Birdville High School - Buffalo Yearbook (North Richland Hills, TX)

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JAMES BELL- Hail, Merchant M aririesf' EUGENE BALOATE- Football H era! BETTY JANE BROOKS- She's like alittle Brook RUTH FISHER- Who'll catch that Fish ? SUE MORRIS-ffsusle Q! H. C. WELLS- Little Bit. JOHNNY BESS ROSE- A sweet Rose. JOHNNY MAE THOMPSON- Mae's a'flower. MOVETA WALLACE-- She has them all beat. JAMES WALKER- Bashf'al Walker.

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r gg. r-HL .1 Ib E1 CLASS PROPHECY One fine morning in 1954, ten years after I had left Birdville High School, my butler awoke me with the morning news. There was nothing very unusual about this except it seemed that some of Birdville's ex-stu- dents had made the headlines. For instance, on the sports page I first noticed the headline, a very large one, that said, Joe Louis loses Cham- pionship to Thomas Harris, who was one of our Birdville graduates of 1944. Glancing on down the page, I noticed that there was a new football star on Texas University's leading team-one Marvin Ward, another Birdville boy. The Ladies' International Tennis Championship was won by none other than Betty Walker, another Birdville bird that flew the coop. I also noticed that Sarah Gholson had been named first baseman for the Brooklyn Dodgers. Good old Sarah-still playing baseball. Another column that interested me was one that had the title Boy graduates just ten years late. After reading the column I discovered that the boy was Orvie Beck, an exceptionally fine student. Turning next, as is my custom, to the theatrical section, I saw that one of Birdville's beloved students had been made a Metropolitan Opera star. I'll wager you would never guess who it was, so I will tell you-our own Rosemary Hanus. Next I noticed that two successors had been named for Tarzan. The successors were Birdville boys, Roy and Coy Brooks, who were billed as the Twin Tarzans, what a title!