1952 Bi State weekly Ad
Mabel "May" Beasley Haverty came to Delmar in the early 1950s with her husband, Albert Page Haverty who worked for the railroad.
She was born in 1924 at the Wash Woods Coast Guard Station in Currituck County North Carolina to Usef Beasley and Lucy Mae White Beasley. By 1940 the Beasley family was in Norfolk, Virginia where May attended high school and developed a great passion for being a Majorette. She was with the Norfolk Fire department band as a majorette and ran a school for baton twirlers in Norfolk. At the age of 18 she married 19 year old A P Haverty, who already worked as a fireman for the railroad in Norfolk.
So early in the 1950s the family (they had a son by this time) came to Delmar. They lived at 400 Lincoln street, which being just a few blocks from the high school, allowed May to assist with the high school band baton twirlers. At the time the Delmar High School band had about 50 members and was directed by Bruce Henrickson. As can be seen from the 1952 Ad she had her Majorette School up and running in Delmar. May is the adult one on the right.
In 1954 their daughter was born at the Nanticoke Memorial Hospital.
About 1957 the railroad transferred A P Haverty to Pennsylvania and in 1959 to Washington DC (Union Station) and the family left Delmar. Living in the DC area May and her husband started attending Redskin games In a 1987 interview during the football strike they had commented they started attending Redskin home games in 1957 and had continued to attend them.
Below is what is today 400 Lincoln avenue and I don't think the house numbering have changed since 1952 so this is where she had her Majorette school.
May died in 2015 in North Carolina. Her Husband, Albert died in 1998.
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