Rome High School - Roman Yearbook (Rome, GA)

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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

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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.

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'wi ' 'l . Q- Ball, Helen Davis, Grace Maxwell, Elizabeth Hamby. and Helon Burton, while free booklets on How to Become Tall and Graceful are written by Mary Dunn. Violet Moak and Edith Knight. I wonder why Marie Iones always listens to the radio so much these days. W.R.G.A. only plays records. Evelyn Iones now has a iob in the library, helping to keep the children quiet. Earl Lumpkin has gone into training to prepare for a fight with Man Mountain Dean. Alice Hutchings has taken upon herself the task of leading the society of W.P.P.P., Wornan's Peace, Purity, and Patriotism League. Her faithful followers are Ruby Iewel Baugh, Martha Ann Burton, and Marguerite Diprima. Mariorie May is now employed in a hamburger factory. So many girls are now working their way through college by selling magazines. These are Kathleen Millicarz, Ruby Holcomb, Ida Cade Husky, and Amy Ruth Bradfield while Virginia Proud- foot earns her salary by selling artificial fingernails. Sara Dooly and Christine Davis are giving track lessons at the new athletic field, which Rome is so proud of. Kathleen McChargue attends limmy Spurlin's orchestra practice regularly to inspire the tenor sax man. Ray Horton has become an experienced dentist with Marie and Sybil Burkhalter as his assist- ants. Three boys have become the leading stars in football at Alabama, Dunlap Scott, David An- drews. and Edward Smith. Iames Rudd has moved West to become a roaming cowboy . Ieff Brandon has become a beautician expert with Elizabeth Bagley as his faithful worker. I heard iust yesterday that Ivie Lee Smith has finished her 9,999th book on How to Read . Constance Cole and Iohn Maloof are writing poems. now, and reading them over W.R.G.A. Delois Carter is selling her famous little liver pills while Ellen Routledge is doing research work in a laboratory with acetic acid, trying to find a cure for Tape worm. These changing years make it hard to realize that so many people are successful and happy in their new work. I only wonder if these people will be employed in the sarne business in 1959. Pot.t.v Brumcl-I