Humes High School - Senior Herald Yearbook (Memphis, TN)

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the door was opened by my personal valet, Mike Lineberger, who had a double job tonight because General Babin's valet, Private Charles Hisky, was ill. After my tub, the bell sounded and was answered by Margaret Riggin who was Mrs. Fox's personal maid. It was Bellhop Henry Holt with a telegram from our friend Anglo Hodges, the U. S. Ambassador to Africa who was going to marry the wild animal trainer Dot Bring 'Em Back Alive Gassaway, at the Cape of Good Hope that night. As we were prepar- ing to leave Helen Williams, Mrs. Babin's personal maid, asked for the night off as she had a date with 'lAvailable Priddy, who run a gambling house. For a change from our normal span of life, we decided to go honky-tonkying. Our first stop was Bar- bara Moss' Tavern and the car was hopped by jua- nita Beard and jane Bagwell. Other car hops were Syble Kennon, Dorothy johnson, Mattie Murphy, Rosa Lee Schneider, Sara McGregor, and Mary Emma Thompson. After cr few drinks and a couple of spins upon the floor, we left and went to Walk In and Stag- ger Out ran by Tressie Cummings. The music was supplied by Virginia Billions and her all girl orchestra, of which several members were old graduates. Among them were Mildred Lawrence, Elizabeth Nolen, Anna Oswald, Pauline Robertson, and Rebecca Salky, with much to do, they had ob- tained vocalist Shirley Sandefur from james Persons orchestra. We ordered a bottle of champagne from waitress jean Nicholas. Other waitresses we noticed were Shirley Purefoy, Frances Poor, Marilyn May, janie Kennedy, and Ethel O'Bryan. We were told either to be quiet or get thrown out by the bouncer, Raymond Houston. As we sat and sipped our champagne we noticed several old friends in the joint. Among them was the noted gossip columnist Eva Claire Babbling Bruch. The only lady foreign correspondent, Cecelia Richartz, had just arrived from Greenland, Others were Eugenia Anton, who had just won the women's heavyweight championship, Anne Lee, noted opera star, Charles, latest Hollywood matinee idol, jake Ala- baster, who had come a long way from North Main Street and is now head of Sears, Roebuck CS Co. We noticed Willard Pike and Eugene Story were serving from behind the rail. Cigarette girls seemed to run in the Hooper family because here we found jeanne Hooper selling cigarettes too. As an added attraction to Miss Billions orchestra was a floor show which included such outstanding performers as William Goings and his guitar, Billy Legge still singing the Sugar Blues, and Francis Wil- son with his accordian. There was a dance put on by a chorus which included Hilda Chapman, Katie Fillon, Evelyn Bishop, Helen LaVelle, Audie Lee Payne, Betty Holmes, Ruby Knight, and jewel Hayes. As we had dismissed our chauffers for the night we caught a cab when we got ready to leave and to our surprise it was driven by our old president, Frank Billingsley. When we went down to breakfast the noxt morn ing, we found it had been cooked by Rosalie Lazarov and Fredine McCullough. It was served by joyce Harris and Rema Driskell. joyce informed us that Narene Kee was acting in the official capacity of dish- washer. We had an appointment with Carol Clayton, the new head of Civilian Defense. Miss Clayton had as her assistants Isobel Hughes, May Young, and Taleeta Schneider. On the return from Miss Clayton's office to our office, General Babin purchased a paper. The headlines said that the chief of the FBI, Richard Pep- per, had just captured jean Wallace, gun moll for the mob run by Winell Wilmoth. As I had, no use for any part except the funny papers I gave the re- mains to General Babin. As he was glancing through it, he noticed on the society page that Clifford Doug- lass, new president of Western Union, had finally won the hand of Marie Glatt. As we got out of the car in front of the War De- partment we noticed Bobbie Saller, Florence Shanks, and Margie Walters who were now running the 21 Club. Their biggest competition was from Dale Thom- ley, Mary Faye Spivey, and Nannie Thornton who ran the Stork Club. When we went into our office, my office boy, Wil- liam Loft, told us that our friend, Burton Wilder, who had the romantic lead in the opera, had left us some tickets for tonight. The opera was at the theater run by Robert Davison, and the opera was produced by john Glancey. As we arrived at the theater we noticed on the bill board that Virginia Durham had the feminine lead. Boyer Sewell played the part of the villian. Others in the play were Elsie Aikens and Dorothy Butler. Our tickets were taken by Aglaia Nicholas and we were ushered to our seats by Pauline Hurley. At intermission when the lights came on, I noticed sitting behind me was Walter Barfield and Mamie Bluestein, now Mrs. Barfield. They were operating a large art studio and had just finished a portrait of President Gaines for the White House. Sitting in front of Babin was Robert Eppinette who was now head of a large brewery. Vice-president of the brewery was Dempsey Smith. Seated in the balcony were several army hostesses which included jennie Chrisafis, Faith Craft, Rosabelle Epstein, Mary Grimes and Fannie Salky. We stopped in an all night restaurant run by Dan Bryan and purchased a cup of coffee before retiring. lt was served by Victoria Harris. While there, Harold Prescott, the waiter, gave the bums rush to james Hardaway, who had been forcing his atten- tions upon Narene Kee. Narene had just been dis- missed from her former position at the hotel, and was now holding the same position here. As we fell asleep we wondered what the United States could do without our valuable help. When we just about had it figured out we were rudely awaken- ed. l looked at Babin and Babin looked at me. Glar- inq down at us was Sergeant john Shelby who want- ed to know why we did not have all the onions peeled. You we were doing K. P. duty and the sweet fragrance of the onions had caused us to cry our- selves to sleep. lt had been a horrible nightmare! I ! Pfrgr- 7'1rrfnty-.v1.1' El T H E H U M E S H E H A L D

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Sinmn miss ituiiiuv As we, George Babin and Alvin Fox, sat at the table occupied by only the high officials of the United States government, we holding the office of Chief of Staff of the U. S. Army and Admiral of the U. S. Navy respectively, saw the names of several of our old friends of the class of '42 pass before us. In fact several were here with us. Presiding over the table was the newly elected President of the U. S., Warren Gaines. Around the table sat several members of the President's cabinet which included Secretary of State Billy White-who had just finished his 200 point peace plang Secretary of Interior Raymond Bryan-who had just resigned as president of Bee Line Oil Co., Secretary of Labor lla Wayne Smith, the pacifier, who had just settled an argument between Henry Nolen, president of C. I. O., Ernest Galbreath of the A. F. of L., Secretary of Treasury Gene Baxter-who was trying to explain the one hundred million dollar shortage in the treas- ury department, as if he didn't know where it went, Secretary of War jack Curry-who was now using a tank to keep the women off himg Secretary of Navy james Miller-who had converted the Normandie into a pleasure ship for his family which numbered in the tens, Secretary of Agriculture joe Wilder--who was arguing with Price Administrator Earl jones over the price of eggs. Chairman of OPM Marvin Rogers was trying to gyp someone out of a set of tires for his small combined pleasure and business coupe, a six- teen cylinder Ford. At this time in rushed Vice-presi- dent Frank Carroll who informed us that Frank Wood- bury had just been elected the speaker of the House of Representatives. Some of the business brought news of old friends before us. General Austin Brice, who was now mar- ried to Nellie CBeer-bottlej Church, was head of the First Army. Chief of the Second Yoo-Hoo Army is General Dewey jones. Head of the Third Army is General Charles Dowdie, who is engaged to marry Gloria Wenzler. General joe Hadley is boss of the Fourth Army. Private jack Donnell has been General I-Iadley's orderly for several years now. While everyone else was arguing, I noticed in the paper that Bill Turner, head of Scripps-Howard, had signed the Presidents wife Sarah Hornbuckle, to write her column My Day , for his newspaper chain. Someone interrupted my peaceful reading to ask me who I was going to put in charge of the Pacific Fleet? I told him that before I did, Rear Admirals Kay Smith and joe Tognetti had to quit fighting over Vir- ginia Nickells, I didn't want to send a single man to the Hawaiian Islands. After discussing all matters of state, the members proceeded to Scotts Bar-run by Clyde Scott, for a round of nourishment. Ernest Flaniken, resplendent in his new uniform, with the title of head doorman ushered us in. As we checked our hats we found that the hat check girl was Ellen Tinkle, who had Sally Ann Chafetz as her assistant. General Babin was stopped by the cigarette girl who turned out much to his surprise, to be june Hooper. To accommodate her he purchased a pack- age of Bilger's Best Cigarettes. They had to call Doc- tor Robert johnson to revive her when he tipped her a dollar. Our ale was brought to us by Tillie Ala- baster and Alice Bartee. As we sat and talked, we heard the WPA. band start its nightly concert in the park across the street. General Babin and I went across the street to hear it and found standing upon the directors stand none other than the former drum major at Humes, Bill Dixon. We noticed that Vernon Whitman and Laurie Green were playing the slip-horns with David Finn on the trumpet. And still in the same old rut was Hirschell Agee contentedly pounding away on the bass drum. The vocalist was Maxine Weakley. As we stood listening to the glorious music, our chauffeurs, Corporal Max Plant and Seaman David Spack informed us it was time to pick up our wives, Dorothy Walker now playing the role of Mrs. Babin and Dee Sewell had the elegant position of Mrs. Fox. We instructed Max and David to return home by way of Fatzo's gym as the little ladies were having their weekly gym class. This is an exclusive gym run by Eddy jean l'Squsshy Wroten and Ruth Lard Devers, who had started it for their own use. On arriving we found that Mrs. Fox was still under the supervision of juanita Lambirth and Mrs. Babin was in the capable hands of Helen Bingham. As we sat in the lobby waiting patiently for them, janitor Clarence Blanton walked by and picked up the cigar stub I threw away and stopped to talk with us, From him we learned -that Henry Pardon was teaching bar-bell exercises from 3 to 4. He also told us that the women's physical ed class was overcrowd- ed with the new instructor, handsome Milton Weiss. He was aided by joe Middleton. We also found out from our little visit that Frances Rumley, Lois Smith, Melba Stinson, Mary Ann Wynne, Mary Glancy, and Billy jean Ping worked there as masseurs. After the girls had their workout we returned home to the Edgar Sing Hotel. General Manager William Sharp met us at the door and welcomed us back. On the way up we learned from jennivie Paullus, the elevator girl, that we had two new chamber maids in our suite. They turned out to be Frances Ferguson and Viola Dawson. I pushed the bell and S E N I O R E D I T I O N Ei ? Page Trrpnfjf-fit'1'

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MRS. GEORGE TOMLINSON ll THE FHEULTY llllll T llllll At this time l Wish to congratulate each member of the Senior Class of l942. As the first War class of l-lumes High School, yours is a mighty task. You are faced with a great problem, but l am sure that you Will leave your class rooms and bring glory, laud, and honor to your Alma Mater. l am happy to have had the privilege of serving l-lumes P-TA as president for the term, l94l-'4l, and l look forward to a greater task serving I-lumes P-TA in l942-'43. l think that today when We are all geared for Victory, We parents and teachers are faced with a challenge to serve our country by co-operation and friendliness to all, by fostering education, and serving Where our country needs us. So with this thought, and the hope to enlist all of us for service Wherever we may be called upon, l leave with you my best Wishes for a successful Victory. Sincerely yours, MRS. GEORGE L. TOMLINSON, President, l-fumes High P.-TA. ::56l'll:C'C ame jgoom 5j9O'lfl.i0'CJ Mrs. Frank Billingsley Mrs. I. L. Person Mrs. W. D. Gassaway Mrs. l-l. L. Schneider Mrs. B. F. Legge Mrs. G. E. Wilson SENIOR EDITION ?? 'l Wes, N. N We wwf' N, .xxx