Gordonsville High School - Tiger Yearbook (Gordonsville, TN)

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T H E T I G E R SENIORS GLADYS COMPTON MARY DAVIS CAROLYN SULLIVAN JACK M'KINNEY KENNETH TAYLOR ROBERT HARPER L 9 ..

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THE TIGER SENIORS ETHFIL BAKER JUANITA BARRETT RAYMOND ALLMON RUBYE WILLIAMS GLENN WATTS HUGH WINFREE ..g--

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THE TIGER C'LASS PROPHECY It was in the month of July, 1955, I had been ieading my annual and had dozed off. It seemed as if I were back at Cordonsville High, where I had spent so many pleasant as well as unpleasant hours. I was startled in my sleep, as of old, by the ringing of the fourth period bell. But as the cobwebs cleared from my mind I realized that it was the ringing cf the telephone. It was the bus station informing me that the bus which I was to take for a tour of the western states was scheduled to leave in an hour. As the streamlined model began to gather erred even around the dan- gerous curves. it reminded me of an old student at school that drove like that. I glanced at the dr'ver. it cruldn't l'e. Eut ves. who else in the world could keep every hair in place like that? It was Charles Vantrea-'e We began dis- cussing the old classmates. ,Ravmdnd Allmon had mar ifd Claribelle and they had settled down on a farm on Dennv's Branch. Pavmond's oldest son was driv- ing the school bus to dear old G.H.S. During a five minute stop I was glancing through a current maga'ine and by chance noticed a photcgravh of a young man with a marvelous nhvsique under which was written. I was formerly a 97 pound weakling. Let Hugh CTarzanj Winf ee rrake a new man out of you in ten days. At Memphis. Tennessee a lanky fashionablv groomed passenger with a large suitcase boarded our bus and leisurelv produced his ticket much to the dis- gust of cur speed crazed driver. I recovnized him at once as Leon tRumsoakJ Hickey, and he was selling light bulbs throughout the country. He informed me that Kenneth Tavlo' was teaching toe dancing. expression and hem stitching at Carthage High School and also that Jack McKinney was athletic director and volley ball coach at St. Mary's School. lt seemed that the love bug had refused to leave Cordell Moore and Claudine Winfree and they had become partners for life. While we were stopped at Iittle Rock, who would I see but Lee Dawson I-lolleman. He had been hailed from coast to coast as the greatest hitch hiker of all times. I spent the night in Kansas Citv. While there I went to the picture show and as the curtain rose, a chfrus of girls came dancing out. I rubbed my eyes for among them in scantv costumes were Otis Lawrence, Rubye Williams and Ethel Baker. The vaudeville was finally over the the main show was on. It was a western two-gun thriller, called Burn 'em Up Kyle featuring Hall Kyle of guita: picking fame. As I got on the bus I saw a gigantic fat man. It was Robert Harper. He was the fattfst man on earth and was with Rogers Greater Shows. As we stopped in a little country tcwn I 'noticed a medicine show going on. It was Carolyn Sullivan selling salves that would cure snake bites. fallen arches, bow legs and pink tooth brush. Carolyn told me that Glenn Watts and Gladys 'Compton were dealers in second hand junk and radios at Stonewall. Juanita Bafrett was teach- ing tap dancing and horseback riding at Temperance Hall and Frances Gwaltney was running a tea room in Pumkin Hollow, lnd'ana. I was told that W. L. Turner. Jr.. was a piano tuner and that it paid to get a new piano when he got thrcugh with it. And that Raymond Phillips is on an island in the South Seas studying the STARS, did I say stars? After seeing what each of the students had amounted to, I thought, you can never tell what tomorow will bring. -MARY DAVIS -19.-