Alexander City High School - Echo Yearbook (Alexander City, AL)

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Over in the Yankee Stadium I see the New York Giants» professional FOOTBALL TEAM, BATTLING THE GREEN BAY PACKERS. THE STAR TACKLE FOR THE Giants is none other than Ralph •Bunk Meigs, AlexanderCity 's 1933’ High School Football Captain. Flash—and the scene changes again. Washington» D. C. 1950. I see Homer Carlisle as the senior Republican senator from Ohio, and one of the SenateAs great leaders. In the oowntown theatre district, at the Fox Theatre, Ralph Turner and Jack Porter are well-traineo ushers. The PICTURE PLAYING THERE IS Ah, SWEET MYSTERY OF LlFE » STARRING EUGENE Price, the Romeo of the Screen, and Fannie Aoamson» who has just been MADE A STAR IN HER OWN RIGHT. Flash—Notasulga, Ala.—Terry Phurrough and Clarice Jones are HAPPILY MARRIEO AND OWN THE LARGEST MERCANTILE STORE IN NOTASULGA. Flash—Saint Louis, Mo.—Louise Maynard ano Virginia Neighbors are DANCING IN THE CHORUS. LaVERNE KITCHENS IS LATER TO DO HER FAMOUS FAN dance. On every corner in St. Louis I see a Thomas 5 ano 10 cent store , ANO I FIND THAT FRANCES THOMAS IS THE OWNER. SPEAKING OF 10 CENT STORES, I LEARN THAT MARY FRANCES NOLEN AND MaRY NeLL NOLEN ARE OOING PRETTY WELL with the Elmore Company. Freoa Horton owns half interest in a fashionable MILLINERY SHOPPE ON ST. LOUIS FIFTH AVENUE. The scene quickly changes again. Flash—Cincinnati, Ohio—Radio Station W. L. W.— I see Mary Will Spivey and Margaret Smith talking to the radio auoience on how to keep pleasingly plump, ano if you will send 10 CENTS, THEY WILL SEND YOU THEIR LITTLE BOOKLET. AT CINCINNATI H|GH School—Ah, I knew it! Vivian Harris is teaching English and Mary Katherine Thornton is teaching math. A quick flash—Alexander City, Ala.—Eugenia Fox is carrying on as principal of the Alexander City High School. With the last quick flash the vision faoed. I could see no more. With a sudden jerk I awoke to the realization that I had fallen asleep AND HA 0 BEEN OREAMING. I KNOCKED THE OEAO ASHES FROM MY PIPE, PICKED UP MY BOOK, AND WENT UPSTAIRS TO BED. Leslie King, Class Prophet

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Class Prophecy I r V E SEEN THE BEGINNING OF THE WORLD IN A CRYSTAL GLASS, And the eno or it in a pool of ink in a slave's hand, ----Dqnn Byrne I HAD BEEN REAOING, AND as I LAY BACK TO REST MY WEARY HEAD, I SEEMEO TO ORlFf OFF INTO SPACE. SUDDENLY I SEEMEO TO BE AT THE FOOT OF A VERY HIGH MOUNTAIN. As I GAZED UP ITS STEEP SIDES ANO HEARO THE VOICE OF THE LITTLE BROOK BABBLING BELOW, I SAW A WEIRD LOOKING LITTLE OLD MAN WALK BRISKLY TOWARD ME. COME WITH ME TO THE TOP OF THE MOUNTAIN , HE URGED. But I am too tireo » I replied. Ah, but you must , he insisted, for from there you may see far INTO THE FUTURE, AND YOUR CLASSMATES ARE THEREl. I AROSE AND FOLLOWED THE LITTLE OLD FELLOW ON HIS WINDING WAY UP THE mountain. When at last we reached the summit, I saw that the worlo below SEEMEO TO BE ENVELOPEO IN.A BLUE HAZE. ALL OF A SUDDEN, A PORTION OF THE HAZE LIFTED ANO I SAW IN A FLASH-.... Chicago—1950—Raoney Furniture Company—Billy Radney was dictating A LETTER TO HIS SECRETARY, PHELIA STONE HoDO. The oaylight becan to fade and darkness began to fall. The night CLUBS or DOWNTOWN CHICAGO WERE IN TULL SWING. JAMES COTTON ANO HIS FAMOUS SOUTHLANOERS WERE PLAYING AT THE BlACKHAWK CLUB. MaRY L. PoTTS IS THE NIGHT CLUB HOSTESS THAT I SEE WEAVINQ IN ANO OUT AMONG THE TABLES. Who is that talking so earnestly with her? Yes, it is Harold Dark, who FINOS RECREATION THERE AFTER A DAY'S TOIL AT HIS X-RAY LABORATORY. My ATTENTION IS ATTRACTED TO A RAOIO STATION WHERE NONE OTHER THAN HERBERT Hall is broadcasting the news of the oay for the Chicago Times. His wit AND RAPID LINE OF CHATTER HAD PLACED HIM AT THE HEAD OF THE WlNOY ClTY ANNOUNCERS. What is that? The scream or a siren and the roar or a speeding car CAN BE HEARO. They swerve around the corner, and a police car forces ANOTHER BIO CAR TO THE CURB. AMONG THE POLICEMEN WHO JUMP OUT TO SUR- ROUNO THE CAR ARE JoE WORTHY ANO PAUL ScOTT. ThE OCCUPANTS OF THE CAR PROVE TO BE Earmon Jones and Carroll Adauson, WHO WERE SECRET SERVICE MEN ANO DIO THOSE FLAT FEET GET BLESSED OUTl The scene changes, ano in a flash I see the great city of New York SPREAD OUT BEFORE ME. My ATTENTION IS IMMEDIATELY DIRECTED TO THE HUGE Empire State Building which contains the offices of Duncan ano Chappell, Fruit Dealers Extraordinary. After a good start in their home town, Ed ano Claude have one of their fruit stands on some corner in practically EVERY CITY IN THE UNITED STATES. AFTER WORKING HOURS, THEY RETURN TO their Park Avenue homes, where their better-halves, Julia Coley and Virginia Walls, wait patiently for them. Their neighbor, Leon Cohen, who 18 NOW QUITE A SUCCESSFUL LAWYER, OFTEN COMES UP TO VISIT THEM. NOW I 8 E E A BIG HOSPITAL, ANO WHO SHOULD THOSE BEAUTIFUL NURSES BE but Nell Chappell, Lena Lamberth, and Martha Jackson. GLANCE OVER TOWARDS MADISON SQUARE GARDEN, ANO WHOM SHOULD I SEE but Lavftt Grimes, the heavyweight champion or the world, being cheered ON IN HI 8 F'CHT BY ELIZABETH FARMER, WHO IS NOW MATRON OF THE NEW YORK Orphan's Home. 16

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Class History Thus grew the tales or Wonderland; Thus slowly, one by one. Its quaint events were hauuereo out And now the tale is done. ----- Lewis Carroll When a Senior Class comes face to face with the fact that memories ARE ALL THEY HAVE LEFT OF THEIR SCHOOL DAYS, THEN THEY REALIZE HOW PRECIOUS THESE MEMORIES ARE. HOW MANY TIMES HAVE WE YOUNG PEOPLE BEEN FONDLY TOLO 8Y OUR ELDERS, YOU ARE PASSING THROUGH THE HAPPIEST STAGE OF YOUR LIFE . OF COURSE AT THOSE TIMES WERE SOMEWHAT SKEPTICAL, BUT NOW THAT WE HAVE REACHED THE CROSSROADS AND LOOK BACK OVER THE PATHS THUS FAR TRAVERSEO» WE COME TO THE CONCLUSION THAT THERE MAY BE SOMETHING IN THAT STATEMENT AFTER ALL. WE, THE CLASS OF 193 CAN TRUTHFULLY SAY THAT OUR SCHOOL DAYS HAVE BEEN HAPPY ONES. PERHAPS THE MEMORIES THAT I RECORD WILL SEEM VERY TRIVIAL TO AN OUTSIDER, 8UT I HOPE THAT THOSE WHO ARE MOST CONCERNED WILL SEE THEM AS I DO—THE BRIGHTEST SPOTS IN AN EXCEEDINGLY BRIGHT SPOTLIGHT. The Senior Class or 193k came into existence in the year 1922 when ITS MEMBERS WERE SNATCHED ABRUPTLY FROM babyhood and definitely informed THAT ALL CHILDREN MUST GRADUATE FROM HIGH SCHOOL. THE FIRST YEAR AND THE SECONO WERE FILLEO WITH THE TASK OF LEARNING TO REA 0 AND WRITE. THE SECONO YEAR WAS NOTABLE FOR THE EPIDEMIC OF MEASLES ANO FOR A HUGE SNOWFALL. During the remaining years of grammar school the class was initiated INTO THE MYSTERIES OF HISTORY, GEOGRAPHY, ARITHMETIC, GRAMMAR, AND OTHER JUVENILE SUBJECTS. INTERESTING PLAYS ANO OTHER ACTIVITIES KEPT US BUSY. IN THAT FOURTH YEAR WE MOVED INTO THE NEW GRAMMAR SCHOOL BUILDING. Being a particularly amsitious class, we won most of the contests among THE CLASSES, ONE TROPHY BEING THE INTERESTING, IF NOT BEAUTIFUL, PHOTO OF THE CLASS IN ITS FIFTH YEAR, WHICH NOW ADORNS THE WALLS OF OUR HOME ROOM . IN 1928 WE ENTERED JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL THE CLASS HAD 8EC0ME SO LARGE THAT IT WAS OIVIDED INTO TWO SECTIONS. DURING THESE YEARS WE WERE WELL REPRESENTED IN ALL SCHOOL ACTIVITIES — PARTICULARLY THE BASKETBALL SQUAD AND THE VERSATILE CLUB. It was in Junior three that our real high school life began. That YEAR, OUR TEACHER, Mr. DaWSON, WITHOUT WHOM THE CLASS WOULD SEEM INCOM- PLETE, JOINEO US AND REMAINED WITH US THROUGHOUT OUR HIGH SCHOOL CAREER. That year the class published the worlds greatest Junior High School newspaper, Cinders , which will always be remembered affectionately by THOSE WHO TOOK PART IN ITS PUBLICATION. In Senior one, our sophomore year, we repaid the freshmen three-fold for the ratting we hao received the previous year. Caesar was the class' special bugaboo that year. The next year we were Juniors. The most memorable events were the elaborate Junior-Senior dance at the country club and the Junior play, WHICH WAS A BIG SUCCESS. ALL THE WAY THROUGH THE JUNIOR YEAR THE CLASS WAS WELL REPRESENTED IN THE SCHOOL WH0?8 Who , CLUBS, COMMITTEES, AND ATHL ET ICS. 18