year it seemed sfrange not to have anyone to look up to as we had done for the last three years. We have many things to do but under the leadership of Miss Hales, our teacher, and Jimmy Thomason, our president, how can we fail to do all well? Among our projects are getting over the Annual, going to Washington, the Senior Play, and the most impor- tant thing of all— GRADUATION. Now we realize that it wasn ' t all work but almost all pleasure, and if -you feel discouraged, remember you will get there in the end — we did. Edna English Class Historian

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Daisy Gertrude O ' Neal Gertie So tiny in size, with hair all a curl, They think she ' s a flirt, but she ' s a mighty good girl. Glee Club 1, 2, 4; Waitress Junior-Senior; Latin Club 4; Class Testator; Who ' s Who. Best Dancer. John Henry Price, Jr. John If words were money he ' d be a millionaire. Glee Club 1, 2; 4-H Club 1, 2; Football 3, 4; Junior Play; Who ' s Who, Most Talkative. Leroy Sasser Frisco A lover of sports, a winner of games, This is the honor that he maintains. Glee Club 1, 2; Class Officer 1, 2, President 1,2; Mono- gram Club 3, 4; Football 2, 3, 4, Co-Captain 4; Basket- ball 1, 2, 3, 4; Baseball 1, 2, 3, 4; 4-H Club 1 ; Waiter Junior-Senior; Who ' s Who, Most Athletic. James Boyd Thomason, Jr Jimmie Pep in his fingers, pep in his toes, A jolly good fellow wher- ever he goes. Monogram Club 1 , 2, 3, 4; Glee Club 1 , 4; Quartet 2; Football 1, 2, 3, 4; Co-Cap- tain 4; Basketball 1 , 2, 3, 4, Captain 3; Class Officer 3, 4; Vice President 3, Presi- dent 4; Who ' s Who, Most Handsome, Most Popular, Best Dancer. Alma Est ' elle Osborne Stella ' , A smile for all, a greeting glad, A lovable, jolly way she has. Dramatics Club 1 , 4-H Club 1 . 2, 3, 4, Secretary 3, Vice President 4; Glee Club 1 , 2, 4; Basketball 3. 4; Cheer- leader 3, 4; Co-Chief 4; Monogram Club 3; Who ' s Who, Biggest Flirt. Edith O ' Neal Sutton Edith Smart and friendly too — That ' s Edith for you. Dramatics Club 1 ; 4-H Club 1, 2, 3. 4; Glee Club 1, 2; F.H.A. 1, 2, 3; Junior Play. Sybil Dale Spain Sybil ' - ' Her pleasant smile and kind- ly ways, Will live in our memories all our days. Glee Club 1, 2; Student Council 1, 2; Secretary- Treasurer 2; Class Officer 1 , 2, Secretary-Treasurer 1 , 3, Vice President 2; Waitress Junior-Senior; Who ' s Who. Prettiest. Robert Curtis Weaver Curt A j oj I y good sport, an all around guy, Such a pal no money can buy. Dramatics Club 1 ; Glee Club 2, 4; Quartet 2; Ensemble 4; Student Council 3, 4; News- paper Staff 4; Who ' s Who, Most Courteous. 4

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1. PROPHECY Dear Miss Hales, As you were the teacher of our Senior Class of 1950-51, I thought you might like to know what became of all your students. By mere coincidence, I happened to come across an old photo of our class the other day after I came from work. Incidentally, I work as a receptionist. Naturally when I saw that picture, the first thing I asked myself was, Where could they be now, and how can I find out? Of course, I already knew where a few of them were. For instance, Alma Mitchell and Phyllis Fowler are both models at Miller and Rhoads in Richmond; Edith Sutton is still in Tarboro and is doubling as both a housewife and a secretary; Billy Edmondson and Charles Fisher are the two most prosperous farmers in Edge- combe County; Billie Bateman and Cynthia Mahler are working as a welfare worker and a teacher at a famous orphanage, respectively; and, as everyone probably knows, Curtis Weaver is a retired mil- lionaire (The lucky thing 1 ) However, I still wondered what had become of the rest of our class. One person I remembered though was Mae Hathaway, who always wanted to be an Air Line Hostess. After inquiring about, I found, to my amazement, that she is a hostess at LaGuardia Airport. I was delighted because I knew her work must help her to meet many people and, perhaps, she had met some of the class. I wrote her a letter and received an answer only three days later. The number of pupils she had met was far beyond my expectations. Mae told me in the letter that Ed Brown is now a very famous interior deco- rator; Estelle Osborne ' s romance with her wealthy boss is the highlight of the gossip columns in the New York papers; Bill Edwards is a Professor of Biology at Harvard University; Barbara Newsome sings at the Stork Club; and Nick Johnson is a very successful lawyer, whose secretary is Jean Jenkins. Mae ' s information was very encouraging and I kept trying to discover where the rest of the class was Luck was with me; for the next day I met Daisy O ' Neal, who is home on vacation. She works as a stenographer in Washington. I knew she was a friend of Jimmy Thomason and inquired about him Finding that he was a Jet Pilot, I wrote him immediately. His answer was every bit as helpful as Mae ' s. I discovered that he knew where many of the girls were because he always was a Romeo. He said that Sybil Spain is a nurse at Johns Hopkins and Bar- bara Clark is a nurse at Duke; Ruby Bazemore, Betty Jean O ' Neal, and Evelyn Evans are all highly paid secretaries; and Alice Oates is a typist. Jimmy did a bit of scouting for me and found that Leroy Sasser is the football coach at Carolina. From Frisco, he gathered the fact that Tom Holland is a school teacher. Imagine that 1 He also found that John Price is, of all things, a mortician; David Miller is an engineer; J. P. Harrell is an expert mechanic; Edna English is a science teacher in a Raleigh school; Joyce Causey is now a music teacher; and Dick Batchelor, a highway patrolman, gave Jeanne Briggs a ticket for speeding. Miss Hales, I know you will be just as proud of our class as I am. I think they all did wonderful A friend gave me your address, but I still don ' t know what you are doing. Are you still teaching? I would like to know, so please answer. Forgot to mention Bobby Clark, but he is sweeping the floor on third shift at Hart Cotton Mills. Yours truly, Maxine Johnson