Birmingham Southern College - Southern Accent Yearbook (Birmingham, AL)

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SI ihey painted ' Sophs ' 23 ' on ihe lop of the Gym before the Sopli-I ' acully base- ball game back in 1921. Miss Lorena Norton lias started a Superannuate Home for superarniuate pet poodles. W. C. Green is her main support in this line. ' Miss Nelle Waldrep and Miss Pauline Sanders are exclusive niilliners in the thriving town of Squeedunk. They are a great help to the women of this community, for by their millinery the ladies are able to decide just what they don ' t want. In this same town J. W. DeYairipert has become a progressive business man. He is delivery boy for a corner grocery. Miss Elizabeth Crumley has monopolized the ' Busy Bee ' corner of a small town newspaper. Her talks are on ' How Married Women Can Put It Over Their Husbands. ' Miss Crumley has not married, but hopes some day to have the privilege of practicing what she preaches. Hurston Cooper has become a great merchant. He is the sole agent for a product of his own making, ' The Bald-headed Man ' s Hair Restorer. ' New- man Yeilding and S. V. Townsend are his co-workers. Yeilding holds the easy job — he is treasurer of the concern. Townsend is working much harder — he is chief salesman. W. S. Traweek and Redding Emens are the most faithful customers, and it is by their patronage that the concern is kept going. Francis White chose his life work in his early youth. He is conductor on the road that runs from Birmingham to Goodwater. His main duty, how- ever, is to inform the people when to get their partners for the tunnel. And I? Why, ' Foxy, ' I ' m taking a vacation for two weeks now. but next Monday I ' ll be traffic cop again. I [29]

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=3 rT J SR SOPHOMORE CLASS PROPHECY AS I STEPPED out of the taxi and dropped the jingling coins into the hand of the driver, something in his face reminded me of E. B. Norton, the wonder jitney -driver of old B. S. C. days. ' Well, hello, ' Foxy ' , I exclaimed. Is it really you? And some days later, in the Year of Our Lord, 1935, I found myself relating to him everything I knew about that justly-famous class of Birming- ham-Southern, the Sophs ' 23. W. N. Dark, you know, eventually ended at Tuscaloosa; somehow he was always afraid that S. M. Baker would show him an invoice. Of recent years this has become more or less chronic with him. D. C. Bracken and F. b. Riggan have proved so far the most successful members of the class. They collaborated on the writing of a ' Dictionary on Profanity. ' Several editiors have sold like the proverbial ' hot cakes. ' They have amassed great worldly wealth. Gary Burchfield, J. H. Howell and J. D. Harris, on account of the early inspiration afforded by Professor Florent, have won world-wide acknowledg- ment for their musical ability. Burchfield plays a comb, Howell a Jew ' s harp, and Harris makes music with a dish-pan. Gordon Golson is the worthy author of ' My Success on the Old Park Bench. ' He says his only trouble has been in selling this fascinating piece of literature. ' A bad penny always comes back. ' Mike Norton didn ' t leave the athletic field for long. He now sells peanuts to the throng that gathers to watch the Howard bulldogs annually go down in defeat. Miss Miriam Milner ar.d Miss Ozello Glasgow have founded a home for old ladies who are mentally deficient and congenial to them. Among these old ladies are Miss Elizabeth Woodall and Miss Anna LaPpage. Miss Catherine Newsome won a blue ribbon last year for proving herself a truly great athlete. She says she attained her perfection by the ceaseless slinging of dishes and rolling-pins at her unappreciative husband. G. F. Roebuck, J. E. Barnes and M. E. Baker, out of their sympathetic, animal-loving hearts, are inaugurating a drive throughout Alabama for a home for bruised and badly torn up bulldogs. It seems that every fall, winter and spring, the number is prone to increase. Alvin Baker owns a hot-dog stand down in the center of the metropolis. Howard Stansell, a wonder critic, had an article in the paper the other night stating that Baker should add one more slice of pickle to his ham sandwiches, and that his hot-dogs are seldom hot. B. P. Hutto, through the great influence of one of the professors of olden days, has gained a position as instructor in the University of Chicago. He instructs a dozen janitors as to the most sanitary method of sweeping when the broom is lost. In his class are Demetruis Issos, P. L. Abernathy and Howard Yeilding. G. R. Stuart, Jr., Milton Griffin and Gaston Golson are carrying the monopoly of sign painting in Pratt City. They found their life calling when [28]

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M —w - h s.» SOPHOMORE CLASS POEM I ' ve a story to tell, if you ' ll listen. Of a class at old B. S. C. There ' s no use for ine to tell you. For this you can easily see. Yes, I mean the bunch of Sophomores, The liveliest gang in school; Though at times we leave bad impressions And some folks think us fools. I know we are always in trouble On account of throwing bricks; But what ' s a fellow ' s school life for If he can ' t spend it playing tricks? We always get caught in trouble, And then we have to run; But when we get a good piece off. We laugh and say: Gee! What fun! Of course sometimes we are blockheads. But take us one in all. We ' ll make the highest standard Unless we just happen to fall. We are a happy class of students, Striving to fight for the right. The teachers th ink we are hopeless, But we can be very bright. We some time expect to be Seniors, This class of twenty-three, A jolly bunch of classmates, Who love old B. S. C! [30]