Central High School - Megaphone Yearbook (Nashville, TN)

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yw.ff1+,x. w.-, . . 'M' 7 1121.3 . -, ,. W.,-L+. M...-.VA---. X,,.,:f . ...elif ,, H THE MEGAPHONE 1f,Ll,X ,?,Tl1lRTY-SEVEN i that a new chain of drugstores were being opened under the ownership of Herbert Giddens. Upon looking in our own Who's Who, we found that Kenneth Russell was owner of a shop that sold The Smart Things for Young Men to Wear. J. C. Pruett was football coach at Vanderbilt and Oscar Wright, a lawyer, who specialized on wills. Charles Harmon owned a chain of grocery stores, Woodrow Williams, George Strasser, Harris Williams, and Jack Reeves were leaders in a farmers' union, Margaret Alexander was a dramatic art teacher. The next item stated that Robert Rawding was chief taster at the Hermitage Hotel, John Kingcaid was a traveling salesman. The next thing that gave us help was the evening paper which stated that a new addition had been added to Nashville's best dress shop owned and operated by Bo Maury. Rebecca Moss, Girl Reserve secretary, gave her report to the paperg Buddy Freeland and his one-man band were at the Princess Theater, Louise Jackson, famous chemist, was returning home for a va- cation, Henrietta and Ellen Sadler, law partners, were prominent in a law case, a meeting of the Woman's Club was reported, the program being under the direction of Sophrona Tatum, Jewell Waggoner, Mary Buckingham, and Gladys Frost. The advertisements also helped us. We saw an advertisement of Vance Thomson's Printing Company, also one of Rachel Pruitt's Hair Beautifier. The next day we saw in the paper that Jeanne Ferrell, a dancer, was coming to town to appear at the new civic auditorium. We also saw that Billy Evans had just been made fire chief. Louise Buchanan had just been appointed the new head of the social service organization, Clara Morris was just made head of the Home Economics Department of Central, Melvin Graham was holding a tent meeting in East Nashville. In the afternoon we visited several business concerns and found that Arlie Maude Huggins, Mildred Lovell, Lorene Albright, and Evelyn Simpkins worked at the National Life and Accident Insurance Company. We also found out that Kurt Glaus was a salesman in the little boys' department of Castner-Knott. Doyle Jarman and Lawrence Grimes were law partners. Elizabeth Cortner was a dress designer. Frances Milliron, Betty Leaver, and Helen Slate were managers of the Better Figure Institute. Anita Allen was physical education teacher of Hume- Fogg. Virginia Buchanan was head of the cosmetic department at Lovemans. The next day we flew to Los Angeles, then out to Hollywood where we met Bertram Ferrell who was a movie star, featured with Hayden Tharp. Jeanne Tanner and Pauline Kidd were stand-ins for two of the most popular stars. Erleen Clopton was a professional model and Wade Reeves was an advertising model for Colgate's toothpaste. Joe Young was a famous radio comedian. Harry Gibson was training in his usual way for the Olympic races. Dixie Hodge was a secretary who brightened the corner where she was with a bunch of flowers fresh every day. Evelyn Holt and Imogene Wyatt ran a secretarial school for home- town girls who changed their minds about being movie stars. That night we went to the Coconut Grove, where C. T. Chumley was the leader of the orchestra, .4 1 .1 -.-inf. l sl,

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li,,,l,, - W iffrib X W ---Q- .. ML. ,- LJ: E 4, -1 , - M- mm, Mm -9 . . ' . Euiff' . THE MEGAPHONE ,THIRTY-SEVEN 1.1 - 'i ' Mlxi - ew-, . W, Q .if za ew '37 By CORNELIA HAY and JUN!! BURKS As we flew over the country, June Burks and I began to think over the job ahead of us. VVe were supposed to make a survey to find lout what each member of the class of 1937 was doing now in 1957. June, who is an actress, was helping me on her vacaticin. When the stewardess passed by we discovered that she was Rebecca Williams, aeformier classmate, then she told us that the pilots were William Auten Brown and Paul Booth. 1 Upon arriving in New York we were interviewed by Forrest King, a reporter for the New York Timm. Later we found that Walter Rusself' was his editor. That night we found that Mary Cummings, a famous' soprano, was giving a con- cert at Carnegie Hall and Ernestine Martin was biei'ng haiTed as another Martha Ray. Shirley Plicque wasftife president of a world-wipe Nelson Eddy fan club. Marjorie Yancy and Juanita Burris were the star singers of the best night club. The next day we got the city directory and found that Jack Perry and Billy North- ern were prominent business men, Randolph Owen was chief masseur at Mava Beals' Beauty Shop, Oma Cunningham was Robert ,Taylbis cook, Jane Gooch and Elizabeth Orr were partners in an interior decorating? company, james Brent was head of the pickpocket department of a detective agepcy, Robert White was a member of the Federal Reserve Board, Edith Wassogn was a famous cosmetic specialist, Beverly Pickup was head of the art department of Saks, Florine Hicker- 3' . . . ' son was editor of the woman's page of the Daily M1f7:OTr A The morninggpaper proved to be very helpful in thaitl we found an article to the effect that Irma Louise Niederhauser,.Professor of Love, was giving a lecture to a group of working girls. The Believe-lt-or-Not ' column gave an interesting item that Pat Shelton was the father of eleven all-Americans. A very entertain- ing feature' next caught our eye- Candid Camera Shots -by Eugene Williams. The shot for that day showed Douglas Moss, a well-known architect, in the privacy of his room setting his hair. - 1 ' ' VVhom should we meet the next day but Betty Thompson, who was still an old maid after having gone wiih James Kennon, lol these many years. ' The next day-we bought a copy of Who's Who, and our efforts were well repaid. We 'read that Virginia Hunt was a television star of gneat note. Clayton Jackson and Fred Causey were partners in a law firm. Stanford Miller was a portrait paint- er. Margaret Trice, one-time Miss America,', now, teamed with Robert Macon in a moving picture titled 'fAin't Love Grand? La,ura Clare Holt, with her xylo- phone, and Elizabeth Buck, with her piano, wereifeatures of the best popular orchestra. T - R ' The qext day we decided to go back home to Nashvillef When we got back we discovered that Mildred Martin, a private secretary, had married her boss, and A F i A. c my , gp, It . - ,gh if-ing,-E nd f' Aziflf.-5.7 X. ' 1 : 121-.

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QA! ,,,,f'- A THE MEGAPHONE . 'AriL,g,1Q5ggg,.g y 'THIRTY-SEVEN ' 5'4 WL, ..--- - , ' with A. G. Kennedy and Maye Fowlkes singing. Ada Belle Ray and Allene Riddle were also on the program as a dancing team. Bertie Lou Alread was a cigarette girl. The next day we went out to Malibu Beach where Robert Denning and Paul Taylor were life guards, and Kathryn Lee and Jane Temple were bathing beauties. We then boarded the train for home. The conductor who took up our tickets was M. J. Huggins. When we went to the diner to eat supper we saw that the chef was Duncan Gay. When we stopped to change trains at Kansas City we had about three hours to wait, so we took a drive through the city. There we saw a billboard advertisement for Badger and Hill Dairy Company. We found out that our taxi driver was William Ellis. When we saw that Clarence Mucklow's circus was in town we decided to stay over and see it. The first side show we saw was the tall man, who was Vernon Wells. In the next one we saw Fatie Nooner, who was a celebrated snake charmer. In the main show was a thrilling exhibition put on by a lion tamer-Charles Eanes. But one of the most exciting things on the program was a trapeze act put on by Charles Ferguson and Billy Drye. When we looked in the newspaper the next day we found that the House of David baseball team was playing there and we discovered the most unusual thing-they were all former Central High students. They were Kenneth Foster, J. L. Shutt, James Hazard, John McClendon, Floyd McPherson, Davis Ridge, Kenneth Sledge, Bob Waters, and Kenneth Woodroof. On the front page we saw that Mary Frances Pope had just made a record trans- Pacific hop and that Dorothy Bizzell and Mildred Briley were on the Communistic ticket for president and vice president. Then we saw that Mary Ruth Coleman, Juanita Fuqua, Inez McFarland, Annie Marion McKee, Madge McMahon, and Evelyn Mills were sailing in two weeks on the Queen Mary as an investigation committee to report on the culture of white mice in Monte Carlo, also that Janie Hamer, fortuneteller, had just come to town and was giving lectures on Your Future. Mildred Griffin, manufacturer of the famous Lady Mildred cosmetics, was going to speak over the radio at 8:00. Turning to the inside of the paper, we saw an Advice to the Lovelorn column written by Annette Wilson. Celia Bennett, president of a well-known women's college, was speaking at the Altrusa Club. When we looked in the city directory of Kansas City, we found that Mabel Hamblen was married to an insurance salesman and had ten children. Angie Gambill was then Mrs. Elizah Hemplewaite. Anna Mary Hammond was owner of Anna Mary Cookie Company, Billy Trabue was district attorney, Herman Allen was sheriff, Marshall Womack was mayor of Kansas City. At last our job was finished. Although it was hard work, we enjoyed knowing what had happened to all our classmates. , .