Holtville High School - Interpreteur Yearbook (Deatsville, AL)

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U es lil!! W ff X fnqn X 7. :RH .i x i Q, . .fail 'fl' si Ny f f WUT 6 3 2 if an 1122.2 i' Dear Robert: It has just dawned on me that l am about to graduate and probably will never see many of my classmates again. I imagine we all come to this crossroad in life with mixed feelings, both of regret and of high exaltation. l walked down the halls and memories flooded me. Robert, you left us in such a hurry to ioin the army that l wonder if you didn't miss some of this, You weren't iust the president of our senior class, you were our friend, VVe've missed you, maybe that was because we felt that you were thinking of us. Would you like to know some of the plans your friends are making and what they are doing now? l'll try and tell you. This is our war, and we have all changed our plans to help win it, lust as you did. George Gross ioined the navy about the time you left and received his boot training at the Great Lakes Naval Training Station. J. C. Henderson chose the navy also and was sent to San Diego, California. Carl Russell left on the eighteenth of April. Bill Elmore and Rudolph Clark think the navy's about the tops and are planning to ioin after they graduate. But, of course, that Air Corps bunch think all others have the wrong idea. Lary Hall is stationed at Gunter Field where he is studying radio. Bryant Bass is at Keesler Field, Mississippi. Lowell Wamick is a cadet now, studying meterology at Vanderbilt University- John Elton Graham, Edward Earl Strength, and Harold Farmer are still studying pre-flight at school, because they plan to ioin the air corps soon, Others who hope to be in the air corps soon are James Gaddis Holt, James Wadsworth, Kenneth Jones. V Many of our bays are still giving the regular army a rousing cheer, and can you blame them? George Howard Morgan is in the quartermaster corps in Atlanta. Daniel Harper, Hardin Letlow, Maurice Richardson, and Herbert Parris are all in the infantry. Daniel was sent to Fort Jackson, South Carolina, and Hardin to Camp Carson, Colorado. Herbert and Maurice have just been sent to their reception centers. Carl Rutherford gives his vote for the work he prepared himself for in school by getting in the ordnance corps. Bill McEwen expects to be in the army after he graduates and is studying pre-flight now. Marvin Wilson is now a marine. Ralph Johnson, D. C. Mercer, and Harmon Parker have been deferred to farm. The government offered to train high school seniors for defense work and quite a few of our friends, both boys and girls, took them up, so you see we girls are doing our part too. Pearl McEwen, Bill Elmore, Mary Clark, Carlo McFarland, and Herman Evans are taking the auto mechanics course. Frances Womble, Pat Harris, Jack Kelly, Jessie Rowlen, Marvin Wilson, and Mary Frances Holt chose the machinist's course. Gertrude Gibbons and Bernice Dennis want to help and think they can best serve as nurses. Billy Louise Turner and Cleveland Gilliland think that knowing about food and nutrition is important in war times, and so they are still workina in the lunchroom group.

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9 I MEMBERS OF THE CLASS NOT PICTURED 1 C362 Delora Gray Alice Janies Billy Turner Geneva Waclsworth Martha Vvingard Bill Elmore Edward Strength Harold Farmer Ottis Blankenship George Grass Virgil Hand James Gaddis Holt -of 4.v ' :..-,.. 55 'wr Page Ten Daniel Hopper Robert Houston Ralph Johnson Hardin Letlow William McGlarnery George H. Morgan Lowell Wamick James Wadsworth Lary Hall D. C. Mercer Cleveland Gilliland Rudolph Johnson

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midi? fi L . fi. li l B ut T it ' 5 s ..-M 5 lHJ4i nh is The commercial group is still going strong with Mae Yarbrough as their head- She's doing a wonderful job as commercial teacher but says she still feels that her calling is to be a first grade teacher, Evelyn Myers, Kate Gibbons, and Irene Hicks are getting secretarial training working in the office. Quite efficient too. Evelyn and Irene are going into commercial work but Kate is going to Auburn and study to be a home economics teacher. She won a scholarship through her 4--H Club work Delora Gray, Eva Mae Hall, Martha Margaret Wingard, Mattie Pearl Levins, Geneva Wadsworth, and Annie Ruth Law are planning to be secretaries. Jessie Mae Mercer has charge of the school bank. Boneze Harrison still plans to take a beautician's course after she finishes school. Alice James, Ottis Blankenship, and William McGlamery have leaves of absence to work. Alice is a telephone operator in Montgomery. Ottis is also in Montgomery working at the City Cafe. William is to be found around a printing office, of course. He is working for the Montgomery Advertiser. Margaret Allen, Mary Frances Holt, Sherwood McCord, and Mary Clark are planning to go to college. Margaret is going to Troy to prepare to be an elementary teacher. Mary Frances is going to study to be a medical laboratory technician. Sherwood is still as much interested in chemistry as when he had charge of the science department, and of course he hopes to get to take a course in chemistry. Mary Clark is going to major in music, probably at the University of Alabama. Kenneth Jones can be found around the hatchery and refrigeration plant at any time of day or night- He is really going to be missed by the school and community when he is called into service. h And have you heard? Margaret Allen won the county championship in the oratorical contest sponsored recently by the Birmingham News. We were quite proud of her. Our boys who drive school buses really have a lot of responsibility, but Ralph Johnson is still driving the Beat l4 bus. Carl Rutherford drives Daniel Hopper's bus now that Daniel has been drafted. We miss having Lowell Wamick drive us around, but then we aren't doing much driving these days. We are all making drastic changes in our way of living, doing away with frivolous things and keeping only the ideal af America. We accept these changes, gladly, because Victory in this war means Freedom for the World. Love, THE SENIOR CLASS OF l943. Page Twelve