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?

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THREE DAYS LATER I MADE A RELUCTANT FAREWELL TO HIM AND MADE MY WAY T0 THE DOCKS or NEw YORK WHERE I BOARDED THE SHIP, PRINCESS ELIZABETH. CAN YOIINAGINE HY DELIGHT IN FINDING SAN DAvIs GONNANDER Or THIS LUXURY LINER? THE FIRST NIGHT AT SEA, WHILE HAVING DINNER AT THE CAPTAIN'S TABLE, I NOTIOED AT THE FAR END Or THE TABLE GEORGE BAROEN, wHO WAS BEGINNING ONE or HIS MANY TRIPS AS Gooo WILL AMBASSADOR T0 ENGLAND. LANDING IN ENGLAND THE FIRST PERSON I GLIMPS THAT H 7 ED WAS Amos ADOOOK, A GAB DRIVER, wHO TOLD ME E AND JEAN WERE THE PROUD PARENTS OF TRIPLETS. ANOTHER SOURCE or PRIDE FOR HIM wAs THE AWARD HE wAs GIvEN BY THE LONDON SAFETY CONNIGSION rOR Two YEARS' DRIVING WITHOUT AN ACCIDENT. MY STAYAIN ENGLAND WAS A SHORT ONE, MY FIRST VISIT T0 PARIS REvEALED THAT GRACE MANGDN AND RUBY LEE HAD DEVELOPED A FORMULA FOR 'NIGHT IN PARIS PERFUME., THEY GENEROUSLY GAvE ME sIx DROPS-I NIGHT ADO THAT THIS AMOUNT WOULD HAVE COST ME EXACTLY 3300. . As I NEAREO BERLIN, I GAME TO A MILITARY ZONE WHERE E. H. CROSS wAs STANDING GUARD HAVING FINALLY RISEN T0 THE RANK or PRIVATE FIRST CLASS. HE SAID THAT BEING AWAY FROM HOME WASN'T TOO BAD AS LONG AS THERE WERE PLENTY or WOMEN TO WHOM HE COULD TELL HIS TROUBLES. REMEMBER SUE NIOHOLB? I FOUND HER wHO AFTER FOUR YEARS AT W.C.U.N.C. NAOORING IN HONE ECONOMICS AND HAD ADOERTED A POSITION AS CHIEF OOOK IN A ROADSIDE RESTURANT IN THE BETTER SECTION or BERLIN. CDHING BACK TO THIS SIDE or THE WORLD IN BRAzIL, I FOUND ARLENE EDWARDS, NOW MRS. TINK FAISON, LIVING HAPPILY AS THE WIFE or A COFFEE PLANTATION owNER. MR. AND MRS. FAISON WERE NICE ENOUGH T0 TAKE ME T0 DINNER IN THE BEST RESTDRANT IN RIO DE JANERIO, WHERE THE CHIEF ENTERTAINERS WERE FELIX AMIELEANOR FRAZIER wHo PERFORMED UNDER THE NAME or LATIN AMERI- CAN DANCERS. MAKING MY WAY up THE WEST COAST or NORTH AMERICA, I FOUND IN CALIFORNIA FREDERICK HOPKINS GROWING ORANGEG AND SUPPORTING ANN WALL IN BEAUTIFUL STYLE. COMING BY THE UNIVERSITY Or CALIFORNIA, I FOUND 'Q 5 ff I K 7 Cy 63