Elaine Sullivan

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

Gloria Riemann

Gloria Tess 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: Hoole Library-Special Collections, University of Alabama.

Jean Pruett

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

Martha Harriett Cobb, 21. Fayette, Alabama. Room 828. On internship at Davison-Paxon's. Senior at the University of Alabama. Member of the newspaper staff.

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: Hoole Library-Special Collections, University of Alabama.

Eloise Buck

Eloise Evelyn 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. More here.

Margaret Nichols

Margaret Wilson 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

Ernest Benedict 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

Captain Dwight Lane 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. More here.

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. More here.