Amarillo High School - La Airosa Yearbook (Amarillo, TX)

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ll,-nA'---M -- Y f - -N 'rag - Xi Q i i r I li I i ii ,, ,. l k. fs ir ,r 2? l, if 1 .5 El ll U1 sg' ii rig, 11 .IA sf ii, lu i I. r l lvl Mfrs, e fe . :Arg - gi' 1 ..',f'-L 'l ' ' 'siwgxir K ' FIFTY YEARS HENCE ii IMAGINE ll Frank l-liginbotham peddling bananas ll Julia Jones as a Prima Dona i Carl Miller as a horse doctor ,lo Billie Roberts keeping house on the banks of the Jordan Ellyn Dickson a social reformer Gus Thomas supporting Clara Marjorie Neely as an old maid Thad Ansley as a beauty specialist 1 ,Jennie Mae Daniels a chorus girl Windy Nicklaus a dancing master l Nancy Works attending Windy's dancing school Corrine Tipton curling Willie's hair 1 Frank Howard as a millionaire ' Earl Elkins training little tigers Q Regene Gilvin a nun ldelma Conoley a toe dancer . I l f ln air we heard the battle cry To Arms, to arms, ahoy! The darts of Cupid swiftly fly 3 And Mary won-The Siege of Troy. li ' Out in California Along the ocean beaches :' You're apt to find a lemon there Nl? But oh, the Sonkist peaches! if Visitors: ls it ever dry here? gi Student: Couldn't say, m'am: l've only been here three months. A small boy went into a dry-goods store and asked the price of collars. .Clarkr Two for a quarter. Small Boy: l-low much will one cost? ' i Clerk: Fifteen cents. I Small Boy: Well, I'll take the other one. I g --i r ' Charles Green: l'Mary, did the grocer have pigs feet? Mary Nobles: I don't know, he didn't take off his shoes while l was there. i ...-l l E Say have you seen a man around here with one arm named Smith? i. I don't know, what was the name of the other arm? I Teacher: Girls you must leave the room. Girls: Yes m'am we didn't intend to take it with us. I Mr. Hinds: Charles Mac. this is the third time that you have looked on Mary's Z Y paper. , c - 9 - - N l Charles: , 'Yes slr, she cloesn t Wl'llB very plainly. E or a a-w,fs-:s- ss.. A A fc-Q Ninety-Seven

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l J l l il in I .V Q G ,. , , FIFTY YEARS AGO E IMAGINE Willie Mclntosh with an all day sucker lf il Grady Wilson learning his A. B. Cis Lily Humphreys a dainty delicate lassie I Gordon Hinds reciting Little Boy Bluei' Maggie Avent learning to walk Cora Avery riding a calf Alma Mays riding a tricycle ' Anna Klappworth jumping rope. Charlie Rogers playing Marbles Berkley Vaughn dressed as Lord Fauntleroy Mrs. Brint on roller skates. Gervis Taylor in her cradle. Mr. Lackey pulling a toy train. Dana Harmon crying for her rattle. y, Theresa Bucy growing tall. A 'l on! The Lightning Bug is Brilliant H , And he hasn't any Mind: i He wanders thru Creation X N With his Headlight on Behind ll Ben L. and Charles H., after they had been SML Rogers office for playing hooky. Ben L.: Mr, Rogers uses good grammar doesn't he? Charles H.: Yes, but his sentences are too long. AMONG OTHER IMPOSSIBLE, TRY TO IMAGINE-. Margaret Rasco not giggling I 5 Jewell Ballard walking fast l Troy without Mary Yourself clapping with one hand ' 1' Oscar Anderson making love , Ray Boyles in a dress suit j Alvin Daves drawing wine out of an empty flask , Wave Westbay trying to live on beauty . ll Any one falling on his back 'and breaking his nose U i Albert Wyaw dissipating , .4 Hershel Tadlock a dwarf . ji George Ray as a sheik. A fox sleeps but counts hens in his dreams, - 1 U --, i,- Nature can not jump from winter to summer without a spring, or from summer to fi ly winter without a fall. ll . H li il l . 1' :img 'M' 'x '- - 1 - -iw M1221 f' 'T 'Z' K' 'f'.11f 1:mifAh' 'Af --H-H--77 if- ' ji LC! ,!l11'f,1Sc1 1924 E51 fnifiety-Six? ' 'Y' ' Mi-'VY' if i J 'mx-' Al i ' V in 5 ' V' Ah '

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V 11 r :A-as -. 33..- -N-u..ee-swf.. gm E. Tswfggbgrslaa . .-, . 11:1 .LL5sQ'?'3f'3w1' 1 f-gzigz. 4'-gskfgi-+wEf1gR 'a ig'. l ' A PUPILXS IDEA OF GRATITUDE f V I am grateful to whoever is responsible- That I don't have to go to school all my life. That Mr. Mclntosh is not my father. Q! 1 That it cloesn't ram more than every other day. il? vi That I'm not a school teacher. - lr lfli That Mr. Wilson does not try to make a bright remark very often 52 7 That six weeks exams clon't come once a week. That I'm not a freshman. Ig A That girls don't always walk backwards and sometimes choose another place than 'i the stairs to conduct their conversations. if E, That I know more than all my teachers together. ll That Latin is a dead language. That I have a good set of teeth. ll That Miss Klappworth never makes use of sarcasm in disciplining her classes. j That English teachers don't compel us to read all of Milton. ,l ' That we have the sacred privilege of lynching those who persist in relating anti- i quated witticisms. 1' HL That bananna pies exist. v li That Pop Hinds likes candy and will allow its unrestricted mastication on due ir ill 'N 1 payment of tribute,on the basis of fifty percent. That ignorance is bliss Chlspecially beneficial to the Happiness of jim Lumpkin., ' it That teachers are sleepy and near sighted. ll That in Hershal Tadlock, we have at least one classmate whom no one can look A .5 down upon. l lil That Frank Howard will soon be in jail and we will no longer be irritated 'by E his silly giggling. A That I don't have to write any more funny remarks for this Annual. l ll T it --ee 7 l X FAMOUS FACTS BY FOOLISH FOLKS E ll Leonard Sharp- Oh lets play 'hookyl . I H 1 Richard Nunn- I was named after Richard the Lion-Hearted. l . Elwood Phillips-nl have a contract to play with Sousa in l95O. l Nlarvin Twaddell- Our annual will rival any of Shakespeare's productionsf 'L Robert Teed- Amarillo High was too small for my intellectf' ll Ray Boyles- Oral themes are the delight of my life. 1 lVlervin Ford-nl ship tin cans to my cousin Henry. l Wave Westbay- Demosthenes hasn't anything on me. ,, U Paul Hare- I am a good Easter symbol. Nj Aeleen Cooki lVly name has been in prominence since the world's Creation. ll' Esther Loving-nl make the world go 'roundf' l, Eugenia Willie Vvhittingtoninvvitty witticisms work wonders. Q T, Lilly Mae Hackler- I am pure, sweet and white. -may be. Y li Y .1-.i- ' THREE ACT TRAGEDY - I lst Act. Bull and two toradors L Znd. Act: Bull and one torador V, 3rd, Act: Bull. Q, 'tl if .Wii,3l?5ff?!,?5si55.iiiifilcfiii?f?3'ii7i ill. Ninety- Eiyht