Savannah State University - Tiger Yearbook (Savannah, GA)

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Page 26 lVc-wma! MILDRED B, Tiny JOHNSON ATHENS, GEORGIA CHORUS, DRAMATICS The grand essentials of happiness are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. LAURA Shorty DENSLER SAVANNAH, GEORGIA BUSINESS CLUB, BASKETBALL When you play, play hardg Wlien you work, don't play at all. MATTIE WARD KINGSTREE, SOUTH CAROLINA Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice MAVIS Hometown MQNTGOMIERY VID.-XLI.-K, GEORGIA If I can't do great things, I can do small things in a great way MINNIE V. Min CLARK MCDONOUGH, GEORGIA I wish, I can, I will: these are the tree trumpet notes to victoryu MAXINE V. Mack MQKINZEY FITZGERALD, GEORGIA BUSINESS CLUB Don't do anything 'til you do itg and when you have done it, stop doing it LORRAINE Sweets ARNOLD SAVANNAH, GEORGIA BUSINESS CLUB TO he polite is to do and say the kindest things in the kindest way HELEN L. Bet LAMBERT VALDOST.MX, GEORGI.K For a man to have an idea in this world, for a man to know what an idea is: this also is to have lived

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print. My attention was caught by one which read: ADDED ATTRACTION - COMING - BETTE WELLS AND HER SEPIA FRCLICKERS. Something in the name interested me.-Wells. Could it be Elizabeth Wells of the class of '397 While thus wondering, who stepped out of the theatre with a long cigar in his mouth but Mcjoseph Horton, He assured me that Bette Wells was none other than our own little modest Elizabeth Wells. He said that he had made a handsome sum of money as her manager, and that he was making final arf rangements for the performance. Along with Miss Wells were Annie Young, Mary Beaton and Susie joseph. All of these girls had decided that teaching wasn't quite as thrilling as they had hoped and that they had decided to follow the carefree life of the stage. He also informed me that Nellie Simmons, fnow Mrs. joshua johnsonj creator of styles,fon Seventh Avenue and 125 Street-designed all costumes for the group: and that Alonzo Ninons was leader of a band at the Cotton Club, making a good substitute for the late Cab Calloway. Rufus Spencer was the soloist for the band. Before I could digest these facts, I found myself in Atlanta, Georgia, running down Auburn Avenue dodging a swiftly moving ambulance. When the ambulance reached me, it came to a sudden stop. Looking into the driver's seat, I recognized Millard McWhorter. He said that there had been a terrible accident in which two cars were com' pletely demolished and one man killed. He had gone to the scene in hopes of getting the body only to find that the man had been taken to the undertakers already. He was rushing back to see if it was his place to which the man had been carried, but he assured me, business meant nothf ing to him when it came to a chance to chat with an old class mate. During the course of our conversation, I learned that Nancy Pruitt was singing nightly at the Sl Theatre. joseph Flagg, George Hall, and john B. 'lack- son had done so well with beautification work at their re' spective schools in small towns in Georgia, that they had formed a partnership, the business of which was cutting and caring for lawns and general home beautification. They had done quite well with this business, having now complete charge of the care and upfkeep of most of Ate lanta homes and buildings. After inviting me around to his home, McWhorter hur- ried on.I walked on down the Avenue and turned, but instead of being in Atlanta, I found myself in Fort Valley at the Fort Valley College of Arts and Sciences talking with Grover Eubanks, now acting president of the instif tution. He said that the president had worked so hard trying to develop Fort Valley that it had given him a nervous breakfdown. Eubanks had changed so much. He had grown a long goatee and was very immaculate from head to foot. While I was talking with football coach, came in to get a contract signed. It was a guarantee for a game between Fort Valley and South Car' olina State College. They took pride in stating that their team had won two games that year. They had been losing all games heretofore. Eubanks, Harvey Walden, Eubanks urged me to stay for a Field Day program which was only a few hours off. All teachers in each community in the county were to be present. I decided to stay, While watching the crowd gather, a car drove up and stopped close by me. A very neatly dressed woman, about middlefaged, got out. She seemed very familiar, but I couldn't place her. As she came nearer, I saw that it was Mrs. A. M. Hall, but her hair was white and she quite a bit stouter. She noticed my looking at her hair and hurried to explain that she had worried so much in trying to make a successful jeanes Supervisor in her county. She said she had come over to the Field Day program in order to get some points for her's next year. VVHS Mrs. Hall and I walked around the campus chatting when we came upon two other familiar people. They proved to be Paul Dixon and Robert Greyer, now Mr. and Mrs, They were teaching in a twofteacher school about six miles from Fort Valley. The bell rang for the assemble and the four of us en' tered the auditorium. There were several people seated on the rostrum- -business men, doctors, and teachers. Among this group were Matthew Burke and Nathaniel Morris. Dixon told us that Mr. Burke was manager of the Pilgrim Health Insurance Company of Augusta and Mr, Morris was teacher of science in a consolidated school in Peach County. While sitting there thinking over all that l had seen, I became very hungry, and strange as it may seem, I found myself in Savannah on Weft Broad Street. I saw Harvey Black standing in the door of a very attractive shop, He told me that he was owner and operator of this outstandf ing cleaning and pressing club and in connection with it was a tailor shop run by El'zabcth Livingston. As Harvey and I were chatting about things that had happened since our graduation in WRU, Elizabeth came out of the store. She said she had watched our group buy suits from others so long that she thought she would try her hand, I learned that she was very successful at making la' dies' tailored suits. Elizabeth said that Mabel Perry vias teaching at West Broad Street School, and Maliel Young was teaching an adult class at the Cuyler Night School, having tired of lit- tle children who asked so many questions she couldnit answer. Ruth Dudley was conducting an experiment on Com mercial Frog Breeding. Quite a bit of money was being made from frogs as people were eating them now instead of chicken. Ralph fPollyj Young was doing well as a teacher of Home Economics at the Savannah Boys' Club, This Club was now quite a school for delinquent boys. Marion Heath had succeeded Mr. B. S. Adams as County Agent of Chatham County. james Luten, having married Minnie Fred Wright, was working in Athens, GeorgiafMinnie Fred's home town. It seemed that I heard a chorus singingdl awoke to find a group of W. P. A. women singing as they raked the leaves near me. Looking at my watch, I saw that it was five minutes past time for Professor Gordon s class. but I simply had to cut in order to record this experience. The End. Page 25

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Numa! MINNIE F. Babe WRIGHT ATHENS, GE4JRl2I.A BUSINESS CLUB 'True bravery is shown by performing without witnesses xxhnt one might be capable of doing before all the world SARAH Sal GARDNER SHELLMAN, Cnoauu CHoRus What do we live for if not to make the world less difhcult for each other? MATTIE E. 'AMt1t HARVEY CoLuMBL'S, CEonizi.a BUSINESS CLUB: Y. W. C. A. Not what you Clo, but how you do it, is the capacity PENOLA Ola HOPKINS BRiNSoN, GEoRu1.a This world's no blot for us, nor blzinkg it me and means good ALAM Al COLEMAN V.KLDk7ST.K, Gnoiuaia CHoRUS Praise loudly: blame softly EULA F. DAVIS test of your :ins intensity, Page 27