Union High School - Acorn Yearbook (Vale, NC)

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-Keg- '-t 3-...L if 1 RUBY V. JOHNSON Tall-Attractive-Typing Wizard 4-H Club 1, 2, 3, 45 Marshal 3. SELENA LEONARD Popular- Frizz -Enthusiastic 4-H Club 1, 2, 3: Annual Staff 4g Choir 33 Most Popular 43 Senior Play 4. Qvlssqt. .NNW S SE IORS RUTH LEATHERMAN Dramatic-Original-Personality Class President lg Waitress Junior- Senior Banquet 13 Beta Club 2. 3, 45 Trail Blazer Stafl 2, 3, 41 Basketball 2, 3, 4g Basketball Letter 33 4-H Sew- ing Medal 2, 35 Clothing Exhibit Winner 33 President 4-H 23 Secre- tary-Treasurer County Council 35 4-H Club Week 3, 45 School Recita- tion Medal 33 Class Sccretary-Treas- urer 3: Class Play 2, Honor Roll 1, 2, 3, 4, Choir 33 Music Club 2, 33 Represented School in Lenoir Rhyne Forensic Contest 3, Annual S-tai? 43 Junior Farewell Play 3, Senior Play. 798- x 'S' 5 Qld! if 1 at -'-5 f Q CONNIE M. JONAS Eager-Tallcative-Merry Waitress Junior-Senior Banquet 23 4-H Club 1, 2, 45 Choir 2, 3, Honor Roll 4, Senior Play. GLENN LUTZ Carefree-Tall-Rugged F. F. A. 1, 2, 3, 43 Bus Driver 43 4-H Club 1. X, 'Fw , , fb ,M

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POEM 348 Ex Animo r QFrom The Hearty After this spring when we graduate As the class of nineteen hundred forty eight We'll no longer climb the creaking stairs Or tip over the study hall chairs, So let us take a backward glance At our high school advance. We've seen a great war come to its end And heard famous men their peace messages send, But like students of other times we played hard And worked to keep our school records unmarred Learned our reading, 'riting, and 'rithmetic Even though at times we weren't any to quick. In few things do we excell But occasionally We have done well. From this you see we have quite a tribe Which I will now try to describe. When we all together convene There are three Marys, two Rubys, and one Gene Studious Thomas and Miller, his energetic pal And the likable twins to keep up our morale Athletic Roy and Earnest, our artist Popular Selena and Ruth, our journalist Handsome William, happy Ellen, and pretty Daphine Friendly Evoyd, moody Marie, and Glenn are to be And among our ranks you'll see Red-haired Helen and of course there's me, Roberts, Pansy and Connie Mae Who are sometimes sad and sometimes gay Then there's our chief so fine Our home-room teacher, Mrs. Rhyne. We're quite proud of what we have done And we're among the happiest under the sun. But wait-We're forgetting one big thing We wouldn't be Wearing our blue and gold ring If we hadn't had teachers who knew their stuff And parents who knew when that ache was a bluff, We appreciate the history and English The lunches and your urging us to finish, But most of all the common sense Rather than an irregular verb tense, Of what is to come we're no little afraid But when we our lives have made, You can say our success really began When you taught us to live with our fellowman. Seen Class Poetess ANITA BOLINGER

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CLASS PROPHECY As I sit in my beauty parlor in May, 1955, waiting for the next customer, I think back over what Helen Richard, a basketball coach at Lenoir Rhyne College, told me the day before as I was setting her hair. She told me that all my class- mates were building a great future for themselves, but the most exciting thing was that Miller Reep was Governor of North Carolina, and he had as his secretary Ruby Huss. She told me that Earnest Thomas was the owner and operator of Thomas' Furniture Co. of Lincolnton, and that William Robinson was studying to be a preacher at the Lutheran Theological Seminary, Columbia, South Carolina. I knew that Roy Hoyle always did like airplanes, and I was glad to hear that he has been successful as a flier of one of the largest airplanes in the United States. He has as stewardess on his plane, Mary Scronce. Iva Lee Roberts is a happy housewife. Knowing that Thomas Sain was always smart in his school work I was not surprised to hear that he was a professor at Duke University. Another of our oustanding students, Anita Bolinger, is Lincolnton's foremost woman doctor. Know- ing that a few of my classmates had great hopes of becoming nurses, I was interested in knowing about them. Mary Bolding is a laboratory technician in the Memorial Hospital in Charlotte while Daphine Conner is a nurse at the Baptist Hospital in Winston-Salem. Ellen Jane Peeler is making a success as owner and manager of the Charlotte Children's Nursery, and Ruby Johnson is Van Johnson's private nurse. Next I was told that Pansy Scronce was a Congresswoman from North Caro- lina, and hearing of Pansy I naturally asked about Mary Alice Sigmon and Connie Jonas. I was told that lVIary Alice was the first policewoman in Lincolnton, and that Connie was working in the office of Jonas and Jonas, Lawyers. Evoyd Hull always did like to ride a motorcycle, and he is now a well-known daredevil motorcyclist. Glenn Lutz is driving a candy truck for the Lutz Candy Company in Lin- colnton. Ruth Leatherman, who had a great desire to be an artist, is going to the School of Arts in Washington. The three classmates that aroused my interest most were Marie Davis, and Carroll and Harold Heavner. Marie is a teacher of the Hrst grade at Union High School. Carroll and Harold are managers of I-Ieavner's Nursery for baby girls ranging from 18 to 25 years of age. Since I now know where all my classmates are, why go on thinking about them when I have work to do? Class Prophetess, SELENA LEONARD