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

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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

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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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On arriving in England, I received an invitation to spend the week- end with Mr. and Mrs. James Penney. James had married a lovely English girl, and they had a beautiful apartment in London. They made my stay in London so pleasant. While in Liverpool I saw Adelaide Smith. She had a music studio, and seemed to be delighted with her work. She had just received a letter from Elizabeth Jones, who was in the States. Elizabeth, she said, had a very exclusive dancing school in Boston. You know, Eliz always was a divine dancer. In Paris I had the good luck to run up on Isolee Duckworth and Lula F. Clegg. They were both studying sculpturing at the famous Paris Conservatory of Art. In beautiful Italy, I found our languid but lovable friend, Irene Barr, studying art. She had lovely apartments, and she told me confidentially that she was to marry an Italian Count. After the most strenuous as well as delightful year of traveling, I returned to the dear old U. S. A., and, Jean, the Statue of Liberty spelled perfect happiness to me, as we sailed in New York harbor. As I disembarked, I found Annie Lee Holmes ready to take the next steamer for Holland. She was on her honeymoon, and she just waved at me as they went up the gangplank, but I caught a glimpse of his broad shoulders and her smiling face. While North, I went to see the annual football game between Yale and Harvard, and much to my delight I found Harold Wilson, our one- time football champion, coaching Harvard. Immediately I pinned my faith to Harvard, and she came out on top, too-thanks to Harold. Harold took me over the grounds, and I found that Edwin Mathews was the president of the College. Coming South, I found Mary Reid teaching Domestic Science in Randolph-Macon, and she had a tremendous class. Mary Moore was practicing surgery in Norfolk, and was quite successful. Stopping over in Greensboro, I found the city in gala attire. North Carolina had received Equal Suffrage, and at the front of the parade, with yellow ribbons flying, I saw Margaret Blair and Lavonne Abernathy. Their fond dreams had been realized. Twenty-Two