East Mississippi Community College - Lion Yearbook (Scooba, MS)

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The Lion Haze Blair Hammack, whom we remembered as Hobby , was a real estate broker in Florida. After the theatre they carried us back to our hotel, and we left the next morning for New York City. After registering at our hotel in New York, we began a tour of the city. While Sally Pearl and I were in a large department store we saw a familiar face. Could that be—? Yes, it was Loraine Parke, who was buyer for the ladies ' department. She told us that Ruth Ray was a very success- ful commercial artist and was living at Greenwich Village. She also said that Dr. Wiggins- Rufus, to us-was connected with Mayo Brothers ' Clinic, so we decided to go to see him. Upon reach- ing the Clinic we were met by a nurse, who was our own Shirley Barrett Shirley conducted us to Dr. Wiggins ' offices, where we found not only Rufus, but also our friend, Douglas Tubb, now a surgeon at the Clinic. Dr. Doug told us, with some degree of pride, that his fiancee, whom we remembered as Nannie George Taylor, was also living in New York, and was a very successful play director. We asked Doug about his cousin, Elna Mae Ritter, and he told us that she had married a hometown boy and they were living near Smith ville, Mississippi. After leaving the clinic we decided to go to Columbia Univer- sity. While we were there we saw another member of our class, John Havens, who was one of the historians at the college. During the course of our conversation John told us that Howard Hawkins, the present welter-weight champion, was to defend his title at Madison Square Garden that night. He said he was going to at- tend the match, and asked if we would accompany him. Of course we readily consented, for we wanted to see our E. M. J. C. boxer. At the end of the match Hawk was still the world ' s champion. As we were leaving the Garden Ave were confronted by another of our friends, Louise Sullivan. Louise, we found, was engaged in Settlement Work in New York City, and seemed to enjoy it very much. She told us that Eleanor Bounds was also in New York, and was a very famous radio star. We had heard her often, but did not recognize her because she was singing under a professional name. We spent three days in New York City, and then went on through Poughkeepsie, stopping at Vassar to see La Bertis Poole, who was head of the English department there. After leaving Poughkeepsie, we continued the tour on up through Vermont. At 20

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Frances Gray, who was the Women ' s tennis champion, was living in Salt Lake City, Utah. She also told us that Maybelle Stocton had married Sam Weaver and that they were at the time, in El- dorado, Arkansas. Sam, we knew, was one of the leading Evan- gelistic workers. We asked her about Maybelle ' s roommate, Edna Rollin, and she told us that Edna was at Columbia, working on her Master ' s Degree in English. After leaving Atlanta, we went on through the Oarolinas to Richmond, Virginia. While we were there we went to the public library, and who should we find but our old friend, Jane Gore. She told us that she had been Librarian at Richmond for three years, and that she liked it very much. When we asked if she had seen any of our classmates recently, she told us that Christine Clay owned and operated a Beauty Saloon in Richmond, and that Rnby ' e Kynard often visited her. Rnbye, she said, had been married sev- eral years. Leaving Richmond, we went on to Washington, I). C. Of course, we both knew that Willard Stephens was Speaker of the House of Representatives, so we stopped to see him. lie seemed glad to see some of his school-day friends, and began to talk of othrs of our class. lie told us that Levin Thompson was the editor of a large newspaper, and that he sometimes saw him in Washing- ton. Williard ' showed us over the Capital, and in one of the offices we were startled to hear a familiar voice call to us. Girls! said Judy, I ' m so glad to see you! Yes, our little Judy was Secretary to one of the congressmen. r • Saying goodbye to Judy and Williard, we were soon on our way to Baltimore. When we arrived there, Sally wanted to go to the bank to get some Traveler ' s Checks, so of course I went along, too. Imagine our surprise and delight when on reaching the bank we found that the president was none other than our friend, Robert Perkins. We talked to him for awhile, and he told ns that he often heard from Charlie Hudson, who was the Kemper County Demon- stration Agent. He also told ns that Jessie Lee Morgan was a mis- sionary to Korea. When we reached Philadelphia we registered at one of the leading hotels, and as we entered the dining room that night, whom should we see but Eleanor Russell Dudley. She told us that she was doing stenographic work in a law firm. She was dining with her employer, who was none other than T. G. Hollimon. They were on their way to the theatre and asked ns to join them. When they told us that Prances Jones was the leading lady, we decided to go. We enjoyed the play very much, although we did not have a chance to speak to Prances. We asked Eleanor Russell if she could tell us about any of our classmates, and she told us that 19 $ ®f

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Montpelier we saw Harold Daws, a distinguished poet of the time. He told us that Gully, his brother, was fanning in Mississippi, and was making scientific experiments with corn. After leaving Vermont we went up into Canada, through Mon- treal, and came back through New York, stopping at Buffalo. There we found that Robert Wade was a very successful chiro- practor. Although we did not get to see Sully , we did see one of our classmates, Hermie Frances Giles. She was hurrying down the street, so we hailed her. She told us that she was on her way to court, as she was now court reporter. We only talked to her a few minutes, for we had to go on with our friends, who were on the way to Niagra Falls. We came down the coast of Lake Erie, through Cleveland, Ohio, to Detroit, spending a few days there. Our next stop was Kalamazoo, and we found that the hotel in which we were staying was owned by Louis Palmer, who had been in our class at E. M. J. C. We only spent one night at Kalamazoo, for we were anxious to reach the Windy City, Chicago, where we were to spend the weekend. During our stay in Chicago we saw Udell Dawkins, now a suc- cessful journalist. He .said that he had recently seen Homer Park- er, who had specialized in Mathematics, and was now working out Einstein ' s unfinished theories at Harvard. Our next stop after Chicago was Milwaukee, where we were charmingly entertained by Charlsye Morgan, who was hostess at our hotel. After leaving Milwaukee we visited Minneapolis, and we con- tinued from there down through Iowa to St. Louis, Missouri. While in St. Louis we attended a basket ball game, and were surprised to find that one of the teams was managed by our friend, Ira Mc- ' Dowell. Another of our school mates, Rube Morris, was playing on the team. He had become so interested in basket ball while at E. M. J. C. that he became a professional player. After leaving St. Louis we journeyed on into Kansas, stopping for one day at Topeka. Here we saw May Kinard, dietician in a large hospital. In Denver, Colorado, Sally and I saw another of our class mates while we were attending church. There was something very 21