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

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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

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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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= The Lion familiar about the preacher. Sally and I gazed at each other. It couldn ' t be — but yes, it was. Dick Dupree was standing before us on the rostrum, earnestly delivering the sermon. After the ser- vice we went to the front of the church to speak to Dick. He in- vited us to dinner that evening, but as we were leaving that after- noon we could not accept. Dick told us hat he had been the pastor of this church for about two and one-half years, and as he had not been to Mississippi during that time, he asked us many questions about his native state and the various members of our class. After sayng goodbye to Dick, we joined the other members of our party and were soon on our way through Utah and Nevada. Our destination was San Francisco, and after several days journey, we reached it. We rested for awhile, then began our tour of the city. We stopped at a large jewelry shop to get a watch adjusted, and whom should we find to be the owner but Billie Gwin, a for- mer student of E. M. J. C. He was the only member of our class that we saw while in San Francisco, but while passing through Monterey on our way to Los Angeles, we encountred Maggie Mae Hill, now an interior decorator. She was, it seemed, very success- ful in this line of work. We we reached Los Angeles, everyone, of course, wanted to visit Hollywood, so our first trip was made to this famous part of the city. Everyone was a little breathless at the prospect of visit- ing that glamorous city. Sally and I were doubly excited because we were to visit Albert Bounds, formerly known as Pee Wee. Albert had by that time risen to the rank of stardom within that world of actors. We enjoyed our visit with Albert very much. He asked us to accompany him to Coconut Grove that! evening, since Dick McAlister ' s orchestra was being featured. We readily accepted, and returned to our hotel until the time. That night we talked to Dick for awhile, and he had his orchestra play Wilis- 1 pering in memory of old E. M. J. G, that having been our theme song. We left Los Angeles the next day, traveling eastward, through Arizona, and New Mexico. While we were in Arizona we saw Oubre Lang, a brilliant novelist, who was making his home in Tucson. Next we entered Texas, where we remained several daysj, making our longest stop at Dallas, then going to Ft. Worth, and on 22