Harding High School - Acorn Yearbook (Charlotte, NC)

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LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT lnvvitiillly iiiinicrscil in the cngilmndity of its cngitntion. the cogitauivt- faculties of the urzulualing class of one thouszinil nine lmmlrenl and forty-une, llarry P, Harding School, Pity of l'l1ai'lotte. Uuunty of Mecklenburg, State of North l':irulinzi, and continent of North America, hereby urilain. publish, :ind declaire this tn he their last Vl'ill and Testament. 'I'l1ei'efm'e, this Class of forty-one liequt-:mths its most highly trr::isureil possessions :is follows: AR'l'Il'I.E I: To 'rniz Scnool. lfwnsf l. To Mr. Hawkins we It-ave mziny thanks fm' his guid- ance during the past six years. 2. NNI' lbequeath nur gratitude :md devotion to Harding lligli School. ARTll'l.l'l ll: To Tin: RISING SENIORS ltvmxf - 1. 'l'n yutt we leave our Senior Dignity :intl lumps you do not abuse it. 2. Vl'e hope our school library will :uleqnntely meet the needs of your subject requirenicnts next year. ARTICLE Ill: To Tun Tmrnnus 1f1'1lIA' H 1. To Miss Snmlifer. Mr. lflclwnrils, :ind Mr. Powell, we leave our sincere gratitude for their guidance as senior advisers. 2. To Mr. Cook, we leave our nppreuiutiini for making our Blind the K'ily t'li:unpinns. 3. To Mrs. Mackey. wi' lt-:ive our illlIll'CTl2llltlll for advis- ing our '41 Arnnx. 4. To Miss llnllliitt. we lezive our hope that the next ye:n s English classes will get their themes in on time. 5. To Mr. l'ovvi'rs, we leave nur sincere hopes that he has some good niatcrizil coming up next year, and that our tram will heat Uentrnl. 6. To Miss Smith, we leave our hope that she will get n lrasketlrall teaun that doesn't jitterlrug all the time. . To Miss VVatsi-n. we leave our hope that she will get a trigonometry class next year. 8. To Mrs. Sawyer. we leave a group of office-helpers even better than we were. AR'l'lCI,li IV: To Yluuous S'rUnEN1's 7 ltrmi' '- I. Uurtis VVhitc-, will tu lid Ilarkley my lrass drum alnlxty, to Harrell Auten my curly hair, :ind to Joe hnellings my lraslifulness, 2. Sam McAllister It-:ives his all A Report to Red Hoover. 3. Louis Boyd leaves to VVylic Shumpert his curly hair :mil to Feeil S1-vers l.. T. Hippy lrequeaths his slim figure. , 4. ll. U. Rliyne leaves his position of 4th horn-player to the Sth hn n-player, l'lilTm'il Brfivvn, and Ed Crimingei' and l.. J. Vl'utsun will their buss horns to whoever can curry them. n. 'l'rl.L'l:iytim C'hi-istcnsin, Neil Cline wills his shop ability and Thomas VVetmore his monopoly on popsicle wrappers. 0. Monti-so Blankenship leaves her happy smiles to Rose Marie Anderson and Jack Case. 7. Boyce .Volile leaves Donald Duck to whoever will feed him. 8, Betty Collins and Ilililzt Brewer leave to the next year chemistry class their zilwility to let chlorine escape. 9. Tok Everett Daniels, Barbara Vliilliams leaves her artistic talent. 10. jean Holland wills to Nunnally Snellings her title of Feet and C. S. Stuart his title of Fishfnce to the ni-xt foutluill manager. ll. Arnold Lee Hill leaves Rollert Ilinsnn his Curly golden locks and Andrey Solomon leaves his whiskers to Cecil Severs. l2. To joe Snellintzs, Marie Nelson leaves her A's and Edna Mac Moody leaves her place in the Honor Society. 13. Jim Duncan leaves his geometrical ability to Philip Vl'oern:-r :mil Edna Tliulnus guts Katie Stone's love of shorthand. 14. Tn 'Gene Fumble, Martha Shuckley leaves her musical ulnlity and to Craig Gudil, Alfred Marino wills his yvouilfworking ahility. 15. FQ Juanita jones, Virginia Ovcrcfish wills her blond hair and ability to chew gum. lb. Lewis Puckett leaves to jznnes Taylor his ability tu show Mr. Tuwkesllury how tn work Algelrrn problems. 17. 'lo Fr:incvs Fulk. Bill 'Yount leaves his perfect figure :mil lnnokkccping ahility. I 18. Scottie Muse hc-queaths the clit-erlenders' megaphones tn Frances Sawyer: and Frank Mayne his swing hahd In lfvi-rett llzmit-ls. Paar Tusr-nly-Iwo . To Paul Monty, Donald Nvulters leaves his :ihility to slip into home rnom late. . Mary Elizabeth YVing:ite wills her quiet ways to Eleanor Miller. . To Betty Mulligan, Josephine Altman leaves her make- up and Grace Parker hequeaths her lung fingernails to Marion Davies. . To Edna Thomas, Rosie Pappas leaves her ability to sing and Billie Howell leaves Helen Rowell her off key giggle. . Lucille Feagzm and Margaret Funderlnurk leave their jitterhugging to Bobbie Lee Everhart and Eula Mae Thompson. . Margaret Graham leaves her Iliccups to anyone with a bicarbonate, and Dewey Hawkes leaves his reporter's job to anyone who cares to stay up late nights and miss English assignments. . Gladys Cohle leaves her ability to chew gum in French class to anyone who can get away with it. . To Ben Kelly Graham, Margaret Hunter leaves lier title of Most Beautiful Girl and XVillium Turner leaves his side burns. . Betty jo Reinhardt leaves the wish that all the Juniors will love Miss VVatson as much as she does. . Cecil Adams leaves his bashfulness to Red Hoover and Dot Rudisill leaves her happy disposition tu all rising seniors. .Margaret Leonard and Mary Crawford leave their long friendship tu anyone who can make zi success of it. . Arvel Heafner leaves his position in the hand to who- ever wants it. :mil Reid Dellinger leaves his ability to plny the Cornet to Bobby Beethoven Bush. . To Johnsy Haney and Ruth Jenkins, Dot Stubbs :ind Margaret Norman leave their shorthand attitudes and grades. . Margaret Helms wills her rainy-day hair to Annie Sue Moody. . Donald KDuckj Keistler leaves his loud shirts to Bruce Brnswell. . Anna Taylor leaves her attendance record to Alberta Phillips. Lewis Padgett leaves his short vest to Robert Hailey and Vincent Severs his short stature to Jeep Hunter. . Harry Brickhouse wills his ability to charm the oppo- site sex tn Charles Hoover. . To Jimmy Epting, Raymond Bumgardner leaves his so-called stncliousness and to Jimmy Therrell, Nancy Sharpe leaves her title of Most Likely to Succeed. . Suzy Long wills to Doris Jean Neal her ability to get hy without taking books home. Paderewski Deaton leaves his ability to get skinned up while on the athletic field to anyone who wants it. . Bronze Trull wills his drum-majoring ability to Harrell Auten and Tom Grifhn leaves his bass clarinet to Joe James. To Lura Mae Johnston, Margaret Seegers wills the rest of the football team and Frances Tatum leaves her brown eyes. Mary Pappas leaves her dignity to Mary Taylor, and Rosabelle Johnson her quiet manner to Polly Sawyer. Pat Daugherty leaves her ability to snag football players to Sara Yarborough. Ed Watt does hereby will his job as cashier in the cafeteria to the Lee twins. Callie Lee Doster wills her ability to chew gum to Miss Carr. . Ruth Reilly leaves her wine skirt and green sweater to Louise Camp, ' Ruth Crowson wills her petiteness to Elizabeth White. . Gwendolyn Lehman wills her ability to pass French to Helen Slye. . Jack Moore leaves his business training skills and attitudes to Ruth Jenkins, his shop ahility to Bobbf' Thomas, and his geometric tendencies to Bruce Braswel . Wallace Bunn leaves to Robert VVest his position as guard on the football team and ends Maurice Green and Martin Scott leave their positions to Tommy Hen- drix and Sandy Cook. . Helene Huber and Elizabeth Hinson will their per- mission to call Miss Sandifer Miss Sallie to Eliza- heth White. . VV:-, Jean and Jane Allisnn, dn bequeath our title as the dignified Senior Twins to the Needham girls. - We, the class of 1941, do hereby authorize Mr. James R. Hawkins tu see that these requests are fulfilled. fSignc-:U CLASS OF FORTY-ONE. CPerj J. CURTIS VVHITE, Class I.a-wyrr. lVl'rNEssEs: Margaret Hunter, Miss Morella Polk, and Scottie Muse.

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SENIGR CLASS I-IISTGRY The class of 1941 registered at Harding High School in September, 1935-a new class in a new school. for that was the year that this school first opened its doors. What a year the seventh grade was! With changing classes, using lockers. losing all our possessions, and coping with seven teachers, we two hundred and seven seventh graders were really in the middle of our high school daze. ' As soon as schedules were arranged, locker numbers were learned, and lesson-assignments were in order, we elected our first class officers: president, Tom Lefler: vice-president, Ed Watt: secretary, Louise Hagler: and treasurer. Jack Greene. Mrs. Lois Summerville was our class adviser. Our first class meeting was soon held, and we unanimously selected our school motto: Great Oaks from Little Acorns Grow. During this first year our school song, Harding High Forever, was chosen, and the first edition of Till? ACORN was published. Miss Edna Triplett was the hrst adviser for THE ACORN. Mrs. Willie S. Shore organized a public speaking club containing sixty members in March, 1936. and it made its first public appearance in the auditorium on April 24. Many fine presenta- tions were given by students of our class: talks and sayings by Joe Messina. Edna Mae Moody, Alice Beaver, Bob Cherry, and Betty Jean Goodson. A debate was also given: the query being: Harding High School Should Have Honor Study Halls : the affirmative won. Later that year another debate was given, Resolved: North Carolina Should Abolish Capital Punish- ment : the negative side won. In the eighth grade, we, like veterans, were inclined to look down on the lowly seventh graders. We elected officers: president, Bob Cherry: vice-president, James Baldwin: secretary. Marie Nelson: treasurer, Margaret Funderburke. The Harding Hi-Lights was organized, giving our class its first school newspaper. Several members from our class served on the staff. They were Betty Sarratt. Helen Daniels, Joe Messina, Tom Lefler, Bob Cherry, Marie Nelson, Margaret Hunter, and Nancy Sharpe. A gala picnic was given at Bryant Park. What a time we had that day playing baseball and eating hot dogs! In the ninth grade our class officers were: president, Joe Messina: vice-president, Betty Sarratt: secretary, Margaret Seegers: and treasurer, Claude Hudson. Our social activities included a weiner roast held at the school on the coldest night of that year! Hot dogs really tasted good after we had run relay races and played other games to keep warm. Later in the year our grade mother, Mrs. T. G. Hunter, gave us a formal Valentine party at her home on West Fifth Street. At the helm in the tenth grade were: president, Bronze Trull: vice-president, Alice Beaver: secretary. Erskine Deaton: and treasurer, J. B. Orr. That year seemed to be one of study for all of us, it being our first year of senior-high school. Our officers in the eleventh grade were: president, Henry Stokes: vice-president, Margaret Funderburke: secretary, Audrey Parish: and treasurer, Betty Jo Reinhardt. After many Cmissb trials and happy tand other wisej experiences, the year was super-climaxed by the Junior-Senior Banquet held in Efird's dining room on May 17. The banquet was carried out on a Mexican Fiesta theme, with the Senors and Senoritas clad in formal attire. What a time we had reading our menus printed in Mexican! Everything. however, turned out to be in the good old American plan. Toastmaster for the occasion was Henry Stokes. class president. Mr. Tewkesbury was enjoyed along with ensalada do pena and tajada de carne asada. Several other enjoyable talks were given for the benefit of the under-grads as well as the graduates. Junior Marshals that year were: Jean Allison. Jean Carroll. Joe Messina. Lewis Padgett, Betty Jo Reinhardt. J. C. Rhyne. Margaret Seegers. Nancy Sharpe, Eel Watt, and Jack Greene. The officers who led us through the first semester of the final stanza were: president. Wallace Bunn: vice-president, Jean Carroll: secretary, Kitty Kendall: and treasurer, Jack Moore. The officers for the second semester are: president, Wallace Bunn: vice-president, Margaret Seegers: secretary, Kitty Kendall: treasurer. Jack Moore. A swell job they have done, too. With the promotion of sports, dances, movies. and other extra-curricular activities, they have made this. our concluding year. a pleasant and exciting one. One of our best-known and best-liked young ladies won fame and recognition, not only for herself, but also for old Harding. She is Margaret Seegers. who was presented a silver loving cup by the Charlotte Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution. She well-deserved it. too. We hardly had time to get used to school again after the Christmas holidays. we were allowed another two weeks vacation due to a flu epidemic. Afterwards we managed to stumble through the mid-term exams. Then, in February, came that event to which every Senior Class looks forward-the Senior Class play! After we had received our final Annual at Harding, the Junior-Senior Banquet was held. And so commencement, and the final curtain falls. Page Twenty-one

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June 12, 1960. N PT7'j'1j f 'v-'7'-- - -- ---Qv ,....... --. . ,,,, ,, vm . , . W I L Gil- 1'- , Il. QV- NEWS FLASH - - - teacher the school has ever had . . . Raylass Department The outstanding current events brought to you by the Same, now has as 'fs l'eft,m0del,-la Ch'ld 'f5f ' - - Ed Giiiiop of Time. it reveals the 1960 activities of tht Watt s Shoe Store is thriving while Ed beats his drum to imiiviiiiiai members of 3 typical high school graduaiing amuse his customers . . . Margaret Norman, a secretary, class of the yem. 1941- Bobby Fisher' Ace Newsreei Pho, now has a new boss, name of Gertrude . . . The Charlotte tographer for the Ram Movietone, selected his own class Waffle Shop Pas 'Wo l'f mY Cash'e 5 Mm'Y and, RUFW for this Sindy' the Class of 1941, Harding High Schooii Pappas . . . tiene Long is often seen atlChapel Iiill with Ch i N h C i. a curly headed freshman . . . Joe Messina and Lompany ' nr one' on aroma' is now the greatest paper company in the world, but is , , till unable to collect more than 25c worth of papers from Mr. J. Curtis White, Senior Class Lawyer is now Chief 5 - - - - - JMC' of me Simms Conf' - - - The Sfiiky Fly Pavel' 2'I.i.H,i'5'lL'2?i.E'.1f MiIZ3'Z3f i'ffi1yi:1 'si giififla 133222215 .fi l'0mPafly has had 3 very successful ycatfi ,hi proprietor South Carolina . . . A beauty shop is being run by Katie 'S B'ked?er5niges Tlswelk ace iegsladi Yglfsleiz Oliergflsh Stone and Anna Taylor un West Sixth Street . . . Edna .:.u arrs,wowore so ar in e armg M Mmdiff F k Ysihc - Library is now Head Librarian at the Charlotte Public ae y et or on Jac son on ammq i Library . . . The Y. M. C. A. is proud of its new General Secretary, Reid Dellinger . . . Jack Demas, the hard- working little boy. is now owner of the Goody Sweet Shop . . . Elizabeth Floyd is Business Manager of the New York Ti'mr.r. . . At the Economy Food Store, Margaret Funderburk still sits behind the cash register . . . Leontine Gardner, second lady-governor, has a big time in Raleigh teaching her executives to jitterbug . . . Callie Lee Doster, who worked so hard in shorthand, is now a retired seam- stress . . . Ronald Godfrey is a very up and coming sales- man for the Singer Sewing Machine Company . . . Flash . . . the millionaire! Jasper Gordon invested a million dollars in Ajax Long Woolens . . . Tom Griffin is now director of the Harding High School Band, but he also gets mad and breaks his baton . . . By Way of the High Seas! Our new ambassador to Germany is Bill Hamilton . . . Boyce Coble and Frank Kendall just invented a new way to make matches strike sooner . . . Arvel Heafner and B. D. Hendrix, the two Hollywood Casanovas, were just voted as the two actors who brought in the most box-office receipts during 1960 . . . The Merita Bakery has a new cake department head, Elizabeth Hinson . . . Highlights in the World of Sports! Craig Gadd is now pitching for the Boston Yankees . . . The Light Heavy- weight Championship of the World is to be decided to- night between I.. T. Rippy and J. C. Rhyne . . . Buck Green pitches to Sam McAllister for Siwash College . . . State Penn is proud of its new water boy, Donald Walters . . . After many hard years of practice, Harry Brickhouse has finally made the second team on Harding High's foot- ball squad . . . There is no joy in Charlotte for the mighty Deaton has struck out . . . Frank Vita is now Assistant Manager of the Y. M. C. A. basketball team . . . Grace Parker is managing the girls' professional' basketball team, upon which Lucille Feagap and Frances Tatum are the stars . . . In connection with the labor question! Henry Stokes finally handed in his English theme . . . Cecil Adams and his intimate friend Bill Smith, are still in the tenth, eleventh, and twelfth grades at Harding High . . . William Turner, voice teacher at Davidson College, is often heard stretching his tender vocal cords trying to teach Donald Keistler to sing . . . Since the burlesque business has been picking up they need new stars, so Gwendolyn Lehman has taken over the job as Fan Dancer . . . Work and Industry! A well known reducing-machine factory is owned by Billy Yount . . . the bakery business has found a new genius in Jim Duncan and his Muffins . . . Lewis Padgett, Bronze Trull, J. B. Grooms, and Arnold Lee Hill, those smooth-singing cowboys, furnish the music for the square dances at Harding High, while Vincent Severs calls the Figures . . . Jack Greene and Dewey Hawkes are co-editors of the Charlotte News, with Margaret Graham an outstanding staff member . . . Eliza- beth Barkley and W. C. Owens are known as the most famous man and woman on the Hying trapeze . . . Montese Blankenship is sccretary,to the President of the United States . . . Audrey Solomon and Estern McClain are President and Vice-President respectively of the A and P Food Stores . . . Mari Lee Creech is now teaching short- hand at Harding Hig 5 she is rated as the second best reason unknown . . . but we know, don't we? . . . Martha Shockley is still seen carrying her violin case under her arm. She must love music . . . J. G. Capps and Thearon Hooks are bookkeepers for the John llancock Life Insurance Company . . . Mary Elizabeth Crawford designs jewelry for Kress and Company and also displays several different kinds of fingernail polish . . . Jane Allison, Jean Allison, Hilda Brewer. Patricia Daugherty, Aileen Hipp, Margaret Hunter, Scottie Muse. Nancy Sharp, Nannie Mae Stephens. Gladys Coble, Betty Jo Reinhardt, and Norma Booker, all members of the D.D. Club, are still having meetings on Monday night with but one idea in mind--how to catch and hold a man . . . Flash! A new bookl Hon' to Become an Arrrrss in Tru Eeasy Lesson.: has just been written by Ruth Reilly, and the first copy was sold to Dorothy Stubbs. Dorothy pur- chased her book through Rose Beecher Threatt's Mail Order Service . . . New York City, New York! Josephine Altman is sing- ing in all the prominent night clubs with Reid Crook's orchestra . . . M.ary Elizabeth Wingate now has blond hair and is one of the city's greatest stylists . . . Jean Carroll is the editor of Life Magazine . . . Hollywood, California! June 6, 1960 . . . Mickey Rooney now has a new double, Frank Mayneg Frank also has a great swing band . . , Lewis Boyd. Stand-in for Robert Taylor, has been playing in quite ai few pictures lately . . . The busiest and most popular man at the Escort Bureau is Neil Cline . . . Buffalo, New York . . . Ruth Crowson and Margaret Helms are running a tea room and gift shop . . . Jimmy Dorsey, Jr., discovered a new star, Robert Allen . . . Charlotte, North Carolina . . . Margaret Seegers has a beautiful little home in Myers Park . . . Ed Criminger is a new addition to the Briar Hoppers . . . L. J. Watson tripped and fell in his bass horn and as yet has not been found . . . if anyone can help to get him ont, please call his home immediately . . . Martin Scott was married yesterday by the Reverend Lee NYalker. The happy little woman, you'd never guess . . . Thomas Wetmore has one of the new Ford Thunderboltsf' which he purchased with popsicle wrappers . . . Jack T. Moore is now at Morganton-WHY? Jean Holland is accompanying him!- Now I wonder? . . . Great People of America . . . Heard Dr. Marie Nelson, A.B., A.M., Ph.D., speak at the Armory on Who will win the Election in 1960, Roosevelt or Bill Collins? . . . Raymond Bumgardner, voted most likely to succeed, is now president of Duke University . . . Tvtgo nurses in the United States Army are Helene Huber and Rosabelle Johnson . . . Miss Betty Collins is directing the Symphonic Sympathy Orchestra . . . Dorothy Rudisill is a great Biologist in South America . . . Last Minute News Flash! Bill Knox, the boy with a big hole in his face that was always talking, is running a barber shop in Biddleville. Weather Forecast . . . Very unsettled and stormy if any of these seniors should disagree with these fates . , . We hope you enjoyed the broadcast. Tune in next year at the same time, same station. For further details consult your local fortune teller, VVALLAQE BUNN, Proplwl, Clusx of '41, Page Twenty-three ,A . -- -A --- A -.-. L, my . . 4..-.n.,L, nn,-,,... rf, 4 H ' -iii Q' ii, X51 -a ,. w... .ai iii f,.' 'VI 15 . 'd ,I ' in ., -'. T' ' '- H.. iv, '-HN' ' ,ix .' ,. .F