Matthews High School - Memoirs Yearbook (Matthews, NC)

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N gX XiWG lIdf Prophecy of Class of 1942 It was 1n.August, 1952 that we made a tour of the Unlted States It seemed more than ten years s1nce we had heard from each member of our graduat1ng class of 1942, and we thought that durlng our travel1ngs, we would try to see as many of our former classmates as poss1ble b began our Journey from Matthews, whore we were st1ll 11V1Hg we left there Ed Hooks, havlng atlng a poultry farm.near the town and Margaret Hooks who had marrled and bumlt her home near Matthews and was puttlng 1hfO practloe all she had learned ln Home Eoomomlcs. It was a dreary ra1ny mornlng as we began our Jour noy, but lt was soon to be brlghtenod by the famlllar faces of our former classmates. Our f1TSt stop was Norfolk, V1TglUla whore we stayed overnlght As we were welklrg up the street, I saw a neon slgn over a fashlonable dress shop Wh1Ch caught my eye It road, B1ll1e McLeods Shoppe M f1TSt thought was of B1ll1e McLeod, and upon enterlng the shop wc found B1ll1e her usual well dressed self Mb talked for some tlme Sho told me that John BEV1S Hemby was captaln of a shlp whlch docked at Norfolk often From Norfolk we m nt to Phlladolphla In readlng tho d lly paper th ro one mornlng I notlood that Neal Nelson was a promlnont lawyer who had been glVCH much publ1c1ty on the Front pages of the paper for the part he was playlng ln 1 m rder case. Next wo Stopped 1n New York. There to our surpr1se'2 ww wwre to moot several of our fellow classm.tos Flrst of all was Chrlstlno B rber whom I me t 1Df1StUdlO there S f X 41,7 -1 M,?.'lf.2f'-m 'P.If.f.77'-:!! Ni... 'm-'q'S m- 'gf x if f A d1, ..,V, 4' ll A ' .. I xl pi !6ff u M M r o , 1 f-11N rm I N - 5 4 'Q ' J ,'N'f. 1 A 4f1waX' 5' lggx f'p Xqb Q - Qxfff ' Q gg: ' a p il Xf'2 ff If' T dv 0 ., f A M . . Q . N! . I is r Iii? taken over his fathers grocery store, Walt Duncan oper- pf 5 1 , ' ir ' I . . . b' 11' .y .W 5 - ' ' ' . 4 ' A 'p 0 0 Q, V. 5 W ao .C me F . - . p. .- , Spa 3 A. . ' ' l at ' AL 4 M

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QIEEEFE EZZEESSEEEEI ZSSSEEEIZ ZSWEBEE ZQHHIEHEEQES IEEEZEFEQIH Ei5E?' She was a famous photographer and among her work I noticed pictures on display of two famous New York models-Ellen Tye Moore and Geraldine Mullis. Christine.informed me that Billy Brinkly had just taken oath as Mayor of New York City, succeeding La Guardia. She showed me the New York Times in ' which there was a front page story about Arch Max McLeod . It seems he had done a great Job coaching the Brooklyn Dodgers for they had gust won the World Serie The story made speciak mention of two outstanding players whom we immediatelv recognized as the same Joe Fincher and Melvin Haigler who were two of our most athletic seniors After pending several days in New York where I talked with each of these, we left for Chicago There we found Billy Morrison , cartoonist for the Chicago Dailv Tribune. From Chicago we gourneyed west In a small western town where the train topped one day, we saw Edwin Hooks who had becom 3 Methodist preacher, Louise Boyette was the church ecretary we saw no one else that we know until we reached Los ingl s In visiting the famou irpork there, whom.should zo see alight from a western airline but Mary Jo Lanford. bhe was a hostess on the plane While in Lo Angle we aw Hazel Fincher who is now private secretary to the famous producer Cecil B DeM1lle Hazel told me that her boss had gust given Rea Bass 1 contract with a leading roll in a fa mous picture Catherine Rodgers had Just com leted a cr en test for a part as a model wife .From California we traveled back east. In Texas we stopped at Sue Wilsons' dude ranch It se ms thwt Sue married a wealthy gentleman from Baltimore and they were spending the summer and utumn on their dude ranch Sue informed me that Doris Alexandfr Burope wh re she was going to to ch English in a fxmou French University And so on to New Orlfans where we found Mary Hunt as librarian in the C1ty's Public Library At the time of our visit she was writing a letter to Ruth Phillip , a mlSS1OTaTy to China After we left New Orleans, we et out for Miami , Florida. It was there that we found Jean Williamson, pperator of a night club, with Sara mark y as her leading entertainer, a inger From Miami we started back home In a be uty parlor 1n.Atlanta we found Freida Matthews and Dorothy Rice as Joint owners. lb arrived back 1n.Matthowe on November lO,l952.We were very tlrod but njov d r inicidf Jimmie then went back to his work as sole own r of the Matthews Barber Shop and I relaxed at my home. Vivian Funderburk Jlm le Crowell A':::ml!2ZZ3i:xmnl5f2ZZ2SllY,QWHGlEHQxFllW25gQSgg::'W15WkQg!l mi-1'4i . , I ' O ' S 0 . O U I Xl I 0 O x J ' I , Q , I ' C I . 1 1 0 . . ,. S I X I Y . 'f , . . U I U I l I . n Q U K -- 0 v W I U U A : Q 0 Il ' .L , C I I G' f ' .W Q 2 r. Sr -A . , . ' ., . - ..n h . Q .- Q C I I Q g ,. S 3 - Q I l ' -VK N' x ' ' , A . I C P L F' 0 ' S S S - . I Q . r V -- I U ,- I . Av ' A A . 1 Q I A C f . A , . 2 f' 1 - I 1 0 I 0 ' c . ' ' ' S C 'X U Q U I H . Q f U l . 'A A J Q , ' . 2 V c C L, ' -i ' , . ' ' . ' A Y B 23. l X . fi - . . . -. L i J 0 o ' A who had gust spent her vacation on the ranch had left for. - no . A .1 xi - ' A tl . ' ' 2 S ' I C ' F3 0 ' 3- ' ' - nA I r O I O l I .1 f' 0 . ,X Q 'Q I - . U c ' 4 Q A u S ., , V , 0 o -'I 0 A ' 1 Y - L, I 4 A ' 4 1. 1 ' S 1 Q I O I - Q I Q g Q C3 ' V m, .1 4 I - ' cv ' ' ' A .1 D Q U 9 . Q I ' 0 If., ' , , 0 a o . , n Q 'r -. f - 4 ' 0 ' Y I ' ' N' ' 'o 4 - V ii U ' 1.341 1 ., Q . ' ' , A' L I J . U 'Q - l I mv ' ' , O Q 1111