Cannon High School - Cannon Report Yearbook (Kannapolis, NC)

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Frank Corbin has encamped in Chile to command a nitrate quarry, and in the wilds of Brazil, Rankin Baker and Millard Alexander are searching for cobras coiled around banana trees. David Beaver and Luthel Pethel are combing the Antarctic to find the gold mine Admiral Byrd abandoned back in 1940. Eddie Cochran, always in- terested in science, is contemplating a new model of the stratosphere. Jimmy Irby is operating America’s National Public Hospital assisted by Drs. Lucille Barringer and Hazel Brown, while the nurses are Louise Johnson, Eloise Drake, and Norena Pruitt. Ruby Sills is dean of a finishing school for girls. Assisting her are Audrey Fogleman, history teacher; Kath- rine Norris, English teacher; Mary Frances Rollins, French teacher; and Eunice Sloop, music teacher. Thomas Anderson is editing “The Daily Flash” while Hazel Powell dashes around town as his news editor. Frances Brooks, known to the world as “Miss Lonely Hearts,” busily pecks away her replies to love-lorn suppliants as Mildred Julian, the sob sister, dishes the dirt, and Lillian DeMarcus, in her column, “Hark Universe,” warns readers to “Be! Be! To the utmost of your ability, Be!” The Duchess of Frothingham (Sammie McCoy), craving adventure, fled to Europe and is now reigning over the Frothingham Gardens and stealing the hearts of young Dukes and Earls. Howard Linker has seriously taken up aviation, which originated in a hobby. David Alexander is piloting a well-known sky taxi around the world, and his air hostesses a re Helen Hester and Margaret Sifford. Marjory Cress is a successful aviatrix, who started flying to forget a certain love affair. Beryl and Helen Roberts are successful personnels of a day nursery. Annie Robinette and Audrey Woodward are pleading for pensions which will benefit old maids over sixty. Frank Schenck and Herman Morrison are com- bining their efforts toward inventions which will aid mankind. Ivory Barnes is studying to be a cosmetic expert. The cities of the world are kept clean by an efficient device, the brain-child of T. P. Beaver, finishing in S. S. Ray Dougherty and James Christy head the police and detective force. James Whitten’s fireproof building mate- rials and Lambert O’Daniel’s extinguishing machine have made destructive fires a thing of the past. Rebecca Bost lectures on “How to Keep Fit at Forty.” China’s war lord, Hwing, Hwang, Wwong (J. P. Sills), is seeking a war with Japan, but wars are gone now, due to the efforts of our pacifist, feminine, diplomatic corps of Hazel Norton, Gladys Teague, and Jurrel Greason. Laura Lee Hampton is editor of the “Women’s Business Journal;” across the hall, Dollie Gray is editing the “Gentlemen’s Home Companion.” Ralph and Kyle Goodnight have gone in the Milky White Laundry Business. Lawrence Seymour is an up-and-coming auditor in a big bank. Lorene Simpson, Frances Brigman and Jennie Pethel have combined their artistic abilities and painted many world famous pictures. Doris Daniels and Martha Hartis have a partnership in a famous beauty salon. Gene Wrenn is doing well as manager of the Dupont Manu- facturing Co., while Ruth Bostian and Gaynelle Parker are the best interior decorators to be found. Ray Childers and Glenn Lowder are both commanders in the Army Air Corps. Virginia Gaston, Inez Taylor, and Kathrine Irby are three happily married women. Mattie Gardner, Daisy Bell, and Margaret Smith have gone in for nursing, so if there is a war they can take care of the wounded men. Hazel Overcash has already been made head nurse at the Johns Hopkin Hospital. The two Holdbrooks brothers, David and Henry Lee, are elec- trical engineers, while the two Jones boys, Ben and Glenn, make up the two vice-presidents of a huge chain of grocery stores. Albert Sloop is the most respected mathematics teacher that has ever taught at Harvard Univer- sity. Euverla Tidwell is one of the very greatest concert pianists, while Julia Taylor, private secretary, is having trouble keeping all of Euverlia’s personal appearances straight. Carl Parker has turned out to be a very noted civil engineer. Floyd Daves, Jr. and Clinton Barker are well- meaning politicians of this year. Margaret Leazer won an Olympic title with her swimming and diving powers. A1 Cloninger and Sam Collins are well-known baseball players, and it has been rumored that Al’s ambition is to knock a ball over to the moon. Annie Bryant and Mary Virginia Alexander are instructors of a class for girls in “How to develop your body for $5.00 an hour.” Melvin Barringer has just bought a big cattle ranch where he plans to make his fortune. Retha Thompson tours America hunting antiques for a large furniture company. Green Lee Ellison has been appointed Secretary of Economics and has solved all farm, budget, and employment problems. The year of 1960 is drawing slowly to a close, knows? Time alone will tell. Will the next ten years be as great and successful? INEZ WALTER, Class Prophetess. Who TT mTimim i mnm i iinmii i rnmuminnnnni i Uinf -ffl uiuiiiiiuiiBBti unnim i imriTi m ni i imiiimimurni 22

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PROPHECY ’Tis the year of 1960! The “age of miracles” has arrived. Licing on planets is an established fact. All traffic problems have been solved, and the class of ’39 is scattered over the Milky Way, Mars, Jupiter, and Venus. Our class president, Henry Lipe, Jr., is the owner of Milky Way Mills, and this new mill is furnishing much competition for Cannon Mills Co. In this large concern we also find Earl Allen and M. J. Barger, able-bodied and efficient managers, who are so good they can take a few threads and make one of their best-selling towels. Evelyn Bonds and Geraldine Allen are the neat and capable secretaries. In the cinema world Claudine Barbee, our prettiest girl, has the honor of being the top ranking film player. J. T. Correll and his assistant, J. D. White, are preparing a musical comedy, ' ' Follies of 1960,” Neal McCombs, all-star comedian, is dragging around a goose because he doesn’t want to be too much like Joe Penner. Marjoriene Coley is playing Juliet on the world’s largest stage. Her success is doubtless due to the direction of Garrison Freeman, the scenarios of Lamonte Goldston, the management of W. T. Kiser, and the ballyhoo of Nacmi Benton. Managing her fan mail are Rachel Felker and Arline Hare. Edith Thompson is preparing to marry into the Wool worth’s millions. Clara Overcash has just inherited a few million dollars from a once rejected admirer. She just can’t decide how to spend it. Speaking of undecided minds, George Brandon has been debating for the past twenty years whether or not to make architecture his vocation. Regardless of George’s inability to decide his fateful question, Lloyd Hipps. the world’s foremost architect, has built office buildings that scrape the sky, theaters, that seat thousands, govern- ment universities for higher public education, and factories for unbelievable mass production. Aubrey Fox in his second childhood suddenly had an intense desire to play football, so Charlie Crayton, pop- ular captain of the high school team, is trying to teach him the art and technique of the game. Rose McDaniel is now publishing her twentieth novel, “Velvet Passion,” while our poet, Edna Hartsell, has enjoyed equal success with her “Odes to a Daisy.” Their metropolitan offices are similar to the new National Public Library, wherin Romania Eckerd reigns as supreme librarian. Robert McQuire manages New York’s highest hotel, Waldoris, home of the ultra-elite. The globe-trotting expeditions of Lewis Davis, “Believe it or Not” hunter, are becoming more and more in- tense, for the public thinks nothing strange in this era. Down in the South Seas, Alton Todd and Lee McIntyre are doing missionary work, while Jack Clevenger and Edward Moss are trying high pressure on the natives in an effort to get rid of some surplus refrigerators. The Feminine World is kept up to par by Zola Allen, fashion commentator, whose topic is The Well Dressed Woman of Today.” Dorothy Readling has established an exclusive fashion shop for ladies. Her styles are the very latest, and her name is well known. Modeling for her and helping bring in the profits are four expert and beautiful mannequins — Gladie Alexander, Helen Julian, Rosalie Kelly, and Erlene Williford. Harry Day vault and Earl Marlin, beverage specialists for two decades, have solved the problem by intro- ducing to the world a new beverage which contains all the powers of the South Mountain Special, but keeps the imbiber as sober as a judge . Guenton Slawson is executive of the now mighty industry and rests in gilded ease upon the profits of the sober, but spirited public. Mildred Carter and Margaret Payne are now owners of a chain of restaurants with Lola Shore and Roberta Ruff introducing new dishes every week. (Note: Food pills are a definite failure. Their manufacture, predicted by Horace Sills to be a booming industry by 1980, was stopped by the government in 1955.) Women are in politics as deeply as men. A new political party has appeared and threatens to parade into Washington immediately upon the order of their leader, Sarah Frye, who with her assistants, Rena Herman and Virginia Scarboro, has assembled a mighty band of heroines who demand wealth and fame for everybody. Tele- vision — yesterday’s dream — is a reality. Radio Station WXYZ is located in every principal city of the world. Manager of the American Division is George Gillon, who with his assistants Glenn Deal and Lewis Scarborough, fills the air with sight waves galore. m Tnr m n m m n m n 1 1 m m m n 1 1 m i m m n n i m i TTn rn 1 n r iiin i iiiiiiiniii ' iiiiiifmiiTiirniiniiiriininMmmm i 21

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LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT We, the Senior Class of 1939, of J. W. Cannon High School, in the city of Kannapolis and State of North Caro- lina, being of sound mind and memory, do hereby make and declare this our Last Will and Testament in the manner and form following. Article I To the School: We leave to you our respect, loyalty, and a desire for a very prosperous future. Article II To Our Oncoming Class: We leave to you our coveted front seats in the auditorium. Article III To the Teachers: We spirit. leave to a desire that next year’s students will work harder and will continue to keep up the school Article IV To the Individuals: I, Gladys Teague, do hereby will and bequeath my shortness of statue to Hazel Karriker, hoping she will be able to see in a crowd better than I. I, Zola Allen, do hereby will and bequeath my position as Mr. Dupree’s secretary first period, and to keep doing the things he wants me to with a smile, even after he’s walked the baby all night, and to have a ready giggle for all of Mr. Kornegay’s stale jokes to Howard Deaton, knowing he will fulfill this position to the utmost of his ability. I, G. Lee McIntyre, graduating from Cannon High School at the ripe old age of 30, do hereby will and bequeath my gray hairs, my ability to work on the second shift, and to stay awake on class to Clarence Pitts, for I know that he needs these qualities to carry him through the Senior Class of next year. I, Ray Childers, do hereby will and bequeath my height to Alfred Morgan, believing that he can use some of it. I, Horace Sills, do hereby will and bequeath my love for Jessie James to Frankie Patterson, hoping he will love him as I have — “Pli Ho Silver.” I, Hazel Powell, do hereby will and bequeath my monitorial badge and my position to Jamima Powell, and my ability to laugh (at the wrong time) to Lamina Riggs. I, Thomas Anderson, do hereby will and bequeath my ability to have a girl waiting on me in every state I visit, to Bobby McClary, hoping he doesn’t get into as much trouble over them as I have. I, Garrison Freeman, will and bequeath my ability to filibuster, and my ability to get along with Mrs. Neal to Walter Goodman. I, Margaret Sifford, do hereby will and bequeath my ability to get out of class to go see Miss Franks to next year’s basketball manager. May she use this to her advantage as much as I did. I, Melvin Pilkinton, do hereby will my old English book to John Teague. I, Clarence Randolph, do will my love for graduates to Truman Chapman. I. Frank Schenck, do leave my best wishes to the faculty and school. I, Lawrence Seymour, do hereby will my ability to get along with Mr. Hudson to Frankie Patterson. I. J. P. Sills, do hereby will my good times to Gaither Critz. I, Alton Todd, do hereby will my love to the entire school and its inhabitants. I, Mary Virginia Alexander, do hereby will and bequeath my ability to talk longer and louder than anyone else to Virginia Poe. I, George Bagby Brandon, Jr., do hereby will and bequeath my ability to day dream on class to Paul R. Kearns, hoping he will not be called down as much as I. I, Albert Sloop, do hereby will and bequeath my job as treasurer of the Senior Class and my ability to forget Chemistry and Geometry to Horace Robertson. inmm i mnmmn i iimnTT TTT inU il H Wlll ' M l D LLLlltinig mm Minimum i Minim i m mm mi Diumnnmivni 23