Greenville High School - Tau Yearbook (Greenville, NC)

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Athletic Council The Athletic council under the leadership of Coach Bo Farley as president has had a third success- ful year. The outstanding- projects of this year ' s council were the an- nual awards nig-ht and the giving- of a hundred dollars to the bus fund. Cheerleaders ■ The cheerleaders of the 1941-42 school year were elected by the student body last fall. They lead the cheering at the football and basketball games of the current year. In addition to leading- cheers their ac- tivities included the sponsoring of the Victory dance and a pep rally. Radio Under the supervision of Mr. Elmer Robinson, the Radio club has completed another successful year. Since all amateur transmit- ters were ordered off the air the club has devoted its interest to the operation of the P. A. system ana the building of receiving equip- ment. Several members of the club have become interested in com- mercial radio and at the present two members are employed as engineers in radio stations. The present membership of the club includes nine students. Al- though several members will be lost by graduation, the club is ex- pected to continue in its usual man- ner next year.

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Boys ' Tennis Team The 1941-42 tennis team had an unsuccessful season as far as v in were concerned but the boys proved to have a fighting spirit and played many close battles. The team had meets with Wilson, Kinston and Goldsboro. This year ' s team was composed of Percy Wells, Ben Harrison, Clinton Joyner, Charles Daven- port, Ed Rawl and Connor Merritt. The 1941-42 track team ended its fourth successful year of competition. This year ' s team did not have u coach but the older members of the team helped the new- comers. John Spearman, Leonard and James Briley led the cindermen in points for the season. The local track team sponsored successfully the second annual Eastern Interscholastic track meet at the Guy Smith stadium. Graduating- members of the team are John Spear- man, Leonard and James Briley and Wesley Johnston. Monogram Club The Monogram Club is one of the oldest organiza- tions in GHS. The purpose of the club is to promote sportsmanship, to assist the coaches in any possible man- ner and to develop interest in sports. The officers for the year have been John Spearman, president; Jack Edwards, vice-president; and Hubei ' t Musselwhite, secre- tary-treasurer.

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Class Prophecy It ' s a v arm spring day in 1960, and Buck Privates R. G. Walser and H. H. Cunningham have just received their honorable discharges from the United States Army. With the $200 that they have saved jointly during their past 18 years ' service in the army, they start on a lorig- dreamed-of trip to New York City. While making a tour of Radio City, the former GHS pedagogues happen upon James Mayo and Heber Adams, chief research engineers of NBC, who, with the aid of Otha Barnhill, have just completed a new Space-o-vis ion machine. They invite their former teachers into the laboratory for a demonstration of their invention. The Space-o- vision machine enables a person to look in upon any other person anywhere in the world and see what he is doing. They decide to find out what their classmates of the class of ' 42 are doing at present. First, they find Billy Hill at the Duke Power com- pany offices down in Durham, N. C. Hill is superinten- dent of that organization. He is in conference with one of his electricians, H. R. Goodall. Leaving the power plant, they run into Patrolman Troy Riddle as he is arresting Sarah Jones for speeding. Sarah ' s companions, who are notoriously wreckless drivers also, are Virginia Kidd, Bernice Moore and Mrs. William Tripp, the former Marie Lum. Next they drop in on William Dail and his wife, the former Evelyn Scheller, who are a happily-married couple living in an old Boston mansion. Dail operates a string of bowling alleys (from which he made his fortune) in Boston. In one of William ' s bowling alleys they see Jack Edwards, editor of the Christian Science Monitor, getting his daily dozen. Just as they start to leave, in walk Joe Tyson and William Vincent of the famous Tyson-Vincent ten-cent stores. Incidentally, their general manager is Mary Eliza- beth Mills. Deciding to look in at one of the stores, they see innumerable stenographers in the offices. Among them are Ha Lynn Allen, Lucille Teel and Rachel Spain. The girls are confiding their dearest secrets to Nick Marsh- all, who works downstairs in the store ' s soda fountain. The gazers in the Space-o-vision machine turn their attention to California, where they find Richard Duncan as president of Douglas Aircraft corporation. Others working in the Douglas plant are Carl Corey, mechanic; Morris Abeyounis, test pilot; and Frank Rankin and Henry Peters, office boys. While the machine is focused on California they take a peek at Hollywood. And believe it or not they find Jean Harrington, Rachel Fleming, Frances Glass and Janet Gowen posing as photographers ' models in the capital city of the moving picture industry. Rachel is try- ing to save enough money for a trip to Durham, N. C., to see her old sweetie, H. R. (they aren ' t hitched yet!). Poor old Ralph Hunter is still trying to find a gal that will marry him, but, because of his great rep for being fickle in love, he remains unsuccessful. Jumping over to Texas, they find Dudes John Spear- man, James and Leonard Briley operating a dude ranch. While roving through the Lone Star State they see John Saieed, who is head football coach at Texas A M. Breezing on across the country, they stop in New Orleans to scout around for other members of the best class that ever graduated from GHS. The first person they see is Bill Turner, who has just come ashore from the submarine on which he is head grease monkey. Dennis Bailey is operating a beanery on the waterfront, while Clinton Joyner runs a small theatre near the Bailej establishment. Bill Carr is president of the now famous Carr-Penney chain stores of the South. Thomas Harring- ton succeeds in earning a living by giving public exhibi- tions of his skill as a billiards player. With a hop, a skip and a jump the gazers in the Space-o-vision machine find themselves in Clearwater, Fla. Here they are attracted by a large sign on a build- ing, Williams and Garrett, Certified Public Accountants. The firm is composed of Tom Williams and George Garrett, formerly of Greenville. Queenie McGowan and Bernice Mobley are managing a resort hotel at Clear- water Beach. Among their oldest patrons are Rosalie Taylor, Ann Skinner, Leah Mildred Ross and Audrey Allen, all of whom are northern aristocrats. In nearby Tampa they learn that Percy Wells is sports editor of the Tampa Star, a newspaper which employs the services of Printer James C. Briley and Photographer Paul Brooks also. At Miami they find that the Hon. Leon Smith is mayor, and that he assumes all responsibilities of a judge and spectator at every beauty contest. He takes this position because of his great interest in the fairer sex. Marjie Dean Allen and John Ray Hardy, secretary and office boy to the executive, are accompanying the mayor on a visit to the State Prison to see Dail Laugh- inghouse, Thad Nobles, William Craft and Leroy Cherry, all of whom are in the klink on a charge of wife desertion. Layton Clark, also an inmate of this institution, has taken over the duties of the janitor and is working night and day with the hope of winning a parole. Next the machine is focused on Emporia, Va., famou. ' for its quick hitching exercises. At the time Rev. Cecil Crawford is preparing for a mass marrying of the follow- ing couples: Margaret Jones and Eugene Jones, Wesley Johnston and Christine Manning, and Gene Johnson and Hazel Fornes. Musician Billy Horne is playing sweet moosic on his flute to ease the pain. After the ceremony the newly-weds are entertained by Gertie May and Myra Horton at Sots ' Delight Bar. Margaret Johnston is op- erator of this up-and-coming establishment. Those who were able staggered out at dawn to ride home with the milkmen, G. A. Taylor and Johnnie Speight. Jumping to Philadelphia, they drop in on John Horne, of Horne-Tyler department stores. GHS graduates who are in the employe of Horne-Tyler company are Doris Broadhurst of the floral department; Marvin Turner, floor-walker; and Jean Murphy, men ' s wear. Incidentally, James Register, after attempting for eighteen years to get the job of dog-catcher in Philadelphia, has obtained that position. Congratulations, James! Turning to Jersey City, N. J., they find that Sarah Moore, Alice Rieman and Jane Rogers are members of the lady police force in that city. Troy Rouse runs a small backstreet printery here, in which he prints counterfeit money. Among his best patrons are the members of the police force who frequently run short on real cash. Upon returning to New York City, the Space-o-vision gazers run into the rest of their old classmates. James Worsley, world renowned criminal lawyer, is engaged in the intricacies of defending Jane Tucker and Doris Tyn- dall against a charge of manslaughter. Worsley guaran- tees that, by fair mains or foul, he can get them out of the scrape with nothing worse than a death sentence. Steno- graphers Geraldine Stokes and Helen Sparrow have the job of taking notes while sitting on the judge ' s knees. Elizabeth Bridgers, Margaret Mills and Martha Rowe are rising stars of the Metropolitan Opera. They are accompanied at the piano by Pauline Bell and Mar- garet Savage. In the realm of music they find that Dorothy Davenport is vocalist for Glenn Miller ' s orchestra. Juanita Brickhouse and Kathleen Whichard are ballet dancers at the Stork club. A pawn shop, which contains many of the valuables of GHS graduates, is operated by Anne Mae Cannon and Elizabeth Williams on Broadway. Mary Elizabeth Austin is assistant dish-washer in Toffenetti ' s restaurant. It seems that Elizabeth Winberry is still succeeding in evading the cops, who have been looking for her for the past eighteen years in an effor ' . to rid the country of its public enemy no. 1. Frances Wil- liams is often seen selling peanuts and popcorn on Fifth Avenue, while Faye Walters slings hash at the Waldorf- Astoria hotel. Edna Earle Whichard models clothes at Saks, Fifth Avenue. ED. NOTE: Any resemblance of persons, events or personalities used in this article to actual persons, living or dead, is purely intentional.