BAILEY BUGLE
Pago 10 BAILEY, NORTH CAROLINA Docoabor 16, 19/.7
The Past Comes To Date
CLASS OF '28
ZiLISOi^ F^RMIR
BLANCH3 I^^:NSTErD M.'iM
"First of all,lot mo toll
you how much I enjoy read
ing the Buglo. I look for
ward to it oach month;
it's just liko a lottor
from hone,"writer Blancho.
At the Stcphonson Miisic
Company, Raloi^h, N. C.,
Blanche worked for two
years after ■■jradnation.
Sho afterwards coachcd
homo talent plays for
'faync P. 3cvell Production
Co., Atlanta, Georgia.
In '38 she mot L. C. Mc.nn
Jr., who with the Bow
ers Construction Company,
and after two and one-half
months she bocamo his \vife.
The cou'ilo lived in 13 dif
ferent tovms in North Caro
lina and Virginia until 1-^.
Mann joined the army in ■
’^2. Blanche traveled ijith
her husband to the various
camps in iihxc' h ho was sta
tioned. After Mr. Mann re
ceived his discharge, ho
again joined the Bowers
Co, The couplo has lived
in ’Jhiteville,N. 0., sinco
October, 'A5.
IHOGlNi: HORNm MOORE
For ton or tv/olvo years
after graduation, Imogono
v;as a nurse for young
children of wealthy horaos
in Canada,
’i'Jhen the war began, sho
worked in a war plant in
Detroit, llich. In '4-3 she
becamo the brido of How:.rd
Mooro.
She at pres')nt works in
the same plant in which
she worked during the war.
By the route of the ■^rapo,
vino, it is said that tho
couplo live in one of tho
most modern homes of today.
Allison entered Du!:c Uni
versity in the fa3,l of '28.
In SoptoEbor,1930 ho wont
to ’'/aEhino:ton,D.C. to v/ork,
August, i°31, Allison mar
ried Boa^rico Strickland
of Bailey, who was also
working in VJashington at
Woodward and Lotiirop's Do-
pr.’rtmcnt Store.
Their first child, a son,
Larry,v;as born in '41. Two
years latur a dau?^hter,
Faj'^e, was born.
Sinco '33 Allison has
boon employed by the Chesa
peake and Potomac Tele
phone Company. He states
that this has been the
most fascinating work ho
has over done. ,t present
ho is Central Office fore
man of tho Georgia-Ran-
dolph-Taylor I't'changc of
the ’'lashington system and
supervises 21 men who sor-
vico 26,000 telephones.
Ho and his family noir re
side in Silvjr ^prin>“S,
Mai-yland, and are building
a now homo near Rockvillo,
Maryland, where they plan
to live after March, 194-8.
m;ry f/rmer mcginty
Graduating in '28, Mary
continued her education at
Greensboro College. In tho
fall of '32 sho began her
teaching career.
On October 16, '37, sho
married Luth';r J.ackson
MoGinty. Tho first year
after marriage the couple
lived in Atlanta, Georgia.
As Ml\ HcOinty is the
Southern manager of Nj'ansa
Color and Chomii.cal Cooipany,
tho IIcGlntjr's moved from
Georgia to Charlotte in
order to be more centrally
HEL1LN FINCH McNEELI
In the fall of '28 Helen
entered Woman's College,
Gro:nsboro, N. C. Sho
entered /.STC in the s\mmer
of '29, where sho attended
until graduation, .‘.ftor-
vrards she taught school at
Coopers, N. C,
She m.arried V. M. McNooly,
a formor teacher in BHS
and principal of Mt,
Pleasant High School.
McRoborts, Kentuclcy, be-
ccjne her home in '32 v/hero
she lived and taught
school for throe years.Tho
couple moved to Collota—
ville, 'u C., in '35. She
was a member of the school
faculty in Colletsville,
whore hor husband served
as principal,
^.t present Helen ter.chcs
tho fifth grade at Hilde-
bran, N, C., _and her hus
band serves as principal
of the school.
F;JIM3R ADKINS
li?.o, who wont in training
as a nurse after complet
ing high school, graduated
from the Woodard Herring
Hospital, passed tho Stato
Board of Nursing, and be-
ccjne a registered nurse in
>33.
In '36 f^he married Joseph
jJdward Adkins from Wilson.
Sho is tho mother of throe
sons ages 10, 8, and 2.
Mr. /'.dkins is an insurance
salesman. Tho couplo mako
their home in Wil“^on, M, C.
located in his worlcing tcv~
rit.ory.
Two fjon'^, William Farmer,
(Bill; six. anA Da’^'Ad
Jackson, three, arc ad
ditions to the family,.