Pensacola High School - Annona Yearbook (Pensacola, FL)

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CLASS PROPHECY The recent collection of modern paintings by Harley Cobb is 011 display in Pensacola after winning high acclaim in New York and Chicago. Nita McGuire, an outstanding member of the nursing profession, is happily married to a famous surgeon, a graduate of Emory University, none other than Jack Fleming. Leland Greene and Demetry Constantine, after several years of research in aeronautical engineering, have per- fected the rocket motor. V A new antique shop has opened in Warrington with Billy Bercaw as manager. Mary Carroll is his secretary. Billy Hual is the star performer on the flying trapeze of the Eddie Johansen Circus, which has had an unusually successful season. As We come into the business district of town, we find that Winifred Mattingly and Peggy Perdue have opened a new secretarial school. On the staff are Margaret Chapman and Emily Chavis. Louise Cardwell is secretary of the school. Victor Kalfus owns the new sports colosseum in Pensacola and is going to promote more women's sports. Dorothy Edwards and her husband, who are famous educators, are going on a world cruise to study world condi- tions. Going with them are nurses Ilene Dees and Louise Woodham, stenographer Florine Fountain, an English teacher, Grace Fields, and Bo Scaife, who will join her husband in England. Martin Williams, judge of the Supreme Court of Florida, and Attorney-General Robert Stout are on a hunt- ing and fishing trip to Canada. Jane Noonan recently resigned from the position of Dean of Women at Randolph-Macon to marry a millionaire from Boston. LaMar Snow, the young composer and concert artist, is a soloist with the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra. Elbert Smith appears on Broadway nine months of the year in Shakespearian plays but spends the summer months in Pensacola. Alfred Pipkin is doing an excellent job as head football coach at Notre Dame- Carl Crosby also is doing very well as his assistant. Albert Bottoms, professor of physiology at West Point, has been awarded the Nobel prize for his outstand- ing work in the field of science. Among the engineers who have just completed the Gulf Canal through Jacksonville are Spurgeon Agerton and Krumwise Dupuy. In the new peacetime naval operations, Clarence Chavers, J. T. Cary, and Arthur Brown are stationed at the Naval Air Station. Marion Buell is now running a well-known photography shop. She is specializing in color photography and moving pictures. Mild1'ed Gilmore is special correspondent in Australia for the New York Times. Her daily column is read with interest by her many friends. Hobart Wlhitney, the New York stock broker, spends most of his time cruising around on Lake Michigan on his yacht. Virginia Copeland and Eleanor Nell have just completed a new book entitled The Ups and Downs of Office TVork. They used as their specific examples Vonceil Hammac and Jewel Pitts, both of whom have done office Work since their graduation from high school. Betty Moores is now working for a noted publishing house in New York City. In the same office are Helen Walker, Fairy Bell Weeks, Catherine Carriger and Eulalie Aynes. Lena Harrison is now at the head of all the D. C. T. Clubs in Florida. She played an important role in the state meet which was held in her home town this year. Tommy Loggins and his wife, the former Alice Yeargin are now living in their lovely home on Paradise Point. Tommy is in business with his father and Alice stays busy keeping house. E Julius Hansen, after making a brilliant record at college, is now one of the nation's leading criminal lawyers. His present office is in Cleveland. ' ' In Quantico, Virginia, we find Virginia Robinson and Elaine Manning who 'married first lieutenants in the Ma- rine Corps and have recently returned from foreign stationf U E

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1. V-rv vw i ia. ' Y CLASS PROPHECY Ten years have passed, and the census taker for 1952, Bill Eggart, is making the rounds. He can find out more than a newspaper reporter at Ye Old Woman's Sewing Bee, so let's followihim and see what the Class of '42 is doing for the world and for itself. We will not ask him all about their personal affairs, but we will ask him about the occupations. ' Jack Fell is a superintendent in an airplane factory and is happily married. We find Billie Roberts and Kathryn Hicks personal secretaries to Toby Ward, president of the A. Henry White Coal Co. Carlton Sexton, living in one of those cute bachelor apartments, has just returned home from a Pan-American conference where his fluent orations in Spanish have been a deciding element in American relationships. Tommy Morres and Madonna Untreiner, duo-pianists, presented a concert in New York not long ago. Among the celebrities present were Marich Mace, the world famous critic and Bill Meade, the most successful comedian. Emma Laura Stewart and Hortense White have just opened their Modern Clothing Store for Women. One of their outstanding models is Mollie Perry. Two or our well-known lawyers, Horace Lane and Robert Overman, are trying to settle the weighty problems of this post-war period. Lt. Wallace Adams, U. S. N., while on a few day leave is visiting his family in Pensacola. Lt. Adams is stationed at San Diego. Among the nurses who have graduated from the Pensacola Hospital are Mathilda Vincent, Frances Murphy, Betty Davidson and Bernice E. Jernigan. Roy Froom is the business manager of the South's leading chain of grocery stores. He lives with his wife and twins in Miami, Florida. Secretary in his office is Alberta Horne. After making an excellent record at Peabody Conservato1'y, lVillie Eva Godwin has returned to Pensacola to teach music. ' Rawle Ray, the professional golfer and his wife, the former Louise Howarth, are now living in their lovely home on the bayou. Taking an active part in all the activities of the Navy Wix'es' Club are Lois Jones, Stella Krom .and Julia A 1 Clark. lizabeth Holmes and Shorty Sherman are prominent citizens of Pensacola, but they are still trying to grow an inch. Among the graduates of the class of '42 who are on the P. H. S. faculty are 'Helen Gaines, teaching Latin, Clementine Sherman and Catherine McQuigg, teaching English, and Florine Griffith, offering special training courses in Red Cross First Aid. Albert Williams has just discovered a. new energy producing vitamin pill called K2. This is the result of ten years of research. Sidney Anderson and his assistant, Pat Ryan, are running the aeronautical engineering department at Georgia. Tech. Working in their laboratories is Bernice M. Jernigan. Mildred Maddox is still leading a happy married life which she began her senior year in high school, NV.ilhelmina Rhodes and La Merle Sorrells have joined her in this career. ' 1 Martha Sutton, Ernestine Dobson, and Kearny Hacker, all famous poets and authors, have decided to combine their poetic compositions in a volume called Poems of the Past. Clinton McNair and Stamati Kithriotis are GQmen and have solved many of the so-called perfect crimes. Virginia Read is married to one of those famous lieutenants who shot down so many Jap planes at Pearl Harbor. Dixon Nichols, who is an instructor in airplane mechanics, has two new pupils enrolled in his class. They are none other than David Mullins and Jack Little. ' Charles Futrell and Mitch Touart are owners of the ultra-modern Garage for Flivvers, which are coming into use again after a long absence. Their chief mechanics are Billy Corner and John Davidson. Jim Harrell, famous movie actor, recently starred in a movie taken from Lola Covington's book, African Junglesf' At a reception given after the premiere, Floyd Ross and Frank Tidwell were present. They have just returned from an expedition into the wilds of Africa. David Henriques, noted eye specialist who recently restored sight to a blind person through a delicate opera.- tion, has come to Pensacola to visit his parents. He is a graduate of Tulane University.

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CLASS PROPHECY Margaret Lewis and Audrey Fischler are now heads of the interior decoration departments in leading stores of Chicago and New York respectively. Charles Kimberl is now one of Pensacola's leading architects. He worked on the new twenty-story office build- ing which was completed a few months ago. Charles Cain is in his fifth year of professional baseball. He is the New York Giants' leading pitcher this year. Lucia .Parker, ranking No. 1 in women's amateur tennis, is scheduled to play matches in Bermuda next spring. Harry Davis, continuing his record set in his younger days, is now one of the leading auto racers appearing in In- dianapolis. Running him a close race is Kenneth Morris. Air hostesses on the International Airlines are Frances Carr and Margrete Clifford. Frances makes regular trips from New York to San Francisco while Margrete is hostess on the clipper to Honolulu. A. C. lVilson has opened a hunting lodge near Pensacola. There he exhibits many of the animals he bagged on his daring exploits in the South American jungles. Jane Dye, another of the happily newlyweds, has recently been transferred with her army husband to Fort Barrancas from Fort Benning, Ga. Dorothy Bobe, the famous dietician, is supervising the lunchrooms of the schools in Escambia County. It is her iuty to see that the pupils get enough vitamins. Violet Boykin is Pensaco1a's leading seamstress. Her work is especially famous in New York and California where she won many prizes at the fairs. W. O. Garner, head mechanics, at Muldon Motor Co., has just completed successful attempts to make a more powerful yet more economical automobile engine. Sara Sims, proving that women can succeed in the field of medicine, is rapidly becoming famous as a doctor. She is now studying to become a specialist. Kenneth Powell, after touring the country studying the basketball game as played by the leading colleges, has compiled the best points of the game to use i11 his coaching at P. H. S. where his team has been undefeated for two years. V ' ' Bette Howland is married to a captain in the Marine Corps. Her husband is stationed at San Diego, California at the present. Bette De lVoody has opened a Florist Shop, T he White Orchidj' in Pensacola and is doing a wonderful business. She has recently perfected a new rose, the Class of '42. Frances Smith has been awarded the congressional medal for outstanding work in social welfare . YVhile in lVashington to receive the medal, she will stay in the new Hotel lVashington in which Mary Eva Diffin is hostess. Juanita Hartley, expert beautician, has opened a new beauty shop in VVarrington. Dora Lester is her assistant. Verona Mae Gates and Jewel Garrett are now designers for the popular fashion magazine Jlademozsellc.. They are especially well-known for their college costumes. A Among the outstanding doctors of the country we find Leslie Gibson as the head brain specialist of John Hopkins Hospital. His nurse, Miss Margie Johnson, is a graduate of Pensacola Hospital. G. C. Payneahas been very active in the ship-building industry. Q I g I Stella Barrineau, well-known in the newspaper world, is now exchange editor for the Pensacola News-Journal. Ouida Agerton is hostess at the new Old Spanish Trail Hotel. ' Pat Andreasen, internationally known for her varied collection of antique and modern jewelry, has recently come to Pensacola on a visit. Majors Ronald Handrop, James Harvell, and Henry Ho't, the three famed army strategists, have come to Fort Barrancas to observe training here. Top Sergeant Angelo Ruggerio is home on leave, enjoying a vacation from the recent army maneuvers in Louisiana. In his battalion are James Bunch and Milton Carroll. Edwina VVhiddon is currently starring on Broadway in The Life of a Wife. James Kirkland is manager of the Pensacola Filers this season. In 1952, we find Helen Kelly head of the women's division of the Community Chest. The head of the men's di- vision is James Blum. For further information concerning the members of the Class of '42 look in Who's Who.