Phillips High School - Mirror Yearbook (Birmingham, AL)

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Curtains Rise Outside Green Doors The curtain goes up for the first time in the New Year of 1970 on the Inky Gog-gan, Jr. Show sponsored by the Linda Hamrick-Joyce Lewis Mud-Pack Corporation including an actual demonstration by Bertha Taylor. Tonight you will see a parade of Big Wheels who got their start behind the green doors of dear old Phillips High School. First, we shall hear from the Middle-agers , composed of Tyler Glenn, Billy Cross, Phil Boissel, and Jerome Lane, who will sing Too Old To Cut The Mustard. We should like to send our best wishes to Judy Sawyer and Nolan Nakos, who are abroad competing for the Ping-Pong Championship in the Olympics. Girls, hold on to your seats, for that teen-age rage, Ray Davis, is going to sing Too Much , written by the famous composer, Ruth Brown. Sylvia Brown and her Slew Foot Five including Fay Thompson, Carolyn Marie Jones, Mary Ann Burton, Judy Strong, and Corrine Zylman will do their rendition of Rock Around Mother Goose. Ralph Neely will demonstrate the new Neely Tot Rod which seats twelve people, especially designed for the Misses Sherry McCurry, Mary Sue Ray, and Jane Donaldson Girls' School. And now to introduce that sensational singing duet which recently toured Africa: Olivet Summers and Jimmy Nail, who will sing Throw Mama From the Train. Tonight we are honored to have in our audience some celebrities, whom I wish to introduce at this time. Let's have the spotlight on Jimmy Cartledge, newly-elected garbage collector of Inglenook, Alabama. His able assistants, who run the Greasy Spoon on the side, are O. T. Alford, Larry Bryant, and Bruce Nelson. Up in the balcony I see my old friend, Charles Waide, who is running an old folks' home especially for dilapidated football players. Sandra Kincaid seems to be making a big success as head nurse. Her assistant nurses, noted for their cheerful bedside manners, are Carolyn Shealy, Juanita Richards, and Mary Poarch. PAGE 24

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questions to the May Seniors who will surely need them. Ronald Kidd leaves the knack of writing term papsrs to all Chemistry 6 students who will need it for their 5,000 word themes. Bob Meadors leaves his red hair to Gloria McClurkin, who has always wanted some. Richard McClendon and Gene Smith will gladly help coach anyone who wants to leave and just can't seem to make it. Betty Torre wills her unique method of doing shorthand homework to Alice Biddle in hopes that she can figure it out. Edwina Burdette wills her milk pitcher to Irene Haas and Pat Wheeler. Carolyn Berry wills her typewriter to Kay Jones. Angela Lawrence leaves her height to Lester Rivers, who really does not need it, and Dick Nail, who really does need some more. Charles Logsdon, with sorrow in his heart, takes razor in hand and leaves his side-burns to Douglas Bird-Dog Frost. Billy Voigt wants to leave his seat in the bass section of the choir to Jim Schmidt. Gertrude Chappell and Ramona Carpenter leave the girls of Phillips the ability to trap a husband. Jimmy Goggans bequeaths his football and basketball prowess to the athletic department. If anyone needs a slightly-used band instrument guaranteed to get you into football games free, see Dwight Waldrop and Margaret Johnson for details. James Arrowood and Bettie Lou Prewitt leave their quietness to Becky Burns, who isn't quiet at all. Wanda Schoel will gladly give her desk in mechanical drawing to any girl brave enough to sign up for the class. Vivian Parsons leaves the ability to win things to Claudette Faulk, who is doing quite well on her own. Joe Dobbs leaves everything mathematical to the math team for reference use. Carl Elvis Scott leaves his old pal, the guitar , to the band for use at the half-time shows next year. Derran Harris leaves. Period! Bruce Hose leaves his ability to tell jokes and keep people in stitches to Bobby Yarbrough. To all stage crews of the future, Pete Wood leaves his superhuman strength. This is to help them move the piano. Connie Sue Barnett, Penny Lawrence and Barbara Speer leave all the luck that wasn't with them when taking accuracys in Type 4 to all the new Type 4 students. Tasia Grammas is so glad just to leave that she is even going to leave the country. When these seniors come back for a visit to Phillips, they won't be surprised at what they find behind the Green Doors because they left it there. —Olivet Summers PAGE 23

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We are happy to have with us the two academy award winners, Virginia Alexander and Brady Wolfe, who are leaving by jet to go on location for their newest movie, Kat People of the Moon , co-starring Gwen Faulk, Howard Tutwiler, and David Marsh. Now to get on with the show. You will see the wonder of the world as the famous magician Hudonit , Wayne Mauk, will turn his partner, Jo Ann Wilbanks, into stone! Anita Johnson, the little girl who has determined to put Kate Smith in the shade, will sing When the Moon Shines on Central City . Penny Jebeles and Howard Whitley are hare to give you a preview of their new dayt'.me television serial Search for Yesterday , written by Terrell Duchock with organ music supplied by Ronald Travis. To conclude tonight's parade of stars, I present to you the Marsette Quintuplets , who are just back from a two-weeks' vacation. On our most modern space station, they will demonstrate strange dances taught them by Robert Grady Sides and Jerry Swafford, the scientists who hated bop and decided to remain on Mars. Members of the group are Jimmy West, Faye Pate, Mary Jo Salter, Jimmy Cullen, and Barbara Smith. We are sorry that Jalon Payne and Mary Poarch, the comedy team, who always keeps us in stitches, couldn't get baby sitters and were unable to be here tonight. Thanks to Eugene Burford and his fine band for furnishing the music for the show, and especially to our director, Donald Chambliss, who scouted the corners of the world to get all our friends together tonight. Just before signing off, I want to read a telegram from Principal Alan Holmes of Phillips High saying, I now pronounce you 'Big Wheels', the ancestors of the green doors of whom we are very proud. P. S. Your darling descendants, of whom I am taking very good care, are also very proud of you. —Ann Varnon page 25