Martinsville High School - Mavahi Yearbook (Martinsville, VA)

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Gr mm H his Ollaaa lliiatnrg N September of 1932, the Pied Piper blew his flute and from the grammar schools sixty Rats came tumbling. All kinds of Rats scuttled across the street to seek new quarters in the high school building. We, those Rats, were tolled into the rooms of Miss Pocahontas Wray and Miss Sabra Walker, and there we have stayed throughout our entire four years. We have scrambled madly through the halls, have been ordered around by the principal, have been run over by the upper classmen and caught in many traps set by the faculty-but in spite of all these dangers, there are now forty-five survivors. The Tacky Party held' in the old Home Economics rooms was the out- standing social event of our Freshman year. Anne Minter made herself the tackiest of the tacky and was awarded a prize. In the inter-class basketball games our girls' team succeeded in winning the silver cup, a much coveted trophy. This honor made us begin to feel that we really belongedi. By our Sophomore year we felt more capable to take part in school activities. We gave a Christmas play, Red and the Christmas Whoppersj' and took part in Goops, A Melodrama, and Ulmpersonations of Movie Stars, in the Stunt Show sponsored by the Hi-Y. In the spring we enter- tained the teachers at a picnic. During this year our class was strengthened by thirteen recruits from Mr. Caldwell's home room, and two mem-bers, Joseph Kessler and Alvis Brown, from other schools. Twenty-Two

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cm 1115211121 hi Qilaza lgrnphrrg Cfllnntinurh paralysis specialist-Ann Carroll at Sargent's teachin-g the Freshmen how to swim and dance-Tom Ford 'publishing a book on etiquette which is ex- pected to excel Emily Post's-Margaret Gatewood as torchsinger for Sen- sation fCheshire's Rhythm-a-tics -Louise Rucker in New York buying shoes for Propst-'Childress-Mclver 'Crouch currying his reindeers in prep- aration for his professional debut as Santa Claus in all the larger cities next Christmas-Alvis Brown on a white motorcycle chasing Jun-e Turner down the Danville road-Nell Davis, star reporter for the Atlanta Jour- nal interviewing Albert Pharis in preparation for the first demonstration of his Home Television -Harvey Via, head of the Department of Crimi- nal Investigation, prosecuting Public Enemy Number 1-Alma Pulliam modeling dresses for the Junior Department of Miller and Rhodes - Willis Barrow conducting chapel at V. P. I. where he is President-Mary Ruth Turner speaking in behalf of Beezy Carter who is running for mayor of Martinsville on the golddigger's ticket-Helen Price teachin-g the Ethio- pians Latin-Ethel Bouldin caring for the refugees from the earthquake in Tahiti-Mildred Frazier representing the city of Martinsville, in the nation-wide Bathing .Beauty 'Contest at Miami Beach4Carolyn Pannvill in her office in Washington where she is supervising social service activities for the president4Curtis Morgan, with his orchestra, leaving the Trianon in Chicago to appear before the crowned heads of Europe in order to ac- quaint them with the best in American dance music-Anne Minter doing stenographic work for her future husband-Elizabeth Nease conducting her class in American Literature at Columbia University-+B'radvford Hill demonstrating his new '46 model Buick in the showrooms of the Hill 'Buick Sales and Service-Rebecca Jamerson at her piano in the U. S. patent office where she is employed as tune detective-Roger Hodnett making ex- planatory remarks about the latest news reels and using more puns than the retired Pete Smith-Dorothy Moore reading to the Tuesday Morning Literary Club from her most recent book of poems-Vera Whitlow com- pleting the decoration of June 'Crews' mansion in Beverly Hills-Billy Burge putting his boxinig team through workouts for the 1948 Olympics- Jean Clark defending the accused assassin of the Governor of Utah-June Turner being congratulated on the opening of the Turner Haberdashery in Roanoke-Herndon 'Clarke Ballyhooing the new Shivver-Fritter Auto- gyro-Gene Wales attempting a space trip to Mars-Lester Draper design- ing the cornice for the summer White House to be built at Fairystone Park -aBilly .Hensley coaching' the Southern California football team for their fourth successive trip to the Rosebowl. -GENE WALES AND CURTIS MORGAN. 7'u'c r1ty-0110

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Uhr mauahi gp ,Q Gllaaa Eiatnrg CQ'Lnutinurh The two rooms were organized as one with Joseph Kessler, Presidentg H. B. Byrd, Vice-'Presidentg Helen Price, Secretary, and Carolyn Pannill, Treasurer. As our Junior year rolled around we found that our greatest problem was the Junior-Senior Banquet and early in the fall we realized that it was necessary to raise money for it. We sponsored a Beauty Pageant, a Faculty Basketball Game, and a Liquid-air Demonstration. We chose as the theme for our banquet, An old Fashioned Garden and even the Seniors admitted that it was beautifully carried out. After the banquet we had a dance for the Seniors. This year we lost Fred Robbins, Mary Walker Ford, and Louise Hayes who deserted us for bonds of matrimonyg Dillard Ford also left us. Ann Carroll and Kathryn Jones came to us from other schools but Kathryn remained with us only a year. The girls were again fortunate in winning the basketball cup. As Seniors we were sorry to lose Mr. Carper, Miss Keeble, and Mr. Lacy, who was our principal during our first three years, but we were glad to welcome four new teachers, Miss Eakin, Miss Miller, Mr. Meyers, and Mr. Staples whom we learned to love in our Civics classes. Our class was again strengthened by new members, Willis Barrow, June Turner, and Elizabeth Nease. Our next plans were for our year book and so we sponsored the picture, The Dark Angel at the Rives Theater to help finance it. As :he end of the year drew nearer, we looked forward to the produc- tion of our play, Oh, Profefssorln, and the excitement of commencement week. Thus ends this chapter in the lives of those Rats of '32. -SUSIE SMITH. Twenty-Three '