Needham Broughton High School
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DOUGLAS R. CARVER
Joined: 08/31/16 Posts: 1 View Profile |
The Prom Posted Wednesday, August 31, 2016 11:33 PM My date was a "new girl" to Broughton. She was tall, smart, gorgeous, and funny. I was invited to her house for dinner with her parents before the dance. Her mother had the table set and I was to sit facing the large living room window. Her Dad was so cool; a retired Navy man. My brother was at Annapolis and just a hero in my life. That connection carried the conversation until I heard a siren. Wow it was loud and I noticed that outside the window was the barbed wire of Central Prison. Her Dad was also the warden and had to excuse himself for the emergency. The ladies and I finished the meal; and my date and I left for the dance. It was a scene right out of American Grafitti. I was set up from the very beginning and never saw it. What a night. What a dance. What a memory! We got home and the "emergency" was over. She was a great dancer and I had no dancing skills. The clue was on the ladies choice. She tipped me off that she wanted to dance with another young man.. I understood the concept of mercy and granted it with no problem. After the Marine Corps, I took dancing at Appalachian State, probably for redemption purposes. It destroyed my GPA and only confirmed how much suffering she withstood. I never got to apologize but she was truly a class act.
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DANIEL B. (Dan) GATEWOOD
Joined: 07/03/12 Posts: 134 View Profile |
The Prom Posted Thursday, September 1, 2016 05:28 PM Hey Doug, Great story. Remember my mom put me in the Cotillion Club when I was 13 to learn how to dance. The class met once a week over at Five Points with a lady named Mrs. Jones in charge. I was still pretty much the little boy and a bit of a cut-up during those dance classes, and not too interested in learning how to dance. Remember lots of pretty girls though. And a Cottillion Club Christmas party/dance at the historic Dodd-Hinsdale House on Hillsborough Street. But, alas, with all that training :-), I never went to a Broughton prom--a bit too shy to ask a girl back then. There was a Central Prison riot back then in which six inmates were killed and seventy-five others wounded (on April 17, 1968). Things were likely very edgy in the prison on that Friday night of the Broughton Senior Prom. Central Prison | This Day in North Carolina HistoryWho was she? :-) |
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BARRY A. KELLEY
Franklin, NC Joined: 02/03/13 Posts: 63 View Profile |
RE: The Prom Posted Wednesday, September 14, 2016 05:46 PM Doug, you never told us who the girl was?? BAK |
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DEBORAH LESLIE GREEN
Raleigh, NC 27615 Joined: 02/23/18 Posts: 9 View Profile |
RE: The Prom Posted Friday, February 23, 2018 11:03 PM I think you visited me at my Momma's Little Art Gallery when you returned from Vietnam. I was impressed yet horrified for you that you were so brave. deborah |
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