Denison High School - Yellow Jacket Yearbook (Denison, TX)

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CLASS PROPHECY-Continued We went on to the lounging room which used to be the Senior Study Hall. There was a moving picture show instead of the traditional blackboard, but no one seemed to be interested in the picture. Stuart Cooper, now a successful business man, thought that all school children should see movies to improve their minds, so he installed one at High School operated by Everett Kirby. Furniture here is very luxurious, and comfortable. On becoming weary, one pushes a button and the chairs open out into beds. Kelly Bruce Reed and Tommy Linn explained that it had taken many years of hard work to perfect this. They work for Pat Liles and Leon Waters, who operate Ksuccessfully, of coursel the Northk Texas Home Furnishers' Store. Another improvement we noted was that when a student pushed a button, a pencil- sharpener would come to his desk, and when he had finished sharpening his pencil, it would return to its place. We thought this was very clever until four pushed the button at the same time. Monty Morgan, responsible for this invention, said, So far to good but it isn't perfect yet. On a table in the hall we picked up the school paper. It was called the Blah Blah, and we saw that Borden Wilson was the editor, Marshall Nix was the manager of the Advertising Department, while Charles Hunter was the editor of the Sob column. Mgargaret Jeane Wiley estabilshed a beauty parlor on the second floor of the building and has Mildred Brigham as her assistant. They specialize in face up-lifting and special waves for boys, and are quite efficient in their work. Mae Buckholtz and Faye Ferguson have secured positions as manicuirsts and eyebrow archers in Miss Wiley's beauty shop. Jamesene Wigszell and Endall Cotton have established a hospital on the fifth and sixth floors of the High School building and have hired Cleo Brooks and Elsie Campbell as special nurses. Dr. Eugene Ballou, a heart specialist, and Dr. J. D. Pas- chell as assistant, have offices in this institution. Posted on the Bulletin Board we saw a list of faculty members. Maurice Bush and Mary Elizabeth Casey, who have at last become the successors of Mr. Hilliard. Josephine Brooks and Genevieve Scofield are Physical Edu-cation Teachers. Melvin Hargrove teaches History and Ruth Henley teaches Typing. Ruby Tipton has charge of a Deaf and Dumb Class. Imogene McKee is a very capable teacher of Sewing. All this was explained to us by Mary Rose Morse, the secretary to the principal. Winnie V. Short has become teacher of English Literature, but instead of stress- ing the works of Chaucer and the importance of Shakespeare, she reveals their bad qualities and tells how to care for yellow curls. Gertrude Patterson and Nelda Bryant teach a certain branch of Chemistry-the properties of vanishing cream. Charlie Pace is the football coach, assisted by Enoch 0'Dell. Henry Parker is the director of the High School Band and Pauline Hodges is his assistant. We couldn't see exactly how she could help him any, but when he declared that' he just couldn't get along without her, we concluded that she must be director of the Pep Squad. We went to the mechanical drawing and shop work department where Leo Mel- ton is instructor. Haskell Manley, principal, and L. D. Thayer, superintendent, introduced us to a patron of the school, none other than George Hawkins. George gives away scholar- ships so as to enable students to graduate in four years. We were invited to stay for Assembly, and we gratefully consented. Much to our surprise we saw that Her- bert Gentry has taken Major Bowes' place in the radio world. He conducts his pro- grams each Tuesday morning from 9 until 10 in the High School Auditorium which is also Broadcasting Station F-L-O-P. The program included imitations of the navy, by Herbert Crowe, a political talk by Rayma Mae London, who believes that Lloyd Smith should be placed on the Democratic ticket for President in the next election, and that Dorothy Julien would make an excellent mayor provided her heart didn't break before. As you know, television has long been made possible by the fertile brain of Loyd Gattis, which makes it easy for Norma Spradling and Warnetta Dean to take the place of Mae West. The next number was a solo by James Crawford, accompanied by Geralena Bible, playing a banjo. Then came a most unusual fea- ture-a torch singer was announced and to our surprise she turned out to be Mil- dred Schiflett. We were startled out of our amazement by loud clanging noise which proved to be Tommy Jay and his red hot Jay Birds . This was the closing feature and as we were passing out we saw Marjorie Ruddell sitting at the switchboard with Elsie Thomas and Sylvia Thomas tabulating votes for the amateurs. TWENTY-SEVEN ' si:: K7.'5FAWN 100111

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CONFERRING CLASS MANTLE One of the events of Commencement Week is the conferring of the class mantle upon the Junior Class at the closing day of school. This traditional ceremony is made impressive by the appearance upon the stage of the President of the outgoing class, clad in the robe bearing the numerals of by-gone classes-the last numeral being that of the present class. After an admonitory speech, the Senior President transfers the mantle to the shoulders of the Junior President. ' 'STEPPED-ON SEN IORS It's not the things that we have done, But it's what we've got to dog We always seem to have just begun For there's ever something new. We have to work and study hard And stay up late at nightg They give us Seniors so much to do That it isn't exactly right. But we'll be through some of these days, We'll march around so proud, If they ask us what's the reason, We'll tell them right out loud: We've worked and studied and won, And we're just letting you know We've fought a terrible battle, We think it's time to go. -Inez Moorman. CLASS PROPHECY I was very pleasantly surprised the other day when my former classmate, Emma Gene Seale, visited me. She has long been internationally famous as a novel- ist. I suggested that we visit the High School and see some of our old friends. We called a taxi, and whom do you suppose greeted us with a smiling face but our good friend, Leroy Walker. Leroy, because of his ability to drive a taxi with more ease and safety than anyone else, is always so rushed that we were fortunate, indeed, to have him drive us. When we arrived at the High School we saw the very excelllent janitors, George Brunson and Ray Covington, who promised to show us the Fish pond, one of their latest beautifications of the campus. The mailman was just leaving the High School and from behind the huge mail bag, we saw Harry Verdun Kelsey's bright and shining face. We found that the High School had changed very much since that year of the sensational graduating class- 1936. It seems that everything is done for the entertainment of the pupils. We were directed to the ballroom where Dorothy Sowder is the dancing instructor with Mary Kennemer as her assistant. Dorothy's male students learn very fast, but she seems to have quite a bit of trouble with the girls. When we went to the gymnasium, we expected to see a volleyball court but to our amazement they had a swimming pool and a swell diving board. Sibyl Adams, Doris Brackett, J. C. Willoughby, and Clarence Trice are swimming instructors. We hear that their diving teams won state championship last year. After watching the stunts we decided to go upstairs, and George Gregg, traffic director, showed up the elevator operated by none other than Bivings Thomas. Ah, here is the first sign of real work: Jack Badgett is the teacher of Trigonometry, and his pupils think the matter might be hard if it were looked into. !l 11N it VIEWS ikwlf-

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CLASS PROP!-I ECY - Continued We hear that Ruth Baggett was not satisfied with the method of shorthand that was practiced, so she made up her own system which is simply not writing shorthand at all, but remembering exactly what was dictated. Miss Marie Arthur criticized the method at first but after many years of successful practice, she has at last said that it cannnot be surpassed. Margaret Bengal said she first gavie Miss Baggett the idea, but Miss Baggett firmly denies this, so Margaret doesn't get any of the royalties. Margaret was so disappointed, she thought of another idea and did not confide in anyone. It is a typewriter that will type whatever you tell it to write without any effort on your part. This was a swell idea until paper grew rather scarce. Martha Fae Rotchstein quickly offset this by establishing a paper manufacturing company. Elmer Hammon and Cecil Spindle have set up the Hammon-Spindle Funeral Directors, and Robert Dyer and Jack Evans are the chief grave diggers. Plenty long, plenty wide and plenty deep is their motto. Charline Markham long ago gained the title of Miss America. Now she is floor walker at the overall factory. Paul Porter is the most popular cartoonist in this part of the world. Inez Moorman had hopes of being a second Wordsworth but she gave it up as a bad dream, and is now the literary critic for the 'Hagerman Head Ake, of which Matalyn Lind- say is editor, and Verna Margaret Allen is the editor of the Grin Column. Wybeta Smith is a demonstrater of electrical refrigerators and in her spare time operates cooking school. H. L. Browder is the chicken raiser on the largest ostrich farm in Oklahoma. Ralph Pinkston and Golden Ruddell, poultry raisers, keep the Cafeteria in the High School well supplied with frying chickens. Mary Fay Porch and Mary Parker, co-managers of this cafeteria and Jeannette Guilloud and Brunie Fay Fisher, the foods teachers who prepare the meals to be served in the lunch room, find that this is the only way to get their meals free. Mary Bond and Marie Wineinger are the waitresses, and who also furnish the floor show when one is called for. Maxine Harshbarger is the cashier. In the block next to the school was a Paderewski Circus of which Rose Lee Nelson and Dorothy Neidert are proprietors. Dick Wilson, the death-defying racer, driving his two-wheeled car, was the chief attraction. Bernadine Lyndon is hired as the doll manufacturer. Cecil Gilliam is now ringrnaster, having acquired his training herding ducks. Mabel Lou Dunning is peanut vendor. Her services are very much desired because she had much experience during the Texas Centennial, way back in 1936. Helen Ruth Pressley is an organ grinder and has a pet monkey and Violet Coff- man is a tight rope walker. Nellie Mae Strickland is a jazz singer and hfer fan mail equals that of Jean Harlow. Doris Howell did want to be a second Miss Johnson, but since Winnie V. Short attained that position. she has become court jester in the Pad- erewski Circus. We were very surprised when we saw that Virginia Wineinger has taken up the profession of snake charming. The fame of this circus is due to the clever advertising plastered on billboards by Hull Allen, the advance advertising man. Leland Cornell used to be sheriff but he received so many shocks that he has decided to be a rose grower. Johnny Gibson was a deputy for Sheriff Cornell, but after a few shooting scrapes he has also retired. Margaret Morrison and Ruby McGee are seamstresses and both specialize in making men's shirts. We had seen nearly all our old friends by this time, but we asked about some that we hadn't seen. We were told that Vela White, disappointed in love and marriage, had divorced John Hoey and is now a chewing gum tester in the Simms Tobacco Com- pany. Virginia Houghton is the successor of Katherine Hepburn in Hollywood as a result of the class play back in 1936. Roscoe Parker breaks rocks for the govern- ment. We expected greater things of Roscoe, but he admits that it is the dream of a lifetime fulfilled. Mabel Hunter is making a round-the-world tour lecturing on Cat Culture. Mildred Young demonstrates aluminum ware to housewives. Glen- don Kenney has taken over Jimmie Jeffries' place on the Early Bird program. By this time our brains were in a whirl as a result of all this startling news, so we decided to call it a day. It has been wonderful visting our old friends, and reviewing the happy days of 1936. TWENTY-EIGHT 5e .. !l ll!! it MEMS 121-5- 1 x