Lincoln High School - Lincolnian Yearbook (Kansas City, MO)

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Sense and Nonsense WHO’S WHO IN THE SENIOR CLASS Prettiest Girl Katherine Benton Thinks She Is Helen Walls Handsomest Boy George White Thinks He Is James Miller Best Girl Athlete Fryne Coleman Best Boy Athlete Charles Neaves Most Popular Boy Thomas Wright Most Popular Girl Bernice Saunders Dantiest Girl Sudie Brooks Would Like to Be Ruby Harris Smartest Girl Eunice Weaver Smartest Boy Cullen Hodge Most Capable Girl Mae D. Alexander Best Natured Girl Ella Matthews Most Love Sick Girl Theo Nix Sheik Harold Reynolds Thinks He Is Alfred Monroe Flapper Hilda Beatty Biggest Bluffer William Stevenson Best Girl Songster Ruby Brown Most Bashful Girl Dorothy Williams Most Bashful Boy Thomas Marshall Best Actress Hiawatha Davis Best Actor Herbert Washington Man Hater Florence Hunter Best Boy Songster --William Kyles Most Baby-faced Girl -Winona Carlock Woman Hater --Harold Mezile Chaxppion Typist Robert Ann Huff Tallest Girl Evelyn Sublett Tallest Boy Henry Bronson Most Sophisticated Girl- Dorothy Miller Wants to Be Lydia Sprawley Smallest Girl Yenue Lee Smallest Boy James Fields Best Dressed Girl Mildred Brummel Best Dressed Boy Freddie Goodloe Friendliest Boy Walter Agins Best Natured Boy Albert McKirey Quietest Girl Frieda Roye Quietest Boy Ernest Anderson Most Studious Girl Harriet Briscoe Most Studious Boy Edgar Love Most Playful Girl Mary Jane Lewis Most Playful Boy Julius Hambright Nerviest Girl Virginia Price Laziest Girl Margaret Joness Slowest Girl Harriet Brown Biggest Loafer Cecil Whitney Most Sophisticated Boy Bailey Whitaker NOTED FOR (NO REFLECTIONS): Mr. Dunlap — Author of famous his- tory entitled, “Reconstruction of Civili- zation.” vvGlla Silvers — Crooning like Kate Smith. Mae Della Alexander — Frankness and dependability. Sudie Brooks— Extravagance. LaVaria Howell — Criticizing. Theo Nix- — Putting on. Fyrne Coleman— Dancing and pranc- ing. Cullen Hodge — Ideal judge. Eunice Weaver — Solitude. Miss Byrdie — Assisting others. LA VARIA HOWELL. Vera. “I’ll bet you five dollars you can’t answer five questions wrong.” Dovie: “All right. Try me.” Vera: “Who is the president of the United States?” Dovie: “Mr. Bluford.” Vera: “Who is the principal of Lin- coln High School?” Dovie: “Mr. Ellison.” Vera: “Where is the location of the new school?” Dovie: “Some where on 12 street.” Vera: “How many questions is that?” Dovie: “Four.” Vera: “Well, that’s the fifth one.” Marian: “Dorothy, what is that funny looking thing on your neck?” Dorothy: “I don’t know; what is it?” Marian: Your face.” Mr. Howell: “John Jones, will you take a seat up front?” John Jones: “Is there an extra seat up there?” Mr. Howell: “It isn’t anything extra, but I guess it’ll do for you.” Mr. Howell: “Willie Robinson, will you tell us what Biblical personage mar- ried an Ethiopan?” Theo Nix (whispering to Willie) : “Moses.” Willie Robinson (misunderstanding): “Roses.” Mr. Bluford: “Children, that was Duke Ellington, the famous orchestra leader.” Student: “Mr. Bluford, have you ever danced to Duke Ellington’s music?” Another Student: “No, he hasn’t danced to anyone’s music.” Mr. Bluford. “All the children who are absent today raise their hands.” F. Cooley (in Negro History): “Gee, but these chairs are hard to sleep in.” Miss Smothers (just before giving exam.): “I will answer no questions.” C. Whitney (looking at exam, writ- ten on board): “Neither will I.” C. Hodge: “There is enough iron in your head to make a kettle.” V. Travis: “And there is enough sap in your head to fill it.” Mr. Bluford: “What do you know about nitrates?” W. Agins: “They are cheaper than day rates.” [ 27 ]

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Sense and Nonsense WOULD IT BE POSSIBLE FOR Mr. Mayberry to stay angry? Theo Nix to lose her faithfulness? Thelma Saunders to be present ? Mary Ann Tyrees to lose her sweet disposition ? Anna Mae Bruce to be seen while not eating ? Martina Price to be noisy? Freddie Cooley to be high tempered? Octavia Starnes to really look studi- ous ? Mary Townsend to sit dignified? Lassie McGee to grow taller? William Stevenson to be serious? Any one to be as instructive as Har- riet Briscoe? Georgia Hollins to act natural ? Anyone to be friendlier than Ruby Brown ? Thomas Marshall to overcome his bashfulness ? Louise Johnson to have a sweet dispo- sition? Geraldine Smith not to smile? Doris Thornton to laugh often? Margaret Carlock to be unable to write ? Willie Harmon not to be a tom boy? Robert Ann Huff and Margaret Car- lock not to win typing contests ? Mazola Humphrey not to be talking playfully ? Cecil Whitney to stop bluffing? Edgar Love to stop saying “ah.” Harriette Briscoe to refrain from us- ing so many parenthetical expressions? Hilda Beatty to stop going up in the air? Fyrne Coleman to be serious? Opal Battles to be bragging? Mose Davenport to be dignified? Earnest Anderson to smile often? Mary Clay to try to be seclusive? Lessie Brown to make herself known ? Wilma Brooks to stop acting babyish 0 WHEN Will Fred Vincent stop acting funny? Will William Kyle Jr. stop trying to use big words? Will Victor Travis stop laughing? Will Nadine Thomas get to school on time ? Will Francis Walker stop talking about her boy friend in Jefferson City? Will Harriette Briscoe stop looking dignified ? Will Virginia Price stop being nervy? Fill Sidonia Jones marry James West- brook ? Will Sellie Truitt stop “framing” his classmates ? And when will Willa Silvers stop “eye- ing” the hamburgers and conies in the school cafeterias? BAILEY WHITAKER. Jean Farley to stop falling in love so often ? Virginia Price to refrain from trying to be funny? Dora Whisonant to stop trying to play Miss Important? David Pierce to act as a human should ? Chauncey Roulette to stop hounding Herbert ? Willa Fennel to stop playing? Cullen Hodge to lose his strut? James Miller to stop murdering the English language? Victor Travis to gain 15 pounds ? Theo Nix to walk natural ? LaVaria Howell to stop talking with her eyes? Sidney Tullis to stop imitating a chicken ? Sellie Truitt to take off his solemn mask? Alfred Monroe to shed his shoulders of other people’s responsibilities ? HAVE YOU EVER OBSERVED: That Miss Smothers has a pleasing disposition after all ? That Mr. Mason gives admits like a machine. That Mr. Bluford can be stern? That Miss Edwards has bobbed hair? That Mr. Jeffress has an Eastern ac- cent? That Mr. Jackson is always immacu- late ? That Mr. Dunlap has great ambitions? That Mr. Logan does well in the place of Miss Morrison? That Miss Baird still has her smile of smiles ? That Mr. Morrison still has the best of lungs? And, last but not least, that we have the best faculty ever. LA VARIA HOWELL. WHAT WILL HAPPEN To Miss Mason when Ella Mathews is gone ? To Miss Claggett when George White, Frederick Cooly and Margaret Hopkins are no more ? To Mr. Jeffress when Eunice Weaver leaves ? To Miss Cherot when Mae Della Alex- ander leaves? To Mr. Morrison when Herbert Wash- ington departs ? And — to Lipcoln when Mr. Cook re- signs ? Miss Dora Whisonant took second place in the Lincolnian contest. There- fore, she should be honorably mentioned. Although Miss Price did take an over- whelming victory, Miss Whisonant made a splendid showing. Miss Whisonant is a memiber of Miss Smothers’ advisory group. [ 26 ]

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Our Farewell AN ODE TO LINCOLN Dear Old Lincoln High, we hate to leave you, But to your memory we’ll ever be true Altho from your portals we now depart Many good lessons are stamped on each heart. We hope our dear teachers have no cause to regret That the good advice they have given us, we chance to forget, For we are now just beginning our lives to live And we hope to the world our best to to give. Many times our teachers have been fretted and vexed And over many problems we have been perplexed. But our days spent in Lincoln Have been a source of much pleasure And they will remain in our memory as a valued treasure. RUTH E. PATTERSON. FAREWELL LINCOLN Dear Old Lincoln High Is the school young people adore; We hate to leave it Because we love it more and more. When we were freshmen And on up through the years, We decided to stop at Lincoln Until we grew beards. We love the teachers and the principal, Mr. Hugh Ollie Cook; Whose picture is always seen In the front of this book. And now it is time for us To say good bye, to Our friends, who have been So loyal and true. But in the end We all shall meet In the gorgeous heavens Where angels are fresh and sweet. ROBERTANN HUFF. GOODBYE, LINCOLN HIGH We, the class of ’36, for the last four years Have surmounted many milestones with bitter tears; Our leaving fills us with deep sorrow But, we smile again when we look to- ward tomorrow. In every condition we’ve stuck together Through sunshine and through cloudy weather; We saw in the distance a far set goal And worked in earnest, heart, mind, body and soul. We thank you kind Principal and teach- ears, too, For advice and theories we’ve learned through you, May rrovidence forever keep you up high. Now, the class of ’36, bids you goodbye, dear Lincoln High. MAE D. ALEXANDER. 3ln (JJknummtt The very walls of your school — yes, even the substance of the atmosphere in that school — seems to be proclaiming over and over the words you have spoken there, whether you are present or not. DECEASED Ella Lee Jones James Shupee [ 28 ]