Tuscaloosa High School - Black Warrior Yearbook (Tuscaloosa, AL)

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The national auto race, which is held every year, is to be on March 10, 1948. Two of the contestants will be Lee Hooper and Bill Echols. Harriet and Jimmy Gibbons, better known as the Gibbons pair, are playing in One Man's Family, now showing at the 'Bama Theatre. Louise Christian, the famous opera singer, is on the stage this week on Broadway. Her accompanist is Anne Godfrey, known all over the world as a renowned violinist. Carolyn and Catherine Cooper have just finished a book telling how to study, but it hasn't been successful in T. H. S. The churches of Tuscaloosa have employed Elizabeth Bowers, Helen Wilson, Nettie Mae Hust, Ruth Abernathy, Margaret Cartledge, and Dorothy Boswell to sing at the Feeble-Minded Home on Sunday afternoons. Ruth Avery, Harriet Attwood, Grace Mitchell, and Dorothy Alexander, better known as the Girls' Quartet, are employed to sing at the Veterans' Hospital on Wednesday nights. Ruth is also the accompanist. Ernest Girlinghouse has become a hermit in the mountains of South Carolina. ' Elizabeth Suther havin beat Noreen Year in last week in the cham ionshi swimmin H ,I g A g , , U P P g tournament, is now being proclaimed the world's new swimming champion. Mrs. Kathryn Guyer De Mont, a wealthy millionaire widow, has done very much for the sanitary conditions of Tuscaloosa. Kathryn Strickland handles all of her business affairs. Doris Ozier is serving as an assistant librarian. Herndon Dowling has just returned from Africa, where he discovered fifty new types of reptiles, insects, mammals, etc. John Bonneau has returned to Central America and entered the banana trade. Louise De Vasher, Mary Duncan, Betty Evans, and Hazel Bryant, once well-known T. H. S. belles, are now housewives, they live side by side and exchange gossip over their backyard fences. Victor Winston, editor of the TUSCALOOSA NEWS, has become dissatisfied with his staff and has hired a new one. Sam Darden is the new sports editor, and William Snow has taken the job of proof-reader. Billy Drake draws all the cartoons. The operators of the new beauty parlor in Tuscaloosa are Dorothy Davenport, Jane Ola Eatman, Irene Gaddy, Edris Fowler, Katherine Essary, and Anna Leah Hannah. They specialize in manicuring the finger nails of the best-dressed men in town. Some of their favorite customers are Robert Cardinal, Billy Barksdale, Jimmy Vail, Nash Jones, and Owen McDonald. James Walls is still soda-jerking at Taylor's Drug Store. Last week his boss raised his salary to four dollars a week for inventing a new kind of soda. Although it does add two pounds a week to Gladys Warren's weight, she still insists on having one a day. Annie Lee Strickland is employed as pianist for the W. R. D. lunch-hour program. On Mondays and Wednesdays she accompanies the Sumter Farm Trio, Millie Moore, Blanche Rogers, and Geraldine Hewett. Page Twenty-eight

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CLASS PROPHECY A quick flash startled me as I was listening to my radio one cold, bleak day in the winter of 1948. I was greatly surprised, for I recognized none other than the voice of an old school chum, Henry Hank Harris, beginning his daily news broadcast. After listen- ing to his program, I began thinking of the where-abouts of the rest of the T. H. S. Seniors of '38. I have kept close tab on many of them. Wanda Ree Elam is a prim,' old maid. Her contribution to the TUSCALOOSA NEWS is a daily article, Advice to Housewives. Tappy Harris, Dixie Massingill, Laurie Ernst, and Glennis Hutchins are in iNew York, seeking their fortunes on Broadway. Please don't be surprised to see them timidly returning to Tuscaloosa to enter Janet McMahon's School of Cultured Acting. O'Neal Logan is in Hollywood being sued by a dozen actresses for breach of promise. Richard Bell is rushing all over the continent making campaign speeches for Marian Graves, the United States' first woman candidate for President. Ned Sparks' place on the screen is being filled by Roy Dunham. He's doing right well in those gangster parts. David Partlow and Jimmy Williams are campaigning against each other for the office of mayor of Northport. Maxine Lemmond, Sara Thomson, and Marjorie Capps, three very attractive ladies, have been very much disappointed in some love affair, so they have become nuns, and devote their entire time to silent meditation. The people of Tuscaloosa are quite excited because of the Crimson Tide's,' eighth trip to the Rose Bowl. Coach Thomas Maxwell seems to be doing a wonderful job this year. Some of his star men are joe Echols, Boots Terry, Fletcher Boles, and Rufus Deal. I wonder why they are still in college. It might be that they have to pass a certain amount of subjects before becoming eligible for graduation. The big lawyer of Tuscaloosa is John Moore, and his stenographers are Sylvia Tant and Mildred Thiele. At present he is in court working on the divorce case of Carl Tesch and ...........,........,, . Among those in the jury stand are Mary E. Cabaniss, Billy Bland, Janie Ellis, Owen Givens, Sam Le Maistre, Floyd Medlin, and Thomas Lake. The fashionable stylists of the East are Julia Perkins and Bobbie Fleetwood. The famous farms of the South are owned by James Thornton, Roy Green, W. G. Thrower, and Kelly Tucker. Jean Prater has recently taken over the job of the high school principal. Some of the members of the faculty are: Ruth Channell, French Department, Jewell Walker, Speech Department, Minnie Lee Tidmore, Commercial Departmentg Sara Brown Hayes, Physical Education Department, Emily Searcy, History Department and faculty adviser of the Black Warrior , and Garland Wood, Science Department. Fred Duncan is a well-known doctor of the South. His best known patients are Edgar Mills, Ralph Stewart, Edward Pittman, and Ralph Bolen, who suffer from spring feveri' the whole year round. Marie Cork, Marcelle Cain, and Wanda Ruth Grist have recently opened a knitting department. They've been doing exceedingly well except for two men who insist on learn- ing how to knit in order to pass the time away while their wives are working. These men are Laurene Israel and Sam Jackson. Page Twenty-seven

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The McLester Hotel, with its new managers, Eurl Lawley and Billy Nichols, has become quite up-to-date lately. It has recently hired several hotel hostesses. Some of them are Edna Hardin, Margaret King, and Bobbie Jean Ingram. The hotel dietitian is Mary Frances Meigs. Helen Malone, Marion Lee, Venora Ragland, Louise Parker, and Myrtle McNair are serving as waitresses. Tom Mosely, the head janitor. has had a cut in his salary because of the damage he has done to the walls of the hotel by drawing pictures on them during his spare moments. His assistant janitors are Everett Teague, Will Tom Thomp- son, Edgar Porter, james Lewis, and Walton Phillips. The clerks are: night clerk, Griggsby Wright, and day clerk, Levert Morrison. Fred Wells, Robert Irvin, and Lige Cunningham, the bell-boys, are being reported much too often for winking at the good-looking females who enter the hotel. The guests of the hotel are being entertained each night by a beautiful, soprano voice belonging to Elizabeth Nelson, who is now touring the country accompanied by her manager and secretary, Mary Lois Patterson. Joe Duncan is the chief ice man of Tuscaloosa, but he is not a very successful one, be- cause of his susceptibility to soft glances. At one look, his heart will melt and the ice with it. The city fire department crew includes Russell Baxley, Ernest Fehler, Benny Langston, James Kincaid, E. L. Lewis, Daniel Noland, Floyd McConnell, and Hughes Logan. The fire chief, Jack Mills, is the main reason for the crew's being late to all the fires, because of his tendency to stop along the way and have a little chat with some lady friend. Edgar johnson has just completed a book that he has been working on for several years. It is rapidly gaining favor in all parts of the United States. Mabel Mahan, Margaret Rushing, Virginia Ryan, and Ethel Smallwood have ventured into different hospitals in the United States. They are serving as nurses, with hopes of falling in love with some good looking internes. Jack Sharman and james Kyzer are the two who are causing so much trouble among the nurses at the Druid City Hospital. Christine Parker, Mildred Nelson, Bonnie Mae Smart, Juanita Staggers, Martha Earl Strain, and Jimmie B. Windham have formed an Ole Maid's Aid Clubf' One of the first victims is George Swindle. Lamae Livingston, noted for her original recipes, has received several prizes awarded by the Good Housekeeping Institute, The great swing band, with a very famous pianist, Wilbur Hinton, is striving for a colossal success under the management of Bill Rendleman and Ben Lanning. It is especially noted for its blues' singer, Louise Mullins. Marion Rogers has recently opened a dancing school. Her assistants are Susie Lee Savage, Jewell Spradley, and Frances Quinn. Some of my school mates have become quite successful, which makes me very proud to say that I once knew them, but, regardless of the life they are leading, there's still a place in my heart for each one. Because of their presence, the school years of '36, '37, and '38 have left a happy memory, and oftentimes a longing to turn back the pages of time. CHARLOTTE HAYES, Class Prophet. Page Tivewtynzine