Grundy County High School - Mountain Laurel Yearbook (Coalmont, TN)

Page 48 text:

'm 1 U ' ' 1 1 . ' . TWN . . '. ' 1' -1 4 Y 4 1 -4- Bw. , N

Page 47 text:

CLAS S PKOPHECY One day finding myself with nothing to do, I turned on the radio to pass away the time, What should I hear but a familiar voice? After pon' dering several seconds, I was convinced that the annsuncer was Maudie,Hargis9 Her voices very pleading, was asking for more nurses. After finish- ing, she introduced her guest: the determined Miss Frances Gunn, who, in telling of the deeds of brave- ry performed by nursesg mentionei Miss Dorace Good- man who performed a complicated operation on a wounded persons She told then of the work of Mary Ann Creighton and Jean Ann Smith, head nurses of two outstanding hospitals, After this program, a football game iame over the air. After the game was overs-mcculd believe m ears? Horace Moore was captain of the winning team, n Wondering what had become of the rest of the class of '44, I started on my way to town to mail some letters to Susie Mae Brown and Clementine Gallagher, both secretaries to two large meat-pack- ing plants in Chicagoe ' As I started home, a Dutch Mail Bread truck passed me and who do you think was driving? Chris- tine Abraham of all peopleg at her side sat Marga- ret Summers, her assistant dniver, Making my way through the crowded street? ran into Dorothy Brew- er and her five childrens We stopped on the street to talks She told me of her new neighbor, the newly-weds, the former Josephine Anthony and a miner, She also told me that Irma Pirtle also was a sai1or's wife with two little sailors. The following Monday, while out on a pleasure drive, I heard some rather strong language from the mon working on the road. I turned to see Bennie uMillerH Date get a bawling out from his boss, DmddPmkm

Page 49 text:

Returning home, I picked up the newspaper. There in headlines were the names of Bruce Speegle and Pete Gould. They had made a daring rescue of ten people who were in an airplane crash. Among them were Frances Henley and Ella Frances Haynes, hostesses on the plane. A few days later, Tryda Mae Sanders, a school teacher, came to visit me.'She told me that Lillian Sweeton, Willie Mae Nunley, and Gladys Fults were ballet dancers, She said she went to church Sun- day and heard the Reverend Doyle Moneyheffer preach an inspiring sermon, A missionary, Mary Sue Thorpe, just recently back from Africa, made a short talk. The next day I was reading the sport's page, There in black and white it told of the champion lady wrestler, Becky Hampton, and Edith Gossett, the champion lady diver and swimmer. Realizing that within the last few days I had heard from almost all of the seniors of 1944, I began diligently to inquire concerning the where- abouts of the remainder of the class. I learned that Joyce Conry, Billie lean Thom- as, Sallye Hall, and Clata Hampton were joint part- ners in poultry and cattle raising on a large west- ern ranch in Wyoming. On an adjoining ranch Vera White and Katherine Childers were trying to give the'NBig Fouru some competition, Of course, there was no surprise when I learned Bettye Lynn Jones was married and now had twin tow- headed HPee-Wee'sn. I had heard from a reliable source that Mary Sue Charles was in charge of a cat hospital and Willodean Hamby and Frances Wooten were in the business of fortune telling. Having collected this last bit of information, my account of the seniors of '44 was completed. I relaxed, closed my eyes, and leaned back in my easy chair to think over the accomplishments of my class during the ten years that we had been separated.