Hume Fogg High School - Techs Book Yearbook (Nashville, TN)

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Clam PFOPIT ecy I 9 0 ATTer a long walk Through a devious course Toward The ouTskirTs oT The ciTy, I enTered The TenT oT PeTe The PropheT. As I seaTed myseIT aT a Table, PeTe drew ouT his crysTaI ball and blew away The dusT, saying ThaT The ball had noT been used since The T947 TooTbaII carnival aT Tech. Under his hands, however, iTs surTace began To clear. Soon images were Torming and ere long I was compleTeIy under The spell oT my seerl Darkness seTTIed in The TenT as The propheT began To speaki I see a group oT ladies aT a meeTing. IT seems To be . . . yes, iT is The Old Maids' SocieTy. PresidenT Win- cTTe FosTer is calling The rneeTing To order. Among Those presenT are Ann Knapp, Bonnie CIemenTs, RiTa Brawner Nora Malone, Joyce RoberTs and Cazell Wilson. Now The scene changes. IT seems as Though Charles Weber has done well Tor himseIT as an arTisT. He is painT- ing a picTure oT his model, Jo Claire SmoThermon, who is posing in a baThing suiT Tor a commercial adverTisemenT. Well, can you picTure This? ErnesT AlIey's Pool Room seems To be overcrowded wiTh Toimer Tech boys. I see Frank Hailey, Thomas Looney, RobeiT Mills, Warren John- son, and George Benz. And, isn'T This a naTuraI? There's Helen York Benz beckoning To George Trom The doorway. I see Edna RuTh Briggs and BeTTy Fox acTing as pro- prieTors oT The Ugly BeauTy Shoppe. Their experT opera- Tors are Janie EaTherly, Eudell Gillihan, and DoroThy Mcs Cord. Now, I hear music . . .The Tamous blues singer, Barbara Bowles, it aT Longer Longer Inn. Her accompanisT and comedienne is Nellie Young, Also in The enTerTainmenT Tield I see Phil Slagle in Hollywood. His IaTesT picTUI'6. Love in a CocoanuT Tree, seems To be a big hiT. Co- sTarring wiTh Phil is ThaT adorable new movie queen, Caryleen WhiTIey. And here are proprieTors oT The New ArT STudio, Billy I-Iendriclfs and RoberT Callis. MargareT Beard is employed as secreTary aT The sTudio. The Teachers are CaTherine Parker, Lydia P'Poole, and Richard McMahon. I see Mary Fisher acTing as head insTrucTor aT The ArThur STaire Dance 5TUdiO. Here The PropheT lowered his voice and spoke in solemn Tones: I see a courTroom where The Trial oT a murder case is in process. Leonard GunTer and RoberT ShumaTe are associaTe lawyers Tor The deTense, while Lloyd BuTTs and Faul Anderson are The prosecuTing aTTorneys. There is Ted Kokonos presiding over The courT. Ruby PoTTer is serving as courT sTenographer. The deTendanT is . . . N-ii, I don'T know him. Now The voice oT The PropheT became more chee-rTuI as he Turned The crysTaI ball again. Jimmy and O. C. BaTTs, managers oT The You Wear 'Em We Tear 'Em Laundry, are doing a Thriving business wiTh Jackie Roy being kepT busy IocaTing arTicIes IosT by This excelIenT laundry. Evelyn Cole is cashier, I see a presidenTiaI campaign managed by Thomas Perigo and Clayburn Ross. Congresswoman Eileen Lyons wiTh her eTTicienT secreTary, Jean Bracy, is assisTing in The campaign. Now, This IS inTeresTingI The Leland Gregory Depafi. rnenT STore is having a Tashicrn shciw. The Top models arf. Lula Mai Eurlow, Clara Kelly, and Joan Wall-er. I see an announcemenT ThaT BeTTy Burr is sTarring in The cpereTTa Madame BuTTerTly. Her secreTary and manager, EIizabeTh Weaver, is responsible Tor The announ-iemenT Thomas EiTTs, manager oT The Globe TheaTre, is having a parTy Tor his employees. GuesTs include AssisTanT Manager Bobby Clark, Helen Webb' Lorena SpQ,1,3,?,f, and Barbara Holmes. Now I see The gymnasium aT Holy Cross UniversiTy. Coach Sherrill WilhiTe is showing his men how To shociT The basIfeTbaII successTully . . . iusT The way he used To ring baskeTs aT Tech. The scene shiTTs To Tynon Robeils, acTing as presidenT oT The CiTy Board oT EducaTion. I-Ie has iusT appoinTe-.T The Tollowing people To The TaculTy oT Maniac High School in Asylum CiTy. For principal, Maynard WhiTleyg To The English deparTmenT, Marshall Andersong Tor hisTory in- STrUCTOri BGVIJGVG Irvin: TO The Home economics division, IoreTTa Axleyg To The science secTion, Billy HaTIery and Tor physical educaTion insTrucTion, Johnny STewarT. Here is WaITer ZiTTer, well-known archiTecT, designing a home Tor Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Savage and all The IiTTie Savages. And iusT look aT Wilma Williairislll She is receiving her M.R.S. degree Trom The We Teach You How Col. lege. NexT, I see Billy Davis and his new radio sTaTion. On his sTaTT are song sTyIisT CelesTe Boyceg disc iockey, Wayne l'iuIseyg news commenTaTor, Edwin Gower: and announcers Jimmy Corn and ElberT HuTchinson. Well . . . here are some SisTers in WhiTel In The Tie-id oT nursing aT Pain HospiTal are Vondell CovingTon, Rulh Cox, CaTherine Curd, Jean Ford, and ETheI HerTzlia. Look whois sTanding herel Hershell Hooper, holding a book iusT published! IT's his new pubIicaTion, How To Overcome Shynessf' I see Peggy Murray and Mary Ann Hayes busy in Their Tea-room on Kenmore Avenue. Some oT Their eTTicienI waiTresses are Marie Harrison, Phyllis Honick, Mildiei STewarT, and Jackie TrouT. Here is James GwaITney climbing righT up The ladder QT successl He has moved up Trom paper carrier To rouTe manager. There is Mariorie MaTThews wriTing Tor The Nashville Tennessean. Her column is headed llGossip Trom The GuT- Ter. Now, here are many Tamiliar Taces. Yes, Ye Old Bachelor Boys are having a reunion. I see Earl Jones. Charles Meade, J. M. Massey, Thomas RaTcIiTT, Chaiii.-s STamps, Calvin WaTkins, James Pcislcin, and Jimmy Wil' fiams. And, IasT oT all, here are BeTTy Ann Cole, Vadean Robbins, and Nancy McMillan hanging ouT The sign Tor Their new business, Lady ExTerminaTor. AT This poinT The PiopheT pushed his crysTaI sphere aside and lapsed inTo silence He closed his eyes, and I I-new ThaT PeTe wished To be alone. Slipping a gold piece under his hand, I wenT away happy in The knowledge oT whaT my schoolmaTes have been doing since They graduaTed Trom Hume-Eogg Tech

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61444 filmtv:-1, Our work is Tinished on The Treasure chesT ThaT The senior class has been making Tor The pasT Three years aT I-Iume-Eogg Tech. IT's a beau- TiTuI chesT, wiTh all our school memories packed away wiTh care To be Treasured and loved in The years To come. Come, Tellow classmaTe.s, leT's look inside The chesT once more, while we are here TogeTher. As I open The chesT, The TirsT Thing I see is our sophomore year aT Tech. Remember? l'll never TorgeT iT. I-Iume-Eogg was cliTTerenT Trom any oTher school we had ever aTTended. We were allowed To come and go wiThouT The supervision oT The Teachers. The seniors, Too, seemed sTrange To us. lvIo.sT oT Them wore dress-up cloThes To school and leTT aT noon To go To work. Even The caTeTeria seemed diTTerenT, I remember especial- ly a Table oT boys ThaT serenaded us every day, and a boy who would rush up To Miss I-lardin and Take her lunch Tray back Tor her. Yes, They were liTTle Things like ThaT which we packed away in our chesT. We will always keep Them wiTh us. Our sophomore year passed much Too quickly and we became iuniors. Juniors! IT sounded good To say we were iun- iors. ThaT was The year we had The privilege oT elecTing our own class oTTicers, buT we sTilI envied our senior leaders. There musT have been some abiliTy Tor leadership among The iuniors because Tynon RoberTs was The TirsT iunior To lead Hume- Eogg as The presidenT oT The STudenT Council. Do you remember The TirsT Time we saw The gym running over wiTh sTudenTs? The iuniors can Take The crediT Tor ThaT also. OUT oT much enThusiasm and more hard work came The Daisy Mai I-lop, The gym looked like a huge red barn, wiTh hill-billy boys and mounTain girl sweeThearTs dancing To The Chicken Reel. BUT all was noT play Tor The class eiTher. We had our share oT homework and class lessons. Remember wriTing The book-reporT Trom memory Tor Mrs. Ellis, and going To visiT Versailles, The casTle OT Louis XIV, during Mrs, McGarr's an- cienT hisTory class? Our iunior year was rapidly coming To an end, and we began Thinking abouT whaT we were going To do Tor The seniors To show how much we would miss Them. Gur plan was To give Them The TirsT Junior-Senior prom ever To be held in I-lume-Eogg. There was The general Tlurry weeks beTore The prom-ThaT was -girls Trying many new and ouTIandish hairdos and bragging abouT Their beauTiTul new Tormals. Each girl was guiTe sure she would look like some glamorous movie sTar. We shall never TorgeT ThaT nighT oT nighTs, We were impressed bv The scene inside The gym. IT resembled a unique balleT Troupe enTerTaining The specTaTors aT The Tables on The balcony. Each girl and her escorT were dreamily swaying To The soTT noTes oT STardusT, played by George Logan arid his orchesTra, The evening was climaxed by The grand march and reTre,shmenTs oT punch and cool orange sherbeT. The couples leTT, each Taking wiTh Them biTs oT The decoraTion Tor souvenirs as well as The mem- ory oT a wonderTul evening. Thus ended our iunior year, a happy year, a memorable year. Came SepTember and we enTered I-lume-Eogg as high spiriTed seniors. ATTer exchanging sum- mer experiences, we all goT down To The grind oT sTudying IvIacbeTh. We had heard Terrible Tales oT The lines we had To memorize, buT Trom our reporT cards iT seemed ThaT mosT oT us came Through wiTh Tlying colors, and we will have To admiT ThaT we raTher liked MacbeTh. I know none oT us will ever TorgeT The day class rings came. We were all so exciTed and everyone was showing all The Teachers Their rings as iT They had never seen one beTore, To us They were as beauTiTul as any diamond ThaT could be Tound anywhere. AnoTher ouTsTanding memory locked in our chesT will be The ChrisTmas Dance, our lasT social oT I949, There was a huge Tree wiTh many color- Tul lighTs casTing a mellow glow upon The danc- ers. Above The dance Tloor There were shining sTars winking back and TorTh aT us as iT They, Too, knew oT our happiness. ATTer Two glorious weeks oT holidays, Tech's halls rang wiTh The IaughTer oT her sTudenTs. AT This Time we became aware oT iusT how liTTle Time we had leTT aT Tech. Exams crepT closer and closer. Plans were being made Tor our picnic, The very lasT Time we would all be TogeTher, excepT graduaTion nighT, ThaT was The nighT ThaT will never be TorgoTTen. We were marching down The aisle-The liTTle sophomores ThaT had come To Tech in l947, The boys wore blue caps and gowns: girls wore whiTe caps and gowns, I-Iere are our Tassels leTT Trom our caps. LeTIs puT Them in our chesT, where They will Torever sTay along wiTh The resT oT our school-day Treasures.