Garinger High School - Snips and Cuts Yearbook (Charlotte, NC)

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cnM:r'rs4iNC. TO FiGHT FOR, LADS Wu., v ,gpm-P -f .N .. . K ir A N ss. we Ja ' WMM, wb' . Wa, During the 1950's the older generation sud- denly found themselves confronted by a group of young people. Their sons were wearing something called a ducktail on their heads, and leather jackets with words like crusher or daredevil on the back. Their daughters were twisting around the house in saddle shoes while their ponytails danced up and down. On any Friday night' they may have seen their young lady crawl into her fellow's hot rod and head out to a dance sponsored by the new Centrusa club. There they would rock around the clock to the tunes of Chubby Checker orthe Platters and discuss the decision to change Central to Elmer H. Garinger High School and relocate in a diffe- rent part of town. A few girls from the new sophomore club Adelphians may have shown up in their Angora sweaters looking for their very own imitation of james Dean. The underlying atmosphere of the 50's was reaching towards the realism that was to over- take the nation two decades later - ln troduction X 7

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Q e V lmlwm We have risen from a two room building known as The High School to become North Carolina's largest secondary institution. We have progressed from the days of complete segregation to a time when black and white walk together as friends. We celebrate our existence and whisper words of 1 xi .arf ,. tm.u.:h5L:?:?'it.'v' thanks for what we were, what we are, and what we shall be- ,gh 8 X Introduction