Jackson High School - Tatler Yearbook (Jackson, TN)

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Jack on Hi lc Sclwvl P R O P H S C Y Sara Ami Traughbcr-Jimmy Williams Place: Madame X, 1.3, 13th Street, Seancecr. Com- mune with the spirits or your money back. Time: 2002 A. D. Class mate 1: Who's that old man? Classmate 2: That's Methuselah Williams, they used to call him jimmy-jimmy Williams. M. Number 13, 13th Street. Yep! That's it. Don't see how spirits 'hide that kind of music though. Now, boogie-woogie back in '42-that was .ru-mpin'. Seems like young folks now-a-days ain't got no ear for music a-tall. Voice: jimmy Williams, did I hear you using a double negative in that sentence?'l M. No, ma'aml I mean, yes ma'aml CLooks all around.l This place gives me the creeps. I thought sure I heard Miss Anna's voice. Madame: Come in, Mr. Methuselah. What can I do for you today? Never mind--I can read your mind. You want to commune with the spirit of the class of l942. M. Madamel That would be impossible. The spirit of the graduating class of 1942 can never die: it will live on and on and on and- Madame: All right, all right, but if you would like to hear about all your old classmates, I'm sure I can contact the spirit of one of the chununier mem- bers of the faculty who would know all about them. And don't keep looking behind you-there's nothing to get creepy about. for he is as always. such a jolly good fellow. Now, just sit quietly, please. while I get my mind in a receptive state to call upon the spirits. Ah! I seem to be in a fair little city far away in the deep south. Now. I seem to be on a hill where stands a yellow brick building. I am creating a receptive atmosphere to lure this spirit from the shades of the past. M. Yes, Madame, that's old jackson High School. Heh! Heh! Madame: Ahl At last a spirit approaches: be salutes me: he is a very blythe spirit. Hail, blythe spirit, this old man would like to hear of the suc- cesses and disappointments of his fellow-classmates of 1042. tHe seems most co-operative and willing.l He says that first. he would like to commend you for great achievement as the best wood-whittler in Madi- son County. M. Thank you. Martha Daniel led a tragic life. After being un- successful in love, she began to advise the love lorn. Iglow she has come to be known as Love's Ole' Sweet . oug. Arthur Stegall chose as his life's work modeling, after he won the Grace Gaut Contest. His success was due to his manly form and unexcelled grace. For fifteen years Annette McClaran ruled as queen of Hollywood. After becoming a physical and Financial wreck, because of her social activity. she retired from the screen. Your class president. Walter Underwood, was m.arried and settled down. He seems to be leading a verv Jolley life. VValter Finley led the life of a composer. H's masterpiece, Finley's Concerto in Broken Cords remained unplayed until twenty years later, when someone mended the cords. Ida Sellers couldn't get away from her daily rou- tine, so she began teaching the technique of Canzlvus- ology to all college students. Jack Clay became one of the greatest inventors of bis day. His invention of the wordless book won him world-wide acclaim. l Walter Frankland for many years held the title of World Heavyweight Championship. His ar'm's- strong, I have been told. Helen Taylor was a movie actress. and after the premiere of her First picture, Helen's Last Stand, her fame was permanently established. Martha Sue Moore was a school teacher. After teaching for forty years, she had pulled out all of her hair, so now she is a model for the Baldy, Baldy Wig Company. Robert King led the life of a landscape gardner. After his finishing the Hanging Gardens, which were fifty years in the making, they collapsed. Because of the lack of self-control he retired to the local insane asylum. Betty june Young was a great opera singer. She reached high C three times and sang .llmiainc Buffer- fly so many times that she sprouted wings. Frank Hampson is living the hard life of a farmer. VVhen asked if he was raising a Victory Farm. he replied that it all depended on who was victorious- himself or the grass. Martha Mallory became a Red Cross nurse. After serving twelve years in foreign service, she was mar- ried and is now serving for the rest of her natural life on the home front. Arthur Johnson lived the life of a hermit. During his long periods of solitude, he devised a new method of twiddling thumbs, called the square methodfl It is now being taught in all the schools for future use. Dee Doyle is a sculptor. Her last work, The Soldier, was so lifelike that it was drafted. Katherine Birmingham spent her life teaching the senior high school girls her only accomplishment, which was sewing a straight seam. Evelyn Neal Walker was very successful in con- ducting a nurses' training college. She guaranteed to each girl at least one soldier. Mary Mallory was a beauty parlor operator. Her crisp-brown hair do's and peanut-butter facials won her fame and fortune. In spite of Maxine Anderson's small stature her ability to throw anybody for a loop made her a wrestling star of no little renown. Betty .lane Reid was a darling airline hostess. All the men said to her, I don't want to fly without you. Baby. Vydele Craig was a news commentator and became known as Walter Winchell's headache. V ydele. they say. had a pass-key to every key-hole Winchell peeped through. jimmy Philpot is still a comedian. His jokes are so corny that they are being used to make up for the meal shortage. Colleen Jolley is the first lady of the land. the wife of the president himself. She always was one for presidents. Mary Elizabeth Rushing is the announcer for the Black and White Store. Buy your red flannels at the Black and White Store. They keep you warm: I lezime. Loretta Campbell, who could always break down an argument with an apt and wisely-chosen scrip- ture, became a great woman evangelist. Barbara Boyd modeled airplanes at Lockheed. And we always thought that .rhr would be the model. Evelyn Onley was employed twenty years in try- ing to accomplish her purpose, namely to reduce. Her motto is: Drink Welch's Grape Juice to keep that slim, trim figure. Rose Glynn, who always gets her man, was made CContinued on page 245 I PAGE TWBNTY1

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C1444 bay Anti itieA CLHSS DHY POEIII1 Carol Armxtrong Time: Forty Years Hence. Narnia. Slzmrin Scene: Home of the Misses Armstrong and Shearin. Norma Shearin: Carol Elizabeth! Look what I just ran across while I was cleaning out the attic! Carol Armstrong: What it is, dear? You know I can't see that far. Norma: It's the 1942 Senior Edition of the TATLI-LR. That was the year we graduated, if you remember. Carol: Remember, dear! Why, it seems as if it were only yesterday. You and I were Class Poets. Norma: I had almost forgotten that important fact. Don't you remember when Miss Etheridge told us we were to be the poets and we nearly had convulsions? Neither one of us had ever written a stitch of poetry. Carol: Oh: but we overcame our supposedly insurmountable task. Norma: And the result was a niayiiffirrnt piece of work! Carol: Find our masterpiece and let's read it again. Norma: Si! U what joy. what delightful bliss As we Seniors arrive at glorious Commencement Day. But wait: VVhat's this? A tinge of stifled remorse creeping into the way? At the end of what seemed to most of ns four toil- SUIUC -YCHYS, Can there be any room for tears? Yes. there is room for tears. For toil hasn't dominated most of those years. VVe've had fun, and more fun. Our tinge of remorse comes in that the race is run: Our greatest joy, revelling in knowledge of a job well done. Our High School days so dear have passed: We turn our faces toward future toils more vast: But as we go, may we think of what a school is ours to love, May her standards soar to heights above! ln our hearts her memory we shall cherish And suffer our love for her to never perish. We're grateful to the teachers who have guided us along the way: We honestly hope to meet most of them in Heaven's class room some day. And now, of our great lot of Seniors, we'll mention just a few, Though they're r-:Wynne true blue! Frank tPunchyl Baird, what a man is he- Barrel chest and wasp waist, he'll always our Flash tiordon be. Ellen Eagle, a friend all the while, She made the whole place bright with her smile. Morgan McDonald in his zoot suit, On Senior Day really did look cute. Many's the time Janie Saunders has written for the autograph of the leader of a band, Maybe some day she'll hold the baton in her own hand. Jack Fitzgerald, a veritable Tarzan is he Besides being an Einstein in Chemistry. Mary jean Blythe, D. A. R. contestant was she. A well-loved, dignified school teacher she's sure to be. Cedric johnson, football star, prexy of Hi-Y. And on his becoming a grand M. D. you can rely. Mary Alice Hair, appearance so striking- Blue eyes, and black curls are both to our liking. Bill Brien, a very fine track star, Cnr best pole vaulter by far. Martha Nell Parham in Kenneth D., it seems, Has found the ideal of all her dreams. Lorraine Pounds, with her quaint way, Is never in need of a sweet word to say. Adrian Chambers, sober and quiet as can be- He'll amount to something. wait and see. vi IPAGE NINETEEN1 llesides Adrian. Ernest Reid. quiet in a friendly sort of way, ls another one that'll amount to something some day. Vt'e've always heard that beauty and brains don't go together, Ilut Mary Katherine Hearn has breezed through four years of Latin as lightly as a feather. XVe can picture Elizabeth Ann Terry with ten children pulling on her apron strings: At any rate. we'll wait and see what the future brings. Don Hanafee, our class's Romeo, Is mosltly seen with jean C., his O. A. O. tone and on yi. In High School's basketball Hall of Fame Will be written Marie Martin's name. Sarah Anne Lankford, who's really got the glamour. Says she's going to Hollywood to compete with Lamour. Joe Benson, roly poly and cherubic, Ifor the best-natured red-head, he's our pick. Sarah Darling, pretty and sweet, VVe'll tell you honestly, she's hard to beat. Howell Morgan has become quite a filly Since the distant days of junior High. Emily jones is a lass But . . . Well, things Richard Douglass has around Than in fixing in his Ida Mae VVamble's found out. But that she's a reall 'l'here's one who has whom you'd studious deem aren't just what they seem. spent more of lns time gaddmg mind some knowledge sound. chief characteristic we haven't y swell girl. there's no doubt. acquired great tame In scouting: Robert Moody VVilliams is his name. Sara Ann Traughber is always seen with admiring boys at her side. And you can bet those suitors are her joy and pride. Emily Sharp seems to take fun In capturing the hearts of everyone. Dorothy Clemons. Mrs. Stevens' pet. Has been a fine friend to all she's met. And Cal Crawford, too, with his cheeks so pink, Is a Latin student who really can think. Annie Laurie George you'll call, who'll come a'runnin' if Laurie Filled to the brim with pep. this damsel small. And last but certainly not least: If you see a fellow crazy too, who seems half cross-eyed and If they call him Duck, and girls, if he winks at you. That's Alvin In closing, Stobaugh. noble Seniors. May we express our pride That we are sitting side by side With such Seniors as you The sparkling class of '42,

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C7444 bay p4cti itiea GIFTORIHN The sun drenched beach sloped gently down To meet the ever rushing sea. The palm trees whispered in the breeze A soft appealing lullaby. Perhaps I dozed-Tho' I confess l've never really thought I did- Iiut all at once before me stood The frightful shade of Captain Kid, He drew a dagger from his sash And fixed me with a wicked lear And in a rusty voice he croaked .-Xvast wench-get thee gone from here I've come to fetch a treasure chest Ye shall not mark the spot I dig- I stared at him-and he was gone. Now this may have all been a dream, But buried in the sand-not deep- l found this ehest-So if it were A dream, l'must be still asleep. AILI-Il-IN VVILLIS Well, look I have found A bag of luck, isn't that slick? We'll certainly be needing some around, So take it now. Aileen. it'll do the trick MAGGIE RUTH CHAMBERS For Maggie Ruth I have this pack Of Victory Garden Seeds So she can plant a garden and Supply the nation's needs. M Aiern A Cnook Since Martha Crook adores her French, To her I give this Fleur cle Lys- For her to keep in memory ot The France that used to be. MARTIIA FRANCES HARIus To Martha Frances I present Dark glasses-It occurs to us That if she wears them, they will make Her big brown eyes less dangerous. l.AvEI.I.E REIII Since our Lavelle has always been As quiet as a Inouse, We have for her a bell to ring To let us know she's in the house. CoI.LI-:EN WEI.I.s Colleen, in case you ever want Like Garbo to grow tall, I give to you a pair of stilts. Watch out, now, don't you fall! NPZLL Foiuns Nell Forbis, we all know Your beauty isn't fake, And so for that, my dear, We'll see you take the cake. A. M. PonNIIs And for you, Jr. Pounds, After we had shopped around, We could think of nothing better Than the heart of Lucyetta. WI'I.I.IAM BOLTON William Bolton, here's a song, And I don't think I'm wrong To say the reason that I bring it Is I know that you can sing it. IPAGE TWENTY-ONEJ Tnfky Johnston Roni-:RT TIIoxIAs Bobby, here's a sword, And this is what it's for- 'I'o cut the heads from off the Japs When you get in the war. HII.I.v Bon Mosizv To brunettes or to blonds Does your fancy run? VVell, anyway, we have them both- Just pick your favorite one. SUE BRUIIIMEI. I'Iere's a Fine bicycle I give it all to you. I know Frank H. will just adore it- It's a bicycle built for two. BETTIE JANE EvANs In this treasure chest I've found A pair of tap shoes so renowned They'll dance the wearer straight to fame And in lights they'll write her name. JACK CoLE For giving girls the brush-off You're especially designed, So here's a broom-and adhesive tape- ln case you change your Inind. ALLEN HIGHT With so many girls you seem to rate I shudder to think how you keep them all straight So here's a red book for phone numbers and dates Now you've not an excuse to forget or be late. NIIRAIA SIIICARIN Sweets to the sweet's a hackneyed phrase That all my life l've been a hearin! lt's proper to-day because This candy bar's for Norma Shearin. JUNE MCMURRV Both day and night there're certain things That June McMurry has to know, So to help her keep in touch Here's a two-way radio. BI-ZTTIE DAVIS AND REBECCA PEGRAM Bettie and Becky, we've been told That you adore to skate around, So we've picked two special pairs That will never let you down. CLIFTON VAN TREESE A true treasure is this plane, And we know you love to fly: So we saved it just for you To keep you flying high. CELESTE TARBET Celeste approves of busy hands, So from the chest we take these strands So that, instead of idly sitting, She can always be a knitting. JESSII-I LEE JoHNsoN For Jessie Lee it's hard to find A gift that Ineasures with her mind, And so for her this pencil brown With which to jot her reveries down. EVALYN MASON For Evalyn Mason I have here A looking glass so she can peer At her reflection there and say, Rita Hayworth, you look swell today. CContinued on page 24J