McClenaghan High School - Florentine Yearbook (Florence, SC)

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Since Virginia Smith has been basketball coach at Charleston, Memminger High has been undefeated. Elizabeth Johnston, Elizabeth Lawrence, and Lily Pons are on a concert tour of the United States. Alison Keels and Miriam Jones have met their fates in Sumter. Esther Bumbarger is dietician at Bellevue Hospital, New York. Alice Hooke keeps a home for aged goldfish. Anne Ledbetter married a medical missionary and lives in Africa. Willeford .Rotan, in her career of Public Health nurse, has done such wonderful work that all the hospitals in Florence County have been torn down. Graham Bridges, John Bailey, and Jack Bristow invented a new kind of rocket ship. They sailed to the moon and got moonstruck. Paul Brockington is teaching that Southern accent to Northern actresses. Lorenz and Wilhelm Eitner are professors of German at Cornell and Yale. Jack McLeod earns his living by teaching New York mannequins how to get that Park Avenue air. Blanche Gregg teaches at Duke University. She tells 'em how to parler francais.” Mary Duff ell advertises that school-girl complexion for the Palmolive G mpany. Annie Wayne Hand and her husband run a beauty parlor in Washington. It seems that since he will not take a vacation from his agreeable work, she will not either. Herman McCurry has offered himself to science as a professional foodtaster. Herbert Jackson owns a circus and carries it around on his dog. Reeves Campbell is one of Wall Street’s best-known brokers. David and Ed. Brendel own the Atlantic Coast Line Company. Fannie Mae Hicks and Dorothy Dix are one and the same person now. Jeanne Mellett was teaching tennis at a fashionable hotel at Palm Beach, but she married the owner. Elizabeth Pettigrew taught English at Bryn Mawr until she became the college president. Madison Rainwater and Clyde Killen are running for the state legislature. Madison's motto is Good farms must have Rainwater. Clyde's is Let Killen kill your boll weevils. Every Monday evening at 8:30 you can hear Edna Tedder's lovely soprano voice soaring with Margaret Speaks'. Sometimes Ollie Stephens is guest artist on the program, but it is still very hard to make him sing. Mattie Virginia Hutto has not yet decided which of the three she prefers to marry. Katherine Twitty's heart may well twitter now, for she has married the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, who is bound to die soon and leave her his fortune. Mildred Truluck has revolutionized the fashions in women's hats since she has been style dictator. Aileen Haselden is the star reporter for the New York Times, and has written a book called When I Married the Editor, or Why the Editor Died. Dr. Liswa Ellerbe has invented a universal solvent and the great scientist, Clarence Davis, has invented a bottle to keep it in. Ina Jean Claussen met a man in Marion who turned out to be a rancher, so now' she is living out in the desert with the jackrabbits and the cactus bushes. Jack Adams was the great screen lover of the day until his wife became jealous. Andrew Bailey is manager of that great chain store—the M System. His chief rival is Harvey Dubose, who runs the A P. Eugene Jeffords is manager of the Red Sox baseball team and has made it the World Series Champion. His star player is Monroe Bryant. Clinton Blackmon is a lawyer and Ray Blackmon is a newspaper editor. They wrork together well. Ray gets into trouble and Clinton gets him out. Miriam Ledbetter and her husband arc touring Europe to give the children a better education. A new- jewel has been found. It is partly turquoise and partly opal, so the discoverer called it Topal (Matthews) for his wife. It seems that Louise and Minnie Price are considered priceless by their employees—so priceless that they married them. Louise Jordan has a lovely tea room at the same well-known hotel in California where Evelyn Keefe is hostess and where Mozelle and Mary Lee Barwick have their beauty salon. Marguerite Smith and Mary Williamson are travelling around the w'orld with their husbands, the President and the Secretary of State. After Junius Price and Elmer Robbins made their fortunes, they became Y. M. C. A. workers, and now they run a boys' camp on the Great Lakes. (Continued to Pjge 48) 27 f -

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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

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 f JL HI: sails unfurl, the anchors weigh, And I set out to sea: I’m just a captain 'till the day My Master calls for me. My Craftsmanship and Friendship too Are now prepared to go; I’m sailing through the misty hue Of dreams that captains know. My ships were built and stocked with gold At good old •'. H. S. Through all the storms my feet will hold A life of happiness. I’m captain of this fleet I own And, World, I’m going hy— Tonight will find me sailing on From good old Florence High. My priceless feet is made of steel To face the storms that blow; I’m just a captain at the wheel Wherever I may go. Though I regret, I leave behind This port here by the sea Within the Land of Dreams I’ll find A pleasant memory. I'm sailing with the coming tide And, World, I’m heading right— The spirit here will be my guide, Will be my beacon light. The iMaster knows where I will land,— To me the port's unknown; But long as I am in command, My ships are sailing on! Charles E. David, Jr., Class Poet. SAILING ON! - { 28 ■h