Jones Valley High School - Brownie Yearbook (Birmingham, AL)

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The stars say that Alex Buckner is to be chairman of United States senate. He will even go so far as to put a bill through the house requesting all girls to leave their flasks and cigarettes at home. Mr. Frank I-Iollifield will, be a very successful business man. It is written that he will be the manager o,f the new aerotransit system. Mars, the star under which Miss Virginia Hill was born, tells me she is to be a young matron in Tuscaloosa. She will be able to keep that school girl form only by using reducing records. Jupiter says that Mr. Spencer Latham will be a mighty judge. He will be admitted to the bar in less than eight years and is fated to defend himself in his own divorce case. Miss Thelma Raiford, I see by the planet Venus, will be a bobbed hair bandit. She will be very successful, especially with the masculine victims, to whom she will tell touching stories while she touches their wallets. In the near future Mr. John VV'ilkes and Clarence Huff are to have their business incorporated in Powderly. John will be the medical doctor and Clarence Huff is to be the town undertaker. Horace Edins, that quiet senior is to invent an electric dish-washer so he will have more time for his sweeping and cleaning. Emmagene Veasey was born under a lucky star, she is destined to win a beauty contest in Sunny Side, then to fall in love with Mr. Morris Brill, the Valley Beauty director. Little Miss Mae Merk is influenced by Neptune. She has the depth of the sea. Therefore I see for her an intellectual life, the great Powderly Historian. Here in the future I see the Ringling Brothers' Circus. On looking closer I see that Miss Lucy I-Iollifield will be a snake charmer, but listen, it is written, in the milky way that she will charm the clown Mr. joe Whatley. As for Mr. Robert Martin, it is plain to ine that he will be the conductor of a long train of coupon stores. He will redeem all soap wrappers, chewing gum wrappers and laundry tickets. Q The lad, Mr. Douglas McQueen, will be on WVall Street Within a few years. He will regulate the supply and demand for static. Mr. Winters Hope will be a bachelor. His popularity will not diminish but he will be unable to decide which maid to favor. Sue Dyson as the leader and other disappointed girls will form a club with their motto-: If Winter comes can spring be far behind. Mr. Morgan Martz is doomed to lose his manly beauty. He will be a big game hunter and explorer in the wilds of Bromeo. I even see that he will allow a three months' growth of beard on his cheeks. Ladies and Gentlemen: It has given me great pleasure to have afforded you these brief glimpses into the unwritten biographies of the future and I can say that they are true. Have the planets not told me so? Allah is my witness. Good night. Station J. V- H. S. at Powderly, Ala., signing off at exactly 10:30, june l, 1926. - ARLINE SMITH, Prophet '26. Eighteen

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raerrrawfiifii Prophecy of Senior Class Station J. V. H. S. broadcasting prophecy of the Senior class of jones Valley High School. The International renowned prophet of Calcutta, Astronomic Globi, has carefully considered the position of the planets, the signs of the Zodiac, and the Vega Cal Almanac and will now set forth his prophecies to his listeners. It gives us great pleasure to present Mr. Astronomic Globi., I, Astronomic Globi, have looked carefully into this matter and I see most clearly that a great future is hanging over the heads of some of this class. I shall tell you of the success and the failure of each member just as it is re- vealed to me and will take no responsibility for the results. In the stars I see that Miss Eula Mae Acton will go to Peru as a missionary. She will spend five years there, then return to her home in VVest End to marry her girlhood sweetheart. I have difficulty in seeing the future of Miss Cornelia Lacey. She will marry perhaps if some man should ask her. But I see clearly, she will have great fame. She will be the famous Ragtime Paderewsl-ci. The stars foretell fame for Miss Mabel Fuller. In less than ten years she will be the Poet Laureate of America. Her class poem will start her in her path of immortality. I see that Carlisle XVilkins is a born orator. His fame will be undying after the publication of his treatise, How To Argue. Miss Jessie Crum will become a model of no mean ability. She is to be em- ployed on the staff of Vogue and Vanity Fair.', There she will use her dramatic ability. I can see plainly that a girl by the name of Mary Darsey will become one of the Four Hundred of Germania Society. She is to remain unmarried because she can't decide which man deserves the punishment. Evalene Faust and Clara Rogers are to go into business together. They are to raise ducks and to make a glue from their feet. These girls, as I see, are to be very happy. Evalene will keep books while Clara collects the money. There are three boys, according to the warlike planet, who will be graduates of the University of Alabama and will be great football stars. They are, Earl Clotfelter, Cloyce Hardy and Ibry Allgood. I see that Miss LaValle Haynie will write for recreation. Her best seller will be How I Keep the Sand Out of The Glenn. ' Julian Lacey seems to have a useful and uplifting life ahead of him. He will be very popular and successful as a black face comedian in the Little Theatre of Powderly. I see a vision worth looking at. There is a little vine covered cottage. Dorothy Overbey will rule the same grace and sweetness as she did in days of yore. She will make life well worth while for-ah! the vision fades, I fail to get his name. It seems that Mardi Thomas is to be a milliner in VVashington and will be kept quite busy making hats for the president's family. That little boy, Lindsay Smith is to be a great lawyer. Seventeen

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Class History In giving you the History of the Class of '26, it is our intention Cand hope that there shall be no uunforgotten page concerning that which has happenedj, to make the history of these four years bigger and better than that of any other Class. just four short years ago, with a dim conception of what was before us, a band of sixty of the noblest and truest students of this land, started out on a pilgrimage to conquer and master those things which make us rich in the sphere of understanding. Though our journey was four miles long, and we should gain but one mile each year, we were not discouraged but looked forward with pride to the Mecca of all our efforts, Diploma ' Fortunately no serious sickness befell our ranks, only one or two maladies made their appearances before we had arrived at Sophomore milepost, These maladies were in form of a fever, the main symptoms being a constant ten- dency toward athletics, especially football, accompanied by a disinclination to study. Fortunately we recovered from these attacks although some of the effects lingered in our system for the remainder of the journey. The Jones Valley Road, this being the road on which we chose to make our journey, like other roads, was full of trials as well as joys. Like other bands of pilgrims, we met with resistance, but halting not, we marched on with a de- termi.nation to overcome all obstacles. But notwithstanding our well meant efforts and arduous toil, we should never have reached our goal had it not been for the assistance of our guide, Mr. Phillips, and his assistants, the faculty, who in an unselfish manner discharged their duty in our behalf and inspired us on to loftier and better things. After overcoming mountains of opposition, we arrived at the Junior and Senior milepost, but not with our whole band for a goodly number had fallen by the wayside in the By-paths and some into the Slough of Despondf' But for the rest of us, we have crossed the stream of success and our pilgrimage is ended. But as we start out on the Road of Life, may we ever have the same spirit of determination to overcome all obstacles as we did on the V. H. S. Roarl. MAE MERK '26. Nineteen