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I was looking thru my Senior class year book and see that it has had some rough treatment some where along the line and decided to make a page about that great and wonderful year that "Shirley McCartha" graduated from high school and some of the events that were happening at that time.  I'm especially doing this for my grandkids so grandkids come on down memory lane with grandma!!

Being a "military brat" I wasn't fortunate to go thru my school years in one town but I did manage to go to first grade and finish up high school (senior year) with some of my school mates from Parris Island (Marine Corps base on the outskirts of Beaufort,S.C.)

"Shirley Ruth McCartha"

The above is my senior class picture  and I have posted a few of the pictures from the"BEAUFORTONIAN" and a few more things that might be of interest in our year book of 1957.

right side of the book..our senior class .I'm in it. Can you find me?

left side of the book..thought you might like to see the styles we wore back then.

Our newspaper staff..I'm here too ..can you find me?

This was "the place" we all hungout !!  Fun , fun times had here!

Class poem

TIME...You have held a chance for us, to hope, to grow, to learn,and prepared us for the world we'll face; the new, the unexperienced, the modern.

YET...what do you hold for each of us?  What is in store for tomorrow?From the files of time gone by may we, the unused moments, borrow?

NO...Time does not stop for this, For things undone are things we miss, and time moves on; it does not care. We must use each day as though a year.

YES...We must live live as best we can, To better know and understand, To serve and love our fellow man, Then time will not have passed in vain.

-by Jeanie black-

We also have two other items in that year book. Since most reading this page wouldn't know the guys and gals in the book and I have made this page for my grandkids ..I have just taken out the things pertaining to me. Here they are:

last will and testament:

I, Shirley McCartha, will my black hair to Wendell Morris cause"I'd rather be dead than red on the head!"

PROPHECY:

Last week I had a call from an old friend, Jo Payne, who wanted to charter a plane to Alaska.  I put her off saying,I had none available.  I guess she still hasn't given up much hope, but I just couldn't help her out since I have mutual interests up there too.  I heard from her that Shirley McCartha and Patty Collins are still in New York, making top salaries as models.  They liked it so much when we went there on our class trip that they just never returned.

-Yvonne Baker-Class Prophet

"SONGS POPULAR IN 1957"

All shook up..Elvis Presley

Butterfly....Andy Williams

Don't Forbid Me....Pat Boone

Party Doll.......Buddy Knox

Too Much.....Elvis Presley

Wake Up Little Susie ....Everley Brothers

You Send Me...Sam Cooke

Young Love...Sonny James

April Love...Pat Boone

Teddy Bear...Elvis Presley

Love Letters in the Sand..Pat Boone

Jailhouse Rock..Elvis Presley

Tammy..Debbie Reynolds

Honeycomb...Jimmy Rodgers

TV SHOWS THAT I LIKED:

I LOVE LUCY

THE PERRY COMO SHOW

AMERICAN BANDSTAND

NAME THAT TUNE

COST OF THINGS IN 1957:

milk(gallon)   ....$1.00

loaf of bread...$.19

dozen eggs...$.82

postage stamp...$.03

minimum wage hour...$1.00

gallon of gas...$.24

new auto...$2,100.00

new home...$20,000.00

average income...$4,454.00

Now weren't those the good ol days!!

(permission to use from my pal,Millie Piros)

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