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

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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

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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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ii iinTrm-rm rm CANNON I, Louise Johnson, do hereby will and bequeath my ability to be places on time to Bobby McClary hoping he can use it as well as I did. I, J. D. White, do will my name of “Sleepy” to John Dial. I, James Whitten, do hereby leave the memory of my good times to Alton Eddleman. I, Annie Bryant, do hereby will and bequeath my guard position on the basketball team, to Helen Brown, hoping she can uphold it better than I. I, Judy McKinley do hereby will and bequeath the honor of being head cheer leader to Betty Ross Dellinger for the year of ’39-’40. I, Rachel Felker do hereby will and bequeath to Doris Faggart my waves, knowing that she is willing to furnish the curls. I, Rebecca Bost, do hereby will and bequeath my ability to blush to anyone interested. I, Ruby Sills, do hereby will and bequeath my ability to bring visitors to class and be sent out, to Miss Killian’s future classes. I, Glenn Lowder, do hereby will and bequeath my ability to not make good in English to Mary Frances Bas- singer, hoping she will make use of it. I, Eloise Drake, do hereby will and bequeath my shortness of stature to Nay Delle Mattox. I, Frank Corbin, do will and bequeath my ability of going to all the football and basketball games at home and away to Frankie Patterson, hoping he will keep up the school spirit. I, Eddie Cochran, do hereby will to Hoyle Efird a desire for study and to Cannon High School a wish for more honors in the future. I, Kathryn Irby, do hereby will and bequeath my ability to attend school at least three days a week to Willie Jo Bray, hoping she will keep up the tradition. I, Frances Brigman, do hereby will and bequeath my bashfulness to Julia Mills Driver. I, Euverla Tidwell, do hereby will and bequeath my ability to play the piano to Lennie Tillie, who desires to be a musician, and I hope she will find as much pleasure in it as I have found. I, Helen Julian, do hereby will and bequeath my ability to control my temper to Jim Russell, hoping he will use it while on the basketball court. I, Mary Frances Rollins, do hereby will and bequeath one of my eyes, either the brown one or the blue one, to any unfortunate underclassman who is in the same predicament. I, “Dot” Readling, do hereby will and bequeath my ability to have a good time at parties regardless of with whom I am, to Doris Faggart and my love for dancing to Paul Kearns. I, Carl Parker, Jr., do hereby will and bequeath my ability to make the best of the worst, my love of living, and my love for beautiful girls to Alfred Morgan. I, Margaret Leazer, do hereby will my love for ball players to Miss Margaret Amanda Franks. I, Rena Herman, do hereby will and bequeath my ability to warm the bench in all sports to Jamima Powell. I, Arline Hare, do hereby will and bequeath my privilege to talk in Mr. Hudson’s Sociology class to Sarah Yates, hoping she will take advantage of it as much as I have. I, J. T. Correll, do hereby will and bequeath my abil ity to chew and pop my one wad of chewing gum to Mrs. Neal, hoping that she will use it during all her classes to her utmost advantage. I, Luther Pethel, do hereby will and bequeath my ability to blush to Mavoureen Puntch, hoping that she will not be made to blush as I have. I, Katherine Norris, do hereby will and bequeath my love for Chemistry to “Dot” Bell hoping that she will be a better “atom buster” than I. I, George Whitson Gillon, do hereby will and bequ eath to Paul Kearns my position as president of the stu- dent body and my good looks to Bobby McClary. I, Sammie McCoy, do hereby will and bequeath the ability of my hair to fall on rainy days longer and string- ier than any other senior girls to Doris Faggart, hoping she will be able to keep it rolled better than I. I, Glenn Jones, do hereby will and bequeath my love for Concord girls to R. D. Dayvault. I, W. T. Kiser, do hereby will and bequeath my love for dear old Cannon High to anyone. i t h tt i m 1 1 1 m n 1 1 1 1 n 1 1 n n n 1 1 m i ) m i n n n n v i ) 1 1 n m 1 1 HTg mill i im i m i m 1 1 ii innn i m 1 1 ii mm 1 1 i i nn i MU i n i ini 24