DuSable High School - Red and Black Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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III. SS PHIJPHEIIY Edna Alicia Parks Ianuary, 1960 We are now standing before the Magic Mirror of Life, waiting to see what the future has in store for us before we bid adieu to dear old Du Sable. As the mirror is unveiled, we see Embe Alexander, a congressman, who has just delivered one of his famous speeches on Better Housing for Chicago's Southside, and is receiving congratulations from Commissioner William Moorehead and lack Gibson, president of the N. A. A. C. P. The faculty members of our Alma Mater are proud to welcome Ralph Mitchell, physical education instructor, Barbara Price, English teacher: and Willa Grimes, a teacher of science. Gwendolyn Hardin is taking the part of Baby Snooks on the radio, while William Ferguson does an excellent job with the part of Daddy. Sarah Barksdale has returned from Paris with the latest styles in knitted sweaters and evening gowns for her fashionable Vogue shop. Her co- workers, Vernice Alleyne, Margaret Brunson, and Herma Hall, are voicing their approval. Playing at the World's Playhouse in Forward March, are none other than Georgine Baker, Ruby Grant, Lucy Hobson, Evelyn Lankford, Edith McFarland, and Geraldine Owens. They bow graciously as the audience applauds again and again. William Bethany, who was unsuccessful as an electrician, has progressed rapidly in another field. He is now a foreman for the W. P. A. Alfred Cannon, a graduate of West Point, is lieutenant colonel of the United States Army. Albert Logan is first lieutenant. Frank Edwards, Ir., is Chicago's leading mortician. His competent secre- tary is Miss Dorothy Kelsie. Delores Nailor is teaching kindergarten at Edmund Burke. Her brightest pupil is Patricia, the daughter of Lillian Carson and Arthur Cole. Almeta Myers, Laura Isbell, and Maybelle Thomas are doing excellent social work by helping the needy get to school. Marjorie Flint has reached the height of success as a movie actress in Hollywood. She has just received the Academy Award for her work in The Life of a Negro Woman. Earl Coffman has been very successful in his real estate business. Doris Houston is the bookkeeper, while Christine Cobbins is his efficient secretary. Mildred Buford is the head librarian of the George C. Hall Public Library. Horace Powell and Dorothy Green are celebrating their fifteenth wedding anniversary with intimate friends at the Panther Room in the Sherman Hotel. Hanging in the gallery of the Art Institute is the picture of a sleeping child, which was drawn by Ernest Pringle, the greatest Negro artist of all times. Muriel Clemons is the assistant principal of the Willard Elementary School. Arther Lee Powe is physical education instructor in the same school. Page Seventy four

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To Ierry Boston, Dennis Boston's track record. To Helen Mae Mosely, Evelyn Lankford's scholastic ability. To Lois Barnett, Callie Barnett's casual glances. To Thelma Meadows, Almeta Myers' position as president of the G. A. A. To Marjorie Brunson, Margaret Brunson's friendliness. To Iames Kellum, Earl Coffman's skates to decrease his tardinesses. To Iohn McLean, Alfred Cannon's medals. To Clarence Edwards. Charles Crump's speed. To Frederick Lights, Stanford Trotter's eccentricities. To Harrison Duke, Frank Edward's height. To Willa Mae Polk, Earlene Morris' silence. To Ethel Skinner, Ruth Taylor's cage ability. To Vivian Starks, Clara Williams' styles. To Herman Taylor, Carlos Officer's swimming ability. To Herman Smith, Albert Ianney's low, crooning voice. To Dorothy Carter, Lucille Marshall's boy-friends. To Emma Alston, Viola Mowatt's final grades. To the next class historian, Lawrence Carroll's profound sympathy. To Catherine Slaughter, Barbara Iohnson's G's in Chemistry. To Helen Grimes, Willa Grimes' curls and pearl pin. To Malqri Khan, Hassan Khan's position as president of the Negro History Club. To the menial who follows in my footsteps, l, Rudolph Brown, creator and bequeathor of this will, do hereby bequeath my inestimable ability at will writing. We, the Senior Class of 1940, do hereby appoint Mr. Willard, under the watchful eye of Mrs. Prescott, sole executor of this our final testimony unto which we do hereby set our stamp of approval this 25th day of Ianuary of the year nineteen hundred and forty. Witnesses I. M. Brown tFacultyJ Marie O'Keefe tFacultyl Class Ianuary, 1940 Rudolph Brown Page Seventy-three

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Raymond Dudley is on trial, charged with not paying income tax. Iacob Dochee, attorney, is pleading the case before the judge of the Supreme Court. Georgeanne Williams is head of the chemistry laboratory at Fisk University. ' Herman Hagan is singing before the statue of Lincoln in Washington, as the guest of the wife of the President of the United States. Ardesta Campbell is the editor of the society page for the Chicago Tribune. Lawrence Carroll and Tanzel Govan are the sports editors. Morris Proffitt, Thomas Thornton, and Carlos Officer are on the staff of the Mayo Clinic. Edna Parks has taken Mrs. Randall's place as clerk at Du Sable. Arthur Taylor, the owner of a large rubber plantation in India, has just sailed for Europe with his charming wife, the former Vermell Gambrell. Bessie Smith, Ruth Lumsey, Ethel Mae Iohnson, and Maude Wade, four rich old maids, have turned over one thousand dollars apiece to the Orphan- age Board. Frederick Moss is president of the First National Bank. Thomas Reddish is teller in the same bank. Anna Lodge, Nadjea McMillan, and Madette Chandler are dress designers for Saks Fifth Avenue. Rudolph Brown and Albert Ianney are interior decorators for Warner Brothers. Augustus Barnes, the Iitterbug, is tops at the Cotton Club in New York with chorus of Iitterbug De-icers. Charles Crump is physical education instructor at Michigan State University. Florence Sibley has turned out to be a second Cleopatra. Troy Cobb and William Whitfield are prominent politicians seeking offices. Lionel Iordan is teaching French at the Sorbonne University in France. Marie Taylor and Stephen Hodges are happily married and living on a farm in South Dakota. Alonzo Rice is chief engineer for the Santa Fe Scout. Clara Williams and Clotiel Robinson are stenographers for the Pullman Company. Ianie Stubbs is dancing at a swanky night club in Germany. Her honored guest is old man Hitler. Muriel lackson is court reporter in the Criminal Court. Doris Gaston is a biology teacher at Englewood. As for the rest of the Class of Ianuary 40, they too have found success in their chosen professions. A misty darkness settles on the face of the Mirror of Life and our minds are drawn back to the present. Page Seventy-five