Cottonwood High School - White Timber Yearbook (Cottonwood, AL)

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THELMA ARNOLD I One aftemoon as I sat in the den of my home in Ocala sewing on a dress for my girl, the doorbell rang. I almost fainted with surprise when, upon 'L ' opening the door, I saw who was there. It was none other than my former 5 classmate, Althea Meadows, who is now married to Norwood Jackson, After So' i ,A K' showing her around my new home, we settled down in the living room and she . told me of the whereabouts of all our classmates. Having lived in Cottonwood f X all her married life, she knew what had happened in the last few years. lt 1 seems as if we have another Mrs, Jackson - the former Jo Ann Watson who is now the mother of four mischievous boys, She and her husband have no finan- cial worries now, because he has half-interest in J. Sc C. Air Base. Billy Cameron has the other half, They both are specialists in electrical engineering, Mary Ann McCord, who is now married to Charles Ray Miller, is acting as secretary for him as he is owner of a typewriter company Althea told me also that Mary Ellison and Robert Love have completed their college education at Troy Both are teaching at Cottonwood High, Robert being the prmcipal R. Q Taylor has been a great football star for the University of Georgia and is now coaching for them Royce Johnson and Jerry Hicks are owners of a new trucking concern with main headquarters in Cotton wood Barbara Rhodes is working as their private secretary Evelyn Hodges the former Evelyn Mathis is workmg as a telephone operator with her husband who is also employed by the telephone company She leaves her three children at a nursery run by Madeline Hopkins It seems as if Joyce Mathis is gomg to be an old maid She's a photographer now and owns her own studio in Cottonwood Jeanette Watford is in charge of a chemistry laboratory in Pensacola, Florida while her bosom pal Virginia Forehand is teaching dancing in Hollywood Althea said that Eulan Holland and Ella Rllth Whitehead are marned now and that they own a very popular cafeteria in Cotton wood Jo Ann Mtxon IS teaching home economics at Cottonwood Kept McCall is distributor of Cabana Neutrina Q a valuable fur bearing anunal 5 Joseph Anderson has a garage in Cottonwood now He has so much business Carl Guy assists him m repairing cars A very interesting thing Althea told me was that Lynda Sellers is a designer for Wamer Bros in Hollywood Bemrce Skipper and Doyle Glover are the owners of South Alabama used car Lot Lucy Clayton formally Lucy Moore rs secretary for her husband who runs a milling company Regina Armstrong and Ruby Lee McCardle were always very close in school but they are separated now Regina being a missionary in Africa and Ruby Lee being owner of a dress shop Marvette Calloway has put up an experiment station for the farmers in Cottonwood and Shirley Paulk is a laboratory technician for him They have really been a big help to the farmers in the southem states Bobby Harrison owns a super market now He has a little boy who wants to be a football player because his daddy was when he was in school Dormon Whitehead who was in the Arr Natronal Guard when we were in high school is now a first lieutenant in the Air Force and has a private plane for his own Bud Sellers has a cattle farm and dairy near Cottonwood Yvonne Smith rs workmg with the Red Cross Jean Moms formally Jean Bush is traveling around the world with her husband who is in the Air Force As Althea and I talked we were suddenly interrupted by a noise at the door It was my daughter who had been playing with a neighbor Althea was very pleased to see her After playing w1th the child for a while Althea said she had to go She was on her way to Miami to Join her husband After she had gone, I sat back and thought happily of the good lives all our classmates had found for themselves Sponsored by Qian. 14 JOHN JACKSON DRY GOODS ALABAMA FURNITURE L I Jr I Cottonwood Alabama COMPANY A 5 Gracevrlle Flon da Cottonwood . . . , . . . , , , . . u I . . I I ' ' - . . . . . . . . I I I ' I . I . . U I I ' 0 ' I I . . 1 J 3' ' DTI' . , ,.r, .' - .xii . . V . . .... .., , +75 . n - a , - -,, . -- My . ., , , . 1 4 sv , M gh: sf., 4. ., ' 951532: .s:IgS!'!'13 ' -j 4' P379 .Q 5'FfggQj.fq91' ,ik I 'J' , J'-13' it f ,TVZ1 ' '2 3-1:-gf.,-,Q ' 1 '- .g gf- 9' I I I ,

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