Harding High School - Acorn Yearbook (Charlotte, NC)

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Ifr s n ?2?ZL i oy JUNIOR OFFICERS CONLEY ROBINSON President Donald Gardner Vice-President Ed Honeycutt . Lenora Baxley . Secretary Treasurer S1 JUNIOR MARSHALS PAUL YOUNT Cfit ' e 1 NANCY BEARDEN Assi ' sranf C j e 1 Lenora Baxley Gene Coble Mary Lee Durham Doris Jean Neal Angelia Neely Dorothy Richardson Conley Robinson Joyce Rogers Joyce Stanley Nell Strawn Bobby Weddington Page Twenty-four ACORN

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PROPHECY Perhaps the hardest key to fit into any lock is the key to the future. As the Good Ship Harding ' 42 sailed along the rocky coast of the present, I sought long and hard to find this key. One day I chanced upon an old sailor who showed me just the twist of the wrist to use and told me the magic words which would unlock the elusive future. As I stood at a porthole of the Good Ship Harding, I followed his magic formula and look- ing distrustfully out to the far horizon, I saw: The year 1961 and coming forth from the mist is a distant figure standing in front of a micro- phone; yes, it ' s Johnny Miller, Ace News Com- mentator over WBT, always bringing you latest news developments. Looks like Eleanor Miller enjoys the high life, for she just bought a penthouse in New York. Maybe gentlemen prefer blondes, but with Steve Cooper, Hollywood ' s number one playboy, it seems that brownette Polly Sawyer holds the pennant. Secretary of State, Arthur Knighten, thinks women should not be in the Capitol referring to Representative Jane Severs. Bill (Millionaire) Gryder is heading straight for the poor house, if his wife Imogene Edmonds doesn ' t stop spending his millions. The All Girl Orchestra on the Eastern Electric Nazda Lamp program is conducted by Virginia Gray. Philip Woerner, owner of Woerner ' s Imitation Eyelashes, Inc., attributes his success to such good cosmetic customers as Imogene Saunders, Margaret Waugh and Charlotte Brown. Marion Davies is Harding High School ' s new nurse. Cecil Severs is co-starring with Helen Slye in Grand Opera. Anita Gibson, renowned organist, strikes the key note cf her life when she finds the Lost Chord. Margaret Bowling surely lives up to her name. She ' s the new proprietor of Charlotte ' s Bowling Center. . Catherine Irving, Margaret Howell and Kathryn Jean Ferrell are sharp contenders for the prize cup. Teachers at Chapel Hill are Claudine Parker and Elizabeth Plyler . Chapel Hill. . eh! let ' s hope they don ' t teach all the time. Quote, Wall Street amazed at a young genius end of quote. Everett Daniels is one of leading big money men today. Another Hollywood star Ruth Jenkins elopes with Producer Brownie Lippard. Ernest Holthouser is now the new manager of Grant ' s Store, where Helen Lamb and Mary Taylor are head sales girls. The cartoonist Oakley McClamrock is draw- ing rings around Walt Disney ' s Mickey Mouse. Jean Honeycutt is the new dietitian at the S. « W. There is a rumor that our next Governor, James Taylor, is to be assisted in his legal work by that able attorney, Melvin Johnston, and speaking of the Governor ' s ability to select the best in beautiful secretaries seems to be proven by Lura Mae Johnston, his latest discovery. Elizabeth White finally decided to make teach- ing French her vocation; is now teaching in a country school where Raymond Miller is the principal. Poetry pays, a word from Lucius. He finds there is a bride for every Groom. Sales are booming at Charlotte ' s leading candy company; it ' s a sweet life for the owners, Billy Westmoreland and Wylie Shumpert. A new vitamin B2X has just come from the test tube of research chemists, George Eudy and assistant Donald Abbott. You can tune in on Saturday night and hear Edna Thomas, vocalist, on Your Hit Parade. Streamlining your etiquette takes a new course in Martha Bearden ' s latest edition Etiquette or Else, as approved by publishers Kenneth Dewalt and Charles Fleming. President of the Business and Professional Wom- en ' s Club is none other than Sarah Bentley. Dr. Norris Godfrey, famous bone specialist (thanks to Coach Bricklemyer ) , seems to be doing fine with his three new nurses, Bess, Kathryn, and Ruth. . and does he Needham? Kitty Kendall is at the helm of a quiet life that is when her husband is not at home. Harrell Auten and James Auten (not related) own Biddleville ' s largest grocery store. I see that Dr. Thomas Hendrix and Dr. Joe Hubbell have graduated from Duke University and are now serving interneships at Morganton Sanitorium. Observer Society Editor, Johnsy Haney, has a fine column in The Charlotte Observer; those leading in the society columns are Lorraine Walton, Ella Cornelia Yandle and Alice Steinback. In the world of sports Bobby Thomas, famous sports writer is busy with future boxing champ, Herman Noble. incidentally. Buck Green made the Ail-American. Margaret Fast has slowed down a bit since handsome Harry Heafner has entered her life. Explorers, James Bennick and Thomas Robin- son, are reported lost in Africa. . their parting words were that they wanted to get away from it all. Joe James is waiting for the Maneuvers to start again so he can sell candy. Juanita Jones is collecting her alimony from Norman Moore. Meredith McGinnis and Bill Childress have gained recognition in Who ' s Who In America. Frances Fulk and Marjorie Jones are models on Broadway. Alyce Ann Way has settled down in Myers Park. Page Twenty- thr e

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A. JUNIORS Frankie Abbott Betty Adams .. DanayAgner Janice Albers Ed Barkley Lenora Baxley Nancy Bearden Mildred Boyd I Gerald Bridges Bill Brookey ; James Burt Elizabeth Burn Jack Case Emily Champion Gene Coble Margaret Cook Alice Cooney Wilson Coppala Loreta Cox Leon Criminger Kathleen Crow Sara Currie Louis Davis Marshall Dellinger Frances Dunn Mary Lee Durham James Edmonds Dorothy Elder