It no doubt took a few curlers to sculpt the hair of the young women in the accompanying 1963 photo. Hair styles of the period, with “heavy bangs and voluminous curls,” were influenced by French film star Brigitte Bardot, according to online fashion sources.
This image of the Hixson High School band’s majorettes appeared in the Sept. 26, 1963, edition of the Chattanooga News-Free Press. The majorettes are posed outside the old Hixson High School near Gadd Road three years before the school moved to its current location off Hixson Pike in 1966.
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The caption with the photo identified the young women: front row, from left, Joyce Jenkins, Carla Williams and Joyce Parker; and back row, from left, Taney Emery, Kathy Butner, Janice Bynum and Carleen McKinley.
In the mid-1960s, the Hixson community was one of the fastest growing parts of Hamilton County. In fact, the new school was originally planned to house 600 students, but that blueprint was scrapped for a design that could accommodate 1,000 students. The population was growing that fast.