A Thousand Words
By Jock Lauterer
Carrboro-born and -bred Richard Ellington is a Renaissance man. After a distinguished career as an IT guru at UNC, he retired and went right to work co-authoring the wonderful new visual history of Carrboro. But what may be less known is his history as a thespian. Ellington, my classmate at Chapel Hill High School, starred in our junior class play, The Singing Freshman, exactly 50 years ago this week. In this snapshot, college students at “Yaleanova†(left to right) George Thompson, Ann Cleaveland and Carol Ann Chambers sing good morning to Ellington, as the “Dean.†Richard and I both remember that many of the guys in the cast had a crush on the show’s director, music and drama teacher Beverly Culbreath. And for you photo-weenies out there, I shot this with a Kodak Brownie Flashmite using 620 black-and-white film, and had prints made at Foister’s Camera Store (the present-day location of Jack Sprat beside Sutton’s on Franklin Street). Wasn’t it cool the way they used to stamp the date on the border of those old snaps?
A THOUSAND WORDS
Do you have an important old photo that you value? Email your photo to jock@email.unc.edu and include the story behind the picture. Because every picture tells a story. And its worth? A thousand words.
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