YESTERYEARS FOR THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2008

65 Years Ago

November 13, 1943

Harriett Atkins was elected president of the newly organized A Cappella Choir at Pine Bluff High School for the year 43-44, at its second meeting held in the Woodrow Wilson building.

Other officers elected were: William Ferguson, vice president; Mary Tom Anderson, secretary; Richard Todd, treasurer; Martha Jane Phillips, business manager; and Glenna Choate, reporter.

50 Years Ago

November 13, 1958

WESTPORT, Conn. — “Where there is no hope, there is no despair,” says beautiful Gene Tierney. “But it took me a long time after my child’s birth to come to know this.”

Daria, the first child of actress Tierney and her dress-designer husband, Oleg Cassini, was born in 1943. It was soon evident that the curly-haired child, who resembled her mother, was mentally retarded. The tragedy was one of the emotional blows which later contributed to Miss Tierney’s collapse and a long period of treatment in sanitariums.

25 Years Ago

November 13, 1983

Risie Howard will begin teaching classical ballet classes for students six years old and older on Monday and Wednesday nights from 6 to 7:30 p.m., at the Health, Physical Education and Recreation (HyPER) Complex at the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff.