Phillips High School - Mirror Yearbook (Birmingham, AL)

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We will never forget the crush and—we might as well break down and confess it—the fun of registration days, the lunch-period huddles, our first campaign speeches—and the ones we made ourselves .... the day we first looked at the picture of Dr. Phillips on the wall of the auditorium and wondered who he was, but wondered more if we’d ever graduate—the way we felt January 16, 1947! CURTAIN CALL

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“LIFE WITH BOTHER” During our careers at Phillips, we may have had troubles, but we can re-inember. too, countless pleasant things that have made our days at school lively and unforgettable. We will never forget Jane Thede and Barbara Watson, always on some committee .... the ever-present couples, Margaret Kirk and Stanley Schultz, Buddy Walker and Terry Thibodeau. Jimmy Bragan and Sarah King .... and the gal-pals always together. Martha Jane Saunders and Freda Bond, Ann Lee Trimble and Martha Sue Johnson, Carolyn Wilson and Frances Barton, and Ann Cole and Elsie Riley .... majorette Evelyn Fountain, strutting with her sister baton-twirlers at every football game. . . . Jean Pesnell, among the many gals who acquired that ring on the important finger. . . . Billy Scale, pestering Mr. Thelander, much to the enjoyment of all concerned .... every senior proud as a peacock of the new gorgeous red curtains that we wanted so long .... the brother and sister team. Doris and Earle Ginn. Who doesn’t remember Buddy Walker leading every known organization at Phillips? . . . Jimmie Nell Real ever and eternally making another “A and inarching with the R.O.T.C........Ann Smith playing her Concerto in “Q” Flat.......... Frances Neighbors disproving the theory that all red-headed people have bad tempers. . . . Jane Barnett marching with the band, rain or shine, while playing the flute. . . . Jack Edwards trying to write a Latin book that uses no grammar (or gran'pa cither). . . . Mac Russell shining and polishing his brass buttons on inspection day. . . . Martha Sue Johnson answering all the questions in Miss Castleman’s history class. . . . Barbara Watson, Kathryn Jones and Issabella Smith encouraging cheers from the Rootin’ Section at the football games. . . . Leland Norman managing every team that ever was or will be at Phillips. . . . Those Three Musketeers — Robert Lewis, Arnold Roth and Elvin Kanter.

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PRESS NOTICES Well, I see by tin's latest copy of the News that my old friends of the Class of ‘47 are certainly doing well for themselves. These sports page pictures of the World's Championship Chicago Bears really show that Jack Demedicis and Robert Parker haven't changed a bit in the ten years since we graduated! And here is Jimmy Walker all ready to win in the Olympic track meet. I ll have a hard time deciding what show to take in. I’m afraid! Here's an ad for Hamlet, starring Richard Pizitz. and I certainly would like to hear that quartet of Frances Davidson, Theresa Marino, Betty Houston, Lillie Rusta, who outshine the Andrews Sisters, not only in number but in popularity. On the more romantic side, here 1 see that Preston Jones and Barbara Hahn are again co-starring—this time in the premiere of Jack Edwards’ comedy of high school life, “Blind Date . Or why don’t I take in that movie at the Capitol! I really should see Gerald Banks in his now famous role of “Lil Abner ”. Those photographs of him that Ann Cost and Raymond Walker had in Life last week showed why they are now movie-land’s ace photographers. Or 1 could go in for the higher side, and go to Carnegie Hall to hear Mary Ann Englebert give her second piano concert. And Jack Biddle, of Yale, is lecturing at Town Hall on this year’s Pulitzer Prize winners, which include Larry Franks and Johnnie Burnett, well-known poets, and Willine Paxton, columnist of the Washington Star. It’s a lot of trouble to dress and go out, though, so I guess I’ll just stay here and listen to the radio—tonight’s the night for the Chesterfield Supper Club, featuring Betty Ann Browning. Then I could hear that report from the White House, as President Carey Chitwood and Secretary of State Jimmy Bloom report on the work done by the Atomic Energy commission headed by Dr. Jimmy Levenson. This commission is made up of Bobbie Ragland. Don Braswell, and Max Greer. And I could listen to Leo Creest, who has just received the award as the best radio comedian of 1957. as he guest-stars on the program of the bobby-socker’s latest idol. Rod Hughes. Over here I see that Major Douglas McDowell and (.’apt. Thomas Candle are back in town alter winning fame tor their lead rsliip of the latest explorations near the North Pole. Look at this write-up of the International Convention of Business Women! It surely is filled with Phillipians: Dean Foster, who runs her own Commercial Art school, as well as Mildred Carpenter, Sidera Yuille, and Mary Louise Harrison, who are the officers of the club. Of all people, Joseph Kennedy, who was recently elected the best dressed and most successful minister of 1957, was the main speaker of the convention.