Shaw University - Bear Yearbook (Raleigh, NC)

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CLASS PROPHECY It is the last day of our century. I walk slowly up the street, stopping now and then to rest my aging body upon my silver-knobbed cane. The weak winter sun sinks slowly and a single ray shines through the window as I enter my drawing room. It reflects on a picture on the wall — it is the Senior Class of ' 45. This picture brings back many memories of my visits to my class- mates, some good memories, some mediocre. Oh. the beauty of reminiscing; I can plainly see Harvcleigh Rivera still hunting up family background before she speaks to the suitor. Dorothy Carclock, Eliza Lane, and Donclla Wilson have all continued in the same field, basketball. They are now coaching the championship team of the world. Wait, what have we here? Why. it ' s Bobby Brinkly, general store owner, post offic: operator principal and teacher of Tri-County Elementary School. Can you imagine or did I imagine ' — No, it ' s true — here is Gloria Mitchell and Catherine Davis having tea in a quiet country cottage. They have finally become aware of the fact that they will spend the rest of their lives as spinsters. I sec Sadie Hawkins ' Day is still being observed, but, wait — it isn ' t Daisy Mae chasing Li ' l Abner — why. no: it ' s our classmate, Annie P. Moore, chasing W. D. Burton. The outcome? Why. she caught him, of course. The world of entertainment has greatly improved with a new type of contest. We see one of our classmates. Erma Lee Sands, come out victorious over another, Martha Harley, in a talking contest. Another of our classmates has realized her greatest ambition — to be in the lights on Broadway. Bobby McGuffin is playing tonight for the 100th performance, after which she will go home to her loving husband. The Lloyd A. Burrus. As we shift our scene to a spot whose name most all of you have heard but whose reputation and upkeep has been forgotten since the end of the war, we see none other than Mary Neely entertaining the meager audience of three at the Stage Door Canteen. China Ann McCabe. Janie Adams. Irene Miller, and Augustus Cooper are still spreading ignorance. Frances Logan. Nannie Martin and Vera Gogers are still trying to hold on to their A.B. Degrees. They just can ' t realize that they aren ' t what they used to be. Mildred Oakley is thoroughly disgusted with teaching but she still spends her time in the classroom beautifying her hands. Maggie Southcrland is still losing things. She even loses friends easily now. I have recently been informed that Dot Moye. Edith McClain and Marie Gray are running a beer joint in Harlem but business is very slow. They have one regular customer, Marie Woods, who often tells of her success in growing her hair. She can often be heard saying. I heard you, I use Queens. Fate has been kind to Grace Lane, she is happily married, to the envy of the neighborhood. Joy Johnson is growing fat off the delicious dinners Mrs. Omega Johnson prepares. Edith Hamlin and Minnie Reddick have a two-family kindergarten with Edith as superin- tendent and Minnie as house mother. Life isn ' t any too pleasant for Gladys Saunders now. She can no longer toss her head or wear high heels. She only has one old friend left to gossip with. Have you noticed the change in the meaning and pronunciation of words now-a-day? Why it is because we are using the new Cherry Dictionary edited by Sarah Cherry to replace the old one by Webster. The last time I was in Haiti I was shocked to meet Clementine High. She decided she would have more opportunity for social work there. What is this that I hear? Oh. it ' s Elvin Smith still popping chewing gum; she ' ll probabb bury it sometimes in the near future. Look what the future did for Fletcher Mae Gilliam and Bernadine Grady. Of course they are tops with the men (however, no one knows it but them). Fletcher Mae is still crying and Bernadine still pretending, nothing matters with her. Peggy Cogdcll and Elsie Howell are rooming together now. Peggy is a widow with ten children and Elsie is still planning her wedding with Clyde Watkins. In the same neighborhood. I see Louise Holmes married to an old man for whose death she is anxiously awaiting so that she will be heir to his fortune. I see Annis Cannady. Olivia Cheek, and Elizabeth Allen, sitting around the fire knitting and wondering why they are still old maids. In the department of health I see Thcrcssa Wilkins and Daisy Morris, both Phi Beta Kappa, and both tn love with the same man. It is a big night at Carnegie Hall. Miss Virginia Alexander. Miss Doris Larkin and Mr. Leslie Hudson are presented in Recital. At least there is a speck of success in our class. The war is over and Leronia Beasley is trying to explain to her many soldier friends why she must marry the one who wrote her most. After fifteen years, Marie J. Childs is still trying to buy that house with the lovely office for her husband, who is a private physician. We now switch to Florida where Louise Little is Dean of the School of Religion and Peter Brown is still a student, they are both at St. Augustine ' s College. What, am I seeing right? A rummage sale — white shoes for men — have been worn for fifteen years and still wearable. And what do you know, they are being bought all o ' er again by C. Joseph Barfield. Yes, they are the same ones he wore while at Shaw. My travels have been many and my years long. It ' s funny how a picture recalls so many things to one ' s mind. It has been a long time since I ' ve seen them but I ' ll always remember them as I saw them last. Elvin Smith Mary e. Neely Maggie Southe -iand [26]

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Sf THE STAFF Editor-in-Chief WILLIE POAG HALL Associate Editor CHANCY EDWARDS Assistant Editor. MADGE CLARK Feature Editor DOROTHEA DANIELS Library Editor..... BLONDELL Jones Humor Editor DOROTHY POWELL Sport Editors J George Smith | Martha A. Cofield Kusimss M .mag?r Henry Clay Turner Adv rtitiria Manayer Joshua Debnum REPORTERS Marguerite Saundhrs Harveleigh Monte Rivera PROOF READERS . . :•.•■ M. Gillian Helena Dunham Edith Prunty China Ann McCabe TYPISTS ..ma McCleave Anna Boone ADVISER Dean Foster P. Payne 28 ]