Union High School - Acorn Yearbook (Vale, NC)

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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

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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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Clk-.SIS Alsfory We the Senior Class of 1961 are at last completing our last years of high school. They were happy years. We have had fun and heartaches during the time we have been in high school. We've done many things which we are proud to talk about along with some we are not so proud of. ln August of 1957, forty-five of us delightly entered high school as freshmen. Some of us came from Howards Creek the year before, but were well in swing with the rest of the class by now. Our leaders for that year were Judy Seagle, Barbara Chapman, Dot Beam, Shirley Johnson, Judy Gilbert, and Tom Rhyne. In August of 1958 we went on to higher education. We were sopho- mores. There were only 43 in our class that year. Our leaders were Barbara Chapman, Richard Baucom, Dot Beam, Phil Hoover, Tom Rhyne, Larry Yoder, and Shirley Johnson. Some of the boys and girls were honored with the privilege of carry- ing our school colors as basketball players. In the spring of 1959 we had come to the year most of us had been looking forward to, our Junior. We had many events to look forward to. There were 39 of us that year. Our leaders were Tom Rhyne, David Warlick, Barbara Chapman, Judy Seagle, Carolyn Scronce, and Larry Yoder. Six Juniors were initiated into the Beta Club. The biggest events of that year were the Junior Play entitled, Sing for Your Supper, which was a big success, and the Junior-Senior Banquet. We choose the Cinderella Ball as a theme and did we ever have a ball. At last in the spring of 1960, we were Seniors. We will soon be facing graduation. There are 37 of us now. Our leaders are David Warlick, Tom Rhyne, Judy Seagle, Larry Yoder, and Richard Baucom. This year we look forward to presenting the Senior Play, and most important we look forward to graduation. It has been a long hard climb. Many of us will go on to higher ed- ucation and many of us will go directly into making a living for ourselves But whatever we set out to dol am confident we will succeed. Historian Barbara Chapman