Franklin High School - Cornerstone Yearbook (Franklin, TN)

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brokers. Mildred Freeman--has married a multi-millionaire. she was beautiful. William uiley is a great politician now. He always was crooked: Elizabeth Boyd and Harriett reach are now playing off the finals in the national tit-tat-too contest being held in Madison Square Garden this week. Morris Dysart is running The Home for Disappointed Old Maids on 42nd Street. we heard that Morris is in love with the janitor. Mary Dixie tJordani is at home as the faithful little wife of4a we11-known magican--catch on.-remember Ed? Lera Hill is a prominent New York business woman. Iva Lee tsmilesiLott is now married to a handsome and wealthy man. she deserved one; she was sweet. cornelia tnonchalanti ruryear--of course you remember seeing her picture on the cover of last week's Saturday Evening rost. Margaret North painted the picture. Remember how Margaret used to draw sketches of the teachers back in High school? Hebecca Roberts is a girl's coach in one of the country's leading colleges. Alma ilet me tell you, teacherli Williams has taken Zazu Pitts,place in the movies. Lena Mai Woodard is now the manager of the cosmetic department in one of New xorkts leading department stores. Experiehce is the best teacher, isn't it Lena'nai? Mary twon't cha mama let cha?iSmith is a secretary to--well we can't quite say her bossl name right here. Ona Lee Thompson is chief librarian at Carnegie Library. well, I guess if Mrs. Baugh could see her now, she'd be real proud of her. Marie yetway is a saleslady now for 9221 perfumes tcatch on:?i. Whitson Jennette, the famous aviator, returned yesterday from a record making world tour. Estelle Pate was disappointed in love so she's an old maid now and makes cookies for the children of the neighborhood. Elizabeth welters is in New York on her way back from Detroit, where the chevrolet motor 00. paid her $5,000.00 for the oldest Chevrolet still in running condition for their museum of relics. Evelyn Warf is still waiting for John will to graduate from High School. Frances Jones, Alyne Sweeney, Naomi McMahon and hva Mosley are all operators in a famous Beauty Salon on Broadway. Odessa Reynolds and Hachel NcMahon own a tea room on Coney Island where excellent lunches are served. Vivian Page is teaching school.

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Class Prophecy The Place: Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York City, N. Y. I think the clerk has left the desk for a moment, so let's go over and see who are some of the guests registered. I noticed on the hotel stationery that Felix Jamison is manager of the Waldorf at the present time. Now for some on the guests: Gerald Smithson.-oh yes, he's a buyer now for the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company----Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Bradley--she was Thelma Beasley before her marriage--have suite 413. Mr. and Mrs. Steve Murrey--you remember she was Lucile Vaden.--I guess she and Steve are just now taking their honeymoon in New York. Mary Helen Rue-- not the actress appearing at Roxy's Theatre this week! Don't you recall that she won the first prize for the best actress in a play given in High School back in 1955? Mr. and Mrs. Fred Peck.-well at last the love birds got married--remember how Fred used to bring Dorothy to school every morning. Reba Webb is now one of America's young poets of the modern school. Mary Elizabeth Hoover and Eva Ring are teaching at Columbia University; Eva is teaching Latin and Mary Elizabeth is teaching Social Etiquette. Mr. and Mrs. Frank tmickey Mouse; Tulloss have Suite 844. You remember Frank and Marian were married last spring and moved here when he was appointed C.W.A. administrator for New York. Here are Ruth Johnston, Katherine Bransford, Katherine Hendricks, and Elizabeth Jefferson. They are chorus girls in Zieglield's Follies. Martha McGavock is a torch. singer in the Paradise Restaurant with Walter oarlisle's orchestra. Leland Bethurum is house doctor for the Waldorf-Astoria now. Mr. and Mrs. Herman tcave-mani Gardner--I heard yesterday that Herman and Lillian are leaving Monday for Europe on their honeymoon. Edwin Jordan--known in magical circles as the second Houdini--following in the footsteps of his father. Ed's famous trick is making pencils disappear from people's pockets--experience at F. H. 5. Christine Ezell is in New york for a vacation after managing Riageway Inn for three years. Carl Mangrum is one of New York's well-known stock

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JWMN . rm, :1: mM-mgmo: -t 4 '1 3' Ruth Johnston having too much mouth wills most of it to Mary de 1 i u av-ct A... .e-,. .4. . Last Will and Testament We, the graduating class of 1954, being of unsound mind as usual, do here by will and bequeath the following in the year of our Lord ninteen hundred and thirty-four. First, we leave the faculty the peace and calm that are always pre- valent after a storm has passed. Second, we leave to the Junior class our sympathy and prayers as they approach Seniorhood. Third, we leave to the combined classes of Sophomores and Freshmen the consoling thought that that was the way we got our start. Fourth, to our Alma Mater we leave the sincere hope that all future classes will be as brilliant and as gloriously undignified as we have been. Individually we bequeath our most brilliant traits of character as follows: Mary Helen Rue, being unreasonably tall, leaves a few feet to Helen Johnson. , i i li Whiteon Jennette, being very generous, leaves his pull with the faculty to Herman Ferguson. . f Voorhies. ,m Walter Carlisle, being efficiency itself, leaves his ability to m Albert Berry. Eva Ring, being entirely too smart, leaves her string or A's to Alice Cannon. Reecie Petway, being very capable in attractintthe opposite sex, P leaves her ability to Marguerite Church. i$ Cornelia Puryear bequeaths her nonchalance to Elva Pate. :IM' Ona Lea Thompson leaves her ability to argue with the teacher to .it Christine Skidmore. ! l Reba Webb will her habit of combing her hair in every class to Josephine Trice. Av... Ed Jordan leaves his knack of getting in trouble to Leonard Ethridge. Martha McGavock, being or unsound mind, leaves her idea that the , Senior officers are so cute to Mercer Blaine, Secretary of Junior Class. : Mildred Freeman being possessed of good looks leaves a part of h them to Marcella Driakell. Leland Bethurum, being too stingy to buy a file, leaves his habit of biting his fingernails to Si Hood. Marion Ashley leaves her ability of getting up at 10 minutes to B and getting to school on time to Adelaide Hazard. Thelma Beasley and Katheryne Bransford, being possessed of good looks, leave their habit of making up in every class to all the Juniou beauties. 2l