York Road High School - Wapiti Yearbook (Charlotte, NC)

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ROBERT NEELY Activities: Baseball, Art, Industrial Arts Club Motto: Trust not a living soul, and walk carefully a- mong the dead. Ambition: Air Force Offi- cer JAMES THOMPSON Activities: Track, Dramatics Club, Industrial Arts Club Motto: Courage consists not inblindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it and conquering it. Ambition: Printer MARJORIE PETTICE Activities: Band, Y-Teens, Secretary of N. H. A., French Club, Journalism Motto: Life is like a foot print in the sand: with each step forward, an impression is left behind. Ambition: Music Teacher DOROTHY WELCH Activities: Senior Y-Teens, Commercial C o - E d Club, N. H. A., Antler Staff Motto: If I am faithful to the duties of the present, God will provide for the future. Ambition: Cosmetologist JAMES PERRY Activities: Baseball, Track, Basketball, Industrial Arts Club Motto: I envy no man who knows morethan I, but pity he who knows less. Ambition: Business Mana- ger FREDDIE WELCH Activities: D. O. Club, Track, Basebal. Motto: Character is what you are, reputation is what people think you are. Ambition: Business Admin- istrator or Naval Officer A! JELESTER SANDERS Activities: President of D.O. Club Motto: Remember this also, and be well persuaded of its truth: the future is not in the hands of Fate, but in ours. Ambition: Auto Mechanic STANLEY WISE Activities: President of Chorus, T1 easurer of Nation- al Honor Society, President of Jr. Red Cross, Treasurer of North Carolina Association of Student Cotmcils, Presi- dent of Senior Class, Busi- ness Manager of Wapiti Staff, President of Hi-Y, Head Stat- istician of Basketball Team, Reporter of Commercial Co- Ed Club Motto: Character is what God, the Saints, and all angels know of us, reputation is what people are inclined to think of us, so why worry. Ambition: Professor of The- oretical Mathematics

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JOSEPH LOUIS MONTGOMERY Activities: Honor Society, Student Council, Wapiti Staff, Antler Staff, Track, French Circle Motto: It is my conviction to do the best I know. The very best I can: and I intend to continue pursuing my con- viction until the end. If the end brings me out alright, what is said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten- thousand angels swearing I was right would make no dif- fernece. Ambition: Lawyer JAMES ARTHUR SMITH Activities: Dramatics Club, Basketball Motto: It is better to be cal- led a fool all one's days than to sin for one hour. Ambition: Aviator JOHN EDISON MONTGOMERY Activities: President of Stu- dent Council, Honor Society, Wapiti Staff, Antler Staff, Varsity Club, President of Commercial Co-Ed Club Motto: Real joy comes not from ease, not from riches, not fromthe applause of men, but from having done things that are worth while. Ambition: Disc Jockey MARY SMITH Activities: Chaplain of the Y- Teens, Red Cross, Senior Chorus, N. H. A., Senior Club, Basketball, French Club Motto: It is better to be un- born than Lmtaught, for igno- rance is the key to misfor- tune. Ambition: Registered Nurse FRED THOMAS MOORE Activities: Drum Major, Chorus, Basketball, Drama- tic Club, IndustrialArts Club, Wapiti Staff Motto: Live today, and to- morrow you can say what a wonderful yesterday. Ambition: Air Force Offi- cer. CAROLYN THOMPSON Activities: Treasurer of D. O. Club, French Club, Orchestra Motto: To live long is al- most everyone's wish, but to live well is the ambition of a few. Ambition: Nurse CHARLES SMITH Activities: Chorus, D. O. Club Motto: Just be yourself, but be sure that as yourself you are who you ought to be. Ambition: Army Officer 1 i i 1 1 l l BOOKER T. WELDON Activities: Industrial Arts Club Motto: Live today as you would wish to live a thousand years from now. Ambition: Singer . 1 ..i

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