Louisville Male High School - Bulldog Yearbook (Louisville, KY)

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The hit tune was Bei Mir Bist du Schoen, and Happy and Dear Alben were stumping up and down the length of Kentucky in one of the hottest campaigns ever fought, That fall a stubborn Male High team held Manual's national champions for three quarters and finally lost, 40-7. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was hailed as a film success, and the popular song was Franklin D. Roosevelt jones. Then in the spring of i939 we became seniors. Do you re- member the twelve crowded months of l939? The Glee Club presented The Pirates of Penzance and the Royal Masque, The Ghost Train. Deep Purple and Three Little Fishes were the song favorites, johnstown won the Derby, and Czechoslovakia died at Munich, where Chamber- lin said, This is peace for our time. That was a carefree summer, for weren't we going to be English eights in the fall? ln Europe affairs grew worse and worse, until, on September first, German troops crossed into Poland. And so at eleven o'clock, September third, twenty years, ten months, and nineteen days after the War to end all Wars, the world went to war. Another thrilling Male-Manual game took place on Thanks- giving, when Manual won 20-l3. This game had spectators on their toes right down to the last seconds, and there was no shame to the losers. Gone With the Wind finally appeared and the hit songs were Oh, johnny, ln The Mood. And so here we are. Of the great world powers, England, France, Germany, Italy, Russia, japan, China, Spain, only this country has enjoyed peace. And we, the class of l939Vz, face a somewhat unpredictable future. There is not the gloom and discouragement of a depression-ridden nation that faced the classes of the early thirties. ls it our destiny to die on the battlefield? Will our era be the ushering in of a new order, with war outlawed? We cannot answer these questions. We can only face the future, determined to maintain and preserve our heritage of freedom, and firm in our faith in the American Way. . ',... , 4, .. ... f A i?f f'.LW1?lf

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Los Angeles, Calif. February I, l96O Mr. james Erwin, Erwin Drug Company, San Francisco. Calif. Dear jimmy: l've just returned from a trip back East and I thought you'd be interested in knowing about the old classmates l met. I stopped in Louisville where l saw Alvin Warren, j. O. Bagwell, and Ralph Edsall, who are, respectively, president, chief accountant, and head of German correspondence of the Lincoln Bank of Kentucky, I visited Male and found that the P.M.S.T. is none other than Major Robert Coffman. Drs. Harry Reid and Willard Taylor are the most prominent physi- cians in Louisville lHarry diagnoses the cases and Bill oper- atesl. I discovered Taylor Duncan painting murals in the new city hall. I visited Prof. jerry Davis, who is dean of the Dental College. In Washington, D. C., I saw Hon. Russel Ernst, the new Supreme Court justice, Sen. john V. D. Fels, the Republican senator from Ohio, and Burke Hyde, the record-holding pilot to whom all important documents are entrusted for trans- portation. In Newark I came across Marshall Humphrey working on the fifth dimension. In New York, I found that C. Barkley Hutchison is an eminent pediatrician and that Gene Carpenter is a successful research chemist. I was pleas- antly surprised by being received at Playboy Walter Lacy's penthouse by Ervin McClain, who is unofficially the best butler in New York. j. H. Bickel is still breaking speed records when he's not busy painting portraits of famous people. You know, no doubt, that LaMont Richardson has just completed ten years with the Yankees and that Harry Stimmel is presi- dent of the national Y. M. C. A. On the way back to California I stopped in Des Moines to see Ben jacobstein who owns a shoe factory there. I also saw Fred Strobel practicing for the National Skeet Shoot that is to be held there some time this month. l don't have to mention the successes of Ted Holliger as a character actor and Richard Schell's top-flight band over in Hollywood. It doesn't seem like twenty years has passed since we left Male, but the members of our l939V2 Class have certainly succeeded on a grand scale. jimmy, I have to run up to 'Frisco in a couple of weeks, so I'll drop in to see you then. ' Sincerely, Charles. 1 t .gs