Daviess County High School - Echoes Yearbook (Owensboro, KY)

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COMPLAINT OF THE 1947 SENIOR CLASS GRUMBLER By ALEXANDER QZXNI STUKRT ERTAINJ persons alound County Hlgh have been mlslnform lng thelr parents and othels as to the condltlon of our school The genelal oplnlon IS that thlS gleat lnstltute of learnlng IS golng to the dogs ThlS IS an outlandlsh tale made up by some un educated moron Qlf he was educated he wouldn t be comlng herel that dld not fully understand all that has been happenlng around hlm The truth of the matter IS that our falr D C H S has been down ln the dumps fol yars and yars The first thlng you know students wlll be charged five cents evely tlme they enter a classroom Thls school IS gettlng to be so cheap lt s pltlful Ml Barnes has a hablt of messlng your halr up as you pass hlm ln the halls a thmg that must be stopped If It IS not some one wlll have to start selllng pocket combs to those of us who stlll have halr Mr Towery IS probably the most learned teacher on the faculty pay roll He IS a plogresslve farmel excellent teacher phllosopher prophet coach lokester amateur doctor and a walklng lnformatlon column If a student wanted a well rounded edu catlon he could not plck a bette class than Vocational Agriculture The new farm shop IS leally '1 nlce place It could be put to good use by convert lng It 1l1t0 a recleatlon bulldlnfr The blg wx orkshop would be mole useful lf the floor was cluttered up WVIISII p ng pong tables and bllllard tables The other rooms could be converted lnto pretty DICE soda fountalns and smoklng lounges Most of all a smoklng lounge for the gllls IS needed If they leave It the vlay lt IS the poor F F A boys Wlll lust wx ork themselves to death on machlnery that doesn t belong to them A school this large ought to haxe a football team and lf the school board should start one lt would be the only commendable thmg that ever happened around here IVe should also have a baseball team track team, R O T C and many other thlngs that would help to strengthe 1 oul puny bodles The lunches we have hele are leally good Evely yeal that I have come to school I buy my lunch the first day and that IS always the last day Why don t they let us go down town to get lunch then we XWOl1ld have more energv and anyone can plalnly see that we could do bettel ln our classes lf we were well fed It lS no uncommon thlng to see hollow eyed students on thelr knees begglrlg Mr Barnes to let them go down town Alexander Stuart glve a prlze to the first person that leaches the lunch room After readlng the wolks of alt a few of the plecedlng' grumblers have wrltten I find that It IS the customary thmg' to lun the school down But alwavs at the last they say that no matter what they Wlll always love thelr dear old D C H S or some such nonsense But ln my case after dolng a lot of hard thlnklng' I can find nothlng what soever to say about County Hlgh that wlll help ltS leputatlon 1947 SENIOR CLASS PROPHECY fC0ntlnued from page 343 I drew a qulck bleath of lellef that I was not ln her place for who could tell what tortures the glrl mlght be undergolng The moon s comlng up Lets go out and take a stroll ln the galden Mlnnle suggested We walked awhlle ln sllence and then Mlnnle sald You made a mlstake when you called me MISS Jones Thats not my name any mole Im the Countess Von Bon Ton How d vou get that wav I demanded Marrled she answered And the Count Dead She spoke the word as though It meant a mllllon dollars cash added to her bank account Lucky dog I sald half GDVIOUSIY You re rlght there she returned I always sald I d walt and marry some rlch old codger who was ready to step lnto the grave and then I d get the benefit of hls name and money, too We had now reached the fountaln near whlch two small bovs were plavlng Mln nle lnformed me that these were the chlldren of Joe Jones and hls wlfe the former Leona Carter, who were now on thelr vacatlon ln Indla There was somethlng about the sparkllng water of the fountaln that seemed to dlaw me nearel I stood gazlng at l as one hypnotlzed when suddenly Hey there lady look out or you ll fall ln there' I turned alound qulckly but lnstead of the moonllt garden of Indla I was stand lng' by an old lusty well and two youngstels clad ln ovelalls were gazlng at me qulz Zlcally It took sometlme before I reallzed that It had all been a dream and that I had never been farther away from home than I was then Had the molnlng been wasted? By no means' It was true I had come ln hopes of seelng my ovxn future foretold and lnstead had seen that of each of my own classmates, but what dld the future hold for me' The wlnd rustllng among the tree tops seemed to whlsper the answer, Flnd your place ln llfe and fill It for youth overcomes and IS the Klng of all ' J . , , A . . . . - .4 y 'Q - ' ' , H 9 Y ,Y ' . . . - , . - . 5 . D . . , - ' . :1 ' . 1 l 1 1 x .I v I . F . v - . - 7 . A . ' , 1 c . . ' - ' I - f 'ji Y . v I . l - K . . . , n 1 f I I . 5 ' . 0 , , .... . . 1 . . , ' I ! v Y - 7 I at noon. As long as students have to buy lunches here anyway, why doesn't someone u , . s ' Q 1 ' I . I, n ' 7 7 - CC Y ' 7 . ' , !7 ' ' ' ! . . u 1 - 9 1 it u 1 7 ' 7 , Y If . I If . 9 Y! as ' ' yy I ' , . ca -7 ll 9, ' ' ' KK 77- ' ' , . ll 7 ' YY Cl ' Y ' ' , . . , . !7 Y q Y o . I ui . .t . -,, , , . ,, , , . . ' v l ' ' . , . ' . v ' ' - n Y - I . . ' - V - U . . . . . . , Thwty five-

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1947 SENIOR CLASS PROPHECY hand was st1ok1ng my head and a famllxar yolce was Saylllg, Does It feel better n w, J ean Ma1tha Kelly' For Plke s Peak, what are you dolng heme Oh you see I got so tlred of our dances at home I decldcd to come over here for a few polnters In return for the1r trouble I teach these dusky dames the rules and regulatlons of basketball and the art of golf I don t have a chance to get lonesome, for Pobert Taylor, Jr has opened a conservatory of musxc here and teaches em how to play ex 61 Vthmg from l-ands to the ukelele The other members of my palty now arrlved and as I was blddmg Martha an aifecflonatl farewell shm whxspered, If you value your health and complex on stay awav from Afrlca Kathryn Puph Ellzabeth McDan1el, Edna McPherson, and Carol Rlce got together on the notxon that these mldmght blondes should be taught the fun damental rules and hygmene So they took It upon themselves to act as mstructors and set forth yuth the entlre stock of Fuller brushes Imagme the effects of the1r efforts n those marble blocks YVe had been at sea for only a few hours when there was a great commotlon caused by one of the ladles on deck She vowed that she had heard unearthly shrxeks come from a secluded spot on the shlp The place lndlcated was searched and when several boxes had been removed there fully exposed to the glare of the sun and many accusmg eyes were Rose Ward Mary Rose Freels Jacquelyn Feaster, Mary Domer muth Wanda Carter and Loulse Strobel The guilty were brought forth and an ex planatlon was demanded Rose spoke for the whole group She sald they had all grown weary of poundlng a typewrxter and had declded to take somethlng besides dlctatlon for a change It was J acquelyn who had suggested that they hlde themselves on board and see how long they could go vuthout bemg dxscovered All had gone well txll a mouse made lts appearance Then Maly and Wanda had rumed everythmg 'Stand st1ll' Make no attempt to get away or the whole shxp wlll be blo to plecesl I whlrled around and the speaker could have easlly passed as Captam Kldd Plratesl My heart froze xuthm me My glance passed qulckly over the small group of evll cruel faces t1ll lt rested on that of the captam I notlced a r1ng on hxs finger and forgettlng all danger I stepped forward to examlne It Yes I was ught It was l1k9IYIVOWH D C H S 4'7 r1ng Zan Stuart you lmposslble human What wlll you think of next? He gave a low m1rthless laugh and sald I m not known by that name any more To the world Im the Fealless and I m t1ymg to forget my own trouble by uorly ln other people Yea' Cap n let s be gomg Thls IS a poor crowd to plck from anyway Rav Muffett another ldeal bov had stepped from the stxalght and narlow path Edwin Bratcher Wlthout a word Zan turned and walked aw av muttexmg to hlmself I called Ray aslde and asked h1m the cause of Zan s melancholy spxrlt Why haven t you heard? He fell hot and heavy for Annette the French prlma donna fformer Alma Mlllerl but she spurned hlm and bloke hls' heart The llttle group soon left Our next stop vsas I enlce Italy We moved on toward a nlace where a crowd had gathered about a canoe What was the Idea of a canoe ln thls of all places? I soon learned the reason though for seated 1n It were Fletcher Haynes and Beverly Hall Howdy, Jean Sald Beverly Want to take a rlde ID our Yellow Tax1 ' to any part of the clty to any of the hotels and all for tvso blts The change was oulcklv made and wlth a few 1ap1d strokes of the paddle the C10VNd vs as soon left far behmd The boys then slowed doun and began to talk Have vou seen Gene Wlllxams or Dan M1lle1 'V They run a restfwulant here Wallace Johnson IS here wlth hxs better half on e1r honeymoon After leavlng Vemce our next stop was Indla By thls tlme I was gettmg home slck After reglsterlng at the hotel I went stralght to my room threw myself across the bed and broke 1nto a yuld storm of tears Oh If I could see only one of the old bunch I sobbed The telephone started r1ng 1ng I got up to answer lt and a fam1l1ar NOICQ came fl om the other end of the wlre I that you, Jean ' MIDHIC Lee J ones and here I was crvmg myself slck to see v Well dry your eyes powder your nose and come on down I ll walt for you ln th ad1ng room tbl flew to do her bxddmg and 1n a few minutes we were laughlng and chattlng to ge er ' Dld you hear about Rose I ocher s unhappy fate? asked Mm hv no T ll me about It Well ' she began, It seems that Rose wh1le tourlng Persxa took a notlon to through one of the1r secret temples and ln smte of all warnmgs proceeded to go alone She never came out and It IS rumol ed that the hlgh prxests are holdxng her as one of th 1mmortal gods ' 'But why 1mmortal I Wanted to kn w t SBecause she's the first bobbed han' gn-l they ever saw They can t seem to und s an It fContmued on page 351 , K , ' . . . . 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1947 SENIOR CLASS GIFTORIANS By RICIIXRD F D1LIMx1x mn Muxrsn' LEE Joxrzs To Jlm Ambrose we glV6 th1S toy soldler that ln QGHIS to come he may glow older To Melba Ambrose qulet as a mouse, we gnc th1s 11bbon to match her blouse To Stuman Ambrose who IS full of WISE clacks we glve to h1m th1s box of 1acks To Hemy Anderson the ladles man, we glV6 to hlm th1s Sllk from Japan To Jean Balrd, our plophet of 47 we glve this plane 1n hopes shell reach heaven To M G Barnett lean and lank we glve Richard Dlllman to hlm thlS plggy bank Mmnle Lee Jones Tommy Bell a handsome young male we glve to hlm th1s httle sand pall Helen Best ou1 Ideal gul, we glve to her th1s lmltatlon pearl Edwln Blatcher a n1ce loolung chap to him we glve th1s llttle cap Harry Blumley, the guy wlth the yell we glve these p1llS to keep h1m Well L K Burcham a slap happy fellow, we glve to hlm th1s llttle umbrella Challle Calter the beal ded coot we glve to hlm th1s horn to toot Leona Caltel our prettlest glrl we glve to hex th1s top to whlrl Wanda Calter, a nlce llttle gul we glve to hel fhls ung' of peall Sharon Chapman the gal wlth class we glve to hex th1s watel glass Vvlllxam Clalk, a lad so tall vue glve to hlm this bat and ball Shannon Cowgell vuth many a cu1vac10us lme vue glxe to hex thlS match so fine Leroy Crowe a bathead we all knovw, we glve to hlm th1s horn to blovx Zelma Danlel we glve th1s cocker spanlel Thulman Dau son who l1kes a celtaln lass ue gne to hlm th1s clovel g1ass Dlckle Dlllman a natural c1oone1 we glve to h1m th1s cute llttle schooner Marv Domelmuth a redheaded chlcken, we glve these toothplcks 1n case her teeth need p1ck1ng Jacquelyn Feaster a bathing beaut we glve to hel th1s gun to shoot Mary Rose Fxeels the talklng type vse don t know xx hat shell do xx 1th th1s plpe Kelly G1St who l1kes to talk vue glve to hlm thus piece of chalk Carolyn Gordon wx hose future we knovx ue gne to he1 thls beautlful bow Bettv Glaham that cute VIVBCIOUS chlck we glxe th1s 11pSt1Ck so she may al xx ays look sllck To Margaret Grlffln the glrl we ll all remember vse glve her th1S axe for cut tmg tlmber Bevelly Hall dalk and tall ue glve to hlm th1s rubber ball Thomas Hanev the much traveled Vet , we glve these clgarettes so the days he1e at D C H S hell never forget Monloe Hampton the studlous book vsolm we gne hlm thxs comlc book to study for the rest of the term Mabel Haldy the gul Wlth qulet ways, we glve hel th1s pm to remember us for the rest of her davs Fletchel Haynes a leal NICE guv ue gne a mckel so some lce cleam he can buy Malgle Hom who l1kes a celtaln boy me gne to hel th1s l1ttle toy Dolothv Houston ou1 llttlest gal we gxve her th1s dog named Pal Malv Hultel vs ho studles long houls we glue to hel th1s bunch of HOVNCIS VVallace Johnson xx ho l1kes to hum we glxe to hmm th1s chexx mg gum James Jones we glve th1s b1 ush and hope that lt ulll make h1m hush Joe Jones we glve th1s 1ug ln whlch he may stlck h1S mug Mlhnle Jones a cute llttle lass we glV6 to he1 thlS lookmg glass Martha Kelley xx ho s vexv neat ue glve to he1 thxs dl um to beat Paullne Klrk who can mllk a cow vse glve th1s pall to show us how Rose Locher short and sweet we glve to her th1s comb to keep hem neat Colleen Lyle wno f'l11ts wlth the boys we glve to hel th1s llttle toy Ellzabeth McDar1el who IS so vely neat we glxe to her thlS llttle scat Fdna McPhe1 son, whose lntelllgence IS ovellooked vue glve to her thls comlc book To Anna Rose Magan whose f11end IS m college, me gne to her th1s book of knowledge LOIS Mldklff who nevel makes any dm, we EIVB to hel thlS bobby pm Alma Mlller we glV6 th1s phone a more talkatlve gurl we have newex known Dan Mlller we glVe thlS book so ln huntmg for leference he may look J W Mltchell who IS verv rough we glve to hlm th1s box of snuff Ray Mufett who thmks Helen has a pretty face we EIVS to hxm th1S llttle vase Wade Muncv who plavs ball Wlth ease we glxe th1s doll for hlm to squeeze Rov Muldock Jack s countel bov we glve to hlm th1s llttle toy Floyd Mattlngly, whose dlawxngs vue ve seen, we gxve to h1m these pen cx s of green To Wllma Muxphy a cute httle gul vse gnve th1s baton to twurl fCont1nued on page 801 Tim ty sw- - , I 1 A 1 I I Y v 7 A Lv W r N '- ' , Y 1 1 1 .1 ' h 1 , ' ' 1 Y . . . , . . . .' 1 ' f ' I , , To , 1 1 , S 1 1 1 ' 1 . . l . 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