York High School - White Rose Yearbook (York, SC)

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THE GREEN DRAGON FORETELLS THE FUTURE It rs today February I5 I985 and as I lean back rn my swrvel charr prop my feet on the desk take prpe rn hand and close my eyes the events of the last 35 years leap rnto vrew It seemed that rt was only yesterday that Frances Hartsoe was named Mrss Amerrca She turned down movre contracts to marry a mrllron arre and now she wrnters rn Bermuda and sum mers rn Canada She stops rn York when she passes through twrce a year Johnny Smrth rs dorng well on the royaltres from hrs book whrch has sold more copres than Gone Wrth the Wrnd It has been translated rnto ten forergn languages and two movres are based on rt He retrred to hrs mansron rn Brat tonsvrlle whrch he restored early rn the seventres Two members of our class have done well rn the world of busrness but the strarn of competr tron has taken rts toll Fat Whrtesrdes went to the top rn the auto accessorres lrne but now they call hrm Skrnny Whrtesrdes Ray Becknell rs a barber but has lost all hrs own harr Hrs specralty rs the crew cut Brll Shrllrnglaw broke rnto the musrcal world early rn the srxtres After hearrng Brlly Harry James shot hrmself so Shrlly marrred Betty Grable Two of our boys made good rn rournalrsm Jrmmy Stewart was the fearless edrtor of the New York Trmes for ten years Kerth Baker rs strll the edrtor of Esqurre and doesn t rntend to retrre untrl he dres Jrmmy employed two of our grrls but they drdn t decrde to retrre when he r Mary Frances Carroll wrrtes the advrce to the love lorn column and Aggre Wallace the fashron column Bussels are rn vogue agarn Dorothy Wood has been head nurse at the York County Hosprtal for I5 years She marrred one of the doctors rn l96l They say that she erther cures ern or krlls em Perry Huddleston rs now a general rn the Na tronal Guard He makes extra money by shoot rng crap wrth the recrurts Over the years Carl Roberts has revolutronrzed the freld of educatron by wrrtrng textbooks wrth rokes rn them Thrs has cut truancres by 50 per cent Buck Connolly took over Fred Astarre s Danc rng Schools rn l96l Two of hrs best rnstruc tors are Myra Drckson and Betty Nrvens Melvrn McAllrster rs a brg star on televrsron now Mad man McGoole wrestles every Satur day nrght rn Madrson Square Garden He drove Gorgeous George out of busrness years ago Marble head Wrley followed hrs dad rnto the tombstone busrness and made good but now that he rs gettrng mrddle aged he rs afrard tnat the busrness wrll go to pot rf he doesn t cut out the nrght lrfe Brlly Campbell rs now the mayor of Trrzah The thrrvrng metropolrs of Trrzah extended rts crty lrmrts back rn 1969 to take rn Rock Hrll Brlly rust bought a professronal baseball team Brlly plans to play frrst base After gettrng her frfth drvorce Brllre Blanton decrded to settle rn Reno She runs a boardrng house there Everybody mrssed Gaynelle rrght after she marrred and moved to Clover Anne Hopkrns has contrnued to be the top concert pranrst srnce her debut at Carnegre Hall back rn l965 but she has gotten so fat that she Bettye Hope was ready to take over when Hedda Hopper and Louela Parsons retrred early rn the srxtres I understand that she used radar and plans to take up blackmarl when she re trres Gene Qurnn rnherrted a prle of dough rn l960 and spends most of hrs trme huntrng brg game rn Afrrca I certarnly do envy Lefty Remember back rn l953 when Clemson beat Notre Dame and halfback Joe Jackson scored the wrnnrng score? He says that he would have turned pro after that game rf he could have found a helmet to frt hrm Joan Clark was voted most valuable pro bas ketball player back rn 55 champron swrmmer rn 57 and top golfer rn 60 Some people thought that she was tryrng too hard to be Irke Babe Drdrrkson when she marrred a 400 pound wrestler I remember how thrrlled Anne Heath was when she was made top atomrc screntrst back rn l970 Too bad she blew up the Pentagon Burldrng and lost her job' Ever srnce Jane Douglas started teachrng French back at York she has been lookrng for a man who would ask her to marry hrm rn any of the ten drfferent languages she learned rn col .D t ' I I . . . . . . . . I I . .- . - I I I ' ' ' Il II - - I . . . - . . - . I I ll ' ' ll . . . I - '. . - - S l I l I I . , , , , , has her prano stools burlt to order. ' I I ' ' ' - ' ' I . I . I. . . I ' I ' ' - - - ll ll . . 1 . . ' ' d'd. ' I 1 ' . . I . 1 . . .- . I I - 1 - I I , I I . . , . 24

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JOHNNY SMITH, Green and White I-2-3-45 President 45 Allied Youth 2-3-45 Treasurer 35 Block Y 2-3-45 Cheerleader l-25 Student Council 45 French Club 45 Glee Club I5 F.F.A. 25 Paper Staff 45 Annual Staff 45 Class Historian 4. . . JIMMY STEWART, F.F.A. 2-3-45 Vice-President 35 President 45 Student Council 45 Beta Club 3-45 Editor of Green Dragon 45 Marshal 3. . . MARY AGNES WALLACE, Piano l-2-3-45 Treble Cleft Club 2-3,' Secretary and Treasurer 35 Glee Club 3-45 J.H.A. 2-3-45 Reporter 35 Green and White I-2-3-45 Allied Youth 2-3-45 Basketball I-2. . . ARBUTUS HARTSOE WHITE, Marriage is a thing you have got to put your whole mind to 5 .l.H.A. 2-3-45 Treasurer 25 Glee Club 4. . . GERALDINE WHITESIDES, Glee Club 3-45 Allied Youth 2-3-45 President 45 Green and White I-2-3-45 Student Council 3-45 Class Vice- President 25 Piano 2-3-45 Band 45 Representative to Girl State 35 Football Sponsor 3-45 Paper Staff 3-45 Annual Stall 45 Canteen Staff 4,' Class Poet 45 Red Cross 3. . . RICHARD WHITESIDES, Il ladies interfere with work, quit work 5 Glee Club 15 Allied Youth 2-3. . . JOHNNY WILEY, Football 2-3-45 Basketball 2-3-45 Green and White 2-3-45 Allied Youth 2-3-45 Reporter 45 Block Y 2-3-45 Glee Club 2-3-45 Annual Stalf 45 Paper Staff 45 Canteen Stalf 4 .... DOROTHY WOOD, Green and white I-2-35 Secretary 25 Piano 35 Commissioner 25 .I.H.A. 25 Reporter 25 Class officer I5 Glee Club 25 French Club 45 Allied Youth 4. . . ARNOLD YARBOROUGH, Football l-2-3-4 Basketball l-2-3-45 Baseball 2-35 Block Y l-2-3-45 Green and White l-25 Annual Staff 45 Glee Club 3. Johnny Smith Mary Agnes Wallace Geraldine Whitesides Johnny Wiley Arnold Ycrborough Jimmy Stewart Arbutus Hartsoe White Richard Whitesides Dorothy Wood fs 42?

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lege she wall settle for one that wall ask her an pag latan Well Arnold Yarborough as stall an college as o coach that as Arnold never dad make at though on has book learnang but he lakes school now that he as gettang paad I hear that Arbutus Hartsoe Whate and Melbo Glenn made good an the theater busaness but stall lake to sell tackets for old tames sake Carolyn Leak Jane Raper and Joyce Carroll certaanly dad make a success of thear matra monaal agency Due to thear efforts there are 50 per cent less elegable bachelors left Mary Ann Boyd made her pale manufacturang cosmetacs She spends her tame at resorts where there are plenty of men Three other classmates went back to the Alma Mater Margaret Clanton and Mary Love are an charge of the home ec department and Doras Bolan runs the cafeteraa No wonder York has the best home ec department and cafeteraa an the state Mason Moore and Mamae Ramsey coach the garls basketball team and thear team wans the state champaonshap every year but at as too bad for them af Mason catches any of the garls smokang Jean Comer as the haghest paad secretary an the country She got thas posataon after wanang a speed typang contest The polace were suspacaous when Eleanor Carroll quat beang cashaer an the dame store and bought a Cadallac but the notace of her marraage to a Texas oal man cleared thas up I wonder af anyone has heard from Charlae Sammons sance he flew to Honduras? Horace Johnson surprased everybody when he studaed for the manastry but he has a bag church an New York now Dorothy and Lavenaa Shallanglaw and Faye lvcy started a beauty parlor back an the faftaes but werent very successful untal Greta Hope and ness Gerry and Greta can afford to spend most of thear tame an the beauty parlor sance they made a fortune an the mallanery busaness Wom en s hats are now crazaer than ever Morrason get your feet off that desk and get to work' I m aust a 53 year old offace boy who hasnt had a fraend sance I wrote the class prophecy way back an l95O Clarence Morrason Class Prophet CLASS POEM For the class of l95O Comes the tame to say good bye Comes the tame for our departure And we leave here wath a sagh Happy tames we ve had together Happy days wathan these walls Many vastas of the future Rase to lure us on ahead There as much to be accomplashed Let us go then wathout dread Hagh and shanang peaks before us Lead to knowledge fame and success Happy fraendshaps we have found here Let us struggle ever onward But to us the future calls Do the thangs that He wall bless Let us take our motto wath us, May at guade us all the way Our tomorrows are determaned By the thangs we do today Gerry Whatesades, author ' . . . Q. 1, I . . . I 1 ' o . , , . . I ' I I . . - 1 I I . 1 . . 4 I If - I . , . . . , . ' . Gerry Whitesides began giving them their busi- . . , I , . I U . - l . . H . n I '- ll ' I A - - - 1 . , . . . y I I ' . ' I A ' I I I I , , . . . I l . I I I I I