Murphy High School - Mohian Yearbook (Mobile, AL)

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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

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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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—— Jj MOrii AN 1 11 il •28 I 111 ILA EVELYN DOWDLE “Ike “Odours, when sweet violets sicken, Live within the sense they quicken.” Member of A. B. L. S. • FLETCHER EUGENE DAVIS “While critics’ ears are all acute The wisest man is often mute.” • MANLY GORDON DENNIS “Mule “Who called thee vicious was a lying elf, Thou art not vicious, for thou are vice itself.” Traffic Locker Minstrels Hi Y Band • FRANCES VIRGINIA DRURY “Cookie “Variety’s the very spice of life That gives it all its flavor.” Glee Club Local Interest Club • FRANCES WILLARD DUCLOUX “Bill “She knows each season has its turn, And brings so many things to learn. Traffic and Locker Monitor ’27 Library Assistant ’28 Local Interest Club '28 • WILLIAM POETZ DOUGLAS “A wit’s a feather and a chief’s a rod, An honest man’s the noblest work of God.” Orchestra ’28 Band ’28 • PAUL JONES DULANEY “Sun.et” “Where ignorance is bliss ’Tis folly to be wise.” Lunch Counter Eta Bita Pie • CATHERINE MARIE DUDLEY “Cat “Where children are happy and good, you see, There Catherine Dudley is sure to be. Mobile Hi Times Staff ’27 Fine Arts Club ’28 • MARTHA LOUISE DUMAS “Moppie” “Oh, be quiet, do; She’ll play a trick on you. ADA MARIE DUNCAN “I will let you off, but careful be What you ever say of me.”