Wentworth High School - Golden Leaves Yearbook (Wentworth, NC)

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61488 PROPHECY The other Sunday after my sermon at Calvary Church, where I am the pastor, I was discussing with my choir director, BONNIE MERRITT, our graduating class of 1961. While talking, we met JUDY MAYHEW, who is now society editor of the New York Times. We invited her to have dinner with us, and while at dinner we were informed that our classmates have been highly successful. She told us that BONNIE CARTER and her husband Tyree are making a career of the Navy. PATRICIA STANFIELD and KEMPIE KING are models in New York City. WALTER GUNN is trying to help cupid along. I-Ie is rtmning a Lonely Hearts Club. We have several classmates who have entered the field of education. SHIRLEY PULLIAM and RUBY STUMP are scientists at Carolina. BOBBY STILL is a guidance teacher in a large high school. DOUGLAS PATTERSON is a chemistry teacher at old W.H.S. I-IAZEL PURGASON entered the sports fie1d5 she is now the coach at Wentworth. MARY ELLEN MEADOR is a home economics teacher. Those Carter boys got right in there, too. RAY CARTER, GEORGE CARTER, and WALTER CARTER are all very successful business leaders. NORMAN AUSTIN runs a barber shop. WILBUR DOSS has a very successful beauty salon. ROBERT BROWN is the cartoon artist for the Reidsville Review. EDWARD ANDERSON is making a career of the Marines. JEAN REYNOLDS is a dress designer in Hollywood. RICHARD COX is top curb boy at Big Oaks. CORETTA OWEN runs a large antique shop. ORENDA HARRELSON is very successful in her home and in rearing her tlu-ee children. JUNE CREWS has a beauty shop. Judy also told us that LINDA SMITH is singing with a large band. MABEL VERNON has become a successful movie actress in Hollywood. JOHN THOMAS DALLAS is owner of a chain of drive-ins. CHARLES JESSIE and BOBBY WYATT have become highway patrolmen. COLIN KELLY is married and doing a lot of work with the young people. BOBBY WITTY is a radio announcer at Reidsville. LEROY HASKINS is playing basketball with the Globe Trotters. LARRY JARRELL is running a speed shop in Tampa, Florida. BILL MCMICHAEL is married to DONNA DICKERSON. He is flying a plane for T.W.A., and his wife is a flying instructor at the Reidsville airport. JOHNNY McDONALD owns a carnival, called McDonald, Inc. KENNETH JONES is manager of a large department store in Canada. CURTIS MOSLEY is now manufacturing loud mufflers. BILLY RAKESTRAW is a forest ranger. KENNETH SOUTHARD has been elected to the United States Senate. JEANETTE BRANSCOME is an x-ray technician at Morehead Hospital in Leaksville. JOHNNY CROWDER is now principal at Wentworth High School. GLENN ED JOHNSON has become an accomplished driver and is racing at Daytona. MARY MCCANN is married to Douglas and now they have three little scientists. BUDDY PASCI-IAL is running a junk car lot filled with wrecked '53 Chevrolets. MARGIE JOYNER is assistant manager of Belk's, where her husband is now manager. LINDA CROWDER and GWYNN DURHAM are truck drivers for Virginia-Carolina. LINDA JESSIE is a nurse at Annie Penn Memorial Hospital. DORIS WYATT is a police woman. BARBARA WILSON is a photographer at Wilson Studios in Reidsville. JOYCE HARRELL is a nurse in the Mid-West. JIMMY SPENCER is now the chief mechanic for the Rockingham County Schools. After discovering how successful our classmates have been, we are now planning our first class reunion. BONNIE MERRITT KENNETH CRADDOCK Prophets 29

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61488 HISTORY The year we have anticipated for so long is here at last. Now we can truly say, We are Seniors! , getting ready to take the big step out into the world. Looking back we can see many majestic memories. They all begin with our gradu- ation from the eighth grade when we walked across the stage and received certificates for eight years of hard work which entitled us to take part in the high school life. Let's retrace our steps and see what has happened foiir years ago as Freshmen still wet behind the ears. Our advisors were Mr. Butler and Mr. Phillips. We elected class officers: Barbara Wilson, President, Bill McMichael, Vice President, Mary Ellen Meador, Secretary, Larry jarrell, Treasurer, Pat Stanfield, Reporter. For the first time we were able to take part in the clubs and other Various activities. The athletic ones were Patricia Stanfield, Hazel Purgason, Bonnie Merritt, and Donna Dickerson on the girls' basketball team and Coretta Owen, cheerleader. With hard work and many activities we found ourselves a little wiser as Sophomores. Our advisors were Mr. Butler and Mr. Phillips, our class officers were: Bill McMichael, President, Norman Austin, Vice President, Donna Dickerson, Secretary, Edward Anderson, Treasurer, and Larry jarrell, Reporter. The girls added to the basketball team were Mary Ellen Meador, Linda Crowder, and jean Reynolds. The boys added to the basketball team were Leroy Haskins and Walter Carter. The ones chosen for the Beta Club were Mary E. Meador, Patricia Stanfield, Barbara Wilson, Ruby Stump, Bonnie Carroll, Donna Dickerson, Edward Anderson, Bill McMichael, and Larry Jarrell. We were very proud when one of our girls, Barbara Wilson, was first runner-up in the Beauty Pageant. Bill McMichael was president of the Science Club with other class members holding offices in the various clubs, each one playing an important role to make a wonderful memory. Now we move on to our junior year. A little more realistic then, we began to face many confronting problems. Our advisors were Mr. Smith and Mrs. Wright. We elected class officers: Coretta Owen, President, Norman Austin, Vice President, Kempie King, Secretary, Linda Crowder, Treasurer, and Bonnie Carroll, Reporter. The class was well repre- sented as club officers and Linda Smith became a cheerleader. Jeritta Rakestraw, Judy Mayhew, and Hazel Purgason made the Beta Club. We juniors really enlarged the boys' basketball team, added were Walter Gunn, Ray Carter, Bill McMichael, Billy Rakestraw, john Dallas, Norman Austin, and Bobby Wyatt. That was the year we received our class rings and had a friendly contest selling magazines. With the money received from selling magazines we gave the Seniors a banquet, the theme was Hitch Your Wagon to a Star. Again we had a runner-up in the Beauty Pageant, Barbara Wilson. The honor of marshals went to Mary Ellen Meador, Chief, Bonnie Carroll, Patricia Stanfield, Donna Dickerson, and Bill McMichael. The closing of our Junior year came with our making the rose chain for graduation. Time flies by so quickly! We are now Seniors, waiting for the big moment when again we can walk across the stage and receive a diploma as we received a certificate four years ago. Our Senior advisors are Mrs. Rankin and Mr. Smith, our class officers: Ray Carter, President, Jean Reynolds, Vice President, Barbara Wilson, Corresponding Secretary, Kempie King, Recording Secretary, Richard Cox, Treasurer, and Kempie King and Bill McMichael, Reporters. This is the year we prove our abilities as leaders, with many holding the offices of club presidents. Two Senior girls have be- come cheerleaders: Margie Joyner and Patricia Stanfield. Again this is a big year for us in the Beauty Pageant, Mary McCann is crowned Miss Wentworth High for 1960-61. These four years are coming to an end all too soon. Looking back we see and remember many events, small and large alike, all combining to make our stay in high school a big memory never to be forgotten. As we leave, a little afraid but prepared to face the future, we thank you Wentworth High, for making all of this possible. Our teachers, our principal, our parents, without all of them we would have been lost. Now there is nothing left but a majestic memory of the past and the thought of Not finished, just begun! CORETTA OWEN Historian 28

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MST Wlll AND TESTAMEN7 We, the Senior Class of Nineteen Hundred and Sixty-One of Wentworth High School, being of sound mind and body, do willfully grant the following items and qualities to the faculty and undergraduates. Article I To the Faculty: Mr. Hunter: Our sincere appreciation, and a group of bus drivers that will keep their buses clean Mrs Rankin: An all-girl geometry class. Mr. Smith: Another successful year of deer hunting. Mr. Butler: An unbreakable thermometer. Mrs. Wright: A careful typing class. Mrs Hankins: Six study halls. Mrs Wilkerson: Another successful beauty pageant. Mrs Martin: A bigger library. Mr. Meador: Reid Griffin. Mr. Phillips: A co-operative girls' team. Mr. Sharpe: A successful parliamentary team. Article II To the undergraduates: To the Juniors, we leave our prestige. To the Sophomores, we leave our magazine salesmanship. To the Freshmen, we leave a successful high school career. Article III Individual Bequests: I, LINDA CROWDER, leave Bus No. 55 to an early riser. I, BOBBY WITTY, leave part of my love for Mrs. Martin to Hubert Corum. I, BARBARA WILSON, leave with a sigh of relief! WILBUR DOSS, leave my bear hair to Ronald Corum. COLIN KELLY, do not leave my ability to bring Linda to school to anyone, for she will ride the bus I, Iv I, DOUGLAS PATTERSON, leave my Piedmont trophy to Mr. Hunter and the faculty. I, GLENN JOHNSON, leave my ability to outrun the Highway Patrol to Ralph Harvey. I, BUDDY PASCI-LAL, leave my pop bottle dodging ability to Calvin Dallas. CURTIS MOSLEY, leave my mufflers to Tommy Butler. KENNETH JONES, leave my ability to sleep in class to Sammy Fulp. BOBBY STILL, leave my car to David Dallas. GEORGE CARTER, leave my ability to wreck to Judy Bugher. I, CI-LARLES JESSIE, leave my basketball ability to Wendell Harmon. NORMAN AUSTIN, leave my registration card to Mike Heffinger. KENNETH CRADDOCK, leave my ability to get along with Mr. Sharpe to the Galloway boys. I, MARGIE JOYNER, leave my quiet ways to Linda Caudle. I, EDWARD ANDERSON, leave like a Chevy. I, JUDY MAYHEW, leave my blonde hair to Tommy Cheshire. JEANETTE BRANSCOME, leave my dancing ability to anyone who's fool enough to try it. DORIS WYATT, leave my height to Darrell Heffinger. LEROY HASKINS, leave my basketball suit to Reid Griffin. JIMMY SPENCER, leave Rodney to carry on. I, ORENDA HARRELSON, leave my ability to go steady to one who hasn't learned. I, JOHN DALIAS, leave my ability to stowaway in car trunks to Conoy Moran. I, BONNIE CARTER, leave with the Navy. RAY CARTER, leave the presidency of the Senior Class to Earl Hancock. WALTER CARTER, leave a good '55 Chevy to Lionel Rudd. I, RICHARD COX, leave my well-groomed ways to Roy Knight. I, JUNE CREWS, leave my hair to Ronald Hundley. I, DONNA DICKERSON, leave my ability to get out of class to Ronald McCol1u.m. GWYNN DURHAM, leave my bus to anyone who will have it. JOYCE HARRELL, leave my love for dancing to Marie Doyle. LARRY JARRELL, leave my night life to Jimmy Julian. LINDA JESSIE, leave my studious ways to Joel Corum. I, K.EMPIE KING, leave four units to Ronald Corum. MARY MCCANN, leave my position as Miss Wentworth to Kathryn Williams. MARY ELLEN MEADOR, leave my position as editor of the annual to anyone crazy enough to accept it. BONNIE MERRITT, leave my right hook to Billy Farmer. CORETTA OWEN, leave my position as chief cheerleader to Becky Crowder. I, SHIRLEY PULLLAM, leave my ability to get along with Mrs. Martin to Martha Haskins. I, HAZEL PURGASON, leave a year of peace to Peggy. I, BILLY RAKESTRAW, hope to leave. LINDA SMITH, leave Kenneth. Isighj JEAN REYNOLDS, leave my smile to Johnny Doss. I, PAT STANFIELD, leave my dignity to Martha Haskins. I, JOHNNY MCDONALD, leave my ability as a mechanic to Mike Heffinger. I, KENNETH SOUTI-IARD, leave my ability to get along with Mrs. Wright to Mary Lea Greenleaf. WALTER GUNN, leave my position in the Lonely Hearts Club to Ronald Dearing. ROBERT BROWN, leave my ability to be studious to Virginia Gunn. JOHNNY CROWDER, leave my success in love to Jimmy Smith and Alice Martin. RUBY STUMP, leave my position in the Beta Club to Jerry Younts. I, MABEL VERNON, leave my quiet ways to Jimmy Meador. BOBBY WYATT, leave Wentworth High for three months. KENNETH CRADDOCK, leave my ability to have fun at parties to Yvonne Carter. I, BARBARA WILSON, leave my ability to talk my way out of tight places to Cheryl DeLancey. I, BILL MCMICHAEI., leave gladly. 1: I, I: 1, In 1, Iv In If I, I, 1, If In I, If 1, I: I: I: Ir I: 1, 1, 1, Ia 1, 1, BILL MCMICHAEL Te stator 30