Phillips High School - Mirror Yearbook (Birmingham, AL)

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The MIRROR 29 bools Dorothy Comfort. Solly Allen, and Terry Thibodeau with their best wishes and good luck at meeting Mirror deadlines. Photographers' Mates Joe Hughes, Jimmy Wilson, and Amos Smith groan slightly and relinquish their hard-earned shares in the camp's new darkroom to apprentice seamen Leo Creest. Buddy McIntosh, and Tommy Patton. Seaman 1 c Jimmy Bellows leaves the Captain's quarters spic and span for boot Oliver Thomas to take over. Coxswains Bob Blanton and Tommy Mead will their curls and waves to any of those crew-cut boots with an abundance of spare time and a friend at the beauty shop. Seamen Elizabeth Ann Michaels. Wade Norton, and Jimmy Nelson leave Law where they never found it. Grand Admiral of the Fleet. Adviser to the President, and Chief Deck-Swab Tommy Ayers ( Colonel Nose ) leaves the Phillips to Don Mayhall’s command to go to West Point for a private's commission. Petty Officers 2 c Dean DeRamus and Sara Simmons turn over the production of the camp’s shows to boots Thelma Ann Vaughan and Betty Ross Armstrong. Seaman Charles Ethridge bestows his mess-line manners and mess-time girl friends upon a s Buddy Walker. Calling from the crow's nest, lookouts Bettye Magnuson and Charles Fulghnm will their vocal cords to him who needs them most, namely boot Wallace Chappell. Seaman Betty Mathews slips her collection of locker pin-ups into boot Jean Bowen’s hammock. Cook 2 c Doris Whitley hides her foods notes in a s Virginia Richards’ cake (baked by Whitley). Wave Mary Waldrop exhilirates those overburdened boots, among whom are Bill Banner. Glen Jackson, and Rod Hughes, with her lilting lines of lyricism. be it for better or worse. The boatswain's whistle tells us it's time to lift anchor and shove off. So long. Phillips mates. See you again. - TED BRYAN. Adjustment As ships sail on vast, deep seas That rage and fuss seeming never to cease Then silencing in peace and content. So our lives are spent Sailing along in high, angry fear Then finding ourselves in quiet atmosphere. Revealing The grey smoke, from the ship near by Silhouettes against the hazy sky. The haze will lift away To reveal a bright and shining day. — Mary Waldrop

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The MIRROR 28 I rading Post As “Uncle Sam's Strongest, the U. S. S. John Herbert Phillips puts out to sea; to many proud friends with many fond memories it must be adieu, goodbye, and God bless you. But now. as sailing time nears, the moment is at hand when the ships company chooses to leave behind in friendship's vaunted care those few personal treasures so reminiscent of earlier days spent here at boot camp. Thus with heavy hearts for those we leave behind, both the old salts and the new apprentice seamen, but with surging courage bounding for its freedom in ambitious pursuit, we, the Crew, endow upon you. the Middles, our luck and our lockers, but never our girls. Spars Mary Will Collins and Judy Parsons lock up their lemons and sore throats for next year's cheer leaders Storekeeper 3 c Monroe “The Magic Teague issues a pair of his white rabbits to A S Eddie Latham, but keeps those pretty pink elephants all for himself. Petty Officers Thclitm Paxton and Emalej n Stoves secure their minds and Hamlets upon the forecastle with the fervent hope that boots Donna Pledger and Dale Solomon will find them and see the light. Musicians Albert Norman, Gene DoRieux. and John Sanders, relinquish their first trumpet seats in the camp's orchestra to any aspiring lioots with extra large bags of wind and that desire to be heard above all others. 'Hie camp Ushers entrust their Poets Nook. aft of the Captain's quarters, to apprentice seaman Jimmy Smith. Those galloping ghosts of the Public Relations Office (the Mirror Board). Bill Lee. Bill McMahon, and Philip Jackson, slacken their pace to a trot and leave their duties” to boots Charles Fell. Charles Bininn, and Harry Cook. Seaman Bill Lovell submits his historical ability for C. P. O. Castleman to uncover, if possible. Machinist Mates Torn Sisson, Sam Boykin, and D. S. Walker surrender the camp's women to boot Joe Joe Hawkins. Waves Harriet Bums and Betty Watson leave C. P. O. Gochenour to Tommy Moxley, and may the duration be short. Lt. Comdr. John Akin leaves Wave Eva Allgood to Nobody! Seaman l c Weymon Snuggs passes on his front seat in C. P. O. Benson's trig class to any obliging young gentleman with plenty of experience at retrieving fallen chalk and erasers. Boot Clem Zbinden will find a pair of silver mounted six guns, together with spurs and chaps, in his foot locker. They are gifts from MM l c Wild Bill Farrell and. as per instructions, are to be used in the best interest of the feminine race. Seamen Anne Coker and Virginia Matson unselfishly give locks of their platinum hair to such gaping gobs ns Robert Martin all of the nominal price of a sawbuck an inch (roots extra). Petty Officers Joy Moore. Fan Bearden, and Helene Rittenberg hand over their oil paints and molding clay to apprentice seamen Kathryn Gilder. Billy Pitts, and anyone else who likes to create and destroy at the same time. Marines Mary Jane Smith. Kathleen Padgett. Dorothy Duke. Ernestine Grammas. and Faith Ragan bequeath their typewriters and nerves (what’s left of them) to

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The MIRROR From Plebe to Admiral The admiral of the U. S. S. John Herbert Phillips has just put me in charge of u ntw and as yet unnamed machine. It. using the same principle as radar, can shoot an atomic energy impulse 10 or 20 years into the future. 1 think I’ll switch on the projector and turn some long range binoculars on the destiny of some of my fellow seamen. All I can see at the moment is gold braid: wait it's Harold Baker, an admiral, no less. I see he has Tommy Head swabbing the decks for him. Looking landward 1 see Ted Bryan, the Chief Aeronautical Engineer of North American Aircraft Corporation at Inglewood. California what a handle! Bill Lucas hasn't grown an inch; he’ll always l e a Petty Officer. I notice that Cora Moss Bell is well on her way to having her own complete football team. Billy Farrell is the most successful farmer in the country. Speaking of Latins, the sc no ri I as of South America must be getting a largo charge because Bob Blanton is down there discovering oil for Gulf, he says. Fan Bearden has become the second Joan Davis. The most exclusive dress shop in town is run by Barbara Dickson. Joyce Cobb is the secretary to the president of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey. Charlie Doyle can still remember roaming the halls before school. Bill McMahon has just completed the plans for a building taller than the Empire State Building. Eiizal eth Plocger is in Paris, no less, and almost a countess. Barbara FopweQ is the interior decorator for the houses that Elizabeth Anne Michaels designs—neat combination. Mr. Allen certainly leaves his mark I see Tommy Johnson still trying to figure out that trig. I see a circle of boys at the moment! Ah. yes. that is Anne Coker in their midst. One of the greatest improvements of the future is Bill Lee’s radio station specializing in painless commercials. Although Sigmund Beer is still a woman haler, Sam Boykin continues to keep up the old tradition of a girl in every port. The idol of the day has changed from Eisenhower to Aycrsenhower. Billy Buck and Tommy Sisson are eminent surgeons, which certainly conforms with their past experiences. I see Kemp Tunkle taking pictures of beautiful models; he’s happy.