Isidore Newman School - Pioneer Yearbook (New Orleans, LA)

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'25-it W: I H51 ' TW : i.,.....,. -saf- E.. ing Wooooh' The moanlng w1nd sweeps down through the graxeyard sw1rl1ng w1ldly about each ghostlv whlte tomb It IS the only sound 1n th1s dark forebod1ng n1ght untll suddenly the great gong of the near by church bell IS heard twelve d1St1HCt tlmes It IS m1dn1ght and all who the Bewltchmg Hour But walt' What IS that gras form over there by that tomb It looks llke a ghost' It speaks llke a ghost' Let s llsten Hello IS anvbody home querles the ghost as he knocks on the tomb s slab From w1th1n comes a XOICQ Whos there? Mayer You Know the Presldent of the class of 49 'Ihe slab creaks open a Stephen Jen kms steps out and saws Great ghosts D1ck1e that w as sex entv three wears ago' Yep says D1Ck16 and I just got here I thought maybe we could have a reunlon It seems I was the last to pass away and almost exeryone s burled here IH Huber s grax ey ard What a lxvmg that guy made' By the way Jenklns what d1d you do Well I klcked off after selllng the Huey Long Brldge to Marlan Vldeau for twen tw f1ve dollars Why that s flne' You know of course I wrote a best seller on the superlorlty of the male ox er the female Yes I Thexr chat IS xnterrupted as flve glddy ghosts clamber from a nearby tomb Ann Slmpson floats up to D1ck1e screammg Nlmfph plurph' Shes trvlng to say mterrupts Joan Schwlng that Margaret Ann has been throwlng bowllng balls around IH our tomb Ann cant talk though because she choked to death on a dlamond encrust ed cookle her husband gave to her Oh' Oh' Well why replles D1Ckl8 IS Margaret Ann causlng such a fuss Also why are you so pale Joan? Patsy Plncus retorts Margaret Ann IS trvlng to prove that she was the world s champlon bowler and Joan got trampled to death IH a sale at her second hand dress shop Im the one to complaln though I want some peace' Oh vou re 1ust mad says Jackxe be cause I mvented a chewmg gum wlth a louder pop Say xsnt that Kent Talla ferro w 1th Dlane Feulllan and Dlxey float mg th1s way My those glrls were really famous as the Dlane Twlns It was hard to tell whlch one wore the wlg Yes says Leonard Gessner I was then manager but I caught peroxlde polsonlng Say Kent was a good scrlpt w r1ter before he dled laughlng The group of ghosts grows contlnuallw larger as old 49ers float up A llttle to one s1de stands Rose Elsle Jeffer who st1ll w ears her t1tle of Mxss Llghtbulb of 1990 Shes talkmg w1th Jane Wynn who bx her executlve ab1l1ty held the of THE PIONFER JUNE 1949 37 1 , I , 7 ' 77 ii' , - J - ,- . ,, ' . - 0 ' ' u 1,1 - 7 ' ' 7 I .1 1 or , V' V , , I I , I 77 J ll J k Y 4 S . . , K . , . 1 F Gil - YY I - K6 Y ' 7? ' 1 nf 7 I -. ' ff - - l 7 1 ' ' I! V i , ' ! 7 A-el B- K' ' .. L' - A , - H 66 Y 77 ' ' ' ' ' 9 v K 1 . . cs' ' , u r Y K' K' . . . . . . . , an ' ' ' , . r - 1 - . . ms ' , aa .' V . K 'v . . . . ' , ' , v , . 3 . , U , A A r I v . ' .' C. I , ' 7 ' 1 1 are Wise knoyv immediately that this is because all my hfe I ran a taxl-servlce, and . . Y . Y V n . . l Ll 7 ' !! ' K6 , v' ' ' 1 . . 9 - s ' ' 4 ' w ' . ' , . - s . n . 1 . 1 ' 7 U . H . V. . . . - , . N . . N 1 W y 1 ' l I I . . K . . . ' ' v ' ' 7. . Y I v . U , i K 4 - - is Y !7 K , v ' D I' U I Y v i. cs H , ,W 1 as , , A D , ., . V. . , . y 77 ' . ' . . h ' ' v ' ' - , , as v ' ' ' K 5 -, 1 ' . . v w v v V y' . V , N - t . . . 44 77 v . . as ' ' ' v ' , - v ' . .I v I v l y v , w V w . V . ,, . . v ' y - l! 9 ' ' Y . , l , , , Q v , , Y Y . . . Q I I , W , . 4 W 1

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Blll Knlght leay es IVIHFIO yylthout some one to talk to Herman Kohlmey er wllls hls slnglng trumpet to next year s Louls Armstrong Loeber Landau leaves Neva man desolate for a Pioneer edltor Pat Lang wllls hel patlence to next year s secretary of the SQHIOF glrls Tommy Lee leayes just as qulet as Whell he came Walter Lee leaves hls mathematlcal genlus to Jack Wlmberly who doesnt seem to need lt Bettv Nan Levy leaves stlll typlng for the Pzoneel Lynn Levv leaves Mary Jane Walkel to Vlcky Vegas Dlck May er leaves yylshlng he could take Mary Jane Wlth hlm Marlan Mendelvltz wllls her qulet man ner and studlous ablllty to Carollne Baker Albert MCFIC leaves the streets around Newman safe agaln Betty Meyer leaves comblng her halr Cynthla Mlller leaves ten pounds Marllyn MOYHIS bequeaths her taperlng nalls to Isabel Brandt Tommy Nelson leaves the Slxth and Seventh Grade glrls heartbroken Hal Norman wllls hls dlmples to Ralph Harrls Belle O Nlell leaves ln a daze Mel Opotowsky leaves the Student Coun cll to Candy Grace Parker glV6S her perfect form to Gav Barton Patsy PIHCUS vyllls her Ford to her llttle brother Do you thlnk you can handle It M1ke'7 Glorla Rawls leay es Betsy vslthout a rlde to school Edward Roddy leaves not knowlng yn hy he came Shlrley Sawl wllls her yarslty letters to her slster Ralph Seellg leay es h1S two class day to 36 Herble Well who he feels works too hard Joan Schlxlllg bequeaths her muscular legs to Wlley J9HklHS Ann Slmpson vsllls her ylm vlgor and xltallty to V V Joan Smlth leay es her hlstory book yy lth SIX chapters stlll to be lead Lamar Stephenson leaxes the glrls be wlldered Balbala Stern leax es for Nevl comb looklng vslstfully at a Stanford catalogue Mel Sternberg vsllls h1S ablllty to algue ln hlstoly classes to Nathan Popkln Henry Stoutz bequeaths h1S toyy ellng helg,ht to Maury lw1dlO Kent Tallaferro leaves Mrs DUVOISIH Ill peace J3Ckle Taxman leaves stlll excltedly talklng about last nlght s phone calls Capp Margaret Ann Turfltt W1llS her neat ness to Plgs of the Week Ley eune Turpln leaves Newman s clalms to a llttle care to Martha Church Ivan Uttal leaves taklng several glrls hearts Wlth hlm Paul Vegas wllls hls Casanova t3CtlCS to Bruce Ivan Vlctor drlbbles off MQFIOH Vldeau WlllS the front steps for someone else to Walt for thelr Ben Leta Welss leaves her halr curlers ln the Senlor Room Marllyn WSISS leaves stlll trylng to ex plaln how contact lenses vyork Seymour WQISS leayes stlll chaslng Cy nthla Dlck Wells leaxes laughlng Lols Wh1tm0Y6 wllls her dresses wlth back zlppers to next years back row of Operetta unzlppers Eudora Wllllams bequeaths her blond halr to all those vylshful people Wlth a peroxlde bottle THE PIONEER JUNE 1949 ' - I 5 7 v v' w '- w' ' ' Y ,1 D 1 l v . , ' , . . . . ' K ' L' w v u v I K A 7 7 Y' , I ' . v . v. K ' I ,1 Y - . ' , ' , , K' A L x . r Y l ' ' l v 1 ' w lv ' - L I . L ' I' l' . ' 1 1 Q y 1 V . . , ' ' 7 u 1 ' Y 7 Y 4 Y V Y ' ' s 1 J 1 ,, Ly ' 5 Q V l .r . v K 1, . ' Ia I v 1 '-' ' 1 ' 1' ' ' , , . , , . H . 1. H 7 . . . . . . , , - . ' ' ' ' . Charles Taylor leaves IH pursult of Al ' ' Cl ' 77 Y ' ' , , . . , . N 1 w ' ' 7 k u Q A , . , , , . . . . ' 7 - . . - ,I 1 1 ' 1 r 1' . 7 ' U 9 ' . V . , 7 CK ' Y? . . . Y . V - V . A T v

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flce of Presldent of the D A R for forty years Barbara Cohen lb also perched on a tomb She s kmttmg furlously on a new t1ght flttlng ghost gown whlle Marllyn Weiss talks to her Once I had Just put on the market a fashlonable palr of horn rlmmed contact lenses when Oh 1sn t that Lonely Leta over there? They say she defeated Gor geous George and won the natlonal wrestlmg champlonshlp way back when Why that looks llke Joe Frlend and Bush Gamble she s wlth Yes S1ghS Grace Parker as she Jolns them They say Joe was murdered by a dlslllusloned Wlfe when he orlgmated the new look xn mens pants and Bush suc cumbed after wlnnmg hlS flrst case 1n flfty years But that s nothlng I d1ed of shock when I won Queen for a Day after trylng 1 600 times' Who are those ghosts over there? mg spooks are remmlscmg The b1g fat one IS Dorls Clmgman who ate too much Purlna Chow Next to her IS Carolyn Abaunza wife of the slowest drlver ln the world Her heart falled when he once ex ceeded two mlles an hour She s talklng w1th V1rg1H13 Hughes who spent a llfe tlme looklng for her long lost head I thls same group three other sp1r1ts are heard talklng Oh Nancy says Anne Soule I spent my l1fe p1n1ng for a husband and d1ed an old mald Thats too bad but wlth me once a model always a model Speaklng of models says Joan Smlth I posed for Merlc s Photography Agency untll Albert shot me Oh look here come some ghosts we know Charles Taylor Henry Stoutz and Wal ter Lee approach the clrcle bragglng about thelr past Walter says Thats nothmg Chuck' I was maklng street corner 38 speeches on the PYth2.gO193ll Theorem when my llps were sealed by a steam roller Ohh Henry snorts I went to sleep standlng up and was mlstaken for a tele phone pole They wlred me for sound' Chuck cuts ln Aww I was executed for drawmg a cartoon of the Lnlted States Presldent Ralph Seellg yentures Who was the Pres1dent Beryl Flsher answers Chuck Say what dld you do'7 NOth1Dg I just d1ed says Ralph In another group Dr Bronsteln IS de scrxblng her last operatlon whlch kllled her as well as her patlent Barbara Stern Leyeune 1mpat1ently prods the ghost next to her saylng Someone stepped on my Crosley Belle and smashed me Werent you a fortune teller? She won t answer says Lo1s She s 1n one of her trances I was a prlvate sec retary for ten years you know Well scoffs Eudora I was 1n the ten n1s racket myself Pooh I got a part 1n Macbeth on B1 oadway says Mary Loulse I played the damned spot untll they rubbed me ou Ivan Uttal Joxns the group askmg Is It true that Betty Ann Jernlgan was Rxta Hayworth s stand 1117 Yes replles Betty Cloutman and Shlrley Sawl was Betty Anns stand ln Thats nothlng though I was a partner ln the Atlas Company Were you? says Iyan Well I had a wonderful Job as a Rear End Mender and Fender Bender' In a cluster of spooks standmg farther on Glorla tells how she once saw Caesar s ghost and w hxle followlng h1m fell 1nto a manhole Caroly n Hodges tells Nlel Stern berg how she w as presldent of the Polar THE PIONEER JUNE 1949 . . . ' I , .1 K v v . V . . , . . . Y Q ,, . . W . ' - ' . - ' V ' ' ac u , u , 1 v . N 1 u . Y - u ' Y' n . ' - ' , ' an , , . Q Y ' 9 4 v , , l. , I ' ' , v ' as 1 , ' l 4 y N U v - u a 1 7 . ' rr , ll ' ,Y , Cl 9 ' av v - s . . . ,, . u as - - - , fl ' ' ' Y, H Y V . . . . . . . . . G , . - ' 1 1 , ' . . . . . . , , . , . l . ' - v - as . u ar 1 9 . r . . , , . v ' rr as - ' H V Y as ' as 9 . . . . . , . Floatmg a l1ttle to the slde, SIX glbber- . . ' an . . . , L . , . N H ' . 1 v ' I Q - ,, r , ac - . - x . , . . vy ' an . 1 - . . . . . 4 1 ' , - n ' - , H t. . . . . . , U , Y y 9 . u . Y . u 99 A IK ' ' v v 1 ' . . . . H ,, . Y H 9 v . ,, . , , ' I u v ,- v - . v r v 9 a H ' H , . . cc - av f u , vs , n v 1 - - , ax - r - ' n . , , . u - - . Y V , v 1 . . . Y . v. . . s 1 y ' If 7 ' 7 . , . A - 1 . Y Y . , , V Vw W v , I , g 1 A 7