From left to right, Hugh Morton, Kay Kyser (big band leader and radio personality), and wife Geogia Kyser, greeting each other at the 1951 Southern Short Course in Press Photography, held at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.
Date of this photograph determined by a photograph published in the 18 April 1951 issue of THE STATESVILLE DAILY RECORD, in which Kyser wears the same tie. According to the caption, the Kysers were guests at the "Saturday night photo banquet" where [the photograph published in the Daily Record] was made."