Tennessee Wesleyan College - Nocatula Yearbook (Athens, TN)

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SENIOR CLASS PROPHECY The Oriental Skies! Far-famed and far-sung; over-reach- ing every poet land of mystery and drama. Heeding its woo- ing whisper we are enabled to learn a little of the infinite and to solve a little the secrets which the blue depths well know but have heretofore pitingly withheld. We leave the prac- tical world behind, while our imaginations wing themselves on languid, listless winds which know not cloud nor storm save as recollection past. Just a year ago, in the good year nineteen hundred thirty- nine, we chanced to be in Chinese waters. (The purpose of the trip is being withheld as it has not reached its fullest de - velopment yet). A curious experience was experienced here, one might say, which will be set down here at no short length. On the wharf at Shanghai we saw an old man — he seemed old — sitting and talking and smoking. His small beady eyes seemed familiar, and as we could readily see that he was not an Oriental, we inquired. He was, we dis- covered in the process of our question- ing. Tom Cash. He sat on the wharf for hours at a time smoking his pipe and expounding Epicurus et cetera to the wharf workers and the coolies. Th? sight of him bruoght back memories to us of our class of twenty-nine at Wes- leyan. We fell to making conjectures as to what the other members of the class were doing. While in this frame of mind, we were led to an ale house, where, coming into contact with the baleful influence of opium fumes et cetera, one member of the group fell ii tc a stupor — no, he didn ' t get drunk — and had a nightmare — what else couid it have been? — and the whereabouts oi every member of the twenty-nine class were revealed to him. The ones whicn he remembered will be set down here to satisfy the curiosity of other mem- bers of the class. We have it as fol- lows: Johnson Townley, when sober, acts in official capacity as director of the Townley School of Dramatics. He is author also of several popular songs. Lee Elbridge Rothroek writes the music. Among them, the most recent is, I don ' t know who kissed you first, but I ' ve kissed you last. Roth- rock teaches music and typing in some high school. Amcng those who are educating themselves off the rising generation (of course they ' re teachers) are Eula Barker; Pansy Thomas; Beulah Clayton who teaches dancing; Jessie Kelley; Frank Sexton, who married a school madam and thus get himself involved in the profession; Young Querry, who teaches Chemistry; Creed Mantooth, who teaches Span- ish to the ninos de Espana; Catherine Walker, who teaches Art; Latham, who is the county superintendent of public instruction somewhere; and Frank Perry, who is principal of a colored school in southern Alabama. May Long and Annabelle Skillern (People may talk about the Prince of Wales but it cannot be denied that we have PRESIDENT JAMES L. ROBB. Tennessee Wesleyan College the Princess of Whale, I mean Wales.) have gone into busi- ness for themselves. They pose for before and after pictures for a reducing tonic. After Marie Rogers and Catherine Lane got into opera a year or two ago, New York closed its opera houses to pro- tect the public. Who blames them? Marie is now singing Dutch operas in Siberia; Catherine is singing Italian operas in Argentina. Myrtle Patterson is on the Pacific Coast waiting for ships which seem never to come in. But occasionally they do come in; then Glory be. she makes whoopee! Howard Dennis is directing a glee club in some university. He says that he only needs twenty-five or nineteen good tenors and twenty-seven or ten good basses to have a good club. Lura Cook recently lost a match in tennis to the contender for the cham- pionship. Did she feel like thirty cents? Absolutely not! She couldn ' t possibly feel like less than sixty cents! Rat Ray is a tailor. Yes. you ' re right! He makes clothing. Ghormley and Tysinger are serving their ideals in the Church. Ghormley fills an excellent pastorate. He fills the door, too when he passes through, and he fills a rather large body when he feeds his face. Tysinger is another chicken-eating preacher. Hicks Jenkins has been in the state penitentiary for a year. Oh. no! What a cruel thought! He isn ' t a prisoner. He is the chaplain. He likes to visit his nephew, Eugene, who is a tooth me- chanic, Eugene pulls a mean molar — if one allows him to do so. Ruby Bailey is following in the foot- steps of Aimee Semple McPherson. Rather broad steps they are, but then Ruby has rather large abilities. Fuzzy Green tried a season as Clown with Ringling Bros., but failed and has gone into a less re- sponsible position — football coaching. Whitehead started to take the examination for the Rhodes Scholarship, but when he asked to see Mr. Rhodes, he was dismissed as incompetent. He says that he is going to get tliat scholarship if he has to go see Mr. Rhodes personally. When he does that he will be wearing feathered attachments to his shoulders or asbestos trousers. Wilsie Wilder is married — this prophecy includes two se- niors — and he stays out late at night — running a moving pic- ture projector. Lucille Keys awaits anxiously the close of every baseball season. Her man plays with St. Louis, in which village they live. Katie Peterson discovered the trigonometric functions of r mousetrap and now lives off the fat of the land. No, she didn ' t marry a butcher. She patented a mouse-trap with a self loader, an automatic ejector, and balloon tires. (Continued on Page 29)

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STUDENT COUNCIL Johnson Townley President Cladys Parker Vice-President Chelsea Laws Secretary W . D. Johnston Treasurer MEMBERS Jessie Kelly Beulah Clayton Paul Terry J. P. Wyatt rmily Johnson Sue Beth Dennis Manson Green Charles Dye Leila Winecoft Myrtle Patterson J. Walden Tysinger

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THE QUILL DRIVERS HONOR LITERARY SOCIETY Chelsea Laws President Johnson Townley Vice-President Mouzon Peters Secretary-Treasurer Miss Gladys Dejournette - Sponsor MEMBERS W. D. Johnston J. F. Wyatt Dimples Kirkland Ruby Bailey Thomas Cash Merle Asheworth Annabelle Skillern