Charlotte Technical High School - Technique Yearbook (Charlotte, NC)

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SENIORS Charles Woodrow Rouse “Rouse” “What can you expect of a day which begins with getting up in the morning.” President Home Room ’42-’4 3; Vice-President Junior Class ’43; Machine Shop ’40-’43; Senior Superlative. Carl sawyer “Sausage” “The secret of success in conversation is to be able to disagree without being disagreeable.” Wrestling ’40-’42; Good Sports Club ’40; Junior Play ’42; Monitor ’42; Football ’43; Senior Class Lawyer ’44. Buford Stancill Scarborough “Stan” “That great big silly — why, honest and true — He’d run forty miles is she wanted him to.” Secretary Hi-Y Club ’44; Senior Superlative. Mary Sue Simpson “Sue” “If my heart were not light, I would die.” Girl Reserves ’40-’44; Softball ’40-’43 ; Girls’ Athletic Association ’40-’44, President ’44; Mixed Chorus ’43; Girls’ Varsity Basketball ’43-’44; Secretary-Treasurer Glee Club ’44; Cheerleader ’44; Subscription Committee Technique; Senior Superlative; School Superlative ’44. Jht ifh ' mnriant Evelyn Ray Taylor October 28, 1925 January 20. 1944 “All the pain and grief are over, Every restless tossing passed. I am now at peace forever, Safely home in Heaven at last.” Geraldine Elizabeth Troutman “Jerry” “A good book is the best of friends.” Girl Reserves ’40-’43, ' Treasurer ’41 ; Basketball and Softball ’40-’41 ; Mixed Chorus ’41; Monitor ’41-’43; Stu- dent Council ’43; Representative Girls’ State ’43; Diver- sified Occupation ’44. Bruce Harwood Tucker “Tuck” “Perhaps the principal objection to a quarrel is that it interrupts an argument.” Junior Hi-Y Club ’40-’41, All-Star Basketball Team ’41 ; Wrestling ’40-’42; Senior Hi-Y President ’44, Captain Basketball Team ’44; Basketball ’44; Mixed Chorus ’44; Senior Superlative ’44. Charles Leonard Wallace “Scarface” “I like work; it fascinates me; I can sit and look at it for hours.” Machine Shop ’ 4 1 - ’ 4 3 ; Snapshot Committee Technique. Annie Wylie “Ann” “Her voice zvas ever lozv and szvcct, A very pleasant thing in woman.” Monitor ’40-’43 ; Clean-LTp Committee ’42-’43. Glenn Thomas Youngblood “Feets” “What’s the matter, stummick? Ain’t I always been your friend ?” Wrestling ’39-’40; Basketball ’41 -’44 ; Monitor ’42-’43 ; Business Manager Junior Play ’43; Baseball ’ 4 3 - ’ 4 4 ; Stu- dent Council ’43; Representative Boys’ State ’43; Honor Society ’43-’44; Christmas Play ’43; Business Manager Senior Play ’43; Senior Superlative; Monogram Club ’44; Business Manager Technique.

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SENIORS Charles Boyce Geer “Strip” “ Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.” Wrestling ’39-’40; Monitor ’4 1 - 43 ; Junior Play ’43; Football Manager ’43; Baseball Manager ’43-’44; Monogram Club ’44; School Superlative ’44; Associate Editor Tech- nique ’44, Advertisement and Subscription Committee ’44. Earl Kay Gibson “Gibby” “ Men are only boys grown tail, Hearts don ' t change much after all” Hi-Y Club ’39-’40 ; Band Club ’39-’41 ; Band ’39-’43; Good Sports Club ’40; Wrestling ’40-’41; Monitor ’41-’43; Football ’42- ' 44; Junior Marshal; Junior Play ’43; Treas- urer Junior Class; Mixed Chorus ’44; President Student Council ’44; Advertising Committee Technique; Senior Superlative; Vice-President Senior Class. Holland Boyd Hargett “Dutch” “It is not strength, but art, that wins the prize.” Glee Club ’41; Typing Award ’42; Diversified Occupa- tion ’44. Edith McGill “Inky” “ The friends who knew her well The sweetness of her heart could tell” Student Council ’40-’42; Monitor ’40-’43 ; Secretary Reporters’ Club ’43; Girl Reserves ’40-’43; President Home Room ’43; Junior Play ’43; Junior Marshal ’43; Secretary Junior Class; Honor Society ’40-’44, Secretary ’42-’43, Pres- ident ’43-’44; Junior English Scholarship Award ’43; Short- hand Scholarship Award ’43; Senior Superlative; Secretary Senior Class ’43-’44; Editor-in-Chief Technique ’44. Dorothy Dean Moser “Dot” “He shall soon come back to me, And how happy I shall be.” Basketball ’41 -’43; Softball ’41 -’43; Treasurer Girls’ Athletic Association ’4 1 -’43 ; Monitor ’42; Girls’ State ’43; Junior Play; Treasurer Senior Class; D. O. ’44; Chairman Technique Snapshot Committee; Class Historian. Richard Mullis “Mullis” “Homer himself hath been observed to nod.” Senior Play ’43; Senior Superlative; Junior Play ’44. Mildred Lucielle Preslar “Monk” “ Her eyes are full of dreams.” Glee Club ’40-’41; Mixed Chorus ’40-’41 ; Treasurer Bible Class ’44; D. O. ’44; Senior Song Writer ’44. Burgess Nick Putnam “Nickodemus” “With a nature unspoiled and unblemished by art.” Football ’41 -’42; Wrestling ’40-’41 ; Student Council ’41. t John Roland Pyron “Jonny” “There ' s light enough for zvot I ' ve got to do.” Hi-Y Club ’39-’40; Band Club ’ 3 9 - ’ 4 1 ; Reporters’ Club ’ 3 9 - ’ 4 1 ; Monitor ’39-’41 ; Basketball ’40-’44, Captain ’44; Football ’41-’44; Baseball ’ 41-’44 ; Monogram Club ’41 -’44; Student Council ’42-’44, Vice-President ’42, Treasurer ’44; Junior Class President; Junior Marshal; Delegate to Boys’ State ’43; Treasurer N. C. Government Body ’43; Honorable Mention on All-State Football Team ’44; Advertising and Subscription Committees Technique; Treasurer Mixed Chorus ’44; School Superlative ’44; Senior Superlative. Glaydeese Reeves “Dean” “Her eyes were fair, and very fair; Her beauty made me glad.” Monitor ’40-’43 ; Honor Society ’40-’44; Junior Play; Junior Marshal; Glee Club ’43-’44; Chairman Subscription Committee Technique; Senior Superlative.

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CLASS HISTDRY As June of 1944 approaches, we who hope to graduate at that time begin to realize what parting from our school friends and school life will mean to us. We begin to look back to events of our earlier years at Tech and say to each other, Do you remember when — ?” The seventh, eighth, and ninth grades were years of struggle and adjustments. Certain activities made impressions on us that we would not forget if we could: our visits to South America with Miss Myers, our struggles with cooking and sewing, the pleasure of our music classes, the enjoyment of material found in our refurnished and enlarged library, discussions in our civics classes, the pride of the boys in their pieces of furniture made in the woodshop, and our battle with arithmetic in those days. By the time we reached the tenth grade we were beginning to feel important. Had we not weathered the storm up to that point? Our boys, some of them, were by that time heavy enough for the football teams: and many of us, as we started the specialized studies of a business course, began to feel as if we were getting somewhere. The clicking typewriters made music in our ears. September, 1942, found us a very happy group returning to school. Were we not juniors? As juniors, we had new duties and new responsibilities. Our officers that year were: president, Johnny Pyron: vice-president. Charles Rouse: secretary, Edith McGill: treasurer, Earl Gibson. Our officers, with the skilful help of Mrs. Kistler, Miss Wigginton, and Mr. Hintz, guided us safely and successfully through a busy and not-soon-to-be-forgotten year. How could we forget such things as having our individual pictures taken for the annual, putting on our play, Johnny, Get Your Girl, planning and working together to make our junior-senior banquet a success, the announcing of the junior marshals, and taking part in the ' 43 class day exercises? When we gathered for the roll call in September of our senior year, there were only thirty- two of us. After about two months, there were only thirty; Luther Buckaloo and Glenn Hopkins left us for service with Uncle Sam. Near the end of the first semester, our class was saddened by the death of one of our loyal and faithful members, Evelyn Taylor. Then two more of our boys had to answer their country’s call, Carl Sawyer and Leonard Wallace. We were indeed few in number after that. Small as our class was and is, we are proud to tell that five members of our class made the Honor Society: Evelyn Brown, Glaydeese Reeves, Cecil Baker, Glenn Youngblood, and Edith McGill, who is president of the society. Our group also has furnished much of the leadership in the Student Council. Earl Gibson is serving as president, and several other seniors- are chairmen of committees. Last fall the class selected the following TECHNIQUE staff: Edith McGill, editor; Boyce Geer, associate editor; Glenn Youngblood, business manager; Glaydeese Reeves, chairman of the subscription committee; and James Craddock, chairman of the advertisement committee. That this staff was well chosen is proved by their record. They have sold more annuals and more advertisements than any other class has ever done, and the editorial staff is working hard on the contents of the book to make it interesting and worthwhile. And who is the leader of our class, the one who keeps behind all of us to see that we do things, then gets before us to help us do them? It is none other than our efficient and popular president, Jonny Pyron, who will always have a warm spot in our hearts, regardless of the years that pass. The other officers of our class, also serving well and faithfully, are: Earl Gibson, vice-president; Edith McGill, secretary; and Dorothy Moser, treasurer. We, seniors, in this history, want to go on record as having thanked Mrs, Kistler and Mrs. Davidson for producing a school play as good as The Nutt Family and for turning the proceeds over to the credit of the TECHNIQUE. This was indeed kind and helpful. By the way, the leading man in that play was one of our own — Richard Mullis. Well, all in all, we’ve had happy times together more often than bad times. We can’t forget the companionship of many days. It takes all the arguments and reconciliations to seal friendships such as exist among the members of this class. Their ties will always be dear to us. We shall return often to events at dear old Tech High and reminisce about the good old days of ’43- ' 44. Dorothy Moser, Class Historian. Page T en