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

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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

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JOHNNY SASSER ELIZABETH MAHLER