West Rowan High School - West Wind Yearbook (Mount Ulla, NC)

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Class History of 48 1948—The year of our graduation. This is what all of our long, hard years in school have led up to. Let me take you back a few years, back to the year 1943 when fifty- eight young students started their last five years of school work. Happy and carefree were we, but we were soon put into our places by Mrs. Longest and Mr. Gore, our leaders for the year. We then adjusted ourselves and stepped forth into high school. Here we were stamped green freshmen, but we proved worthy of being called Mt. Ulla High students. This we owe partly to Mrs. Bain Sink and Mrs. Barnhardt, our most helpful leaders. Basketball was our chief interest this year since nine of our girls and five of our boys made the teams. On to the tenth where we were branded with a new but still unwant- ed name, “Silly Sophomores.” Our leaders this year were Miss Mayhew and Miss Bowles. Six of our classmates had the honor of becoming mem- bers of the National Honorary Beta Club. These excited students were: Henry Edmiston, Mary Benfield, David Knox, Narvie Lee Bonds, Dor- othy Payne, and Jimmy Horton. The eleventh grade saw us branded “Jolly Juniors,” and jolly we were. With Miss Rutledge as our leader, we sprang forward into our work for the year with our class play and Junior-Senior Prom leading the list. Much fun and hard work were put into these. Now as dignified seniors, our number decreased to twenty-four, we come to the parting of the ways. We have reached the hard-sought-for goal with success, much of which we owe to our splendid faculty and our leader and advisor, Miss Heitman. Our school days are now over; we say good-bye and hope that future seniors will have years as full and rich as ours. ELLA LEE CLARY Historian

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G8 Statistics As I sit here with my pen in hand I see in my mind’s eye, Mr. and Miss Mt. Ulla Graduate of ’48. They walk hand in hand, this brown- haired, brown-eyed boy and the brown-haired girl with blue, gray, or is it brown eyes, down the path to the future for which their beloved Miss Heitman helved prepare them. The girl looks up at the boy from her five feet-four inches and one-hundred nineteen pounds, and knows that his agriculture class will help fit his five feet-eleven inches and one-hundred fifty-one pounds into the great outdoor life he loves, while she pounds away on her ever dear typewriter. Even though they are only eighteen, they are thinking of the future and the ®: that will be theirs in shoeing her size six and his size nine feet whic ve brought them so far in the past twelve years. They suddenly become aware of their undying hunger for their very favorite dish of ice-cream. So turning their footsteps to a stand beside road, they indulge also in some other favorites. They hear Harry ames and his orchestra, and is it——but yes, it must be Bing Crosby sing- ing as no one else can, the favorite song of the year, “Near You.” Hear- ing Bing brings to mind the movie they loved so much, Blue Skies, although their beautiful Betty Grable and handsome Joseph Cotton did not star init. Buck Privates Come Home and Duel in the Sun were other well remembered movies along with another star, Van Johnson. Now their footsteps turn homeward where they will both hear their darling Baby Snooks before fluffing the feathers and cotton for a good night’s sleep. Here my picture fades, but in the picture it seems that in Mr. and Miss Mt. Ulla Graduate of ’48, I have seen the characteristics and personalities of all my classmates, which have made me love them and will not let me forget them. Mary L. BENFIELD Statistician

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Last Will and Testament We, the seniors of the class of 1948, as we go our different ways, leave behind some of our outstanding characteristics and traits for the underclassmen, hoping they will accept them wholeheartedly and carry on the good work at the Mount Ulla High School. Item I—To our parents who have done so much to make our high school days bright and happy ones, we leave our undying love and gratitude. Item II—To Miss Martha Lou Heitman, Mr. C. L. Barnhardt, and to the entire faculty we leave our thanks and appreciation for the guidance and patience they have given in giving us more knowledge. Item II—As individuals we hereby leave this our Last Will and Testament. 1. I, Sadie Ritchie, leave my calmness and quiet manners to Geraldine Sides. (She surely needs it.) 2. I, Vernice McDaniel, leave my seat on the sidelines to Phoebe Hall, hoping she can keep it as warm as I do. 3. I, Lucy Gillespie, do leave my typewriter for Odessa Beaver. Be sure you get the work in on time. 4. I, David Knox, bestow my good looks and dignity upon Johnny Gibson. 5. Bobby Yount leaves his diary, titled “The Wolf and His Ways,” which he has kept up to date for Donald Stiller. 6. Mary Benfield and Dorothy Payne, being the intelligentsia of the class, leave their outstanding scholastic achievements as a goal for the freshmen. 7. I, Margaret Rice, bestow my athletic ability upon Betty Graham. Shoot ’em high Shoot ’em low Yeah, Graham! Let’s go. 8. I, Jimmy Horton, bequeath my dark hair and sparkling blue eyes to any boy who is lucky enough to have them. 9. I, Henry Edmiston, leave my winning personality and love for women to Donald Graham. 10. I, Narvie Lee Bonds, do will my ability to have a steady girl friend to Bill Brown. 11. I, Minnie Lou Wagner, leave my witty chatter and love for the skating rink to Carolyn Edwards. 12. I, Evelyn Karriker, bequeath my sweet and friendly ways to Louise Morgan. 13. We, Sarah Turner and Margaret Petrea, bestow our undying love and friendship for one another to Faye Albright and Peggy Lyerly. 14. I, Joe Barger, will my desire to bother no one and my quiet ways to Gary Carpenter. 15. I, Wilson Miller, bestow my manly physique upon John Henry Bollinger. 16. I, Charlie Graham, leave my ability to arrive at school late (on purpose) and get by with it to Richard Hall. 17. I, Ella Lee Clary, bequeath my artistic ability and mixed up love affairs to Betsy Barber. 18. I, Bill Hoffner, leave my bus (No. 5), of which I have taken the best of care, to Johnny Cline. 19. I, Scott Coble, leave my beloved shorthand book to my sister Shannon. 20. I, Ted Correll, leave my quiet and sober nature to Bob Drury. 21. I, Mary Ruth Carpenter, do will my giggles and “whacky” talk to Carolyn Moore. And I, being of sound mind and body, do hereby affix my signature to this, the Last Will and Testament of the class of 1948. CAROLYN BLACKWELDER Lawyer Witnesses: CHARLEY CASTROPTROSTROPHE M. H. CLAGHORN