Chamblee High School - Chamihan Yearbook (Chamblee, GA)

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1 0 'U CHAMIAIIAN O TT I 0 Senior Class Prophecy HE summer of 1939 found me tramping across the continent toward Alaska. The trip had long been the dream of my life. As I walked along in the bright sunshine there were many things to interest me, trees, flowers, birds, and hundreds of sign boards and automobiles. I was very happy and felt amused about my classmates at Chamblee High. Many times groups of us had planned this tramp together, but ten years had passed and I found myself the only adventurer. Suddenly a huge flash of colors loomed before me and a figure was dabbing green, gold and rcd on a vast expanse of sign board. As I came nearer, to my surprise I recognized the sign painter as my old classmate Don Ware. I am the advertiser for the great Beech-Nut Chewing Gum factory, he said. I walked on, amazed, when suddenly I heard the honk of an automobile horn and who could it be but Frank Lively driving a taxi. After talking with him a minute I walked on down the road. When I reached the city I was very tired so I decided to go to a movie. On the stage appeared Estelle Williams, the Black-Eyed Egyptian Dancer, Garland Cowan, appearing under the name of Count Seekum Rich told of his adventures in Europe. After the movie I started on down the street and who should appear but Sam Leslie, a traffic cop on Broad Street, bawling out Fred Brooks for jay walking. When I reached the outskirts of the city, there were signs everywhere advertising the foot- ball game, in which the world's greatest athlete was to play. As I hadn't seen a football game since I left Georgia, I decided to attend this game, Being delayed on the way I was late going into the game. When I walked in whose name should I hear but my old class- mate's, Harold Blackwell, who was the star player of the game. He was being carried off the field by the players on the team, and a host of his feminine admirers were following after him. Harold was vainly trying to straighten out his hair and pin his torn jersey before they reached him. On reaching the next town, I visited one of the schools. Whom should I see as French teacher but Louise Gay, who we all thought would have married after she graduated. In the same school Evelyn Wall was teaching music. I talked with Evelyn for a while, during this time I asked her what had become of Lois Spruill, she told me that Lois was an old maid school teacher in a small country town, about five miles from the city. When I went into the hotel to spend the night whom should I see as hotel clerk but William Ayers. We never would have thought William would do anything in that line of business. - Starting out early the next morning I met Hoyt Conner on his way to work. I talked a few minutes with him. He told me how he had become manager of the Rogers Stores by working himself up from a clerk where he started in high school. When I reached the heart of the town I went in a store to do some trading. The place I happened to enter was a fifteen-story building. The first four floors were occupied by a store and the rest of the place by oflices of various kinds. When I entered the elevator I almost fainted. Willie Moore, after all his worry had reached that high aim in life, that he had longed for so long, he was one of the elevator operators in that fifteen-story building. He seemed happy with such a high position. When I left the elevator who should I see but Estelle Tatum as one of the clerks in the store. Traveling on through the country the next day I saw a man plowing beside the road. Noticing his face looked familiar I took a closer view, and found ,it to be Clarence Hardin. I talked with him a few minutes, he invited me out to his house for dinner. He and his wife had a cozy little home and were prospering very much on their farm. When I reached the next city I was very tired. I decided to go to a movie and rest. When I entered, to my great surprise, the usher, who started to show me a seat, was D. A. Pirkle. On the stage appeared Myrtice Pounds, the world's famous toe dancer. After the movie I started on down the street, I noticed a sign which read, Lee, Attorney- at-law. The name sounded familiar. so I happened to think of Wallace, and decided to enter and find out. Sure enough it was Wallace. he spoke to me and told me how he had become so famous. 1.92971 Page Twenty four

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G17 CllAlAlILAlJ G9 Q Last Will and Testament of the Class of 1929 E, the Senior Class of Chamblee High School, being of sound mind, and memory, and modestly realizing that we have many talents and accomplishments that we wish to be passed on to our successors, do hereby make this our last will and testament, and request that its conditions be carried out. We hereby appoint-Mrs. Mendenhall sole executor of this will. Item l.-I, William Ayers, will my Physics book to Lloyd Black. Burn the mid-night oil, Lloyd. Item 1.-I, Harold Blackwell, will my reputation as a woman hater to Raymond Holliheld. Stay away from the women Raymond. Item 3.-I, Louise Donaldson, will my place as star of the basket-ball team to Enid Bryan. Item 4.-I, Frank Lively, and I, D. C. Donaldson, will my place in the store to Ivan Harrison and Hub Huddleston. Don't Cat up all the peanuts. Item 5.-I, Hoyt Connor, will my blushes to Raymond Chatham. Be sure to make good use of them. Item 6.-I, Don Ware, will my curls to Emmitt Dutton. The less you comb 'em, the curlier they'll be. Item 7. I, Lofuilg Gay. will my height to Sarah Austin. Item 8.-I, Evelyn Wall, will my musical talent to Ruth Dodgen. Have mercy on the neighbors when you practice. Item 9.-I, Catherine Hogan, will my back seat and giggles to Dorothy Kellogg. Treat them nice. Item 10.---I, Ruth Eddleman, will my size to Mary Pounds, Don't forget to Weigh. Item ll.-I, Lois Spruill, will my red hair to Robbie Morris. Keep up my reputation, Robbie. Item 12.-I, Estelle Tatum, will my quietness. to Daisy Baughcum. Item 13.--I, Sam Leslie, will my ability at French to Johnny Roberts. Parlez-vous Francais? Item 14.-I, Clarence Hardin, will my position as teacher's pet to Carl Akin. Item 15.-I, Marjorie Tapp, will my seat by the teacher's desk to Reine Kirby. Item 16.-I. Louise Pounds, will my ability to get my deportment cut by Miss Cowan to Nellie Holbrook. Item 17.-I, Mark Henderson, will my position as bus driver to Martha Brown. Step on it, Martha! Item 18.-I, Wallace Lee, will my curls to Clara Donaldson as I have no further use for them now. g Item 19.-I, Joe Morris, will my laziness in English period to Grace Oliver, Just take a quiet little nap, Grace. Item 20.-I, Fred Brooks, will my tardy excuses to Mattie Henderson. Item 21.-I, D. A. Pirkle, will my seat behind Jack Little to Mattie Henderson if Jack doesn't graduate. Item 22.-I, Jack Little, will my seat in front of D. A. Pirkle to Catherine Pierce if D. A. doesn't get his diploma. CI-Iope you heard that D. AJ Item 23.-I, Estelle Williams, will all the oranges that Jack Little doesn't get to Estelle Wehunt. Item 24.-I, Thomas Cole, will my crazy sayings and doings to Lois Montgomery. Item 25.-I, Bessie Stapp, and I, Myrtice Pounds, will our fondness for French Verbs to Hazel Stapp. - C hltem 26.-I, Garland Cowan, and I, Willie Moore, will our melodious voices to Junior as . Item 27.-All chewing gum, pencil stubs, ink bottles, note-book rings, rubber bands, and torn up books, we will to the entire Junior Class, hoping that they will find much pleasure in dumping them in the waste-basket next September. Being of sound mind, we ile this last testament of the class of '29. We hope that Mrs. Mendenhall will be kind enough to carry them out as we desire. Signed this twentieth day of March, nineteen hundred and twenty-nine. -sf' at -CATHERINE HOGAN, Testator. 'N' 929 Page Tu'enty-three

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5 GQ 3 O CHAMHIAN so As I was walking down a shady street I saw a cozy little bungalow, covered with climbing rose vines in full bloom. Out in the yard I saw a neatly dressed young mother, wheeling a baby carriage down the walk. To my great surprise it was Bessie Stapp, now Mrs. Toy Barrett. I saw that she had found the happiness that she longed for all through her high school career. The day was hot and as I saw a drug store on the corner I decided to go and refresh myself with a cool drink. Standing behind the counter I saw Jack Little charming a group of girls who were watching him jerking sodas. Seeing a newspaper on the news stand I decided to buy one from Jack and see what the news was. On the front page I saw that Marjorie Tapp was the National Spelling Champion. I was not surprised as I remembered what a good speller she was in high school. I went on until about the middle of the afternoon. I was tired and hot. Suddenly everything went black. The next I knew I was in an ambulance and a handsome white-coated attendant was trying to revive me. His face looked familiar, and suddenly I recognized it to be Joe Morris. I told Joe that I was all right now, but Joe insisted on taking me on to the hospital. I-Ie took me in and gave me a glass of ice water, I soon began to feel better. Just as I was starting to leave I saw a young lady dressed in a nurse's uniform. I recognized Louise Pounds, an old schoolmate of mine. Joe told me she was head nurse of the hospital. When I left the hospital I felt very weak, so I decided to ride a street car to my hotel. VVhen I entered the car there was Mark Henderson, street car motorman. From my hotel window I could see a sign which read: Donaldson Candy Factory. I wondered if that could be D. C. The next morning I went over to the factory. D. C. cxplained how he had become a great man. He said his candy was the most popular candy that was made. ' When I picked up the morning paper I noticed in the headlines that Thomas Cole had become an Agriculture teacher in a large college in Michigan. When I glanced over the paper a little more I noticed that Catherine Hogan had become the most popular movie queen in Hollywood. I was tired and Worn out so I decided to board a train and go back home. After I had been riding awhile I was shocked when someone laid their hand on my shoulder and called my name. I looked at her for a minute very amazed. then she said, Louise, don't you remember Ruth Eddleman, your old chum in high school? I never would have recognized Ruth. for she had become slender. As we journeyed home she told me what a good time she had had on her vacation, and how she was enjoying her work as Math teacher at Columbia University. I am at home again.. Years have passed since I tramped across the continent and toward Alaska, Alone I sit by the tire with my cat and drink weak tea and sigh. Perhaps, since 1937, there have been as many changes as took place between our graduation and event- ful time of my happy journey. Perhaps greater and more mysterious things will happen in the future. I look into the fire and stroke my proud. mysterious cat. 1929?- Paye Twenty rite