Trousdale County High School - Stepping Stone Yearbook (Hartsville, TN)

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W-M14-.?. - nt.- YV. STEPPING STONE - Marjorie Duncan and Thurman Cothron enter singing Rifle Toting Papa, the Number One hit of 1950. They are now the star singers on the program, Guy Guiser's College of Goofy Knowledge. In walks Carroll Smith, coach of the Arkansas Cotton-Pickers, gloating over his team's latest tri- umph over the California Lemon-Suckers, which was held in the Pickle Bowl in Sugar City, Iowa. Mary Cothron, Edna Chamberlain, and Ruth Duncan enter by the front door, scuffling over an Oscar which they have just been awarded for their performances in MGM's Three Maids and a Mouse. The theme of this picture is after man. came woman and she's been after him ever since. The book from which the picture was made was written by Billy Merryman and cousin Iack Rankin, who also wrote a book entitled. How to be Popular with the Female Sex, or Don't Flirt. But be Handy When Someone Else Wishes to. Enter Prof. Nathaniel Bastian, with a far-away look in his eye. At present. the professor is trying to prove that the world is not round, but triangular in shape. Close behind Nate is a skinny, poorly dressed man with a hungry look about him. It is Ralph Price. It seems that when the hens went on a sit-down strike in 1946, Ralph bought a huge farm and planted it in egg-plants. Poor Ralph didn't know until it was too late that egg-plants don't produce eggs. Next comes a well-preserved looking woman, whom I immediately recognized as Doris Oglesby. When I asked her what her occupation is now, she replied, Why, I use my head, like Mr. Pullias al- ways told us to, and that was all she would tell me, but I found out from other sources that she used her head to instruct her husband how to clean the house after office hours. Iuanita Beal came moping in, talking to herself and looking just as dumb as she did the day she finished high school. For the last six years, she and her parents have been arguing about which col- lege she should attend. She must still be going with that Hagan guy: how else could she' learn to argue so? Iust after Iuanita's arrival, the party was upset by a terrible crash. and we all rushed outside to find that Billy Mutt Gregory had run into the building while trying to show the world that a car can make as much speed as an airplane. Helen Iackson and Voline Pulley were with him, but they all came out unhurt. Helen is married to one of the Iohnny's that came marching home, but Voline decided she'd rather go with 'em all, but marry none. Why. who are these two peculiarly-acting creatures dressed in white unfonns, conversing in such tenns as Phenacetin, Heliotheapy and Naprathay? If it isn't Dr. Morgan and Nurse Carr! Each seems to have a different theory of how a pin-prick should be treated. The next arrival seems to be gay one, indeed, for she is laughing hilariously, just as she always did at school. and is dressed in a big-flowered dress, with her hair on top of her head and all kinds of jewelry adorning her neck and arms. That's the way all secretaries dress now, but who would ever thought that Sarah Nollner would be seen in a get-up like that? When Mrs. Whipple arrived, it seemed as if the party was complete. I don't think I need state Virginia's occupation. for I am sure everyone can guess that she is keeping house for Dean. -ALICE GOTHARD. -24-

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STEPPING STONE CLASS PROPHECY On May 1, 1950, the members of the 1945 Senior Class of Trousdale County High School were entertained at a costume party in the gym. Each person came dressed as if he were about to begin a normal day's work and each was to act as a person of his vocation would. I was the first to arrive, and as I was to make a report on the costumes that were worn and the actions of each person, I took my place just outside the gym door to watch the parade of my former classmates. I had just taken out my pencil and notebook when I was scared half out of my wits by a terrible scream. I looked up the hall to see a cruel looking woman dressed in white with a knife in each hand. As she approached me, I discovered it to be Dr. Martha Cornwell. The scream had come from that forever ailing Lois McMurray, who had gone to the doctor's office for some kind of a treatment, but apparently the doctor had given the wrong treatment. Then in walks William Massey and Nat Vance, dressed very much like they always looked at school. Why, Nat, what is your occupation? I inquired. Oh, Greese and me run a one-seated yellow taxi between here and Lafayette, Gallatin, Lebanon, Murfreesboro, Nashville and other places of interest-iof interest-that means plenty of pretty girls.l About this time, a little boy came tearing down the steps while at the top there stood a most peculiar looking person wearing horn-rimmed glasses with a pencil over one ear and a ruler in her hand, shout- ing drastic threats at the little creature below. This character turned out to be Mary Frances Brooks: with her was Sarah Haley, who is teaching the local lassies the art of home-making. 1 see Lois has recuperated enough to be showing her occupation by demonstrating the advan- tages of the new kind of false teeth which automatically chew the food without any effort on the part of the owner. ' What in the world is everyone laughing at? Why, it's Dorothy Holder, and, look, she's chasing that poor little man around the gym with a rolling pin. I don't know who is he, but I gather it's her husband. I wonder what he has done? Look at I. B. Gregory! He is certainly realistic about his profession. He is dressed in overalls and has on an old straw hat. He's so proud of that prize pig of his that won first place at the State Fair, that he brought it with him. And there is Iames Williams, dressed very much like I. B. I understand they own adjoining farms, on which they raise pigs with a musical squeal. Say, who is that hidden under that huge bonnet, and what is that strange chirping sound I hear? Well, if it isn't Agnes Duncan, with some of her famous vari-colored chickens that she has pro- duced by setting colored Easter eggs. Hup. two, three, four! Hup, two, three, four! Well, if it isn't Mildred Kennedy and Eva Mai Vance. You can tell by their military bearing that they are good army nurses, but maybe they will unbend long enough to join in the fun of the party. Who's that with that pencil behind her ear and that typewriter slouch? Why, it's none other than Louise Huffines, still the girl Friday for the Vidette, and it looks as if she is trying to mix .business with pleasure by interviewing her old classmate and int'mate friend, Maggie Linville, who is the well known coach of the Leaphigher basketball team. I see Lassie Cunningham strolling in wearing a stunning dinner dress. That gold cigarette holder adds just the right touch. She really knows how to upohld the position of a State Representatives daughter. ...gg-

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V527 STEPPING STONE CLASS POEM In the year '33, we first came to this school With no other thought but to go by the rules: And though time and again, we have not done our best, In all things of importance we have stood the test. The school authorities have always mapped the way, While our paientsand teachers have help us obey. Our class has stood high in scholastics and play, Seldom beeing defeated along the way. Now the time of our graduation draws so near, We rembfnber we were guided with a love sincere. May we ever hold fast to our honor and ideals, As we go forth to play our part in various fields. Some of our former classmates are now facing the foe, On the fields of battle in these times of woe. They are physically struggling in this awful strife, For the preservation of true values of life. Let them inspire us then that we go on to fight. For things mentally, socially, spiritually right. -LOIS MCMURRY. -25-