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

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CLASS PROPHECY Cont1nued Reneau m1ll1ona1re was travel1ng rn RUSSIG at the t1me to make an 1nspect1on of the Frank Stegbauer O11 Industrles In competmon w1th the Stegbauer O11 Company was the Wallace E Gammon Petroleum Corporahon Iread that h1s busmess managers Helen Overton and Dougley Perry had been responslble for the success of h1s busrness I turned to the second page and read what Bonn1e Rrley the noted colummst had to say about the natlonal s1tuat1on I also not1ced the fashlon column by Mar1or1e L1vely and a fea ture story by Margaret Brldges I saw on the ed1tor1al page that M1lton Rottersman headed the News staff as edltor 1n ch1ef On the sport page Iread the column by Gordon Henson sports edxtor I read that Mar shall Gllsson had slgned to play w1th the CIHCIHHGII Reds for the fourth consecutlve season Walter Slmmons had been made head coach at Tennessee and George Roberts and Iohn Mor r1s were playmg professlonal football w1th th Green Bay Packers Betty Iohnson and La verne Lorenzen had announced thelr 1ntent1ons of playmg profess1onal tenn1s and Carolme Dlttman s Dr1bble Droolers world s glrl basketball champs were go1ng to make a tour of the Unlted States next fall On the soclety page there was a b1g p1cture of Ethel L1ghtbody and Dorothy Irby They had Just returned from a world tour and were gomg to wr1te the story of thexr voyage exclu srvely for the Memphls News There was also another b1g prcture on the page It showed a group of Memphls soc1al1tes the Ldd1eS Ellte Club Thls club was gotng to sponsor a play ent1tled Why D1d I Do lt wrltten by Hortense Trammel and featurlng the leadmg dramatlc stage star Beverly Levm and fmanced by the club members nch husbands The male lead was to be played by the comedy star Iohn Thomas In th1s plcture of the Ehte Club I saw several fam1l1ar faces but the names were d1fferent w1th Mrs ln the front of them There were V1rg1n1a Harper Rosemary Horne Nellte West Lorene Cross and Agnes Crawford Beneath the p1cture I read Staff Photo by Russel Dunkln The advlce to the lovelorn was by Elleen Copeland On the comlc page was the cartoon Pete and HIS Pals by Colv1n Sm1th I glanced hurr1edly at the ads throughout the News The Mxd South Fur Shoppe owned and operated by Pauhne Hood and Kathryn Totty announced 1ts btggest sale the Charles Kourvelas Transcr1pt1on Company had Just made seventeen dlfferent recordlngs of the oper atxc volce of Nancy Fowler Iames Reese and h1s Devll Drlvers were COIIIIHQ to town the fol lowlng week Orlon Blantons Drug Store Ed Chnes Haberdashery the Martha MCGIDHIS Dramat1c School the Lloyd Church Hardware Company the Marye Stokes Avonne LaCook Photography Stud1o the Ela1ne Perry Secretarlal School and the Iohn W1ll1ngham Depart ment Store also had ads 1n the News I put the paper down and saw that I was 1n the mlddle of town Memphls had certamly changed We stopped for a red l1ght and as I looked through the w1ndow I saw the great Hotel Mayfleld By the slgns ln front I saw that Clyde had been lucky 1n obtalnlng Maur1ce Ford s orchestra for a week s stand Bobb1e Yeager and Mary Frances Sm1th were h1s g1rl vo cal1sts In the floor show was the Broadway dance team of Charles Lewls and Grace Cum mlngs and the w1se cracklng comedy team of Helen Karrls and Dorothy Sm1th The bus started aga1n and as we passed the new Bnou Theater I saw that a double fea ture was playmg Comrade Z w1th the glamour g1rl Mary Carlson and A Letter drrected by Bethel Irwln and starrlng the dramatlc box OIIICS attractlon Marlan Taylor The theater also advert1sed a news scoop fllmed by that ace news reel photographer Edgar Donald The B11ou I not1ced was owned by Vernon Wh1te I got off at the next stop and on the corner I saw a huge forty story bu1ld1ng It was an OIIICG bu1ld1ng owned by Memphxs most promment executwe Z E Rutherford I went 1n and read on the placard on the wall that the g1ant sky scraper was bullt by the LOUIS Haglund Constructron Company I looked on the d1rectory of the Rutherford Burldmg and saw that Ilmmy Ransome had a law off1ce on the fourth floor and Harry Carter had the Fnendly Loan OIIICG on the same floor Lorralne P1nnell and Dorothea Hancock owned a cred1t rat 1ng busmess on the tenth floor and V1rg1n1a Haney and lean Brooks ran a beauty parlor on the second The off1ce of the Board of Educat1on was also IH the Rutherford Bu1ld1ng the d1rectory showed that M1ldred Elmore was Asslstant Comm1ss1oner of the Publ1c Schools and 39 1 1 . . , , . 1 1 11 11 1 - - 1 1 - ' Q - C . . 1 . 1 - - ' 1 1 - tt - 11 - - . 1 . . . 1 . . . . .. . 1, . . . . 1 . . , . - V ' 1 - 1 1 1 1 1 - . -1 - 11 1 1 - ,, . 11 . . U - 11 - - 1 1 - . tt 11 , . ' , 1 1 , - - . . , . 1 . . - 1 1 1 1 ' 1 1 ' - u 11 1 1 1 1 . . . . I - - U 11 - - 1- 11 - 1 1 1 - I ' 1 - 1 , . , . . . . . ,, . - 11 . . .

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CLASS PRCPI-IECY Thts 1S statlon WMPS We take you now to the South S1de Hxgh Aud1tor1um where Iames l-Ixght br1Il1ant young seventeen year old semor w1ll soon demonstrate h1s Hrghtrme Ma ch1ne which he clatms w1ll project one twelve years 1nto the future Referrlng to h1s cr1t1cs who have declared that hts 1dea ts utterly fantasttc the youthful 1nventor recently remarked Umph kapf let them scoff I-Ie who laughs last heh heh IS slow to get the Ioke you know The funny papers have a machme that takes one back 1nto the past but look forwardl I always sayl Well 1n a few m1nutes we shall know the truth about th1s mach1ne Walt here s Mr H I Farrtsh sc1ence teacher and Mr I W Rlchardson hlstory teacher dlscusslng the event Let s l1sten He s a m1ghty f1ne boy yes strl Yes but he needs to be pushed once IH a whlle to keep h1m off the rocks But now the t1me has come A profound hush re1gns as Ehzabeth Thur mond IS seated on the w1re bench The sw1tch IS thrownl When I f1rst stepped 1nto the machlne I had a forebodlng that the 1nvent1on was doomed to fallure My heart seemed to sklp a beat when I saw Iames pull the swltch I began to feel dxzzy my bram UI reeled The audttorlum Spun crazlly around Suddenly I found myself unharmed standtng 1n front of a magnlflcent f1ve story bu1ld1ng I saw to my surprtse that 1t was the remodeled South S1de Hlgh School and as I gazed curlously I saw Elolse Donaldson Charles Hassenfratz and Iean McGonag1ll emerge from the entrance I solemnly asked them rf they were go1ng to school and as though laughmg at some notous Ioke Iean told me that they had been teachxng for SIX years and that Mr Iohn Baker was now prlnclpal at South S1de chtef houn as GSSISIGDIS Mr Gnuse they told me was presldent of the UHIVGTSIIY of M1ssour1 MISS Tharp was execuhve of the Natlonal Howard Krauss Soclety MISS I..1ttle was dean of Vassar Col saw a huge three decker super bus wh1zz1ng down the street and so mutterlng a hur r1ed good bye lraced across the street and caught the bus out of cur1os1ty I asked the dr1ver who of all people was Ioe Columbus where he was go1ng l-Ie Sdld that the bus was gomg through town ZUF Street I pard my fare She told me that she Boatman and that on hfs and that the bus lrne ended at V1olet Grlfflths Plaza Courts on and sat down beslde none other than M1ldred Beeman was the prxvate secretary of the mayor of Memphls Raymond secretarxal staff were Dorothy Dlllard Betty W1lbourne and Edlth Iohnson Rlchard Peters was Pol1ce Commlssloner and Allen Scrogglns was probate Iudge I asked Mlldred 1f she had heard anythlng about our classmates of 41 She looked at me strangely Say have you been out of the country or someth1ng'P Dont tell me you havent heard that Sam Berzansky managed by our old fr1end Louts Wells won the l1ght werght boxmg champ1onsh1p that Gene Penny and Raymond McCrory are mak1ng a good w1ll tour m the Spamsh Amerrcan countr1es to promote Blake Boyer s b1g Pan Amer1can Un1on Program? D1dnt you know that the Ladles Home Magaz1ne edlted by Ruth Bryant won the Roberlme Allen Magaz1ne Apprecratlon Award for 1952 and that M1lton Addxngtons latest best seller Green Memory won the Puhtzer Pnze? I confessed I hadnt heard about the success of our classmates Wh1le she was telhng me about the new Amerlcan I'I1story book wrltten by V1v1an Ieter and Betty Hamllton and Our Soclal Problems by Iack I-Iol1f1eld she d1scovered that she had passed her stop Before she left she told me to be sure and drop 1n at the radlo statlon WOW owned by Thedford Wrlson As we sped along I nottced that the lvfemphls streets were numbered now At 6R Street the man 1n front of me got off and I p1cked up a copy of the Memph1s News that he had left on the seat I brlefly glanced at the European news Carl Webb and W C McClelland ambassadors to England had been trylng to strengthen d1plomat1c relatlons and to enforce the foretgn pollcy of the Unlted States set up by Ralph Dubrovner Senator from Tennessee Thrs news scoop was wrrtten by the forexgn correspondent R1chard McDan1el I saw the names of Ralph I-layes and Thomas Lov1nggood 1n the by hnes of the other fore1gn news I read about the Ph1ll1ps and Ph1ll1ps Travel Agency of Parts the largest 1n the world go1ng bankrupt But I knew that Melba and Ilene would soon be on thelr feet agatn C I 38 legeg and Coach Ewing was head coach at Alabama with Iames Blackwell and Bedford Cal- I - - . . . -

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CLASS PROPHECY Contlnued Ruth Clark was head of all the hbrarxes The Ace Advertrsrng Company owned by Roy Harber was on the th1rty nxnth floor I notrced on the bullettn board that the Young Buslness Women s Club of whtch Ehza beth Word was pres1dent was meet1ng 1n Room 115 on the IIFSI floor I walked down the hall and stopped 1ns1de to watch the sesslon The Club was composed of the successful bust ness women of Memphts I saw Annxe Cralg Whtte Farrls Wtggms Kathleen Slms Bermce Vaughn and Dorothy Sxmmons dlscussmg buslness problems I left the meetlng shortly and saw Bessle Wtlson stand1ng by the elevator She told me that she was a stewardess for the Columbra Rocket Margaret Goodw1n Peggy Marmus and Mo dell Harnllton were also stewardesses The owner of the Rocket l1nes Iohn WllklDSOD was mak1ng an European tour w1th h1s a1r show Brlly Hudson and Marguer1te McDermott were h1s ace ptlots BGSSIS told me that Iohn Craft was Chlef Surgeon at the BGQIISI Hospltal Emtly Robertson was superxntendent of nurses and on her staff were Mar1e Brown Emola Manus Gladys Harper and MGVIS Stewart Sldney VICC was IUSIICS of the Peace ln Hernando M1s s1ss1pp1 and had rnarned several couples fro'n South S1de and hrs best customer was Bev erly Clark the gay dlvorcee who had been marrred SIX tlmes Bess1e had to get on the elevator so she sald good bye Iames Stubblefleld got off Just as she got on He sa1d that he worked at an employment agency owned by Ottrce T1dwell and that he had sent many young h1gh school graduates to Thomas Charpmans new gov ernmental munltrons plant He told me that Shella Rabe Anne Strub and Georg1a Mae Smlth had good governmental secretar1al yobs now Iames was 1n a btg hurry so he left to go to Carol Keller s Dress Shop to get a dress for h1s wlfe s ann1versary He Sdld that Dorothy Lumm New York model had consented to model the dresses desrgned by V1rg1n1a Bledsoe the Souths foremost dress des1gner I left the Rutherford Bu1ld1ng and rernemberlng what Mlldred had told me about v1s1t1ng WOW I asked a pollceman to d1rect me to the SIGIIOH The cop was Ieff Seamansl Wlth htm was Bob Shelton 1n a fxremans unxform They sa1d that they were go1ng to the Pohcemens and Flremen s Ball and had to plck up thelr dates Ehzabeth Floyd and Frances Fogerty who were lust gettrng off from work at the Supreme Law Ofhce Inc Before they left they ad vxsed me to go to the Ball to hear I W Cooper perform on the v1ol1n and to see Ben Tur bevrlles Chorus Boys the novelty show featurlngl C Hawks Iames Leathers Ollver Con ner and Eugene Irwxn I passed the Bell Telephone on the way to WOW and behold out came Fred Creasy followed by h1s laboratory asslstants Ruth Knrght Iewel Klng and Dorxs Mart1n Fred had become chlef research sc1ent1st after h1s 1nvent1on of the Creasy Crystal Crowbar In a brtef conversatlon Fred told me that Iohn W1ll1ngham was General Manager of the company and D1mple McK1nney was Superlntendent of the telephone operators I contlnued up the street and at the corner I suddenly stopped and elaculated Pardon me but you look lust hke Marg1el And thats who 1t was Margle Smxth star of the radzo program Margxe and Madgle I notrced that she was accompan1ed by Charlene Farrand who operated a day nursery l f1nally reached stat1on WOW lt was on lA Street next to the 51 Club famous nlght spot operated by Fr1tz Wergandt and Iack Farrls On the blllboard was advertlsed the danc 1ng queen Avxs Garner A plcture of Allen Spurlock do1ng a dance speclalty also decorated the b1llboard Connle Btvens and her all g1rl orchestra were featured Her sxnger was Francls Chambers In the radlo statmon I went and met two charmlng hostesses V1nc1e McM1llan and Mabel Graham who found me a seat next to Shlrley Kemper She told me that she was a movte talent scout and was 1n Mernphls looklng for a glrl to play the femlnlne lead IH the THOVIS adaptatton of Green Memory She sard that she had her eye on Bonnte Thorne person allty queen of the Memphls Cotton Carmval In cldentally under the presldency of lack Young the Carmval ASSOCIGIIOH had made the Cotton Carmval aworld 1mportant event llooked at the large telev1s1on screen and saw the orchestra of Allen Goldsmlth and heard the lovely VOICS of Norma Barner The program ended and Mary Loutse Dunlap an 40 - 1 I . . - - 1 . . I - , . ' 1 1 1 . , - ' 1 1 4 1 1 , . . , . . . , . , - 1 L 1 ' , . 1 ' - ' 1 - 1 - 1 . . , . . 1 1 . - 1 1 . . . . 1 . , . 1 , . . . . , . . . . , . 1 . . . 1 1 - 1 ' . , . . 1 - - 1 1 ' 1 1 1 - 1 - - 11 . . . 11 I . . . . 1 ' 1 tt - - 11 1 - 1 - 1 - 1 1 1 ' - , . 1 1 , . 1 - 11 11 - - . , ' - 1 1 - 1 1 '