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

Page 30 text:

EACH MONTH WAS FUN 1. Ruby Ann Brown welcomes Bryant Teal and Betty Porter to WHS. 2. Paul Drye and Joyce Ballard board the bus for an out-of-town football game. 5. Jessie Ruth Odom, Herbert Jenkins, and Ann Allen “cram” for exams. 7. Graham Davis and Larry Adcock build stage props for the Senior play. 8. Genet Little and Betty Jean Hill select dresses for Junior-Senior.

Page 29 text:

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)

Page 31 text:

10 ON HIGHWAY 1953 Haywood Preslar, Anne Webb, and Mickey Eddins portray Macbeth. E. J. Privette, Georgia Kendall, and Albert Gaddy decorate for Christmas. Shirley Kendall practices nursing on Richard Reynolds. Bobby Clarke, Tonie Bowers, and Teddy Wilkinson sign annuals. Jimmy Short and Loretta Helms proudly wear their “coveted” caps and gowns.