Union High School - Acorn Yearbook (Vale, NC)

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GLSS Ev AGC' P Y AS I GAZE INTO MY CRYSTAL BALL As prophet of the senior class, I must foretell the future of the 1961 seniors. Asl gaze into my crystal ball, it is very dusty. As I continue to lookl see it's not fairy dust, but dust from a racing field. Then the picture begins to clear and I see that it is the be- ginning ofthe Southern 500. Cooter Warlick is the driver of the fastest car there built by Jim Leatherman, who owns Leatherman's Speed Shop. Jim has also built three of the fastest cars on the road for Gene Houser, Ray Elmore, and Lewis Wright, the most famous Bootleggers in the business. It seems to me that these boys should attend one of the sermons of Larry Yoder and his assistant missionary Brenda Leath- erman. Larry is taking over where Billy Graham left off. Watch out! What was that! I see now that it is an ambulance coming into a hospital owned and directed by Judy Hager. The patient is Terry Whitner, who owns Whitey's Casino. Judy is calling in her assistant Jane Black to take over. Oh, my crystal ball just blacked out. I guess I'll have to call Howard Fisher and Ned Johnson, electrical engineers, to fix it. While I'm at itI might as well call the radio and TV repairmen, Floyd Peeler and Thames Lutz, to fix my radio and TV. Now that my crystal ball is in working condition again, I'll get back to the seniors. On second thought maybe it's not working right. Surely this building can't be the White House, but it is. There goes Betty Jo Hauss to one of her presidental meetings. She really meant it when she said she wanted to be president. Now let's see what this meeting is all about. Well, if there isn't Barbara Chapman, a famous interior decorator, and Ralph Johnson, one of the few millionaires left, at the meeting. They must be planning something big. Now Betty Jo is dictating in- vitations to her secretaries, Judy Gilbert, Betty Jean Ingle, Dot Beam, and Frances West. Ah, now the plot begins to clear. They are planning a class reunion and Maxine Johnson and Hazel Long are to type the invitations.

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PATTERN OF LIFE Conclusion, that master of our fates, Has brought us close from far away. From the year we met our classmates, To this year of our parting day. Beginning saw us full of awe, At the chance of being in school. Time, ever marching, fulfilled its law, Now we must respond to that rule. The years of work we leave behind. As now we step out into life. Each has a goal he wants to find, Be it goods or husband or wife. But a word of care I leave with you, Ere you not plan your pathe ahead: Go straight, go strong, be brave and true Lest by the world you are led. Follow Him: His way is the one described His is the straight but narrow path. Be ye not strayed nor either bribed, Nor do things to provoke His wrath. Go not alone but help someone, As life quickly passes you by. Don't always work but have some fun, And love, and laugh, and cry. Work to fulfill your highest aims, Drive hard to realize your goals. Follow life's highways, stake out life's claims Worship to broaden your hearts and souls These are elements of full, whole living That are offered to us as we leave. May we live them always without misgiving To work, to live, and to believe! Larry Yoder Class Poet

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Wow, this class reunion sure is a big occasion. All the seniors of 1961 are arriving. As they come in Betty Jo has them tell every one what they are now doing. First to arrive are Tommy Rhyne, a professor at the University of North Carolina, and Ronnie McConnell, a teacher at Lenior Rhyne. Next to arrive is Judy Seagle, Secretary of Welfare, and her assistant Brenda Houser. The Air Force begins to arrive in the form of Major Bill Reep and Lieutenant Buddy Smith. But the Army isn't left out as Earlene Avery and her husband, who is a general in the Army, arrive with Shirley Johnson, a dance instructor at the Arthur Murray Dance Studio in New York. The businessmen of the class Richard Baucom and Keith Sain, owners of Baucom and Sain Freight Lines, Inc., arrive together. I see that Tony Gilbert and Kay are telling everyone that Tony has just become the new owner of Gilbert's Garage, Inc. The last ones to arrive are Willie Faye Hilms, a lawyer, and Carolyn Scronce, a court stenographer. Everyone is here with the exception of the airline hostess Nancy Wellborn, and the pilot, Robert Allen, who brought all the students here. You might know my crystal ball would begin to fade at this moment, and I would miss all the fun. Prophet Carolyn Scronce