Millington High School - Trojan Yearbook (Millington, TN)

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was also the most modern of them all. Our streamlined locomotive made a complete canvass of the South this year. Before our trip really started we had to halt at Memphis for complete repairs. On board jumped Billie Bright from Humes and Raymond Miller from CBC. They both added much to our journey. We stopped at the port of Jasper, Alabama for a large shipment. One of these packages was none other than that little old southern gal by the name of Jean Sellers. Also in East Tennessee, we stopped at the Red Bank Train Station. Here the redcaps loaded on Billy and Harold Millard. Getting closer to home we detoured to Halls where we added Gloria Davidoff to our row of passengers. Now we were coming close to the end of our journey and we had at last received all our passengers, and believe me we had a full house in Car No. 12. As our Football Queen this year we chose Peggy Crain, who really ran a good race, although she lost. Upon coming into Millington for the last time, some of the members of the Senior Class, and some under classmen, gathered upon the platform at the end of the caboose. Here we put on that comedy play entitled, “We Shook The Family Tree. We also chose as our hostess to help us this year, Miss Long. She has led us through many hardships and over many bumps along the road. She also directed the aforementioned play. Yes, Miss Long and Mrs. Chambers have really done a lot to get us ready for getting off this locomotive, which has really furnished us the best trip of our lives. To Mr. Osteen we owe lots of gratitude. He has guided us over all of the rough roads of our short journey. Yes, we, the Senior Class of 1948have really had a lot of fun these years, and we sincerely hope that the following classes will go out the doors of this school withan attitude of happiness and thankfulness, and really look back over their school years in a sincere sort of way. We are now ready to step off the back steps of this caboose and board a more organized and modern train: THE TRAIN OF LIFE. Yes, some of us will go to college and others will find other ways to do more than just pass the time. So, as we go out we hope that each of our classmates willbe beckonedin the right direction, and where the right train is waiting for you. If you just look hard enough and listen intently enough you will surely hear the right conductor calling, “ALL ABOARD FOR THE TRAIN TO THE RIGHT LIFE FOR YOU. 18

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were glad to have this addition to our list of passengers already in Car No. 6. Well, we had been traveling on the same train for six years and we thought that we should be coming to the end of our journey. But OH NO ! Not just yet! During summer vacation another more modern car had been linked on behind. We immediately left the old car and went back to the new car to view the passengers in it. Speeding through the nearby settlement of Lucy we came to an abrupt stop. The door opened and in walked Dot Carlisle, Dorothy Dilworth, Joy Ewing, Ray Ewing, Jo Ann Williams, Helen Woodward, and Mary Ann Wortham. This group decided to cast their lot with us and ride on the MCHS SPECIAL. Due to the fact that this group was well satisfied with our hospitality, we decided to take on some more passengers, and traveled to many other distant places. At Bolivar we stopped to take on fuel. The fuel that we took on was in the form of our very able Senior Class President, Turner Williams. Robert Forbes boarded our train on our schedule stop at Jackson, Mississippi. We also detoured to Kentucky to pick up a freight package, Harold James. As the passengers were many and the journey was long this year, we had to have two hostesses, Mrs. Boswell and Mrs. Moody. Leaving Car No. 7 and transferring to Car No. 8, we find that we have lost several of our passengers and that we have gained only one regular passenger. This one was put on board at Munford. His name was Wallace Curlin. As our capable hostess in this car, we had Mrs. Cash. She was the one who told us that we had better not sleep so long and that we had better get ready for the conditions in the following cars. Some of us understood what she meant and some of us didn’t, but just the same, most of us are here in the Senior Class to tell about it. Now that we were better than half way on our long journey we felt very proud. We had met many people who are not with us here to recall those times. Some came and stayed only a few weeks, a few months, or maybe several years. Now we were going to have to settle down in our good soft Pullman seat and stay there because we heard that the road ahead of us was very bumpy. As the road got rougher and rougher, we were forced to detour to the village of Jeter. While undergoing repairs, we received several new passengers for Car No. 9. At this station we looked upon the faces of Edward Adams, Jessie Campbell, Wallace Gary, Mary Sue Hannah, Edwin Hines, W. R. Joshlin, Alma Sue Loft, Sue Rankin, Susie Shelnutt, and Tommy Skinner, who is now president of » the Beta Club and editor of the Senior Annual. This bunch added much to the atmosphere in our car. Starting on our way once more we stopped at the great metropolis of Frayser and picked up Hortense Atking, Peggy Crain, Augustine Trotti, and Jeanne Massey, who is now the editor of the Trojan. At Moorehead, Mississippi, a jolly chap boarded our train who has remained a favorite with us to this day. His name was Billy Harrison. Making a short stop in Union City we picked up BillyLong. Although we had a very large class of passengers inCar No. 9, we were to find our class decreasing and increasing all along the way to the end of the train. Going farther on into the tenth car, we find many interesting happenings. Stopping at the outpost of Humes in Memphis for water we were delighted by the addition of Elbert Gill and Patsy Denton to our ranks of passengers on the MCHS SPECIAL. We also halted at Daytona Beach, Florida, to refuel. Here, Dot Waite tramped aboard. However, one of our biggest stops waswhen we detoured from our daily routine to enter Jo Ann Williams into the race for Football Queen. And we went over the top in that race, too, because Jo Ann came through with the crown. It’s really something for the sophomores to win over the seniors and juniors in that race. Going into the next car we find a package being loaded marked «THIS END UP. When we had left the depot, which was Corpus Christi, Texas, we sneaked in and opened this curious package. We found in it plenty of talent and friendliness. Yes, none other than Denny Diehl stuck her neck out to venture traveling with us on this, now long, train. Coming back to our home station of Millington, we find at the depot a parcel marked HANDLE WITH CARE. The return address read Navy Department. Out of this package stepped Billy Pinson, our friend of years past. Car No. 11 proved to have many things in store for us. We were wise to choose, as our hostess, Mrs. Chambers, who was transferred with us to Car No. 12 Pattye Lou Wood was our candidate for Football Queen in the 11th Car. Although she did not win we really did work for her and we ran those seniors a close race. Another highlight that year was the Junior-Senior Prom. Now we were ready for Car No. 12, or maybe you prefer to call it the caboose. This was the longest car of them all and furnished the most entertainment for us. It 17

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