Greenville High School - Tau Yearbook (Greenville, NC)

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Wake Up and Live! It ' s 1973 Scene:. -A trench on the European front. Or, are there trenches today? Time: June 3, 1943. Bam, tat! tat! — Boom, boom. Silence Two small voices speak. Me: Ahem, certainly is quiet tonight, is’nt it? You: Yeah — Remember how noisy it was two years ago with all our mothers weeping at graduation from dear ole’ G. H. S.? Brings tears into my eyes - - = sniff, sniff. (S-S-S-S Balamalam! From some where close by) Oh! They got me. I always knew they would get me in .... in the end. (Plop) Me: Poor fellow - - - ho hum - -Oh, look! there goes Nina Redditt, slipping through the bobwire in the middle of no man’s land ------ and she was the best sabotage agent we had, too. (S-S-S-S-Balamalamatam! Dead Silence.) April 5, 1973- — Thirty Years Later. A recent article appearing in the “New York Times,” now edited by Bernice Jenkins, reads as follows: “Four great scientists, Jesse Ray Howard, Joe Broadhurst, Billy Gulley and Bruce Thigpen, while piddling around among the last war’s ruins, discovered two human beings who had been entrenched there for the past thirty years. Evidently, they were the only victims of suspension gas, a type of gas which induces its victims into a sleeping coma. The scientists developed an antidote for the gas and brought the two victims back to their limited senses.” Scientist I: Wake up and live; it’s 1973 . You: I can’t believe it’s 1973. What’s happened? . .. Me: Me, either Let’s make a trip around the world to visit our classmates of 1941. Personal Diary April 7. Stopped in New York tonight. Attended Herb Lee’s newest hit, “Marshmallows and Cream Puffs,” starring Wilma Cozart and Edmund Boyd. After the play we stopped to dance at the “Greasy Quarter” night club, managed by Travis Flanagan. The floor show was wonderful, the main attraction being “St. Louis Blues,” blued by none other than our old classmate, Jennie C. Joyner. Also working with Travis were flower girls. Marguerite Hudson, Margaret Nelson and Doris Nelson April 8. We took a train to Chicago. Had a very nice trip. ' Traveled with J. N. Williams, famous pianist who had just finished a concert at Carnegie Hall. He told us that he saw a lot of John Horne while on tour, since John was a conductor for the Union Pacific Railroad Co. April 9. While strolling along the sidewalks of Chicago, we noticed a new 150-storey building under con- struction. We heard a voice bawling orders to some of the workmen, who turned out to be none other than Paul Scott, Dewey Page and Ollie Clark. We glanced around frantically to see who was making so much fuss. Looking upward, we discovered it was Snag Clark, evidently the foreman on the job, perched on the top storey. After greet- ing these boys, we asked if they knew where any more of our former classmates were located. They told us that J. Hicks Corey was still the street-cleaner on their shift, and had been for twenty-five years. We were somewhat astounded at this, but they assured us that Hicks had told them Confidentially that he was in line for promotion. April 10. Early this morning we purchased a 1973 rocket-ship from high-pressure salesman, Fenner Corbett. At noon we rocketed to Miami to get a little sun tan before we journeyed to the Arctic. Just as we stepped from our ship we bumped into what seemed to be a fami- liar figure. However, because of his extremely bald head, it took us a few minutes to recognize our old friend, Buimey Warren, peddling “Pink Pills for Pale People.” Seeing a mob further down the beach we thought maybe somebody was drowned. However, we were mis- taken; it was a bathing-beauty contest. Among the beau- ties we found Lib Wells, Frances Willard, Louise W ' ooten and Doris Roberts. April 11. Since it was rather chilly in Florida, we decided to look up a few of our old friends in Hawaii. Then, too, we wanted some fresh pineapple juice in addi- tion to a little warmth. Arriving there just in time for lunch, we found Dr. Sidney Johnson resting on his pine- apple plantation. Dr. Johnson seems to be making a pros- perous living replacing the hips of amateur hula dancers. He spends his evenings trying to teach the natives “liE Conga.” While in Hawaii we went to a woman’s wrestling match in which Jane Scoville, top woman wrestler of the world, successfully defended her championship. What a strong constitution after all these years! Her opponent turned out to be Emmie Lou White. We were surprised to see Ann Gaskins and Lib Sugg there. They informed us that they were now teachers, enjoying the vacation for which they have been saving for twenty years. April 12. Hopping off to the Artie coast after our warm stay in Hawaii, we arrived simultaneously with Betsy Hobgood, Lucy Churchill and Mary Sue Moore, who told us they were going to take a census of Eskimos who are total vegetarians. They were agents from the Jean Rush canning corporation. We found George Saad work- ing furiously on an editorial criticizing the workers on the C. B. Rowlette Eskimo Pie plantations who were on strike for more blubber. The editorial was for editor Saad’s paper, the “Ice Review.” April 13. Left early for Bermuda. Had a wonderful visit at the estate of Peggy West, wife of the governor of the island. On the beach we saw a group of girls whom we recognized to be Joy Flanagan, Ruby Taylor, Betty Tyson and Jane Harrison. It was puzzling to us how they had kept their youth. They didn’t look a day over eighteen. However, on inquiring, we discovered that those weren’t our classmates at all, but were their daughters. We found the girls’ mothers playing bridge at the casino, while their fathers, Larry James, John Collins, J. B. Kittrell and Edgar Denton endulged in a game of billiards. The four families ha d chipped in and rented a cottage for the sum- mer. All four boys are making good. Larry is owner of a tobacco factory: John is making good in the furniture business; J. B. has a monopoly on the sugar business; and Edgar owns the famous chain stores, Belk-Denton. We left for Hollywood soon after dinner and got there about bed time. We made reservations in the Hotel Swank, jointly owned by Susie Warren and Edna Earle Whichard. April 14. We found Naomi Overton, Anna Lee Reg- ister and Vera Dare Stocks working in the hotel’s beauty parlor as manicurists. Each girl was confident that she would get a break in the movies, soon. At the studio we found Betsy Hobgood taking the lead in a heavy drama, “The Slippery Soup.” On another set we found Frances Swindell, Lillian Janies, Lila Lee Everington and Helen Butler in the chorus of a musical comedy entitled, “That Night On The Iceburg.” April 15. Left for our old home today. Stopped in New Orleans, where we found Mamie Ruth Gilbert, presi- dent of the Southern Bird Association, working diligently on a paper she was preparing for the “Southern Weekly Post,” edited by Edna Ross and Staley Smith. Mamie Ruth told us that Audrey Lum and Ann McCormick were co-owners of a large chain of dress shops in the South and that Doris H. Brown and Evelyn Langley were very active in politics. April 16. Our next stop was Louisville, Kentucky, where we found Bruce Mayo owner of a large Television company. Bruce said that Gloria Whitehurst was the owner of a long string of race horses and that she had a sure winner for the Kentucky Derby. Lila Mae Allen and Annie Lee Baker, we learned, were librarians in the city library. We went to Richmond, Vir- ginia, where we found J. B. Joyner, owner of a large rocket- motor parts concern. He told us that he had three of our old school-mates, Thelma House, Viola Bailey and Doris Brown employed as stenographers in his offices. We learned that Doris Briley, Frances Dunn and Lucille Edwards were nurses in one of the larger hospitals of the city, while Blanche Hardee was the manager of a poultry farm on the outskirts of the city. April 17. On the last lap of our trip we stopped for a couple of days at Jody Flanagan’s beautiful estate, which is located in the mountains of North Carolina. Jody is writing another book, “Two Slickers in the Hills.” We hope it is as big a hit as her last one, “Mountaineer in Captivity.” April 18: Arrived in Greenville. Went immediately to see the old school building; but alas, in its place we found a ten-storey super-construction with an indoor swimming pool and tennis courts. Our dream came true after all! Note: Any disci-epancies as to time and place in the above article may be attributed to the prevalence of rocket ships in 1973 and to the mental condition of the author when this article was written.

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Jane Rogers Leah Mildred Ross Troy Rouse Martha Rowe John Saieed Margaret Savage Evelyn Scheller Leon Smith Helen Sparrow John Spearman Johnnie Speight Geraldine Stokes G. A. Taylor Lucille Teel Jane Tucker Junior Homeroom Representatives Homeroom 17 John Ray Hardy Heber Adams Homeroom 23 Elizabeth Bridgers James Briley Bill Turner Ma rvin Turner Doris Tyndall Joe Tyson William Vincent Faye Walters M. C. Ward Percy Wells I iathlee7i Whichard Frances Williams Thomas Williams James Worsley Homeroom 31 Janet Gowan Jack Edwards K-J

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Tenth-Grade Class History One hundred and twenty-one versatile students com- pose this year’s tenth-grade class. Active in scouting, dramatics, sports, journalism and many other organiza- tions are the students under the homeroom supervision of Miss Deanie B. Haskett, Mr. Boley Farley, Miss Cooper Bell and Mr. H. H. Cunningham. This year the students have participated in many extra-curricular activities, such as, the International Correspondence Club, the French Club, the Home Economics Club and Debating. Though the tenth-grade has had no formal organization, its active students have been of definite value to the school through- out the year.