Duncan University Fletcher High School - Senator Yearbook (Neptune Beach, FL)

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box and getting back seventy-five cents change, and that Virginia McGraw has qone into the clothing business, but her twelve children have consumed the entire stock. We decide to stroll down the boardwalk. A speck bobbing on the horizon catches our eye. Billy Goethe, who runs the ferris wheel, tells us that it is Iimmy Patterson, who is making his third trip around the world in a barrel. Such a daredevil he always was , we murmur before continuing on our way. We stop in at the shooting gallery, which is run by Clara Drake, Betty Davis, and Kather- ine Olin. They are learning how to get a man the easiest way as well as making money, they tell us wisely. Proceeding with our stroll, we decide to enter the fortune teller's booth. Behind a misty veil is Bobby Smith with Shirley Laing as her assistant. Shirley picks our pockets as Bobby foretells our future in our palms. In her crystal she tells us that Dick, Bring-Em-Back-Alive Weber is in Africa on a hunting expedition, and with him are Elizabeth McClure and Katherine Iohnson, who tames the elephants. Ioe and Elinore have bought a corner lot in Lover's Lane, and Iohn and lane Kissling reside just next door. lane, at present, has gone to Panama to have her face lifted. Entering the fortune teller's booth as we are leaving is Audrey Mann, who informs us that her husband is away on a trip. Place called San Quentin, she said. Must be in Texas??? We amble on down to McKenzie's Saloon, where Donnie Donaldson is barkeeper, and Pat McCarthy dances and sings nightly. Tom- my Haddock, most athletic boy in the class of '46, is keeping his muscles in shape by wielding a billiard stick. Gathered around him is a small group including lack Harvey and Iohnny Pyatt, who want to learn, too. We seat ourselves at a small table near the front and are served by Catherine Harden and Annie Mae Oesterreicher. Suddenly a brawl begins and we hurriedly leave by the window of the hat check room, having been given our hats, such as they are, by Annie Laurie Phillips, the charming hat check girl. This leads us into a side street where we are knocked to one side by Billy Powell, who is apparently jet-propelled, and who clutches a saw in one hand. He is now a big man in the medical profession, and is on an im- portant case. His very efficient nurse, Iose- phene Adams, dashes after him. Picking ourselves up, We stagger weakly onto one end of the boardwalk, where our attention once more is drawn to a large crowd gathered around the ''Bing-The-Bell-With-The Hammer concession. This is run by Iohn Horn. Broke the darn thing again, he mut- ters. I should have taken up baseball. We decide to leave the boardwalk, fasci- nating through it maybe, and visit dear ol' Fletcher High. After all, who educated the faculty? Ours are indeed fond memories. Entering the barnacle-covered portals of our alma mater, we look over the schedule and find that new additions have been made to the faculty. Among these is Mr. Doggett, our former principal, who at present is occu- pied with burning a pair of fur-bottomed shoes. Somebody must have left these here , he remarks. Neil Carrigan, our most intellectual boy, is professor of literature, and wears a goatee to make it look authentic. He informs us that the class has just begun Forever Amber . Frances Givins, our most intellectual and athletic girl, does janitorial work to keep trim

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0644 667 TIME: 1960. PLACE: Iacksonville Beach-A thriving, gay, metropolis, making Chicago look undernour- ished, puny by comparison. We stroll down the main thoroughfare, awed by the thousands of neon signs and glittering lights. We pass the firm of Hoffmann and Brown, Incorporated. Wade is now a successful ar- chitect, designing play pens for the retired members of the Fletcher faculty. Proudly he points to a gigantic construction, especially equipped with bookshelves, containing a set of 'Tundamentals of English Grammar. Por Mrs. Merrill , he explains. But will she ever give up? Since Wade's hair is grey now, we have our doubts. Mr. Hoffmann is ably assisted in his corporation by Marcus, who is, at the present, drawing up blueprints for a chair with forty different positions to recline in class. ' We pass on down the street-On the corner, perched on a soapbox, we see our Yankee Arnold, selling membership cards to the Eleanor Club. Been on this job seven years, he tells us proudly. Sold eight cards al- ready . We congratulate him heartily. A huge billboard, covering at least four blocks, arrests our attention. On it, in techni- color, is Leila Hunter, now a famous cover girl. We are told by Clyde Gore, who is slouching under an old lamp post, that she has made millions. And to think I turned down a partnership offer with her. But at the time I was making my own money. Slyly he pulls a miniature counterfeit machine from his pocket. Alarmed, we dash around the corner and almost run into the middle of a race riot, where Duval County's renowned politician, Hugh Swanson, is clubbing his way through the crowd, trying to sell twenty-five cent copies of his latest book, How to Make a Lasting World Peace. We do not stop to make any conversation, feeling it would be futile. A familiar pulp mill odor nearly stifles us. We gaze upward at a signboard. It bears the inscription Paper For Every Home-Day or Knight p which particularly attracts us. Turner himself welcomes us into his sumptuous office, conveniently equipped with a roulette table, practical jokes and a harem. We have a brief chat, in which Turner tells us that Mable has thrown him over for a retired sea captain and is now living in a houseboat. We try to offer our sympathy before leaving but the telephone rings and Turner begins to explain to six different women why he can't keep that date tonight. Paul Curtis is now president of the lax Beach Dar and Bell Club. We gaze at his mighty biceps admiringly. He informs us that among his chief members are Darrell Brown, Wendell Mobley, Iimmy Holbert, David Howell, and Don Evorson. Don, he tells us, is thinking of hiring Eddie Olson as chief collector. We also learn that Virginia Cummings has been sent to a sanitarium, due to her unfortunate habit of putting fifty cents in the collection

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and also teaches a class in How To Evade Mrs. Merrill . lust simple strategy and skilful maneuvering, she explained. Even though I didn't make it. Elizabeth Bothwell teaches gym and Lor- raine Ayoub is in charge of the music de- partment. She has the Glee Club doing a beautiful rendition in our honor of Who Threw The Whiskey In The Well. Lish Dunn, is coach's secretary, and can take shorthand in Mongolian, Yiddish, and Chinese. We've got to play somebody, declares coach, who is just as debonair as ever. He informs us that Earl Thompson is the only letter man left on the team-in fact, the only man. Walking past the football lockers and re- calling how the team borrowed our gym shorts for football practice, we notice a shadowy form lurking farther down the corridor. It is Mrs. Merrill, still checking hall permits. Who's there? she cries and thrusts her bayonet sharply in our direction. lust me, we reply cautiously. You mean I! she shouts vigor- ously, and begins to advance. We take a look at each other, and reach a conclusion. It is indeed time to leave. Fond memories, adieul Here's to the future. 5,-Q qffic' , ,T-.t i..J 'gQJ.,,-+ ,Y YV, Y ..v- ,