Fairfield High School - Crucible Yearbook (Fairfield, AL)

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1st. I HE CltllCIIILES Evelyn Benton, another housewife. (Pretty good. But Evelyn floundered around in Hollywood for several years before she settled down.) Annie Blakey, a nurse. (Annie is now head nurse at T. C. I. Hospital and she certainly can make her patients do what she wants.) Dorothy Bradley, an aviatrix. (What else could she be with her reckless spirit?) Emma Burnette, a famous athlete. (When 1 prophesied this, I never dreamed that Emma would today he the world's tennis champion.) Hue! Clements, a stenographer. (Check.) Jennie DeArman. another stenographer. (Of course Hazel and Jennie were stenographers only temporarily.) Martha Elwell. a secretary. (Mark me up incorrect this time. Martha is now the editor of the Ladies' Home Journal.) Mary Frances Gamble, a housewife. (What could quiet, demure Mary Frances be but somebody's good wife?) Evelyn Gilbert, a modiste. (Enter Paris! Evelyn is quite the most successful modiste in Paris. I saw her there on my last tour. She’s as stunning as ever.) Sarabell Graham, a physical education teacher. (Imagine Sarabell attending teachers’ meetings. That was a pretty bad guess. Sarabell became a scintillating movie star, reigned supreme as queen of the studios for a while, then left her career and became Mrs.—oh well—) Alice Green, a school teacher. (Not so good, nor so bad. Alice now teaches music.) Violet Halfpenny, another school teacher. (Violet is now America’s most renowned baby specialist.) Corinnc Hayes, a dramatic art teacher. (Corinnc now has a large studio in New York City. Her opinions are sought by the world's foremost actors and actresses.) Laura Jane Hicks, a beauty expert. (Who else but Laura Jane is the noted French specialist, Madame l,al,auric.) . I«ois Johnston, a voice teacher. (Like Corinnc. Lois has a large studio in New York. She has trained some of opera's biggest stars.) Emma Jean Lindsey, a private secretary. (A correct guess ) Virginia Logan, a housewife. (Yes, Virginia's beauty and good disposition soon put her name in the engagement list.) Mary Morris, a famous author. (Mary of the good personality is now America's rage in the line of romantic literature. 1 hope her fame isn’t just one of short endurance.) Margaret Love, a school teacher. (Margaret now is Professor of French at Birmingham University.) Wanda Mumpower, a successful music teacher. (Wanda, in spite oi her classical inclinations, turned to jazz and became famous overnight.) Frances Moragnc. a private secretary. (Yes? Well, she was one—to a college professor. She soon became Mrs. College Professor.) Inez Parrish, a famous h'ues singer. (Although Inez's jazzy instincts dominated the first of her career, the Garbo influence has made her a great tragedienne.) Jane Pratt, an artist. (At painting, Jane’s a genius.) Evelyn Rutledge, a pianist. (Good! She now plays accompaniments for Kalph Hood on his concert tours.) Dorothy Sellers, a literary genius. (Today Dot's works are translated into every language.) Ellen Turner, a housewife. (The on!y possible guess! It’s true.) Teresa Wilson, a stenographer. (Yes, she was a stenographer. Now she is a housewife.) Grace Wilson, a physical education teacher. (Well. I hate to say it after what I said about Sarabell. but Grace is a physical education teacher. However, she lost her maiden name long ago.) Esther Jean Wvper. a stenographer. (Of course what I said about Teresa holds true for Esther Jean.) As you see, some of my prophecies came true. But class prophecies don’t mean anything in anybody's life. Well. I hope having read my Crucible will make me dream of old Fairfield of '31. Bov McAllister. Prophet '31. Nineteen

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- --- ■ I8» CII1ICIIILE PROPHECY Time: 1950 Place: Vienna Character: Roy McAllister My, I'm tired. That Ruhcnstein Concerto almost got me. It's a good thing the reception after my concert was called off. I’m afraid that I would have failed to show up. Just think, tonight nineteen years ago, I attended the Senior Dance. How I wish I were back in old Fbirficid—back with the old gang—Grace, Sarabcll, Fat, Ralph—not with them as they arc today—great lawyers, doctors, engineers and so on, but with them as they were then. Oh to be back in the old Fairfield— not the present town of two million—but as Fairfield was then with eleven thousand. Oh, we had a wonderful school that year. The depression may have hit us hard in many ways, but not in school spirit. But, as Mr. Cook said, we were an exceptional group of young men and women.” What faith Miss Lee and Mr. Cook had in us. telling us that if we failed in our life’s work, it would be our own faults that caused our failure. Mr. Cook predicted great things for us. That presents a good idea. Where is my Crucible ? Of course I have it way over here in Vienna, for, you see, I do get homesick. I get a lot of consolation from just looking at pictures of the old gang. Here’s the dedication—Dorothy Sellers wrote that. Even then Dot showed signs of being something in the literary world. There's the faculty. Shall I name them? Here are the Seniors—Juniors—Sophomores and Freshmen (poor creatures)—but here’s my soaring achievement—the prophecy. What hours of agony (for my mother) these two pages represent. But some of my prophecies were pretty good. I'll just name them over in alphabetical order to you— John Baker, an editor. (That was a good guess. He’s now the editor of the New York Times.) James Blomclcy, a lawyer. ('Silly of me. wasn’t it. What could James be but a real estate man?) Rolfc Brandt, a noted violinist. (Wrong again, Rol fe is now one of America’s most brilliant architects.) Archie Campbell, an electrical engineer. (O. K.) Donald Elwcll, an actor. (Sure enough. Donald turned out to be a Broadway favorite.) Elvin Gardner, also an electrical engineer. (I missed that one. Elvin turned out to be a commercial teacher.) Matt Gilbert, an aviator. (Bad! Matt became Donald’s partner on Broadway. He and Donald, and of course Wm. Porteous. now own the largest theatre in New York.) Ralph Hood, a noted violinist. (Could I have guessed wrong. No. Ralph just played a series of concerts here in Vienna. He’s the same old Ralph.) Terrell Hardman, a great commercial artist. (My I must have had an inner vision with some of these.) William Lewis, a lawyer. (Yes, and is he a famous one?) M. C. Lindsay, a chemist. (O. K. He’s now as famous as Doctor Talton.) William Porteous, a minister. (Another incorrect guess, as already stated he owns a large theatre in New York.) James Stuart, a mechanical engineer. (What a guess. He’s now a big preacher.) Oscar Threadgill, a baseball player. (A good guess.) Nelson Van Tol, a college professor. (Half right, half wrong. Nelson wrote a book with six endings, letting one choose the ending he likes. It won him international fame as an author.) Dan Waite, a hanker. (Of course.) Henry White, another mechanical engineer. (What made me get this one right?) Clyde Wilson, a doctor. (He’s now head of theT. C. I. Hospital.) Now the girls—of course there aren’t so many famous girls as there arc boys, but we can guess why. However some of the girls of our class have become very important, as you will see. Eloise Addington, a housewife, no occupation. ( Home economics comes in handy” now says Eloisc.) Eighteen

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THE mill HI! ■ “GRUMBLES” Why on earth do wc have to have high schools, anyway? And colleges—ugh! For that matter, why have any old school ? I f wc must have them, why can't we be taught with movies and radio and then the nice little boys and girls could have more time for fun. Study makes wrinkles and gray hairs. And nobody likes either of these. If they would use pictures and radio, then it wouldn’t take so many teachers. A lot of good cooks, washerwomen, and ditch diggers have been ruined by making teachers out of them, anyway. Why don’t we have more dancing, bridge, baseball, and football taught us—something worthwhile, something to develop the body and then the mind, if there is any, could take care of itself. Why don't we have sunshine all the time; there isn't any use for cold winds snow, ice and had colds. Depressions are unnecessary and so are assembly, typewriting, English. mathematics, and all of the rest of the tomfoolery we are given in school. All of these interfere with the good times we could have and there ought to be a law against them. Why under the sun do we have to have graduation, anyway, and who even wants to go on board the Ship of I.itc? What good is class-night, and all the rest that goes with graduation? It’s all just a lot of put-on silliness, that docs nothing but go to show that senior classes arc composed of a lot of dumb-bells who ought to be ringing Cowbells at milking time, splitting firewood and hoeing com. I'm against it all. anyhow. FRANCES MORAGNK. Grumbler MI. Ttrtnty