Morristown Hamblen East High School - Itakha Yearbook (Morristown, TN)

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- ITAKHA lX! i THE FUTURE Scene: A house in Morristown on a spring day in 1954. Why, Jo Anne Sawyer! Come right in. Such an unexpected surprise! It'S not everybody who has the Editor of the National Geographic drop in for a visit. You're what? Oh-- writing an article, Who Was Who Ten Years Ago. Well, I'll be glad to give you the lowdown if I can. Yes, isn't that a grand portrait of Betty Jo Bales? It's one of Ruth Atchley's best works. It's called Concert Pianist. Morristown is cer- tainly proud of Betty Jo and Ruth, too. Let's see 1944--why that was leap year. That reminds me- you re- member Virginia Epps and Leora Eller, don't you? Well, they gave a love- ly shower for Carolyn King Milligan and then, to everybody's astonish- ment, were married at a double wedding the very next day. That was some time before Shirley Burgner gave her heart to the navy. She has a lovely new home in Jefferson City right across from the college. Her daughter is one of the star pupils at Miss Deanne Milligan's Exclusive School of the Dance for Select Young Ladies falso rug-cutting, j itterbugging, conga and rumba instruction for all cats that are strictly in the groveb. Georgia Garretson, you know her latest boogie-woogie book out-sold Hazel Scott's by 64.5 copies, plays for the pupils on Thursdays. Guess who dropped in to see me last week, Helen Knox! Just the other day I finished her amazing biography of John Helms III, the world's billiards champion, entitled H27 Years Behind the Eight Ball. She told me that she won that contest sponsored by Harbin's Cuestick Corporation, and had been crowned Miss Cue off 1954. She said the honor was conferred on her by Billie Canter, Jack's number one secretary. He recently raised her salary so she wouldn't leave his company for the Maybelline Mascara people who are begging her for a contract. Knox promised me if I would go to New York to visit her, she would have a dinner party just for me and invite Charlotte Mullins, the Metropolitan Opera star and her ac- companist, Frances Karr, and Mary Nell Murray, the world's typing cham- pion, and Pat Siler, the famous model Cyou know the Jantzen and Cat- alina Companies almost had a feud over whose contract she would acceptl. She said we would have popcorn from Eloise Martin and Frances Craw- ford's famous Grand Central Station stand. They use corn grown exclu- sively on Marvin Wisecarver's farm. Then we would visit Mary Nelle Chandler and Mary Jane Cantrell's Watery Grave Aquarium, or go to the Ritz Theatre to see J. W. Shipley and Hix Slagle, who are giving lectures and demonstrations on Unsuccessful Strangle Holds. At all times Sophia Smith and Margaret Noe, who saw duty overseas as Red Cross nurses in the last war, are on hand in case one of the holds is successful. Wasn't Admiral Tuttle simply wonderful in the battle of Flat-foot- floogie Bay in January 1945? It was the last really important battle of the war. It was about that time that Dot Scarbrough made her first good- will tour to South America. Mary Ruth Hale really did her part as Pres-

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IEANNE REILAND Reserves '42 '43 '44 n Club '42 Sing Glee Club '42 '43 :ry Corps '43 '44 ors Club '44 lr. 8 Treas. ' ,ting Club '44 b. A. '44 JO ANNE SAWYER Operetta '42 Hurricane Staff '42 '43 '44 Editor '44 Girl Reserves '42 '43 '44 7 5 6 Club '42 '43 '44 Sec. '42 Treas. '44 Cheerleader '42 Latin Club '42 Tennis Club '42 Sing-Sing Glee Club '42 '43 Spanish Club '43 Victory Corps '43 '44 Dramatic Club '43 '44 Treas. '44 IT KH 355, 7 SENIORS BETTY JO SAMS Girl Reserves '42 '43 '44 Latin Club '42 Home Ee. Club '42 Sub-Debs '43 DOT SCARBROUGH Band '40 '41 '42 '43 '44 Girl Reserves '42 '43 '44 Orchestra '42 '43 Home Ee. Club '42 S'ng Sing Glee Club '43 '44 Sub Debs '43 '44 Sec. 44' 1 X We PATSY SILER SOPHIA SMITH MARTHA WEBB Operetta '42 '43 Girl Reserves '42 '43 '44 Girl Reserves '42 '43 '44 Latin Club '42 Treas. Home Ee. Club '42 Sec. '42 V Pres. '43 '44 Girl Reserves '42 '43 '44 SingSng Glee Club '42 '43 Tcnn's Club '42 Sing Sing Glee Club '42 '43 V. Pres. '44 Beta Club '43 '44 7 8: 6 Club '42 '43 '44 Spanish Club '43 '44 Spanish Club '43 '44 Pres.'44 V. Pres. '44 Victory Corps '43 '44 Sub-Debs '43 '44 Treas. '44 Golf Club '43 Tennis Club '43 Spanish Club '43 Hurricane Staff '43 '44 Victory Corps '43 '44 Speech Arts '43 Dramatic Club '43 '44 Beta Club '44 Band Sponsor '44 Senior Play '44 Military Drill '43 '44 Victory Corps '43 '44 Hurricane Staff '44 Pres. of Sr. Class '44 D. A. R. Award Art Editor of 1944 Itakba MAXINE Sl-l0UN Sing Sing Glee Ciub '41 '42 Spanish Club '43

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ggi? all ITAKHA lliitiiis 5 ident of the War Committee by getting Zeke Cosson to donate his en- tire junk yard to the scrap drive. She is still being president of everything and doing a wonderful job. Oh, it's time for Margaret Harrison's Fancy Foods for Fancy Folks program. I never miss it. Yesterday She gave a super recipe for Spiced Spinach contributed by Miss Peggy May, the head of the Home Ec. De- partment of Vassar. Just after this program the comedian who hires Jean Haskins and Clara Jenkins to laugh at his jokes comes on, followed by Betty Jo Sams' unusually funny show. At 4:15 Christine Reagan, the famous blues singer, is doing a request number on Kate Louella Gobble Smith's hour. She is going to sing The Canning Factory Blues or The Sour Apple Waltz . Could you stay long enough for us to take in Tessie fpronounced Tay-sab Portrum's latest picture? She's so good in technicolor-- the only star with the five-toned hair. Marjorie Ewing, her press agent has done wonders along that line of publicity. She has Jeanne Reiland design all her clothes and insists on having Perry Jolly as her photographer. They're featuring a short made from Virginia Price and Dot Livingston's new book, The Antics of Peculiar Animals. The authors themselves are ap- pearing in the film. At last, the mail has come. Here's a letter from Mary Margaret Bell. You know she sets the copy for those penmanship books grammar school kids struggle through. Look at the headlines of the Gazette and Mail . No doubt their star reporter, Maria Doka, wrote this up: Frank Joyce, the foremost research chemist, and Agnes Bryan. the math wizard have just invented a soundless motor, they call it the E-Z Going. Billie I-Iisev is to include a discription of it in her new dictionary which is guaranteed to contain 500 more words than any other one on the market. I do believe that's Mrs. Q. Horton Jr. driving the ambulance up the street. As first lady of our town, she has an important social position. Just the other day she gave a lovely luncheon for Martha Webb, the fa- mous magazine illustrator. I got it straight from Jane who got it straight from Martha that Billy Russell, the great basketball professional, didn't play his last scheduled game because he was in Canada trying to stop his good friend, Red Reynolds, from dyeing his hair so he could join the Northwest Royal Mounted Police. Next Wednesday she is giving a tea for Maria Hayes, the only lady member of the President's cabinet. Since Maria is in town, Maxine Shoun asked her to talk to her classes at High School on Friday. That's the day Doris Long is going to lecture on Cul- tivate, Don't Harrow Your Speaking Voice. She's on her way to visit Carolyn Kirk in Chicago. Carolyn has made a small fortune posing for Curley-Q Shampoo ads-- of course she doesn't touch the stuff. And speak- ing of red-heads, Vona Cannon has just taken a position as James Bruce's secretary- you know he always did prefer that color. His dairy farm is famfius. His slogan Milk-Shakes from Jitterbugging Cows is known the wor d over. John Wallace is a shoe salesman. It's the only way he can get a first choice on leather. Yes, he ought to be home any minute now. Ruth Massey