Elaine Sullivan

Elaine Sullivan, 20. Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Room 1028. Working internship at Davison-Paxon's Department Store. Senior at the University of Alabama. Photo courtesy: Hoolie Library-Special Collections, University of Alabama.

Gloria Riemann

Gloria Riemann, 20. Gulfport, Mississippi. Room 728. Working internship at Davison-Paxon's Department Store. Senior at the University of Alabama. Member of the Delta Gamma sorority. Photo courtesy: Hoolie Library-Special Collections, University of Alabama.

Jean Pruett

Jean Pruett, 21. Room 1028. Working internship at Rich's. Senior at the University of Alabama. Fifth grade teacher in 1945-46. Photo courtesy: Hoolie Library-Special Collections, University of Alabama.

Robbie June Moye

Robbie June Moye, 16. Donalsonville, Ga. Room 930. Youth Assembly delagate. Treasurer of the Seminole High School senior class. Cheerleader.

Peggy Cobb

Peggy Cobb, 21. Fayette, Alabama. Room 828. On internship at Davison-Paxon's. Senior at the University of Alabama. Member of the newspaper staff.
Photo courtesy: Hoolie Library-Special Collections, University of Alabama.

Sarah Aldridge

Sarah Aldridge, 28. Eva, Alabama. Room 1028. Working internship at Rich's. Junior at the University of Alabama. Leader in women's intramurals program. Worked with USO during World War II.
Photo courtesy: Hoolie Library-Special Collections, University of Alabama.

Eloise Buck

Eloise Buck, 40, St. Louis, Missouri. Room 1124. Graduate of the University of Oregon. Masters degree from Wellesley College in 1929. Vocational counselor for the Katherine Gibbs School, New York. In Atlanta on a speaking tour.

Margaret Nichols

Margaret Nichols, 30, Atlanta. Room 720. Press agent and hostess at Jack Sheriff's Theater Restaurant, next to the Winecoff. Former Miss Atlanta runner-up. Nicknamed "Lucious".

E. B. Weatherly

E. B. Weatherly, 63, Cochran, Ga. Room 1026. Macon, Ga. attorney who moved to farm during the Depression and became one of the South's top cattlemen. Former chairman of a federally appointed committee on the beef industry. Father of six children.

Dwight Morrison

Dwight Morrison, 26, Lumpkin, Ga. Room 1026. Pilot of B-26 nicknamed "Tobacco Road" during World War II. Flew sixty-five bombing missions over Europe. In Atlanta looking for a job. Father of a son born two months after the fire.

Ethel Stewart

Ethel Stewart, 20, Ralph, Alabama - Room 1228. Senior at University of Alabama. Working internship at Rich's Department Store. Worked at her father's country store. Engaged to be married in 1947.

Maxine Willis

Maxine Willis, 16, Bainbridge, Ga. - Room 920 - Youth Assembly delegate. Senior at Bainbridge High School. Recently selected "Miss BHS" candidate. Daring horse rider.

Sue Broome

Sue Broome, 16, Bainbridge, Ga. - Room 920 - Youth Assembly reporter. Voted "Most Popular" by Bainbridge High School senior class. President of the Glee Club. Frequent church soloist. Cheerleader.

Ruth Powell

Ruth Powell, 16, Bainbridge, Ga. - Room 920 - Youth Assembly delegate. Bainbridge High School Glee Club member. Selected "Best Mannered" by the senior class.

Mary Alice Davis

Mary Alice Davis, 48, Bainbridge, Ga. - Room 926 - Advisor to Youth Assembly delegation from Bainbridge High School. Youth director at First Methodist Church. Graduate of Huntingdon College.

Patsy Griffin

Patsy Griffin, 14, Bainbridge, Ga. - Room 926 - Youth Assembly observer. Sophomore at Bainbridge High School. Daughter of Georgia adjutant general - and future governor - Marvin Griffin.

Earl Gragg

Earl Carr Gragg, 14, Bainbridge, Ga. - Room 924 - Youth Assembly observer. Sophomore at Bainbridge High School. President of Junior Hi-Y. Pianist for church youth group. Boy Scout.

Clarence Bates

Clearance Bates, 14, Bainbridge, Ga. - Room 924 - Youth Assembly observer. Sophomore at Bainbridge High School. Memmber of school band, basketball team. Boy Scout.

Mary Lou Murphy

Mary Louise Murphy, 14, Bainbridge, Ga. - Room 926 - Youth Assembly observer. President of Bainbridge High School sophomore class.

Paul Lain

Paul Douglas Lain, 54, Birmingham, Ala. - Room 1428 - Broker. In Atlanta with wife Grace S. Lain on business. Sold surplus goods through the War Assets Administration. Photo submitted by Bill Wells.

Gertrude Knox

Florence Gertrude Knox, 68, Thomson, Ga. Room 1218
Prominent citizen of Thomson. In Atlanta to undergo treatment by ear specialist.

Peter Knox

Peter S. Knox, 78, Thomson, Ga. Room 1218
One of Thomson's leading citizens. Longtime member of both city council and school board. Retired from successful lumber business.

Will Dickerson

William DeGraffenried Dickerson, 38, Douglas, Ga. - Room 1630
Washington & Lee University Law School graduate. Survived the Battle of the Bulge. Director of unemployment compensation for Georgia's labor department. Perished along with wife Mary, 34 and children Mary Melinda, 6, and Bill, 3.

Clair Williams

Clair Williams, 8, Coldele, Ga. - Room 1520
Daughter of Boisclair Williams. Wanted to come to Atlanta to see the film: Song of the South.

Fred, Mary & Dotsy Smith

Fred Smith 14, Mary Smith, 4, Dotsy Smith, 12, Fitzgerald, Ga. - Room 1530

Dorothy & Mary Smith

Dorothy Kiker Smith, 36, Fitzgerald, Ga. - Room 1530
Former court reporter for Cordele circuit. Came to Atlanta on shopping trip with her sister, Boisclair Williams.
Mary Smith, 4

Boisclair Williams

Boisclair Willimas, 40, Cordele, Ga. - Room 1520
On shopping trip with her sister, Dorothy Kiker Smith.

Bill Bryson

William Edgar Bryson, 28, Asheville, N.C. - Room 928
Bus driver for Smokey Mountain Trailways. Father of two daughters. Former Navy sailor, carried wife Vera's photo during World War II.

Dr. Robert & Billie Cox

Dr. Robert Cox, 33, Murphy, NC. - Suite 1002-04
Former staff doctor with TVA at Hiwasse and Fontana dam construction sites. Chairman of hometown's polio fund drive.
Billie Cox, 31, came to Atlanta to go Christmas shopping and take 3 year-old son Bob to see Santa Claus. Little Bob (also pictured) survived the fire thanks to his father's final & courageous act.

Laura Miranda

Laura Miranda, 36, Atlanta, Ga. - Room 826
Beautician at the Loew's Grand Theater Building across Peachtree Street from the Winecoff Hotel.

Mary Minor

Mary Smith Minor, 31, Thomaston, Ga. - Room 1430
Advisor to Youth Assembly delegation from R.E. Lee Institute. Organized Tri-Hi-Y chapter there in response to student requests. Mother of four year old daughter.

Hedy Metcalf

Hedy Metcalf, 15, Columbus, Ga. - Room 730
Youth Assembly delegate. Senior at Baker Village High School.

Gwen McCoy

Carol Gwen McCoy, 17, Gainesville, Ga. - Room 1130
Youth Assembly delegate. Senior at Gainesville High School.

Sue Mitchum

Ella Sue Mitchum, 16, Gainesville, Ga. - Room 1130
Youth Assembly delegate. Senior at Gainesville High School.

Frances Thompson

Frances Louise Thompson, 17, Gainseville, Ga. - Room 1130
Youth Assembly delegate. Senior at Gainesville High School.

Suzanne Moore

Suzanne Moreno Moore, 16, Gainesville, Ga. - Room 1130
Youth Assembly delegate. Senior at Gainesville High School.

Charles Keith

Charles Wilkes Keith, 17, Rome, Ga. - Room 1030
Youth Assembly reporter for Rome High School. Senior class historian. Older brother was first person from Rome to die in World War II.

Lamar Brown

Dallas Lamar Brown, Jr. 16, Rome, Ga. - Room 1030
Youth Assembly delegate. Senior at Rome High School. City badminton champion. Avid stamp collector.

Billy Walden

George William Walden, 16, Rome, Ga. - Room 1030
Youth Assembly delegate. Senior ay Rome High School. One of the best football players in history of school. President of Hi-Y and Sunday School class.

Buzz Slatton

James Earnest Slatton, 16, Rome, Ga. - Room 1030
Clerk of house for Youth Assembly. Senior at Rome High School. Member of the band. Planned to be governor of Georgia.