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

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Charles William Twitty Lancaster Ilitjit 1; laxttball 2, Basketball 3; Senior Class President; Monogram Club 2. 3; Student C’ouncil 3; Junior Ho- larian 3. Peggie Ann Watts •■Pec;” Y-I ' cens I, 2, 3; Honor So cietv 1, 2, 3; Howler Heporter 1. Typist 2, Associate Editor 3; Curls ' State 2; Office Secretary 2; ' Lvpino Award 2; Nurse’s Aide 1. Roy Hunter Watts “Raw JIoney” Eootball 2, 3; Monogram Club 2. 3; Basketball Manae r 2; Junior Rotarian 3. Martha Frances Yates Honor Society 1, 2, 3, Presi- dent 3; Senior Y-Teens 3; Junior Class Treasurer; (Office Secretary 3; Senior Superlatiyc. Herbert Paul Short, Jr. Dick Machine Shop 2. 3; Baseball 1. 2, 3; Basketball 2. William Calvin Sims “Buck’’ Basketball 1. 2, 3; Football Manager I, 2; Monouram Club 2, 3; Machine Shop 2, 3; Senior Play ' 49. Barbara Jean Smith “Ickey” C.A.A. 1; Y-Teens 1. 2, 3; Driyiny CMub 2; Senior Play; Letter Curl 3. Margaret Joan Spoon “Spoony” Senior I lonor Society 1, 2, 3; Y-Teens 1, 2, 3; Queen ol ' Sopho- more Cdass in Dairy Bowl Game in I94H; Forum 2, 3, Secretary 2; Student Council 2; Delegate to VV.D.S.C.C.N.C. Convention; Junior l lav; Senior Play; Howlet Cdub 2; Editor-in-Chict ' ; World Ilistorv Award; American Histor ’ D.A.R. Award 2; Delegate to Girls’ State W.C.U.N.C. at Greensboro; Senior Superlative; Letter Girl in Band 3; Subscrip- tion Committee Technique 2. Advertising Committee 3; Quiz Bang 1. Jack Cleveland Starnes “Speeoy” Honor Society 2, 3; Senior I’lay; Senior Superlative; Junior Rotarian 3. James Riley Stewart Big Jim Basketball 1, 2, 3; Vaisitv Football 1, 2, 3; iMonooram Club 1, 2, 3; lli-Y Club 1; Woml Shop 3; Treasurer Monoaram Club 2, 3. Nancy Lee Thomas “Zoor” Cheerleader 1, 2. 3, Head 3; Senior Honor Society 1, 2, 3; Delegate to State Honor Society Convention; Y-Teens 1, 2, 3, Vice-President 1, Tnter-Club Council Representative 2; G.A.A. 1, 2. 3; Forum 2. 3; Student Council 2. 3, President 3; Dele- gare to N.C.S.C.C. Convention 3; President Junior Class 2; Junior Play; Senior Play; Basketball 1; Home Economics Award 1; Biol- ogy Award 1; Senior Superlative; Miss Tech. William Herbert Thornton “Bill” D. E. 2, 3, Vice-President 2. Carolyn Loretta Yandle “Little Bit” Y Teens 1, 3; Uoivler Club 3; Nurse’s Aide 1; Office Secretary 3; D. E. Club 2; Chairman Ticket Committee for Senior Play. Pa c Eighteen

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SENIORS Harold Hemphill Hall, Jr. “Buddy Band 1, 2. President 3. ice-President 2; Senior Play 3; Junior Plav 2; Howler Reporter 2; Wood Shop 3. Vivian Dolores Hill “ ' icky Fort Pierce Hii h School, Fort Pierce, Florida 1 ; Bain Fligh School 2; D. E. Club 3; Beta Club 2; President D. E. Club 3; Senior Superlative. Nellie June Irby “Irb Y-Teens 1, 3; Cheerleader 3; Howler Club 1; Glee Club 1; Inter-Club Council Representative of Y-Teens 3; Class Prophet 3. Van Eugene Litaker “Dyke usual Aids 1, 2; Stage Man- ager of Senior Play. Billy Joe Moser “Footsie Student Council 1, 2; Eleventh Grade Representative At-Large; Machine Shop 2; D. E. Vice- President 3, Charlotte City D. E. Club Vice-President 3, Western District D. E. Convention at Shel- by Vice-President 3; Howler Re- porter 1; Basketball 2; Golf 1, 2, 3. Millard Hammer “Hammerhead Machine Shop 2, 3; B-Team Basketball 2, 3. Billy Franklin Hoffman Wrestling 1; Boys’ State; Monogram Club 1, 2, 3, Presi- dent 3; ' arsity Football 1, 2, 3; B Team Basketball 2. 3; Basket- ball Manager 1; ' ice-President Junior Class; School Superlative; Senior Superlative; Junior Mar- shal; IMachine Shop 1, 2. Sidney Martin Johnston “Nose” U. E. 1, 2, Treasurer 2. Donna Faye Marshall “Susie Y-Teens 1, 2, 3; G.A.A. 1; Driving Club 3; Representative of Y-Teens to Camp Illahee 2; Senior Poet. Martha Ann Mullis “Shan G.A.A. 2; Y-Teens 2, 3; Driv- ing Club 2; Driving Assistant 3; Junior Plav; Senior Play; Junior Marshal; Representative of Y- Teens to Camp Illahee 2; Basket- ball 2; President of Y-Teens 3; Football Sponsor 3; Attendant of Miss Tech 3; Senior Super- lative 3; Advertising Committee 3; Subscription Committee 2, 3; Letter Girl 3; Softball 2; Senior Class Prophet; Library Club 3. Charles Richard Hayes “Cuz” 3 ood Shop 1; Band 1, 2; D. E. 2, 3. Charles Edward Hooks “Dick Baseball 1, 2, 3; Machine Shop 2, 3; Monogram Club 2, 3; Junior Marshal; Student Council 3; Junior Rotarian 3. Eleanor Jane Keesler Janie Secretary Sophomore Class; Secretary Junior Class; Senior Honor Society Treasurer 2, Vice- President 3; Y-Teens 1, 2, 3; Student Council 3; Delegate to State Honor Society Convention 2; Delegate to Girls’ State 2; Business Manager Howler 3; Of- fice Secretary 2, 3; Typist for Howler 2; Forum 3; Senior Super- lative. Benny Jackson Martin “S TFTY Senior Play; Junior Play; Dele- gate to Greensboro for Student Council 2; Student Council 2; Band 1. 2, 3; Band President 1. 2; Editor Technique; Forum 3; Senior Superlative; Delegate to Boys ' State; Junior Rotarian 3; Advertising Committee Tech- nique 2; Hi-Y 1. Barbara Alice Richardson “Yank Senior Y-Teens 3; Librarv Club 3; Driving Club 2. Frances Ellen Herron Y-Teens 1, 2, 3; Band 1; Flag Bearer 2, 3; Driving Club 3; Treasurer Senior Class; Senior Play; Howler Reporter 1, 2, 3; Nurse’s Aide 2. Jerry Francis Holmes Football 2, 3; Monogram Club 1, 2. David Rushton Love “Dave Hi-Y; Band 1; Y arsitv Football 2, 3; Basketball 2, 3; Delegate to Bovs ' State. Lawrence Newton Medlin “Pig Football 1. 2, 3; Baseball 1, 2. 3; Basketball 1, 2, 3; Mono- gram Club 2, 3. Vice-President 2; Class President 1; Class Vice- President 3; Home Room Treas- urer 2; Student Council 1; Band 1; Sports Editor Howler 2; Junior Plav; Chief Junior Marshal; Forum 3; Chosen Delegate to Bovs’ State; Quiz Bang 1; Class Historian 3; Sports Writer for Technique 3; Spanish Club 1. Lester Harold Ross “Buddy Monogram Club 2. 3; Secre- tary 3; Baseball 1. 2, 3; Basket- ball 1, 2, 3; Varsity Football 1. 2, 3, Captain 3; Junior Marshal; School Superlative; Mr. Tech 1950; Machine Shop 1. 2; Hi-Y ' ; Junior Rotarian 3; Class Lawyer; Delegate to Bovs’ State. Pa e Seventeeji

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CLASS cou tJ PROPHECY kappen to t oul Since it had been several years since we had seen any of our girlhood friends and classmates at old Tech High School, we took a flying trip back to Charlotte the other day for the express purpose of checking up on them. Upon climbing aboard the plane that was to take us on a nine-and-one-half-hour trip, destination Char- lotte, we were pleasantly surprised to be greeted bv the pilot, Billy Joe Moser (the only person crazy enough to try flying with no lessons). We found a few minutes later that the hostess was Foye Funder- burk. Imagine those two flying. After several hours we arrived in Charlotte, where Vivian Hill. Dick Short, and Andrew Ezergailis had charge of the Traveler ' s Aid Bureau at the airport. We later flagged a “Love” cab, thinking that the name was familiar. Hopping in, we recognized the owner and driver a s David Love, who said, “Since this is my only cab. I ' ll drive it.” He drove us down town to a famous restaurant, owned and managed by Bill Hoffman and called “The Killer Differ, ” which, believe us, it was. Who could be the waitresses but Carole Griffin, Mable Cooper, and Laith Collins- still wearing Tech’s colors, blue and gold! Then we started looking for a hotel, and nothing could have hit us any harder or have been to us any more surprising than to see “Austin’s Flotel With Three Rooms.” We decided to drop in, and we dis- covered that the owner was the one and only (who else could own a three-room hotel) Dorothy Austin, who told us she had one room vacant. To be polite and to help Dot along, we took it. More astonishing to us, though, was the fact that at night Austin’s Hotel presented a floor show which featured the two great singers, Peggy Baker and Terry Barnes, singing “WHAT MORE CAN I ASK LOR?” What more can they ask for? The next morning we went sight seeing. ' e dis- covered that Charlotte had a new high school called “LET’S HOPE HIGH SCHOOL,” and who could be the principal but Betty Blalock! Martha Yates, teaching World-Over History, had a class of two pupils, while Jerry Alexander, who thought he was very dramatic, was giving instruction in the Thespian art. The coach was Lawrence Medlin, assisted bv Jerry Flolmes. Nancy Thomas, acting as B-Keen di- rector, was also dean of the ten girls of the school. After that visit to the high school, we ran into a dancing salon called “Martin and Spoon.” Because the name struck a familiar chord in our memory, we entered to investigate. There we found Margaret Spoon and Benny Martin busily engaged in making more graceful a group of students consisting of Mary Joyce Burton and Dick Hooks, Ellen Flerron and Melvin Crump, and Bobbie Smith and Calvin Sims, all of whom were frantically attempting to master the intricacies of the Martin and Spoon Special Lox Trot. We then determined to visit Charlotte’s new institu- tion of higher learning, STLI ELY’S COLLEGE. Out on the athletic field we focused our eves on-on-on-Yep! That’s who it was— James Stewart practicing for the great soccer game scheduled for this week. On the right side of the field we saw the football players, and lo-and- behold, whom do you think we saw in the group? That’s right— Barbara Richardson; she is said to play the position “left out.” Also practicing were Loretta Yandle and Peggy Watts, both out for “right out” (if they ever get in there, they’ll be right out). Learning that the fair was in Charlotte that week, we went out to the fair ground s, and do you know who was running the Crooked Wheel? Ted Beaver; 1 -minute ride for 75( ' . Side-show artist Bobbie Brown, called tbe “Hundred Dollar Man, said if you would show him a hundred dollar biff he could make it disappear within half-a-second, and he did. Assisting Bobby in his work was Joyce Bookout. Ophelia Burnette was performing with the show, “The World’s Tallest and Thinest Man,” and who do you suppose the man was? Why, Dean Chesser, of course. The grandstand attraction was a drama entitled, “The Mighty Earl Gunter,” a true story of Earl’s fighting for the one he loved. (We sup- pose you know we’re speaking of his dog.) This great hit was directed and produced by Harold Hall; the leading ladv was Susie Marshall, who portrayed the dog’s role. We decided to stroll down town again. Looking in through the window of Hayes’ Departure Store, we noticed that the proprietor was Richard Hayes. One of his employees, Sidney Johnston, was just coming to work. Since it was about lunch time, we asked why he was coming in so late. You know what. Fie has Richard believing he stiff takes D.E. Another new thing we saw in Charlotte was the radio station, RSTW, the owners and broadcasters being Buddy Ross, Jack Starnes, Biff Thornton, and Roy Watts. Oh! Let us mention this— they haven’t been on the air vet. W ' e were shown a new cigarette called “Lemak” (vou’d have to be a maniac to smoke ’em), put out by the Keesler Company. Imagine Eleanor Keesler manufacturing cigarettes! She averages selling at least one carton a year. Isn’t that great? ' e also found out that Rav Adkins is playing foot- ball for Duke; he’s really good! Alfred Bishop had joined the army. (Did you know he has a wife and four children?) Ernie Helms is now enrolled in college, ( ' onder if it will take him as long to get out as it did in high school?) Van Litaker passed us while we were going down town. Fle’s stiff driving that old blue truck and haul- ing girls around in the back of it. We learned that Charles Twitty had let Miss America talk him into marrying her. (Poor fellow.) Millard Hammer is manager of the Public Library up town. Wonder wbv he got so interested in books so quickly? Since we have contacted all our old classmates, we are leaving for Me.xico where our husbands will meet us. Martha Mullis, June Irby, Class Prophetesses Page Nineteen