Brookhaven High School - Ole Brook Yearbook (Brookhaven, MS)

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H Pre-Vue of Coming Showboat Attractions Let us look at the handbills descriptive of the activities of the Star performers of the Ole Brook Showboat ten years hence. Here is what we find: Sherman and Melba Jean now have three lovely children, Sot, Dot, and Tot. Mr. McVadon has a new partner in his pho- tography business, George Price. Curtis Boatman is their errand boy. The new history teacher at Co-Lin is Wesley Bozone, His prize student is Bill Hartman, who has at last learned how to study. Jo Lynn McDonald is still debating whether she should live in Texas or Mississippi. Benford Johnson, a noted New York artist, presented his third Art Exhibition last week. A thriving paper, The Bogue Chitto Times, is under the editorship of Beverly Busby. Louise Richardson, Lola Taylor, and Robbie Dale Valentine have decided that married life, rather than college life, agrees with them. Dr. Jean Claire Swinney opened her office two weeks ago. Her charming secretary is Bobbie Jean Price. Our Swoon-King, Davis Peets, is now on Broadway making l Want To Be Loved. The new teachers at B. H. S. in i958 are: John Perkins, Latin teacher, Sue Ford, expression, and Jerry Simmons, assistant coach. Believe it or not, Ham Smith has finally got up the nerve to propose to a girl, but the question is, Who is she? Jayne McGrath, a famous Powers Model, was married for the third time last week. Her only attendant was Mary Anne, who is pianist at the Stork Club. Benoit's famous designers, Sue Hamilton and Johnny Evelyn Douglas are labeling their new creations Johnny Sue, Clothes for Teens. Mrs. Leeman Britt, nee Exie Jackson, is running a day nursery to aid mothers like Peggy Paxton, who has three darling red-headed boys. We have four fine doctors: Winfred Lowery, a chiropractor in New York City, Robert Lee Durr, a veterinarian in McComb, Buddy Britt, a medi- cal doctor in Bogue Chitto, and Bobby Bee, a medical doctor in Utopia. Pat Smith did not heed the old proverb, lf you marry and do not change your name you will have bad luck. She married a Smith anyhow. Jane and Jean Price just returned from their honeymoon at Niagara Falls. They had a beautiful double wedding. Joy Day has an oil well and is getting rich quick. Enoch Case is getting rich by another method-he's selling a formula for reducing in ten easy doses. Mrs. Wesley Bozone, nee Joyce Lowery, just loves living at the teachers' home at Co-Lin. Evelyn McKee is now flying high. She is an airline hostess for the newly established Brook- haven airlines. Robert Vernon Smith, Edward Grenn, and Jess Robertson are now running a night club in New Orleans. Allene Thurman has been proclaimed Cham- pion Speed Typist of the World and is employed in the law office of Magee and Helmer at Bogue Chitto. - The Career Girls Club is growing more and more every year. They now have five more new members, Faye Coghlan, Margie Jackson, Ayleen Richardson, Emma Jean Fauver, and Jean Temple. Ruby Larkin has been proposed to by fif- teen handsome men up to now. But she has said yes to none. Donald Rushing is now the new manager of Walley-Field Drug Store. . Shirley Schlesinger has finally been pro- glloted to head saleslady at the Shirley Slipper op. Patricia Simmons has recently returned home for a visit, but will return to China, as wife of the American Ambassador there. We are expecting Evelyn Williams, a Pres- byterian Missionary from lridia, home soon. Jean Ulmer has been in the Navy since he finally graduated from High School and his rank rank is still swabby. Margaret Ann Summers is still journeying in that car of hers on the Road to Utopia. Diane Skirvin flew back to Oklahoma the other day where she will have a military wedding soon. Henry Smith now has a skating rink of his own, it costs only five cents to skate, too. Frances Nevels has established a beauty shop in Hog Chain, Mississippi. Betty Ann Malvaney is now teaching chem- istry at Ole Miss, where she is better able to keep up with her numerous boy friends. Phyllis Burns is teaching English there, too. Imogene Redden, after three hard years of work at the University of Alabama, is expecting to finish around l958. Robert Wand just married the other day. lt happened to be the l92O Belle of Tennessee. Joan Lovell makes an ideal mother to her four children. Her husband, Mr. Wood, and the children are residing in McComb. Guy Parsons is an engineer. He's helping finish the four-lane highway that runs through Africa. Billye Magee occupies an important posi- tion as secretary for the president of the Chicago National Bank. Jean Nevels, convinced that plumbing is a profitable business, is now competing with her best friend. The Three Musketeers, lra Jean Wafer, Nell Hoskins, and Jean Strother are hitch-hiking around the world. Jackie Hardy's Hot Jazz Band is now performing in the Blue Room in New Orleans. Dot Sproles is mascot for the Brooklyn Dodgers. You all remember her love for base- ball-player l l Stay with us another ten years, and we'll have even better pre-vues. Dorothy Nell Sproles, Prophet

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asm' K ...sg wi' Margaret Ann Summers Band 4 Feature Editor, Panther Howls F. H, A. l Football Attendant 3 Jean Claire Swinney Glee Club l. 2 F H A 2 Band' .,4 1 Tennis i Asst. Librarian 4 Lola Taylor Jean Temple F. H. A. 3, 4 Glee Club 1, 3 F. H. A. 2 Giee Club 1,2 Allene Thurman .H. Star Club 3, 4 A. Typist, Ole Brook and Panther Howls Jean Ulmer Football 2, 3, 4 Tennis 2, 3, 4 Annual Staff 4 Key Club 3, 4 Key Club Reporter 4 Boys' Glee Club l, 3 Band l, 2, 3, 4 Spanish Club 3 Orchestra 2, 3 Homeroom President 4 Robbie Dale Valentine Homeroorn Secretary l Glee Club l, 3 F. H. A. 3, 4 Sec.-Treas. Spanish Club 4 Horneroom Treasurer 4 Evelyn Williams Glee Club l, 2 Star Club 2, 3, 4 Vice-president, Stars 3 Homeroom Reporter 4 F. H. A.3 Business Manager, Panther l lowls Typist, Panther Howls and Ole Brook lra Jean Wafer F. H. A. 4 Robert Wand Track 3 Football 3 Miss Theresia Abshagen Sponsor

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l SHOWBOAT LEGACY We, the Star Performers, in the presence of the Pilots of this Showboat, of sound mind and body, do bequeath to the Upper Crewmen the following: A very able faculty, a desire to do all to aid the betterment of the school, an apprecia- tion for all that has been done to develop our abilities, and a happiness that comes from be- ing a Senior at Brookhaven High School. We also leave to you an undying love for study, a unique course in salesmanship, an abil- ity to guide the underclassmen, and an unlim- ited number of Senior privileges. . Ben Johnson, Mary Ann Brennan, and Sue Hamilton wish to leave their Southern drawl to Patty Bourk and Ernestine Walker. Sherman Newton leaves his way with women to Robert Lewis and Robert Hugh Wal- lace. ' Jean Strother leaves her talkativeness to Lucille Richardson, Margie May, and Ruth Porter. Bobby Bee leaves his love of red to Sylvia Noble and Bud Turnbow. Jean Clair Swinney leaves her comforting ways to Nellie Brock. Betty Ann Malvaney and Beverly Bus- by leave their ability to laugh at corny jokes to Glenn Dunn and Jack Gordon. Ayleen Richardson, Nell Hoskins, and Margie Jackson leave their quiet manners to Birdie Blaise and Marilyn Perkins. Winfred Lowery leaves his wavy hair to Don Sutton and Clifford Wand. Enoch Case and Curtis Boatman leave their busy body ways to the two George's- Cannon and Decell. Joyce Lowery and Imogene Redden leave their curly hair to Carolyn Martin and Becky Evans. Phyllis Burns and lra Jean Wafer leave their friendliness to W. H. Jackson and Ken- neth Renfrow. Robbie Dale Valentine leavessher figure to Ruby Richardson. Patricia Simmons leaves her willingness to help to Mary Ann Fisher. Johnny Perkins leaves his poise to Louis Goss and Jimmy Lipsey. Robert Lee Durr and Reese Helmer leave their height to Johnny Lipsey and Jimmy Gillis. Louise Richardson leaves her ability to chew gum to Roy Hanson. Allene Thurman and Emma Jean Fauver leave their close friendship to Juanita Wooten and Lucille Lamarr. Joan Lovell and Billy Magee leave their looks to Jere Johnson and Sally Perkins. Evelyn McKee and Melba Jean Rinard leave their ever smiling faces to Dorothy Boone and Jerry Nalty. Johnny Evelyn Douglas leaves her neat- ness to Jean Miller. Jess Robertson and Robert Wand leave their flirting styles to Melvin Buchman and Robert Jackson. Jo Lyn MacDonald and Exie Jackson leave their rolling eyes to Betty West. Evelyn Williams and Tommy Magee leave their brilliance to James Ray Douglas and Ernest Blaise. Peggy Paxton, Ruby Larkin, and Dorothy Nell Sproles leave their gift of gab to Margaret Moseley, Dorothea Drane, and Merlin Porter. Guy Parsons leaves his pleasant persona- lity to Calvin Case and Jerry Ratliff. Jayne McGrath and Margaret Ann Sum- mers leave their lovely hair to Janice Cain and Vivian Rhyne. Jane and Jean Price leave their sweet dis- positions to Patty Jean Nance. - Jerry Simmons leaves his squirrel gun to Hugh Ward. Wesley Bozone leaves his good looks to Neil Covington, and Jimmy Bolian. Jean Temple leaves her modesty to Eve- lyn Newman. Lola Taylor leaves her giggles to Lessie Pearl Allgood. Fay 'Coghlan leaves her unusual eyes to June Fisher. Jean Ulmer leaves his dashing speed on the football field to Ray Howell. Pat, Hamlin, Henry, and Robert Vernon leave the name, Smith, for Audrey, Agnes, Charles, and Richard to carry on. Norman Davis Peets leaves his physique to Johnny May and Monte Bee. Joy Day leaves her skill in volleyball to Joyce White. Frances Nevels gives her activeness to Eleanor Lowe. . Jackie Hardy leaves her ability to skip school to Billy Foster. George Price leaves his big feet to Horace Hurst. Jean Nevels and Edward Grenn leave their timidity to Donald Miller. Shirley Schlesinger and Diane Skirvin leave their beautiful eyes to Larkin Baggett. Donald Rushing and Buddy Britt leave their giant statures to L. C. Smith and Spencer Yawn. Bill Hartman leaves his cue stick to Cey- lous Herring. And finally, as we bow off the stage, we, the Seniors of l948, leave our B. H. S. Show- boat in your, the underclassmen's hands. Treat her lovingly and gently, because we leave her with regret. - Sue Ford, Showboat Lawyer.