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Heading the famous New York Times is Brice J. Williford, Jr. On his staff are James Stearns, Helen Athanaelos, and Ruby Lewis. Reginald Talbert is following the footsteps of his brother and is taking up boxing. His managers are Carl Moore and Wilborne Lunsford. Y. M. C. A. boys ' instructor is none other than Fred Poole. He really goes in for basket- ball and has as his assistants Harold Moss and James Weddington. Elsie Mae Baity won the bowling tournament recently with a very high score. Other contestants were Frankie Chandler. Betty Farabee and Gladys Caddell. Helping Dan Cupid along by growing beautiful red roses, we find Betty and l.ouise Sechler. Alene Plyler and Mary Sloop running a florist shop. Several girls have filled men s places as radio announcers. They are Loma Griffin. Margaret Lewis, Virginia Harmon and Mary Frances Dearman. Not all newspapers are edited by men and Frances Ferguson has proved this fact. She is doing well publishing a nationally-known newspaper. Her assistants are Glenn Tucker, Eva Mae Strickland, and Mary Kathleen Rogers. English people are not the only ones who love tea, for Inez McCool is doing swell business in her Tea Shoppe. Her helpers are Margaret Barnhardt. Mary Agnes Gurley and Annie Lou Ballard. They have dined with many English nobles. Making delicious pastries, especially dough-nuts, for the Tea Shoppe are Evelyn Lumsden. Katherine Brown and Helen Keller. Patriotic members of Uncle Sam ' s welding force during the war are still carrying on the trade. Among them are: Hazel Thomas, Geraldine Aderhold, Georgia Falls, and Frances Barbee. Helen Deal, Sarah Goodwin, and Louise Sloop are successful stenographers for Senators at the White House in Washington. All wearing rings on the third finger, left hand, Jeanne Whitley, Betty Jo Long and Dorothy Bost are patiently waiting for the date they have at the Little Church Around the Corner. Due to her ability to act and read poetry, Mary Jewel Lambert has gone to Hollywood to become a great dramatic actress. Billy Ray Safrit and Henry Safrit are coaches for the famous Blue Devils at Duke University. Fred Astaire, who is planning to retire soon, is giving Bobby Walden dancing lessons. Bobby, with Elizabeth Frieze, will fill Ered Astaire ' s and Ginger Roger’s place in Hollywood. Allie Smith, Ruth Gardner, Marilyn Hipps, Juanita Brown, and Mary Withers are famous models for John Powers in New York. Duke University gained a scholar when Johnny Riggs became a professor and went there to teach. Beverly Brookshire, originally from the north, has gone back and opened a restaurant to teach the northerners how to cook our famous dish, fried chicken. Having received sufficient training in high school, Roberta Dellinger. Patsy Ruth Roberts, Lillian Sides, and Wilva Welch have formed a touring chorus and are giving performances in important places. Because of their wonderful record in high school sports. Ramelle Callicutt, L. V. Lou McRorie and June MacDonald are now teaching Physical Education in New York. Sudie Goodman and Frances Widenhouse, who were at one time important members of a high school orchestra, have joined the Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra. After chauffeuring his car around at school for the students. Ben Smith is head of a taxi station in Washington and. assisted by Ralph Sloop, is continuing to drive people around. Having played the guitar nearly all his life. J. W. McCombs has formed a famous string orchestra. Career girls that stormed New York and tore down everything but the Empire State Build- ing with their ballet were Pattie Lou Coan and Kathleen Holshouser: Vivian Hampton and Hazel Meyers serve as secretaries. Successful beauty parlor operators are Elizabeth Donaldson and Alene Self. Following up their high school record in sports, Carl Herman and Wilburn Bonds are now famous big league baseball umpires. (As yet neither has been hit by a pop bottle.) Numbered among the sweet little girls who ask Number Please? and then say, The line ' s busy,” we find Mamie Lumsford, Mildred Mitchell, Virginia McNeil, and the Sloop girls, Catherine and Evelyn. Rachel Yates has followed in the footsteps of her father and has become a famous missionary. Walter Griffin, who got his ideas from his high school Aeronautics class, invented an auto- mobile with two rudders and an Aero Leron. Assisting him was Troy Mayhew. Co-authors of the best seller What ' s Wrong With Men are Janet Rogers, Irene Shaver, Helen Smith, Creola Tutterrow and Edna Walters. Their next book will be Improvements. Working from the bottom up. Lorene Eckerd, Willie Mae Yates, Evelyn Cassel, and Betty Jane Hartis are now owners of big department stores in Los Angeles. Mrs. Margaret Freeze Hoce was selected the ideal housewife for the year. Other contestants were Mrs. Doris Admond Linn, Garnell Canup, Voida Bell Early. Ruth Freeman, Helen Alex- ander and Louise Cruse. During the war, Mildred Crepps. Betty Jean Goodman, Margie Jones. Helen Lowder and Arbutus Herrin joined the Nurses Aides but are now stationed in hospitals over the country. Six boys whose ability led him to produce some of the greatest plays on broadway are: Roy Honeycutt, A. M. Moon, Robert Powell, James Williams, Ralph Brigman, and B. L. Starnes. We have just seen our old classmates pass before our eyes. Soon they will again go out of our lives to return to their various homes, jobs, and ways of living, but they will always leave behind them a fond remembrance of happy days that they spent together in J. W. Cannon high school.
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CLASS PROPHECY By Charles Misenheimer Heartaches, hatred, destruction, and war characterized the school year of 1943. Great powers and nations, pitting their might against each other, were fighting in a deadly struggle. Keen minds, understanding, and faith in God were the only assurances of a better world to come. That was 1 3 years ago. It seems only yesterday that our Senior class had given up its high school days forever, and had been scattered to all parts of the globe. Most of the boys joined the armed services of the United States, while the girls served as best ihey could anywhere they were needed. Yes, that was a long time ago. but tonight, with the world once more at peace and pro- gressing again under a normal civilization, that Senior class is having a big reunion at the Y. M. C. A. in Kannapolis. As we see all our old classmates come through the doors into our presence after years of separation, we can well be proud. Many notables, hard workers and people of distinction, have sprung from the class of 4 3. For instance: Ed Messer, our old class president, owns a chain of theaters that would fill 10 city blocks if placed side by side. He lists among his managers several former classmates, Ralph Towell, Albert Hartis and Milton Lowe. Listed among the famous doctors, we find Harold Hoke has quit butchering cows” and is now working on people. Sharing the spotlight with Dr. Hoke, we find Bill Abernathy, Bill Cross and Cardell Carter. Annie Ruth Brinkley stormed Hollywood with her flashing smile, and is now one of its greatest stars. Other stars are Montise Martin, Doris Moore and Betty Walters. Boys who reached the top in theatrical performances are Cardine Overcash, David Hunsucker, and Gerald Lew Lehr Lloyd. Audrey Cloninger and William Evans have opened a large art gallery together and both are regarded as excellent painters. In the world of sports J. C. Honeycutt is playing pro-football with the Chicago Bears and his brother, Jason, along with Charles Gardner, is coaching at two large colleges. Reid Lemly is playing with the House of David baseball team and is very proud of his six-inch beard. The once Cannon high trio, composed of Margaret Brooks, Hilda Maulden and Margaret Helms, have done themselves proud singing with a big-time band and making trips to Hollywood. Among the politicians who never smoke anything but 5 0-cent cigars, we notice Ed Nimer. Marvin Benton, Clifford Childers, Carl Cline, and Phil Howell. Joe Honeycutt has his own dance band featuring Charles Misenheimer, James L. Bost, and Wade Allen. Other music-makers are Carlvin Robinson and Betty Puntch. The greatest magician since the death of Houdini presents itself in the form of Charles Redman. His special trick is sawing Alfred Morgan in half. Girls who took the fatal step, marriage, and settled down early are, Shine Pinner, Frances Morton, Laura Bell Norton, Faye Nell Overcash and Polly Simpson. Frank Litaker has become one of the strongest men in the world. He pals around with Arthur Pethel and Mack Earnhardt, who are radio experts. Boys who liked the armed forces so well that they decided upon it for their life ' s work are: Robert Fowler, Glenn Bost, Richard Dixon. Carl Duncan, Norris Keller and Ruben Meeks. Geraldine Braswell, Margie Dancy and Virginia Perry are library workers. All excel in this field. Mary Dean Whitten, who learned how to make synthetic butter from cream, is now a world famous chemist. Others who have profited by their scientific knowledge are Helen Miller, Evelyn McDaniel and Ruth Pethel. Margaret Roberts and Mary Dellinger have opened a big dancing school in New York and have been very successful in their work, especially in teaching men. Girls, who threw caution to the wind, lost their better judgment, and have turned out to be school teachers are: Ollie Tillie. Mildred Payne, Eva Walters, Opal Towell and Wilma Tyson. Mildred Carter and Betty Meachem are both coaching high school basketball teams and having a great deal of success. Adelle Price developed a new type of hair curler and has become very rich. She has as her partners Louise Poteat, Daphne Reynolds and Doris Richardson. Gene Holbrooks, undecided bachelor, and Robert Black, his partner, have opened giant Meat Markets all over the country and have made so much money, they hired four public accountants to keep track of it. They are: James Whittington, Kathleen Withers, Ellen Dishman and Kenny Overcash. The nursing schools have claimed some of our cutest girls. Kat Gibson, Elsie Daves and Frances Bolan do honor to this profession. Many of our old classmates have excelled in newspaper work. Hilda Edmiston, Aleene Payne, J. C. Barbee and Blanche Chastain are all famous feature writers. Ruth Sneed, Ruby Wike, Dorothy Hampton. Katherine Bowles and Vendelia Cauble have all turned out to be policewomen. (They all get their men.) Charles Ross now heads the American Airways, a large plane transportation company. A few of his pilots are: Hartsell Hargett, Harold Nash, Frank Teal, and Cecil Gabriel. Famous “Horse Opera stars out in Hollywood are James Artz, Johnnie Christie and Everett Heintz.
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