Murphy High School - Mohian Yearbook (Mobile, AL)

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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

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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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JlMOiffAN EKE •28 LILLIAN CROWELL Lit” “Tack-tack-tack-one often sees Her fingers dancing o’er the keys.” Section Chairman ’25 Mohian Staff Local Interest Club Mobile Hi Times Staff Girl Representative ’26 • ROBERT CORRY “Unca Walt” “If I can find where he may lurk I’ll surely slay old demon work.” Honor Committee ’27 Class Football ’25 Athletic Committee ’28 Yard Committee ’27-’28 Section Chairman ’25 • JACK COURTNEY “He grasps the skirts of happy chance. And breasts the blows of circumstance.” Section Chairman. Tr-ffic Monitor. Mohian Staff Hi Y Club (ChaHain) 27.’28 Publicity Committee Treasurer Senior Class • ALICE ELEANOR DAHLGREN “Shakey” “Fair as the earliest beam of eastern light As it smiles upon the dreamy brow of night.” Traffic Monitor ’24-’25 Dressing Room Monitor ’25-’26 Girl Alternate Representative ’25-’26 Room Secretary ’27-’28 • MARY ELIZABETH DAVIES “Bill” “And never a broach the folds combined Above a heart more good and kind.” • CLINTON BURLEY CRAWFORD “Motorcycle Pete” “He who ponderous knowledge seeks, Just lend an ear when the oracle speaks.” Junior Representative ’26 HORACE T. CULVER “Full well they laugh with joyful glee, At all his jokes, for many has he.” • MILDRED DAVIS “Milly” “Her smile, her speech, with winning way Drives every trouble far away.” Basketball ’25-’26-’27 Team Captain ’28 • LILLIAN D. DONOVAN “De De” “A foot more light, a step more true Ne’er from the heath-flower dashed the dew.” • EVA IMELDA DOUGHERTY “Eva D.” “Her ready speech flows fair and free In phrase of gentlest courtesy.” Traffic Monitor ’25-’26, 26-27