West Yadkin High School - Whispering Pines Yearbook (Hamptonville, NC)

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CLASS HISTORY The Best Years of Our Lives. Yes, these were the good years, the years filled with memories, laughter, study, and frequent reprimands. Above all, they were the years in which we established a sound foundation for our roles as Mr. and Mrs. America of tomorrow. May we, in looking back over the past few years, realize that without the constant guidance, encouragement and kind understanding of the faculty, our hopes of graduation would probably be remnants of an unfilled dream. Let's re- minisce awhile. The year 1956 found seventy -six somewhat frightened but eager freshmen tak- ing their initial step as high school students. It was an awkward feeling, knowing that we would be looked upon as the lambs of high school but under the able direction of Mr. Joe Cash and Mr. C. R. Wright, we soon foundthat we were one of the necessary elements in a high school student body. Our firstimportant task as freshmen was to elect class officers and we chose the following students as leaders: Sue Money, pre- sidentg Larry Allred, vice-president, Bruce Ashburn, secretary, and Joe Doss, trea- surer. Our class contributed many members to the Future Homemakers ofAmerica and Future Farmers of America and the Glee Club. Many students were participating in school sports. Sue Sparks and Sue Money were elected as Homecoming Attendants. We started our sophomore year a much wiser group of students, although much smaller. We then numbered sixty-one. Our sponsors for the year were Mr. Roy Peele and Mr. H. C. Moretz, Jr. For class officers we elected Bruce Ashburn,pre- sident, Larry Allred, vice-president, Earline Reavis, secretary, and Philip Gough, treasurer. Jean Hastings and Shelby Vanhoy were elected Homecoming Attendants. Again we had representatives on some of the varsity teams. Next came our Junior year. Fifty-three of us enrolled with Mr. Hoyt Reece and Mrs. Mildred Matthews as our sponsors. This was a happy year for all of us, a year in which we prepared ourselves for the all important Senior year, which was to follow. Our class officers were Bruce Ashburn, presidentg Joe Doss, vice -president, Lana Long, secretary, and Kaye Pardue,treasurer. OnApril 21, 1959, we were host to the Seniors of 1959 in the West Yadkin School Cafeteria for the Junior -Senior Ban- quet. The Hawaiian theme was presented on this occasion. Another exciting experi- ence was giving the junior play, entitled, Take Three Girls. This year our class had some representatives in the Beta Club. Linda Brown and Earline Reavis were elected Homecoming Attendants. At long last we have arrived as full -fledged Seniors. Our number had decreased to forty-three, but our spirits have increased to an unparalleled height. Our sponsors this year are Mr. John Moretz and Mrs. Helen Wishong and the Class Officers are Joe Doss, president, Carrie Steelman, vice-president, Alice Harris, secretary, and Lu- ther Vanhoy, treasurer. Jerrie Turner and Edna McCann were elected Homecoming attendants to our Homecoming Queen, Sue Sparks. Pattie Mauldin was elected to the position of Editor-in-Chief of our yearbook, The Eagle, this year. Thus far we have enjoyed every phase of the school program. Now we look forward to the few remaining months of school, the months that hold in store for us the most memorable times of our lives. We will attend the Junior -Senior Banquet as formal guests of the juniors. We have yet to begin our work on the Senior play. Soon after this will come to the Baccalaureate Sermon. Our last appearance of the year will be Commencement, that grand and proud moment when we shall walk down the aisle to receive our diplomas. As we leave West Yadkin School as graduates, may we look back to the wonder- ful days we have spent here, owing our deepest respects and profound gratitude to those of the faculty who have given so much of their time and effort that we might reach our most cherished goal. Sue Money Historian I7 ' ' f'7 'A' ' ff12sFiT1f'231 .,.Pr-r.....-.f f1'51.11, . 1 ' 1--Q45---1, A - ' , 4-...-1-. .fy .. ,- ' .. .. ..: vv I I A MJ -Y '..:r'!1:l.5' '--,,. . ..-.... .

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CLASS PROPHECY Centuries old temple bells ring out. The frightened coolies scurry swiftly away and leave me along in the forbidden spot. The temple bells sound again, their echos recalling memories of the past and aspirations of the future. The misty veil of time is removed, time closes its circle--and I can see. . . The green valley of Future is revealed, stretches ahead. Why, here are my friends, older now, and this is what they are doing. Here is BRUCE ASHBURN, a big execu- tive at Reynold's Tobacco Company, and there is CRAIG BROOKS, now a successful teacher at West Yadkin High School. JANE NELL BROWN is a crusading e- vangelist for her church. CAROL GREGORY is busy taking care of her three lovely chil- dren. The scene shifts, and here appears PAT - TIE MAULDIN. She is now editor of a maga- zine entitled, LADIES HOME JOURNAL. This year ALICE HARRIS is on the American wo- men's basketball team to the Olympics. DALE HUDLER is the top designer of scientific toys for the Acme Toy Corporation. Oh, and there goes JERRIE TURNER, whois the private se- cretary to a New York Millionaire. Again the scene changes and I see that LANA LONG is happy in her role as house- wife for that handsome husband, and next door lives LINDA BROWN, married now, a fine neighbor and a wonderful mother. LETHIA VESTAL appears weekly on TV'S Red Skelton Show. FLORENCE PRE VATTE is the librarian at the newly constructed Yadkin County Li- brary, designed by ALBERT CAUDLE, who has become a top architect and designer. SHIRLEY BURGESS wings her way across the country daily as an airline ste- wardess for Piedmont Airlines. CARRIE STEELMAN is proofreading for the Life in These United States column in The Reader's Digest. CHARLES KING is afamous profession- al football player. BENNIE ASHLEY has de- signed a new car for General Motors and is on his way to his first million. JOE DOSS and NOLAN BROWN are roc- ket pilots whose jobs take them to the moon. We find ZELMA SWISHER teaching geometry at Appalachain State Teacher's College. ED- NA MCCANN has taken over her mother's beauty shoppe and enlarged it into a charm school. F. H. NICHOLS is a game warden at Yellowstone National Park. BILLY COLLINS is the policeman who is directing traffic on Yadkinville's Main Street. DALTON CORAM is pitching for the Los Angeles Dodgers, formerly in the league cel- ler. GREY PINNIX is the manager of the main office of Western Auto in Chicago. WAL - DON BALL is employed by West Yadkin High Schoolas its first truant officer. SUE MONEY is staying home these days, taking care of her husband and their triplets. See that nationally-read comic strip? The author is LUTHER VANHOY, who always had a sense of humor. Our scene shifts to Washington, D. C. and I see ANN NIXON making a speech to the wildly cheering multitude of her supporters as the first woman president of the United States. BOBBY OLIVER, the Congressman for our district, is among them. In an exclusive finishing school for young ladies, we find RAYMOND HOLLEMAN, as the Dean of Women. CLEO HUDSON is on foreign shores as a WAC. KAYE PARDUE is the owner of an orange ranch in California. Here is SUE LI- VINGOOD, co-owner of the Shady Haven a resort in the mountains. CHRISTINE REA- VIS is a nurse in Luna City, our new U. S. co- lony on the moon. BETTY SHORE is a social worker for the slum areas of San Francisco, where she is well loved by her unfortunants. SUE SPARKS married a rich oil man who took her to Australia where he is cur- rently prospecting for new oil fields. There is EDNA SHORE, who owns and operates a dress shoppe for the elite in socie- ty. EARLINE REAVIS is a model for Fabu- lous Furs, Inc. in New York. This seems to be all I can see. But wait! I was not among these pictured. Eagerly I scan the scene for whatI shall be doing, where shall I be? Even as I gaze, it is in vain, for the misty curtain of time is falling, and I am alone in the twilight, now suddenly I am quite chilly, forI know. .but who would believe? Class Prophet Sharon Nance