Landis High School - Yellow Jacket Yearbook (Landis, NC)

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WUAMAl i Wine IPRs IROL IDS A TWENTY-ONE GUN SALUTE!!! To the boys and girls of the Class of 1943 of Landis High School! As the smoke clears, through the haze we see their futures clearly revealed to us. Outstanding among the revelations is the appointment of Glenn Broome as the coach of athletics every other day at Yale Univer- sity. Ruby Johnson is a famous U. S. O. en- tertainer in an Army camp. Charlie Corriher, Mayor of Landis, is seen just handing over to Principal Duard Linn, Jr., all the money that the Principal asked for to put elevators in the new High School building. One of the most sensational movies of the time, ‘“A Man’s Love,” starring those two glamour girls, Venedra McAlister and Dura Mae Howell, is enjoying a long run on Broadway. Bernard Deal, owner of a large Snapshot Studio in Hollywood (three for a dime), is sponsoring a contest (to find a good look- ing wife). Viola Edwards is an attractive model in a famous dress shop. A. Lee Hoke is busy giving lectures in Carnegie Hall on, “Speaking in Public.” Lula Belle Mason, happily married to a certain Kannapolis boy, is feathering her nest in Wilmington, making ships for Uncle Sam. Paul Leonard Karriker and Hugh Brown Karriker joint owners of a large farm, have just produced an irish potato without a peeling to help the many boys on K. P. duty. Claudine Hinson hopes to have the situa- tion well in hand by joining the Marines. Yl Packet Herman Ritchie, as Mayor of ‘‘Saw,’’ has, with his many civic developments, increased the population to 102. Margaret Blackwelder has now acquired the degrees of Mrs. and Sec. Bobbie Troutman, rising young engineer, has just completed plans for the largest sky- scraper in New York. Evelyn Owens is a housekeeper and farm- er’s wife, living on a large farm. William Nesbit as head specialist in a big Army hospital in Rio de Janeiro, ex- amines poor little buck privates. Rachel Garver is the head of a home for old maids and is assisted by Katherine Mc- Corkle. Jackie Sweatt is a dentist on the thirteenth floor in the Empire State Building at Enoch- ville, so he can keep his teeth in. Alma Watts is the manager of a well known Dime Store in China Grove. Oscar Deal is practicing his cute smile in front of an Army Captain each morning at six o'clock. Mary Agnes Bost is holding down a very responsible position running a comptometer machine and looking forward to marriage with her high school sweetheart. Junior Smith is owner and operator of a chocolate chewing gum factory in Pineridge City, with two thousand employees turning out chewing gum for him. Clara McLaughlin is head nurse at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Maryland. Walter Weddington, former Commis- sioner of Agriculture in Raleigh, has re- tired, due to old age, on a comfortable pen- sion. Twenty

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get people told “what's what” to Hattie Alley. 22. I, Dura Mae Howell, do will my name “Miss Hickey”” and my love for my bus drivers to Martha Deal. 23. I, Carl Weddington, do will my de- sire to become a good dancer and a good sport to Harold Sechler (Junior). 24. I, Walter Corrither, do will my love for a ‘‘soldiers’ sweetheart’ to Larry Beaver. 25. I, Mary Honeycutt, do will my snappy talking and my ability to fuss with anyone I meet to Anna Mae Weddington. 26. I, Charlie Corriher, do will my place as the best looking senior boy to Jackie Taylor. 27. I, Mabel Lipe, do will my daily walk to town to mail letters to Marte Lipe. 28. I, Mary Agnes Bost, do will my job as assistant manager of the store and my success in wrapping money to Johnny Wil- liams. 29. I, Venedra McAlister, do will my longing to be in the Beta Club to Pauline Price: 30. I, Arthur Lee, do will my ability to “lay out of school and get caught in the “pool room” to Kyle Corriher. “31. I, Ray Weddington, do will my manly looks and ways to Gene Corriher. 32. I, Glenn Broome, do will my interest in all athletics and sports to Willie Strick- land. 33. I, Alma Watts, do will my ability to slip out of Dramatics and catch the 3:30 o'clock bus to Rachel Sanders. 34. I, Juanita Rodgers, do will my long- ing to talk during all the second period in Miss Lynch's class to Naomi Knight. 35. I, Verlene Shoemaker, do will my friendly ways and ability to attract the boys to Bonnie Poarch. Nineteen 36. I, Andrew Smith, do will my curly, red hair to L. L. Smith. 37. I, Hugh Brown Karriker, do will my love for “Dear Old Landis Hi” and my ability to stay here as long as possible to Philip Heglar. 38. I, Dorothy Wilkinson, do will my flirtatious ways and success in talking to all the boys to Juanita Faye Bostian. 39. I, Edna Pethel, do will my ability to go with other boys, although I am engaged, to Juanita Elizabeth Bostian. 40. I, Juanita Harrington, do will my sweet, studious, and quiet ways to Arnold Parks. 41. I, Willie Troutman, do will my ability to get around and go places and not be long about it to Clay Kimball. 42. I, William Nesbitt, do will my love for the candy counter at F. W. Woolworth’s in Kannapolis to Ray Hill. 43. J, A. Lee Hoke, do will my ability to work in the mill, go to school too and make excellent grades to Grady Beaver. 44. I, Bernard Deal, do will my ability to attract and talk to the girls to Ralph Deal. 45. I, Walter Weddington, do will my bus No. 13 to any girl who wishes to drive it next year. 46. We, Gladys Goodman, Katherine Mc- Corkle, Clara McLaughlin, and Rachel Gar- ver do will our long companionship and our desire to be “Old Maids’ to Lois Camp- bell, Phyllis Owens, Bessie Overcash and Louise Sloop. RACHAEL GARVER, CLARA MCLAUGHLIN, GLADYS GOODMAN, Testators. Yellow packet — bo RO ™ = Ss SS “=

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Ruth Campbell is running a small post office of her own to take care of her mail. Ray Weddington is now a quiet and re- tired Army Major. Edna Pethel is manager of Woolworth’s Dime Store in Kannapolis. William Goodnight has been in business for the past years giving lectures and demon- strations to the boys on love-making. His example is now his wife. Vivian Hamilton is using her experience in fixing hair by running a beauty parlor. Carl Weddington, owner of a ‘‘Jot-em- Down” store in Boston, is using a one-horse buggy as his delivery wagon. Dorothy Wilkinson is still eating ice cream sandwiches bought by, yes, that’s right, Arnold Parks. Walter Corriher is the driver of a Grey- hound bus, which has as its run, New York to Miami. Juanita Rodgers is now owner of a very prosperous beauty salon. John Martin Cavin ts the star of “Glamour Boy,” latest movie hit. Mabel Lipe is head dietitian in a famous hospital in Boston. Willie Troutman, one of the ten best dressed men in the United States, features Twenty-one new styles each month in his exclusive haberdashery. Marie Corriher is finally living in her Beverly Hills home, after leading her soldier to the altar. Verline Shoemaker is coach and instruc- tor of a successful girls’ basketball team. Billie Troutman has realized his ambition; he is Commander-in-Chief of the Army of Occupation in Japan. Evelyn Barr is a successful Washington stenographer. Juanita Harrington has joined the WAVES, so as to be near, as far as possible, her sailor boy. Gladys Goodman is Librarian in the Y. M. C. A. at Kannapolis; she has Ruth Mc- Corkle as her capable assistant. Mary Honeycutt is a writer of the “gossip” column for the Landis Daily News. Arthur Lee is the script and joke writer for the Bob Hope radio program. Again the guns salute and only the pres- ent is now visible. EVELYN Barr, OscaR DEAL, JACKIE SWEATT, Prophets. Yollow ache Wi bo RO ™ Wa