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19.40
1965
Founded Feb. 23, 1893
We
Jack Lynch's
1965 Yack
Tells All
Classmates of 40 ,have al
ready received a prodigious
100 - page up - dated Yackety
Yack as a Silver Anniversary
edition for the class of '40.
This Is the handywork of Dr.
Jack Lynch, 1940 Yackety
Yack editor, who returned mo
mentarily to his old job
stealing time from his work
as a High Point pediatrician.
Editor Lynch will confide
that classmates read (and act)
no differently from college
days, when repeated calls went
out for classmates to meet pic
ture assignments and otherwise
provide copy for the annual
if it were to be delivered prior
to graduation. Nor did they
honor this year's request for
passport size pics, a menagerie
of sizes arriving.
But Editor Lynch met his
deadline then and did it 25
years later.
Mrs. Lynch, incidentally, is
the former Betty Simmons,
UNC '46. They live at 905 Ar
bordale, High Point.
Other topman on the Yackety
Yack of '40 was Bert C. Hal
perin, his prime chore being
the selling of advertising to de
fray the considerable cost of
the annual.
Halperin trained well and re
mains the ''man in the gray
flannel suit." He is an adman
for Look Magazine and is man
, ager of the magazine's Alco
holic Beverage classification
and thereby responsible for
eight million dollars of Look's
annual ad billings. He notes
his work carries him frequent
ly to Scotland and England for
calls on Scot and English dis
tillers. There's No
Difference
By JOCK LAUTERER
Walter Spearman, UNC pro
fessor of journalism for 30
years, sat back comfortably in
his' swivel chair, shoved his
sleeves up another inch above
his elbows, and put his feet on
his desk.
"There's no difference be
tween the journalism student
of. today and 1940," the profes
sor remarked thoughtfully.
"They're all alike."
Spearman, a UNC graduate,
was editor of the student news
paper, the Daily Tar Heel, in
1929.
"We had some troubles like
this picketing back then too,
I'm sure. But I can't remem
ber what it was," Spearman
said.
"In the class of '40 there
were some top - flite students
-r some went to Time - Life
and others went to smaller
posts and did well at that,"
said Spearman. "But there's
no startling differences be
tween the students of '40 and
now," he concluded.-
The professor's bright eyes
darted across the desk, his
hands fidgeted, a cigarette
bobbed up and down as he
talked. Spearman seems to
have the energy of a jack in
the box.
"I'm 57. Teaching keeps you
youthful," chatted Spearman,
who is famous around the
school for his three-foot stride.
"I'm interested every day in
the Tar Heel to see what stu
dents are thinking, feeling,
and how they are reacting to
things," said Spearman.
Spearman was born in New
berrv. S. C, -nd worked for
the Charlotte News before re
turning to UNC to teach at the
school ,of Journalism in 1935.
Pick Now Carolina,
Carolina Varsity
Chapel Hill remains a two
theatre town and enjoyed re
cently a world premiere of Bet
ty Smith's "Joy in the Morn
ing," starring Richard Cham
berlain and Yvette Mimieux.
The theatre locales are the
same and E. Carrington Smith
holds forth as the major domo
of Chapel Hill filmdom.
But what was the Pick is
now the Carolina.
What was the Carolina is
now the Varsity.
ere
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Silver Threads Among The Gold
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Leaders Of Class Of '40
Spread Over Hemisphere
The big men and ladies on
campus just 25 years ago are
spread out all over the West
ern Hemisphere.
President of the Class of '40,
Benny Hunter, the jitterbug ex
pert, is now Commander Ben
ny H. Hunter, U. S. Navy, who
lives at 83 Mandalay Road,
Oakland, Calif.
The veep, Watts Carr, Jr.,
is still a veep, as vice-president
and manager of Durham
Realty & Insurance Company.
As classmates know, he was
the guy who applied the pock
etbook bite for the Silver An
niversary reunion. Elizabeth
Much Building
Was Underway
In 1939-1940
UNC members of the Class
of '40 risk getting themselves
lost if they stray far from the
familiar paths of yesteryear.
The University has grown that
much in plant and students.
But there was plenty of build
ing going on in 1939-40.
The initial Institute of Gov
ernment building on Franklin
Avenue, now offices of the Con
solidated University of North
Carolina, was opened with the
late House Speaker William B.
Bankhead featuring the dedi
catory exercises.
Other new buildings opened
that year were Lenoir Dining
Hall, which did not lend itself
to name corruption as did the
prior Swain (Swine) Hall, the
Medical School building, and
the Zoology building.
The high water mark of the
Class of '40 era was putting
into service of three new WOM
EN'S dormitories, Alderman,
Kenan and Mclver, augment
ing lone Spencer which had
opened in the twenties. These
new buildings did much to en
hance the grace, charm and
beauty of the campus, not
solely from the standpoint of
classical architecture
(Mickey) Warren, first woman
elected to a class office, lives
in Charlotte, while Treasurer
Morris Rosenberg, has been in
Mexico City for the past four
years as chief of bureau for
Mexico, Central America and
the Caribbean, Associated
Press. Mrs. Rosenberg is ;a na
tive Yugoslav, the former
Lucie Sternberg. (Harry Gat
ton's missus is a first genera
tion American of Yugoslav
parents.)
John Malcolm Nesbit, stu
dent council representative
and permanent class president,
is a data processing consult
ant, who lives at Helicong, Pa.
His wife was Mary Snow Dod
son, St. Mary's '41.
Jim Davis, is a Durham sur
geon and married to the for
mer Margaret Royal. He, of
course, was student body pres
ident in 1939-40, and is chair
man of the Silver Anniversary
reunion committee.
Student body vice - president
was Jack Fairley, and he is
the permanent class vice-president.
Ha wed Jean Storm, of
Hopewell Junction, N. Y., now
manages the Tacoma, Wash
ington, office of Merrill, Lynch,
Pierce, Fenner and Smith,
stock brokers.
Charlie WTood, student body
secretary - treasurer, is with
Wood & MacDougall, Inc., 1037
Providence Road, Charlotte.
Pretty Melville Corbett was
president of the Woman's As
sociation in 1939-40, married
John E. Ivey, who won a PHD
at UNC in 1945, and who be
came dean of the Michigan
State University school of ed-
Commencement
Speaker Knight
Has the millemum been
reached?
Commencement speaker for
the University of North Caro
lina Class of '65 is none other
than Dr. Douglas Knight, pres
ident of Duke University
CHAPEL HILL, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, JUNE 4, 1965
eiofe
ucation in 1962.
Women's Veep Martha Kelly,
it could virtually be guessed,
is Mrs. John Randolph Hall.
The Halls hold forth at 708
Oberlin Road, Augusta, Ga.,
where Classmate John is an
executive of an auto leasing
firm.
Gene Patton Rankin, wom
en's secretary, works for Radio
Free Europe, and her address
is 111 E. 88th Street, New
York, N. Y.
Treasurer Sarah McLean, is
now Mrs. Stuart McGuire
Thompson, Washington, N. C,
and this year is teaching a
class of especially gifted and
precocious youngsters. .
We Nlimber
Just 874
How many members of the
Class of '40?
The question isn't as simple
as it appears though this class
is largest yet to log its 25th
anniversary.
J. Maryon (Spike) Saunders,
veteran secretary of the Alum
ni Association lists 874, but he
adds an explanation.
Mr. Saunders' permits a per
son to choose any class he pre
fers for which he might be
qualified.
For example:
Though secretary of the sen
ior class in 1939, Football Star
Charles (Chuck) Kline actual
ly graduated in 1940. And
Classmate Kline, now of Cam
den, S. C, elects to be a mem
ber of the Class of '40. He
could be either.
J. P. Spilman, of Greenville,
N. C, matriculated with ma
jority of the Class of 40 in
the autumn of 1936. He dropped
out before graduation, re
turned, then got caught by
World War II, finally grad
uating in 1946. But Mr. Spil
man chooses to be. in the class
of '40.
The Class of '39 has 775 on
the Alumni Association scroll.
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Green's
Mag Of '40
Was Slick
The Carolina Magazine was
the campus literary magazine
of the Class of '40 era and
produced numerous thought
provoking articles, short stor
ies and poetry product of
budding literary men and wom
en. The 1939 - 40 editor was Al
len Green, of Coolemee.
The current address of Al
len Jones Green, is Maria
Luisa 57, Mexico City. He is
an Episcopal priests who has
made contact with Morris Ros
enberg, class treasurer and
Daily Tar Heel managing edi
tor, holding forth at Mexico
City as the Associated Press
topman for Mexico and Cen
tral America. Rev. Mr. Green
wed Betty McMillan, of Thom
asville. Business Manager of the
"Mag" was Ernest King, Jr.,
ex-Troy in Montgomery Coun
ty, who now lives near Chapel
Hill on a small farm, with
wife Tillie Edwards King, dit
to Class of '40, and their five
boys. Another addition is an
ticipated soon. King is a per
sonnel man with the Atlanta
Regional office, U. S. Post Of
fice. Warren, Igo
Are Firsts
The : question of whether the
20th amendment to the- Consti
tutionof the United States
the one that granted women
the right, privilege and prerog
ative of the ballot is no
longer arguable, though some
diehard males (including ex
President Harry Truman) mut
ter under their breathes 'twas
a terrible mistake.
But the Class of '40 had two
firsts in expanding the role of
women in campus government.
Elizabeth (Mickey) Warren
was the first woman student
to be elected a class officer,
her classmates electing her
secretary, while Marion Igo
became the first woman to be
elected to the chairmanship of
the Philanthropic Assembly,
one of the two vensrable cam
pus debating societies.
Miss Warren is now Mrs.
Charles Goodwin Mayer, of
1818 Shoreham Drive, Char
lotte. Her first husband, West
Pointer Roy Hamilton Long,
Jr., was killed in action in
World War II.
Miss Igo, a mid-Westerner
from Youngstown, Ohio, is now
Mrs. William Everitt Wilson,
M. R. 97, 20 Elizabeth, Bing
hampton, N. Y., where she . is
a case worker in the Broome
County Welfare Department.
For Reunion 25,
Howard M. Kiss
What's in a name?
Jack Lynch's 1940 Yackety
Yack pictures the seniors in
alphabetical order. The first is
Donald Godfrey Ackerman,
Elizabeth, N. J., and the last
is Edward Zuckerman, Brook
lyn, N. Y.
But a hasty scanning re
veals these three candidates
for oddest names among the
classmates.
There was the late Nicky
Demus Patterson, from Greens
boro, and Claude Napoleon
Sapp from South Carolina.
But one of the most intri
guing names particularly to
the lady folk is that of one
Howard Maillard Kiss, now of
1901 Avenue H, Brooklyn, N.Y.
Kiss apparently graduated in
the Class of '40 and spent a
year at UNC in medical school.
He also married a part-time
Carolina coed, Shirley Han
son, who forsook Duke for
Carolina for the fall quarters
of 1939 and 1940.
On January 9, 1940, the stu
dent legislature established
voting precincts for campus
elections. Previous voting for
the whole campus had been at
Graham Memorial,
ere Interrupted
GOVERNOR HOEY HAD BUSY EVENING It is tradi
tional that the Governor of North Carolina presents diplomas to
the graduates and 1940 was no exception. Many classmates of
'40 have similar photos, which an enterprising photographer sold
to a great number. It was Governor Clyde Roark Hoey's final
diploma-giving stint at UNC. Martin Harmon, Daily Tar Heel
editor, is receiving his diploma and the traditional parting gift,
a Bible. Next in line is Frank Holeman, for many years with
the -New York Daily News. The graduates had just heard an
address "by Dr. Douglas Sbnthall Freeman. "The rostrum is in
Woollen gymnasium, rain having come in torrents and making
Kenan Stadium untenable. '
Daily Tar Heel
72 Years Young
The Tar Heel though first
published less frequently is
72 years of age.
. It's initial excuse for being
was as a money - making sup
port of athletics, with the late
Walter Murphy of Salisbury,
the founding spirit.
It evolved into a newspaper
and by the late twenties was
appearing six days per week.
Walter Spearman, journalism
professor, was editor when the
DTH became daily.
Of the many illustrious (or
later so) editors, most know
or knew Dr. Phillips Russell
'03, the late O. J. (Skipper)
Coffin '09, both professors here,
the late author Thomas Wolfe
'20, and the late sports expert
Jake Wade '23. Wade recalled,
shortly before his death, that
his great (and losing) editorial
crusade, as Tar Heel editor,
was opposition to the building
of Spencer Dormitory and
therefore opposition to admis
sion of women to the male
scarosanct halls of UNC. Of
Mr. Wade's three children,
only his daughter provided him
the pleasure of claiming a
UNC diploma.
The year 1939-40 found Mar
tin Harmon as editor, Morris
Rosenberg managing editor
and Shelley Rolfe sports Edi
tor. All remain in newspaper
ing. Business manager Bill
Ogburn, after years abroad
with the British - American
Tobacco Company, is in Louis
ville, Ky., where he is asso
ciated with Brown & William
son Tobacco Company. Quite
a number of staffers of 1939
40 have .pursued newspapering
as a career or are not far
away from the news, grind.
Ed Rankin, until he joined
Governor Dan Moore's staff,
was in public relations, Bill
Rhodes Weaver and Bill Snid
er are with the Greensboro pa
pers, Jimmy Dumbell is Char
lotte Observer photo chief,
John Anderson is the Brevard
editor, Caroll McGaughey is
news director of WSOC - TV,
and Charlie Barrett, after,
years with Associated Press,
did public relations for Oveta
Hobby, - first . .secretary cf
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Health, Education and Wel
fare. Frank Holeman, Tar Heel
editorialist, recently was trans
ferred in March to the New
York Daily News home office
from Washington.
Don Bishop, 1940 - 41 editor,
is with the NBC public rela
tions staff in New York.
The sports staff, too, put
many in the trade. Editor
Rolfe is at the Richmond
Times - Dispatch, couldn't at
tend a work session on to
day's anniversary edition be
cause he was assigned to cov
er the Preakness. The winner:
Tom Rolfe, no close kin.
Bill Beerman is public rela
tions director of Burlington In
dustries, after stints with the
Greensboro papers, Dick Mor
ris is still penning sports, at
last report, and Harry Hollings
worth is a veteran at the Dur
ham papers.
Bill Stern, '40, on the busi
ness staff, forsook newspaper
ing for the realty business in
Greensboro.
The 1S39 - 40 association pro
duced at least one marriage,
Grace Rutledge, '41, just re
signed as editor of ths Cleve
land Times at Shelby, marry
ing Rush Hamrick, '42, Tar
Heel deskman and columnist,
and with Will Arev, '39, DTH,
managing editor, the Times
co-founder.
Gene Williams, '41, feature
man in 1939-40, was switching
from business to the ministry',
lost his life mountain-climbing
in the Alps a few years ago.
Harmon, owner of the Kings
Mountain Herald, married
Anne James of Woodruff, S.C.,
and Rosenberg is wed to a na
tive Yugoslavian, the former
Lucie Sternberg. Rolfe w e d
Lalla Clay, a North Carolinian,
and Ogburn's wife is the for
mer Charlotte Shepherd.
Tar Heel students of 25 years
ago were dutiful readers of the
comics. One of their favorites
was AI CapD's "L'il Abner."
It behooved the students, there
fore, to hold Sadie Hawkins
Day on March 29.
Class of MO Edition
Reunion
Planning
Outlined
By MARTIN HARMON
Some years ago Ned McGill
had suffered a black eye im
mediately preceding the an
nual banquet of the Kings
Mountain Merchants Associa
tion, of which Ned was then
executive secretary. Ned ob
served that it was customary
to tell a few jokes in process
of making his report. He then
won the biggest audience laugh
of the evening when he added,
"But as you can plainly see,
the joke's on me!"
The joke was cn me the
weekend of February 5. . ,
I was among a large irum
ber of UNC Class of 1940 mem- "
bers summoned to Chapel Hill
for a luncheon to lay plans for
this spring's Silver Anniversa
ry reunion. For once I was
early a whole day early.
The letter from Dr. Jim Davis,
general chairman, plainly read
Sunday, February 7. I thought
it read Saturday. See bow one
quickly comes to depend en
spectacles?
Bill Stauber has long been
one of the acknowledged com
ics of the class. Eminently suc
cessful in advertising, Bill
could have been an earlier
day Andy Griffith. Editor of
the humor magazine, Bill out
lined plans for a 25th anniver
sary edition and was in rare
form. But Dr. Davis is a plat
form wit, too, and from Sun
day's showing, could do quite
well as a comedian. When one
classmate suggested he'd like
to see Jim run the mile again,
Jim addressed the audience
and asked, "Anybody have
any more pertinent sugges
tions?" Actually, the extra day
proved most fortuitous. My
chore for the reunion was to
edit an anniversary edition of
the Daily Tar Heel, and I had
many loose ends to catch up
with Spike Saunders, the Alum
ni secretary, Pete Ivey, the
news bureau chief, Orvilie
Campbell, who prints the Tar
Heel, and r red Seely, Jr., co
editor. It was a particular
pleasure to meet young Seely,
of Asheville, as I had known
his parents for many years.
As I entered the Chi Psi
lodge, a student offered his
hand and said, "I'm John
Harmon." I replied, "I'm Mar
tin Harmon." He was a fine
looking young man from War
saw in Sampson County. When
Seely remarked the General
Assembly "as usual" is-was
angry at the TarvHeel, a lad
across the room, commented,
"Yes, and you deserve every
bit of it." The comment was
worth an introduction, and the
lad proved to be the son cf
Paul Dickson, a good friend
and editor of "the Raeford
News - Journal.
In town for a Saturday wed
ding was Molly Albritton Hud
son, belle of '39, from class
mate Margaret Rose Sanford's
hometown of Hopkinsville, Ky.
Molly, my wife, and I con
versed 'til 2 a.m. and might
be talking yet, except for the
poor guy next door who final
ly had enough and banged cn
the door with his sho. Next
morning there was breakfast
conversation with Ruth Curtis
Robeson Howell, a belle of '40,
now mother of two, foster moth
er of four, and also godmoth
er to 200 Hereford cows in
Haywood County. She's a
daughter of a former Virginia
congressman.
Among the members of our
class who have been Congres
sional secretaries are Harry
Gatton (Senators Smith, Len
non and Ervin), now secretary
of the banker's trade associa
tion, Ed Rankin (Senator Um
stead), and Mrs. Gatton, a
Michigan lass who worked for
Senator Kuchel, of California.
From the class of 40, it is
possible to get any and all
kinds of medical service, gen
eral cutting work ' from Dr.
Jim Davis and Dr. George
Plonk, child care from Dr.
Jack Lynch, the yearbook edi
tor, and eye work from Dr.
Sara McPherson. Add others
in Dr. Ted Blount, Dr. Eddie
Yount, Dr. Bill Shull, Dr. Otto
Ross, Dr. A. H. Costner, and
Dr. Bill Singletary. Did the
class of '40 produce 50 med
ics? Ernie King is the brother-in-law
(once removed) of Andy
Griffith and Ernie's wedding of
1940 was the first in which I
appeared. His wife wasn't
present and I inquired as to
the health of his five children.
He commented, "There's go
ing to be a sixth about July."
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