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

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CLASS HISTORY Twelve years! That seems like a long time to spend getting ready to face that great, big world! But just look what we did, as well as what we learned! Let’s, for just a few minutes, turn back the hands of time, and relieve some of those old memories. Let’s begin with the day we first stepped over the threshold of the grammar school, which was to be our home for four years. My, those feet were uncertain and hesitant! However, holding tightly to mother’s hand, we stepped into a world of books and companions. We were immediately “adopted” by Mrs. Joe Liles, Mrs. Shelley Cashion, Miss Anne Little Masemore, and Miss Mary Plunkett. It was these teachers that so patiently taught us to say the ABC’s and to read about Dick, Jane, and Spot. Miss Elizabeth Webb and Mrs. Chase Baughn welcomed us at the beginning of our second year. Through them, we were intro- duc to subtraction. The third year soon came upon us, with Mrs. J. H. Bost, Mrs. Elinor Gray, and Miss Julia Cameron as our leaders. It was in this year that we began to get acquainted with geography, or as we call it today, “social science.” Miss Fanny Dunlap, Miss Alice Lampley, and Miss Leona Edwards took us under their wings in the fourth year of our educational journey. Up jumped our big year! Gee, we felt important as we transferred over to the big school and into the care of Miss Pauline Pinkston and Mrs. Heck Allen. Can’t you remember how we worked at multiplying, dividing, and learning the 48 states? Miss Evelyn Haney and Miss Fannie Winfree met us at the sixth year of our journey. Didn't those geography tests give us a fit? The seventh grade came, with Mrs. George Huntley and Mrs. W. J. Gulledge as our teach- ers. This was the year we learned all about citizenship, through those Friday programs. That year several of our classmates served as marshals for the eighth grade commencement. Mrs. Roy Gaddy and Miss Elizabeth Barker “claimed” us for our final year before entering high school. I guess welll never forget our trip to Raleigh. That was one of the highlights of our eighth grade year. My, wasn’t it fun to ride on that bus! Mrs. Gaddy got quite mad at us for reading comic books instead of looking at the scenery! Commencement came, and never again would we be grammar grade students. We were growing up. High school was our next step. High school, freshman year! My, didn’t we feel big changing classes! All this importance was soon knocked down because the upper classmen wouldn't let us forget our title of “lowly freshman”! Several of classmates were asked to work on the Student Prints and the Hi-Ways. We were very proud of this! The first high school year is usually the hardest, but we have Mrs. Tom Wall, Miss Frances Delmar, and Messrs. David Kephart, Bernard York, Harold Grant, Robert Hickman, J. C. Baucom, William Todd and J. Ray Shelton to thank for their help and guidance. It was they who “took up for their lowly freshmen”! Soon we were sophomores. Under the direction of Miss Hermine Caraway, Mrs. Tom Wall, and Messrs. Robert Hickman, Henry Albaugh, Harold Grant, Charlie Wyant, and David Kephart we progressed toward our junior year. But wait! We just can’t skip over the Junior -Senior Banquet. Ill bet we were the cutest waitresses the juniors and seniors ever had. Those oriental costumes were just perfect. But let’s go on to our junior year. We were met by Mesdames Harold Johnson, Wade Childs, Charles Bird, Roy Gaddy, Miss Caraway, and Messrs. Harold Grant, Tony Sellari, David Kephart, and J. O. Bowman, Jr. It was during this year that we welcomed several Deep Creek students to our class: Eleanor McLaurin, Jane Lowery, Vester Jordan, Charles Bowman, W. J. Baker, and William Ratliff. The Christmas Carrousel Princess, Peggy Teal, came from our junior class. To raise money for our Junior-Senior, our class sold over $1000 worth of magazines. For our banquet theme, we chose a Southern Plantation. Our junior year was just packed with conventions. The SIPA convention at Lexington, Virginia, was attended by some of our group. These came home quite happy, for they had been to a party given by none other than James Street. In the late spring, Ila Mae Tyson and Nancy Howell were chosen to attend Girls’ State. Our last, and most important year arrived with a bang! Now we could be the dignified ones with all those so-called “senior privileges.” But to our surprise, we found, as others have said, that seniors really don’t have many privileges! At least if they did, we never found them! 21 (Continued on page 78 ) ANNE Tice, Historian

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SENIOR CLASS PROPHECY It was nine o'clock and I was sitting in my room all alone. The day’s events began coming back to me. It seemed funny when I thought of all the people that came to me, wanting to know what had happened to some of their loved ones or what was going to happen to them. Then, suddenly, I had an idea! I hadn't heard from my old classmates in quite a while. I decided I'd try to get in touch with them. I took my crystal ball down from the shelf and began my task. At first, everything was a blur; then it began to disappear. A familiar form began taking its place. Was it who I thought it was? Why, yes! Its Anne Tice. Anne was coming down the hall at Duke Hospital. Her neat little white uniform makes her look just as important as she really is. She has really made a name for herself as head nurse here. ’m sure nothing could have pleased her more than this. Working with her as her very capable assistant is Joyce Ward. Joyce gained fame for her- self at Walter Reed Hospital and after hearing of Anne’s position, she applied for a transfer to Duke. Margaret Ann Hildreth, Arlene Austin, and Edna Rogers are also employed on this staff. fe) ane ae Next, I see Frances Eddins sitting at Senator Benny Thomas’ desk in Washington, D. C. She is Benny’s capable secretary. Benny is perhaps one of the most famous persons in the world. He has been responsible for having several amendments added to the constitution. His wife, the former Ernestine Johnson, is the number one society lady in the nation. What’s this—Hollywood? Well, my schoolmates have really starred here in the city of stars. That’s Sybil Poplin I see there. I hear she’s giving Jane Russell much competition. That boy is really the darlin’ of movieland and he is none other than the original Tommy Lowe,—another ‘54er. One of his schoolmates, Jean Parker, is his business manager. She’s doing a great job. Ila Mae Tyson is very famous now. She has just completed a novel, and, as I understand, she won the Pulitizer Prize for it. Maybe she'll receive the Nobel Prize, too. New York—next stop. The leading fashion center here is owned and operated by Calvin Gaddy. Working as his skilled salesmen are Billy Morris and William Warner. His manager is James “Sleepy” Martin. It's funny, isn’t it, how so many of my classmates can be working together and yet they've all in different parts of the country? Eugene Ratliff is probably the most talented of all. He is the chemical engineer for Albert Einstein and he has had much to do in the development of the H.A. bomb. Henry Teal is a very capable construction engineer. He has been granted the job of con- structing the new million dollar housing project in Wadesboro. The architect is to be the now famous Don “Dynamite” McRorie. Foreman will be James “Runt” Pegram. These boys have made a name for themselves all over the world. They are usually referred to as “The Big Three.” Peggy Teal.is perhaps the most publicized of all. After winning the Miss America con- test, she was runner up in the Miss Universe competition. The scene of a professional football game appears next. Coach Claudelle “T Formation” Bridges is nervously pacing the side lines as his two star players, Johnny Livingston and Be) Tyson, continue on the road to victory. Their pictures have been placed in the Hall of ame. Mary Grace Ratliff has been voted the number one pin-up girl of the nation. Her face is constantly appearing on all the top magazine covers. Sharlia Bransington is now a home economics instructor at U.C.L.A. She graduated from here and was immediately put on the staff. Barbara Ratliff stays quite busy these days. She’s the best interior decorator around these parts. She has been engaged to redecorate the interior of former President Eisenhower's home. Who knows what she'll do next? An airfield appears on my screen next. I hear the announcer calling out flight signals. His voice sounds familiar. Why, of course. I should have recognized it as being Jesse Burr’s. What is the name of this airport anyway? Why, it’s Dabbs’ Across Country”! The owner is Bobby Snake” Dabbs. Success comes to those who try. 29 (Continued on page 78) Doris Brock, Prophet