Bradenton High School - Macohi Yearbook (Bradenton, FL)

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Rev. Howard Thompson is with Arlene Akers who is China's greatest missionary. Representatives from the navy are pres- ent. Showing his medals is Edward Deane, Admiral of the Florida . Part of his crew is with him-Ioe Dykes, Stratt Fletcher, Ramon Bradley, Walter Bell, Billy Brown, and Lem Pringle. Telegraph operators are Wendell Pope and Iohn Richardson. Captain Bill Gates, oi Transcontinental Airlines, accompained by Stewardess Martha Rushton, has arrived by plane from New York. Albert Cutolo, champion swimmer, is relating his experiences to boxers, Robert and Quinn Shiver. Late arrivals are Lonnie Pullen and Iohn McGuire, mechanics at Lockheed, who have just recognized Bob Humphreys, recently rated best dressed man in Amer- ica. Quiet everyone! We are going to be entertained by the members of the most famous glee club in America. We im- mediately recognize members as Margaret Gainey, Lou Ellen Armstrong and Rae Argo. There are news hounds everywhere. Aquilla Turbeville is interviewing those three army nurses from Sheppard Field, Texas-Evelyn Pringle, Alma Taylor, and Nadine Green. Army hostesses with them include: Hazel Terry. Iuanita Parrish, Peggy Kersey, and Myrtle Van Diver. Now we see a familar face: it is that of Grace Rogers, who is the world's most renowned dietitian. Ruth McCall, now operator of F. W. Woolworth store is trying to catch a cer- tain sailor's eyes. but Lowell Pemelman just will not look around! Evelyn Rosier, editor of a New York daily, is taking a tip from Margie Brown who designs dress patterns for Simplicity. Adele Gay, who taught Mickey Rooney to jitterbug is showing Helen Phillips, Helen Lantz, and Rita Rowlett Kmagazine cover modelsl a new dance craze. Susan Murphy, Iudge, and Mary Dickin- son, laboratory technician, are discussing world affairs with Dorothy Perry. Holly- wood hair stylist, and that cute little house- wife, Frances Littleton. Katherine Titsworth purls one. knits two while Virginia Roberts, New York judge, looks on. Margaret Anne Smith. radio comedienne for lack Benny, is telling one of her latest to that famous bicycle team, Cecil Black and Ernestine Morris. Poet, Robert Blaclanon, reads his famous Blackout to the crowd. Dan Collins, English professor, criticizes while Zeke Bonds, vocalist, suggests a way to put it to music . Navigators, Lowell Pemelman and Billy Brown, tell Dick Cummings, goli champion, of their wonderful experience in Hawaii- Hmm-We wonder!! Why, there's Robert Foy, Spanish In- structor at Yale talking with Buster Grif- fith. mortician. Close behind them is the All-American baseball team-members of which are Alex Hatton. Milton Knellinger, Pete Mathis, Ed Silver. D. I. Coker, and Howard Thomas. Wayne Terry has just dropped in to tell us he can't stay because he is to appear at a side show as a tall man. Speed typist, Harold Hricko. arrives with agriculturist, Iames Rosier. Fred Kushmer, director ot Key Clubs all ov-er America has just apologized for being late. Last to arrive is Harry Russell who is mayor of Manatee. Everyone is here at last. Once again the strains of the school song ring through the building as each one joins in the singing. By MARY FRANCES BAILEY OLIVE LIPPARD

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CLASS PROPHECY Ladies and gentlemen! Here we are at our old Alma Mater after ten years absence. It is an occasion for tears and laughter. It is a reunion of th-e class of '42. The halls are quickly filling with great personalities. I see that great artist, Ieanne Sonner. entering with h-er associate. Iune Gowanlock. Puttering around the office are Carol Peacock and Margaret Hous- man, two of the greatest journalists the world has ever known. Ahl Here is a crowd gathering in one corner. They are being entertained by Connie Raymond, the great Metropolitan Opera Star. Those looking on include Secretary of State. Nelson Rivers, with Secretary of Navy. Dick Loomis: Catherine Carter. Marjorie Breeze, Martha Willis and Betty lean Gilliam. nurses at Iohns-Hopkins Hospital along with Maribel Coddington. I see the female Abbott and Costello of the day-Zeldee Pennington and Mary Frances Bailey. With them is the 1952 Martha Raye-Laurine Lundy escorted by Walter Tally. There is a notable group just entering study hall. This includes the South Amer- ican dress model. Wanda Kemmer. talking with Aileen Hayden. famous dress de- signer. Listening intently to them is Ioyce Ashby, window dresser for I. C. Penney and Company. Inc. Inspecting the stage in the auditorium is Iessie Parrish. Paramount actress. who just received the academy award for her cur- rent picture. Chewing Chewing Gum. Ah. yes. here is the photographer for Para- mount Pictures, Wyman Hughes. With him is Bob smith. his body guard. ' I have just received a telegram from Western Union Messenger. Burnie Taylor, informing me that Betty Wilson, now Mrs. Silvertooth, and Lynn Silvertooth have been detained because of domestic reasons. From Washington come secr-etaries: among these are Inez Houck, Ida Lee Suggs. Eva Nell Smith. Zula Mae Tudor. Marcelle Lundy. Harry Lundy, owner of American Airlines, has just arrived with his co-pilot. Dwight Skeels and hostess, Olive Lippard. Bob Seel, Ambassador to Russia, has just arrived in a limousine with Annie Mae Rich. Secretary of the Lovelorn. and Mary Overstreet, proprietor of Dick and lane Nursery. Furnishing music for this gala occasion are Mary Elizabeth Knight, Iosephine Ridgeway. Mary Iane Barrett, and Gwen Ihrie. They are all members of the Sym- phony Orchestra. Members of the Bradenton High School Faculty are coming in now. There is Melvin Slick. principal: Billy Pool. assistant princi- pal: home ec. teacher, Marjorie Stewart: science Teacher. Mary Frances Fulford: Spanish Instructor, Virginia Goodall: Latin Instructor. Lloyd Kennerly: Physical Ed. teacher, Grace Betts: and typing teacher, Stanley Cantrell. Hollywood stand-ins are Lamar Crane fVic Maturel: Orrin Christian tTyrone Powerl: Walter Washbum QRudy Valleel. Near them are Aline Wiles. Miss Uni- verse . Norma Woods. the only female judge on the grand jury: Lawrence Taylor, owner of a riding academy, with Vida Walker, his bare-back stunt thriller. With him also is bronc-buster, Bob Harris. Looking over the gynasium is the coach of Harvard. Dick Darty. Other coaches present are Ward Bradley, Brady Hall, Kay Iamison, and Donnie Rish. Leo Smith and Ioe Collins, bouncers at Garcia's, are mysteriously examining the Shakespearean bust in Mrs. Fleming's room.

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CLASS WILL W-e, the class of 1942, now ready to leave our beloved school, this institute of higher learning, in full possession of a crammed mind, gargantuan intelligence. memories that we cherish, tand some that we wouldn't care to relatel, do make and publish this, our last will and testament. We will and bequeath to the Iuniors the title of Seniors without any requirement of showing signs of ordinary intelligence. We now make the following bequests to certain individuals hoping that they will take them for what they are worth. We, Marjorie Breeze and Buster Griffith do will and bequeath to Maryvonne Tervin and Iohn Snook our lat-est copy of. The Art of Going Steady. I, Dorothy Perry, do will and bequeath to Gene Stoneburner my ability to make all- conference in basketball. I. Connie Raymond. do will and be- queath my fickleness to any one who can get away with it. ' I, Susan Murphy. out of the generosity of my soul. do will and bequeath my passing ability, minus studying, to Helen Mc- Mullen. I, Bob Seel. do will and bequeath my position as Editor of the Macohi to anyone who doesn't mind having nightmares over it We, the undersigned: Howard Thomas. Fred Kushmer, Lamar Crane. do will and bequeath to Iimmie Iordan, Iimmie Turner, and Shields Reinhardt our skill in evading classes for a swim at Rye Bridge. I, Bob Humphreys, do will and bequeath to Strato Telvely my dramatic ability. I, Iessie Parrish, do will and bequeath to Nancy Davis my ability to get along with her Pop , fShe needs it.l We, Kay Iamison, Bob Shiver, and Robert Foy do will our motto. Stay Away From the Women . to Donnie Nickels, Donald Horton and Robert Shelton. I. Orren Christian. tbecause there's no other way to get rid of itl do will and be- queath to Robert Knowles my tireless ialopy, provided that he can procure four slightly used tires. I. Stanley Cantrell, do will and bequeath my typing fingers to Francis Rigdell. I. Mary Frances Fulford. do will and be- queath to Martha Dobbs my studious at- titude. We, Margaret Anne Smith and Lou Ellen Armstrong, do will and bequeath our ability to get a date every night C?l to Frances Fortson and Ioan Gray. I. Grace Betts. do will and bequeath my title of Dignified Senior to Iackie Smell. I, Lynn Silvertooth, do will and bequeath my winning smile to Henry Brown. I, Donnie Rish. do will and bequeath my unforgetable nickname, Bulldog , to Al- bert Leach. I. Ieanne Sonner, do will and bequeath my beautiful Dark Eyes to Marcia Hiscox. I. Walter Tally. do will and bequeath my latest issue of How to Torture Teachers and Get Away With It , to Iew Shultz. I, Helen Lantz, do will and bequeath my wavy black hair to Patty Case. I. Aquilla Turbeville. do will and be- queath my braids to Lee Sparks in the hope that she keeps them pinned up as I do. I. Margaret Housman. do will and be- queath to Iayne Gill my pleasing plump- ness. I. Norma Wood, do will and bequeath my ability to never let anything disturb me, to Iane Wooten. We. Billy Pool, and Zeke Bonds, do will and bequeath our singing voices to Tom- my Cline. I. Nelson Rivers, do will and bequeath my ability to be the last person in class to catch on to something but still make the best grade. to Sam Bradley. I, Buddy Hatton. do will and bequeath my ability to ask a million questions to Peter King. on the condition that he must go around with a wondering look on his face. I. Annie Mae Rich. do will and bequeath to Martha Powell my accomplishment of knitting for th-e Army and Navy at the same time. We. Rita Howlett and Iessie Parrish, do will and bequeath our ability to annoy Miss White, to Sarah Rood and Patty Tallant.