Union High School - Acorn Yearbook (Vale, NC)

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CLASS PICTURE Taken together as one in body, we would make up an individual of sufficient age to know a great deal, if he’s ever going to begin to learn, for we would be three hundred and thirty-four years old. Our height is eight hundred and twenty- five feet and one and one-half inches, which certainly raises us far enough up in the world to allow us to tower above our enemies. We tip the scales at exactly two thousand, seven hundred and ninety-seven pounds. Our hand is large enough to get a good firm grasp upon the affairs of the world, for we wear a hundred sixty-seven and one-half glove. Our head is of sufficient capacity to hold even the vast amount of knowledge we have been cramming into it for the past four years, for we require a hat that measures four hundred and ninety-two. If we do not make the success in life that we desire and expect, it will surely not be because we cannot gain a foothold on the world’s battleground, by way of our colossal understanding, for we wear a number one hundred thirty-seven and one- half shoe. We have within our ranks, poets, musicians, actresses, preachers, statesmen, philosophers, professors, judges, lecturers, physicians, authors, artists, soldiers, sailors, and one United States president. Do not ask me to specify the which or the who. Ask me thirty years from now, and perhaps I may be better able to say, for, of course, they are still in a state of partial development. This is a subdued picture of the Class of 1943 very crudely sketched, but it gives us a glimpse of the great things it foreshadows. Mapce Woop.

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CLASS PICTURE In preparing a picture of the Class of 1943, I will not attempt to give you an exact likeness, because I'm not an artist and everybody knows it. Any of the teachers could tell you that I have never been good in drawing anything—except attention—and could never paint anything successfully, not even my own face. Besides, the Class of 1943 is a lively subject for even an expert to sketch. They are never any of them twice alike, nor apt to be found twice in the same place or position. I cannot see them as they see themselves, nor even as you may see them if you might stand for a time in my position. I can only paint them in words. I am sure you will pardon the exact measure- ments, for I know I would make a better carpenter than I would an artist. The Class of 1943 is made up of twenty-three members—six boys and seven- teen girls. We range in age from Mary Ruth Huss’s fifteen years, eight months, and three days, to James Seagle’s eighteen years, six months, and four days. We range in height from Mary B. Carpenter’s four feet nine and one-half inches—high heels, tall pompadour—to Bachman Brown’s six feet, with or without his silk stockings. We range in weight from Mary B.’s eighty-two pounds—brain and all— to Bachman’s one hundred and sixty-five pounds.

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NAME DorotHy BALLARD Doris BEAM EVELYN BROWN BacHMAN BRowNn Mary B. CarPpENTER Dorotuy Davis VIRGINIA GOINS DorotHy HaLLMAN MAZELLE HEAVNER M. S. HEAVNER LELIA Houser Mary Rutu Huss RosBERT LEONHARDT GEORGE ROBINSON GEORGE ROYSTER DAPHINE SAIN RUBY SCRONCE JAMES SEAGLE SALLIE KATE WARLICK MARGARET WISE INEZ WarpD Mapce Woop MartHa YODER SENIOR CLASS CENSUS HIGHEST AIM ° Stenographer Home Demonstration Agent Stenographer Civil Engineer Secretary Nurse Air Stewardess Musician Stenographer Teacher Stenographer Typist Pilot Chemist Pilot Physical Ed. Instructor WAAC Farmer Stenographer Bookkeeper Stenographer Nurse Stenographer BY-WORD Good-gosh I swan Really Fish-tail Golly-pete Heck-fire Phooey . Gosh Shucks Aw Dang it! Youw’re crazy Skip it Shut wp What’s cookin’ Aw shucks Silly Dad burnit Oh, yeah Silly Good gracious Dad gummit Aw, heck NICKNAME Dot Termite Ebbie Bachie B Dot Ginny Dot Musey cat Joe Brat Blondie Bob Peewee Scout Phenie Snooks Jim Sal Peg Nezzie Skit Mot 1943 AILMENT Too many boys Biting Studying Bashful Squealing Borrowing Money Day dreaming Eating Always broke Blushing Broke Day dreaming Laughing Gabbing A little off Kicking Biting fingernails Bashful Talking Nervous Laughing Eating Too tall STRONG POINT Typing Shorthand Mathematics History Drawing Cooking Talking Talking Typing French Talking Basketball Sports Lending money Two-timing girls Sports Cooking Eating Eating Bookkeeping Housekeeping Cooking Sewing