Harding High School - Acorn Yearbook (Charlotte, NC)

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PAUL YOUNT-GENE COBLE .,...,...,... ED HONEYCUTTYMARY ELIZABETH NISBET . , . DONALD GARDNER--FRANCES SAWYER .... ED BARKLEY-BETTY JEAN MULLIGAN . . BOB WEDDINGTON-DORIS JEAN NEAL ........ MARSHALL DELLINGER--BETTH' JEAN MULLIGAN CONLEY ROBINSON-JOYCE ROGERS ...,...... la.fumA, . . .Most Influential . , ,MostD1'gniEed . . , , . .MostAthlel1'c Biggest Heart Breakers . . . . . .Most Talented . . .Best Looking . , ,Most Popular Page Twenty- two

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WDPIWCIL June 3, 1953. DEAR DIARY This has been one swell day, I have just returned from the banquet that ended our class's first reunion after 10 years. CNot a bad idea, eh?D Every one of the 94 seniors of '43 were present at the Hotel John Taylor for the banquet. I guess Macy's 5 25 10 in New York had to close for a week because the oflicials were here- credit manager, Celeste McGinnis, personnel manager, Dot McCrackin, and advertising manager, Jo Edna Lovelace. Others from the Big Town were Melua Gardner, Betty Jean Mulligan, Myrt Thomas, and Mary Lee Durham, all Powers girls Cwowlj. Speaking of wows , Ed Barkley's troupe from the Palace Cin Newark I guessj were at the Broadway this Friday. His troupe consisted of his orchestra: his managers Bill Walters, and Grafton Graham: dancers Jackie Jones, The Shackleton Withers team: and vocalist Doris Rowland. Some events of the reunion were: The opening of a bridge across Irwin Creek leading to our old Alma Mater's campus. Mayor of Charlotte, Frank Yandell, pushed a button to open the bridge to the public. One look at this great bridge suggests its designer Bill Brooky, ori inator of Brooky Bridges. His chief engineers on the super structure were Moe Dellinger, Paul Monty, and Paul Godfrey. We had lunch at the old S 25 W, now called J 'iff D since J. D. Karnages took over. I sat next to Home Run King Donald Gardner of the Cardinals, who has had his picture in the papers almost as much as his cousin Conley Robinson, the new Hollywood romeo. Another Harding Hollywooder is Gerald Bridges. Joyce Stanley and Dot Miller have a beauty shop on Hollywood Boulevard: and Nell Strawn, I hear, is a stand-in for Judy Canova. I saw Ed Honeycutt, and Lou Johnston and Shirley Tallent were right behind him, so I guess they are still billing and cooing over him. Saw Nancy Bearden Cstill Shorty j and she is laboratory technician at Queens. Anna Lou Hughes Cliloggiej and Joyce Rogers have quite a doctor's practice here in town. Alfred Langston is on the staff at Memorial Hospital. Mary Elizabeth Nisbet Q LiZzie j is a very good dentist. Emily Champion, Gene Coble, Juanita Shuford, and Elizabeth Burn are all nurses. fWe really had a smart senior class.1 Guess who is teaching at Harding High-School? None other than Josephine Hipp, algebra: Doris Jean Neal, music: Frances fGoonQ Sawyer. physical education: Dolly Mae Fletcher, art fthey hnally got an art class at Hardingl : Rose Marie Anderson is librarian: and John Rae Hipp, chemistry. Back to the events of the reunion. The banquet was at 7:30. Sitting at the head of the table were flyer Alan McNeil, guest of honor the Admiral CGuess whoj and his wife Dot Hummell: U. S. Government interpreter from Brazil, Kathleen Crow: Helen Miller, owner of a ranch in Colorado: and Angelia Neely who was the author of the best seller this month KI think she tried to out-do Tobacco Road so she called it Snuff Alleyjg Millionaires Bill Needham and Dennis McGrath made their money in the stock market fthey always were luckyb. The housewives of our senior class occupied another table. Among the wealthiest were Marguerite Phillips, Mary'Lib Hoke, Frankie Abbott, Frances Dunn, Danay Agner, Rachel Worley, Loreta Cox, Betty Gopfert, and Edna Phipps. A regiment of WAACS was present. Among these were Annie Sue Moody, Phyllis Mullins, Nlildred Boyd, Bobbie Primm, Ruth Keith, Margaret Howell, and Sara Currie. WBT was well represented also with John Bechtler, news reporter: Haywood Gray, president of the station: and Margaret Cook and Margaret Nelson who have a cooking school on the air. For Dot Richardson, Betty Adams, Colleen Hendrix, and Lenora Baxley, who are looking for bosses with a soft knee land a softer pocketbookj I suggest the following: Lloyd Henley. a prominent lawyer specializing in divorce cases Cwonder whyl: Richard Rankin, President of B. if H. Photo Company, speaker for the Merchants of Charlotte's table, and other merchants and professionals: James Edmonds, Ill, who has an exclusive men's store: Carl Cutrell and competitor, Preston O'Quinn, who has just opened his Super Market: Joe Cutrell, who is president of the Cutrell Taxi Service Che learned that at Hardingl : and printer, Baxter Campbell. Setting the women's styles in hats and dresses this spring are designers Betty Ann Wfalters, Ruby Walden, Helen Taylor, Betty Ruth Worley, and Merle Goodman. Paul Yount is known as Scoop Yount at the Observer: and me, I'm just a photographer for Life Magazine. A page from the diary of Bob Weddinglon, Page Twenty-one

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PAUL YOUNT-DOT RICHARDSON .... FRANK YANDELL-BETTY SHACKLIETON ALAN NICNEIL-JOYCE ROGERS .,..... PAUL YOUNT--JOYCE STANLEY ...,. 4 HAYWOOD GRAY-BETTY JEAN STONE . RICHARD RANKIN--HELEN WITHERS . DONALD GARDNER-BETTY SHACKLETON ED HONEYCUTT-I .ORETA COX ......., lahvm, . , Mos! Studious , , .Best All-round . . . . . . . .Best Dressed Mosl Likely lo Succeed . . . , . . .Most Bashful . . . .Wirriem ..,.......Cufesz . . ,IVIOSICIJHSI-dPFf1lL' Page Tcuentyfthree