Phillips High School - Mirror Yearbook (Birmingham, AL)

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The MIRROR 28 In This Our Life By JULIA GAY WALKER Lot's have a RENDEZVOUS WITH THE PAST and recall some of the incidents and people we shall never forget. 1 remember: Polly anna Gillespie diligently searching each line of 700 pages for one quotation recommended for her graduation speech. THE NAVY missed getting a letter from her that day. I bet. Mary Alice Perry. Susan Adams, and Ann Smith as the LITTLE WOMEN in Senor Gochenour’s class who were ABOVE SUSPICION. Billy Joohnson’s and Beverly Cunningham's .rendition of Friendship.” Was that THE CALL OF THE WILD? Just teasing for I, too. have written a sequel to LIVE ALONE AND LIKE IT. Nan Davis! Nan Davis’ poetry!! Nan Davis giggle!! Nan Davis!!!! To prove that IT CAN BE DONE. Doris Duke and Jean Moore writing a song to their future mascot A PRACTICAL PIG. Richard Causey repeatedly asking Melvin Tharpe when the jackets would come and still his HOPE (was) DEFERRED. Bob Dreher and Phil Neal (WITH MALICE TOWARD NONE) making their ATTACK for positive electricity. Jimmy Holloway able to teach you HOW TO WORRY SUCCESSFULLY. (I’LL NEVER BE YOUNG AGAIN after listening to his report on HOW TO LOSE FRIENDS AND ALIENATE PEOPLE). OUR HEARTS WERE YOUNG AND GAY watching Marie Butler lead our band. Charlsie Ann Barton. Marjorie Sue Barclift, Blanche Brandes and Nancy Dav never being WALLFLOWERS. The rumor that Charlotte Ragland and Josephine Troulias have ONE FOOT IN HEAVEN already just thinking about their futures. How could we forget (Send all entries to S. R. 231) Gary Head's and Thurman Robertson’s vehicles that seem to come OUT OF THE NIGHT? Or Alfred Frazer as Grandfather? BRING THEM BACK ALIVE Ivey's love and devotion for the animals of THE UNDERWORLD. Yes. Yes. I know. Snakes aren't slimy. Charles Flurry writing THE STORY OF HIS LIFE'S ADVENTURE or SEA WOLF. Mildred Atkinson. Annie Louise Grammer and Joyce Sassaman discussing HOW TO COOK A WOLF during a Home Ec. class, while Carolyn Allen, Pauline Troulias and Doris DcRoncey prepare a lunch AS YOU LIKE IT. During the CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS. Ralph Blue, Richard Dominick. Bert Gurley. Timmy Lagrone and Bill Lctson forming an interesting STAG LINE. PARADISE (Is) LOST for Virginia Ann Holcombe now that Lynn is in Florida. With DESIGNS FOR LIVING Margaret Wildsmith and Elizabeth Hinds consulting Ouija Boards. Remember Doris Hebard's all A's? That’s a case of SENSE AND SENSIBILITY. In this VALLEY OF DECISION. Jack Mayhall having a time with his girls’ names that begin with the letter J. Helen Moss following the LONESOME (ahem) TRAIL since Clyde is in Georgia. AS LONG AS I LIVE I'll never forget the voice of Betty Underwood. Betty Manly, Lambori Constantine and Frank Lokey. Bruce Jone’s DARK CONQUEST of so many HEART THROBS. Is it due to his EXPRESSIVE ENGLISH. FLOWING GOLD, or UNDERSTANDING HEART? The recollection that will stay with me as long as I inhabit this GOOD EARTH is one of Reginald Grimes recounting his experience with the F. B. I. Who knows, maybe he will write a second 20,000 YEARS AT SING SING. The Seniors are now living on BORROWED TIME at Phillips AND SO GOOD-BYE.

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The MIRROR 27 The “New World A’Comin By NAN DAVIS The curly wisps are thinning, the smoky clouds are disappearing, and now I see in the crystal ball deep into the future of promising graduates of the Class ’45. What’s this I see!?! Oh, no. please no. not this, not this, not This. Above All not this—it can’t be. it can’t be—but it is. “The Curtain Rises on that Divine Comedy, or what have you. presenting those world famous comedians. Billy Johnson and Beverly Cunningham. Egad! I’ve only started this prophecy and look what happened. Other stars of stage and screen are: Fannye Billy Burke Grammas, Betty “Joan Davis” Underwood. Romeo” nuff scd Flurry. Joyce Sasu Pitts Sasse-man, and Elizabeth Tizzie Lish” Hinds. Second Lana Turners and Hedy Lamarrs for “They Also Had Glamour are Kitty Austin. Dee Dee Butler, Doris Duke. Tillie Fulgham and Sister Lovell. Listeners of the radio will be shocked or wild probably wild, if you know what I mean—to hear that Reginald “Jimmy Durante Grimes has for his guest tonight George Abbot Drysdale and Clyde Costello Dowdle. Having switched stations, all swoon to the tune of Richard Sinatra Causey. Another program offers Enchanting Melodies presenting those two rhythmic swingsters, Betty Manly and Jean Moore. Immediately following this broadcast is commentator Jack Staples with his up-to-the-minute war news. What’s that he said? Gen. Eisenhower's place has been taken over by Gen. Arthur Woody. Ah-h-h, Some of My Best Friends Are Soldiers. Gen. Woody’s staff consists of Lt. Gen. Dick True. Lt. Gen. Frank Calma, Lt. Gen. Charles Kerr, Lt. Gen. George Stathakas, and Buck Private Umbriago now how’d he get in there!? In the field of Politics we have Johnny Holmes, Jimmy Holloway, and Bruce Jones. They Also Ran but ’Long live Roosevelt' Luther Smith, who thinks that it’s “High Time there was a change, is campaigning with a defiant, Try and Stop Me. In the field of Science and Invention we find Thurman Robertson and Gary Head tiring of searching for a 6(X) octane gas that will send their Model T’s Gone With The Wind. They believe that “Time Must Have a Stop and are now searching for the ’Stop.’ Crowned with Laurel and Straw for their poetic and political views are Bert Gurley and Joe Hallmark, respectively. Back on the homefront and in the kitchen comparing a housewife’s work to the “Life In a Putty Knife Factory are Marjorie Sue Barclift, Blanche Brandes, Doris Cook, Doris De Roncey, and Margaret Wildsmith. Busily cooking up Chicken Every Sunday are Charlotte Ragland Jones and the Lieutenant’s Lady,” Polly Gillespie. Present at the Woman's Gossipy Glee Club” are Mary Helen Sparks. Helen Moss, Harriette Kinnebrcw, Doris Hodges, and Mildred Atkinson. Chauffeuring them home is none other than that “Drivin’ Woman. Julia Gay Walker, careening crazily down the street. Trudging in after a hard day at the office are Charlsie Ann Barton. Marjorie Lee Booker. Annie Jo Conner. Claudine Davis. Billie McBee, Roberta Martin, and Miriam Meyer. Strolling in after a hard day at the Elks Club about 3:00 A. M. by The Skin of Our Teeth are Ralph Blue, Laurence Brownlee, Richard Dominick, and Bob Dreher. Before George Bouloukas and Aristides Harduvel depart for a day of golf, they ring up Bill “Mr. Horton Letson to see if he predicts any Crazy Weather.” 'Hie curly wisps thicken, the smoky clouds gather, and that’s all for now. That’ll be ten dollars please, aw PLEASE. Any mentioned titles in this prophecy are poorly coincidental and no reflection on my mental condition.

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The MIRROR 29 “You Have Seen Their Faces We have now outgrown our high school As we once outgrew our high stool. So we take another step upon our path: But we have our recollections Of cerebral brain infections Which were caused, of course, by chemistry and math. We will weep a lot and then some As we leave our dear Miss Benson With her logs of tons and little Soldier Boys ; And we find that when we're leaving. Miss Doss' tests weren't quite so grieving. So we'll miss geometrys’ related joys. Oh, Miss Lynch is surely a daisy. Though her themes will drive you crazy. And she gives you F on poetry or prose: And we hate to leave Miss Ellis In whose room we were most jealous When she .said she owned a bod that once was Poe's. We’ll remember Gochenour And his charming tales galore: How he climbed a tree to get a coconut; And the sweet and charming Feagin Who our talents kept a-plaguing When the Senior Play began to be a rut. Miss Verplanck, who taught us history. Made our hands get red and blistery From the writing of the tables that she gave; And Miss Gatchell. on her part. Gave an Ancient History Chart Which located Assurbanipal's jioor grave. Miss Geoghegan showed us science And we wrote in dumb defiance That a fissure was a bone within the nose' ; Mr. Wood held many a soiree. For unwary lunch line “Quarry And his Monday matinees caused many woes. There were Miss Montgomery. Ragan. Jeter, and Pet tee, Mr. Allen and Miss Hamilton as well. To them and to all the rest. (Even if we failed your test) We departing seniors say that you were swell! —Billy Johnson.