South Side High School - Scrapper Yearbook (Memphis, TN)

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V rn 34 IWQSCRQQPER surprised when Lucille Taylor was the conservative old preacher. She preached a splend' ffsermonand her choir was lovely. Emily Hall, Gloria Haire, A lfjbois Purser, Ramona Stockton, Beverley, Burton, Otis Vaughn, and Anne Storey sang a beautiful spring song. Vernon Keuhn played an organ solo. After church. Lucille and I ate lunch at a lovely 'little place in the country where Mar- garet Frazier and Grace Allen served southern style chicken. Jua- nita Floyd, Alma Reta Alexander and Eleanor Bailey were having lunch with their husbands. They had married brothers and triplets, at that. After lunch we went walking and who should we run into but David Ashby as an organ grinder and accompanied by a darling little monkey. After I left Lucille, I de- cided to go to the zoo and the very first person I saw was Henry Ellis, selling pop corn. He told me that Harold Fanning I as the superintendent of the zoo. He also infwdfl Q tafffggeibold and Seibert Circus was glving a perfo! :30. I decided to stay for the circusg so I did. Lawrence nd Edwin Boat- wright were the famous clowry of the cir usi' ames Galbreath, Willie Greer, Walter Key, John McAteer and rtis Johnsey were the daring young men on the flying trapeze. By the time I knew the Seibold and Seibert circus was really a success. Nick Kavelaras and his lions were the featured attraction. Could he make 'ein behave! Lester Moak and W. E. Kinney were the elephant train- ers. Wgj' -Iningo, Joseph Haire, V. M. McN-eer and' Charles Pollon did a goo number with their trained seals. After the circus, Arthur and George drove me back to the cottage. A telegram was waiting for me with the news I was to leave immediately for New York. After arriving in New York and finishing the business, I called up my old friend, Callie Horton, who is now the famous model of the Helen Howe Dress Establish- ment to have lunch with me. , After lunch we decided to go to the opera, Faust Marguirite was sung by Rebecca King. Valentine was sung by O-liver Bolton and Faust was sung by Ben Brooks. The production was excel- lent, excepting the singing. Calli-e and I then went to the Herbert Dawson and Son Oriental Tea Garden. Herbert was very good- looking in his Chinese robes. Malcolm Siler was the leader of the Oriental Jam Band which was composed of Alfred Van Huss at the drums, James Woodall at the clarinet, Kenneth Shafer at the uke- lele, Joe Stradler at the piano. What a band! Margaret Seibert serenaded us on her mandolin. A very charming picture of China, after the war. I left Callie, for better or worse and was walking down Fifth Avenue when I noticed written on one of the shop win- dows, Free Hamburgers if you buy a 25c Coco-Cola. I thought to myself what a foolish sign, but since I wanted something free I walked in. There was Kelly Carr really cooking the beef. He was always good at shooting the bull anyway. Kelly told me that Louis Babin was making the free hamburgers also. He said that I had missed seeing the famous golfer, Albert Feeble, who had just left. After I ate, Kelly and I went to see Robert Caylor, Bob Grim, and

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The SCRAPPER 33 The next morning I flew to Reno, Nevada, on some business. As I landed, my plane seemed out of whack so I told the mechanic to fix it up for me. Under the dirt and grease I recognized' the mechanic to be Andrew Bradley. He told me he was working for the United Keating and Knight Airlines. tEd and Ray to u.s.1 About that time Camilla Johnston walked up, all dressed in a cute littl-e stewardess uniform. She told me she had just gotten the job and for me to be sure to go to the airport coffee shop, that Edith McMillian, Beulah Millner, Anita Gunn and Lillian McNeer had gone in business together, remodeled the shop, and were doing a fine business. I went on in, talked to them awhile, and then left for the cottag-e I had reserved. Beulah had told me of Helen Walker operating a chain of neighborhood theatres in Reno and gave me her address. I called her and we planned to meet at the l Katty Hines Bar-B-Q Pit at 4:00 o'clock that afternoon. When We met, Helen suggested that we go to the P. R. M. Radio Station to hear Eleanor Sexton's speech on How to Get One Husband and Keep Him. When we arrived' at the station, there were Geraldine Pres- ley, Margaret Ragsdale and good old Polly Morton in the control rooms. When they saw us, they came out, greeted us and asked us to stay for the next program. As I sat there listening to Effie Lee Stebelton and Juanita Wagner warble out a blues song, I thought to myself that P. R. M. Station was a reproduction of South Side's Senior Class. Lenora Teglia was next on the broadcast' with a de- lightful imitation of birds She Was always so fond of Mother Na- ture anyway. After I left Helen, I decided to call Martha Warford, who is now married and has two precious children. She asked me out to supper, which Was delightful, excepting the food which she told me was cooked by an ex-South Sider, Myrtle Moon. She rang for Myrtle to clear the table but, instead, she sat down to it. and we three started discussing our old classmates. Myrtle told me that Patty Whitmore, Margaret Jordan, Ruth Kuehn, Sara Horne, and Mildred Haire were professors at the University of Nevada. I asked both of them what had happened to Charlotte McLeod. They looked at me rather queerly I thoughtg then Myrtle whispered that she was the famous divorce lawyer at Reno and' had been married five times herself. We decided to call her and get together. We three Went to her apartment. Her brother and some of his friends were there so we decided to make some of the Hi-Spots of Reno. First, we went to Lorraine Long and Kathleen Davis's Oriental Monte Carlo Casino. Louise Frazier was the hata-check girl and did she look cute in her red' and purple costume-what th-ere was to it. Catherine Schwerin and her Schwernettes were playing an engagement there. Featured songstress was Erlyne Tidwell. Della Pinstein did a beautiful tumbling act with Wylocline Marcy on the floor show. After we left there we decided to go to Liles and Licxey Ic-e Cream Parlor and there were old Mary Frances and Martha Bayne really dishing out the ice cream. They could always dish out anyway. The next morning being Sunday, I went to church and was I

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,.,,.,,. .--, .- The SCRAIPPER g Ju at l-35 Fred Cawein in their latest hit, Love Eye-rybody's Girl. A good picture too. The leading lady ae Sheffield. Maxine Tisdale played the part of Gertie Maeisi-YH' er. Both are coming actresses. L ' ' The next morning I left my placerrather early and ran right into Frances Wooten who is now the private secretary of Ted Os- walt. Ted, she told me, is manager of the fish companies of New York. She invited me to go to the office with her and see Ted. As we walked in, there was Fred Belton, all dressed up in stripped pants, tails and he had come to see Ted about managing his coming campaign for major of New York's Amateur Hour. After I left their office, I went to one of the beaches for a swim and there I saw ten pretty boys in Solitude and, as I looked closer, I recognized Ha y Goodell, Craig Manners, Robert Plotner, Albert Johnson, J. B. gathen, Billy Bledsoe, B. B. Cawthon, Bob by Edmond, Richard Fox, and Orville Folkerts. I walked over to them, greeted them, but they were not so happy to ,see me, so I asked them if they had died the night before or just what was the matter. Then Robert told. me they had just lost their jobs as life guards of the beach, all because of a saucy little red head who had married William Gibson, their boss, and had fired them because ,she wanted her husband's life guards to be handsome and they could not stand the test. I thought it was best to let thm brood over their troubles so I left them Alone, I noticed that ' athing beauty contest was about to start so I yelled bac-k at the boys to have a look,, and , well, you've never seen ten boysl snap out of any- thing as quick as they did. They joined me and after we found a place, it had already started. The old class of '38 was well repre- sented. There were Evelyn Chenault in a hankerchief suit, Nina Mae Co 'ngton in white satin suit, Jenell Hogan in a star fish net suit, Evlglyn Goodell in some kind of pink feminine stuff, Almeda Milan in blue shark skin, Annie Bee Wilbourn in a novelty suit composed of newspapers, and last but by no means least! because she was chosen Miss New York, was Helen Hora, in one of the painted-on suits that was discovered in 1938. By the way, Eliza- beth Beeson was the judge of the revue. As you know, New York is pratically run by women now and Elizabeth is one of the leaders of the New York women. After seeing all these South Siders, I just went home and went to bed for a week to recuperate from the shock, before we all met at the reunion. Now don't forget, it is to be held on May 38, 1950 at the Peabody. Goodbye until then, and I do hope you will not have to take over one box of aspirin after reading this letter. Sincerely, ON A SIMMONS 0