Bowie High School - Jackrabbit Yearbook (Bowie, TX)

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f'Arvil Davis, the only one out of the class who is a self-made millionaire, is a great financier who got his start in the big business world by selling chicken coops. jim Fox and Robert Cady have joined forces and are now brimming their way from place to place. In other words, they are tramps. They often sleep in haystacks, camp by the roadside, eat out of ancient tin cans, and though their clothes are in tatters, their shoes have no soles, and their faces are unshaven, they are happy. 'fThough Catherine Capers had many lovers, she chose a very poor one-we mean in worldly goods. She is a very neat housewife and writes the 'Hints for the Home' Column in the Bowie Blade. Vera Abbott, who thought nature had ordained that she should be a poet, has never written another poem after she turned her back on Bowie High. She met a young man who had fallen heir to a zoo-acre citrus farm in California. She is now living in her western home with its immense groves of orange, lemon, and grapefruit trees. Willie Gray went to Texas University, met a millionaire's daughter, wooed her, married her, and is now living in luxury. fVVho'd have thought it?j Jack Raines, who has grown stout and somewhat bald, is the author of the world- famous book, 'Pair o' Dice Lost.' Mary Sparra is the matron of an orphans' home. She believes in the training of the body as well as of the mind. At the next item I looked closer. Could I be mistaken? No, there it was in black and white: f'Our intellectual Delbert Thomas has strayed from the paths of learning and is now a dancing teacher in New York. Soon after his graduation, Ernest Kilcrease was seized with a severe attack of wanderlust. He went to Mexico, donned a sombrero, and married a beautiful senorita, who bakes the best frijoles in the Land of Strife and Disorder. After becoming the dictator of Mexico, Ernest declares that he will have peace or blow up the entire country. Lee VViley Tucker is a great economist, whose learned treatises we read occasionally. He and Ben Turley, doomed to be bachelors, live together. Ben, who is now one of Bowie's mast prominent citizens, being president of the Rotary Club, does the cooking, and Lee VViley furnishes all the energy for house-cleaning, which he does economically and scientifically. I.ucile VVhitley has been given a great honor. She is Superintendent of the Bowie Public Schools. However, the enormous responsibility of this office has caused her to become somewhat pale and delicate. Clovis VVatson, whom we all know to be very versatile, served his apprenticeship as a trafiic copy but having had motion picture experience in his Senior year, is now the most famous star in filmdom. He sends out daily 1,500 photographs of himself. I sighed heavily when I had finished reading. Some of my old classmates brought to mind bythe paper I had been reading, I had almost forgotten. Vivid incidents of my school life, in which these boys and girls always figured largely, outlined themselves clearly in my memory. Ten years have passed since we were Seniors in Bowie High School. I smiled sardonically and yet with conviction when I thought of an oft-repeated sentence which we, the Seniors of '27, once scoffed at and disbelieved. Your school days are your happiest. ' - Y , 0 F N -..sq 28 Ea..-

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Senior Class Prophecy SETTLED myself comfortably in a Morris chair, stretching my feet to the fire, and picked up a copy of The Maroon and VVhite, published by the students of Bowie High School in 1937. I glanced hastily over the paper. To 7 if my surprise, I saw in large, black letters: QU .05 i A t l L Q 5- s. Due to the many celebrities and successes from the Senior Class of 1926-27, U2 fl detailed accounts will be given below concerning the location and occupation of each member in this worthy class. VVhy, that's my old class! I exclaimed aloud. Eagerly I read: 'lErnest Chandler from his earliest years has been fond of doing what he calls 'stunts.' Ilis bones seem to be made of India-rubber, and his various contortions were always the delight of his classmates. He ltook time by the forelock' and, as soon as his graduation was an accomplished fact, he began a year's engagement with a medicine show, and is advertised as the world's greatest contortionist. Allene Cobb, soon after her graduation, also joined the same medicine show as a tight-rope walker. . l'Kenneth Brite QAh, yes, I remember him welll is a good-for-nothing, though his classmates had always expected great things of him, but it seems he was disappointed in love. Naturally being very bitter, there is only one woman to whom he ever speaks, and that is Zella O'Brien, who runs a millinery shop under the trade name of the 'Three Dollar Hat Shop, No Two Alike.' She is an old maid, and has three cats, four kittens, and one canary. Alston McNatt, now known as 'Cap'n,' joined the Marine Corps and traveled the world over. His wife, formerly VVanda Rose, accompanies him on all his trips, and as soon as they land she rushes to the nearest shop to see the latest styles, for she is still interested in fashions as much as in her high school days. Christine Kilcrease has become a chorus girl-oh, shame!-and she has one of the leading roles in a musical comedy now being shown in Sandwich Village. f'Virgie Robbins is a celebrated poetess who sings of chirping birds and babbling brooks. Eulalie Askew is a widow and has a difficult struggle in filling the gaping mouths of her three children. She has repeatedly refused six persistent and insistent proposals of marriage from Dan Sadler, a famous baseball player. She says she must devote her life to her children. Tulia VVinton has invented a new cosmetic, warranted to remove all blemishes from the face in fifteen minutes, giving it a clear and radiant hue and glow of youthful health most charming to the eye. She will soon amass a great fortune, for it is well known that all a woman hath she will give for her complexion. Thelma Pigg, always ambitious, is now the competent and efficient stenographer of the Governor of Texas, who is Alfred Evans. I paused before the next name-Clifford Overstreet. VVho was he? Oh, yes, I re- member him now. The boy whom Mrs. Raines was always calling down. I continued: l'Clifford is a farmer, who is soon going to try out his invention for bringing water out of the ground without either digging, drilling, or driving pipe. It seems his farm is famous for its odorless onions. Vera Merle Prichard, after a lucky marriage with a prince whom she met on her European tour, is now the Princess of Rsqweka. jewett Caswell is her prime minister and is beloved by all the people because of his justice. Haywood Moss is now a roving gambler, and he seems determined to become rich by hook cr crook. Fred Holloway is also of a roving temperament, being a traveling salesman. He professes in his attire a decided liking for checked suits, striped ties, and brown derbies. Douglas Horton is now District Attorney. He won his popularity in the Johnson versus Caswell case, in which Venus accused Alta of stealing her husband. Ciloodness gracious! And they used to be such good friends, too. VVhat a shamelj -- it 27

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JUNIOR