Central High School - Megaphone Yearbook (Nashville, TN)

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.ri '-v an Q Wink ' fl fig' 'f-'3--'ffmf..f,- .. Tun MEGAPHONE Ej..-Iliff ,-, QQ 'TIIIRTY-SEV lf . -eff' 15538. By MABEL HAMBLEN It is with joy and expectancy that one thumbs the pages of an old picture album in an effort to recapture some of the gay spirit and to relive the scenes stored among its pages. One could sit and look for hours as if drawn by some magic charm. just so let us turn the pages of the album of our class and see just what we may discover. Yes, here we are back in 1933 on a very important day in our young lives. It is the time when we three hundred scared, green grammar-school graduates have come to Central to be enrolled as freshmen. There was never a prouder bunch than we as we wander aimlessly about the halls and corridors, some chattering gaily, and others staring speechlessly about, taking in the new surroundings. In the corner we find this interesting snapshot taken a few months later. We have made new friends, and having become acquainted with the school, the courses, the other students, and the teachers,we turn our attention to the election of the class officers. A nomination here, another there, and a few stammered speeches are given in favor of each nominee. Edward Mason, who later left us, is elected to the presidency, and with Mr. Ransom as sponsor we now battle desperately to overcome the trials and hardships usually the lot of freshmen struggling to pass the first milestone on the journey of high school life. Another leaf is turned. We see ourselves overjoyed at the thought of no longer being freshmen but very important sophomores in all our glory of sophistication, now demanding the respect and recognition of the upperclassmen. This year is one of very few mishaps under the leadership of Robert Macon. Miss Smith is our sponsor this year. Shall we turn the page? Classes drag on. Sophomores become juniors. Having drifted along for two years we now awaken to become very alert in all of the school activities and to contribute many leaders in student government, clubs, and societies. The num- ber of members elected to the National Honor Society this year is greater than that of any previous year. Again Robert Macon has been elected president, and Miss Iris White has been chosen sponsor. It is from this class the major officers of the student government are to be chosen for next year. An interesting picture to see is the making of campaign speeches and the slinging of good-natured slander among the opposing managers. Robert Macon is elected president, Beverly Pickup, vice president, Elizabeth Orr, secre- tary-treasurer, and Walter Russell, fire marshal. Last, we are pictured as seniors enjoying the rights and privileges endowed only to seniors. It is the opinion of all that this year has been a most happy and suc- cessful one with Billy Northern as president and Miss Billie Cooke as sponsor. But unrelenting time steps in to intercept these happy school days of the class and soon we must leave the school we have learned to love so dearly to take our places in the world. Though for many of us our paths shall never cross again, we shall always be bound together by the common ties of our loyalty and devotion to our alma mater. , 7 EN

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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. , .

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ll! -I . M Y f W .Y YV M-nv..4l'1-7 LQ Lgfl. if 1-V H, V li .M-.. x THE MEGAPHONE 'TH IRTY .SEVL N ZUZLQZZ in Q flume? It isnlt fair in this FREELAND to have a KING as they have across the WATERS in ENGLAND, therefore, I shall PICKUP my pen and WRIGHT about it. It isn't at ALBRIGHT to call this country a democracy, to say that the MILLER, the TAYLOR, the COLEMAN, and the TANNER are the same as other FOWLKES and then have the nobility to BADGER them. It is a RIDDLE to me. Some people like foreign countries where they bow before a monarch. They especially enjoy travel in Rome where they eat spaghetti in a BOOTH and visit the Vatican and see the POPE. ORR they prefer to journey to the land of the Moors and see a TEMPLE. As for me, I like the carefree country life in America OWEN to the fact that we can SI-IUTT out any HAZARD and HUNT all day on the NORTHERN HILL across the RIDGE. As we walk through HAY fields, we pass wind MILLS and see a YOUNG KIDD and a BUCK GAMBILL on the green. We stop to get a drink of water from one of the old WELLS covered with Moss, but find that it is DRYE. On an autumn morning when the ground is covered by a WHITE FROST and the MAPLES, leaves have turned from red to BROWN the song of the MARTIN is a bright note. ... uk 1. K H