McClenaghan High School - Florentine Yearbook (Florence, SC)

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 Item 13. Miriam (My heart’s in Sumter) Jones' dry wit, we will to David Lawson. Item 14. The personal recipe for preserving pep, vim, and vitality, owned by Annie Phoebe (I like Cadets) Ammons, Roxie Belle (I call myself a wit and my friends think I'm half right) Parker, and Mary Long (55 words a minute that's my speed) Barnhill, we will to Stepin Fetchit. Item 15. The way in which Lois (Come Hither) Ector can hypnotize boys by her breath-taking appearances we will to the Lunn sisters. Item 16. The silvery voice of Harry (Mi-mi-mi-mi-mi) McIntosh, we will to the rising orators of the Junior Class. Item 17. The gentlemanly manners of Harvey Ferguson, Aurice Powell, Elmer Robbins, Billy O'Hara, and Marion Eskridge, we will to Walter Winchell and Ben Bernie in hopes that they will bury the hatchet. Item 18. The excessive floor space created by the exit of Ed” (His two feet make-one yard) Robinson, we will to the much trampled Sophomores. Item 19. The indescribable giggle of Jane (I'm an intellectual) Salters anih Helen (I'm not) McGee, we will to Al” Gandy. Item 20. The unique ability of Dudley (Very high tenor, Off again”; very low bass, On again ) Foxworth to change his voice at will, we bequeath to Mrs. Poynor. Item 21. The athletic ability of Ben (What late again?) Maynard, Billy (Lady killer) Wall, and Digges (Joe E. Brown has nothing on me) Poynor, we will to Edward Wheeling. Item 22. The places in the band left vacant by the departure of Charles (Bass) Mims, Manly (Trombone) Hines, Eber (Saxophone) Ward, and Arthur (Clarinet) Baroody, we will to Rudy Vallee, Guy Lombardo, Wayne King, and Jan Garber, as the only people we can think of who might be capable of filling aforementioned vacancies. Item 23. The fast talking of Jean Mellett, Julia Maynard, and Aileen Haselden, we will to Mrs. Blanton to enable her to break the world's speed record. Item 24. The boxing ability of Graham (Balcony) Bridges and Henry (Sunspot) Reese, we will to Joe Louis. Item 25. Alison ( Songbird of the South ) Keels' and Elizabeth (I sing on one note) Rogers’ knowledge of Latin we will to the Latins from Manhattan.” Item 26. The way which James Alfred (Me and Fred Astaire) Self, Herbert (I am THE STUFF) Jackson, and Cuz (I know IT ALL) Hardee stick together we will to the Three Musketeers.” We hereby appoint the Junior Class executors of this, our last will and testament. Signed and sealed in the presence of these witnesses: John Burnett, Egg Nogg, Haile Selassie. Mildred McKeithen, Testator. 1936- 25)3-

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THE FLORENTINE w E, the Senior Class of the Florence High School, being of more or less sound mind, of disposing memory, sensible of our early departure from this institution, and desiring to make just and proper disposition of all our chatties, honors, and profits, do hereby make public and declare this as and for our last will and testament, hereby revoking all others by us heretofore made. Item 1. The excellent salesmanship of Madison (I am a great lover) Rainwater, Bob (I am Miss Sallie's pet) McCorkle, and Catherine (Salestalk) Stokes, we will to the ones raising money for the next annual. Item 2. The love that Irene (Watch me blush) McCall, Carrie Lee Corley, Anne Ledbetter, Frances Gibbs, and Virginia Smith have for basketball, we will to the underclassmen, hoping Miss Tobin will have better luck next year. Item 3. The line” Louise (Baby Talk) Ervin uses in stringing innocent young boys we will to Charlotte Twitty. Item 4. The friendship” existing between Alice Timmons and Earl Baskins, Mattie Va. Hutto, and Madison Rainwater we leave to the movie stars in Hollywood in hopes that there will be fewer trips to Reno. Item 5. The unruffled poise of Elizabeth Pettigrew, Catherine Twitty, Mary L. Robbins, and Evelyn Keefe we will to Eleanor Brand and Dorothy McCown. Item 6. The talent which Betty McCall and Olive Scott have for making up new dance steps we will to the Branwell-Tinsley team. Item 7. We will Paul (I use to live on the Bottry ) Brockington’s delightful Charlestonian brogue” to the next boy in F. H. S. whose voice changes. Item 8. The manner in which Lorrenz (Parlez-vous anglais?) Eitner reads French we will to everyone taking this subject. Item 9. The fast walking of Clyde Killen, David Hicklin, and Reeves Campbell we leave in charge of Mr. Briggs that he may give to the person receiving the most tardy slips. Item 10. The excess height of David (When I lived in Spartanburg) Adams, Clarence (Office Boy) Davis, George (All right, all right) Baker, Monroe (I can sprawl standing up) Bryant, and Wallace (I am THE PRESIDENT) Berger, we bequeath to the 1938 football team. (Judging from the size of the boys now the game will be tag” then!) Item 11. Liswa (I love Nelson Eddy) Ellerbe’s love for Washington we will to the next President of the United States in hopes that he will be willing to remain there for four years. Item 12. The unsurpassed absent-mindedness of Charles ( Lost in a Fog ) David we will to the F. H. S. Faculty in the hope that they will eventually forget to give demerits and study halls. ) -ff 24

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THE FLORENTINE PROPHECY One night as I was sitting by the fire I noticed that the flames were making peculiar pictures. I strained my eyes to see more clearly. What I saw was an old man with a long black wand in his hand. When he saw that I was staring at him. he gave me a sly wink and flashed his wand in the air whispering. Hocus, pocus, dominocus. On the future quickly focus. He faded slowly from sight. I saw a courtroom. Dudley Foxworth was sitting dejectedly in the prisoner's box and staring at Covington Hardee, who was wrathfully prosecuting his former classmate for the odious crime of killing time. Counsel for the defense was persuasive Bob Mc-Corkle. Among the sympathetic jury were Eber Ward, Manly Hines, and Percy Tucker. Sheriff Billy Wall was leaning against the door with gun in hand. Then I saw Phoebe Ammons and Eleanor Hopkins fighting over a radio. It seems that Hack McIntosh's Better Shaving Program and Bergers speech from the Congress of Diplomats (?) at Geneva w'ere on the air at the same time. At a meeting of the Better Homes and Garden Club were the former Eline Willis, Lorraine Bowen, Frances Campbell, Louise Campbell, and Louise Willis. Each one wore a plain gold ring on her left hand. Elizabeth Rogers, the screen's foremost dramatic star, was rehearsing a scene w'ith Robert Taylor for their next picture. In another section of the movie lot was the new dancing team, Gibbs and Astaire, practicing a new' popular step, called the Carinental. I saw' Earl Baskin, dressed in aviator's togs and smoking a pipe, talking to a pretty little woman on the other side of the kitchen stove. He called her Alice (Timmons) and she called him her Ace of Hearts. From their conversation I learned the following facts: Sam Ham and the other great algebra students have at last discovered how a number can be divided by zero. Billy O'Hara is the new mayor of Florence. It seems that a great many women went to the polls on election day. Betty McCall Vanderbilt and Olive Scott Whitney own the art gallery where Digges Poynor’s latest sketches are on view. Julia Kendall and Helen McGee have written a book called Flirtation as a Fine Art. Jean Hamilton, the well-known concert violinist, has won many prizes in Paris, besides the hearts of ten counts and a duke. Elizabeth Hubbard and Marian Stewart have opened a dining room which has proved so popular that home cooking in Florence has become a lost art. J. Alfred Self, the millionaire, now owns all clothing establishments in the state besides the Woolworth Company and Marshall Field's in Chicago. Louise Ervin has advanced from Miss Senior to Miss Universe. Julia Maynard and Frances Duffell are professional models. Julia advertises chewing gum; Frances, eye water. Irene McCall and Carrie Lee Corley are stars on the Women's International Basketball Team. They spend all their money on ice cream and cake. Maude Barth is the World's Champion Typist and head of the business department at Vassar. Since Estelle Baker and Louise Wilson have been nurses at Johns Hopkins, there has been a record-breaking amount of sickness among the Baltimore swains. Charles David has taken over Edgar Guest's radio program. Poor Edgar can't compete with a Pulitzer prize winner. Dr. Paul Covington, the eye specialist, has startled the world by inventing X-ray spectacles. Catherine Stokes, Mary Graham, and Irma Blackston are private secretaries for their husbands. No chancel there for Wife vs. Secretary. Ed Robinson has just won the heavyweight boxing championship w'ith just one punch. Harvey Ferguson is football coach at Notre Dame. Ben Maynard keeps a hot dog stand. His specialty is flapjacks and coffee. Bwena Allen married a novelist and is the heroine of five books. Mary Long Barnhill married an artist, who makes her his model for hair tonics and toothpaste. Jessie Maxwell, by hook or by crook, has succeeded in being listed among New York’s four hundred. Roxie Belle Parker is the best known stage star of the age. She takes the places of Ethel Barrymore, Katherine Cornell, and Helen Hayes. David Adams, Arthur Baroody, and Charles Mims are members of Guy Lombardo’s orchestra. Katherine Harbin and George Baker sing on his program. Lois Ector and Mildred McKeithen are guest artists. No w'onder the Lombardo hour is so popular! -4f 26