Sansom High School - Talisman Yearbook (Alabama City, AL)

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NIOR OFFIC Mackre O Gumn Prtsrdent Frances Burke Vlce President Ada Jo Gross Secretary Gs psy lzntrlkm Treasurer Just one more year and we ll be ree Tls but an xdle thought As jumors we should surely see That learnmg can t be bought Our goal rn lrfe must ever be To try to do one s best To face the tasks our teachers set Prepares us for llfe s test Just one more year And hearts beat fast But others know you see rl hey ve traveled hard the road of l1fe And fallen short of vtctory We have to frght for what we get W1th dreams rs nothmg made Wrth toll and tears and sweat and blood ls our foundatron lard May the remalnmg year of school Also the years of lrfe Frnd us almmg strlvmg ever To keep our lrghts eternally brrght by Maureen Watson The 1943 Talzsman . , , 5. , s V T I I . ..... . l , f U s . , .. . H - , V . ,- - , . , , , ,

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The 1943 Iulrsmun CLASS PROPHECY rne Carlton had a nurse s commrssron Frances Yancey s name was rn New York lrghts the author of the play A Woman s Rzghts Sybrl Johns strll beautrful and quret was famous as the Photographer s Delrght CI he son of the Rev erend I-Iovxard Marks was a member of the Apollo Boys chorr for lrke hrs father rn hrs heart to srng was a burnrng desrre Drxre O Barr had shocked the populatron by becomrng a yrtterbug sensatron I ee Orren Moon had ceased to be a pest he owned a dude ranch way out west Irene 'I homas was a weld er krlled to Mark Smrth a fashronable resort had been wrlled Chester Fletcher was up to hrs same old trrcks but holdrng the spotlrght was Jrmmy Hrcks H was noted for hrs spectacular progress and was now the youngest senator rn Congress It was danger that Brlly Payton craved and he had become a dare devrl brave Dan Archer was presrdent of the college at Snead Rachel Smrth was takrng the Macbeth lead James Marks to hrs son who could hardly be lreve was relatmg how he used to pass and recerve Everett Scruggs was for governor a candrdate Marjorre Edwards for the rrght one drd wart Verbon Bynum was the modern Ernstern and Rrchard Carter strll the wolf of olden trmes As the Grants prtcher Calvrn Yother earned fame Nrlmarg Benefield fes or Robert Irmbaugh was Valentrnes successor Lors Rhodes queen n her senror year rn a trrm nurse s unrform drd appear Horace I-Iale walked through storm and harl you see he was carrrer of the marl Mrllrons had come to realrze that Rrchard Ellrott could cleverly advertrse Dorothy Penland was a Physrcal Ed rnstructor Ed I homas was a skyscraper constructor Jacob Clayton an S Club letterman was now a retrred war veteran Mrs Glenn Goodson lnee Ruby Jo Casonj was head of the Parent Teacher Assocratron Juanrta Conner modeled latest creatrons Imogene Ellrs was head clerk at Macy s Margre I-Ircks lrved north of the Drxon lrne she had a Yankee husband fine Thelma Butler head of a large corporatron consulted Dr W C Brown for nervous prostratron Joe Nears was a burly Boaz cop James Leftwrch had lard by hrs annual crop Bobby Garrett owned a grocery store Annre Proffrt drdnt lrve here any more she marrred a handsome travelrng man and traveled wrth hrm over the land After completrng the rounds of thrs celestral town your prophet was awak ened by a famrlrar sound Twas a frrend whom I lrked so very well sayrng Come on Dearre that was the bell So you see dear frrends and classmates all thrs was nothrng but a dream Ive been tellrng howe er natural and real to you rt seemed But rn thrs old world of wonders dreams often come true so who knovxs but what my yrsron may be realrzed by some of you by Marry lo Fults ' 'I' I I ' 1 ' 1 I D H H y H H I ' . I 3 Q s Q- ' u - I ' my ' - w 1 . , 7 . . D A- . J- - D ' I I . v I Z I 3 'I D was a well-known poetess' name. Charles Cargal was an absent-minded pro- , S 1 . 4' , ' .' , 3 ' , y , i A l I 75 I I iv I l I 3 I 4 3 . ' I V 3 1 , v 1 v v' ' v ' v v 9 . . 21

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Alpha Mae Argo Herman Bellamy Bobby Bensinger Olen Bodine Edith Bradley Vivian Brown Frances Burke C, D. Byrum Nellie Cannon Nora Jane Cargal Frances Carlton Curtis Chavers Zora Cheatwood Ethel Clayton Th I 43 'Iulisnwn J UNIORS Alvin Cornutt Eerrell Cornutt Edith Costello Catherine Crenshaw Billy Joe Dodd Grover Dowdy Wy'nelle Dye Ciypsy Entrelxin Edwin Fortson XX'infred Garner Junior Grant Howard Gray Ada Jo Gross Russell Guest Billy Hale Virginia Harper Imogene Harris Clara Higginbotham Willie Mae Higgins Marie Hill Thomas Hood Johnny Jones Opal Jones Juanita Marks Marie Nlayo Sally Ruth Mitchell Marie Mooney 23