7th November 1954, Sunday

[Graeme]

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[Alan]

Lifted from 3rd November 1954's date

      
Memphis State University, campus blood drive on November 8, 1954.
From left to right: Barbara Burnette Pritchett, Elvis, Memphis State Dean R. M. Robison and Memphis Mayor Frank Tobey who is strumming Elvis' Martin 000-18.
Mayor Tobey would die of a heart attack less than a year later, on 11th September, 1955.
      

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From the late great Brian Petersens website:-
      

ALL IN ACHORD - Mayor Frank T. Tobey (4) took a hand in the Memphis State College week-long Red Feather drive during which students and faculty joined in a series of jamborees designed to raise funds for the Memphis-Shelby County Community Chest campaigh. The college will report results

of it´s drive today. Listening to the Mayor´s strumming ability are Barbara Burnette (1) of Lula, Miss., Elvis Presley (2), radio-tele-vision star, and R. M. Robinson (3), MSC dean. The six-week city-county drive for $1,238,525 ends Wednesday.