Woodleaf High School - Acorn Yearbook (Woodleaf, NC)

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LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT We, the Senior Class of Woodleaf School, extend to our parents our sincere appreciation for their kind assistance during our twelve happy years of school. To our teachers and principal, we give our most heartfelt thanks for their efforts. To the Juniors, we leave our Senior dignity, our Senior privileges, and our personal property as follows: I, Ann Adams, will my ability to hold a boy friend by mail to Jeanette Kinley. I, Charles Kluttz, leave my ability to keep a clean bus (especially during inspection time) to Mona Marlowe and Juanita Gentle. I, Dolores Lyerly, give my good nature to Joan Cranford and Margaret Lyerly. I, Gerald Steele, will my ability to pester the teachers to Sammy Martin and Jerry Cranford. I, Lois Goodman, will my unusual smile and huge muscles to Faye Elliott and Oma Lee Click. I, Ann Fisher, bequeath my ability to get a diamond in my Senior year to Loretta Watson, I, Frances Foster, leave my ability to type to Leonard Williams and Patsy Gibbons, : I, H. T. Hall, bequeath my respect for other people to Bruce McDaniel. I, Priscilla McDaniel, will my good manners to Peggy Adams and Martha Lyerly. I, Betty Jane Pope, leave my privilege to speak my mind to Barbara Benson, so the Senior Class will have someone to express its opinion, I, Bobby Godbey, give my faithfulness to one girl to Bill Myers and Cuthiel Wood. I, Nancy Lyerly, will my superlative title ‘‘Cutest’’ to Jane Miller and Peggy Webb. I, Barbara Swaim, leave my ability to ask questions (especially in Econ- omics) to Thomas Poole. I, Dan Adams, bequeath my mischievousness to Frank Hoover. I, Betty Ratledge, give my ability to make A’s to Gene Honeycutt and Carl Steele. I, Lois Swicegood, will my ability to laugh all day to Jim Tuttleton. (Don't take life so seriously, Jim!) I, Clyde Lippard Jr., leave to Neely Moore 16 inches in height, so his position on the basketball team won't be on the bench, I, Peggy McDaniel, will my neatness and poise to Linda Murph and Norma Painter. (Not that they need any, however.) I, Douglas Burgess, leave to John Lyerly my position as art editor on the Leaf and the Acorn. Witnesses: Mrs. Pauline Y, Cook Douglas Burgess, Lawyer Mrs. David Chambers

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PROPHECY It is the year 1955 and I am taking a tour in Europe. Meeting with a mysterious couple from the Orient,I am pleased to be invited into their tent. They are talking of their exper- iences in fortune telling and I notice the crystal ball which they use. I walk unnoticed over to the ball and gaze deeply into it. I am thinking of the Senior Class of ‘51 of Wood- leaf High School and images of my old classmates begin floating through the ball. I now see a great crowd of people listening to the classical songs of America. The singer is Betty Jane Pope, who is with the ‘‘Arthur Godfrey Show’’ touring Cuba. Now an image of the frame-work of a great building--and the construction is being carried on under the supervision of Charles Kluttz. Looming before me is a giant rocket ship ready to leave for Mars with Gilbert Archie at the controls. The scene is changing again, this time to a remote spot in Africa where I see Betty Ratledge going about her work as a missionary. I now see Peggy McDaniel sitting with a crowd of distinguished men discussing scme secret mission that she is about to perform for the F,B.I1., that will send her into the crowded tenement section of the big city of Needmore. The scene again changes and I see Clyde Lippard’s Fashion Show in the heart of San- Francisco, Whom dol see modeling bathing suits? None other than Dolores Lyerly. Before me is a girl in a white uniform hurring down a long hall. She has a hypodermic needle and gobs of pills. It is Ann Adams who is working in the Mercy Hospital in Charlotte. I see a most beautiful farm, coming clearer is the farmer. Why it’s Bobby Godbey the Star Farmer of 1960. Now appearing is a neat little home, and to my surprise I see Barbara Swaim going busily about cleaning it. She is the proud mother of five children. The scene changes again and I see Lois Swicegood teaching the first grade at the Cool- emee School, She has the splendid help of her husband, Roscoe Jones. Then I see a speedy jet zooming by and you can imagine my surprise when I see the pilot is Lois Goodman flying her private jet plane. As the next scene becomes clear, I see fingers flying over the key board of a type- writer. I am not surprised that those hands belong to Frances Foster, a private secretary for Gerald Steele, the manager of the First National Bank, Next I see great problems being fed into a calculator by the expert hands of Priscilla McDaniel. Another scene before my eyes--the patent office--and H. T. Hall applying for a patent on a new type of garbage disposer which he has invented. As the scene changes again, I see a group of Wac’s taking their training under Captain Nancy Lyerly. Before me is a face of a man lost in thought. It’s Douglas Burgess--trying out a new idea for the most renowned Interior Decorators in New York. Here is Ann Fisher explaining to her son how his dad used to jump from the high flying airplanes, Just as my image starts to clear in the ball, I suddenly hear a bell ringing and a great movement of people about me. As my head quits twirling, I realize that I have been asleep in English and the bell has just rung for the lunch period. Dan Adams, Prophet

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