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

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We found Martha Reitz, world's tennis champion, and watched excitingly as she won game after game. Next was the world's heavy-weight boxing champion, Eu- gene Anton, and we talked over old times with his little wife, jean Temple. Then came the skiing and skating sports. The famous skier, Marguerite Sum- mers, agreed to help us learn, and we finally master- ed the basic training of the art of skiing. We saw many friends among the skiers-the famous comed- ienne, Nona Minor, and her friend, Helen jennings, Lucille Mather and Annette Feldman, well-known acrobats, Frances Nixon, pin-up girl of World War ll, the two lrnogenes, Ramseger, and May, dancing part- ners, and Margie Tate, hair stylist, all vacationing in Switzerland. The famous skating team, Vivian Shoffner and Ruth Russom, were two of the most popular girls in the country. Bidding farewell to Switzerland, we journeyed to Italy, home of wine and spaghetti. We noticed the brand of a favorite wine there, and discovered that Ted York had become a connoisseur of ltalian grape juice. At an ltalian restaurant, owned by jesse Zellner, we found as head cooks, Leah Rosenberg and Matilda Sapenstein, and as waitresses, Nancy Freedman and LaVerne Evensky. We came across Marilyn Davis, author of the two best-sellers, 'iCall of the Open Fire- place, and The Mystery of the Clubbed Cop. From Italy, Russia was next. There we were met by a welcoming party from the Soviet Newspaper, the Blue Sun, headed by its publisher, Irving Cooperman. On its staff were Dorothy Brown, commentator, juan- elle Davis, world affairs editor, and Mary Louise Rob- ertson, woman's editor. We were taken to a brilliant Russian cafe operated by Buford Pinner. There we were entertained by the Ouaint Cossacks of Color, a group of Russian chorus cuties. Outstanding in the chorus line were Willie Mae Thomas, Mary Thornley, and Virginia Pyle. Frances Maynard crooned several Russian lullabies to us and after that we left, rejoicing over the many former school friends we had run into. We were interviewed the next day by Russia's only woman foreign correspondent, joyce Williams, who told us about several of our school-mates of IQ44. George Bagwell had become a great nurse and was still practicing in Sweden, Christine Dozier had be- come manager of a large chain of Walgreens drug stores all over the world, Sunshine Stowers had spread her name all over the universe selling comic books, Louise Taylor was now a school teacher, and jolida Alsup was head of a famous school of poise and personality. From Russia we visited briefly the old empire of japan, and met Robert Williams, our popular boy of l944, now heading the new government there. Under him, Cecil Riggin and Thomas Goodwin, kept order. j. D. Brooks acted as interpreter and solved many difficulties. From japan we continued to the last stop on our tour before we got back to the good old U. S. A. ln Hawaii we came across several more of our former friends. We were surprised to find dressed in those grass skirts four of them-Shirley Walker, Elizabeth Hudson, ,Virginia Lanier, and Mildred Blake. Earl Pardon and Frank Talbot, when not indulging in the age-old game of craps, owned a pineapple company. Several girls worked in this company-among them, Betty jean Smith, Vivian Mills, Katherine Edwards, june Frederickson, Shirley Bacialupo, and Gladys Belch. A few boys from the old wolf-pack, james Price, Eddie Rogers, and Orville Mitchell, had a grass skirt manufacturing business, but we expected that it was who wore the grass skirts that interested them. We also found Walter Patzch, commander of our Marine forces there. We finally left the isle of pinapple and palm trees, to journey homeward. Weighed down with leis and fruit, we tossed pennies from the boat into the water for the little boys to dive after. We laughed to see Russell Brooks among the divers, getting rich quick. Back in the states, we decided to take in Holly- wood, little realizing we would find more of our former class mates. Since Clark Gable had retired from the screen, that beautiful hunk of man, Oscar Buchanan had moved in to No. I spot as the Great Lover. Playing opposite him in many of his films was glomor- ous Dorothy Allnut. Taking Mae West's place, we found Dot Baxley, wowing cinema fans all over America. Replacing johnny Weissmeller in the Tarzan series was Nathan Blockman. Other screen stars were Marcella Carmon, Lois Barcus, Estelle Clapp, Margaret Allan, and Martha Watts. Favorite commedienne was Cornelia Alexander. The ballet team of Eppinette and Alexander four own Hazel and Bessiej was a popular one, In the famous Trocadero now owned by j. T. Barnes, was the regular billing of Nancy Williams and Betty jane May, while Shirley Hiskey and Mary Louise Durbin had just left for New York and a career on the stage. The biggest motion picture studio was owned by jimmie Mae Overton, who started out as a mere ticket girl in an up-town theater in our home town. Upon visiting this studio we found Margaret Miller directing Doris Reeds latest picture, Single Girl. We soon left Hollywood, and finally arrived in New York City. There we learned of many new haa- penings while we were away. jimmy Young was ap- pointed a General in the United States Army and Mary Lou Hudgins was head of the W'oman's Army. The charitable Tenenbaum sisters, Helen and Sylvia, now had Tenenbaum's Home for Homeless Renasf' There too, we learned that janie Ferguson and jean- ette Wagerman had been given permission to be the only two women students at Harvard. Dorothy White and Mary jane Campbell were given a high degree of honor by john Robert Gregg, for their excellence in shorthand. Thomas Davis was awarded first prize for his collection of fine dogs, and Margaret Sterling was given a position in the world Symphony Orchestra, Ann Carleton was voted Miss America of l950, and Ollie Mae Billings and Dorothy Shook contributed to science by their work at the University, while jacueline jett had become a brilliant criminal lawyer. Russell Dawson, replacing Frank Sinatra, was still knocking the poor girls in the aisles with just one look. We found another old friend, heading Harry CContinued on page 575 Page Twenty-Nine

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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

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MILITARY SECTICN DEDICATICN To Captain Eber L. Daughtry and to Corporal Toe T. Anderson, the cadets oi the Hurnes High R. O. T. C. Battalion, as a token of appreciation and adrniration, dedicate this, the Military Section of the Hurnes Herald of 1944. ' I T jf,f,f-1-X427 L fffiiiffi If ,Kg friggin it 'X X ff f X 3 ,, .h Jw M lllls! Page Thirty