Donelson High School - Crest Yearbook (Nashville, TN)

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JUIVXOXQ CMSS OFFXCEIQS FRANK NEWMAN CLARK KUSCLENDON ELIZABETH 0XN'EN jlmxiv HARALSON JAMES LEE BURRIS President Vire4President Secretary Treasurer Sergeant-at-Arms He is ready qnd eager ln every respect 11 gentle- Nut nl lhe top, but Let him be as he is-he Always talking-never for anything, man. climbing. wmits nu alteration. saying a11J'thing. CLASS HISTORY In September, 19-42, a group of scared young greenhorns timidly gathered on the campus of Donelson High School. Immediately we were in- ducted into various classes and into a few of the activities of the school. As freshmen, we elected Buster Jennings our class president. Although we became discouraged at times, the end of the year found us looking forward to vacation with all the joy of a task well done. We marched into the next school year enthusias' tically. We viewed with an amused eye the new recruits and felt vastly superior. 'l'he year raced hy. Every day meant more knowledge, more activ- ities, and more friends. Vernon Allen was our president during the sophomore year. As juniors, through the leadership and example of Frank Newman and our other capable officers, we have participated in all the athletics and most of the other activities of our school. The juniors came to the fore in presenting the winning one-act play to represent Donelson in the forensic meet. We have been especially active in forensic work, having won honors in the oratorical contests. At present. we are hard at work on debates. Next year we are looking forward to new worlds to con- quer and anticipate our most successful year.

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CLASS 0 As I sit alone and ponder oxer the past and present of the class of '45, it stirs a magical wonder of my imagination. So full of nragic is this power that I find myself in a daze, arousing finally into the world of 1955. May 28, 1955, the date of our longed-for reunion. Because of its being our old home town, we decided to disregard the fact that Donelson is the most crowded metropolis in the world and go on and have our reunion. The only two now left in the home town are Ruth Peek, who has made Donelson the center of the world with her spectacular drug store, and Bettye Cloyd, now the famous coach of the world champs, the Donelson Dons. Hollywood still happens to be the center of the silver screen, and there we find Vicki Laine, alias Leslie Anne Dabbs, a famous Wright's beauty, who is now making a picture with our Tom Ward, the romantic flyer, who has American, European, and Australian women clamoring for a glimpse of him. Incidentally, that Wright is notre other than john Wright, who now makes a profession out of find- irrg beautiful women! At Berry Field, stepping off the China Clipper, is Hollie Sharpe, who left Mrs. Roosevelt stranded in China without her right-hand secretary. With him are May Bell Davis and Otelia Henley, who are secretaries to thc Secretary of State and the Secretary of the Treasury, respectively. But wait! Who is the Secretary of the Treasury, who steps into a volley of flash bulbs? It is none other than Margaret Ann Adsmond, the first woman to hold that important office. fStill handling money, I see.j I looked up just in time to see jo Ann Criswell's private plane, which she pilots herself, come in for a beautiful landing. jo is the golden-haired, gold- en-voiced star of Universal Opera, a world traveling opera company, taking the place of Metropolitan. Accompanying her is Dot Bradley, her publicity agent, who in private life is the wife of the famous comedian, Harold Wlright. I met the old-fashioned steamboat that comes up the Mississippi into the Cumberland from South America at Pier 25, where Mr. and Mrs. Miles Ezell, jr., have just arrived. She is the former Geraldine Rader fsurpriselj, who has helped Miles tremendously in his dairy business in the rich bot- tom lands of Buenos Aires. Joy Flowers and Kay Gragg, both married now, have come to the reunion without their husbands because they weren't members of the class of '45. Both have done quite well with their singing both in radio and in television, but devote most of their time to their homes. Billy Charlton and Elmer Brewer, I learned, have formed a partnership, building modern glass homes. on which they have made a small fortune. Corning in from Australia is Arinva Cross. who, disgusted with men after all these years, is running a dude ranch for divorcees. With her are Florerre Ward and Frances Coville, who, with their hus- bands. run a sheep ranch that furnishes raw ma- terial for Sam Rehorn's factory, Wooly Goods, Inc. Along with Sam comes Margaret Hawkins. his famous designer, who actually works now. At the Union Station in Donelson, I, along with four bands and the city council, headed by Herbert Miller, who is the mayor of near-by Hermitage, came to meet the two returning heroes of the Hermitage Hermits pro football team, Aaron Hood and Leon Creech, who are world All-Stars. With them are Eva Robertson and jean Martin, their wives, and also the head coaches of the team. Olyne Waddell is manager of the Modern Plaza. a famous hotel in Paris, France. She came over on the Atlantic Steamer with Mattie jo Stout, who is a missionary in Egypt. Jewell Hust, who now with her husband makes her borne in South Russia on one of the largest poultry ranches in the world. canre along too. Kent Stockell. world-renowned poet. who is now making a tour of the world, carne in at the last rninrrte on the Flash Flagship, which makes the trip around the world in forty-six hours, Its de- signer is also on board, and who would it be but that master mechanic, Lyle XVatsonl Everybody is here now, and the party is a rare one. YVe . . . whishl!! Oh. what a daze! And I forgot to mention me, brit l'll probably still he trying to find a way to Mars in a hurry, don't you guess? JANE ANNE CULLUM. Class Propllcl t- ,i I. ,pf g? X -. ..-ill-..

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JAMES AGN EW 'Laugh and be merryg Rememlver, better the world with a song. jmnzs Howmum BAKER None but himself can be his fzamllelf' ETHEL DAVIS If .study is the muse of death, I'll live forever. RALPH Fl NNEY Greater men have liven' than I, but I doubt it. URRIS GOODMAN I'll just keep rm liliuzging till I reach the lap. H ERBERT GOOLWVI N The more I study, the more I forget. IUHE VERNON ALLEN If you ran't win, make the fellnw ahead of you break the record. CLIFFORDILAN BONICR Ubfiydremrix are a xzueet pastime. FR ED DENSON He dne.m't say much, but he is always llzeref' PEGGY FOREHAND lie a live wire and you u'on't get stepped on. BETTY GUODXVI N Silence is great, but alzecrh is greater. LUCILLE HAGAR Alzuuyx laugh when you rang It's eheap medicine.