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

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FACULTY John L. Dupree B.S., Wake Forest: A.M., Duke University. Principal MRS. H. L. JACKSON. Sec ' ty., High School Office A. B., Bowling Green College of Commerce. Mrs. Edward Jewett Spanish Business Correspondence A.B.. Duke University. CAROLYN KLUSMEIER Home Economics B.S., Flora Macdonald College. , VERNA MAE LlSENBY Eighth Grade A.B.. University of North Carolina. R. B. LOWERY Sheet Metal Instructor MRS. MARTHA Melvin Home Economics B.S., W. C. U. N. C. JULIA N. Oates English, French A.B., W. C. U. N. C. : M.A., Duke University. RUTH ORDERS English, Public Speaking B. S., Appalachian State Teachers College. P. V. PARKS Latin, Physical Education A.B., Elon College. HAZELLE PURVIS Chemistry, Biology B.S., Limestone College. SUE RATCHFORD Mathematics B.S., Appalachian State Teachers College. MRS. FRANK Simmons Algebra. Business Math. B.S., Murray State Teachers College. Elizabeth Stinson English A.B.. W. C. U. N. C. MRS. A. M. WHITMIRE . . Business Mathematics A.B., Winthrop College. Mary Katherine Wicker Bible A.B., Flora Macdonald College. EDWIN WILSON . Band and Orchestra B.M.. American Conservatory of Music. Page Thirty-one

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FACULTY W. J. Bullock A.B.. Duke: A.M.. William and Mary. Superintendent Nellie Alexander Art, Music A.B., Greensboro College. SADIE BARIN ' LAI. ' History A.B.. W. C. U. N. C. JANE MOCK BEACHUM Physical Education A.B., East Carolina Teachers College. EDNA Brown Mathematics A.B., W. C. U. N. C. THELMA CALLAHAN . Commercial Courses B.S., Winthrop College. ELOISE camp Librarian A.B.. East Carolina Teachers College; M.S., George Peabody College. Dorothy Cash ion English A.B., W. C. U. N. C. Mrs. J. T. Cashion English A.B., Erskine College. MRS. ISABEL Stroup Clark History. Geography A B., Lenoir Rhyne College. ROSCOE L. COFFEY Diversified Occupations B.S.. Western Carolina Teachers College. MRS. W. G. COLEMAN Typing. Shorthand B.S., University of Alabama. MRS. I HURMAN FRYE Business Law, General Business A.B., Catawba College. MRS. PAT Glass General Science. Biology A.B., Winthrop College. LORAINE Gray English A.B.. W. C. U. N. C. ; A.M., Columbia University. Amy Riser HARRINGTON History. Journalism A.B., Duke University. Lucille Hunt Eighth Grade A.B.. M.A., University of North Carolina. Page Thirty

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PROPHECY Having settled down in my big comfortable easy chair, I had decided to spend an enjoyable afternooi) at the radio, listening to the Sunday Philharmonic Orchestra in concert. As I slowly sipped my iced tea, I heard the announcer remark that Billie Doris Watts, a guest singer on the program, was going to sing Schubert’s Serenade. Why, she was graduated in 1945 from Cannon High School ! I could hardly wait to hear her, because she was good in high school. But you can’t imagine my surprise when I heard that Franklin Pethel was to play the piano in the Philharmonic’s presentation of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. The day, however, was very hot and sultry ; and, I guess I became over comfort- able and dozed off to dreamland. In my dream I thought I heard bells ringing, and as the haze cleared, there was my old alma mater! Cannon High School came into view. Looking closer, I observed a huge sign on the front. It read, ‘Alumnae Day for Class of 45,” Well, I was welcome, for I had received my diploma in 1945. I chanced upon a strange group which, I decided after a moment of recollection, was the group of successful professionals from the Senior Class of 1945. First, 1 noticed a group of enthusiastic women who wore the latest styles in hair-do’s. Going closer, I recognized Erma Lumsden as the leader in the discussion. Eloise Lee, Betty Young, and Hilda Sechler were trying to get something out of the discussion, but they also slipped some good into the bag of beauty, since they were successful proprietors of their own beauty shops. Mary Ella Poole, along with Jane Hamilton, Dorothy Grayson and Vivian Harrington, had given their pool students enough work to keep them busy while they came down to chat with us as teachers where they themselves had been taught as high school students. After ten years of experience for Uncle Sam, Ray Elliott, now a Colonel, had managed to get a furlough. Admiral Cleo Lloyd was comparing the navy life to the life Ray was leading. That beauty ran wild in high school is proved by the fact that Betty Benson, Allene Swink, Eunice Safrit, and Louise Meeks are now in the famous group of exclusive Wrenn models, formerly owned by Powers, but the supreme judge of beauty is now Charles Wrenn. The school kids were crowded around Suzie Whittington for autographs, but Diamond Carter, swoonster of all teen-agers, was slyly watching the scene ; he had not yet been discovered. Making a hit in Bette Davis roles on the screen is Peggy MacKinley, heroine of our senior class play. Men of the bridge-building profession are Homer Ketchie and Fred Goodman, who are experienced civil engineers. I can see that many wizards and genuises were produced from the senior class, because Conley Graham, Joe Reese, Laverne Lea, and Mary Frances Belk were busy talking about their problems in the laboratory as laboratory technicians. In the field of law, Gordon Smith, James Odell, W. C. Martin, and Johnny Graeber are prominent lawyers, while Howard Stiller and Ray Thornburg are in the state House of Representatives. Lindy Stephens is now director of the newest swing band sensation. Taking Harry James’ place on the radio, his new band contains a few members from Cannon High School. Ralph Brandon is playing the tenor saxophone; Jimmy Brown, the clarinet; and Herbert Bray, the trombone. The vocal- ists. Moody Chisholm, Martha Hartness, and Dot Cooke, are quite well known, too. Earl Evans is the printer for Eugene Widenhouse’s magazine, LASS, whch is a sharp rival to ESQUIRE. The world of literature is lucky to have in its journalistic field Betty Alexander, Gilda Koonty, and Helen Harris. Helen writes the lovelorn column for New York “Times.” On the best seller list is Marcelyn Green’s DIDDIES FROM CRECIE. Peggy Bradford’s book of portraits and pencil sketches. Faces from Far and Near, is acclaimed by art critics everywhere. Competent secretaries of the business world are Betty Compton, Imogene Shepherd, Elaine Watson, Billie Jean and Jackie Wellmon, Inez Williams, Bonnie Sue Overcash, Ruby Pinkston, Ruby Kerr, and Doris Jean Daniels. Howard Whittington and Roland Horne are Presidents of the largest type-writing firm in America. To the field of Medicine Cannon High donated Don Currie, Ralph Slawson, Hayne Cashion, and Jesse Walter, Alice Nash, Emily Culp, Peggy Daniels, Gilda Corbin, Jean Bryan, and Margie Canup are registered nurses in various hospitals all over the country. Radio is proud to have discovered the greatest couple of comedians ever to make a name for them- selves, Mary Ella Crayton and Henry Champion. Richard Gillon and Harold Holbrooks are radio technicians, while Max Cooke is a prominent announcer. C. H. Sloop is a sturdy farmer on one of the more modernized farms. Farming machinery is Gene Phillips’, Roland Overcash’s and Wayne Goodnight’s business. Rival service station operators are E. H. Pool, Robert Strattin, and Bobby Wellmon. Jimmie Sappin- field, Billy Ritchie, and Charles Sherrill are some of Kannapolis’ best mechanics. Jimmy and Newmoon Jung and Bobby Hipps have inherited their fathers’ laundries and are doing a thriving business in up-to-date laundrying. Happily settled as housewives are Rebecca Bonds, Mary El len Beaver, Margaret Chisholm, Helen Cline, Phyllis Fisher, Lucy Efird, and Claudine Canup. Dress Designing is Audrey Barnes, who owns her own costuming agency from which many Hollywood companies get their exclusive clothes. Sue Crowe, Marie Cook, Wanda Daney, and Ollie Mae Freeze are on her staff of designers. Sherman Julian, E. G. Boggs, Leonard Bassinger, Leroy Cline, and Hobart Benson are executives for Cannon Mills Company. Photography, which developed from a high school hobby, has become the profession of Howard Stearns. RALPH SLAWSON (Continued on page 36)