Wadesboro High School - Tiger Tales Hi Ways Yearbook (Wadesboro, NC)

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LEFT ALONG THE WAY Britt BLUE Testator Y} jl We, the senior class of 1953, being of weak body and weaker mind and having at last exhaust- ed our teachers’ patience and kindness, do hereby publish for humanity this last will and testament. To Me. Wildermuth, who has struggled so faithfully to lead us through high school, we leave our thanks and highest regard. To Mr. Baucom; our principal, who during these years has kept us on the straight and narrow path, we leave the hope that the class of ’54 will work cooperatively with him. To our homeroom teachers, we leave one giant size box of bicarbonate of soda for we’re sure they’ve had a hard time stomaching us this year. To the other members of the faculty, we be- queath the sincerest thanks for the great amount of knowledge which we have been able to acquire despite the flying chalk and bloodthirsty cries of “Boing.” To the junior class, we leave our much used or rather misused literature books, our high offices around WHS, and finally the highly touted senior privileges if they are able to find them. We could not. To the sophomere class, we leave the prophecy of a wonderful junior-senior in 1954 and all the headaches therewith connected. To the freshman class, we will a sentence of three more years at hard labor in Wadesboro High School. The following seniors, with tears in their eyes, do will and bequeath their prized possessions for the betterment of the individuals to whom the belongings are left and for the welfare of dear ole Wadesboro High. Jimmy Short, our class president, wills his posi- tion to the unfortunate person who acquires it. Bobby Davis and Lula Anne Pope leave their ability to go steady to Johnny Livingston and Glenda Allen. Ruby Anne Brown and Dorothy McLaurin leave their quiet manner to “Kat” Griggs. 24 James Harward, Leroy Kelly and Richard Reynolds leave their love of Shakespearean plays to William Warner, Garrett Meeks, and James Martin. Fred Wood does bequeath his ability to get along with Miss Caraway to Bobby Dabbs. Wiley Teal leaves his muscles to Don McRorie in hopes that Don will use them to earn a first string cherleader position. Joyce Ballard leaves her love of Rockingham to her little sister. Jo Jarrell and Jessie Ruth Odom leave their ability to get out of school to Anne Tice and Frances Eddins. Claudia Covington, Genet Little, and Jessie Ruth Honeycutt leave their good grades to Kirby Hinson. He’ll probably need all of them. Beatrice Caulder does bequeath her majorette uniform to the girl with the necessary qualifica- tions. Mathey Davis, Benton Roper, and “Goose” Robeson do will their positions on the football team to Ernest Brower, Calvin Hooks, and Louis Fogleman. May they fill them well. Freddy Teal and Bobby Clarke leave their goose hunts in freezing weather to anyone who will get up at 5:00 A.M. to take them. Haywood Preslar and Bartley Burch do be- queath their 200 pound frames to James North- cutt and Billy Poplin. Mickey Eddins leaves her ability to read faster than any other senior to Claudelle Bridges. Loretta Helms and Tonie Bowers leave their positions as class officers to anyone so unfortunate as to acquire them. | Betty Jo Chewning, the youngest member of our class, leaves this honor to Larry Smith with the hope that it will spur him to greater things. Jeff Covington and Teddy Wilkinson leave their eighth grade girls to the eighth grade boys. Jimmy Shumaker, Harold Eddins, and Bryant Teal bequeath their good looks to all those hand- some sophomore boys. Jimmy Henry wills his drum major uniform to Kenny Williams with the hope that it fits snugly. Sherrill Ballard and Dawn Lovett refuse to leave their soldier boy friends to anyone. Anne Allen leaves her escapades in Coach Sellari’s class to Emmie Lou Teal. Jane Little leaves her ability to get to school exactly two minutes late to someone who likes to spend 30 minutes each afternoon in detention hall. Herbert Jenkins and Bobby Moore do bequeath (Continued on page 28)

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WELL TRAVELED ROADS In September, 1941, we, as group of self-consc- ious six-year-olds, destined to be the class of 1953, began their journey down the long and sometimes rocky highway of education. The first mile of our journey was very capably directed by Miss Mary Plunkett, Mrs. Joe Liles, and Miss Anne Little Masemore. Under their guidance we were introduced to the ‘‘three R’s’’, reading, “‘riting,” and “‘rithmetic,” and we were well off to a good start by the time we reached the second milestone. Here we were met by three new guides, Mrs. Chase Baughan, Mrs. Lee Ashcraft, and Miss Elizabeth Webb, who very patiently and pains- takingly guided us over Subtraction Hill. In high spirits and no worse for the wear of having journeyed for two long years, we took off down the road for the third and fourth miles of the way led by Misses Leona Edwards, Julia Cameron and Alice Lampley, and Mesdaces Eleanor Gray and Evelyn Wright. We laboriously crossed over Multiplication Rocks and my, were we shocked when we came upon demon geography! However we were repaid for the struggle by the sight of a new building, which was to be our abode for the rest of this trip. We were greeted at the door by Mrs. H. EF. Allen and Miss Pauline Pinkston, our new guides, who introduced us to Mr. Dictionary and tried in vain to acquaint us with the intricacies of frac- tions. That proved to be a very trying experience for both travelers and guides, but we finally rounded the sixth mile. Here we met Misses Evelyn Haney and Fannie Winfree, and Mesdames W. J. Gullege and Ray Jolly, our directors for the sixth and seventh miles. We thoroughly enjoyed presenting assembly pro- grams, and making notebooks was a “cinch” com- pared with working decimals and percentage. After seven miles of travel there developed among us seven learned travelers—Martha Hunt, Virginia Tyson, Claudia Covington, Dot McLaurin, Mary Plyde Marsh, Loretta Helms, and Beatrice Caulder. Upon these was bestowed the signal honor of serv- ing as marshals for junior high commencement. All too quickly we rounded the eighth mile of our journey. Our trip to Raleigh completely out- shone all the events of that year or any previous year. With our guides, Misses Elizabeth Barker and Essie Mae Outlaw, and Mrs. Roy Gaddy, we tour- ed the city from the state capitol to the state prison. In June we graduated from the eighth gradc. With Martha Hunt and Virginia Tyson, our wisest travelers, speaking for us, we bade farewell to grammar school and arrived at a new station called high school. a; GENET LITTLE Historian So the largest class to enter Wadesboro High School began their ninth mile of ‘travel. We wel- comed the advice of our guides, Misses Frances DeLamar, Evelyn Bullard, and Hope Bailey, Mesdamies Gertrude Wall and Roy Gaddy, and Messrs. J. C. Baucom, John Rawls, Ray Shelton, and Robert Hickman. Some of our classmates served as members of the Student Prints and Hi- Ways staffs and as members of the various clubs and athletic teams. For the first time in the history of the school, a freshman, Kathryn Britt, reigned as queen at the homecoming’ game. We enthusiastically set out on the tenth mile. Mesdames Sara Farmer, Gertrude Wall and Roy Gaddy, Misses Frances DeLamar, Hope Bailey, and Hermine Caraway, and Messrs. Harold Grant, Robert Hickman, David Kephart, and Messrs. Harold Grant, Robert Hickman, David Kephart, and William Todd were our directors. This year was a year of improvement. All the class rooms were painted, the lab and the cafeteria were remodeled, and four new classrooms, which were first used as homerooms by our class, were added. Band and industrial arts, which had been dropped from the curriculum several years previ- ously, were reinstated. We started the eleventh mile with a bang! Under the direction of Misses Hermine Caraway, Hope Bailey, and Frances DeLamar, Mrs. Mildred Johnson, and Messrs. Charles Wyant, Henry Albaugh, Robert Hickman, Harold Grant, and David Kephart, we advanced quickly. The high- light of the year was the junior-senior banquet, and dance. We excelled all previous: classes in magazine sales and were able to finance the junior- senior without presenting a class play. Several of our co-travelers ranked superior in various fields. Claudia Covington, Jessie Ruth Honeycutt, and Bill Blue proved to be our most literary travelers, and thus won the honor of serv- ing as marshals for the graduation of the class of (Continued on page 28)

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THE HIGHWAYS BEYOND The date is April 18, 1972, as I pause to rest beside the highway to Wadesboro, largest city in the Eastern Hemisphere. (Tiring of “riding the rods,” I have taken to “thumbing rides” as my latest mode of transportation.) From my duffle bag I bring out my most cherished possession, a 1953 “Hi-Ways.” J leaf through it and start remembering my old high school classmates. The first picture I see is that of Larry Adcock. Larry and Bartley Burch are now the world’s forc- most builders of boats, yachts, and ships. Their latest is a submarine bomber that flies under- water. Ann Allen, whose picture I see next, is head nurse at Walter Reed Hospital in Washing- ton, D. C. On her staff are Betty Jean Hill, Joyce Shaver, Georgia Kendall, and Sherrill Ballard. Joyce Ballard is society editor of the ““New York Times.” The chief editor of this paper is another of my classmates, Bill “Scoop” Blue, winner of the Nobel Prize for three consecutive years. Tonie Bowers along with Gay and Loretta Helms are hostesses with Freddy Teal’s ‘Trillion Dollar” Airline Fleet. I pick up a “Times” and turn to the theater section. Just as I thought, Ruby Ann Brown and Shirley Kendall are starring in the latest Broadway drama ‘“‘Bewildered Bertha’s Boisterous Brother.” Bea Caulder is currently getting into shape for the 1972 “Olympics” which she won in 1964 and 1968. Betty Jo Chewning is secretary for Bobby “Speedball”? Clarke. Bobby who is considered the world’s greatest driver, has just won the Indian- apolis 500 in his “Gray Dodge Special.” Sally Jo Coley owns one of the World’s fore- most fashion centers. Among her staff of top designers are: Dawn Lovett, Nellie Hill, and Mickey Eddins. As I go down the lines of pictures, I see that of Claudia Covington, who along with Genet Little, provides the greatest one-two punch in Girl’s Hockey. Jeff Covington is the dean of American coaches. His “Cruddy College” team just won their 68th straight Tiddly Winks game. Graham Davis now owns a chain of stores call- ed ‘Davis’ Ducky Dime Stores.” ZOOM! There goes Bobby “Razor” Davis, the great surgeon. He is driving a 50 cylinder ‘Davis Super X” made by the Mathey Davis Automobile Co. Dr. Davis recognizes me and gives me a lift. Now maybe I’ll find out about some of my other classmates. Dr. Davis greets we with ‘““Wha’ say!” “Boing,” I answer, remembering an old expres- sion of our class. 25 Freppy Woop Prophet Richard “World and the He told me that Paul Drye Williams are still starring for Champion, St. Louis Browns.” Harold Eddins, E. J. Privette, and Herbert Jenkins have opened up another “Super Market” in Polkton. Polkton is now the metropolis of 28 states and headquarters for the Harward Trucking Co., owned and operated by James Harward. James’ trucks are naturally serviced by Albert Gaddy’s ‘‘Super Duper Garage,” standard for good garages everywhere. A passing signboard tells me that the Shirley Jarrell Bakeries are now sponsoring the ‘Prone Stranger Show” starring Leonard (3 gun) Honey- cutt and his faithful Indian companion “Pronto,” played by Leroy Kelly. The program originates from the studios of EHURTV, which means, Edwin Hinson Ultrasonic Radio and Television Station. Dr. Davis (Crud) tells me that: Shirley became famous with her recipe for making dough- nut holes without the doughnut. Jane Little and Mary Plyde Marsh are now stars in Hollywood. Mary Plyde is starring as the female lead in the ‘““Ma and Pa Kettle’ series. Her leading man is Bobby “Whip” Moore. As we near the city limits, ‘““Doc” Davis en- lightens me on the interesting bit of information concerning the photographing of the faculty of the huge Wadesboro School system. He tells me that the pictures are to be taken this afternoon and that he is on his way there now to meet Lula Ann Pope, a former lab technician, who is now president of the Red Cross. Upon arrival at the prison, I mean school, I quickly recognize the photographers as Betty Ann Porter and Richard “Flash” Reynolds. I look at their list of people to be photographed during the afternoon and recognize quite a few of my old classmates. The principal is Jimmy Short, respectfully called “BB Brain” by his stu- dent body. (Continued on page 28)