Huntsville High School - Pierian Yearbook (Huntsville, AL)

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ClaM- Obay AnmueMa ia MgM May 30, 1967 This is Mel Simms, your special events correspondent for the Commencement Times. This program is coming to you from the municipal auditorium in Nicatine, Mars. The weather here is fine. The sky is blue and the sun is beating down stead ly. The auditorium is filling with familiar faces. The stage is arranged for anniversary addresses and special attractions featuring members of the H. H. S. Class of 47. Our main speaker for the day is Jesse Wilson, owner of the largest furniture corporation in the United States. Although a bachelor he still competes with Bert Rowan for the affections of Myra Simms. Our other speaker is W. C. Smith, a big business manager in Blue Ridge, N. C. The program is to be concluded by Ann Holloway and David Annerton. Ann will sing her favorite song, A Good Man Is Hard to Find and David will unveil his new portrait of Ann Hines intitled No Look, No See. The crowd is very noisy. Everyone seems to be enjoying the latest gossip. From a distance I see Leonard Bragg, Vernon Cramer, Wayne Nichols, Zelma Wilson, Carl Cramer, and Charles Snyder comparing their business advancements in the use of atomic energy as a source of power for their manufacturing concerns. My attention has just been called to the main entrance where Bobby Wilkinson, a test pilot for tthe Donald Hughes Aircraft Co. of Decatur, and his wife the former Helen Schrimsher, have just arrived in their rocket especially built for honeymooners. In looking over the program, I see listed among the entertainers Anne Baxter, Josephine Sansone, and Betty Anderson, all prominent musicians in the New York Symphony Orchestra, who are going to play their Symphonic arrangement of Open the Door Richard. Also on the program I see that Jo Holcomb and Mary Frances McGaha are featured in their version of The Dance of the Sticks. I wish to take this time to thank Harrison Gill and Ray Luttrell for their fine work in making this broadcast possible by television throughout the world. My attention has been called to a group of beautiful ladies sitting in the corner. Let's see if my mike can reach them. Yes, here are Helen Brock, Betty Hensley, June Pitts Johnson, Euel Smith, and Clara Walker. These housewives tell me that they are enjoying their work since many atomic devices have been invented. Standing close by I see Agnes Tolbert and Juanita Roden, talking about enlarging the second floor of Dunnavant's. The crowd is getting larger and noiser. Flash! Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Warden have just arrived in their special atomic rocket built in the shape of a football. P. S. Gossipers, Gordon has just succeeded Charles Hooper and Doug Lynch in the coaching at Huntsville High. Everybody near the rear of the auditorium seems to be excited about having their pictures taken by John Hall and Buddy Cox. Trying to be first are Betty Caneer, who lives at Riverton, and Sue Ray, who is co-owner of the Five Points Service Station. Waiting to be snapped are Jeanette Smith, Margaret Smith, and Jean Smith, who teach in business college in the Smith Building in Philadelphia. With them are their assistants, Eugenia Baker, Mary Eula Bell, and Evelyn Hipps. All by herself in the corner is Mary Towry still waiting for Corky to get out of the Marines. Speaking of the Marines, Creston Porter seems to be taking the show. He is still running around the auditorium saying hello in a style originated in 1947— hew-wo-wo-wo. With him are Clint Anderson and Joe Monroe now engineering professors at the University of Georgia. The last time I passed the entrance, I noticed Chester Pearsall handing out miniature orchids. Talking nearby I saw Henry Sudduth, Vice-President of Woolsworths, and Claude Walker, new owner of J. C. Penny's. To my left is a large window which allows a beautiful view of the airport. On the runway, I see Erskine Cantrell, an expert mechanic, repairing his rocket ship which crash landed. Waiting patiently Page 23

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SENIORS SENIORS NAOMI WHITAKER Spanish Club 44- 45; Secretarial Club 47. ZELMA WILSON D. O. Club 46; U. S. Army 44- 45; Fifteen months overseas; European Theater of Operation; Four battle stars; Purple Heart. BOBBY WILKINSON Hi-Y Club '47; Came-a Club 47; Pilot. Pre-Flight Club 47; Assistant Club Editor, Pierian Staff 47. KATHRYN WOOD Spanish Club 44-'45; Pre-Flight Club 47; Pierian Staff 47. BILL VAUGHN H Club '45-46-47; Pre-Flight Club 45-'46; Football 45. Poge 22

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for him is Mrs. Cantrell, the former Doris Bailey, and James George, president in charge of his large bank in West Huntsville. The crowd is beginning to settle down now as it is almost time for the program to begin. Some of the ladies sitting in a row to themselves are Carrie Will McLean, Pauline Sudduth, and Betty Joyce Screws, who are missionaries in China; Ann Housman who is still working for Bell Telephone in Huntsville, and Jeanne Sandlin, Nancy Sanford, and Frances Sparkman, who are working in the jewelry department of M. G. M. in Hollywood. With them is Ramona Gupton, the head nurse at the Catherine Jacks' Public Hospital. The room is in an uproar now as everyone is laughing at Mr. and Mrs. Charles Cummings. Margaret has Charles by the ear pulling him away from Sally Ann Palmerlee Grote, America's outstanding journalist. Laughing and flirting as they come in the door are the late-arrivals Florine Barron, Bernell Beilis, and Mildred Bennett, who are research agents in the secretarial field and Frances Gates, Barbara Douglas, and Laura Louise Brackeen, noted interior decorators. Also among the late-comers are Jack Roberts and Jimmie Forbes, who are still arguing over the farm at Jeff, Alabama. With them are Tom Guthrie and B. A. Stockton, partners in the automobile industry in Michigan. Everyone is rising now as the Chief Justice of Supreme Court, Frank Ford, and his Justices, Richard Carter and Norman Pizitz, enter. Flash! Bruce Ross tells me that Harry Coons has just won a divorce suit for Mary Louise Shela-mer. Karl Woltersdorf was the defendant. Every profession is well represented today. I see Sammy Cttrano, Arvil Hymer, and Jimmy Reeder, three of Alabama's leading dentists. Jimmy has his very modernistic office in New Hope. Among the secretaries are Edna Bryant, Betty Jo Harris, Ramona Hulsey, Juanita O’Rear, and Charlotte Riggs, who work in the office of Jere Murphy, an agricultural expert. Well, radio listeners, I have seen everything now! As usual, Archie Todd is willing to play a game of cards. In one of the darker corners I see Oliver Ward, Louis Foster, Robert Green, and Robert Milner all occupied by the genius Archie and his card tricks. And guess who's looking on? None other than Mary Lou Horne, Virginia Hosch and Geraldine Holder. Loud whistles and sighs have called my attention to three of America's leading play boys, Bob Archibald, A. C. Daniel, and James Holliman, who have just arrived. Trying to get their attention are art designers Sarah Snyder, Kathryn Wood, Carolyn Pedigo, and Jeanne Walker. The auditorium is now quiet and everyone is seated except Buddy Black and Howard Gore, who have just arrived. I would like for you to hear the speeches but I see my time is up—so I'll return you to the present. Take it away! —MELVIN SIMMS, Class Prophet. ★ ★★★★★★★ Poge 24