Rosenwald High School - Torch Yearbook (Harlan, KY)

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During the early Spring of 1965 I traveled quite extensively because I had always planned to do ao. My first visit was in Washington, while there I visited Bettye Millis the owner of the Mills Dress Shoppe , with Virginia Johnson and Mary Puller as her two models. A few nights later they took me out to the Bahama Night Club , after entering, and taking a seat I noticed under the spot light a very familiar face it was none other than Mary Long Vocalist at the Club and Ernest Silent Turner ' s Orch. On Saturday ni ht they took me to Spokane arriving at the early part of the night we ran across Willie Jackson and Roy Carlock Lawyers for the city of Spokane. Mr. Jackson and Mr. Carlock accompanied us to a hotel to spend the night, wo glanced up at the neon sign that read Tye-West Hotel . IL was one of the most beautiful quiet and accomodating hotels in the city owned and operated by Willie Tye and Richard West. My days were few in Washington so after seeing several of my classmates I had to travel on. After two weeks in Washington I left for Portland, Oregon. On the train I noticed the familiar walk of the conductor, finally he turned around and I saw that he was Ernest Harbin another one of my classmates on the train I met former Bernyce Jackson a Foreign Missionary. She told me that she had been traveling quite extensively without her husband Ernest Biddings who was Captain in the Army Air Force stationed at Hamilton Field, Calif. Mrs. Biddings told me while she- was work ' .ng in Idaho that she saw Mr. and,Mrs. Harold Harris operating a Funeral Home. Mr. Harris a Mortician and his wife former Sarah Copeland as his Lady Assistant. There I also met Floyd Ttirned working as Pres. of the Standard Oil Company. My talk with Mrs. Biddings was quite enlighting. The next day I left for Nevada to visit ray sister Pauline Seay who was the owner of the largest Beauty Shoppe in Nevada, she told me about her previous trip to Florida where she saw Mildred Davis, and Irma Phillips on her first visit to the Beach and their occupation was working as Life Guards. My trip seems much happier there because I arrived just in time to see several basketball games. I also met Francis Goins coaching a swell team, Paul Kennedy the Assistant Coach and Robert Rogers Football Coach. I spent two weeks in Nevada from there I went to California, In California I wasn ' t expecting to meet anyone else that I knew so soon. I caught a cab and went to the U. S. 0. Center, when I entered I sat off to myself, someone came and touched mo on my shoulder. I turned around and it was Lorenza Chambers, we sat and talked awhile about some of our old friends and his enjoyable occupation as an Army Surgeon and Rosa Feagin his head Nurse. We left the center and went to search for Rosa, we found her alone studying upon her French Vocabulary, because she was planning to pa to France to work. ° u Spendinc Just a few days in California I causht a plane to Honolulu where I went expecting to find some kind of nice occupation. On the plane I was Loretta Dobbins working as a Stewardess traveling from place to place. In Honolulu I noticed people staring at someone in a crowd. I went closer to see what everyone was looking at and it was Geraldine Tve and Audrey Tye entertaining the Veterans of World War II. After being in Honolulu for about four weeks without work. I was acting President of the Y. W. C. A. In the absence of the President. My trip ended and was one of most enjoyable trips of my Career. PAULINE SEAY. 14