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

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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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SENIOR SUPERLATIVES 1. Allie Smith Best looking girl 2. Cardine Overcash Best looking boy, most popular boy 3. Betty Puntch Best personality girl 4. Brice Willeford Best personality boy 5. Helen Athanaelous Best dressed girl 6. Bobby Walden . Best dressed boy , friendliest 7. Mildred Payne , Best all-around girl , most likely to succeed 8. J. C. Honeycutt Best all-around boy , most athletic boy 9. Dobbie Brooks Most talented girl 10. Charles Misenheimer Most talented boy 11. Betty Jane Walter ... Most popular girl 12. Geraldine Braswell Most studious girl, most dignified girl 25. Lorene Malden - 14. B. A. Fisher .... 15. Mary Dean Whitten Boy most likely to succeed 16. Harold Hoke 17. Varina (Shine) Pinner 18. Richard Dixon 19. Helen Deal ... . .... Most unconventional boy Most athletic girl Most dignified boy ... Most capable girl 20. Robert Black 21. Hilda Maulden 22. Phife Charles Ross 23. Margaret Helms 24. Charles Redman - Most cooperative girl Most cooperative boy Friendliest girl Wittiest girl