Flomaton High School - Hurricane Yearbook (Flomaton, AL)

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I AM PERSONNEL WHEN I LEFT THE SCHOOL HOUSE I WENT TO MY OFFICE. • IRECTOR OF A DEPARTMENT STORE AND MY SECRETARY TOLD ME THERE were lwu LAB IES TO SEE ME. • THOUGHT NOJHING OF IT UNTIL I WALBED INTO THE OFFICE AND THE SAT HAZEL AVIS AND LUCILLE TAYLBR. HAZEL WA8 SECRETARY for Louis B. Mayer, but she practically ran the stubio and she and R. Mayer had come East to see a premiere that was to be here that night and on the plane she had met Lucille wo was the hostess. ®f course they HAD TEA with ME AND THEN THEY LEFT AS AZEL HAD SO MUCH TO 00. »HE IS THE SAME SWEET HAZEL THOUGH. When » was left„alone in the office with my thoughts was taken BACK TO THE DAYS IN H. 8. AND SAT DREAMING. ALL OF A SUDDEN THE TEL- EPHONE RANG AND IT WAS ThOMAS BETHEA AND HE TOLO ME THAT THE PREMIERE of Marilyn Stewart's.(Mrs. Conway justice), and S°nnie's new picture WAS SHOWING HERE that NIQHT AND MILDRED RAMSEY, MRS. ED WEAVER AND ED rRC DOING TO BE MERE WITH THEM AS THE FOUR WERE TAKING A TRIP TOGETHER. THANKED HIM VERY MUCH AND HUNG UP. THOMAS SENT TO THE UNIVERSITY of Alabama ano maoe a very fink Lawyer. Tt is rumored th t mc will be OUR HEX GOVERNOR. 1 RECEIVED A CALL FROM THE AGRICULTURAL SUPERVISOR OF THE SCHOOL ANO FOWMr HIM TO BE GRADY BROTHERS. AFTER TALKING TO HIM FOR A WHILE I FOUND OUT THAT THELMA JACKSON WAS THE HOME EC. TEACHER 'N THE SSME SCHOOL. IN THE GRAMMER SCHOOL CONNECTED WITH THIS SCHOOL NELL JORDAN WAS THe TEACHER OF THE FIFTH GRACE. AND IRA HOLT WAS CoaCH OF THE Junior football Team. I HAD TO 00 HOME TO DRESS FOR THE MOV IE PREMEIRE THAT NIGHT SO • HURRIED HOME. WHEN I ARRIVED AT THE THEATRE » SAW ALL THE 8TAR8 SN TneiR dresses. When I turned around I saw the goverror's party and IN IT WA8 HIS WIFE LOUISE CARMICHAEL THE MAYOR OF BOSTON. MARVIN KNOWLES, THE MAYOR•S„WIFE , MELVA EtHCRIDQE, AND JOHNIE OAVISON THE ATTORNEY fENERAL OF vIROINIA. AS I WALKED IN THE THEATRE I MET JUNEOR VlCKERY. TMt F VMOLJS Broadway producer. With him was Etheridge Barnej. the most famous WILD ANIMAL IF.AINER IN THE V ORLD. THEN AS i SAT DOWN IN MY SEAT, SONSONr SAID HELLO AND WHO SHOULD IT BE 8JT .w RY ETHERIDGE. SHE TOLO ME SHE WAS A GRADUATED NURSE AND VERY PROUD OF I . I THINK THIS HAS BEEN A VERY DUST DAY FOR MS AND I THINK IT HAS BEEN THE MOST WONDERFUL ONE I:VS EVER SPENT. SEEING THE WHOLE CLAS3 AS IT WAS IN 1940 IS THE DEST LUCK ANYONE CNN HAVE, -ZELL BARNES- CLASS PROPHET

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i» T-ft C-r As I WAS WALKING DOWN THE 3TR: LT ' CAME Tu HC ‘ICC'-'U ,,Nu “ EC!?s.O I WOULD GO DOWN AND SEE THE SH, PS- WhtN . WAuXED DOWN , 0 T,-sE WATER THE 1 jO'J . H POLE CAME iN AND I WATCHED HE PASSENGERS, V'HO SHOULD WALK DOWN THE GANGPLANK 3UT Douglas Rabon and Pocert Odom- ! talked to them for a while and found Douglas TO BE A CHEMICAL ENGINEER AND ROBERT TO BE A MINING ENGINEER. They WERE IN A HURRY SO t DECIDED TO BE ON MY WAY. As I WAS LEAVING THE DOCKS I SAW A BEAUTIFUL CAR COMING UP THE DRIVE, AND I STOPPED TO WATCH. AS IT DREW NEARER, I RECOGNIZED IT TO BE THE GOVERNOR'S CAR AND I HAP TO STOP AND SPEAK TO FORNEY MORTON, AS HE IS THE GOVERNOR. When I walked away from the docks and up the street I saw a familiar walk COMING UP THE STREET AND I LOOKED AGAIN AND WHO SHOULD IT BE, BUT VIVI AN FITZGERALD AND HER TWO DARLING LITTLE GIRLS. SHE IS MARRIED NOW AND HAS AN ADORABLE HOUSE. I LOOKED ACROSS THE STREET AND THERE WAS A MAN GIVING SOME ORDERS ABOUT BUILDING. I CROSSED THE STREET AND SEMEONE SPOKE TO ME AND WHO SHOULD IT BS but leon Gates, who is mayor of the town now. It was ALL VERY GLOOMY TODAY, BUT SEEING THE MEMBERS OF MY CLASS HAD MADE ME FEEL BETTER. They WERE SHOWING A TELEVISION SET AT THE STUDIO AND I DECIDED THAT I WOULD GO UP AND SEE A DEMONSTRUT I ON. I WENT INTO THE STUDIO AND THERE WAS T, W. STOKES SETTING UP THE TELEVISION AND I SOON LEARNED THAT HE WAS THE INVENTOR. I SAT DOWN AND WAITED AND IN A MINUTE HE TOLD US THXT HE HAD GOTTEN HOLLYWOOD, CALIF. AND THE PERSON ON THE SCREEN WAS DOROTHY WEAVER, THEN A BIG STAR IN PICTURES, IN A MOMENT HE CHANGED THE STATION TO Florida. He announced that now we would hear the most famous seteniist of all TIME AS WELL AS SEE HIM WOFFORD HORTON. I KNEW HE WOULD BE A SCIENTIST. IN A MOMENT WE HEARD HIS VO ICE, GREET INGS, I AM SURE THAT ALL SOCIETY WILL BE INTERESTED TO HEAR THIS. I HAVE DISCOVERED A DRINK THAT WILL PERFORM MIRACLES. BUT I AM SURE YOU HAVEN'T TIME TO LISTEN TO THIS SO I WILL LET YOU READ ABOUT IT. AS I LEFT THE STUDIO I SAW A MAN WHOM I RECOGNIZED TO BE C B. OTIS HIGDON, WHO HAD BEEN A FAMOUS DOCTOR FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN FOR YEARS. He HAD DONE REMARKABLE WORK WITH CHILDREN. I WAS GETTING RATHER HUNGRY SO 1 DECIDED TO STOP FOR A BITE TO EAT. I WENT INTO A CAFE AND SAT DOWN. AS • WAS EATING I GLANCED OVER AT ANOTHER TABLE AND SAW LILLIAN WILLIAMS AND GLADYS SHAVERS. I ASKED THEM OVER TO join me and Lillian told me she was to ce married to a scenerio writer, at THE PRESENT, SHE IS VISITING GLADYS, WHO IS QUITE RtiCH NOW. AFTER THEY LEFT A LADY COME IN DRESSED SPORTY AND SMART, At FLRST ' PAID NO ATTENTION TO HER UNTIL SHE SPOKE TO ME AND IT WAS Ann-CILE MALL, WHO HAD FINISHED HER COURSE IN PATHOLOGY, BUT AS I TALKED TO HER I FOUND HER TO BELONG TO THE GEEGEE'S A GROUP OF PEOPLE WHO RACED BLUE8L00D HORSES, She WAS ON HER WAY to Kentucky for the Kentucky Derby. I didn't get to talk to her any longer AS SHE WAS ON HER WAY. BUT IN A MOMENT TWO MEN WALKED IN AND OF COURSE I KNEW THEM FOR THEY WERE LOUIS 3ELL AND D. W. FORE, WHO WERE CONTINUING PROF. Piccard's experiments in baloon flights. They told me of their interesting ADVENTURES AND I FINALLY HAD TO GO. I WENT DOWN TO THE ACQUARIUM TO PASS THE TIME AWAY AND AS I WAS ADMIRING THE FISHES, I SAW A MAN COME IN AND WAS I GLAD TO SEE HIM. IT WAS HOUSTON Adams, I asked him what he was doing in America and he told me he was on a VACATION. You SEE HOUSTON IS A DETECTIVE OF SCOTLAND YARD AND IS VERY GOOD. Remember his motto was always, I will look life straight in the eye each day. And he certainly has lived up to it. AS I PASSED A MIRROR I REALIZED HOW AWFUL MY HAfR LOOKED AND I DECIDED I MUST HAVE IT FIXED. I DECIDED I WOULD REALLY GO EXCLUSIVE SO I WENT TO THE VOGUE. THE MANAGER OF THE SHOPPE WAS NONE OTHER THAN GRACE POWELL; After talking to her for a -while I went into the other room and who should GIVE ME MY SHAMPOO BUT MATT SlMA K£NT0 I WAS SO THRILLED AT SEEING THEM THAT I COULD HARDLY SPEAK WHEN ELOISE BLACKMON GAVE ME A MAN!CURE, !T WAS BEGINNING TO LOOK AS IF I WAS GOING TO SE£ EVERYBODY, WHILE I WAS GETTING MY MANICURE REBECCA WATSON CAME IN FOR A MANICURE 1 HADM i SEEN FEBECCA SINCE GRADUATION. Whe TOLD ME SHE HAD DEEM DEAN OF A L'RLS SCHOOL FOR YEARS. I MUST CERTAINLY SAT' REBECCA HAS CERTAINLY GONF PLACES. I DECIDED 1 WOULD TAKE A WALK UP TO THE SB-iODL AS I KNEW ! WOULD FIND SOME OF THE OLD CLASS UP THERE. iHC PS' NC. P .L WAS OUT BUT I I.MA URANTLEY WAS TEACHER Or PHYSICAL EDUCAT.ON AND SHE WAS 'CHARGE Or THE OFFICE. SHE WAS SO GLAD TO SEE ME AND WE TALKED OVER OLD 71 MAS IN r H S, AND FINALLY SHE SENT FOR CARLINS NORWOOD WHO IS THE PUBLIC SCHOOL MUSIC TEACHER. WE TALKED FOR OVER AND HOUR AND THEN • HAD TO GO-.

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CL- SS W LL VE, THE CLASS OF 1940 OF THE ‘ LOMATCM H t OH SCHoOL, CcjNT-. T '.'■■if- -13! A AND STATE OF ALABAMA, BEING OF SOUND AND DierDOING ''!Ml AND M-'iC v. t -i.j I i 1 REALIZING i'HAT WE MUST PART V.'iTH SUNDRY HONORS. TALENTS, LOC. s, A f: t - :-Y . TIONS, DO HEREBY PRONOUNCE THIS uUR uASf WiLL AND YES’-AM nI '■ WE HEREBY BEQUEATH TO OUR BELOVED FACULTY OUR AFFEC' 1 ON AND RESPECT FOR THEIR CAREFUL GUIDANCE OVER THE STORM-TOSSED SEA WE GIVE, DEVISE AND BEQUEATH TO OUR SUCCESSORS. HE JUNIORS, OUR SENIOR CLASS-ROOM PLUG THE DESKS ON CONDITION THAT THEY KELP AL' MORE ORDERLY THAN WE HAVE. The Seniors do heresy bequeath to the Juniors the following: Louise Carmichael wills her good times at f. h, S,'; to Mazie Golden, Otis higdon bequeaths a certain Jeanne to c. w. Williams, Lucile Taylor leaves her bowed knees and shortness to Doris M, 3rown. Douglas Ray3on, Bob Odom. Wofford and Forney Horton will to Orman Apkinson, Milliard killam, c.w. Williams, and Marion Locklier their p-e-a-c-e- FUL DISPOSITIONS, Zell Barnes bequeaths to Clara Bell Nolen her studious nature, t 0, w, F0REf Marvin Knowles, and Louis Bell will their partnership to Dot Graves, Frances, and Faye Jackson, Marvin bequeaths a few of his many pounds to none other than Clarence rown. Drury White, Thomas Bethea, and Junior Vickery will their neatness, good looks and best dressed titles to Conway Justice, Calvin weaver, and Robert ”ac-sey, Mildred Ramsey and marilyn Stewart leave their chair to lib Ash and Lola White. This article will be found in the office, Ira Holt wills Raymond Mize his swiftness, that is, his ability to get AROUND EVERYWHERE FAST NOWHERE. W Lillian bequeathes her atheletic ability to acoueline gray. Grady “rothers leaves william Brantley all of■ his ex-flames. Huston Adams and Johnnie Davidson will their shy but cunning despositions to Marion Locklier and Jim Kennedy. matt e, Kent wills her red pocket book to Odessa green to carry love notes AND SHORT PENCILS IN, Eloise Blackmon will to any Junior who is able to make it her technique OF CLASS-SHIPPING. aNN-C|LE HALL AND REBECCA WATSON BEQUEATHS THEIR CHEMISTRY INITIATIVE TO Maurreen Gorammand Porcia L. Godwin. J. D. Page wills Allen Brown his mathematical ability. Forney Horton wills to °onalo heatham all information he is able to give on Points to argue Etheridge wills his school-girt complexion to rvin Husky. k Wilman Brantley- Mary and MelbaEthridge will their loving dispositions to atherine 3rown, llva Hutto, and hester , «ranklin. leon Gates leaves his barefoot football kicking to Burson rphy. Hugh Barker wills his curly locks to Mathew Russel. T. W. Stokes leaves his boxing ability to melvin Bagwell,