Walter Aldine “W.A.” Thomason, was a talented drum major, twirler and tumbler for North Carolina State University. His earliest recorded performance at the University was in 1940. According to Ancestry.com, Thomason was born in Charlotte, North Carolina in 1920 and died in 1989. He...
Elaine Helen Giese was born in Illinois in 1925 and died in Florida in 1996. She is identified by her family as a world champion baton twirler. The date of this photo is circa 1940.
Shirley Skriven, 15, for two years National high school baton twirling champion, scores another triumph at the World’s Fair of 1940 in New York when she appears stih the Morgan Park High School Bankd of Beverly Hills, Chicago (Source: Leo Casey, Director of Publicty, World’s Fair of...
