Barret Manual Training High School - Revue Yearbook (Henderson, KY)

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T H E R E V U E CLASS HISTORY As I sat and turned the pages of a book entitled Youth , my eyes fell on this passage: ' Along the walls of many great halls, Youth beams with its glory bright, If only their thoughts could be recalled again, Would 'make many a day out of night. Their pictures show forth, what their lives have been, Filled with loyalty, victory, and truth, But never will they be united again, As they were in their days of Youth. Ah! What memories those verses brought back, I began to think of the friends of my school days. It has been fifty years or maybe more, since I graduated from B. M. T. H. S. My thoughts turned into dreams of the past and my activities at Barret High. My Freshman Year-I remember how little and insignificant we felt, and did the upperclassmen jump -on us? The boys went for a dip in the fish pond on the campus ibut not of their own free willl. We had a class meeting and then began to feel quite important, evlen if we had been kidded and called freshies , and in that class meeting we elected Virginia Orr Royster President of our class. After this everyone settled down to studying and the Freshies were forgotten. The next fall we went back to school as Sophomores and we certainly did feel big. We had our first chance to'look down on the Freshmen. That year we chose Owen Gregory as our chief executor. And then we were Juniors. Virginia Orn Royster was again elected President of our class. That fall on Thanksgiving Day we beat Owensboro. Three cheers for B. M. T. H. S. a red letter day for our school. That year gymnastic classes for boys and girls were begun and Miss Gibson was elected as the teacher for that department which proved very interesting. The student body was given a spring Vacation, which made the year even more successful and when we returned from our vacation we began to make preparations for a contest to select the King and Queen of the school. Our Junior representatives, Katherine Christ and Dick Alves won the contest. And then the event when the Juniors entertained the Seniors-it was a grand leap year dance. And in return we were entertained by the Seniors just as gloriously. Another year rolled around and we were Seniors. And the first thing we did was elect Dick Alves as our President. We had a new principal, Mr. Floyd, and two new additions to the faculty, Miss Marstall and Mr. Crafton that year. The school, voted on cheer leaders and Katherine Barret, Virginia Orr Royster, and Charles William Kleiderer were elected from our class. They surely did put pep into the football and basketball games. ' And now comes the sad part of our Senior Year, we were beaten on Thanksgiving Day by Owensboro. It was a good game though, and our boys put up a real fight. And then we began thinking about Graduation, selecting invitations and having our pictures made for the Revue. Oh Yes! And Virginia Orr Royster was Editor of it. And then came Graduation exercises and diplomas, and our High School days were over. , How grand it would be to see that class of thirty-three together again. I sat lost in memories dreaming of the past, and then I. heard something slip to the floor and awoke with a'start. It was only the book. I was bewildered, and then I knew that it was all a dream-those dear High School Days. I picked up the book, entitled, Youth , but did not continue reading. Placing it on the shelf, I sat down to recall again those fond memories. Ah! How Sweet. -Frances Robinson 'uf 1 9 3 3 Page cig teen '

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WHEN WE WERE FRESI-IMEN V P m1v L1

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...... ...... T H E R E V U E CLASS PROPHECY This is no prophecy. Lacking perhaps the genius of my predecessors and cheri hing a desire to evade the beaten path which they followed, I refuse to make this a prophecy. This is the voice of an oracle pronouncing inescapable doom. And whence, one asks, does this oracle gain it power. Let us solve the mystery-in addition to a brilliant mind, I possess a massive will-power which I have concealed Qalong with the brilliant mindl because 1' feared a misuse of it would result in a catastrophe. To illustrate this power I will say that I am able to make the sun travel around the earth instead of the present opposite condition. I have often considered forbidding rain to fall for two years, thus eliminating all unpleasant persons. The more analytic of my readers can detect the fault in my plan. We shall set the time, when I have accomplished my purpose in regard to the earth at 1950. Utopia, the perfect land shall then exist-and who could be more worthy of positions-high or other- wise-in this land of perfection than the high intellects and delightful personalities among the class of 1933? I shall move Washington to the site of Henderson as a whimsicality, and cast Henderson to the place where Washington was-to the eternal detriment of the Eastern Coast. At the head of the gov- ernment I shall then set up, I shall place E. Garret Crowley. This illustrates the irony of fate. tLet us here change to the present tense as it is much more readable,l At the time of 1950, E. Garret Crowley, the Chief Hospodar of America Amalgamated is so very popular that Gladys Ashley, Rebecca Bryant and Edna Burns are kept busy opening his fan mailg and Thelma LeRoy and Marie Lovelace are official photograph-senders for his majesty. The Minis- ters for his Majesty's entertainment are Billy Oglesby, Julia Konsler, and Aileen Gentry. It is said that the Hospodar owes much of his popularity to his press agent, Jesse Newman, whose facile tongue and pen once held sport-fans spellbound. Although the Hospodar is too dignified to reveal it, he is very much annoyed by the attacks on his character, by the political satirists, Katherine Christ and Marion Freeland. Among the higher officials of the land are Harold Stanley and Talbert Jennings, Ministers of Public Moralityg Harry Basan and Anne Vlforsham, Ministers of Passionate Poetryg and Rachael Woodside, Margaret Fitzgerald and Frances Robinson, Ministers for enforcement of the Sound-proof music-room-law , The Ministers for Suppressing High School Dramatics are Dick Alves, Katherine Barret, Marie Diecken and Robert Dicke1'son. The only disturbing element in our governmental affairs is the plotting of that dark anarchist. Emily Wilson, and her fellow conspirator, Virginia Konsler. The' Hospodar for some reason finds it necessary to employ a feminine guard, under the command of Frances Grider, Cymbeline Perrin, Alma Lee Near, and Earladine Hadley. Perhaps it is for the reason that the adventuresses Evelyn Boyd, Marie Sights, Ann Shofner and Nelle Kloss lwhose lurid past is notorious! can not be coped with by mere males, George Stigger tried, failed and retired to the secretaryship of the local Y. M. C. A. After furnishing material for scndal-mongers for some years, Dorothy Smith has tunder an oath never to marryl become President of The United Bachelor Girls fold maids to youj. Elsie Cheatham is her secretary. We now note that Thomas Stephon is assistant manager at Quinns, and Jerre Smith, the minister's son, is a finished rouel Can there be reasons! Some of the class pursue more or less intellectual course. Martha Meade Robertson is President of The Daughters of the Confederacy, a lifelong ambition. Marguerite Shephard is noted for her essays called How Wonderful Everything Is . Ishmael Phillips, assisted by the colorful humor of James Talley, runs the successor to Ballyhoo which he calls the Revue , We must not neglect the great philosopher-raconteur, Charles Raber. For want of better occupations, Lillian Hoffman, Mildred Long, Thelma Majors, Vera Hunter, and Marie Gass are air-stewardessesg Marie working on the Graf Zeppelin. The boisterous laughter of the Kockritz brothers has raised them to the position of America's premier humorists, but Oscar Martin and Marvin Madden are close seconds. Maurice Fitzgerald is the trumpet soloist in the or- chestra sponsored by the Elmo Dossett oil interests. Babette Levy is dean at Wellesley College, and Tyberia Wilson and Georgia Robinson are athletic directors there. Charles Kleiderer is chauffeur to Miss Dorsey. William Hoffman, Howard Funston, Lee Allen Hatchett and Marshall Nichols are chain store magnates and call themselves the Lambert Brothers. Malcolm Overfield is principal at B. M. T, H. S. since Harvard called Mr. Floyd to the president's chair there. Eleanor Jennings is something of a. Babe Didrekson. Walter Davis is Professor of Calculus at Bowling Green University and Sherman Combest is coach there. Virginia Orr Royster has written some tender little lyrics dedicated to members of the faculty at B. M. T. H. S. Wilms Kiefer is a noted collector of athletic medalst, and Frederick Schuette is famed for a new type of swine he developed which was named for him. Marion Stith isl a noted bio- chemistg Fred Paff, a pacifist: and Otis Moats, a successor to Bernard Shaw. Lastly we find William Sutton, Mayor of Evansville, and, WVilliam Hund, his Aide. For relaxation from the labor of directing the world, I am trying to will myself through the stone wall of a psychopathological sanatorium fbug-house to youj. Well-so it turned out to be a -prophecy after all. Well-bear up lad, That's Africa. -Fletcher Cheaney cm.--2.24. 1 9 3 3 ...wa ,E ..--... 0 .2 gk .....- .ug r--...E Page nineteen