A young newlywed couple pose with their wedding cake

Date

• May 12, 1947

Summary

• A young couple pose on their wedding day with their wedding cake. The caption reads: "Wedding bells rang at the School of Pharmacy, University of Tennessee, for Betty Jean Merriman and William B. Staggs, both of the sophomore class. The list of wedding attendants sounds like a future pharmacists convention. Bridesmaids were pharmacy students Margaret Ruth Mitchum, daughter of druggist C.W. Mitchum of Erin, Tenn.; and Norma Ann Mitchum, daughter of druggist W. H. Mitchum of Waverly. Three more pharmacy sophomores were groomsmen: James Leeper, Horton A. Jones, Jr., son of a Nashville druggist; and Tom C. Sharp, Jr., son of the secretary of the Tennessee Pharmaceutical Association."