Young High School - Record Yearbook (Knoxville, TN)

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Of course our senior play was the best yet. It was the comedy, Tell it to the Marines. The stars, were Mary Elizabeth Claiborne, Danny Lyle, Gordon Ford, Clara Sharp, Ethel Hollister, Kathryn Doss, Mary Lou Oliver, Wayne Ballard, Fred Furr, DuHie Groover, and Lucille King. This year the Record staff was composed of a group of hard working students. The staif was as follows: Betsy Johnson, Editor- in-Chiefg james Bumgarner, jr., Associate Editorg Bill Pattison, Business Managerg Gordon Ford, Advertising Managerg Fred Furr, Club Editorg Helen Carroll, Feature Editorg Raymond Edmunds, Sports Editor, Stella Blazier, Faculty Editor, Clara Sharp, Circula- tion Managers and Mary Lou Oliver, Alumnae Circulation Manager. A number of seniors have made enough points to become Thespians. They are Bill Pattison, Mary Elizabeth Claiborne, Beryl iffy J 1944 The RECORD Spurling, Betsy Johnson, Fred Elrod, Wayne Ballard, Gordon Ford, Beulah Basham, Charlene Bowles, Alliene Burleson, Trula Cupp, Leah King, Lorine McConkey, Mary Lou Oliver, Betty Jane Ringe- mann, and Clara Sharp. Out of the two hundred and four students who started this journey, only one hundred and two have completed the task. At this point our class would like to thank Mr. Duff for his help and advice during our four years of school here at Young High. As we look back over our four years at Young High School, we realize that we have made many mistakes, and we hope the other classes at Young High will profit by them. Our class has tried to uphold the high standards of Young High and we hope that the future students will continue to do the same. LAST WILL A D TESTMENT We the m mbers of the class of Nineteen Hundred and Forty-fou of Young High School being of sound mind anll good health, realizing the nearness of our departure, and our importance as Seniors, do hereby declare this our Last Will and Testament. To Mr. Brickey, Mr. Duff, and the members of the faculty we leave our thanks for your kindness and patience with us during the past four years. To our beloved sponsor, Mrs. Mariam Garrett, we leave our deep gratitude and appreciation for her un- tiring and unceasing efforts to make this such a pleasant one. To the Freshman and Sophomore we will the idea of some day being Seniors. We leave to Miss Hays, all the candy and chewing gum wrapper that we have left behind. To Miss Keller, the book willed to Miss Crippen last year, How To Win Your Man And Hold Him, which was so effective, we pass on to you. To the Juniors our personal Bequeaths: Clara Sharp wills her ability to catch on to jokes to Rosie and Alma. Harold Cheek wills his self importance to Elrod Cheatham. Mary Lou Oliver wills her title of Sweater Girl to Delores Burleson. Bill and Tom Pattison will their ability to keep the Webfoot in circulation to Stinky Thompson. Betty Jane Ringemann leaves her ability to set the school on fire to any one who can. James Bumgarner leaves his seat at a certain theatre to any one who can get in the way he does. Helen Carroll bequeaths her poetic talents to any Junior who wants to become famous. Lorine McConkey leaves her pleasant personality to any Junior who can live up to the title. A. J. Evans wills his studious disposition to Jack York. Amelia and Mary Himes, and Alice Johnson will their ability to win Cadets to any Juniors who know the technique. W. A. Turner wills his ability to write so no one can read it to any Junior who wants to fool the teacher. Leah King wills her ever present and radiating smile to anyone who can earn the title. Patsy Burleson wills the title of Best Thespian to the one who can truly earn this great honor. Fred Elrod wills some of his quietness and peaceful manner to Gerald Cooper. Trula Cupp wills her saleslady ability to Bobby Cruze. June Griffin wills her fondness for Mr. Jennings to Dorothy McCammon. Wilda Stallings leaves her various lipsticks and secrets of makeup to all the Junior girls. Bruce Henderson and Betty Owens leave their ability to argue to any Junior who wants to get into trouble. Danny Lyle wills the keys which he has to the Senior Class to Bart lddins. Jessie Galyon wills her high ideals to the Junior who can hold them up. Gene Huff leaves his heart to Libby Baker. Betsy Johnson leaves Editor of the RECORD to the editor next year, who will have a job. Twenty-nine

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All The RECORD ' 1944 CLASS HISTORY-1944 HISTORIAN Although the events which we, my able assistant, Fred Elrod, and I, are about to relate to you are not recorded in any history book, they hold a place of honor in the hearts of the class of '44 and in the history of Young High School. In the year 1940 a group of two hundred and four young, bright, intelligent-looking boys and girls trailed into this institution, eager for a higher and more elaborate education. Shortly after the opening of the school year, just as we had settled down to the serious task of making a good name for our- selves, we had a meeting of the freshman class. The class had at hand some important business-that of electing a sponsor and some class ogicers. We promptly elected Miss Keller our class sponsor because every upper classman seemed to admire her. Because she was really grand and much of the success of the class was due to her guidance and fine leadership, we know now that we made no mistake. After careful consideration we elected Dorothy Pollock our class president, Robert Lee our vice-president, and Bobbie Birchfield our secretary and treasurer. The freshman class showed their approval of Lorine McConkey by electing her Freshman Queen of the May Day Festival. Other students in our class who participated in the'May Day celebration were Alliene Burleson, Pat Burleson, Ruth Moody, and Ada Shepherd Jenkins. Forty-two freshman girls joined the Home-Economics Club, nine joined the Girl Reserves, and twelve became members of the Young High Band. Ruth Moody, Alice Johnson, Frances Williams, Kathryn Meador, Ada Jenkins, Juanita Cooper, Beryl Spurling, and Pat Burleson gave their talents to the Drill Squad, while the Young High Chorus was aided by the voices of Joan Nipper, Dorothy Byrd, Inez Cruze, Danny Lyle, Mary Lou Oliver, and Jessie Galyon. The popularity of Jessie was shown when she was elected president of the Home-Economics Club and social chairman of Girl Reserves. To let the world know that the freshman class was not with- out dramatic ability, Danny Lyle, Pat Burleson, Ethel Hollister, and Jessie Galyon stepped forward. Pat, Ethel, and Jessie displayed their ability in What a Life. In the athletic department the freshman class was very weakly represented as it always is. Bob Harris played on the football team and Raymond Edmunds and Allan Kidd combined their athletic abilities to make a stronger baseball team. The entire school must have liked the freshmen fairly well for two of our number--Bobbie Birchfield, little in statue but big in voice, and Dot Pollock, the little girl with the Northern accent that amused us-were chosen to represent the school as cheerleaders. It is now 1941. We are great-big sophomores. The greenness that was with us in our freshman year has worn off and in its place there is a certain measure of boldness. We yell in the halls, throw waste paper on the Hoors, and chew gum in our classes. Our class officers during the sophomore year were Bobbie Birch- field, president, J. T. Spangler, vice-president, and Raymond Spooky Edmunds, secretary-treasurer. For our sponsor we elected Mr. W. W. Morris. There were nine of the sophomore girls in the Girl Reserves, and Ethel Hollister and Jessie Galyon joined the Speaker's Guild. In the Home Economics Club there were forty-three sophomore girls and thirteen sophomores represented the class in the band. Our class was represented in the field of dramatics by Clara Sharp in Dark House, Pat Burleson, Danny Lyle, and Clara in You Can't Take It With You, and Pat and Clara in The Parade of Fun. This year the class responded to the world of sports by pro- ducing two football players-Gene Huff and Bob Harris. Besides playing baseball this year, Raymond Edmunds was head football manager. Many new students entered our class this year, coming from various junior high and high schools. Twenty-eight Before we knew it, another year had passed away and we were juniors. This year Mrs. York, known to us as Miss Bacon then, won our hearts so completely that we elected her sponsor of the junior class. We thank you, Mrs. York, for your patience and unsurpassed leadership. Our class officers for this year were as follows: Lorine McConkey, president, Danny Lyle, vice-presidentg and .Betty Jane Willis, secretary-treasurer. The Penguin Club received the services of Doris Duggan, Mary Elizabeth Claiborne, Pat Burleson, Jessie Galyon, and Dorothy Murphy. Pat was elected vice-president while Jessie was honored with the office of secretary. Although we did not have a junior play, our class received recognition on the stage. Helen Carroll, Pat Burleson, and Clara Sharp appeared in Sky Road. Stella Blazier, Wayne Ballard, Faye Brown, and Danny Lyle were on the Yellowjacket staff. Ethel Hollister, Pat Burleson, Helen Carroll, Jessie Galyon, June Griffin, and Danny Lyle were admitted to the Thespian Troupe. During this year Helen Carroll won the Ossili Poetry Contest. Lorine McConkey was the junior attendent to Miss Young High School. To the sporting world we gave four football players--Paul Kennedy, Bob Harris, Ed Norton, and Gene Huff. The varsity basketball squad received the services of Raymond Edmunds. We nearly forgot to mention that our class had a skating party and a class party that year. There was also the annual fling-the Junior-Senior Banquet at the S 81 W. At last we are seniors--the only students in the school. We can now make the lower classman sit up and take notice. For our class sponsor we elected Mama Garrett. Our class owes Mrs. Garrett more than we can ever repay. She has taken us through this year in a style that no one else could equal. Again it is time to elect class officers. Danny Lyle was elected president, Gene Huff, vice-president, Jessie Galyon, secretary, and Lorine McConkey, treasurer. Our senior class was not without an eye for beauty. We elected Dorothy Murphy Miss Senior Class. The entire school elected our senior, Jessie Galyon, Miss Young High School. Senior boys who excelled in sports were Paul Kennedy, football captain and voted Most Outstanding Player in East Tennessee, Gene Huf, alternate captain, Tommy Pattison, Danny Lyle, Ed Norton, and Bob Harris. Raymond Edmunds and Gordon Ford played on the basketball team. The girls in white and the boys in nicely pressed suits were the little people who served as ushers during the year. They were Beryl Sperling, Head Usher, Trula Cupp, Mary Elizabeth Claiborne, Alliene Burleson, Betsy Johnson, Mary Lynn Johnson, Geneva Angel, Frances Williams, Bruce Henderson, and Danny Lyle. Wilda Stallings and Jessie Galyon were elected by the band .to be their sponsors. Stella Blazier was made editor of the Yellow- jacket. Betsy Johnson, Kathryn Doss, Bruce Henderson, James Bumgarner, and Fred Furr became members of the newly formed hiking club, the Klutz Family. What senior would welcome the honor of becoming a Com- mencement speaker? This year, in order of their averages, the speakers were Helen LeCoultre, Stella Blazier, Mary Lou Glass, Elizabeth Betsy Johnson, and Lorine McConkey. There were many seniors that took part in the dramatic activi- ties of the school this year, Clara Sharp, Gordon Ford, Trula Cupp, Helen Carroll, Pat Burleson, and Harold Cheek appeared in The Yankee Doodle Minstrel. In the all-student production, One Mad Night, Lorine McConkey, Trula Cupp, Wayne Ballard, and Bill Pattison made their entrance. In the Thespian play, Smilin' Through, the seniors were Betsy Johnson, Jessie Galyon, Bill Patti- son, Gordon Ford, Pat Burleson, Danny Lyle, Wayne Ballard, Mary Elizabeth Claiborne, Beryl Spurling, and Ethel Hollister.

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RNA . The RECORD V 1944 CLASS PRCPHECY-1944 Inspired by our election as class Prophets, my as- sociate, Betty Owens, and I retired to the seclusion of a hilltop monastary. Clad in our flowing gray robes. we have spent ten tireless years studying the art of prophecy. Now we have completed our course, and having carefully dusted our crystal ball, we decided to launch into our career. We chose our former class- mates as guineapigs, and now, with Miss Owens dili- gently recording in shorthand, I shall relate the scenes as they pass in review in my crystal ball. I see Geneva Angel as a famous song writer. Madam Mare, the world famous designer of women's clothes is none other than our own Mary Elizabeth Claiborne. Harold Cheek has finally persuaded a girl to say yes to his proposal and I see him rushing home from work to his-er--supper. Betty Jane Ringe- mann is happily married to Pat Wood and busy caring for the twins, Pat and Mike. Wilda Stallings is cover girl for True Confessions magazine while Dot Murphy graces the covers of the American magazine. I see Stella Balzier and Faye Brown as co-editors of a popu- lar woman's magazine. Ethel Hollister is head of an exclusive dramatic school where she teaches the youth of Knoxville to emote. Jessie Galyon is a famous opera star now on a concert tour in Europe. Bob Harris is president of the popular club, Loafers' Incorporated. Melba Tharpe is a famous hair stylist in great demand by the Hollywood stars. Helen LeCoultre coaches the Quiz Kids and Bruce Henderson gives Cas Walker his able assistance on his early morning broadcasts. Charlene Bowles is Tennessee's pride and joy-our first woman Senator. Alice Johnson, and Mary and Amelia Himes are still pursuing their favorite pastime-cadets! Clara King is South Knoxville's only woman detective. Vanda Rodgers is proprietor of a successful reducing salon, with Willi- dean Blazier acting as advertising manager. Leah King is successfully practicing law in New York, with Mary Lynn Johnson as her capable secretary. Ed Norton is warden at Petros Prison-Ted Dunagon is his model prisoner. Clara Sharp is a famous boogie Woogie pianist. James Bumgarner is still having love trouble-Freda Karnes, Bonnie Lynn Goforth, Ruby Smith, and Dorothy Byrd are suing him for breach of promise. Wanda Bowles is married to the faithful O. K. Anderson who spends all his time trying to persuade her to retire from the WACS. A. J. Evans is a star salesman for the Fuller Brush Company. Helen Stevens and Ada Jen- kins, Joan Nipper, and Mary Lou Oliver committed matrimony a long time ago. Shorty Dunn is serving as matron at the Knoxville Jail. Beryl Spurling is a Powers model with many admirers. Helen Thompson and Frances Williams are buyers for a large department store. Trula Cupp has a full time job-Gerald Cooper pays her to laugh at his corny jokes. June Grifin, Lucille King, Elventine McDaniels, and Mary Ellen Cusick are Young High's gift to the business world. Thirly Mary Lou Glass is teaching shorthand and typing at her business college. Danny Lyle is night watchman at Woodlawn Cemetery. Yes, he watches other things too. Bill Pattison has replaced Lou Costello in the movies. Louise Hoskins, Alliene Burleson, Beulah Basharn, and Juanita Walker are busy caring for their respective lucky husbands. Lorine McConkey is a famous woman aviator engaged to that handsome Air Ace, Gordon Ford. Fred Furr is a mortician with a flourishing business now that Tom Pattison is practicing medicine. Looking very pretty in their nurses uniforms are Miriam and Esther Counts, Hazel Sands, Anna Grace Kidd, and Vivian Goodin. Helen Carroll is now Mrs, Penny. She also writes Soap Serials in her spare time. Her latest success was I Want My Ali- mony or John's Other Wife. Allen Kidd is playing baseball for the New York Giants. He blushes when the crowd cheers his home runs. Roberta Rule and Louise Huffaker are on parole now for good behavior. Kathryn Meador and Mamie Hensley collaborate on their Juicy Gossip column in the New York Times. Duffie Groover is married to Elrod now and busy raising a crop of burr headed boys. Madge Lawson is the founder of Knoxville's foremost dog pound, and Wayne Ballard is a famous movie actor playing opposite Hattie McDaniels. Fred Elrod is now a spray-gunner. He demonstrates Flit Fly Spray. Raymond Edmunds operates a highly successful pool room over Donald Reece's hardware store. Betsy Johnson is now a Lt. Colonel in the U. S. Army Nurse Corp. Ruth Moody, Euphrasia Spangler, and Marjorie Perry are receiving lots of shiny, red apples these days for they are teaching in a grammar school. Kathryn Doss is the Knoxville representative for a large cosmetic firm. Dorothy Maples is still working at the Journal-she has now been promoted to assistant of the 15th Vice-President. Genevieve Garner is YHS's popular Phys. Ed. teacher while Paul Kennedy is back at Young in the honorable position of football coach. Elizabeth and Jane Deaderick are still having trouble keeping their mail straight. To avoid too much confusion Jane has changed her name to Mrs. Dan Hicks, Jr. Inez Cruze is now a missionary serving in a foreign country. Dot Douglas is a speed typist, while Annice Johnson and Carrie Mae Hurst are Home Economics teachers. Juanita Cooper and Edna Dorton are still bachelor girls working in one of our large department stores. Doris Duggan is hostess at Knoxville's newest night club. In their spare time she and Raymond Edmunds teach jitterbug lessons. Ken- neth Reed is doing big business selling his Pink Pills for Pale People. Juanita Blazier recently bought seven bottles. Helen Bradford, Helen Kirkland, and Lula Marie Connolly are considering taking that fateful leap over the brink of matrimony. Earl Lowe is an ambitious railroad detective. Gene Huff has taken Libby and the children and moved over in to Ward Town where he was recently elected Mayor of that fair city. And so we leave the successful graduates of 1944.