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

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12th GRADE SENIORS Betty Jane Hartis Robert Joseph Powell Session House 5; President Tri-Hi-Y Club 5: Phalanx Club 5; Session House 5; Cannon Re- Twelfth Grade Play 5; Cannon Report Staff 5; port Staff 5; Baseball 5; Twelfth Grade Play 5. Monitor 5; Student Government Dance Committee 5. Sarah Virginia Horne Tri-Hi-Y Club 5; Monitor 5; Marshal Twelfth Grade Play 5. Bennie Sides Vice-President Home Room 2, President 4; Pres- ident Model Airplane Club 1, 2; Dance Club 4; Hi-Y Club 1, 2, 3, 4, Chaplain 1, 3, Vice-President 2; Government Play “Mumbo Jumbo”; “Y” Member- ship Campaign 3, 4; Leader Boys’ Gra-Y Clubs 4; Cannon Report Staff 4. Gerald R. Lloyd Varsity Basketball 5; Twelfth Grade Play 5; Cannon Report Staff 5; Intramural Sports Com- mittee 5; Monogram Club 5; Beta Phalanx Club 5; Art Hi-Lights Staff, Humor Editor 5. Leonard Mabry Twelfth Grade Play 5; Varsity Basketball 5: Twelfth Grade Social Committee 5; Glee Club 5; Boys’ Chorus 5. Harold Kenneth Overcash Council 5; Vice-President Band 5; Monitor 5; Hi-Y Club 5; Beta Phalanx Club 5; Vice-President Twelfth Grade 5; Production Manager Twelfth Grade Play; Business Manager Chairman Lost and Found 5. Mary Lillian Sides “Messiah” 5; Girls’ Glee Club 5; Mixed 7 Chorus 5; Chaplain Tri-Hi-Y Club 5; Marsn P Twelfth Grade Play 5; Art Hi-Lights Staff S.J Honor Society Band 5, Librar Chairman 5; Mj Twelfth Grad Grade Play 1 and Scroll 5 ; lub 5; Program Social Committee Inn,” Twelfth SLOOP Grade Play, “Tiptoe Page T wenty-seven

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12th GRADE SENIORS Annie Lou Ballard Twelfth Grade Play 5; Monitor 5; Tri-Hi-Y Club 5. Geraldine Braswell National Honor Society 5; Marshal Twelfth Gi de Play 5; Secretary Twelfth Grade 5. Margaret Brooks Head Monitor 5; Chief Hostess for Basketball Tournament 5; Honor Society 5; Quill and Scroll 5; Girls’ Glee Club 5; Mixed Chorus 5; Sextet 5; Dance Orchestra 5; Twelfth Grade Treasurer 5; Tri-Hi-Y Club 5; Twelfth Grade Play 5. Katherine Virginia Brown Marshal Twelfth Grade Play 5; “Tiptoe Inn” 5. Ramelle Callicutt Cannon Report Staff 5; Tri-Hi-Y Club 5; Girls’ Athletic Club 5; Varsity Basketball 5; Quill and Scroll 5. Margie Lee Dancy National Honor Society 5; Vice-President Honor Society 5; Library Assistant 5; Marshal at Twelfth Grade Play 5. Frankie Chandler Twelfth Grade Play; Tri-Hi-Y Club 5; Monitor 5; Quill and Scroll 5; Cannon Report Staff 5. Mary Louise Dellinger Quill and Scroll 5; Council 5; Student Govern- ment Dance Chairman 5; Cannon Report Staff 5; Head Cheerleader 5; Twelfth Grade Play 5; Mon- itor 5; Tri-Hi-Y Club, Chairman Social Committee 5; Glee Club 5; Mixed Chorus 5; “Messiah” 5, Alto Soloist 5, Basketball Tournament Hostess 5; Athletic Club 5; Archery Club 5. Betty Wilson Farabee Twelfth Grade Play 5; Cannon Report Staff 5; Tri-Hi-Y Club 5; Monitor 5. Frances Marie Ferguson Honor Society 5; Quill and Scroll 5, Vice-Presi- dent 5; President Twelfth Grade 5; Librarian, Band 5; Tri-Hi-Y Club 5; Monitor 5; Twelfth Grade Play 5; Debating Team 5. Page Twenty-six

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PROPHECY It was tonight the 1st of June, 1 954, while sitting in Grand Central Station waiting for my train, that the queerest thing happened to me. I was reading a magazine called The Traveler, a travelers’ guide, when I happened to notice that Conley Graham, one of my classmates, class of ' 44, was editor and publisher. Seeing the name of my classmate took my thoughts back to my last year in Cannon High. Then I realized that tonight, ten years ago to the exact day, my class had graduated, each member now pursuing his chosen profession. Suddenly, an elderly man, sitting beside me, tapped my shoulder and began telling me all about what my classmates were doing. I had never seen the man before nor did I understand how he knew all of this, but here ' s what he told me. Zella Foster Lunsford, Jan ice Lylerly Greene, Hilda Peninger Goodman, and Rebecca Towell McCombs, who were married before we graduated, have set up housekeeping since their husbands have come home from military service. To the field of medicine the class of ' 44 gave some very outstanding men and women. Dr. Freeman Slaughter and Dr. James Jung are widely known practicing physicians, while Dr. Bar- bara Bogan is considered one of the greatest brain surgeons in the world. Those who received training as Cadet Nurses and are now capably serving in various hospitals are Virginia Beck, Frankie Chandler. Christine Foil, Edith Honeycutt, and Jennie Bell. As a life saver for such math teachers as Margaret Brooks, Zeb Cashion. and Ruth Avant, the J. O. Dayvault, Jr., Slide Rule Manufacturers have developed very easy operating and very accurate slide rules for all math students. Lawrence Ray Berry, noted lecturer and world traveler, has been touring the country with his manager, Harry Davis. Newmoon Jung is now quite a well-known photographer who takes pictures of models such as Hazel Roberts, Virginia Blackwelder, and Betty Sue Crenshaw. Secretaries who graduated from Cannon High and who are now employed in some of the largest concerns in America are Betty Jane Sossoman, Betty Sue Shinn, and Imogene Shepherd. Some of the new coiffures the women are wearing are creations which Thelma Walls, Alice Reece, or Estelle Poole have originated. Rubie Mae Oliver now operates a dress shop of her own. Eva Mae Pethel and Betty Jean Mullis design the dresses, while Clarice Morris and Suella Myers make and fit them. Even though both are married, Anna Harmon and Betty Hartis are columnists for newspapers. Mary Evelyn Childers, Cora Lee Chambers, and Eudene Hoke are home economic experts, testing the products of Allen Beam’s Cereal Company. Leroy Dwiggins now has a Super-Dooper-Super Store, selling groceries with the help of Harry Freeze, Harold Haithcock, and Johnny Linker. Aircraft manufacturing has been put on a large scale by makers such as Lawson Biles, Earl Critz, and James Yates. Dorothy Kluttz is editing a revised system of shorthand. Recently promoted to the position of head telephone operator in New York City is Maggie Lee Perkins. Employed there also are two of her classmates. Helen Powell, and Verna Mae Pethel. Betty Miller and Carol Fritts are doing work in religious education. Don Currie and Charles Holbrooks have Boy Scout Troops. Susie Whittington and Beatrice Parker have opened an orphanage. Anita Morris and Catherine Oliver assist them in keeping the children out of mischief. L. V. Lue McRorie, Ramelle Callicutt, and Helen Cartner coach basketball and softball at various schools. Elva Hipps and Eulaila Conner are welders at the new Leonard Alexander Auto Corporation. Operating various theaters throughout the United States with Robert Foi, James Gurley, and Ray Dwiggins. is Frank Goodnight. Girls selling tickets at some of these theaters are Annie Lou Ballard. Katherine Brown, and Louise Barrett. Successful lawyers who graduated in the class of ' 44 are Leonard Bassinger, Max Cooke, and Ned Lowder. Dorothy Gibson is superintendent of a school for airline hostesses. Now on active duty as hostesses are Helen Cline. Doris Cobb, and Betty Compton. Max Christy and Wallace Bennett have quite a spacious ranch out west and raise some of the cattle of the world. Even though the war is over, Bobby Phillips, Billy Avant. and Tom Teal have remained in the Army. All have commissions and are training men. Sam Shaver, Elmer Poole, and Neil Robinson have modern farms equipped with all the modern implements in use. In the great field of social work are Rosalind Bodie, Louise Bost, and Geraldine Braswell who have exerted a great influence for better living conditions. Pets are in such demand today that Jocelyn Godfrey, Claudine Griffin, and Marie Helms have opened Ye Olde Pet Shoppe.” Mary Frances Goodman, Janice Irby, and Myrtle Ketner are women dentists who have excelled in this work. Alfred Hardin, Earl Funderburke, Earl Cook, and J. C. Daugbtery are carpenters and con- tractors. The Hot Spot, Chicago ' s favorite night club, is owned by L. D. Whitley and Robert Powell and operated by Clara Mae Carter. Jeanette Cauble is head waitress, and entertainment is furnished by the dancing team, Betty Farabee and Kenny Overcash. Felix McConnell and James Overcash are transcontinental bus drivers. Albert Parham, Everett Simpson, and Paul Robinson are policemen in Kannapolis. The Collier sisters, Margaret and Sarah, are seamstresses who have such a large business that