St Marys High School - Purple and Gold Yearbook (St Marys, WV)

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e Purple and Gold 66Cllass Propheeyw In 1946, we made a tour of the U. S. Our starting point was Hollywood. The first people whom we saw we recognized immediately as Mr. and Mrs. John Israel, the latter which was formerly Virginia Dysko. After a few words of greeting they asked us to go with them to the studio where they were to have minor parts in Cecil Kelly's Scandals of ,el-7. After we talked to Cecil for a while he told us that he had a great surprise in store for us and took us to the leading performers. To our surprise prac- tically all the main characters were our former classmates of '36. The stars of the Scandals were Helen Smith and Edison McCullough. Golda Reaser did a very elegant and graceful toe dance. Core Locke was the soloist of the picture and his lady-love was Nellie Margaret Gallagher, the platinum blonde. The sound effects were created by the popular VVayne Williamson. After spending the night at the Knight Hotel, the largest hotel in Hollywood, owned and operated by the Knight Brothers, Beryl and Ellis, we started for Reno, Nevada, in the Skipper, a large cabin plane, one of the Hall Line, owned by Julian Hall. The pilot of the plane was Edith Kester. We had a very charming hostess, May Cooke. We landed on the Montgomery field l2 miles west of Reno. The driver of the Gray Hound Bus was Franklin Kernen. In ten minutes we had arrived in Reno. On getting off the bus we bumped into Virginia Snyder, who told us she was there seeking a divorce from Dean Childers on grounds of non-support. At this particular time she was on her way to see her lawyer, Rolla VVestbrook. On deciding that Chicago would be of more interest to us we chartered a plane that same evening. The main attraction in Chicago was known nationally as the World Series. On buying our tickets for admittance to the Stadium we recognized several ticket sellers as Della Moore, Pauline Cumblidge, and Freda Wilson. VVe occupied seats near the microphone and were surprised to hear a familiar voice, the announcer's, which we recognized to be that of Charles Newellls. His assistant was Lawrence Barnhart. Gn hearing the names of the players we learned that Frank Stout was the dominant short-stop for the Chicago Cubs. A march was being played by Billie Fogle and his noted band, whose outstanding musician was Allen Locke, the solo cornetist. As cheers arose from the spectators we noticed that the main cheer- ing came from one separate cheering squad, which included Ruth Ellen Bills, Kathleen Horner, the Lamp sisters, Lucille and Edith, Ruby Cosper and Madeline Rosenlieb. There was also a circus in town, The Colman Bros., which we attended. From The Fat Lady, Rosemary Powell Qnow weighing 480 lbs.D we learned that Harold Reese was one of the famous clowns. During the main show we recog- nized Glen Pryor as the man of the flying trapeze, and Stanley Dotson as the Ring Master. Feeling rather weak after attending the circus we Went immediately to the City Hospital. There on entering the elevator we ran into Don Dimmick. Of course at the time we didn't know that he was the head doctor of the hospital. He told us to prepare for a surprise and said that Maxine Allen was head Nurse of floor No. 25. He also told us that we would recognize three other nurses in the Hospital to be Corabelle Ingram, Sophia Shawver, and Ena Mae Pritchard. After a short conversation with each nurse we went to the Orphan's Home where the Matron, Rebecca Carpenter, on hearing that we were in town had asked us to come and entertain the children by telling fairy tales. l26l

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- Tl1e Purple and Golcl-l- To Lorna Westbrook: We leave Nellie Gallagherls right to have a new boy friend every week. To Delbert Shingletonz Lawrence Barnhart leaves his love to go to school. To Ruth I Moore: Carrie Butler's special license to go with an under- classman. To Lucille Quillenz Rosemary Powell leaves her tardy certificate. T0 Harold Butler: Cecil Kelly wishes to leave a book on How My Feet Grew to the Size They Are. To Hazel Moore: We leave May Cool-:'s gift of gala CTalk more Hazel, bashful people never get far.j To Evelyn Roby: We will Maxine Allen's win-some ways and gentle disposition. To George Riggs: George Cox leaves his way with the ladies. To the following Bills generation: Ruth Emma Bills and Ruth Ellen Bills leave their ability to make nothing but A's during their four years of High School. To Sara Russell: Kathleen Horner leaves her love for tall, dark, hand- some boys. To Lawrence Meeks: We leave the dancing grace of Roy Woodburn. In this our last will and testament ofthe Senior Class of 1936, we leave all our rights, property and privileges. We hereby appoint Joe Louis and Parkyakarkus, the sole executors of this, our last will. In witness whereof, we set our hand and seal this the twenty-ninth day of May in the year of Our Lord 1936. QSignerz'j Senior Class of 1936. CSignedD Bills and Horner. E251

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if 'E 1 ln ,vu ,ug ,,',.,, P. 74- f-535,507-1..,. F-1,-145945. gg, ,-4.1-Lei, iThe Purple and Gold- By this time we were tired of Chicago and we went by plane to Cincinnati. Hearing there was to be a lecture we went to the Town Hall and there on the stage stood Wfalter Stewart talking on the subject How to be Happy Though Married. The next evening we hurried to the WLW Studio to deliver the speeches which we had been asked to give. We were there more than fifteen minutes early and were surprised to see that the time just before us was to be given to The Chatter-Box of the Air, Margaret Riggs. After our program, the next one was announced as Advice to Cooks which was to be given by Juanita Wfells. We had always heard that Beryl Russell wanted to be an engineer and sure enough we found him to be runnlng an electric train in a department store. After spending two days in Cincinnati we traveled on to New York City. Our clothes were wearing out so the only thing to do was to buy some more. We went to Wannamaker Department Store. The elevator girl recognized us before we recognized her as Dorothy Kester. The elevator was stopped at the 6th floor and we were escorted to the Department of ladies apparel, where we were shown very beautiful evening gowns, designed by Ruth Ann Bailey, also stunning afternoon frocks by Helen Houser and lovely traveling-suits by Katherin Nichols. Coming back to the street we saw two men with nets, running wildly through the crowd after two stray dogs. And as youlve most certainly guessed these two were George Cox and Archie Cunningham. Next morning we went to Washington, D. C. The first thing we noticed was a large building being constructed under the supervision of Glen Fulmer with Dwight Poole, Jack Hess, and Lawrence Riggs as assistant constructors. This building was being erected in competition with the Empire State Building of New York City. VVe went to the 5 81 10-cent store to purchase some small articles. VVe walked up to the counter and looked straight into the eyes of Nellie Fleming. She told us that Ralph Matheny was the owner and showed us to his office. He insisted on taking us to dinner so we went to Roy Woodburn's Restaurant on 2nd Street. A very attractive waitress rushed to us and we were delighted to see that it was Maxine Powell. On our way from the 5 81 IO-cent store we passed the city play-ground and hopping among the children was Kathleen Moore, the play-ground in- structor. We learned from Kathleen, that Juanita Taylor was traveling in Major Bowes 13th unit. The last thing on our program was a visit to a newspaper office, and we went to the press of the United States News. Joe Barron was the editor. Secretaries to him were Carrie Butler, Ivelyn McKnight, and Frances Burgess. The chief sports reporter was Charles Rea. We thought that we had seen enough sights therefore we went to a book store to get some books to read on our way home. The book-seller was none other than Genevieve Maston. We now went to the depot to purchase tickets for home. While we were in the depot a life insurance agent approached us. The agent was Ruth Emma Bills. We got on the train and proceeded to read our books when we suddenly discovered that one of the books was written by Christine Hammett. In the few pages of introduction we learned that she was expected to achieve greater fame than George Elliot. We were glad that we could go home knowing that all our class mates had risen to such success. B. M and C. P. E271