Central High School - Snips and Cuts Yearbook (Charlotte, NC)

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Coming on up into Mexico, whom do you suppose it was this time? May Moore and Graham McCall, doing uplift work among the lower class of Mexicans. And I gathered that their work was very successful. Next, Jean, I went to California, and of all delightful surprises! Helen Johnson and Florence Kerley were conducting a music studio together, in Sacramentog and both of them were just as jolly as ever. While in San Francisco, we passed the most beautiful home, and I was told it belonged to Karl Thies. He had married the loveliest girl in California. Karl and the girl were all sunshine. But, Jean, I was 'most tickled to death to find Margaret Butt in Hollywood iMovie Cityj. She was playing Vampire roles, and I fear that Theda Bara's career is greatly endangered. You know M.'s eyes! In Colorado, I met Clarence Byrum. He was in the cattle business, and seemed to be making loads of money. John Dunlap was there, too. It seems that he was sole owner of a large gold mine. Cline Cochrane was president of the Bachelors' Club, and that sur- prised me, because in our school days Cline was somewhat of a ladies' man. Then I came on to Kansas City, and Myrtle Smith and Stella Wingate were doing stenographic work for a big mercantile firm. Then I came on to Virginia, and in Richmond I found Mildred Brown, and lo and behold, she had married the first beau of her's. I always told her that she wouldg and Gertrude Dickinson was visiting her. It seems grand -just takes life easy, and nothing in the world to do. Mildred informed me that Sarah Roark was married, and was realiz- ing her fondest dream in a bungalow in Woodlawn, Charlotte, N. C. I went on to Washington, and found there land I wasn't a bit sur- prised, eitherj Wm. Bobbitt, one of the United States Supreme Court Judges. He told me that Irvin Pickens had just departed for France as American Ambassador. Doesn't it make you proud of our Charlotte I-Iigh-School boys? Willie Fay Rudisell was acting as secretary to a Senatorg and, by the way, John Jones was there as a North Carolina Congressman. In Baltimore, I met Eney Wiley and Lola Bell Crowell. They were graduates from Johns Hopkins, and they said that Bill Wearn was to graduate from Baltimore Dental College the following spring. In New York, I met with so many of the Class of Nineteen-Seventeen. Ruth Lineberger was there, in the most exclusive fashion shop, assisting Twenty

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CLASS PROPI-IECY ff - k fl, '-4 N I1 Ai., A IRIAM: 1298-J, please. JEAN: This is 1298-J. MIRIAM: Let me speak to Jean, please. JEAN: This is she. MIRIAM: Jean, this is Miriam. Do you believe in dreams? I mean the lovely kind-the ones that you'd like to have come true? JEAN: Oh, I just adore them! Have you been dreaming? MIRIAM: Yes, and the most Wonderful one. Last night, and it was about the members of the Senior Class-I saw their futures. JEAN: Oh, please tell me about it! MIRIAM: I dreamed I was touring the World, and that I was in Brazil-I Was driving along, and passed the largest coffee plantation I'd ever seen. On asking to Whom it belonged, I was told, to an American millionaire-a Mr. Oscar Welch. Think of it, Jean! And that same afternoon, While going thru the capitol, I ran upon Susie Phillips. She Was acting as secretary to the American Consul. It was delightful to meet my old classmates in South America. Then next I came on up to Panama, and you never can imagine my surprise at finding Vernon Rigler there, as superintendent of the construc- tion of a big bridge. But I might have known that, With his ability to cope with physical problems, civil engineering would come easy. Charles Lemmonds was there, too-doing engineering work. Nineteen

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Lady Duff Gordon. Fannie and Annie Price Carr were doing social service work. Salome Tucker, Bernice Scott, and Vernessa Hall were doing light housekeeping together, as their husbands are big league players, and are on the road most of the time. A I went to one of the largest theaters one night, and I never laughed so much. Hoke Martin had completely put Al G. Fields in the shade. Grace McNinch had taken a theatrical career, and with her wonderful training in expression was making good. Elizabeth Harrill was in New York, too. She was the star reporter for The Herald. Thelma Suttle was studying voice in New Yorkg and the girls said she was doing well. In Chicago, I saw Ethel McDonald. She was teaching Math! Just think-and in a big Woman's College, too! You know, Jean, we always had the profoundest admiration for anybody that could grasp Math. Ethel told me that her sister Frances was teaching Domestic Science, at Queens. Too bad they are so far apart. I stayed quite a while in Chicago with Latta--oh yes, Latta was there, and she made the most charming widow. So stately and handsome in black. And, my dear, her home was lovely. Ella Ivey was there, staying with her. Ella was quite a sensation with her violin among the society set. We all had such fun together. The Colyer Sisters, Elizabeth and Seline, I learned had a very select Boarding School for Girls, in Buffalo. Margaret Davis had taken up folk dancing, and was the instructor at the Colyer Institute. I Went into Canada, and had a wonderful time. Margaret Perry had married a Canadian millionaire, and was living in luxury. Clara Hender- son was visiting relatives in Quebec, and she was just the same sweet, jolly old girl. She had just returned from Germany, where she had been studying Music. She said that Mildred Cuthbertson was in Germany, studying in one of those famous German clinics. Won't she make the most wonderful nurse? I came on back to New York, and embarked for England on one of the large liners. The captain on our ship was Erdman Love. Erdman was telling me about Wellington Jones. He said that he was a big criminal lawyer in New York, and that he was among the foremost. Twenty-One