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

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was “gonna own one.” Ramona was finally persuaded to leave her bananas long enough to show the girls around. She took them down the road to see Betty McCall, who owned a coffee and rubber plantation. That was really a happy reunion, reminding them of a “Hoot ' ' club. “Monie” informed them that Doris Terry and Ervileen Tolbert were coming down for a visit. Doris was the owner of some apartment houses in New York and Ervileen owned a chain of department stores. The next place in which they found themselves was Charlotte, North Caro- lina, where they visited Technical High School. Mrs. Kistler was still teaching Senior Englis h, and Miss Pridgen, Home Economics. The school had been enlarged and now had an enrollment of 1,000. The graduating class had 250 members. Jonsie Pryon, the physical education director, had been putting her students through the paces, and she had developed an excellent basketball team — all wins, no losses. The boys, who were really stepping around under the supervision of Bobby Martin, head coach, and L. A. Herron, assistant coach, had had a most successful football season, their A class team having achieved twelve wins — no losses. Ann Shue, the school secretary, had quite a job keeping up with all those students. When they got back up town, they went to Walgreen ' s. where they found Patsy Fisher, who had become manager of all the Walgreen drugstores in North and South Carolina. Doris Litaker, her assistant, at that time was in Winston- Salem managing the Walgreen store there. Just as they were getting ready to leave, Georee Douglas came in. He told them that he was now manager of the Carolina Theater. Walking up Tryon, whom should they meet but Lois Moore Yandle, with her four year old twins — Lois and Mark, Junior! With her was Dot Howie Hedrick, the mother of one boy, Everett, Junior. Dot told them that Juanita Pridmore was a hostess for the Eastern Airlines. Coming out of S. H. Kress, where Betty Walker was manager, they ran into Eileene O’Donoghue. She was a graduate nurse, on her way to do private duty at Mercyless Hospital. Again they were swooshed away and found themselves in Washington, D. C. Christine Lamb and Helen Strawn. secretaries in the Pentagon Building, said that Betty and Bobbie Myers worked there, too. They casually mentioned that the men there were super! In the “Pink Poodle.’’ a night club, Peggy Curtis played the piano for the songstress, Margaret Preslar. whose new song hit was a ballad entitled: “Girls. Don’t Chase Bovs — Throw Rocks at Them! Emily Black, beautician, owned the most exclusive beauty shop in Washington. Robert Austin operated a large self-service grocery store. He was much too tired to wait on the customers himself. Next they found themselves in Atlantic City, N. J. Geraldine House, proud possessor of a yacht, took people on cruises along the Atlantic coast. Being also one of the judges of the “Miss America’’ Beauty Contest, she was considering the sponsoring of a “Mr. America’’ Contest. Donny Manus, who owned an airport, took the girls up for a flight. Gladys Horne and Betty Morrow were hat check girls in Atlantic City’s snazziest night club. Anita Williams was private secretary to the president of the Standard Oil Company, while Jean Holmes worked as bookkeeper. Poor Jean!! Suddenly they were swooshed away and found themselves back in New York where the “Mad Scientists’’ told them the time machine had quit for the time being. The girls were too excited to care about that. They had seen what was important. On their way out of the building they saw Garland “Eagle- Beak’’ House coming down Broadway pushing a peanut with his nose. They asked what the big idea was and he told them he was being initiated into the Shriners. When they told Garland about their experiences, he didn ' t believe them, so maybe it was just as well that they forgot to get pictures or a story. No one else would have believed it either. Martha Tucker, Class Prophet. Page Seventeen

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CLASS PROPHECY On the isle of Coocamungo, located in the Whatcha-Callit Sea, Annie Sawyer, the worlds most exclusive reporter, and Martha Tucker, the world ' s most exclusive photographer, were interviewing the king of the Oomph tribe. Their purpose was to get a feature story for the “Lifeless and Timeless Daily.’’ They had had a very busy day and were pow’fully hungry. The king took them to supper and to their amazement stuck a fork into the pot and said, “Who’s cooking. ' ’ Who should jump up but Coy Harrington!! Nobody else, just Coy. Well, that spoiled their appetites. Since Coy was a graduate of five years ago and a friend of theirs, the king decided his tribe could go hungry until another unsuspecting soul came along. After a tiring day the weary droops climbed into their twin jet-propelled atoms and headed for the States. Back at the New York News Room, Ray Kisiah, the very successful city- editor, informed them that an old friend had been hired as head of the Classified Department. Of course he was speaking of Vernie Mauldwin, whose specialty was mortuary slogans, the latest being “Ask those whom we have served.” Suddenly they were called back to the City Desk. The “Mad Scientists,” Herman Thomas and Charles Corriher, were at it again. This time they had invented a “lime Machine,” thus called because it worked only from time to time. Charles tried to explain it to them in detail, but since he didn ' t have any idea how he and Herman had made it, he decided to show them how it worked. Herman told them to step into a beam of light. When they did, they were swooshed off to Chicago. Coming out of the spin, they walked down the street to a large department store. Walking over to the office, whom should they find as the secretary but Ruth Lewis! Delighted to see her, they chatted for a while and Ruth told them that Clara McKnight was working in the same building: at last she had at- tained one of her heart ' s desires — she was the P. B. X. operator. Since Ruth and Clara were very busy, th e girls went on down the street to a butcher shop to buy some hotdogs for supper. After waiting in a long line, they were served by none other than Mary Louise Sloan, the Butcheress, who told them that several of their old classmates were in town. The first one they found was Donald Hudson, recent winner of the world title, “Laziest Loafer.” Frank Starnes, they learned, was president of an electric company, and C. H. Deese and William Henry Stegall were joint owners of a used car lot. Upon entering Brown’s Skyscraper to get a room for the night, they were greeted by Bobby Brown, owner of that most exclusive hotel. From Bobby they learned that Jack Kissiah, who had always been so secretive about everything, was now a famous detective working on a big case. In the middle of the night. Annie Lee and Martha were swooshed to San Francisco, California. Walking down the street the next morning, they en- countered Ellen Shinn and Peggy Troutman, two dress designers at the MGM Movie Studio, who invited them out to the studio to witness the shooting of a scene. Imagine their shock when they found that Charles “Goot” Doster was leading man on the lot! He was playing opposite Scarlet O’Hannigan in “My Old Flame, She Ain’t What She Use To Be.” Carol Watts, the new star whose success was a musical comedy entitled “Watch that Downbeat,” was gowned exquisitely by Mary Beth Gibson. Suddenly Annie Lee and Martha were swooshed off again. When they came out of that swoosh, they found themselves on the banks of the Amazon River in Brazil. Already scared silly by the screching birds and the slinky, crawling snakes, they were practically petrified when an alligator came floating across the river: however, they were rescued by some workers who led them to the home of the owner of a large banana plantation near there. They weren’t at all surprised to find Ramona Simpson reclining on the front porch, surrounded by bananas, for “Monie” had always said that someday she Page Sixteen

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LAST WILL ANU TESTAMENT State of North Carolina COUNTY OF MECKLENBURG Charlotte Technical High School City of Charlotte ) We, the Senior Class of nineteen hundred forty-six of Technical High School, being of warped minds after twelve years of brain strain and having completed part of our education, do hereby make our last will and testament. ARTICLE I To the faculty, we leave a sincere expression of gratitude for their help throughout the years, and we hope that they will always remember the Class of 46. To Miss Pridgen and Mrs. Kistler. we leave our thanks for making our senior year an enjoyable and memorable one. ARTICLE II To the class of 1947, we leave the wonderful feeling of being SENIORS ancf we wish them the best of luck in all of their activities. To the sophomores, we leave the determination to graduate. To the freshmen, we leave the ability to enjoy life and to look for the best because in a few years they will not be able to. To the sub-freshmen, we leave our old notebooks with their colorful autographs and pictures. ARTICLE III The Seniors, having acquired vast wealth in the form of looks and personality, wish to leave to their Junior friends their following possessions. Don Hudson, president of the class, wills his most honorable position to Loretta Freeman, and his title as the cutest boy to Curtis Kennington. Ellen Shinn bequeaths her office of president of the Honor Society to Evelyn Hollars, to whom she also leaves her package of B. C-’s. To Pete Cruse, Charles Corriher leaves his football uniform — and to Jerry Oates, half of his slugs for the parking meter. Juanita Pridmore leaves her love for the beach and her bottle of sun tan lotion to Agatha Speight. Her love for Chicago, she leaves to Bobby Barley. Emily Black leaves her wonderful ability as a hitch hiker to Emadean Helms and also her box of rabbits’ feet. Pat Fisher wills her swing and sway to Sara Kennerly. Lois Moore bequeaths her love for dish washing and her very sweet ways to Inez Torrence. Margaret Preslar wills her autobiography, LIFE OF A NUT, to Cecil Sloan, and her MILLION AND TWO JOKES to Bobby Kistler. To Louise Tyler, Christine Lamb wills her bottle of growing pills with full directions printed on the side. Gerry House leaves her care-free ways to Doris Brock, and all of her parking tickets to Bet Thomas. To Sue Strickland, Carol Watts bequeaths her position as head majorette. Robert Austin wills his bike to Jean Parker and Velda Geer so that they can get to school on time. Mary Louise Sloan leaves her love for the Navy to Jonsic Hannon and her nice disposition to Dorothy Kinzy. Donny Manus bequeaths his Little Red Book of telephone numbers to Bill Wentz. Peggy Curtis wills her undying love for Physical Ed to some poor unsuspecting sucker. To Carl Dunn, Vernie Mauldwin wills half (and charges a small fee for the remainder) of his knack for selling TECHNIQUES. Annie Sawyer bequeaths all of her leaky fountain pens to Jonell Current and her numerous study halls to Herman Bailes so that he, too, can enjoy school. Page Eighteen