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

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-QQ iff our 36 T???,5Cff4?!?E!? - ,Q , . .- LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT ,' We, the graduates of South Side High School in the year 1938, fegliung the desire to bestow various gifts upon our unfortunate, lykonscious and ungrateful schoolmates, do hereby, with undue ceimony, make this, our last will and testament. Article 1. To Mr. Gnuse we leave our everlasting gratitude respect for his patience and leniency in guiding us through four years of t?J. Article 2. To Mrs. Cooney we leave our love and also the ex- clusive right to the pastime, a favorite of all teachers, of staying with the students in the detention hall. Article 3. To Miss Tharp we leave a secretary, in the form of Virginia Grider to keep straight her hundreds of papers, pam- phlets, and pictures on mosquitoes. Article 4. To Miss Little we leave a fresh supply of students, to devour with relish all the quotations she sees fit to write upon the board. Article 5. To Coach Ewing we leave a sincere Wish that he has the greatest of luck with all his athletes in the coming year. Article 6. To the unworthy Juniors we reluctantly give up our position in the balcony. Article 7. To those delightful little creatures known as the freshmen we leave a rocky but pleasant road to a diploma. Article 8. Lastly, the following students wish to leave to their successors these talents and achievements. Frances Babin leaves th-e presidency of the Howard-Kraus Society to our miniature football player, Hugh Jenkins. Juanita and David leave Stardust to Paul and Marie. Eleanor Sexton leaves her knack of holding her man to Ina Dell Harper. Henry Ellis leaves his ability to eat cheese on rye, in Miss Tharp's English class to Irvin Sachritz. Fred C. leaves his poker face, in English class, to Finley Rus- sell. Eleanor Bailey leaves her dancing ability to her little brother, L. E. Mary Cain leaves the playing of the piano, for the Boys' Glee Club, to Ruby Shefsky. Robert Cogswell leaves his ability to stay on the Honor Roll to Lawrence Knopp. James Cogswell leaves his telephone number to a few fresh- men, sophomores, and junior girls. t3-3170-JJ Boyce LeDuke leaves the good times had in the Biology class to Pauline Massey. Ruth Jolley leaves her title, of South Side's most beautiful girl, to Ruth Jones. Geraldine Presley and Beverley Burton leave their acting abil- ity to Mary Dawn Norton and Alice O'Sheridan. Della Pinstein lraves the task of amusing and entertaining , . N

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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

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f nf 14, 91- 2 The SCRAPPER 37 South Siders, by dancing, to pretty little Martha Muir. Walter Key leaves his drawing achievements to Gartly Symons. A i Jack Walters leaves his weakness of flirting with all the girls to James Young. Wylodine Massey bestows her dimples upon her little sister, Pauline. , Malcolm Evans leaves fond memories of Officers and spun-A sors dances and hay rides to Virginia Spenser. President Bob Porter leaves his office to Lawrence Knopp. He's decided to keep Wylodine. Albert Feeble leaves Bil'y Robinson the honor of being South Side's quietest boy. George Seibert and Bert Humphries leave the singing of solos in the capable hands of Nancy Fowler. A Edward Keating leaves the rank of lst Lieutenant to Harry Warren. Martha Warford hands down her job in the library to anyone who thinks he is equal to the job. Clyde Dixon leaves a vacancy in the football squad to be filled by Thomas Nolen. Herbert Dawson reluctantly says farewell to all the girls and places them in charge of any Junior who wants the job. .Patricia Whitmore leaves her sweet smile and cuteness to Marie Yeager. Margaret Ragsdale leaves her swell personality to Helen Davis. Harold Fanning leaves his puny puns to Emmet Ellis. Maxine Tisdale leaves her ability to sleep in study hall to her brother, Robert. Lenore Teglia leaves her Ten Crown gum in the study hall, seat 1, row 2, to Frances Craddock. Venus Kourvelas leaves the duty of carrying the detention pads to Josephine Binkley, and the running of errands to Curtis Leatherwood. Frances Wooten leaves her negro dialect in The Gay Decep- tion to G. T. Lee. Lastly, your honorable testator leaves South Side. Cthis should please all the studentsj. Boyce LeDuke, Testator. After due deliberation and consideration, we, who witnessed the drawing up of this last will and testament, have signed our names. DONALD DUCK COAL BLACK AND THE SEVEN GIANTS MICKEY MOUSE PEG-LEG PETE