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

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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

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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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HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF '38 Ir is not a dream. We are now seniors with all the privileges and everything that goes with being seniors. We have reached the third and last round of the ladder of knowledge in high school, and yet we feel we are only just beginning. We entered upon our high school career with fear and trembling, but we emerge from it with great poise of mind, our polar extremities crammed with knowledge. We are now ready to sally forth into a beautiful world that our elders tell us is a delusion and a snare. Not all of our valuable time has been spent in pursuit of serious duties. Occasionally the girls of our class have flirted in the most alluring manner, and some of our boys have made Romeo pale to insignificance. The Senior Class is very proud of its athletic record this year. I am sure our football boys who are graduating will be missed by the Black Bear squad of next year. Even if we did lose a few games, we showed real sportsmanship. Three of our cheerleaders belong to our graduating class. Our school had more pep in 1937-38 than eve! before, and a great deal of this enthusiasm is due to the seniors. Plays have been staged by Mr. Vincent Raines, director of Dramatic Art, and what could we do without our band, which is under the direction of Mr. Carleton Butler? Miss Elizabeth Roberts has shown her great ability as a leader of the Glee Club. There have been many new additions to the faculty during this, our senior year-Miss Campbell, Mr. Clark, Mrs. Doster, Mr. Ebersole, Mr. Strickland, and Miss Echols. We are very glad indeed to' have Mrs. Gray back with us again after a half-year absence. We wish to extend our many thanks to all the teachers of T. H. S. for their willing service, and we wish to assure Senior High of our faithfulness and loyalty for all time. We have struggled and toiled for our diplomas, but as time draws near for us to re- ceive those cherished sheepskins, we realize how hard it is for us to part from our dear school. BLANCHE ROGERS, Historian. Page Thirty