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Class Prophecy Arriving in Wendell, North Carolina, June 1, 1955, I see on every billboard in l rge letters, that are familiar: HONEYCUTT DEAN CARNIVAL “The Greatest Collection of Freaks Ever Assembled On Any Midway” Of course I know Mallie Honeycutt and Robert Dean, they were in my graduating class of ’45. So this is why we are having homecoming? I have heard that quite a few of my class-mates have joined the suc- cessful carnival. I can hardly wait to see what has become of them. I’ll catch this bus coming. It runs like the way John Winston used to drive, well, beat me daddy, it is John! If luck holds out, and I do mean luck, I may get to the carnival! Well, here I am and look who is taking up tickets! Billy Faison and Bobby Land, Billy just could not bear to leave the theater business altogether. “Greetings Gate, I must be late.” Billy merely replies “Who Keres.” While fighting my way in, I bump into a tall, stout man with a black mustache, that’s Earl Richard- son. I hear that he is quite a good lawyer. .He will talk you out of any thing and I do mean anything!!! Then I stop, I hear I ' ve heard that voice before ‘Hurry, Hurry, Hurry!! Step right this way folks. The big show is about to begin. If you’re under sixteen you won’t get it. If you are over sixteen it will get you.” Who ever thought Curtis Strickland would turn out to be a barker? As I step to the ticket box, I see the successful farmers of Wendell buying their tickets. They are: Harold Phipps, Cedric Harris, Roy Lee Medlin, Wil- bur Marshburn and Bobby Sherron. Entering the midway, I see Charles Wootton, the handy boy, rushing around and look what he is rush- ing! At the present, Joyce Yancey, the Navy Nurse, WOW!!! A loud whoop, and a yell is heard, I look up and Rutli Todd there is the biggest and best man on earth, Thurston Arnold. Gee, who could that blonde be standing at the dice joint? Oh yes, I remember. That’s the movie ac- tress, Elizabeth “Floss” Richardson, now playing in “So He Is A Sailor.” All of a sudden I get a good look at myself in the shining surface of the bald head of a man. Why that’s Mallie Honeycutt, the boss of the Carnival. I heard that before he lost his hair he posed for hair tonic ads ! Here comes the great stars of the New York Yan- kees, Royce ‘Muss” Nowell and Haywood “Skuts” Swanson, with a crowd of autograph hounds follow- ing them ! ! ! I hear that Mary Lou and Miriam have created an organization, “How to Get to a Man’s Heart.” They have made much progress. They give the men suppers every week. If that won’t do it, nothing will!!!! In masses we see the house-wives of Wendell, Hattie Dean, Margie Carter, and Elmarie Brewer. Suddnly there is a flash of light, then dark. . I didn’t guess, I just knew that it was Eunice Pittman. Yes, she has set up a photographer’s studio in New York. I walk on a little farther, and without even hav- ing to say, “Hello,” she wants to fill a prescription. Yes, it’s Rachel Britt, now employed at the “Sing Sing Drug Store”. I hear a voice, where oh! where is it? That’s Etheline Wade, watch out folks!! she has that “Sina- tra” look!! As I walk slowly through the mob, I see a fami- liar face. Why that’s 1 think yes, that’s Sue Scarborough, what a basketball player. Sue is now coaching at the Pine Herse School!!!! W. M. Barham is so busy eating that I do not bother him. He is telling Wilbur Marshburn that his crop turned out well this year. Finally getting to the gate, I bum a ride on David Bridgers’ coal truck, figuring that I will be just as safe there, as on Winston’s bus!!!! With the shouts of “Come again it’s been great seeing you.” 1 zoom off with a great lump in my throat, but hoping that 1 will see them all again. Last Will and Testament ( Continued from preceding page ) terest” in the Senior Class. He is sure that he needs no more. Hattie Dean promises to reveal to the Sophomore Class her secret for “quiet success.” Etheline Wade, with due consideration would like to bestow her poetic ability upon Edna Earl Weathers. Finally, to our Alma Mater we leave our best wishes, our love, and our hope of future years. To Mr. Boyette, our principal, and to our facul- ty, for their unceasing and untiring efforts in be- half of our education, we bestow our love and devo- tion with the hope that they shall not have striven in vain. Signed and Sealed this the thirtieth day of May, nineteen hundred forty-five.
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