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

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SEIXIIGR CLASS PRGPHECY The year 1950 found me, Ioyce Nicholas, busily packing my exclusive wardrobe fstyled by my own shop-Nikki's, New Yorkl, preparing for my ocean cruise around the world. That awful World War of 1938-1944 was just a dark terrible thing of the past, and life in a new world was before us. My packing was interrupted by the ring of the telephone. lt proved to be Colleen Coffey, successful editor of the New York Times, calling to find out what was new. l quickly told her of my plans to .travel around the world, and she replied that she would tell her publicity editor, Esther Wainman, to headline it on the front page. She gave me a bit of news, too, from Iackie's Iuicy Gossip Column, writ- ten by I. Kaplan. lt seemed that Lorraine Shippman, after obtaining a divorce from her fifth husband, was engaged to her old schoolmate, Iohnny Cassidy. Thanking each other heartily, we hung up. Our call had been put through by Clarice Walker, now chief operator of the Bell Telephone Company. l-fer predecessor she informed me, was Virginia Force. Thrilled at finding the whereabouts of some of my old schoolmates of 1944, l called lean McCullough, the Helen Hayes of this day, and Freda Iolly, woman governor of New York State, who were going with me on my trip. lean informed me that the two Betty lean Houstons had finally gotten together as barmaids in the l-lotel Holt fowned by Clarence himselfl, where Iean was staying at the time. Freda told me that she had just appointed Rubye Graham as her chief adviser. They both explained that they would hurry over to my hotel, as the plane to Florida, where we caught the Pan-American Clipper for South America, our first stop, left in an hour. Once together, we piled into a cab and headed for the airport. We were surprised to find that our cab- driver was none other than Morris Maxey. Turning on the radio, we heard the news, broadcast by that brilliant commentator of the day, Harold Webber. A special bulletin was issued to the effect that Helen f'5 ff? ly all If 'fb Gipson, leading debutante, was seen at Dreamland Gardens, dancing with that notorious gentleman gang- ster, Iohn fSpeedJ Ioyce. Tiring of the news, we tuned in to the Quiz Kids program, mceed by that walking encyclopedia, Mary Emma Kelly. Also on the program was Lawrence Roberts, Ir., smart protege, and we recognized him to be the son of our old school chum. Switching the dials, we heard a familiar voice beat- ing out the jive with Dorothy Crawfords All-Girl Orchestra. We discovered the voice to be that of Leah McGee. Soon bored with music, we found a soap- opera, and recognized the voices of Mary Kolivas and Mike Strauss, acting in lohn's Fifth Wife, or Shoot Me Quick. Finally Morris the stewardess us that we we arrived at the airport, and tipping usual nickel, we were greeted by the on the plane, Maxine Scott. She assured would have a safe trip, as the pilot was lack Williams, who, incidentally owned the airlines. Arriving in Florida after a safe trip, we immedi- ately headed for the Pan-American Airlines, where the clipper was waiting for us. We were presented with a huge box of candy from the President of the United States, Ioe Fitzgerald, by his personal secretary, Gloria Saller fwho always made A+ in shorthandl. We noticed that the box was from Bailey and Stover's and we realized that that organization was headed by Ioyce Bailey, who fixed our box of candy especially for us. Our first stop was Mexico, and we quickly plan- ned an exciting stay there. The first day we took in the bull-fights and were amazed to find that the fear- less, dashing figure in the ring with the bull was Thomas McKenzie. From there we took in a fiesta, and found Myrtle Levitch selling fancy Mexican souvenirs, while Rosalie Bozof entertained us by swinging the the Mexican hat dance. Reclining lazily in his dia- mond-studded, gold easy chair was Stanley Pike, hav- ing made a fortune on the nylon hose business in Mexico during World War ll. In one of the most famous restaurants, we asked for one of its well-known hot Mexican dishes. We were immediately presented with Mexico's favorite Page Twenty-Seven,

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1944 GRADUATES JANUARY CLASS First row-left to rightflqussell Brooks, Cecil Rig- Third row-Iuonita Davis, Ianie Ferguson, Marg Qin, lesse Zellner. lC1IT1eS PUC9- aret Sirni, Imogene May, George Sanidas. Second row-Cordie Hughes, Leah Rosenberg, Ieannette Wagerman, lean Moseley, lane Powers, Fourth mwflack KGPIGHI Lawrence Roberts Earhne Wright- Manuel Brown, Shirley Walker. Center-Mr. D. M. Hilliard. Not in picture-Clifton Milton. -WS. ,, f 9 Q Wg, X ,U R fl iii Page Twenty-Six

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dish, losephine Coyle. From there we came across a big crowd gathered around two beat-up bloody roosters, and found it to be a cock-fight, one of the most exciting sports in Mexico. Thewinning bird be- longed to loe Reagan, and the battered one to Griffin Gregory. Under a sombrero, snoring lazily in the Mexican sun, we found Billie Bradshaw. Strolling in the beautiful sunken garden, we found lane Powera and Cordie Hughes. They seemed to know what a few of the graduates of IQ44 were doing and we listened eagerly. It seemed that Margaret Simi and her three little Maggies' had come down for a visit Walter Higdon, touring South America with his great orations, h,ad won fame in Mexico. From Mexico, we iourneyed southward to Brazil. Our guide proved to be our old school churn, I. B. Crain, who we knew would know the right places to take us. We took in all the night clubs, and were astonished to find that the popular Brazilian bomb- shell was Iuanita Davis. In other places, we found the Bartee Sisters, Ruth and Verna Mae, wowing everybody with their dancing. At one place, Baucum's Bar for Browsing Brazilians, owned by Iimmy himself, we discovered Betty Gualtney. Max Saller's Scfntillat- ing Sextette of Saxes provided the music. After winding up our sight-seeing tour of Brazil, we thanked I. B. heartily, and departed on a fast plane for Argentina. While on the plane, we saw Norma Breeden, who told us she was now Spanish interpreter for a large South American firm. We wish- ed her luck and started on our trip through Argentina Roping cattle on a large Argentine ranch we found three of our former class-mates, Manuel Brown, Gil- bert Austin, and Eugene Turner. The famous fan- dancer of Argentine turned out to be Norma Lewis, that sweater girl of Humes High. Lnigering only a while in Argentine, we hopped over to Chile for a brief stay. We arrived just in time for their annual holiday festival. We were surprised to find some of the girls we had graduated with, participating in many of its activities. Gloria Ladd and Thelma Carter entertained with many Chilean songs, while Marjorie Martin and Margaret Holt yelled Pop corn, peanuts, candy! After two busy days in Chile, we said Adios Amigos to South America and left for our tour of Europe. The huge ocean liner stopped along the coast of Africa. While there we heard of the great Reverend lack Slater, doing his missionary work in darkest Africa. We first arrived in England, planning to stay for a good while. During the first day we visited the great Oxford College, and found that Herman Kaplan had completed his entire college course in one year and I6 days, and was now military attache to seven dif- ferent countries, being able to speak their languages from childhood. Being very proud of Herman we learned that Tilford Flowers was coaching cricket at Oxford. Furthering his aeronautic engineering educa- tion at Oxford we also found Charles Fite. The next day found us admiring the work of another former student, Earline Wright, who had become world- famous through her invention of a new radio, now on display in the great English museum. While visiting England's famous Cambridge Library, we came across ing over huge volumes of intellectual books, explain ing his research on his theory of animalistic elements. That night we went to a famous concert hall, and were happy to hear Iulia Greer swinging Beethoven, accompanied by Freida Katz at the violin and Mary Christine Bogue at the concert piano. The next day found us at the magnificent University of Medicine, surveying the work of Drs. Paul Murphy and Herman LaVelle., assisted by the brilliant woman doctor, Florence Kline. The English stage provided the great actress, Beverley Brown, in a magnificent portrayal of Lady Macbeth. Playing opposite her as the mighty Macbeth was Douglas Grimes. While in England, we were honored to meet King George fSonidasD, the VIII, and Prime Minister Ierome Adler. Visiting a quaint Olde English Antigue Shoppe, we came upon lean lohnson, proprietor. Before leaving England, we ran into Gene Myers, and chatted with him awhile. He explained his work as Chief Street Cleaner in that district of London. After assuring him that we did not want to buy the London Bridge, we wished him luck and left. Professor Douglas Day, complete with monacle, pour- . From England, our next stop was France, and we planned eagerly how we would spend our few days in gay Paree. Walking through the streets of Paris, we saw a familiar sign on a large building which read, YOU CAN'T GO WRONG WITH WRIGHT and we immediately knew that our old senior class presi- dent, Floyd Wright, had finally owned a large cloth- ing store. This one proved to be the largest one in Paris and we hurried inside to greet our old friend. Before entering however, we saw one of our best friends, l-Iarriette Fleisher, in one of the show-windows. trimming each window carefully. Inside, we fwund three beautiful girls, modeling the latest Paris Fash- ions, and recognized them as Dorothy Mulhollan, Betty Ann Wray, and Rosemary Robinson. Modeling the latest styles in men's clothing was handsome Cliff Milton. On the sales force was Pauline Madden, sell- ing hose, lean Moseley, selling cosmetics, and Elise Waters, selling hats. Saying -good-bye to all our friends at Wright's, we left. That night we visited the famous Parisian cafe where Brents Ballet of Beautiful Bouncing Belles was playing, and we were'n.t surpris- ed to find that this galley of gals belonged to our old woman killer, Darrel Brents of Humes. Amid the wine and song, we spotted Betty Rooney, news columnist, reporting all the night's events. The cigarette girl in the Cafe D'Brents proved to be Cozette Cole. Finally tearing ourselves away from the gaiety and frivolity of France, we departed for Switzerland. We found a guiet, quaint little place called, Annie's Little Olde Tea Shoppe and upon entering, found the owner to be Ann Pulliam. lnguiring about any of our old school mates, we were told by Ann that Mary Alice Skelton had a Home for Recupercrting Service Men a few miles from there, where Betty Deviney was employed to read bed-time stories to the boys every night. We decided to drop in and see them before leaving. From there we took in the all-sports carnival. Page Twenty-Eight