Greenville High School - Tau Yearbook (Greenville, NC)

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0m Jfuture As I left my home in Washington, D. C, in June, 1935, to spend the summer in Cahfornia, little did I dream that ' ere I returned I should hear of all my old classmates of G. H. S. In Los Angeles news of most of them came to me. One day while at my hotel 1 saw in the paper that the music pupils of Miss Maggie Whichard were to give a concert at the Conservatory. Afterwards I went around to see Maggie and she begged me to leave the hotel and spend the time w ith her at her new bungalow. A few days later as we were resting in hammocks placed under the tall oaks after a game of tennis, we started discussing our schoolmates of good old G. H. S. Margaret, please tell me of some of our schoolmates. You Hve in the east where most of them Rve and I know you see them more than I do. I ' ll be glad to tell you for I saw most of them on my trip. Mary Harding, like myself, lives in Washington. She is North Carohna ' s representative in Con- gress. I knew she would do something great. I saw Emily, too. She graduated at Randolph-Macon and now she is teacher of history there. Don ' t you remember how brilliant she used to be on history class, always making a ' one ' ? One day while I was in Chicago, I saw Argent Quinnerly. She finished her domestic science course at Drexell and now she is teaching at Pratt Domestic Science Institute. You know she always made ' one ' on domestic science. Maggie, just guess what Pattie Smith is doing. Why, she is a promising young nurse up in western North CaroHna. Everyone is crazy about her. Margaret, that is quite a surprise. I did not think that Pattie would be a nurse, but you know you never can tell. She is a wonderful old girl anyway. Please tell me something else about the class. Well, I picked up the New York Times before I left home and saw that Reid Gaskins, President of the Curtis Publishing Company and the fond father of seven children, was to sail for Italy in September to spend the winter. While I was stopping in Louisville, Kentucky, whom should I see but Alice Fulford. She is married to a prominent young tobacco buyer of that city. She

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Sec. 14. To Frances Taft and Mary Thomas we leave Maggie Whichard ' s loquacity. May this added quality help these timid lasses to make their way in the social world. Sec. 15. To George Hadley and Robert Little we bequeath the right to enter the class in American History and, Hke Helen Critcher, to be lulled to sleep while Mack Brown and AUce Fulford wax eloquent over the Webster-Hayne debate. Sec. 16. To Mary Andrews we bequeath Argent Quinnerly ' s flirtatious man- ner — she will find it very helpful. Sec. 17. Of course, we have an unhmited store of talents still in reserve. We have bestowed where we saw greatest need, but if anyone, feehng the need, will come to us, we doubt not that we have just what he shall ask for. This Will and Testament has been duly and properly drawn up by the Class Lawyer and the hands and heels of the Class of 1920 placed thereunto. Lawyer of Class of 1920.

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invited me home with her and, needless to say, I accepted. She placed before me such a luncheon as would satisfy a king. The next day Alice took me in her big limousine to see the world champion tennis match. And just think of it, Mary Louise Langiey won the medal. She played against Mme. Yuette, who won the medal last year. But I could not stay long with Alice; I had to leave for New Orleans, where I was to meet some old friends. Just before I reached New Orleans, a styHsh young gentleman addressed me, and it was no other than Joseph Parker- son. He is a promising young man, who owns many acres in southern Louisana. Joe told me that Helen Critcher was to- play the leading part in ' The Follies ' in New Orleans that night. You know Helen lives in CaUfornia and I guess you see her quite often. Yes, I see her quite often. Very few members of our class live out west. But what has become of WiUiam White? Wilham? Oh! he is still in Greenville. He is manager of the newly-erected ' White ' s Theatre ' there. Really he is doing quite well. And J. T. is a garage owner in Farmville. I guess you know that William Tyson is a prominent lawyer in Philadelphia, did you not? No, I always thought that he would be a lawyer though. And, by the way, I saw in the California Tribune that Gherman Taylor, a great civil engineer, has recently been awarded the contract for the construction of a bridge across the Atlantic. Yes, and Mack Brown is a great vaudeville actor. He is now singing in a concert tour of the eastern states. Just at this point the postman arrived, bringing letters for both of us. Maggie, hsten to this— ' The engagement of Miss Ada James to Sir Philip Mont- rose was announced yesterday. Miss James is spending the summer in her cottage on Long Island. She is a very popular and attractive young lady and takes an active part in the social affairs of New York. ' Can you get ahead of that? Quite a surprise! Here is something else about another of our classmates: ' Miss Thelma Shamhart has just completed her new book, entitled The Daughter of Democ- racy. It is a grand success. ' Margaret, what do you see in the New York Times? Oh! here is the wedding of Josephine Skinner. She married a millionaire in New York yesterday. Lillian Joyner, the bride ' s maid, will sail with the bride on her wedding tour to Paris. Charles Lewis, the famous Wall Street broker, was in her wedding. What do you say of going to the movies tonight? Let ' s go by all means. Maggie and I went to the movies and saw a won- derful picture. Margaret Fleming was playing the leading part. As we came out of the theatre, whom should we see but Dewey Brooks, who had come to Cali- fornia for his health. Dewey is a multi-milhonaire and hves in Philadelphia. He told us that Emma and Almeta Mallison were the best stenographers in the east and that they were working for a very prominent business house in Boston. He