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

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Dorothea Cloninger, Mary Cline, and Mary Early are now famous promoters of safety. They preach safety, teach safety, practice safety, and give safety demonstrations to anyone who appears to be interested, while Elliott Brown is now the pastor of a church in New England. Garleen Pennington now owns a most outstanding beauty salon on 52nd Street. She has employed Hughleen Goodnight, Christeen Dees, Sarah Henry, and Helen Tow ell as her beauty operators. A famous lecturer of the world on “Life Begins at 20” and who tours the continent is Lorene Freeze who has as her companions and helpers, Luella Winecoff and Louise Sides. Vessie Chapman is the famed author of the book “How to Hold a Man,” which is very popular. The women of America literally fight for the copies. Robert Harmon and Clyde Hudspeth are the publicity managers and are kept busy night and day. Sarah Deal has gone into the field of interior decorating while Mary Bell Cashion speaks to all the little children of America on a most interesting subject, “Why Birds Build Nests.” Serving as her managers and handling her fan mail are Ruby Styles and Sarah Scarboro. Dorothy Pethel is employed by a Hollywood fii ' m as chief salesman for the new “Oomph” perfume which is endorsed by Ann Sheridan, while Lillian Messer has turned out to be the world’s greatest toe dancer. Ann Ketchum and Gladys Lear have invented a “Grow Tall Tonic” which is very popular throughout the country. Its great success is probably due to the efficient publicity managed by Clarence Walker. Mary Frances Bassinger entered the Ziegfeld Follies after finishing school and Maurvoreen Puntch became the Paris buyer for an exclusive dress shop in New York. Margaret Hess turned out to be a policewoman and is now serving on the New York police force. (She gets her man.) Ola Mae Barbee is a very successful actress on Broadway with her managers, Frank Smith and Vencie Nich- ols while Bryant Allman is a very distinguished piano player and often plays for the crowned heads of Europe. Ernestine Price and Leota Crenshaw are managing a dress shop in Alabama and serving as their sales girls and models are Arietta Johnson, Bertha Freeman, and Pauline Stewart. Now Forest Mahaffey has never married but has remained a bachelor in spite of the fortune inherited from his rich relatives. He prefers the life of a simple bachelor with a book, gun, dog, and a fishing pole. Sarah Yates is very happy because she has become the only thing in life that she desired to be, a missionary to China. She took along with her Edith Oates, Laura Moon, and Mary Propst, to help her in this great work. Paul Kearns has become one of the world’s most outstanding specialists and the folks pay him a fortune just to hear him tell them to eat less and exercise more. Ruth Carter is employed as his most capable nurse. (Mr. Kearns is a very accomplished “Penny Magician” on the sideline, and he entertains his little patients in this manner.) Clarence Pitts and Clarence Randolph, after leaving school got smart and invented a contraption for piping home all the oil under the North Pole. Naturally they became immensely wealthy, retired and at the present have taken up golf. Suddenly I realized that this was all of my classmates that graduated in the class of ’49 and I was very startled to see next the vague image of my own face! I had been permitted to know the future of all my class- mates; and now only my fate remained. What would it be? Eagerly I leaned forward to gain a clearer view of my activities in the future when CRASH!!! and I realized that I was being soused with water, and also I was back in the circus. People were talking very loudly, a man was trying to push the crowd back so I could get some air. Suddenly and a little foolishly I realized that I had run into the mirror and had been knocked out, also I was very disappointed because I knew that my future must remain unknown. But at the same time I was very happy to think that all of my former classmates were so successful and K. H. S. should be very proud of each member of the class of ’40 because each and every one has made a name for himself in the world. DORIS FAGGART, Prophetess. 24

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In the recreational field Coralie Roberts and Ruth Torrence now own the world’s largest and most successful ice skating rink. Assisting them in teaching folks to skate are “Dot” Murph, who is now Sojna Henie’s newest com- petition, Jackie Rogers, Dorothy Walters, Robert Poston and Joe Douglas. All the leading newspapers are now carrying the story of the two famous explorers, Murray Jackson and Walter Goodman, who recently sailed to Africa to try to uncover the buried treasures of the famous chieftain, Lukijiye Zwkiev. Ronald Huss and James McCall are the proud owners of the famous “Circus of Entertainment.” In the circus is Carol Overcash, brave and fearless lion tamer. Hoyle Efird and his famous dogs that are almost “human,” Ruby Morgan, the dazzling bareback rider, Lillian Cassell, who owns a hot dog grill, Marvel Teal, who is a jockey in the “Steeple Chase Races,” and Lucille Safrit, featured as a snake charmer. The X. Y. Z. Club has just recently opened in Chicago with Karl Fisher as the manager; Frances Powell, as the hostess; and Homer Fisher, as the bouncer. Buddy Munday turned out to be a glamour boy and is hitting all the high spots along Broadway at the present. The newspapers are playing up the contest sponsored by the National Broadcasting Company, in which they are to select “Miss Television.” Estelle Peele and Betty Dellinger, two of our former classmates, are contestants and are running right up at the top of the list. If you were to turn on your radio about 10:15 you would have the pleasure of hearing a dramatic serial en- titled “Live and Let Live” written by Julia Driver, the famed author and being dramatized by Helen Alexander, Ray Lamb, Mabel Stirewalt, J. D. McCorkle, and Maxine Lumsden. Gaynelle Cook, who wrote our class poem, has turned out to be the poet of the age! Why even the best critics of England concede that she out-Shakespeares their own Shakespeare! After finishing college Bobby McClary just naturally went in for reforms. He’s reformed the schools, the churches, police, movies, radio, the heathen, and now he has turned his attention to foreign relations. So now if the world isn’t a better place to live in, it certainly isn’t Bobby’s fault. The “Land Sakes Alive, You Get Hurt and We Pay Off” accident insurance company has just recently been merged into a corporation with Claude Moss serving as chairman of the board of directors; Nay Dell Mattox, serving as secretary and Charlie Hunt serving as treasurer. Employed as insurance salesman for this famous concern are Harold Belk, Edward Osborne, Sarah Helms, and Louise Dayvault. Jack Scarboro has turned out to be a very successful painter who specializes in portraits. At the present he is working on a portrait of the President of the United States. Speaking of Georgia, Ralph Hoke has become the governor of this famous and prosperous state, while J. E. Wise and George Russell have accepted prominent governmental positions along with Mr. Hoke. Fredrick Brown is North Carolina’s representative to Congress and he is doing an excellent job of it; although I can’t help but believe he got his start in our own Session House. Hoyle McCombs has followed in the foosteps of his father and gone into the grocery business, while Donald Laws, Julius Lewis, William Gibbons, and Philip Meacham have opened a very modern and exclusive cafeteria in our own city of Kannapolis. They have been very successful partly because of the delicious food served under the supervision o f two capable and efficient chefs, Leona Graybeal and Dorothy Jenkins. Virginia Law has become the dean at a college in Virginia. Serving on the teaching staff of this outstanding college are J. D. Cline, Lois Gray, Hazel Karriker, and Ethel King, while Helen Sides is now working in the Library of Congress in Washington, D. C. Ruby Lunsford, with the help of Martha Goodnight and J. W. Nelson has opened a shop “Ye Date Bureau,” which has as its purpose, “keeping the Kannapolis folks from being lonely.” The “Lady in Red” and the toast of New York is none other than Mary Alice Beaver, w}io got her start by wearing little red bows and suits while she was still in high school. Marjorie Teal is employed by the National Broadcasting Company while Lucille Mencer and Edith Hollaway are airline hostesses on a transcontinental airplane, “The Sky Bird.” : ks v ' j igd J?j it j Jfe i .,4 1891 eaV 23

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LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT We, the members of the Senior Class of 1940, being of sane mind and body, void of any threatening weakness or insanity, but realizing the uncertainty of our earthy existence, and wish to avoid any disturbance on the part of any inheritant heirs, do hereby, collectively and individually, will, bequeath, grant, bestow, and give the following gifts in the manner and form following: Item I To the members of the Junior Class we gladly and willingly bequeath the Senior expenses and few privileges, hoping that they can meet both with a smile. Item II To the school we leave our faculty advisors and our ability to find two sides to any and every question. Item III To the teachers and principal we leave our respect and desire that next year students will study harder than we and keep up the school spirit. Item IV To the Individuals: I, Mildred Heintz, do hereby will and beaqueath my wit to Hamilton Carery, hoping he will get by with it as I have. I, Alta Linn, do hereby will and bequeath my ability to keep out of trouble in study hall (by going into the library) to Ruth McBride, hoping that she will soon learn how to behave. I, J. W. Nelson, do hereby will and bequeath my ability to keep my name off Mr. Dupree’s “black list” to Carl Grady, hoping he will make use of it as I have. I, Jack “Mog Wau” Bassinger, son of “Doc,” do hereby will and bequeath my ability as most athletic boy to A. D. Strieker; my ability to write and give corny plays to Tommy Hallman, and if Carl Grady is still in school, I would like to drop the title, wittiest, to him. I, Jamima Powell, do hereby will and bequeath my ability to make love like the Irish to Mr. McCarns, but if he finds out that he really doesn’t need it, he may pass it on to Miss Gray so that she can show the next Irish character in one of her plays how to act. I, Nan Carroll Dulaney, do hereby will and bequeath my southern accent to Lester Griffin, Jr., and hope he enjoys having it as much as he has enjoyed teasing me about it. I, Doris Faggart, do hereby will and bequeath my love for taking and keeping up with the session house minutes to Frances Daves and my curly hair to Julia Anne McKnight. I, Virginia Law, do hereby will and bequeath my ability to make “A” on conduct, in spite of talking, to Robert Hobbs and Clinton Parker, knowing that they are forev er getting sent out of Mrs. Lewis’s English class for talking. I, Charlie Hunt, do hereby will and bequeath my ability to spell to Dick Osborne. I, Grover “Hoby” Ellison, do hereby will and bequeath my talking ability to “Gabby” Donaldson. I, Mary Cline, do hereby will and bequeath my most adorable and mighty ignorant nickname, “Poodle,” to Kat Deal, that she may be called a little dog. I, Edith Oates, do hereby will and bequeath my love for Mrs. Lewis’s study halls to Virginia Workman, hoping she might be in there in both her Junior and Senior years as I was. I, George Russell, do hereby will and bequeath my paying attention in Miss Gray’s English class to Howard “Moon” Deaton, fearing he needs it. I, La Nell Schuckle, do hereby will and bequeath my ability to make good grades in senior home economics to Evelyn McCall, and I hope she will be as successful as I was. I, Christine Dees, do hereby will and bequeath my long finger nails to Jimmy Bost, hoping he will profit by them. I, Ralph Hoke, do hereby will and bequeath my love for bookkeeping to Harold Brandon Puntch, and my ability to get along with Mrs. Jackson to Grey Roberts. I, Lucille Menscer, do hereby will and bequeath my tallness to Ralph Mann, hoping he will profit as much as I. I, Clarence Walker, do hereby will and bequeath my great ability to warm the bench in sports to Jason Honeycutt. I, Horace Robertson, do hereby will and bequeath my absent-mindedness to Mr. Dupree, believing that a little more won’t hurt him. r ' i ?.t p f r b 25