Napsonian School - Napsoniana Yearbook (Atlanta, GA)

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THE EW North America. The name of Barbara Eversole, M.D., has become a household word since her correspondence course, Seven Steps to Success- ful Broken Bone Setting at Home, became a best seller. When Nurse Maribelle Calkins recently became President of the American Nurses Asso- ciation, she broke all precedent by omitting from all Home Nursing courses the demonstra- tion bed bath. The new president of the National Red Cross, June Rosselle, has been presenting her ballet company in several benefit perform- ances. ln charge of the U. S. 0. we find Dorothy Crau and Roberta Maclagan. They have en- larged it since the last war to include help for civilians as well as for those in uniform. The New Flairie Success Course has made new women out of 26,000,000 old ones, and the guiding spirits in the various departments of Beauty, Inc., of which the Success Course is a part are: Mlles. Peggy Kahn and Louise Sharpe, co-presidents in charge of general beauty, Mlle. Beverly Magbee, first vice-president in charge of hair, Mlle. Margie Clark, first vice-president in charge of complexionsg Mlle. Jane Carey, first vice-president in charge of eyes, and Mlle. Joyce Rounds, general manager and coordinator of beauty principles. Those three noted chemists, Minnie Hamilton, Marianne Keith, and Joan Crocker are contin- uing their search for an inexpensive method of mass production of unbreakable test tubes. Edith Lively, archaeologist extraordinary, has just finished a report to the Smithsonian lnsti- tute telling why it was unhealthy for the kings of Egypt to be buried in the pyramids. Miss Lively claims she figured out her theory through trigonometry. The marriage of Miss Alice Lawrence to A. Riche Mann caused much comment in the social circle, as Miss Lawrence had described herself as a permanent 'fbachelor girlf, She is often visited at her town house by those two horticul- turists, Margaret Ann Elebash and Joanne Smith. They recently placed a revolutionary orchid on the market. It is much cheaper than the old style orchid, a fact which these artists of the vegetable attribute to the materials used to make them-turnips, red cabbage, and ice. A new figure has joined the ranks of the Petty Girl and the Varga Girl. She is the Swann Girl, drawn by Artist Juanita Swann, who modestly attributes all her success to her models, Mary Jayne Dritt, Martha Niedlinger, and Ray King. Miss Marilyn McClung's school, in which everyone majors in How Not To Be Late,', is the' rage of the day. Miss McClung claims she was first inspired to direct the course when she was at Naps. Betty Sealy, Shirlie Smith, and Frances Wright are engaged in the novel and prosperous business of making note cards and bibliography cards for the benefit of those writing investiga- tive theses. This columnist has it on good authority that the vacant seat in the supreme court may be filled by none other than Miss Ann Ransom. ln the higher brackets of journalism we find those two noted editors, Ann Joiner and Norma Tomey. They recently introduced a revolution- ary daily which publishes only first hand pic- tures of the news when it is news, without writ- ten articles. And just in case you've wondered how this writer got so well acquainted with so many prominent people, she too was in the class of '44-. WINCHELL WALKER.

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May 23, 1957. If you have looked through the papers in the last few years and especially in this year of 1957, you will find that the alumnae of a certain school, Napsonian High, in Atlanta, Georgia, have been mentioned numerous times. This col- umnist Hnds that she has written about a large number of them herself. We find that the most illustrious group of them all came from one class-that of 194-4. Upon referring back to our articles of the past few years, we found that the tracing of such a class would make interest- ing reading for our public. Any one of our readers can remember when a few years ago our relations with Greece be- came strained after the Greeks sent us a ship- load of olive trees as a goodwill gift, and our secretary of state, who was not a graduate of Napsonian, wrote back thanking them for the beautiful date palms. lt was then that the true diplomatic ability of Ambassador Mary Noras came to the front. She sent an apology to the Greek Embassy and a fifty page report on the characteristics of olive trees to the secretary of state. On the home front, our foremost Home Eco- nomics expert, the former Miss Geraldine Bush, has gone into business manufacturing her own discovery, the roll-less, stick-less, flexible, fault- less rolling pin, which she has patented under the title of the Elmer Pin. She named it after the man who was her inspiration. ln the literary world, we find Miss Joanne Rae, who has once again been acclaimed the greatest biographer of all time for the fifteenth volume of her Life of Abraham Lincoln. She has now recorded his life up to his eighteenth year. Lucile Castleberry's book, Smiles I've AME I Known and Why They Fitted Their Faces, is coming off the press next month and it is rumored to be the most revealing book since Under Cover. The class of '44 is represented on the legiti- mate stage by Miss Ruth Clapp, whose modern- ized version of Milton's Comns has proved to be a record breaker. But not only do we find Nap- sites in the theater: Mlle. Louise Hicks has been hailed as another Kirsten Flagstad for her in- terpretations of the Wagnerian heroines. On the concert stage, We find Claire Kemper, whose rendition of her own tone poem, Variations On the Actions of a Little Brother, on the violin has brought Carnegie Hall to its feet for thirty-six encores. That great exponent of the acrobatic dance, Frances Bennett, is now on tour with her troupe exhibiting the triple dipped front roll hand stand over six people. Two of the foremost debaters of the genera- tion, the Misses Pauline Tate and Maizie Almon, are now filling engagements on the West Coast. Miss Tate debates on the subjects, French Verbs: Pro and Con, and Cats as Mascots: Pro and Con. Miss Tate has no trouble with her voca- tion except that she can find no one who will defend against her the pro of either topic. Miss Almon's chosen field of debate is Frater- nity Pins: Pro and Con. Her only complaint is similar to Miss Tate's except that she can find no one to defend the Neon. ln the world of science, that eminent labora- tory technician, Dorothy lzard, has perfected her discovery of cultured measles cultures, and thereby revolutionized the disease. She was able to complete her investigation through the co- operation of Drs. Mozelle Stone and Emery Catts, the foremost authorities on measles in

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Qs ,j,...-kt X '4 U ' ,aF?FE'r -1-'1 5 ..,,,., , E IUR AP sql! we -tvgmvfa CLASS OF U14 Each day of our senior year presents A hundred or more great events, I guess this year will always be The greatest one of all to me. Our senior class had fame, And best of all an honest name What this class of '44 has done, Can never be stopped by anyone. NADIA Moomz. SENIOR HALL White bricks gleaming in the morning sun-light Windows, like eyes, all shiny and bright, Books and papers strewn from left to right, That's Senior Hall. The radio blaring, through the school resounds Disturbing the peace for miles around, All cats and dogs a home here have found, Thatis Senior Hall. JOANNE RAE. 26