Rome High School - Roman Yearbook (Rome, GA)

Page 30 text:

A SENIOR'S FAREWELL By RUBY JEWEL BAUGH The hustling bustling days oi school. Chewing gum against the rule. Oral compositions and memory gems. Childish giggles and fancy whims. Must we leave these behind? We're seniors now: must we forget That all these memories linger yet? Our noisy busy typing class For each commercial lad and lass. Should we leave these behind? Debates and music concerts too That we've enioyed the whole year through Senior play and Senior dance: There began our school romance. Do we leave these behind? Now Chemistry was a whizz: We liked to hear the acid fizz. Latin and French were both a pain Shall we ever meet them again? Could we leave them behind? Remember when our towers fell? Ah! 'tis too sad to retell, And when the building was a blaze Our tears caused a misty haze. Shall we leave these behind? The clubs to which we belong. Our colors. motto and our song. And our last examination Showed our strong determination. This is what we leave behind. Our initials on the desk, A All our friends that we like best. Loving teachers. that we love too, And our colors gold and blue. We can't leave them behind. Do I see a tear in your eye: Do I hear you heave a sigh? Our school days will soon be gone: Eleven years seemed so long. Do you want to leave them behind? All these memories stored away Come back to us today. Now we say farewell to all: To these stately buildings tall. But in some crevice of our mind We won't leave them behind.

Page 29 text:

HISTORY OF THE SENIOR CLASS OF 1939 In the Autumn of 1935. school opened with about 700 students. approximately 300 of whom were Freshmen. What times we did have trying to find various classes and to leam teachers and schoolmates. Some of the events of this year were the organization of the Freshmen Literary Club of which Elizabeth Hogg was President: Margaret Reagan. Vice President: Era Davis. Secretary: and Kath- erine Iohnson. Treasurer: the Glee Club in which Nessmith Lytle. Evelyn Iones. Polly Branch. and Vivian Ables took part. More freshmen, I presume would have been taken into the Glee Club. had they not been too frightened to utter a note. Retuming to school in 1936 with our spirits high. we glorified sophomores took a more active part in the school activities. We were more fortunate this year in that more members made the Glee Club and Nessmith Lytle made the Sextet. Two distinctions of the sophomore year were the organization of the Sophomore Literary Club with Betty Iones as president. and the selection of Katherine Iohnson as a cheer leader. Thus. ends our Sophomore Year. As iuniors we hopefully began our third year, taking part in most of the clubs and other activi- ties. Katherine Iohnson was elected President of the Spanish Club and Mary Anne Garrard was elected Secretary ofthe Glee Club. Juniors edited one issue of the school paper. The Roman. We were victorious in the Iunior-Senior Debate. the Iunior debaters being Frances Howell and Bobby Battle. But. as seniors. we regret to say. we lost the debate. However. we can truthfully say that our representatives. Amy Ruth Bradfield and Raymond Broach. went down fighting. A big event of this year was the completion and inauguration of the new lighted football field. The High School Band. a new organization that is now one of the best in this section of the coun- try. made its first appearance. About two weeks before school was out. one of our most beloved teachers. Miss Grace Erwin. was taken ill and passed away. She was moumed by all who lmew her. And so. as dignified seniors. we enter into our last year at Rome High School. With Virginia Carson as President of the Senior Class: Walter Ross. Vice President: Marie Iones. Secretary: Dunlap Scott. Treasurer: Mary Anne Garrard. Historian: Polly Branch, Prophet: Ruby Iewel Baugh. Poet: Nessmith Lytle and Bob Martin. Giftorians. One of our classmates. Raymond Breach. was made business manager of the football team. Several of the senior boys played such good football that Rome High won the Seventh District Championship. Both boys and girls took an active part in basketball. The clubs in which many seniors merited their memberships were: French Club with Betty Iones as president: Spanish Club headed by Betty Ann Yates: Glee Club with Violet Moak as pres- ident: Commercial Law Club directed by Alton Pruitt: Tri-Hi-Y Club led by Elizabeth Hogg: Hi-Y presided by Bobby Battle and Scribblers' Club with Era Davis as president. Virginia Carson. Anne King and David Andrews were three new cheer-leaders to ioin Kath- erine Iohnson and Mary Anne Garrard. Some of the maior activities of our last year were football. basketball. Kid Day, Iunior-Senior Debate. Basketball Toumament. Scribblers' Banquet. Roman Staff. Senior Play and Circus. The Roman won its second Certificate of Distinction. awarded by the Henry W. Grady School of Ioumalism at Georgia. A new school for girls is being erected and the old building has been remodeled. As soon as the work on the old building had been completed. the building burned so all the work had to be done over. School was closed for a week. We Seniors have had a grand time here at Rome High School and it is with our heads held high that we step out of our places to make way for the iuniors. -Mun: Amr: Gnxuuutn

Page 31 text:

vf 'i .gygf A i4,k!,.,,X Q cL Ass PROPHECY or 1939 Well. as there isn't anything else to do I could read the Evening News. Wonder if there is any News? Oh. yes. here it is. By the way. what day is this. Iune 1949. Why what's this? C. W. Ables. Foster Perry. and Paul Watson sentenced to hard work for setting fire to Hall's School of Commerce so that they could get out. And they were such good boys when I finished high school in '39 with them. The hero appears to be Cecil Kerce. lnow a policeman! who caught them red- handed. So manly people, that I went to school with. have entered the business world. Raymond Broach has gone to the govemor to ask for an alliance with England. Ben Calloway and Leroy Strain have become designers for the models. Elizabeth Hogg. Emmie Trammell. Oradine Hendricks. and Eleanor Dale. These models work in the shoppe. Chez Parie . owner by Monsieur Iames Stivers. This new school holds many of the graduates of Rome High. Ann King is teaching French. Harry Lovelace is teaching Spanish while the English teacher is Rita McCartha and the chemistry professor happens to be Bobby Murdock. The commercial students study commercial arithmetic under Dorothy Oates while commercial law is taught by Violet Knowles and bookkeeping classes are led by Vivian Horton. Algebra problems seem to be giving Iosephine Rupee's students a little trouble. Who are these two girls maioring chemistry under Professor Murdock? It couldn't be Carolyn Martin and Margie Edgar. History students are calling out presidents to lack Collum. while words are being spelled to Wyatt Fincher. The ianitor is none other than Iohn Carl Pinson. A few graduates have gone into radio business. Ben Payne is announcing the Hi Yo Silver program. Mary Frances Keown is announcing morning exercises for the under-nourished. Speak- ing of the under-nourished I hear that Walter Ross. Helen Hicks. Dorothy Kaye. Bobby Battle and Quillie Rhyne are attending a health resort out west trying to regain their health. Several of my classmates have taken up traveling. Katherine Keel takes daily trips to Lindale. Emily Nixon visits quite often in Athens. while Laurie Milhollin visits in Houston. Texas. Eugenia Bradfield seems to be quite interested in Cedartown. I am so sorry to hear that Betty Iones. Kath- erine Iohnson and Mary Anne Garrard are nmning an old maid's boarding house. They are quite different from the girls that have entered into matrimony. Mary Io Winkle has become the wife of a preacher while Elizabeth Payne has become the better half of a bootlegger and Heloise Gould has taken up the duties of a farmer's wife. I hear Nessmith Lytle is raising a little saxtet . Mar- garet Reagan seems to have trouble in trying to decide between being a farmer's wife and a countess. Grace Dean Callahan has gone in business for herself as proprietor of a rummage sale with Virginia Watts as her best customer. So many people are playing in orchestras now. Iimmy Burkhalter plays first trumpet in Tommy Dorsey's orchestra while Dorothy Broome plays the French horn with Roberta Little taking rides on the clarinet all accompanied on the piano by Dewey Smith. Oh yes. and Veda Mea Sessions is doing her best on the flute. Broadway claims some of my old classmates. too. James Burk owns a fashionable night club in New York with Mary Ethel Lalor as the featured dancer. Mary Ethyl was taught by Mable Camp and Bill Barton. Also on Broadway featured in the Follies of 1939 I find Elmaree Price. Era Davis. Nell Rudd. Dorene Tucker. Betty Ann Yates. Mary Griffin. Marguerite Mann. Martha Braden and Ruby Iohnson. all directed by Alton Pruit. The musical attracted Rachael Wilkerson. Annabel Smith. and Louise Ransom to leam the art of opera singing. Hollywood is fortunate in having three old Romans. Bill Peacock. Vivian Ables. and Madeline Camp. Virginia Carson is going into a new business. Instead of making austins. she is raising them! Of all things! Imagine Sue Harvill and Mary Ezzell ru.nning a filling station. I hear that on every Sunday afternoon lectures are heard over W.R.G.A. on the Woman's Rights' Association given by Frances Storey. Martha Ford. Mary Carroll. Ianie Christian. Virginia