Gordonsville High School - Tiger Yearbook (Gordonsville, TN)

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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.-

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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 CEASS w1LL We, the Senior Class if Gordonsville High School, 1941. being sound and disposing memory, on leaving this institution of higher learning, do hereby make known oui last testament to take effect after graduation. We, the Senior Class, do vgill to the Senior Class of 1942 the ability to get to the kitchen first. But please don't run over the poor little Freshmen. Also, we do will to the Senior Class of '42, our most able sponsor, Ephriam Kirby, with the hope that they have no trouble with their Senior play. I, Ruby Williams, do will my ag eeable disposition to Evelyn Tubb. I Otis Lawrence, do will to Elizabeth Davis my quiet manners. I, Cordell Moore, do will to Billy Tone Tubb, my studiousness I, Raymond Phillips, do will to Larry F. Thomas, my love for the rumba and Betty Grable. We hope you de- velop that cute little dance. I, Frances Gwaltney, do will to Ida Lee Scruggs my managerial ability. I, Leon Hickey, do will my friendship with Coach Woosley to Wilson High. We Robert Harper and Glen Watts, do will our talkativeness to Spurgeon McClellan. I, Ethel Baker, do will to Ruth Gibbs my flirtatiousness. I, Hugh Winfree, will to Coolidge Wilkerson, my flair for hitch- hiking. I, Carolyn Sullivan, do will to Lynell Smith, my grades in history. I, Gladys Compton, do will to Lucille Paschall, my haughty laugh. I, Kenneth Taylor, do w'll to Dexter House my girlish figule. I Jack McKenney, do will to Harry Ray Petty, my Junior friend. I, Hall Kyle, will my love for Sykes to J. W. Gwaltney. I, Juanita Barrett. do will to Crystine Nixon, my ability to sleep during class. I, Honey Allmon, do will to Homer Anderson, Clarabella. Please take care of her. I, Lee I-Iolleman, do will to Earl Paschall, my tobacco chew- ing ability. I, Mary Davis do will to Cha.elene Boston, my pleasing personality and my big mouth. We, the Senior Class for at least four of the class membersj, do will to the Junior Class, the play called the Singapore Spider , with the hope that you have even more success than we have had with the play. We will to the class our happy years at this, our Alma Mater, and hope that your school years will be as happy as ours have been. ...11..