Knightdale High School - K Dalian Yearbook (Knightdale, NC)

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PROPHECY OF SENIOR CLASS OF 1948-LI9 WELL, I JUST BREEZED IN FROM NEw YORK. IT SURELY IS GOOD TO BE BACK HOME AFTER BEING A TRAVELER FOR TEN YEARS. I GUESS You KNow THAT I'vE SEEN EMPLOYED BY THE WORLD TRAVEL AGENCY FOR SIX YEARS, IN OTHER WORDS, SINCE MY FOURTH HUSBAND DIED. BEFORE THAT I WAS KEPT BUSY SPENDING THOSE MULTIMILLIONAIRES' HONEY, So YOU SEE I'vE HAD OPPORTUNITY TO GLANCE AT ALL HY FORMER OLASSNATES IN THEIR WALKS OF LIFE. BEFORE I LEFT KNIGHTDALE, I GLIHFSED MR. AND MRS, GRADY DOUGLAS wHO HAD EVEN THEN GOT A START IN MAR' RIED LIFE WITH GRADY KEEPING HOUSE AND JOSIE BEING SOOKKEEPER FDR THE C. N. ROBERTSON CONFANY. MARRIAGE BLISS wAs THEIRS. WHEN I BOUGHT MY TICKET FOR NEw YORK, I NOTICED THAT JAMES BAKER WAS CHIEF TICKET AGENT FOR THESEA- BOARD RAILROAD STATION IN RALEIGH. ARRIVING IN NEW YORK, I MET THE COUPLE wHO wERE GIVEN THEIR START DURING THE HALLOWEEN SENIOR PROGRAM. PEGGY ELLING- TON wAS DOING THE SECRETARIAL WORK FOR THE NEw YORK YANKEE'S BASEBALL CLUB WHERE WAYNE FOWLER, HER LATEST AND ONLY FLAME, wAS DOING A WHQPPING UOS OF PITGHING FOR THAT CLUB. WALKING UP FIFTH AVENUE, I NOTICED THAT WERE LORD AND TAYLOR HAD ONCE STOOD BROADWELLS STYLE SHOP wAS NOW THE LEADING FASHION CENTER IN NEw YORK. BETTY BEE'S DRESSES BY BETTY CLARK, wHo WAS KNOWN TO MOST OF US AS BETTY BROADWELL, ARE BEING WORN AND ADNIRED SY THE NATlON'S SNARTLY DRESSED WOMEN. WORKING FOR.8ETTY CLIRK AS HER HEAD MODEL, wAs ELIZABETH JACKSON, wHo WAS KNOWN AS THE FIGURE OF THE SENIOR GLASS OF '49. LEAVING FIFTH AVENUE AND WALKING UP QZND STREET, I NOTICED A LARGE SIGN WHICH READ,'NEW YORK RECREATION COuuISSIoN,HEAD COMMISSION' ER BILLY UONTAOUE.' IN THE SAME BUILDING I FOUND HORTON'S BEAUTY SALON OWNED AND OPERATED BY FRANCES HORTON, REFLAGING THE NATIONALLY FAMED RICHARD HUD- NUT SALON. FINALLY I FOUND MYSELF IN THE WALDORF ASTORlA,WHERE DUKE PERRY, MY FORMER TRANSRORTER AND NEAR NEIGHBOR, wAS NANAGER. , 7 I YP -Q I 5 i-' LLL oo?