Jackson High School - Tatler Yearbook (Jackson, TN)

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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

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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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acl: on High School C L H S S UJ I L L Mary Kaflzrrine HPHVII-IfUI'l'li0f Brnfmi fTwo workmen are busy tearing out the bricks of the last floor of the High School when the followiil conversation takes place.J Do you think we'll ever get through tearing this old High School down? VVell, l don't know, but here is the last brick in the floor. Look down there in the basement! See those to1nbstones! There must be at least twenty! VVonder what that piece of paper is that's tied to the big tombstone F lt looks like some sort of a document. Let's read it. tThey read the will.J We the graduating class of 1942, jackson High School, jackson, Tennessee, while we are still per- fectly conscious of our every act and wish, do hereby make and prepare for publication our last will and testament, hereby revoking all former wills made by us. To the teachers. the faculty of jackson High School, we bequeath our good attitude, our willingness to co- operate, and our lockers full of notes which were very useful to us on test. To the juniors we leave our sense of superiority :long with much good advice which we realize will never be taken. To the young and inexperienced children of the Sophomore class we will our broken rules, flimsy ex- cuses, good alibis, and ability to get out of work. To all the future generations we leave these twenty tombstones, monuments to our teachers, whom you fortunately will never know. CWorkmen: Why, that's what those tombstones were for-this was the class that shot all the teachers ll Mallet Barron falls heir to Bill Hammonds' curly locks along with the curlers that he uses every night to keep them looking lovely. jimlny Atterbury leaves his weekly day-off to jinnny Butler. Alice Exum leaves her cute little brother to Mary jean Little. Katherine Bond grants her beautiful baby face to Betty Armstrong. To any of the love-stricken students of the junior or Sophomore classes Wilma Berryman leaves the letters that she regularly receives from Montgomery with the hope that they will be of some help in writ- ing sweet love notes. Mary Anile Gillman bequeaths her blond land we do mean blond! curls to Helen Smith. jack Voegeli leaves his quaint swagger to joe Bur- ton fSuper-Boyj Williams along with his ability as a football hero. Inez Thompson wants jeanne Cashon to have her becoming blushes and her dimples to do with them as she sees Fit Caccording to the dictates of her own consciencej . The boys of the junior class are willed Pat Seals' long winter underwear to Fight over for Senior Day. Olamaie Cundilf bestows her ability to get around upon Vivian Quarles. Martha jane jones leaves her trap that she used to catch her man to anyone who needs one. Homer Guy is named the heir to Harry Talking- ton's manly physique. Dorothy Deen Person bequeaths to Dilly Gold- smith and Ray Nell Seavers her Latin books with no regrets whatsoever. William Dawson wills his influence over all the teachers to Paul Burkeen. Believing that this is the straightest road to success on the basketball team, june johnson bestows her in- Huence with Mr. Muse upon Angeline Barnes. r . ..r V, ,Ls , .,..l!',.---'Le' ' Oscar Harris wishes Charles Hoover to have his ever-present bow ties and his jitter-bug walk. To anyone who thinks he or she can copy it- Anita Burnette bequeaths her very unusual walk. Leroy Roberts names Windsor VVilder to his bash- fulness, intelligence and stuclious habits. Carolyn Cooper requests that her way with the football team be left to Birdie Wade. 'l'o his children Dick Lyle leaves a house by the school just in case his car doesn't last forever. Geraldine Yeargain receives Eva Mai Hunt's ability to slip in Miss Hearn's fifth period Latin class, and we all hope that she does as well with it as Eva Mai did. james Killough bequeaths to Tommy Stedman his ability to speak Spanish. To Nancy Bumpus, jane Barnett wills her love for the army. Sincerely believing that dancing is good for the physique as well as the figure, Martha Barnes espe- cially wants George Whitehorne to have her ability to trip lightly on the dance floor. Leonard Sims has requested that Nick XValler have his graduating ability. Elizabeth Holt and Charlene Mays leave their cute come-hither looks to Anne Herryhill and Betty june Wayne. Use with care, girls! Kenneth VVooten wills his ability to live through four years of Latin to any one who is sucker enough to take it. To Tootsie Sherrod, Stella White leaves her gun with the express desire that she may make a profitable kill. Thomas Miller bequeaths his dis-ability to evade Mr. johnson to Billy Shelton with this prayer, May Heaven help him. Mary Sue Melson requests that Kent Monypeny have her quiet. timid personality. To Lonnie Emerson, Robert Raper wills his supe- rior intelligence with the provision that he use it to the best advantage. That the good work may continue. Phyllis Meeks wishes R. li. Butts to have her studious ways. Rosalyn Foster asks that her sunny smile and sweet disposition go to Martha Ann Hill. To Marjorie Herron, Martha Chambers bequeaths her primping technique. Eunice Norton bequeaths her loud mouth to Gene Forrester in order that he may be heard above the roar of the crowd at football games. Trusting that this will shall not be contested by anyone who was remembered. but that it shall be probated as written: we do now appoint our Class President, Walter Lee Underwood, as executor of this, our last will and testament. In witness whereof, we do now set our seal on this the 29th day of May, 1942. Witnesses: Harriet Benton Mary Katherine Hearn, Attorneys-at-Law. IIPAGE TWENTY-TWOI