Rossville High School - Roines Yearbook (Rossville, GA)

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LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT We, the Senior Class of 1949, being of sound mind and good heart, do herewith will and bequeath our characteristics and traits as follows: 1. To our Alma Mater we extend our sincerest wishes for a long and successful future. 2. To the Faculty we wish to extend our gratitude for the kindness and consideration which they have shown us in our four years here. 3. To the Underclassmen we leave the use of every study hall. Use them wisely. As individuals we do bequeath the following: I, Alma Ruth Johnston, will my ability to flirt with every boy in the Senior Class to Mary Ruth Anderson. We, Fred Farr and Edward O’Neal, leave our manly physiques to Gwynn Adcock and Ernest Crane. I, Ronald Pierce, will my blonde curls to Gloria Ann Meacham. We, Leon Patrick and Pete Brown, will our ability to play football to Joe Wood and Buddy Denton. We, Barbara Young and Gloria Jean Youngblood, leave our cheerleading jobs to Peggy Bettis and Billie Adair. I, Harold Taylor, will my Spanish vocabulary to Susie Patrick. We, Jacque Tribble and Iwo Sage, will our singing voices to Kathryn Holcomb and Valera Miller. We, Bill Russell and J. C. Hickey, will our ability to sleep through history class to Bill Evatt and Buddy Foster. We, Donald Corbin and Roy Catlett, leave our campus romances to Garnet Malone, Jimmy Johnson and Harley Phillips. We, James Brackett and James Bell, leave our chemistry notebooks to Tommy Morris and Earl Wilson. We, Peggy Hicks and Mary Florence Martin, leave our wardrobes to Wynelle Atkins and Willodeen Lee. We, Catherine Scott and Evelyn Allen, leave our habit of eating peanuts during class to Herman Beagles and Rex Evatt. We, Jo Ann Carter and Helen Elrod, will our ability to cup up and never get caught to Deei Wheeler and Marlene Russell. We, Mary Alice Caldwell and Rosetta Byrd, will our sweet dispositions to Sylvia Ellis and Nancy Schmitt. We, Betty Rush and Betty Tyrrell, will our quietness to Joan Crutchfield and Betty Joy Mattox. I, Imogene Childress, will my “old-maidishness’’ to June Burke. We, Gay Nell Young and Ivalee Cartee, leave our large appetites to Martha Osburn and Dorothy Davis. We, Gene Kelley and Dickie Stanford, leave our dislike for girls to Donald McWhorter. We, Tiny Selvidge, Willene Warren, Jean Carson, Bonnie Bridges and Betty Joyce Fox, will our ability to hook a boy or girlfriend for good to Lucy Green, Barbara Howard and Betty June Kelley. We, W. C. McFarland and Mary Anne Woods, will our playing hookey to Barbara Rush, Doris Skipper and Johnny McDonald. We, Benny Meers and Eddie Kelley, will our ready wit to Harold Ohst and Buddy Griffin. We, Doris Philpot and Juanita Robinson, will our rouge, powder and lipstick to Frances Strickland and Melba Jean Weathers. We, Douglas Reeves and Jimmy Waters, will our love for the opposite sex to Fred Sims and J. C. Pickett. We, Glenda Strickland and Jeaneine Wagner, leave our timidity to Charlene Carr and June Johnson. I, Mary Ellen Baker, leave my dignity to Mildred Arp. We, Delores Burk, Norma Cleveland and Meriam Cornelius, leave our fondness for history to George Martin and Elizabeth Pettitt. We, Lindy Hutson and Charles Edwards, will our gentleman-like manners to Johnny Wooten and J. C. Shipp. We, Charles Cole and Allen Harrison, leave our wide manly shoulders to James Dunlap and Jimmy Johnson. I, Donald Gainer, will my last week’s shoe shine to Rudolph Buol and Jack Burke. We, Melvin Madaris and J. C. Hickey, leave our surplus weight to Leonard Cooperand Bobby Eason. We, Audrey Long and Betty Lynch, will our permanent waves to Margaret Gazaway and Elua Mae McGriff. I, Jackie Morgan, will my feminine charm to Robbie Currie. We, Bill Stafford and Vernon Jenkins, will our laziness to Shirley Catlett and Bobby Lawson. 21

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CLASS PROPHECY As I wonder what the Class of 1949 will be doing ten years from now, I take out the old dusty Futurescope, which has been used by several preceeding classes, and find: Mary Ellen Baker, Mary Alice Caldwell, Ivalee Cartee, Norma Cleveland and Meriam Cornelius have graduated from college and are now teachers at Rossville High. Roy Catlett, Donald Corbin and Harold Taylor are revising the encyclopedia. Later they plan to translate it into Spanish. Evelyn Allen, Delores Burk and Audrey Long are now operating a Lovelor Club. To prove that it is a big success, they have taken the fir st three available males. America’s top playboys are Douglas Reeves and W. C. McFarland. Jackie Morgan has finally caught Eddie Kelley. They and Betty Joyce Fox and Tiny Selvidge are going to have a double ceremony. Jim Brackett, Charles Cole, Charles Edwards, Melvin Madaris and James Ellis are the five Marvel Acrobats in J. C. Hickey’s Circus and Fair Combination. Donald Gainer and Willene Warren now have a happy home with two children. Rosetta Byrd, Peggy Hicks and Jean Carson are now models for the Bill Lange Model Agency. I see that Pete Brown, Bill Stafford, Iwo Sage and Jacque Tribble got farther than Rome. They are now on Broadway in a Burlesque show as the Old Fashioned Barber Shop Quartet. Imogene Childress is now in Hollywood, ready to replace Ava Gardner. Allen Harrison and Lindy Hutson have become dance instructors, giving lessons at half-price to Rossville students. After all the trying, Gloria Jean Youngblood, Barbara Young and Alma Ruth Johnston still remain the “old maids” of the Class of ’49. There was at least one artistic soul in the class. Jimmy Wqters is now posting billboards and signs. In lights now are the names of Betty Rush, Glenda Strickland and Gay Nell Young as fan dancers at Vernon Jenkins’ Platinum Bull Ring. The way James Bell rattled off in class we always did know he would replace Walter Winchell as the Number One news commentator, but he didn’t get to New York. The Rossville merchants are sponsoring his daily broadcast over WDXB. Helen Elrod is still going to the Red Cross meetings. She is knitting sweaters for the boys in service. But knowing Helen, she always has her address ready to send along, too. As proprietors of the night spot, “My Ideal,” Dickie Stanford and Fred Farr featured as their main attraction the all-girl string band of Betty Lynch, Doris Philpot, Juanita Robinson, Betty Tyrrell and Mary Anne Woods. Little Jeaneine Wagner really did get up in the clouds when she received a gold loving cup for being the biggest bubble gum blower in the United States. Seems as though three Rossville Bulldogs have given up hopes of becoming All American. Ronald Pierce, Leon Patrick and Bill Russell are managers and water boys, but they still have their dreams. Bonnie Bridges and Benny Meers are honeymooning in the great city of Rossville. Occasionally they make it over to Blowing Springs, pretending it is Niagara Falls. As president and vice p r e s i d e nt of the U Hop ‘Em H o b o Association, Gene Kelley and Edward O’Neal have as their secretaries none other than Catherine Scott and Mary Florence Martin. Jo Ann Carter, former Spanish student at Rossville, is now in Mexico trying to trap an innocent Caballero with her ability to speak Spanish fluently. Good luck Jo Ann. You may need it! 20

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1. Just posing. 2. Why, Betty Joyce!!! 3. The Big 29. 4. Rear view. 5. Big bend. 6. Popular man. 7. Pepsodent smile. 8. Studying history? ? ? ? 9. The motherly type. 10. How did it happen, Jeaneine? 11. Going our way? 12. Dignified senior. 1 3. Joy riding. 14. Lost something? 15. Sweater girl. 16. Future R. H. S. star. , 17. Snow queen. 22