Cordova High School - Crimson Blue Yearbook (Cordova, AL)

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GLASS PIIIIPIIEIIY On this day of September 2, 1967, I have just received a letter from the Board of Education informing me that I will be transferred to Cordova to teach in Cordova High School, as the Senior lll sponsor. By the next week, I am in my old home town and will teach at the place where I had so many happy hours. On Monday morning when I enter my classroom I find that many of my students are children of my former classmates. In the first row, I see a little fat boy that reminds me of someone I knew in school. When the names are passed in, I find he is the son of a great broker and his wife, Davis and Jean Sampieri. The door opens and three most attractive girls enter. They are the daughters of who were formerly Jack Abel, and Bobbie Nell Langely. They are chewing gum and talking ninety miles a minute. Chips off the old block. Sitting quietly in a corner is a curley headed boy, son of Joyce H. Naramore. Looks as though her courtesy has been handed down to him. ln another corner where most of the commotion is, I notice a small group of rowdy fellows. I haven't found out their names yet, but I'll bet they are the children of Eugene and Presley Morrow, Bobby Jones, Charles Hollingshead, Weldon Gammon, and W. G. Owen. l can't understand it, really, W. G. wasn't noisy at all. The young man with his feet on the chair and surrounded by a half-dozen girls, is the son of Jack Mott. He has on a jacket similar to that of his father, only there are more stripes. Oh yes! There is a red-headed boy with him, he is the son of the mayor of Cordova, Allen Gilbert. About the noisies? one in the class, is the son of Dorothy Kent, who is manager of the Frog Agger Dress Dealers. I hear that Lola Jean Nation has left her four children with Nell Honeycutt while she goes to Hollywood to make a new picture. Nell doesn't mind this, I know, as she has no children of her own. At recess when I strolled down the familiar halls I saw Hazel and Juanita's daughters with big picnic lunches for the football stars, up to the same old trick. Now for basketball, I find the former Ruby Brooks has two adorable sons on the basketball team as stars. Thomas Borden's son is kind of unhappy today because his father had to use their car and he hasn't a car to carry the senior girls to town in at recess and lunch. I

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Miss Earnest was the Senior ll home room teacher. This year we were getting a little impatient listening to other people talk about the dignified seniors, knowing that this was what we were supposed to be next year. Time creeped by for us until at last the final exams were over, which we celebrated by having a class picnic at Blue Pond. Each of us took a big lunch in order to be able to spend the whole day. Everything was fun, including the swimming, diving, racing across the pond, and the constant search for drinking water. Every one was blistered, but such a thing seemed trivial compared to the fact that the next day we were all Senior lll's. We lived through the Summer somehow, impatiently waiting for our Senior year. September finally arrived and we were really Seniors at' last. Often during the last five years we were doubtful as to whether we would ever attain this most important title. We thought that we would feel differently and somewhat superior, but this feeling did not last long, because soon we were back to the old grind. By this I mean the routine, reading, writing, and arithmetic. Yes, even Seniors have to study. We started our senior year off with a new Principal, Mr. Aikens, a new Coach, Mr. Lockridge, and a new home room teacher, Mrs. Johnson. The going looked rough, but soon we came to love them all. Mrs. Johnson helped us in many ways. First in getting started on our annual, by sponsoring the amateur contest, and a Miss Cordova Contest. The girl chosen for Miss Cordova was Ruby Nell Cooper, from the Senior I Class. The Seniors had several girls entered in this contest, but I suppose age does spoil beauty a little. Hattie Hope Caldwell made up for this defeat by winning the sponsor race. Several of the boys from the Senior Class distinguished themselves in different sports, such as football, and basketball. Our Co-Captains, Jack Mott or better known as Spotlight, and Herbert Ivey, proved themselves worthy of the title. Other outstanding players from our class were Allen Gilbert, Leon Laird, and Larry McGinty. These boys were also good basketball players. The team won third place in the B division of the District Tournament. Herbert Ivey joined the Marines after football season. Four of the six cheerleaders for the team were from the Senior Class. Head cheer- leader was Bobbie Nell Langley, and the others were Audie Pate, Ann Akins, and Jackie Abel. The second semester we had a new home room teacher, Mr. Boshell. He was liked by everyone. Now that we have done everything we possibly can in school, we hope to carry all these happy memories with us into the future. We also hope to find more happiness with the knowledge we have acquired. -AUDIE PATE.

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In one of the English classes I teach sits a nice boy. He is the son of Johnnie Morris who is the principle of Cordova High. From Johnnie I find out what all the old class- mates that have moved away are doing. He tells me that Anne Akin married a man who now owns a chain of theaters. I can't find out who he is, but I think I know. At C. H. S. now they have a swimming instructor that is really upon all new tricks of that trade. She is Audie Pate. Ii' seems Marcelle Gurganus runs the Creamery in Cordova now. His waitresses are Cleo Odom, and Irene Hodges. Herbert Rice is doctor for Pisgia Hollow Coal Company. His assistant is Leon Aldridge. Virginia Roberts owns the Wash Your Own Laundry, in the down town section -of Cordova. Hardy Naramore is distilling spirits of hair tonic in Sleep Hollow. For the best call on him. Larry McGinty is teaching Chemistry and he is really filling the shoes of Mr. Barton. The very attractive young lady surrounded by the boys is the daughter of Smooch Laird, who owns the new modern drug store now. I hear Odell Gurganus has no children of her own but is teaching in grammar school. After all these years Kate Nations is still recuperating from Mr. Barton's strenuous Chemistry class. She never did learn to make a foam fire extinguisher from Sulfuric Acid and Bicarbonate of Soda. Margaret Russell is a Nurse's Aid and is trying to establish a hospital for dumb animals at Borden Town. Hattie Hope Caldwell is now teaching at Skeeter Ridge, Arkansas. She finally learned the difference between a Charley Horse and a Hang Over. Faye Gilbert owns the most exclusive ladies apparel store in Cordova. She has as her floor-walker, Louie Sides. For her models there are Genella Harris, Waunice Trammell, and Bettie Amason. Kenneth Davis is a mechanic for lvlissala Bus Line. Well, finding all 'the Seniors of '48 as leaders of Cordova and have made such a success, it will be a better place to live. -KATE KIRKPATRICK. I