Elizabeth City High School - Spotlight Yearbook (Elizabeth City, NC)

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CLASS PBOPI-IECY fContinuedJ for photography. Billy West is district manager of Western Union and has worked himself up the ladder of success. I Went to New York City on an assignment last month and who do you think I ran into on the street but Carolyn Massey, who is a buyer for Belk- Tyler Co. She said she had just seen a fashion show with Audrey Armstrong, Corinne Emery, and Virginia Liverman in it as models. Several of the de- signers were old classmates of ours. They were Iohn Hughes, Marius Owens, and Norman Skiles. Later we met Katherine Forehand and Eleanor Forbes who had just come out of Macy's. We asked them to go with us to the new night club just opened by Glover Grice and Aubrey Sample. As we stepped into the taxi we recognized the driver as Meat Simpson, and as we stopped in front of the club who should come to escort us in but I-Ii pocket Ienningsl Then Dawn Hettrick and Glennell Turner surprised us by showing up as hat check girls. As we drifted towards the bar we noticed Pint White talking to a couple who turned out to be Mr. and Mrs. Fearing Beals, the former Martha Louise Stevenson. We were finally lead to a table by the head waiter, Willis Owens. lust as the lights were dimmed the Master of Ceremonies ap- peared, and who should he be but Harry Long! He began to tell us, Tonight we have with us a dancing team that has made its way to the top. Come on out Elly Fearing and C. O. McMullan and show the folks what you can do! I was never so startled in all my life! More home folks! After this number, a chorus of girls came on who had been billed as The Most Glamorous Girls in New York City. We recognized among them Alma Cuthrell, Virginia Hodges, Elizabeth Midgett, and Bernice Kight, all of whom have turned into first rate glamour girls. Later, I returned to my hotel room and before going to bed I decided to look over the morning paper. As I unfolded it a familiar face appeared on the front page. Above this picture was written Harvard Professor to Lecture at City Hall Tonight. I never thought Ikey Perry would really be one, but my eyes didn't deceive me. His ambition was achieved at last! The caption went on to say Accompanying him are his secretary, Miss lune Page Ward and co-secretary Miss Marian Belle Humphlett. You can depend on Ikey to need two girls to help him instead of the usual one. As I turned the page my eyes fell upon an advertisement of a reducing salon. It had just been opened by Mlle. Carolyn Munden. Dorothy Twiford was her backer, financially, and her helper, too. I flipped the pages until I came to the sports page. Baseball season, ho-hum, is in full swing. I-Iere's Clayton Morrisette pitching for the Yankee's with Lloyd Williams and Brantley Sawyer in the outfield for the Philadelphia Athletics and Sam Williams on lst for Cin- cinnati. Paul Morris and Thomas Owens are owners of the Yanks now. Don't ask me how that happened because I don't really know. I then turned to the Society Column to find that Gwendolyn Iackson and Evelyn Etheridge are attending one of the fashionable Interior Decoration schools here in New York. Then I went to bed. My train pulled into Raleigh the next evening. I saw a parade coming so I stopped to watch. As I was standing there I heard some one talking with a cute little lisp. I knew immediately that it was Maude Lee Eaper and she was talking to Alberta Meads and Berta Mae Rhodes, so the snooper in me made me listen in. She was saying, And he and I got it in E. C. I-I. S. for the most dependable and now he's Mayor of Raleigh. So that's who this parade was for! Iohn D. Parker had just been elected Mayor! Well, wonderfull The parade was in front of me now and I recognized him sitting on the top of a

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CLASS PROPHECY Q May 25, 1946. Dear Charles: Do you remember the promise we made each other graduation day, that on the fifth anniversary of our graduation we should write each other, telling what had become of our classmates? Well, I am fulfilling my part of the bargain, and below are some of the crafts, industries, and professions that the class of 1941 are engaged in. Would you believe it? Allen Berry, Iames Brinson, and Ioe White are all at the top in pro football, while Charles Iones has made good in Army Air Corps. lust last week he was made a lst Lieutenant. Do you remember Homer Bell? He is now a building contractor and is making good use of his woodworking ability. Elsie Scott, Wilson Waldorf, and Harvey Winslow have kept up their musical training and now all have their own dance bands. Lonnie Hill, has his own Hill-Billies and is now on a nationally known radio network. Bethel Burgess is still singing with him. Bill Cox has made a name for himself in Chemistry, by developing a new synthetic rubber. Collaborating in the discovery was his able assistant William Brothers. Tilling the soil are Rufus Voliva, Edwin Ferebee, Elwood Sawyer, Malachi Burgess, and Charles Brown. Each has married and settled down on his own farm. Gertrude Fearing and Gloria Avent are still up to their old tricks and are flirting from one man to another-perhaps, they will settle down some day. lt seems as though most girls want to get to Hollywood, as you probably remember our class was no exception. However, our class was fortunate because Millicent White, Hazel Perry, and Iessie Thurecht all have made the grade and are now stage and screen stars. Iean Bundy, Myrtis Pugh, Annie Blades, and Hilda Beals all made vows to love, honor, and obey and now are happily married, raising families of their own. Virginia Lee Commander is also considering married life, but can- not decide whether to give up singing and marry Tommy Griffin or keep on with her career. Elma lune Midgett, Mary lean Gossard, and lnez Chappell have gradu- ated from training and are now Registered Nurses. l can never forget the members of the Spotlight Staff. Remember how we used to work and wrangle and put off? l suppose our training did do us some good. l picked up the Annual last night and looked at some of Snookie Guirkin's sketches. Snookie is now an artist and designer for one of New York's biggest department stores. l am society editor for a large Carolina newspaper, and as you have told me, Charles, you are editor and owner of a newspaper, so we did learn something working on the Spotlight. Billy Selig now has a large camera store and has a line that makes his talk on high school seem like nothing at all. Iudson Wood also has gone in

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CLASS PROPHECY tContinuedJ big car, smiling, and waving with Lucille McPherson on one side and Marjorie Owens on the other. They must have been his secretaries, both of them, 'cause he's in heavy politics now. I suppose that you are beginning to think most of our classmates went to New York with Glover Grice and Aubrey Sample when they opened their night club. At first, I thought the some thing. I-Iowever, I later found out that this was far from true. Mary Frances Parker stayed in Elizabeth City and now helps her husband with his automobile business. Wilson Holloman is going to open on insurance office this summer, after his marriage to Kathleen Bray. l bet you could never guess who is head of the City Council-none other than Iames Dickerson. Not satisfied with this, he now has his eye on a seat in the House of Representatives at Raleigh. Iuanita Copeland is private secre- tary to the federal judge of Pasquotank County. Over at the Coast Guard Station on Riverside, is Clifton Burgess. l-le joined up during the War scare, right after graduation, and now he is a first class gunner's mate. Several of our girls decided that they could make as good use of their commercial training in Elizabeth City as in a big city, so they found employ- ment with local concerns. Hilda Anderson and Margaret Swain are stenogra- phers at Citizens' National Bank, while Irma Iackson is the new typing teacher at our dear old Alma Mater. Tom White opened up ct studio on Main Street about a year ago and has CI thriving business for a young artist. Lorena Basnight tends to the busi- ness end of his studio. Oh! I almost forgot to tell you about Elvin Waters and Margaret Basnight. I saw Margaret the other evening. She was home on vacation. At the present time she is employed as governess for one of the Senator's children in Washington, D. C. Elvin Waters plays a guitar in a well known string ensemble over WTAR every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday evenings. I am afraid I have rambled on too much now, so I shall close. ' Sincerely, MARTHA. O