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

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CLASS PROPHECY Where am I? Oh, now I remember. I'm sitting here on a high downy throne looking toward a beau- tiful dawning, watching the things my classmates of '41 are doing at present. Ten years have passed since our departure from dear Cannon High. In New York we find Dot McCoy, Dot Patter- son, Lib Smith, Merely Alexander, Edna Sims, Mary Frances Overcash, Opal Mundy, Betty Sue Payne, Margaret Hudson, Geraldine Honeycutt, and Ruby Childers modeling dresses, bathing suits and mil- linery. Nell Cashion, Hazel Blackwelder, Hazel Gatton, Lib Goodnight, Evelyn McCall, Hazel and Margaret Wellman, Margaret Owen and Helen McCall have turned out to be nurses in different hospitals. Dot Oates, Frances Daves, and Pat Orland-believe it or not-are lawyers. In Paris designing clothes we see Mary Brown, Bertie Freeze, Gaynelle Clink- giales, Doylen Walsh, Daisy Nash, Ruth Sherrill, Margaret Hardy, and Helen oop, Among the pilots of our class we find Bill Wilhelm. Harold Puntch, Ernest Bowles, Clay Hoce, Garlin Menscer, J. L. Collins, Allen Suther, Paul McManus, H. W. Owen, Ned Reece, and Marshall Rimmer. Billy Price is a mechanic. Athletes who are now professional players are Fred Daniels, Lester Brown, A. D. Stricker, Hubert Miller, Archie Nesbit, Jim Sherrill, Norman Hamrick, Ray Galliher, and Jason Honeycutt. Frances Maughon is teaching at the We Know It All High School in Chicago. Mable Echerd, Elian Holloway, Janice Jackson, Ophelia Morton, Juanita Link, and Betty Pruitt have also followed the line of teaching. Helen Harrington and Rea Huss are in the foreign countries as missionaries. Miss Alexander should be proud of Margie Propst and Jo Suma Lindsay because they are doing a fine piece of work, painting covers for the Cosmopolitan magazine. Jimmie Nolan has followed in his father's footsteps. He is now head doctor at Duke. Evelyn Guye directs an all-girl orchestra in the heart of New York. Merrill Hilton has out-danced the greatest dancer of our age. After debating several years about what he should choose as a profession, Wylie Yarborough decided on becoming a band leader. Arthur Wooten, Charles Johnson, Feldman Corn, Johnsie Winecoff, Billy Whitley and Harvey Turner are head knockers in Wylie's band. Irene Wilson and Virginia Ledwell are successful nurses in the Phillipine Islands. They are working toward improving the living conditions, Pete Hudson and John Wyatt are busily engaged in the field of civil engineering. Charles Ferguson has become editor of the New York Times while Howard Long is circulation manager for the Chicago Tribune. Harold Dellinger, Frank Glass, Earl Helms, H. C. Cooke, Curtis Patterson, Farrell Roberts, and Lewis Rogers are the outstanding political leaders of the day. Charles and Luther Sloop have found a modern way of farming, and they have as helpers: Herman Cooke, E. F, Demarcus, David Duncan, Alton Eddle- man, Carl Spry, and Calvin Wood. Page Twenty-six

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.i'.' ai. F. ' swf Helms, vice-president: Edna Mae Sims as secretary and Bobby Ridenhour, treas- urer. O Father, for each of these capable leaders we thank Thee and with the power you have given unto us we are eager to make use of it as a group and as individuals. Knowing that our greatest event of the four years as a class is the Junior-Senior Banquet and in preparation for this eventful occasion a great sum of money was needed-so with your faith, Lord, we presented an unforgettable Junior Class Play Yours Truly Willie under the direction of Mrs. E. H, Lewis. Then came the Hallowe'en Carnival which was equally successful. Soon the moment came and we had chosen for the first time our own home town, in the Cannon Memorial Y. M. C, A., decorated to the theme of Gone With The Wind. After the Banquet we gathered in the school gymnasium to dance to the music of Russ Gregs' Orchestra. This night was without a doubt one of the highlights of our life, . Father, to the individuals ygu have given power to bring honor to our class. We recall with pride Wylie Moore Yarborough who represented the Hi-Y Club in Overlan. Ohio, and Farrell Roberts who was elected Lieutenant 'Governor of the Tar Heel Boys' State at University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. This, the unforgetable year of our career, having now drawn to an end, we pause to give thanks for guiding us so faithfully, and ask Thee to give us power the oncoming Senior year. In this, the greater year of our Lord nineteen hundred.and forty, our class now numbering one hundred and ninety has gathered again to inherit the names and duties as Seniors. O Father. as we go into the last year of preparation we ask Thee to be with us and guide us, And, Father, we are grateful for Mr. John L. Dupree, Chief Adviser, Miss Lorraine Ciray, Mr. Harold Ostwalt, Mr. W. K. Cromartie, Miss Helen Dugan, and Miss Margaret Abernathy as Class Advisers, From our class we chose Wylie Moore Yarlforough as president: Billy Whitley, vice-president: Helen Harrington, secretary: and Bobby Riden- hour as treasurer. With this capable group of leaders we start this year with a beautiful new and modern library with Miss Ruth Robertson as Librarian. Another great step was taken this year and the Diversified Occupation Course under the supervision of Mr. Cannon. Another highlight of this year is the Art Hi-light booklet edited and presented by the Art Class under the supervision of Miss Nellie Alexander, For all these blessings we give our heartiest thanks, and remembering the phrase where there's a will there's a way. we say- we came, we saw- we conquered. FARRELL ROBERTS. PQ? ' ' ,Iso for the Seniors again as individuals, we mention with pride Harvey T if and Bobby Ridenhour who made the all-State and all-Southern Bands. and Farrell Roberts who was representative from our school to the Southern Association 'of Student Government in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and also served on the Auditing Board. Page Twenty-Hue

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Lillian Youngs has out-debated the champion debater. Let's see. As beauticians we find Bonnie Beck QMrs. Elmer Ketnerj , Kath- erine Smith, Lennie Tilley, Juanita Williams, Dorothy Hartis, and Mildred Williams. Frankie Wellman. Dot Carter, and Frances Trammell, as well as Ruth Coan and Audrey Hall, have become nationally known because of their feature articles in leading papers. Among the best secretaries of the country we find: Betty Morrison, Bonnie Gettys, Mildred Gibbons. Edith Stuart, Edith Dancy, Mary Sills, Peggy Pen- ninger, Frances Orland, Nola Nichols and Willie Green Belk, John Teague has also entered this field. After finishing high school 'Roy Deyton has finally settled down to a quiet and peaceful life. Dolphus Tidwell is still breaking the feminine hearts at large, and John Triece and Ned Reece are also still much-sought-after bachelors. W. H. Brown has turned out to be a successful dentist. Ruth Edmiston, Delphine Hudson, Jean Dove, Dot Sims, Lorene Sifford, and Ruth McBride have become the most famous skaters in the United States. Cannon High turned out some girl athletes as well as boys. Some of them are Mildred Taylor, Tom Scarboro, and Willene Lackey. Otho Freeze and Dot Benson have joined the circus as regular troopers. Otho is the strong man and Dot is the Modern Venus. Faynell Christy has become a Florida bathing beauty. Working in Norris Dearmon's A '65 P store we see: C. D. Pennington, Earl Ketner, Kiolen Krider, and Elmer Ketner, Creola Durham is a model for Glenn Bost's modeling agency. Vernon Avant is head stage manager at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York and as his fellow workers: Robert Fowler, Jack Furr, Paul Goodman and Robert Milstead. June Hurst and Charles Bryant are climbing the ladder to success with the Cafe businesses. Kathleen Carter is another of those accomplished secretaries. Melba Triece and 'Ruby Tyson run a Shoe Store entitled, We fittem, you wearum. Very contented housewives from the class of '41 are Blondine Spry, Alice Smith, Catherine Overcash, Gaynelle Cooke, Ruth Ballard CMrs, Charlie Cassellj, Gladys Pethel, Rosa Nell Teal, and Lamina Riggs. In Pennsylvania we find, as head saleswomen, Orella Falls, Kathleen Deal, Violet Parker, Irelle Fowler, and Fay Ellen Mullis, Mary Lee Tesh and Frances Payne are co-owners of a luxurious perfume shop in New York. Frank Perry has become professor of music at Davidson College. Cleo Ketner, Ruth Griflith and Cornelia Hess are prominent dress-makers. Emma Phillips and Mary Lee Nantz have become very efHcient librarians. Julia Ann McKnight has originated a new grading system for schools. Bobby Ridenhour and Ralph Barnhardt helped her in this worth-while project. Mary Elizabeth Brown and Lucille Carraway have joined the throng as housewives. , Wilma Alexander and Margaret Armstrong have become welfare nurses. Frederick Glass has engaged himself with writing comic strip books. Everett Hampton, Harold Hinson, and Richard Cannon work in the different depart- ments helping him. Homer Brinkley is sailing the high seas as captain of the Mermaid. I could hear my name being called from far away. It was then that I dis- covered that Mother was trying to wake me so that I wouldn't be late for school. My! What a pleasant dream it had been! Page Twenty-seven