Diversified Occupations Training Rises in 1940 41
Diversified Occupations enrollment climbs in 1940 41 with 42 initial students to 38 at year end two dropouts and two entering military service. Twenty six occupations are represented among seniors who may gain full time positions at training sites. 95 percent expected to keep initial jobs. Officers are Allen Thomas president Albert Tillison vice president Edith Speckler secretary. The class supports a state wide organization to promote diversified occupations training and may affiliate with Southern states. An annual employer employee banquet at the Sheraton Hotel drew sixty five attendees and was successful. Names and positions of the students are listed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lois Welborn
Allen Thomas
Albert Tillison
Eesese Tsarttees
Edith Specker
Sheraton Hotel
Diversified Occupations
Thomas Allen
Waldo Atkins
Bill Atkins
Homer Barret
Ethel Beck
J. M. Campbell
Bill Craven
Glenn Craven
Albert Ellison
Charlotte Davis
Dot Garner
Alec Drakes
Melvin Gentry
Bill Graham
Floyd Gailey
Jack Grogan
Rush Horton
Bob Hedrick
Hale Hardee
Herb Ingram
Virginia Lasiter
Herb Leach
Look Into The Future Of Homecoming Crowd In 1950
Mary Jo Wilson and Mary Lou Bennett present a vivid 1950 Homecoming scene featuring alumni and notable locals. The event unfolds in a new stadium funded by Herb Hodgin inventor of a milking machine, with prominent attendees including boxing champion Charlie Kimsey, Duke rep Mary Lou Bennett, and many performers, actors, and professionals from Raleigh to New York. The writeup chronicles the buzzing social tapestry of graduates, models, athletes, and entertainers mingling amid campus pageantry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary JO Wilson
Mary Lou Bennett
High Point High School
Herb Hodgin
Willie Logani
Dot Price
Garnett Pollock
Joyce Sage
Paul Warren
Liathetis Clifton
Svabella
George Humphreys
High Point College
Ruth Culler
Domin Age Watson
Violet Yokely
Dot Chamberlain
Polly O'Brien
John Wilson
Doris Snyder
Roy Highfill
Kimsey
Charlie Kimsey
Charlie Upshaw
New York
Charlie
Petty
Maria Elizabeth Brockman
Phyllis Strickland
Sarah Scruggs
Betty
Hollywood
Randolph County
Phyllis
Clyde Mangum
School of Dance
Moscow
Nevada
Sarah
School For Correction
Charles MacMurray
Navy
Mariam McCall
Betty Deane Knox
Garnett Hinshaw
Earldine Patterson
Chicago
Williard Wilson
Elsie Piner
Purcell Kimsey
Bessie Tee Creech
Bali
Watson Anderson
Lawrence Holmes
North Carolina Senators
Ruth
Pinkey" Hedrick
Jim Hayworth
Herb Speas
Pinky
New York Giants
Jim
Notre Dame
Herb
Harvard
Brooks Ridge
Mary Simmons
Brooks
Fred Astaire
Mary
Margaret Lee
Gerry Hedrick
Joy Ormand
Ditty Williams
Bencini
Jo Ingram
Africa
Fifth Avenue
Lexington
Mattie Ruth Conally
Doris McKinney
Wanda King
Marie Lilly
Duke University
Powers
Vogue
Betty Johnson
Warren Norman
Julia Faye
Also Mentioned on This Page
Willie Lugani
B. F. Lewallen
Wandean Olive
Vernon Russell
Stanley Harris
Edythe Speckler
Ray Stutts
James Terry
Frances Teer
Lloyd Underwode
Ray Stanford
Eugene Powell
Linotype
Casper Warner
Merania Watson
Eunice Mitchell
Maxey Crowder
Sah Ray
Mary Frances Hall
Macy's
Kathleen Horney
Margret Burgess
Sernestine Hedrick
Arlene Hedrick
Sammie Lambeth
Jewel Haney
Jewel
IEA
Morocco
Skeet” Bennett
Dot Sasser
Goldsboro
Fate Sasser
Lumphrey Bogart
Lucille Turpin
Goor Resson
Columbia University
Casanova
Robert McCall
Peggy Teague
Allan Hayes
Chine
Welborn
Nancy
Meredith
Betty Welch
Mary Frances Whitt
Mrs. Jackson
David Bouldin
Frances Hall
Bill Beaver
Arlene Calloway
Betty Jean Bales
Archdale
Blow
William Hay Currie
Jimmie Corrigan
Hunter Dalton
Jimmie
Miss Burrus
Hunter
Turope
Arthur Kaplan
Trimbuctoo
Margaret Price
Juanita Coppedge
Margaret
First Baptist Church
Melvyn Gentry
Juanita
Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra
T. Dodamead
Virginia Hunt
Sedgefield Inn
Jimmy Smith
Wayne Cagie
Secre
Kodaks
D’ Orsay
Coty
Houbigant
Jenny
Sheaffer
Tech
Schick
Hollingsworth’s
Whitman
Ring-Harris Pharmacy
North
Malin Street
Ronson
Wagger's
Elwood Hotel
North Wrenn St
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