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

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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

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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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