Dyersburg High School - Trojan Yearbook (Dyersburg, TN)

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Twenty Years After After having been away for twenty years I returned to Dyersburg on a business matter. I was very much surprised and delighted to hear that Mr. J. T. Bratton was principal of Dyersburg High School. After hunting him up and having a three hours talk with him about our old class this is what I learned: Garnet Banks is now a prominent artist after having studied art in Italy under Professor Koozelf. Elizabeth Brown has grown famous as a writer, having just finished the book, Reflections of An Old Maid. Sarah Drane has not decided whether to accept the tirst proposal or wait for another. Franklin Watson has recently received his Eagle Scout Badge and is a Scout Executive. Eldred Barnett is a throat specialist. Evelyn Holland is touring the Old World after inheritirfg a fortune. Ed Baker Tatum has just returned to Hollywood to start playing the hole in the doughnut in The Bakery Win- dow. Martha Little must prefer her maiden name, anyway she is a Latin teacher in Finley High School. Halbert King persuaded Maxine Turner to say yes after the third proposal. Mary Sue Trout was nearly drowned trying to swim the English Channel in too much traffic. Of course Rebecca Edwards has been Mrs. Charles Moss for the last twenty years. Elmo Speed has just added his 100th lunch wagon to his chain of famous Speed Lunch Stands all over the U. S. Aleene Stephenson is now a great society leaderg she is in Paris having her frocks made for the coming season. R. L. Summars is now a millionaire, after oil was discovered on his one acre farm. Paul Mc- David is owner of the X QX-lj Ranch. and is also looking for a lady who is willing to wear a gold band on the third finger of her left hand. Nell Curnutte is playing opposite Gordon Chambers in the film production School Days. Helen Eddleman is now married and sometimes resorts to the rolling pin. Sam Parker was admitted to the Bar and is specializing as a defense lawyer in criminal cases. Mary Hastings is studying to speak forcefully. It is not known whether she is going to be a Congresswoman or a. housewife. Myers Dewese is President of the Bank of the Ohio. Rosalyn Pickens is an old maid music teacher. Mose Yates is fire chief in Dyersburg, a town of 50,000 population now. Kathryn Biggs is teaching dancing-to her two daughters. Elizabeth Moss is a missionary to the newly discovered Mud Island in the Mississippi. Arval Burks just returned from the Olympic Games. Mary Frances Fowlkes is running a Beauty Parlor in New York. Helen Harbison is Coach of athletics at Penn School for girls. Alexander Moody is a prosper- ous doctor. Luther Moore spends his leisure hours on the farm playing mum- ble peg with his four lads. Florence McDearmond is Secretary to Senator Speakeasy of Tennessee. J. T. Fielder is a general contractor. George Harris Johnson has recently become rich from the invention of a motor, run entirely by hot air. V. H. Rayburn is a drug salesman. Thelma Armstrong and Laura Bell Lax are nurses in a Hospital in Oregon. Thomas Williams is Mayor of Dyersburg. Henry Watson, though not one would have thought it, is now a Minister of the Gospel. Rebecca Benefield now has great prowess as an Opera singer. Gordon Moore coached at C. B. C. last season. Zenith Peery is State Librarian. Virginia Hendren and brother are in the insurance busi- ness. Everette Reed has invented a preparation to keep the hair combed. Therefore the reader can see that we are justified in saying that this is the only class in history that has had every member to be a complete success. , M.S.T.-R.H.V.'29. Page thirty

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Freshmen History On September 14 was born the youngest member of the High School family which, after much deliberation, was named the Freshman Class of 1926-27. The infant appeared to be perfectly normal until its first toy was received from Miss Watson, and algebra, general science, manual training, domestic science, spelling, rhetoric and cooking were soon presented to it. These were gratefully received by the youngster and the rest of the family expected to have a small time to itself. In this they were mistaken, for at the last of the first month loud wails were heard which they knew were caused by his being tired of his new attractions. The class' first laugh was heard in the study' hall when it learned of its marvelous advancements during the first month. After this, loud peals of laughter, caused by successes, and many sobs, caused by failures, were heard from the different rooms of the high,-school's home. 'N The youngster gained in knowledge and behavior so well that it was soon envied by its sister and brothers, who were Sophie, Jr. and Sr. At the end of the first term the baby was promised a visit by the present- givers, who brought as offerings, exams. These presents were received and, while the class broke up some of them real soon, others were kept for over two days. After the departure of the present-givers, the baby class found a new amusement. These things he played with Lturned out to be toys that were harder to break than the first ones. This baby, at the end of the first year seemed to have been capable of filling one of the most important positions in High School, which is being the Freshman Class. Page thirty-two