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

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SE IUHS JAMES Pturrus WHITLEY Home Room President 2, lli-Y l, 2, 3, 45 National Honor Society 2, 3, 4, President 4, Football 2, 3, 4, Council 49 Monitor fl, 4, CANNDN Rsvoivr Business Stall 3, 45 Chemistry Club 4, President 4: Dance Committee 3, Quill and Scroll 4. ALLIE VAN WILSON Fashion Show lg Home Room Secretary-Treasurer 25 Librarv Assistant 4, Bible Club 4. CiAROLE DCJLORES WILSON Fashion Show I: Advertisement Committee Jumping Jewels 39 Future Homemakers Club 3, CANNON REPORT Editorial Staff 4. BOBBY LEE WISHON Home Room Treasurer l, Social Chairman 4, Ili-Y l. EUGENE WILSON WOMBLE 'I'runsferre,l from Mineral Springs Hi wh School 2, National Honor Society 3, 4, Vice President 43 Basketball 3, 4, Monogram Club 3, 4, CANNON REPORT Co-Editor 45 Council 4, Commence- ment Marshnl 4, Latin Club 3, 4, President 4, Student Administra- tion Dav 35 Point Committee Chairman 4, Delegate to Tar Heel Bovs' State 3, Thomasville Delegate Social Standards Conference 3, Poem Committee -lg Senior Class Superlative 49 Quill and Scroll 4. BOYCE RAY YATES PHYLLIS lVlARLENE YODER Fashion Show lg Intramural Sports 2, 3, Tri-Hi-Y lg Bible Club 2. . Seniors Not Pictured RONALD KING EARL HARDY WILLIFORD , S . j11x11x1Y'B. WALKER BEWY WITHERSPOONl OO 9' . -Zffu - lay Page Twe y-seven l l 1 1 1 n 2 l 4 t 1 7 7'

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SE IDRS Oscfxn il'Rll'l.E'l I' Transferred from Nnrth Chnrlcslun, S. C. 3: Mcmitur 4: lli Y 4: Chr.-mistrv Club 3, 4: Suulcnt .Xclministrntiou Daw 3: Yicu Prcsimlvu! llome Ronin 4: liuolbaill 4: Intramural Sports 4. 4: Nluxiugrnlii Club 4. PAUL ELIGENE Ylilllflilill Si-ssiun llousu 3: Spanish Club 4: llllfillllllfall Spurts 2. 4. llfxaimim l-EE il4llRNER District :uul Stzuc Music Conti-sts I: lfnshinn Slum' I: llmuu Ronin Olliccr I, 2, 5: Ollicv Page Z, X. 4: 'l'ri,lli-Y l. 3. 4: llnnml Sponsor 3, 4, Olliccr 4: l:l'l'l1L'l1 Club 3, 4: junior-Senior Cum mince 3: Senior-Junior Suciail Cnnimith-v: 4: Cllicl' Alursbail jump ing Jewels 3: Mairsliul Fun-st l'riucL ' 4: liuolbull Sponsnr 4: Student .Xilministmtion Dux' l. AUDREY LINEBARRIER VlxNDEmxum: Transfcrrccl from lfrzmkliulun lligli Schuul 3: Slumlvnl .Xiliuinis trzuiun Duv 3: Mnrslml cl!!I'lllDl'l1L'l'lHL'llI lixvrciscs 4: lfrvncli Club 3, 4, Prcsiilcut 4: Clwmistrx' Club 'l'rn-:isurvr 4: lluuu- lluulu Sm-frm' Izlrv llllil 'llfL'ilSlll'l'l' 4: Orclwstrn 4, Mn-ssiul1 4. JERRY lDli VVi'r'r XRIAGONER Scssiuu llnusc 2, 4: lfuutlaull I, 2, 3, 4: Min-il Cburus 4: Spanish Club 3, 4, Yl'l'L'ilSlll'l'!' 4: lll'Lll112lllC5 Club 4: Cust Drums ul' Deaitlf' 4: Stuclcut ,Xilministrzuiun Dan' l: llccnrauiem Cum niittcu Sl'lllUl 'Jlll1lUl' 4: Ali-ssinlf' 4, RICIIARD VVAGONER 'l'rnnsl'0rrvd fruui Umlcll lligli Scluml 4. EVELYN .lAc:QuE1-iNE XVALKER ll'I'lll'l l: Spanish Club 3: lliblc Club 4: librzirv Club 4. IXNNE D. X'VA1,'rEns 'lizinsfcrrvscl from Rncfurcl, N. C. 1: l,ibr:u'v Club 4: lmin Club 4. BETTE ,IANE XVA'rK1Ns Tri-llil' I, 2. Yicv.-Prcsimluiit l: llmm- lluom Sucinl Chairman l, 3, Sccrclnrv 4: lfutun- llrnmmuikcrs ull .xllll'l'lt'il 1: Cast Jump ing Jn-wcIs 4: Draumuics Club 4- Cust Drums nl' l,1'2llllH 4: I fhhn jERL1NE A'rs0N Fzisliion Slum' l: lircnch Club ., 4: 'liri-lli'Y 4. 4, Clmplniu 4. lDui'irr:itiux1'Cuiiaruitc Sl'l1l4lI JllI'llf 4. Q E lXlANCY C,xnox,vN VVIIITE liusllion Slmw I, 4: Distric! Music Conti-sl I: lliblu Club 4: Art Club 4. clLADIE lvlAE XAIHITLEY Fashion Show l: llnmc llnom Rclmrtcr 2, 4: .Xilvorlising Com mittee jumping jewels 3: Mnrslm Cununcuccmcut lixcnsiscs 4: Session lluuac 3: Student .-Xclnministrulimm Dm' 3.

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CLASS PHUPHEEY The casual sight of an old commencement program, which l picked up the other day-I know not by what chance it was preserved so long-tempts me to call to mind the Seniors who made the principal figure in it. Margaret Bragg, Miss Cannon High, is now a model for Grover Edmiston, who owns Glamour Inc., located in New York near the John Powers Modeling Agency, owned by Richard Wa oner and Boyce Yates. They have as their most pular momiils Margaret Gaither, Doris Overcash, Bette Wat- kilns and Patsy Glass. Workin in the newspaper business are Ned Robinette and Eugene Vsomble as coeditors of the New York Times. On their staff are Nina Ruth Glass and Lois Freeman. Lincoln lung is the business manager. Gerald Blackbum has won the American Hall of Fame as the best baseball pitcher for the Philadelphia Athletics. Also on the team we find Eddie Bost, always holding the third base position perfectly. The nationally known professional football players, with Dennis Daye as captain, have made the lon sought seasonal win. Len rice, Bill Foil and Harold Rodgers were a few of the most outstandying players. Bill Howard, Paul Fritts, Bill Harrell, Akins Chastain and Mack Russell, better known as the Dead End Kids, have I-ust finished the greatest comedy of all time, Run for Your ives. By the way, Harold Griffin was the producer. The picture was made at R.K.0. Studios, of which Harold is owner. Doris Harrington and Barbara Simmons are co-owners of the beautiful Fashion Shoppe for women in Florida. Their motto is We always fit the right lady to the right size. Jimmy Whitley., who followed in the footsteps of his father, now owns a c ain of theaters stretching throughout the country. Nat Gilliam, the most famous comedian ever to be born, appears at Iimmy's theater quite frequently. The most interesting! discovery has been made by Sylvia Thompson. CIt's for e benefit of the women.J She has discovered a new hose, Sl gauge, 15 denier, that won't run. The growth epidemic has started in our dear ole home town but only Freda ngram, Bobbye Steele and Phyllis Yoder were affected. They measure 5 ft. 4 in., 5 ft. 5 in., and 5 ft. 6 in. respectively, each tipping the scales at 116 lbs. lackie Cornelius is trainer for girls wishing to beautify their figures, at the Y.M.C.A. in Kannapolis. Girls who have taken advantage of this wonderful opportunity are Nancy White and-Margaret Philyaw. CSoon they will be two of the most outstanding models rn New York.D Because of old age, Walter Pidgeon and Greer Garson have signed their contracts over to Lloyd Avant and Hazel Rowland, w o made a hit in the hilarious mystery comedy, Drums of Death. Dot Hampton is their producer and director. The Armed Forces have taken quite a number of our men: Hollin Baker and Buddie Lipe are serving in the Army Air Corps, Hugh Slawsan in the United States Marines. Delores Reid is the librarian at the Kentucky Institute for the Blind and Doris Rimer has taken Mrs. Shinn's position at the Y.M.C.A. Betty Bumgamer is one of the many air stewardesses for Rayvon Perdue, president of Eastem Airlines. Arlin Ross, the famous magician, has Betty Shepherd sleep- walking ever? night at twelve o'cloclt. She always wakes up at the end o a pond. CEr, lagoon.j Mariorie Meacham has iust been elected to serve as adviser for the National Future Homemakers of America for the next two years. A big convention is lanned for June 20, at which time she will take over her ofhce. Bemice Sloop and Betty Nelson are nurses at the Rowan Memorial Hospital. Amon the welfare nurses in Baltimore, Maryland, we find Mary Ehristy. Mary Anne Riggs, Iohnsie Mullis, Dollie Kesler, Betty Moon and Johnnie He ms are the happy little housewives of our fair city. Doris Howard Gabriel and her husband are living in Ken- tucky, where they have already started a family. Iris Gatton and her husband now live in Michigan, up near the Great Lakes, where lris can take a dip in the water whenever she esires. d Page Twenty-eight AmongB the professional swimmers of our day, we find Marlene aker, who won an award from the Richmond Swim- ming Agencv. Betty Shoaf is a Baptist Foreign Missionary stationed in Africa, where she teaches school. Kenneth Byrd is also a well- known missionary. Because of the demand, Audrey Vanderburg has iust com- pleted a new version of Begin the Beguine. She made millions of dollars on the song. Might I mention, the public went wild? Kannapolis has a new women's police force with Doris Shaver as chief. Her assistant is Dorothy Clontz. Bett jean Snipes is one of the outstanding secretaries for Donald, Phillips, present owner of the Cannon Mills. Fay Gray and Peggy Cooke have broken the speed record for typists, having reached the 200-word-a-minute scale. Bobby Linn is a state highway patrolman, who keeps the highways warm, chasin those rsons Cand even animalsD oing over the speed limit, andw checking up on accidents happening on the highways and elsewhere. Clarice Bamhardt and Doris Carter are telephone operators. Their most used ghrases are: Number Please , Sorry, Wrong Number , and usy. Jamie Austin has been teaching voice at the Shenandoah Conservatory of Music to her star pupil, Ray Clayton. Barbara Aderhold operates an antique shop, where Amos Abemathy, still a bac elor, goes to buy all his girl friends their special gifts. Lorna Duvall is opening the new florist shop in Salisbury tomorrow, where ten-dol ar orchids will be given away. CProvided you pay the ten dollarslj Bobby Champion is sheriff of Rustler's Patch, a small city in the West, where the most goings on happen. Norman Coggins plays the piano at the Metropolitan Opera. Betty Brigman, his wife, ap ears every night at the concert hall to hear her husband. lgelen Brinkley is teaching piano at Appalachian State Teachers' College. Billy Max Hargett, playing the trombone on the side, has a famous name band with Raymond lcard, comet soloist, and Kathleen Brown, vocalist. Dorothy Benfield has ma'ored in business education and is teaching typing and shorthand at King's Business College. I The Best Loved Poems on Love has ljxust been completed by Jerry Home and accepted by a publis ingl company in New York. It is expected that these poems wil arouse much en- thusiasm on the subject. The bi est Presidential election in years is just over and James Hiizglies has won. Harold Bost is expected to become the Vice-President. President Hughes has chosen as his cabinet members: Secretary of State, GuyNHendren, Secretary of the Treasury, Roy Deal, Secretary of ar, Allan Collins, Attorney General, Lloyd Raye, Postmaster General, Clyde Moose, Secre- tary of the Navy, Bobby Shinn, Secretary of the Interior, Bessie Clark, Secretary of Agriculture, L. G. Rowell, Secretary of Commerce, Margaret Moose, Secretargy of Labor, Doris Hardin. Note that the President has chosen a ew women to serve. Imo ene Brown is the manager of a nursery and a play- roundz center for the underprivileged children in Greenwich gfillage. Bobby Wishon is teaching mathematics at Cannon High School. Phyllis McCarn and Patsy Mitchem are lawyers-believe it Ol' DOL Robert Burton, Kenneth Howard and Harris Graham have found a modem way of farming. One of their most wonderful discoveries is raising potatoes a ready peeled. Horace Bonds is the new president for Bonds Civil Engineer- in Service Company in Landis, North Carolina. He as as a ,lew of his employees Ioe Elliot, Harold Dull and E. H. Matthews. Bill Morgan, Charles Payne, Bill Farabee and Oscar Triplette, former K.H.S. heartbreakers, are still much-soughb after bachelors.