Ramsay High School - Rams Horn Yearbook (Birmingham, AL)

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CLASS PROPHECY As I am a seasoned newspaper reporter, few tilings have the power to arouse in me any emotions whatsoever. Nevertheless, it must be admitted that in June, 1938, when I was assigned to cover the “Hunter Trial, I felt quite an unusual interest as Lewis Hunter, a former classmate of mine, was the defendant. The remarkable features of the ease attracted my attention. It seems that Junior (as he was once familiarly designated) and some friends were happily engaged in cock fighting down on his country estate, when the advent of two officers of the law abruptly Interrupted these interesting proceedings and summoned Junior to court. I was informed that the person instigating this arrest was Miss Martha Matthews, president of the Humane Society. Wending my way to the court room that Saturday morning 1 came upon Elmer Thuston looking particularly downcast. He seemed to l c traveling in my own direction. “You don’t look exactly cheerful, I remarked to him. No, he admitted, 'Tin cue of the chief witnesses for the state in the Hunter Trial, and besides being forced to inform against my old friend, I am having to neglect my wholesale business.” Just then we encountered Jean Loyd and Jane French, co-owners of The Style Shoppe,” accompanied by Hugh Egerton, manager. Good gracious, are all of you witnesses, too? 1 exclaimed. No, just spectators, Jean explained. I suspect you'll see many Ranisavitcs of the Class of ’33 there, too. Jean's statement was verified when 1 entered the court room, tor I beheld what appeared to l»e a reunion of all mv old Ramsay classmates. Classmates to the right of me. classmates to the left of me chattered and gossiped! I saw Josephine Hale, Virginia Harris. Johnny Youngblood, and Sara Sloan. Having ample time to spend licfore the beginning of the trial I rushed over and joined a group. From force of a reporter's habit I inquired into everyone's affairs. Right here I wish to divulge some of the melange of facts garnered: Charlotte Daly, the famous woman mathematician is ! cginntng to force even Einstein to look to his laurels; Tucker Mackenzie, missionary, is doing his Ix’st for the heathen Chinee ; Joel Morris, a ship's doctor, played a noble part in the sinking of his liner; Martha Bray maintains her old role of heartbreaker; Alice Scott and Anne McKinley have settled down to a succession of house-wifely duties; Sara Joe Green and Page Haralson, designers, create clothes for Marion Johnson and Mary Crochran. mannequins: James Johnson is Parisian buyer for a large millinery concern. This interesting information was interrupted by the entrance of His Honor. Would wonders never cease! The judge was Jack Harper. 11 is Honor called the court to order and read the list of the jurors. Wonders did not cease, for six of the jurors were my former Ramsay classmates. They were: Virginia Oates, Richard Fell, Elizabeth Daniel. Holland Cox. Alice Nolan, and Tom Conway. Next the state's witnesses were introduced. By this time I was prepared for any shock; therefore. 1 felt not the slightest sensation of surprise at the appearance of Emanuel Greenberg, prosecuting attorney, who licgan his ease with the state witnesses: Elmer Thuston, Martha Matthews, a small colored boy, and Miles Copeland, the sheriff of the county in which lay the estate of Mr. Hunter. Mr. Greenlicrg skillfully drew out his witnesses to the very l»est effect. A telling point in the case was the fact that Copeland, the sheriff, had been to sec Mr. Hunter about the

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198HICHLANDER TATE, J. C., Tate si mbit ion: To trnvcl and see the world. Aeth'ities: Baseball 30. '31, '32; Football '29 '30, 31. '32: lt.iskctl.all '29. '30. '31. '32; Snort Club '30. '31; R Club '32. '33; R. O. T. C„ Company Commander '31, Second Lieutenant '30. TEAI.. GEORGIA MAXINE. . la. Ambition: To serve the world a well as it lias served me. Activities: Stwrt Club '29. '30; International Club '30. '31. '32. '33; Marshal 32. JJ; Pc;. Club ‘31. ’32. TENENBAL'M. ANITA. Mia Ambition: To la- successful throiiKhout life. Actitities : French Club, President 3l; Marshal ‘30; Secretary of Session Room 32. THUSTON. ELMER Ambition: To make the Ik-m of all thing . Aclhitiei: Usher Clul. ’30. ’31. ’32. ’33; Marshal '29. '33; Dramatic Club '33. THOMPSON. TOM Activities: Science (Tub; Snort Club, President '31: Marshal '30. VANCE. VIRGINIA I.Ol'ISK. « stm’’ition: To forget how to say. 'I forgot.' Activities: Secretary of Session Room '29. '30; Music Club '29. '30, ’31; Head Marshal '32: Adelphian Lit-erary Society '31. '32, ‘33: Oj ercitn ‘29. '30, '31: Hanker '29. 30. '31. '32. VAUGHAN, MAURINE Ambition; “To grow spiritually. Aeth’itiei: Operetta '30, '32; Girl Reserve Club '30. WILLIAMS, SARA AUBREY. Sally Ambition: To have and to hold. Aeth’itiei: Dramatic Club 32; French Club 33; In trrnational Club 30; Operetta 30, '31, '32; Vaudeville '31. 32. '33. WILSON. MARY WATT1E. Bill Ambition: To grow in knowledge, statue, and wisdom. Activities: Operetta '29. '30, '31, '32: Music Club 29; Modem Literary Club 30; Girl Reserve Club '31, Treasurer 31. President '32. '33. WINTERS. KATHERINE TYLER, Kitty Ambition: To go around the world in a horse 'n buggy. Activities: R. O. T. C. Sponsor '29; Marshal '31: Hanket '30; Girls' Sports Club '32. '33: Girl Reserve Club. President '32. Secretary 29. YOUNGHLOOD. JOHNNIE Ambition: To keen my bead up and take the knock of life with a amile. Activities: Sport Club 30. 31. '32: Cheerleader '29; Manager Football '30; Manager Ba krtlwill 30; R Club 32. '33: Marshal '31. '32; Literary Club '29; Manager jtaseball 31. ZARZAUR. EM ELEN E ANN. ' AYme Ambition: “To give to the world the be-t I have. Activities: Marshal 30; Sport Club ’30; Entrc Nous '31. 7.ITO. I.ORKNE ELIZABETH Ambition; To be the director of a girls' jar orchestra. Activities: Girl Reserve Club '29; Glee Club '29; Snort Club 30. '31. ‘32.

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fights, hut Junior had disregarded the majesty of the law and sought to presume upon their old friendship, even attempting to inveigle the sheriff into the sport. Here the state rested its ease. I discovered that Mr. Hunter had retained the partners, Shaw and Johnston, as his attorneys. These two lawyers so ably conducted the defense against odds that the jury was unable to reach a decision. The court thus adjourned until the following Monday. The judge next assigned a hotel to the jury, and obeying instructions I trailed the jurors to their hotel, the clerk of which was Tom Thompson who informed me that the jurors were attending the game that afternoon played between the New York Yankees and the Chicago Cubs. Accordingly. I accompanied them to the ball park where I found the Yankee star. Bill Bruce, playing a noble game against the Cubs on whose team were Otto Mooney, Dunlap Macaulay, and Henry Holmes Hill. Seeing Louise Vance and Katherine Sims, now society's two most pojmlar matrons, I joined them for a short time. Naturally, Ye Goode Oldc Daves was the subject of our conversation; during the course of which I acquired information to the effect that Girdine Kay and Harry Strauss are raising poultry; the name of Gene McCoy, dancer, glitters on Broadway’s Great White Way; Roy Cohen earns his bread and butter by invocations to the muses; Mary Cobb is quite the most popular deb in town: Frances Durrette, famous soprano, is touring Europe with Jane Howell, her accompanist; Martha Chapman is a sob sister on the Xnv York Times: Ruth Gibson (believe it or not) is a prim school inarm in a little red school house; Sara Patton manages a menagerie. Before and after the game music was furnished by the Police Band, directed by Bert Best. I looked over the members of this organization I espied ! ehind the big bass drum the smiling face of John Black, and to his left Garrard Harris and Paul Liles playing on their saxophones. After our return to the hotel we were entertained in the new music room, the beautiful decorations of which, we learned, were designed by our own Sara Helen Hill and Carmelite Howell. There we listened to two radio addresses; the first was given by Caroline Gignilliat, recently returned from Peru. Miss Gignilliat's topic, The Woman’s Suffrage Movement in Peru, was a subject in which she greatly interested herself during l er sojourn in that country. Following this Albert Mills, a candidate for election to the House of Representatives, made a stirring campaign sjwcch. 1 was informed that Kathryn Ivy is running on the same ticket. There followed a musical interlude during which we heard the lovely contralto voice of Catherine Covington accompanied by Mary Wattic Wilson. During the dinner hour we were entertained by Frances Gladden and his orchestra and Mary Virginia Pounds, universally rated the most entertaining comedienne on the air. After dinner the jurors attending the premier of a musical comedy discovered with some surprise that Wilma Dickinson and Anita Tennenbaum were the leaders of the chorus girls. On Sunday the ladies ami gentlemen of the jury visited the church where Gayle Riley fills the ministry. Richard Sexton and Rolwrt Nelson took up the collection while Olive Davis, Dora Alice Henley, Katherine Winters, and Sara Williams, sang in the choir. I also noticed in the congregation Maurine Vaughan and May Montague. That afternoon the jurors cast their votes in favor of a visit to the cinema where the lovely star, Lolita Hodges, was playing. In the news-reel we were shown a number of smart people at a fashionable resort; among these were Alice Buchanan, Sara Hoffman, Weenona Heflin, Rufie Holloway, and Mary Lanier Munds. We also witnessed a demonstration of several labor-saving devices invented by Harold Knah who is indeed an indefatigable worker at that sort of thing.