Young High School - Record Yearbook (Knoxville, TN)

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lf 1943 lf!!! TlaeRECORD CLASS PRGPHECY-1943 It's Alumni week at Young High in 1953, and all he old grads are back for a second look. The cub 'eporter who has been sent to cover the eminent person- lities present has an easy job. The campus is thickly populated with successes. One of the first men he meets is Press agent lverette Sharp, Fountain City's gift to the life in- urance business. Since it is Mr, Sharp's business to .now everybody's business, he kindly tells the timid cub vhat the Senior Class of '43 has done to itself. Shirley Townsend has a flourishing Wolf trap actory, which he shares with Willimena Moore. Their vroduct is tremendously popular. Dawson Doyle, Buddy Dunlap and Clarence Edmunds, graduated from the rmy with the rank of Private First Class, have gone o South Africa in search of new gold mines. Fanny Iackworth, Florence Ann Doyle, Elizabeth Eich, and ffargaret Seaton are happily engaged at a large army iospital, nursing retired top sergeants. Edith Williams, U. T. graduate is private secretary to the president of he Power and Light Company, who claims he can do iothing without her. Mr. John Moore is still follow- ig his favorite hobby-women. On the side, he works t Townsend's Wolf-trap Factory. Charles Ault and Herman Latham play pro-football 1 Chicago and therefore are still football heroes. Vera rene Key is Music critic for a New York daily. She pecializes in reviewing concerts given by James King, Verlin Beeler, Juanita Larew and Ruth Quigley. H. B. Ioseley, Jr. owns and operates the only drug store south f the river selling only drugs. Louise Smith and Iary Louise Smith have moved to opposite ends of the tate to avoid confusion, and are happily engaged in aising their families. Bobby Stephens and Jack Rohrer re in the show businessg Bobby sings and Jack portrays he Irishman in Ten Nights in a Barroomf' Lloyd Cruze has replaced Victor Mature in the inema and Ashley Johnson has made good as a radio :und-effects man. Minnie Lee Rouser is now thevery mcial Mrs. Wendell Ramsey. Carl Turner and Bruce Ireswell are well known veterinarians, with offices in evierville. Merl Houser and Paul Dodson announce he commercials on a local radio station. Jean Spitzer, .uthelda Sutton, Claudine Johnson, Helen Head and Iora Catlett spend their time caring for their respective icky husbands. Everyone buys groceries from Jr. urleson, who purveys food wholesale. Lincoln Mc- Zammon designs scooters for a living, aided by Glen lazier. Irma Sentell teaches oratory at public School Io. 12, and lo! and behold Helen Hawn is an English istructor. Pearl Faye Harwell is an interior decorator F Chicago. Louise Cogdill and Juanita Johnson run a piano school together in Decatur. Jewell Hill and Billie Ruth Goosie are Powers models with plenty on the ball. Joyce Talley is a Broadway success as a player of musical comedy roles. Melvin Blazier and Charles Hembree are a couple of railroad detectives at Baltimore. Joan Ginn and Helen Prater are the editors of a woman's magazine in New York. Marna French Cheatham has two lovely children, Marna and Elrod, Jr. Ruby Hicks is school librarian at a high school and enjoys her work very much. Joyce Wade, having turned down numerous offers from Hollywood, is very happily married to Tommy flucky dog.J Ruth Mc- Culley and Edna Owens run a successful juke joint on Kingston Pike. Isabella French writes a daytime soap serial, and Shirley Hollister lectures women's clubs on the advantages of etiquette. Ruth Gillespie has just discovered a revolutionary acid but is out of a chem- istry class because she spilled some on them. Minnie Perry, Lorene Lane, and Juanita Houser are star welders at Lockheed. Fred Human, ably assisted by Jack Stan- ton, runs the Goodwill Hour. Fred replaces Mr. Anthony. Leon Willis and Glenn Webber give in- structions in dancing at Ledgerwood's gymnasium. Patricia Harr and Louise Webb are cover girls for Life. Gene Ford and Miriam Franklin teach advanced Spanish at Young. Margaret Maxey, Lillian McCarrell and Betty Neubert are all airline hostesses. Lucille Blazier and Muriel Cheek are the New York buyers for a large department store. Gladys Williams and Mildred Webb design hats for the Stetson Company. L. W. Parks does rather well as a mortician, for John Turner and Hoyt Woliver are now practicing physicians. Wayne Byers is now a millionaire, having cleaned up in the gum reclaiming business. Mildred Finger, Katherine Ford, and Elnora Riggs have committed matrimony a long time ago. Katherine Reeser and Irene Watten- barger now teach shorthand at Knoxville Business Col- lege. Jo Frazier and Bonnie Hinchey are retired WAAC officers. Carter Johnson and David Deaderick investi- gate hamburgers for the FBI and Daniel Kyker is mayor of the fair city of Knoxville. Betty Newman has eloped with a cop and Betsy Hendrix reviews movies for the papers. Ed Berry is an inventor after the style of Rube Goldberg and Glen Blazier is a gentleman farmer. Charles Cheatham is floor manager in Madison Square Garden. J. L. Pressley and Richard Sexton form the law firm of Pressley and Sexton. Albert Childress and Minyard Compton specialize in all kinds of truck- ing anywhere in the United States. Such are the careers of 43's graduates of Young. Tweniy-xrifen

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N The RECORD gs 1943 CLASS WILL ELIZABETH EICH We, the class of 1943 of Young High School, hav- ing come to our last hours in our right mind, and in peace with all the world, do hereby give and devise all our worthy goods and possessions to the following bene- ficiaries. To the entire school we leave the example we have set as worthy scholars and blameless students. Our record has been spotless. We have done no deed, as a class, that we need blush for. To the junior class we bestow our senior dignity, our excelling wit, our superlative brillance, our good looks, and our charming manners. To the sophomore class we leave our ability to enter into school activities and make for ourselves names in drama, music, and in the literary activities of our school. To the freshman class we leave our tenacious will, the ability to hang on through four, long, arduous years. We now come to the following personal bestowals which have been awarded to the individuals with com- plete consideration of their needs. To Mr. Duff, a copy of Amateur Detective Sug- gestions which we feel will be of great assistance to him next year. To Miss Crippen, who seems too much wedded to her work as a school teacher, we leave the book, belong- ing to the girls of the class called, How to Win a Husband. To Mr. Browning we bestow all cough drops, peanuts, and chewing gum hidden in and under the various desks. Twenty-.tix To Hazel Sands, who is an expert at robbing cradles, Marna French wills Elrod. john Moore bestows his over affectionate naturen to Gerald Cooper. To Patsy Burleson, we bequeath Willimena Moore's ability to put on a fine complexion. Save the surface and you save all! To Lorine McConkey, we will Peggy Seaton's sunny smile and giggles-they wonit wear off! To Martha Dew we bestow Nora Catlett's fondness for boys. To Paul Kennedy, we give Jack Rohrer's chance to become President of the United States. To Dolores Burleson is given Jean Spitzer's trick of looking innocent when caught in mischief. To Rose Mary Barber we present a worm. She already has the booksg so not the royal title of book- worm is hers. Everette Sharp wills his tendency to make a little knowledge go a long way in the classroom to Billy Irwin. Any beneficiary attempting to subvert, overturn, nullify, or in any way interfere with the provisions of this document shall not only be deprived of all rights and privileges therein granted for him or her, but shall be sentenced to hard labor from one to five years, ac- cording to the discretion of the court, in Mr. Bean's algebra class. Hereunto have we set the hand and seal of the class of 1943, this 14th day of May, One Thousand Nine Hundred and Forty-three.

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NY TheRECORD if 1943 DESIGN FOR DESTINY JAMES KING From east and west the members came, From north and south they gathered in With thirst for knowledge all aflame, With purpose strong the prize to win. Ambition's breeze filled every breast, The high ideal of the whole Spurred nineteen forty-three to gain the best In virtue and in soul. Today emotions within us swell That pour a stream of pure delight Twixt pride for work performed so well And promise of a future bright. For some, life's tasks will lie at home, For others, distant fields designed. A higher school will welcome some, But all, we trust, God's paths will find. The sweetest plant that springs on earth, Pure friendship's peerless, perfect flower, Grows only from the seed of worth Nor withers 'till life's latest hour. Within these days, in every heart, This plant has sprung with richest glow And school-mates, as our steps depart, We take it with us as we go. There is one thought now in our mind, Heard only by the inner ear, Which as we think yet strikes along The string which every soul must hear. This thought so sad, our teachers true, That we must say the word, good-bye. Yet as we say the word, adieu, The love we cherish ne'er shall die. Twenty-e