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May 17 1949 THE CARDINAL Page 1 Cardrnal taff Message T0 Edrtor Assocrate Edrtor News Edrtor Assrcrate News Feature Edrtt r Feature Wrrters George W Wrlson Jr Johnny Brock Nancy Crowder Charles Shelton Drck Howe Anne Stokes Brlly Luther Mary Frances Hrgdon Jen Hunt Covrngton Betty Clymer Jrmmy Clark Anne Green Drane Peterson Pat Long Angelyn Kelly Betty Roberts Evelvn Fuller Mary Jane Wyatt Socrety Edrtor Assoc ate Socretv Edrtor Sports Edltor Art Edrtor Assocrate Art Edrtor Lrterary Edrtor Exchange Edrtor Busrness Manager Adx ertrsrng Manager Assocrate Advertrsrng Mgr Betty Rose Jacobs Crrculatron Manager Jane Englrsh Assoc ate Crrculatron Mgr Douglas Leneave Robert Ferguson George Lrgon Wrllram Flemrng Janet Puckett Photograph Fdrtors Tvprsts Norma Krng Norma Gargus Verna Kendall Wrlma Clapp Zorabeth Crowder Norma Traughber Norma Mack Sue Breckenrrdge Rubye Iohnson Emma Crawford Marron F1Sk Betty Jo Whrttemore Dorothv Blewette Anrta Rhodes Barbara Cooper Mrs Hays K Neelv Reporters Sponsor A Medrtatron On Graduatron Nlovt I th nk I knotx how the knrght of old felt as he reached the tcp of the frrst hrll rn hrs search for the Holy Grarl only to see IIS rays flrttrng over the hrll just ahead And so rt lS wrth us as senrors graduatrng from hrgh school thrs year Graduatron so I have heard lS only the frrst of an endless ser1es of h lls rn the road of Lrfe Yes thrs rs a h1ll where the read forks Some of our number w1ll contrnue the1r e'lucatron rn colleges over the country whrle others w1ll soon get 1 bs and begrn the task of self support Theres one thrng sure Wherever vue go or whatever we do we vrrll all m1ss Mavfreld Hrgh School rn one wav or another It may be youll m1ss the football and basketball games you may m1ss seerng old scenes and faces Ol you may ex en m1ss hard study and the gay trmes y u ve had rn Englrsh class or the conquerrng arr' you had when vou worked a physrcs or algebra problem Yes Wlthout doubt vou wrll stop to th1nk of your present experrences and o hers at M H S and say Wlth a s gn Gone are the days And at last vt hen vou are over the topmost peak and are com1ng down the last h lls of Lrre vou may take vour grandchrldren on your knee or lap as the case may be and tell them of the trme a bunch of you slrpped off rn the spr1ng months to go frshrng or the t1me way back rn 48 when our football team beat the socks rff the mrghty T1lghman Tornado on Thanksgrvrng Day or you may wrnd up a sessron by tellrng of the t1me you dropped rn at Fullers Cafe for brarn food durrng classes and were caught by the Prrncrpal Occasrcnally you hear of a class havmg a reunron I won der what we would frnd rf our class were to meet rn say 1959 Some to be sure would be rn bus1ness and hard at vsork rn some walk of l1fe whlle others would st1ll be beating the bushes tryrng to frnd therr lrfe work It has been sard that berne a Hrgh School senror rs an ex perrence that comes only once rn a lrfetrme I am thankful for that Whrle I have thoroughly en1oyed my h1gh School career and wouldnt have mrssed rt I wouldnt start over agarn for love or money Man s obrect rn l1fe rs to go forward and progress Thrs IS exactly what I thrnk rt should be Of course, we all hate to see the end of our h1gh school days come, and there vxrll be the tradrtronall shed tears bv some at commencement, and prob ablv the warlrng and gnashrng of teeth, but rn the frnal count, rnk we wrll all agree that as Lrfe rs full of hrlls, we all want I th - 1 to see what's on the other s1de of them G W W The Graduates The annals of t1me reveal that lt has been the custom for each generatron of Amerrcans t leave even more complex socral polrtrcal and moral problems for 1ts successor to solve than con fronted t when lt strode upon the stage and took up the ICIHS of government The young men and xxomen who compose the generatron of h gh school grad uates for 1949 wrll be entrust ed w1th the most ser1ous prob lems coverrng every phase of the Amerrcan Way of Lrfe that have ex er exrsted If vue your predecessors the muddlers of Amer rcanrsm were to stop and casually consrder the complex1ty and range of the problems whrch w1ll constrtute your herrtage vre would be rn clrned to say that you W111 be totally unable to cope wrth them We would be rnclrned to hang our heads rn shame, t throw up our hands and cry I surrender In dorng w would bel1ttle your herrtage and condemn our efforts to pre pare vou for your task Youth has never been rnclrned to surrender however great the obstacles confrontrng It may seem You w1ll be no exceptron I have complete confrdence that your thoughts w1ll be broadened vurth the process of the sun The Amer can youth has ever been able to meet and cope xxrth par ental problems as applred to our natron The proof rs that Amer rea has become greater and ac complrshrnents h a v e become more nearly mrraculous through the years When the torch rs flung you vou Wlll hold rt h1gh You w1ll meet the challenge You Wlll do your part well towrrd pre servrng the lrberty and freedom xxhrch you Wlll enjov for the succeedrng generatrons Prob lems that we cannot solve to day w1ll y1eld themselves to your rncreased know how I am confrdent that there are those among you vrho can touch those phases of Amerrcanrsm that are torprd todav and they w1ll sprrng 1nto newness of lrfe ThlS must be true I personally be l1eve that when you hear the call You Must that vou as youth ever has wrll reply I can J O LEWIS Superrntendent Mr Ross xx as walkrng down Broadway the other dav when he was cornered bv a character, who asked Shay can you tell me where I can frnd the Alco holrch Anonvmush Why, do you want to JOIN? No, wanna resrgn Une Hundred To Recon e Drplomas On Thursday Mrv 19 1949 one hundred senrors w ll recerve thell d plom rs from the Presr dent of the Board of Educatron C A Bvrn D Edwrn Mrrns 1 for mer profes r of Vanderbrlt Unrversrty wrll delrx er the commencement add ress on the subrect The Real Fundamentrls of Educ rtron Thrs gl'ldll'ltl0I1 class rs the largest to recervc drplom rs from Mayfreld Hrgh School In 1910 srx drplomas were rssued to the frrst graduatrng class When the drplomas hue been gven to thrs class Mrvfreld Hrgh School wrll hrve rssued tvwo thousrnd and twelve drplom IS Explanatron Not for more than twenty wears has M rwfreld Hrgh School h rd 'rny publrcrtrorr th rt would rn 'rnv xr ay resemble an annual We do not ex en suggest that thls yearbook should be termed an annual but we do hope that rt XVIII be the stepprng stone to 'r larger and better 'rnnual publr catron In every enterprrse a few people are the pushers and pro moters Th1s publrcatron IS no exceptron Naturally ue are deeply rndebted to our 'rdvertrs ers for then support In fact had rt not been for then help we would not have been able to have ex en a school prper Our prrncrprl M Judson Jenk ns h'rs taken rn rnterest rn our cruse rnd hrs gurdcd us rr thrs undertrkrng Mrs Hays Neelv our sponsor has spent much of her trme xx hrch could hue been spcnt on other work to help get our copy rn condr tron to go to the prrnter Then tto we are deeplv rndebted to Mrss Florence Wyman who has read our copy correctrng errors throughout the entrre year Th1s has been a servrce we could not have done wrthout And last vxe express our thanks to the Messenger Publrsh ng Company for therr specral rnterest and help rn the pr rrrtrrrg of thrs book as vtell 'rs our regular edrtrons of The Crrdrnal We hate trred vt 1th our mea ger resources to prece together a ve rrbook grxrng 111 ell round el prcture of Max freld Hrgh School To the student bodv, the staff wrshes to express ltS thanks for 1ts support through out the entrre year The Edrtors . 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Page 2 'rms CARDINAL May 17 1949 Flrst we would that you th1nk of thls the Grumbler of the class of 49 as not hav1ng a s1ngle author but rather as belng an accumulat1ve report of the grlpes and grumbl1ngs of each and every member collected complled and put 1nto words by a few so called wr1ters of th1s the graduatmg class of 1949 Among the many th1ngs MHS needs 1S an enlarged Flrst A1d room to take care of the mgured teachers and the not so QUICK on the feet students casualtles of the 11 40 rush The flfty m1nute lunch per1od IS respons1ble for 1nd1gest1on attacks of appendlcltls fractured bones ulcerated stomachs and numerous other a1lments You have all heard of Coxeys Army and the Battle of the Bulge Just xmagme the two together and you get a general ldea of vshat happens 1n the halls at lunch t1me Its terrlfymg' You get caught 1n one crowd and follow lt down several fhghts of sta1rs only to dlscover yourself out on the campus when you had planned to eat 1n the cafeter1a Someone should tell Mr Ross that 1f a person has h1s foot 1n the door when the tardy bell r1ngs he 1snt really tardy be cause although the common rule IS that you have to be 1n the room at the t1me the bell rmgs our feet are usually the largest th1ng about us One purpose of our h1gh school IS to prepare us for college but dont the teachers know that 1f they keep g1v1ng those long ass gnments and dally QUIZZQS most of us w1ll never leave h1gh school Dont the teachers have anyth1ng to talk over so that they can have more teachers meet1ngs For a whlle they met every other day and then came those blessed f1fteen m1nutes of free dom 1n the afternoon Even that short of vacat1on lS better than none If anyone 1S plann1ng to set f1re to the school he had better do It the f1rst per1od because thats the only t1me we have had f1re dr1l.ls Speakmg of f1re dr1lls rem1nds us of our sprlng vacatlon We are out of school about as long for one as for the other Are all sophomores s1lly and must they balrlcade the sta1rs and chase one another down the halls? It IS almost 1mposs1ble to get to the typ1ng room before the bell r1ngs The rfeshmen g1rls need the hall for d1scuss1ng thelr dates And what happened to the coke machme 1n the back hall or was that Just a m1rage'P Not1ce all the brlght sh1n1ng faces one sees wandermg about 1n the halls The thanks for the clean faces go to the few work 1ng dr1nk1ng fountams The person vxho IS lucky enough to f1nd a fountaln that w1ll g1Ve water 1nstead of teas1ng about lt w1ll l1kely f1nd hxmself drenched to the skln Speaklng of water weve been try1ng to dec1de what to do w1th our band room Someone suggested ra1s1ng tadpoles and m1nnows good 1dea' Why doesnt the band do an underwater symphonyv But then It would probably be all wet Couldnt we get a d1scount on a large sh1pment of gas masks? The fresh breat hof sprlng around here only brmgs odors of the concoct1ons from the hopeful chem1sts future cooks and the faxthful lunchroom Isn t that a f1ne mlxture of odors to en dure every day? No school tr1p 1S complete wlthout the famous school buses then anvth1ng can happen and usually does Any thmg from h1tch h1k1ng to you rdest1nat1on to Sllllply s1tt1ng there wa1t1ng for some dash1ng kn1ght n another broken dovxn bus to come to your rescue Whv cant we have better buses Csome thxng l1ke the Greyhoundb or take more tr1ps and maybe we Wlll get stranded far enough away from home to m1ss several days of school? What about all these g1rls that wear the1r scarfs all clay? Are they startlng the1r own nunnery or are they Just co do We have the snaz71est soap d1spensers 1n the rest rooms these days One spends half a semester try1ng to dlscover how they operate only to flnd that there was never any soap n them And what happened to the l1ttle round m1rror 1n the g1rl s rest room Maybe It was cracked but lt was a m1rror It IS the des1re of the graduatmg class of 49 that these sug gested changes w1ll attract the attent1on of those 1n author1ty to 1mprove the cond1t1ons so that the class followmg 1n our footsteps w1ll have a better place to spend the greater part of the1r l1ves Elwanda Looper Rubye Johnson Dorothy Adams Norma Gargus Herby Hunt Gus Randolph lass Grumbler Popularlty ontest Sweetheart of M H Best Look1ng Prett1est Ha1r Prett1est Eyes Most Athletlc Personallty Best School C1t1zen W1tt1est Most Ideal Neatest Best Student Most Popular LHZl9St Lynn Brevx er Elwyn Sm1th Anlta Rhodes Jack Wr1ght Lynn Brewer Herby Hunt Bettye Rose Jacobs Bob Creason Jen Covmgtcn Bettye Johnson Betty Roberts Jen Covlngton Jane Enghsh Evelyn Fuller Jen Covmgton Norma Mack Jen Hunt Covmgton Glrl Boy Bobby W1ll1ams George Wllson Ed Hendley Elwyn Smlth Jerry Ca1n Hugh Vance Ed Hendley Jerry Fuqua lass Hlstory It 1S May 17 1949 and we the sen1o1 class a1c at the end of one long road and readv to start upon another For a mlnute or tuo we pause to look back upon the twelve years lt has taken us to ach1eve our f1rst goal Mo t of us started to school ln the year 1937 some started at Longfellow some at Lee some at Washlndton and others at grade schools 1n adjommg Cltl8S count1es and states Durmg the years between 1937 and 1948 our class was constantly changmg Some mox ed awav from Mayf1eld some moved to Mayfleld and others 1a1led to make the grade In the year 1943 the present graduatlng class really got to know one another At that t1me we came from the c1ty s three elementary schools to the Webb School Bulld ng here on the h1gh school campus We vxere really advanc1ng up that long lad der to the ultlmate goal a h1gh school d1ploma Two years later 1n 1945 vue moved aga1n thls t1me to the h1gh school bulldlng There as green freshmen we learned the mysterles of sen1or h1gh school Wlth 1ts Sunset Club t l1brary w1th magaz1nes and 1ts h1gh1y exploslve l1brary Our class of one hundred members the largest ever to grad uate from Mayf1eld H1gh School has many f1ne qual1t1es and IS outstand1ng 1n many ways One of these QU3l1tl9S IS cooperatlon Th1s was shown 1n the Jun or year when we began to work on the magaz1ne sale After a large amount of money had been brought 1n every one s thoughts turned to the Jumor sen1or banquet Wxth the help of the class sponsors the b1g event was carefully planned comm1ttees were orffamzed and the Job was under way As everyone who attended w1ll say th1s project was 8 ITIHJOI' SUCCESS T1me rolled around for the sen1or play try cuts were planned for a deslgnated date About one half the sen1or class were there ready to trv the1r sklll The s1xteen vsho were chosen started play pract1ce the rest qulckly Jomed comm1ttees who had a great deal to do wlth the success of the play In1t1at1ve 1S anothe quahty of the class of 49 If you look at the clubs Wh1Ch are now aCtlV6 ln M H S you w1ll see that present senlors had a hand 1n the r organlzatlon We hear many f1ne th1ngs about the M Club the Key Club the Future Home makers Club the Jun1or Mus1c Club and the Lat1n Club Let me name loyalty as a th1rd quahty Whenever t1me has come for annual Red Cross donatlons the class of 1949 have la1d thelr money on the table Endhsh fr1ends have rece1ved money and g1fts from Mayfleld H1gh School to Wh1Ch the class have contr1buted Last we must mentlon scholarshlp Every SlX weeks s nce we were freshmen one fourth of our class have been named on the honor roll The average reqlured to be el1g1ble fo1 membrshlp ln the Natxonal Honor Soclety was eYcept1onally h1gh We stand now looklng forward to tomorrow A large num ber of us look to four more years of schoolmg at college others to thelr l1fe t1me vocatlon We all stand and say Thank you Mayfleld Hlgh for all that you haxe glven us Johnny had a bad hablt of chew1ng h1s f1ngerna1ls that h1s mother was try1ng to break h1m of do1ng by tell1ng h1m that lt would make h1m fat She started to dlet SIHCG none of her klndred were th1n, She has been wa1t1ng 1n qu1et, For h1ps that never come 1n M1ss Murphey 'Do you en Joy K1pl1ng'7 Bobby Zeh Well I dont want to appear 1gnorant but 1ust how do you k1ple M1ss Wyman Students th1s exam w1ll be conducted on the honor system Please take seats three seats apart and 1n alter nate rows 1 O I I I ' n 9 , . . . 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