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 Addisonians of Yesteryear 

Enjoy a casual stroll through Addison's yesteryears.  Re-live memories of family, friends, teammates, club mates and first dates.  If  the photos below don't trigger fond memories of your  Addison experience, then perhaps you should be searching family scrapbooks and photo albums,  then forwarding contributions to me to enhance this and other photo galleries on this website.  Such contributions would be greatly appreciated by the entire surviving Addison family and their descendants, I am sure. If you can send digital images, Be sure to provide Photo dates, names of  graduates and graduation years for the persons depicted..............The Editor

   

 

1929NEWSFLASH Oct 25,1929: Wall Street Crash of 1929: Three multi-digit percentage drops wipe out more than $30 billion from the New York Stock Exchange (10 times greater than the annual budget of the federal government).Edward R Dudley, Class of 1929, being swornd in as President of Manhattan Borough by New York City Mayor, Robert Wagner, in 1981.Edeard R Dudley, Class of 1929 rab for Lieutenant Governor of New York State in 1962 on the Democratic ticket.Frank Claytor, Class of 1929, and Wife, Mia1930John Edward Sears '30 circa 1927John Edward Sears '30 circa 19431932 NEWSFLASH Mar 1, 1932 - Charles Lindbergh, Jr., the infant son of Anne Morrow Lindbergh and Charles Lindbergh, is kidnapped from the family home near Hopewell, New Jersey.  1932 Graduating Class1932 Graduating Class, Part OfJohn Bunyon Claytor, Class of 1932      

1934Gwendolynn Johnson Lawrence '32 (seated, far left) and Dorothy Dodd Witten (seated, 2nd from left)1935NEWSFLASH Feb 13, 1935: Bruno Richard Hauptmann is convicted and sentenced to death for the kidnapping and murder of Charles Lindbergh, Jr 1935 Graduating ClassElaine Rayford '35Elane Rayford Williams '35 circa 1977 (deceased) Bernice Claytor with cousin, Alfred, Class of 1935Bernice Claytore with cousins, Curtis (left) and Alfred (right), Class of 1935 Roberta Claytor, Class of 1935 1936 Roberta Claytorr Palmer, Class of 1935   

1937NEWSFLASH May 6, 1937: Hindenburg disaster: In the United States, the German airship Hindenburg bursts into flame when mooring to a mast in Lakehurst, New Jersey. Of the 36 passengers and 61 crew on board, 13 passengers and 22 crew die, as well as one member of the ground crew Teddy Wilson, Class of 1937 - Tuskegee Airman (Standing) Lieutenant Colonel Teddy Wilson, Class of 1937 - Tuskegee Airman 1938   Lucy Addison Prom in Charleroi, PA news  1939 NEWSFLASH Sep 1, 1939: WW II starts, Germany invades Poland, takes Danzig Roosevelt Rayford, Class of 1939   

1940 NEWSFLASH Jul 10, 1940: THe Battle of Britain begins as the Gerrman Luftwaffe cross the English Channel to bon the British Isles. 1940 Graduating Class Lorraine Rayford, Class of 1940 Lorraine Rayford Jones '40 with daughters Sandra (standing) and Peggy in 1945 Ralph Claytor, Class of 1940 Ralph Claytor, Class of 1940 - Tuskegee Airman (Back row, 3rd from keft) 1941  Vivian Rayford, Class of 1941 NEWSFLASH Dec 7, 1941: The Japanese Navy launches a surprise attack on the United States fleet at Pearl Harbor, thus drawing the United States into WWII.    

1942   NEWSFLASH Jun 7, 1942: - U. S. Naval Forces defeat the Japanese Navy in the Battle of Midway, sinking four aircraft carriers.ters World War II 1942 Graduating Class Part of 1942 Graduating Class  Part of 1942 Graduating Class  Part of 1942 Graduating Class  Grant Jackson, President of 1942 Class Grant Jackson  Clifton Crews, Class of 1942  Annie Davis, Class of 1942  Vanvulia Jones, Class of 1942  Savannah Joyce, Class of 1942  Jack Long, Class of 1942Jack Long   Priscilla Martin, Class of 1942  Mike Evans, Class of 1942  Mildred Morris, Class of 1942  Faustine Law, Class of 1942  Christine Keeling, Class of 1942  Richard Pennix, Class of 1942  Othello Petty, Class of 1942 Othello Petty  Pauline Poindexter, Class of 1942 Cecilia Powell, Class of 1942 Katherine Pullens, Class of 1942  Gwendolynn Reynolds, Class of 1942  Irene Stockton, Class of 1942  Geraldine Wade, Class of 1942 Geraldine Wade Walter Wheaton, Class of 1942  Arceal Sears and Miss Addison, Georgia Coleman          Miss Addison, Georgia Coleman  Arceal Sears  Laurie Beane  Marvin PriceMarvin Price  Dorothy Watkins  James Coles  Walter Claytor  Betty Coles  Betty Coles James Coles  William Dearing William Edwards  Annie Enoch  Norval Williams  Bernard Brown  Margaret Barbour  Elizabeth Mosley  Arthur Pannelll  Arcelia Smith  Nadine Davis      

1944 NEWSFLASH Jun 6, 1944: World War II – Battle of Normandy: Operation Overlord, commonly known as D-Day, commences with the landing of 155,000 Allied troops on the beaches of Normandy in France. Philip Leon RayfordPhilip Leon Rayford 1948 Dr. Roger E. Moore '58 examines the eye of boxer Sugar Ray Leonard in 1984/1950  Lawrence Hackley, Class of 1950 - President  Lawrence Paxton, Class of 1950 - Vice President   Azalia Reynolds, Class of 1950 - Secretary Juanita Anderson,Class of 1950 - Treasurer Herman Belcher, Class of 1950 - Sergeant At Arms Donald Redd, Class of 1950 William Jones, Class of 1950   1952  Fleming Rose, Class of 1952, in the military  1953  1953 Graduaing Class William Hackley, Class of 1953 - President Greta Evans, Class of 1953 - Vice President Donald Meadows, Class of 1953 - Business Manager  Shirley Hylton, Class of 1953 - Secretary Alma Ross, Class of 1961 - Assistant SecretaryNEWSFLASH Jun 27, 1953: The Korean War ends. United Nations Command (Korea) (United States), People's Republic of China, North Korea sign an armistice agreement.    

1954  Robert Ollie, Class of 1954, in the military.  1955  Hugh Ennis, Class of 1955 - President Margaret Thompson, Class of 1955 - Vice President Roberet Macklin, Class of 1955 - Treasurer James Burks, Class of 1955 - Business Manager Shirley Gravely, Class of 1955 - Secretary Shirley Dickerson, Class of 1955 - Corresponding Secretary Jane Johns, Class of 1955 - Miss Homecoming (center) 

1956 etThe Five Larks - Charles "Jimmy" Downs '58 (far left), John "Snake" Robertson '57 (2nd from left)1957  Front L-R: Eloise Rucker, Brenda Manns, Josephine Jeffries, Mary Frances Earley. Back L-R: Gloria Divers, Maxine Crowder, Lottie Jones. Samuel Bolden, Class of 1957 - PresidentSamuel Bolden '57 Fred Miller, Class of 1957 - Vice President Raymond Perry, Class of 1957 - Business Manager Nancy Quarles, Class of 1957 - Treeasurer Theresa Dill, Class of 1957 - Secretary Josephine Jeffries, Class of 1957 - Assistant Secretary and Miss Addison Mary Coles, Assistant Treasurer NEWSFLASH Sep 4, 1957: Little Rock Crisis - Governor Orville Faubus of Arkansas calls out the US National Guard, to prevent African-American students from enrolling in Central High School in Little Rock. 1958  Carolyn Charlton, Class of 1958 - Miss Addison  NEWSFLASH May 15, 1958: The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 3. Jimmy Dews, Class of 1958  1959  Arthur Brown  Dorothy Sam Stuart, Class of 1959 was killed in an auto accident before graduation. Constance Law, Class of 1959 - Miss Addison Patricia Moore, Class of 1959 - "Saint Joan"Patricia Moore Harbour, Class of 1959 Arthur Brown, Class of 1959 - 12 Letters in Football, Basketball and Track    Don Pullen '59 (Deceased)1960 NEWSFLASH 1960: In Greensboro, North Carolina, four black students from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University begin a sit-in at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter. Although they are refused service, they are allowed to stay at the counter. The event triggers many similar nonviolent protests throughout the Southern United States, and six months later the original four protesters are served lunch at the same counterRuth Robertson '60, Sandra Jones, and Barbara Steptoe '60 circa 1958 The Arabian Aces The Zeta Filiae  Miss Addison, Elizabeth Johnson on right.LaSalle Petty, Class of 1960 - PresidentEllizabeth Johnson, Class of 1960 - Miss AddisonRawleigh Quarles '60 - Roanoke City Fire Chief1961Class of 1961 - Kindergarten, Part 1 of 2Class of 1961 - Kindergarten, Part 2 of 2Class of 1961 - Four years earlier at Booker T. Washington Junior High SchoolImperial KnightsNEWSFLASH Apr 12, 1961: Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human in spaceBurmeta Wagstaff, Class of 1961 - ValedictorianHelen Olivia Skipper, Class of 1961 - SalutatorianVernon Melvin Stockton, Class of 1961 - PresidentAlice Faye Brammer, Class of 1961 - Miss AddisonThomas Dudley '61 - ROTC Columbia UniversityRoanoke City Fireman Frank Adams '61 (3rd from left)1962 Freshmen in 1959 (Class of 1962) 1 of 4Freshmen in 1959 (Class of 1962) 2 of 4Freshmen in 1959 (Class of 1962) 3 of 4 Freshmen in 1959 (Class of 1962) 4 of 4 NEWSFLASH Oct 28, 1962: Cuban Missile Crisis: Soviet Union leader Nikita Khrushchev announces that he has ordered the removal of Soviet missile bases in Cuba. In a secret deal between Kennedy and Khrushchev Lieutenanct Vassar Hurt III '62 - Killed in action in Vietnam 1963 Thurman Woody '63 - Killed In Action in in Vietnam Charles Thornhill, Class of 1963 - Michigan State Great, particpated in the Game of the Century (Deceased) Miss Addison of 1963 - Ruby CabblerMiss Homecoming of 1963 - Lois BondsValiants Social ClubRoyal Lancers Social Club1964  Brenda Ross in 195? NEWSFLASH Feb 7, 1964: A Jackson, Mississippi jury, trying Byron De La Beckwith for the murder of Medgar Evers in June 1963, reports that it can not reach a verdict, resulting in a mistrial Brenda Ross, Class of 1964 - Miss Addison 1965  Class of 1965 - Trip to Washington DC in 1961 while at Booker T Washington Junior High School Lois Dooley, Class of 1965 - Miss AddisonArabian Aces Social Club, 1965 Valiants Social Club, 1965Sonya Hall, Class of 1965 (1963 photo) Walter Wheaton Chris Stewart '65 1968 Robert Ingram '681970  Yearbook Staff, 1970  1971  James Barlow, Class of 1971 - President Gary Poindexter, Class of 1971 - Valedictorian Juan Patterson, Class of 1971 - Salutatorian Kathie Wheaton, Class of 1971 - Miss Addison