Murphy High School - Mohian Yearbook (Mobile, AL)

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 EVELYN A. BRADFORD “Eve” “A nature so modest and rare Veiling the strength that is there.” Mobile Hi Times Staff Local Interest Club Creative Writers Club • HOWARD J. BRUISTER “He was the mildest mannered man That ever scuttled a ship or cut a throat.” • GORDON BURNS “Ikie” “A sadder and a wiser man He rose the morrow- morn.” Class Football Cafeteria MARGUERITE LUCILLE BRANDAU “Margie “She was a phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight.” THELMA ELIZABETH BRITAIN “Thel” “With eyes star-bright And hair like night.” CARL FRANCIS BUSBEE “Whence is thy learning? Hath thy toil O’er books consumed the midnight oil?” Business Club ROBERT BERKELEY BUSH “Honey Boo h” “At whose sight all the stars Hide their diminished heads.” Football ’27 Lunch Counter ’26-’27-’28 EUNICE HAZEL BRUNSON “Gentle as a western breeze Passing over summer seas.” A. B. L. S. Member • MARY LUCILE BUSBY “Cile” “Like a blossom, passing fair Playing in the evening air.” Member of Glee Club • EDITH CAMPBELL “Etha” “A form more fair, a face more sweet Ne’er hath it been my lot to meet.”

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GERTRUDE MYLDRED BECK “Jack” “Like the sweetheart of the sun, Who many a glowing kiss had won.” • JOHN CULVER BODDEN “A man’s a man for a’ that” WILLIAM BYRON BOONE “Boozie” “Under the greenwood tree Who loves to be with me ” Class Football '26-’27' Eta Bita Pie ’27 Boys’ Glee Club ’27 Four Arts Club ’27 • RUBY MAE BELL “Dumbcll” ‘In truth together ye do seem Like something fashioned in a dream.” Lunch Counter ’27 Fine Arts Club • MARY ELIZABETH BEUK ‘Little Joe” “And vital feelings of delight Shall rear her form to stately height.” Business Club ’27-’28 JOSEPH GLADSTONE BOWEN, JR. “Choppy” “Quips and cranks and wanton wiles, Nods and becks and wreathed smiles.” • LEONARD C. BROWN “Brom” “All this world’s noise appears to me A dull, ill-acted comedy.” Dramatic Club ’23-’24 • BESSIE VIRGINIA BLAKE “A glowing light, an image gay, To haunt, to startle, and waylay.” Mobile Hi Times Staff ’26-’27 Local Interest Club National Honor Society for Hi School Journalists Mohian Staff • MYRTLE AGNES BOLTON “Myrt” “So dainty and sweet, this lady fair, And always popular everywhere.” Business Club A. B. L. S. Traffic Monitor Local Interest Club • LUELLA POWELL BOWLING “Mutt” “A charm attends her everywhere, Care smiles to see her free from care.” i

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IDA BROOKS CANNING “Brook.ie” “Her modest and her graceful air Show her wise and good and fair.” Girl Reserve Member JAMES DENNISTON BUSH “J. D.” ‘His hand and heart are the most brave That lavish Nature ever gave.” Honor Committee Football ’26-’27 President of Lunch Counter Section Chairman Student Council Stage Craft Committee • MENTOR W. CATLIN “Spud.” “Absence of occupation is not rest, A mind quite vacant is a mind dis- tress’d.” • MILDRED MARIE CLAUSEN “Milly” You are so fair, we must adore thee Smile and the world is weak before thee.” ELSIE INEZ COLMER Her eyes are deeoer than the depths Of waters stilled at even.” • ALAN DENBY CHAMBERLIN “He is oft the wisest man Who is not wise at all.” • DAN FRANKLIN CHURCH “Jazz Bur” “To mourn a mischief that is gone Is the way to draw new mischief on.” Band ’24-’25-’27 Orchestra ’25-’26-’27 • RUBY LOUISE CRABTREE “Bobbie” “Her heart is true, her heart is kind. And to her charm3, who could be blind?” Contemporary Poetry Club • LUCILLE CALVERT CROSBY “Her voice has tones so soft, so dear The listener holds his heart to hear.” Mobile Hi Times Staff • MABEL CRENSHAW “Dick” “And ne’er did Grecian chisel trace A finer form, a lovelier face.” Traffic Monitor ’25-’26 Office Assistant ’26-’27, ’27-’28