Stephen F Austin High School - Bronco Yearbook (Bryan, TX)

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 I then visited the school to pay my respects to the superintendent. Foy Martin; the basketball coach, Thelston Carroll; the head of the Eng- lish department, Charles Eicholtz; head of the commercial department, Edna McGregor; head of the mathematics department, Jane Cavitt; thi janitor of the building, Tom Hanus; and the physical training instructor, Helen Davis. Next afternoon 1 attended the Hoodoo-Yarmouth game, which was very exciting, as much as I saw of it. Most of the time I spent renewing some old acquaintances and discussing others. 1 talked to Patti Minkert, comic artist for the Harvey Herald and the Smetana Sun, for the first time since we had graduated. She told me that Allie Cheatham, Millie Novosad, Adele Syptak, and Ethel Wallin had established a business col- lege here. Winnie Vance, Elizabeth Sloop, and Bess McGee were vaude- ville queens in the Follies. I was very surprised to behold Ethel (nee Ferguson), who held the position as assorter of rusty nails and bent screws in a certain building firm. She informed me that Cora Lee Hyatt and Mary Francis Harris were very successful in the interior decorating business, and that Marie Robertson had a beauty parlor in the same shop with them. Just as the whistle blew for the end of the game, Ethel told me as the last bit of gossip that Edna Pearle and Eck had at last settled down to a quiet and peaceful life in a little bungalow' next door to a pop-gun factory, and that Frances Thomas was heading an expedition of archaeologists in search of Latin manuscripts to reveal the active past participles of the verbs, nascor and reminiscor.

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 -4. .«. ..; ...------------ ....... . ... (Class Prophecy The Chicago-Bryan zeppelin moored at the City Airport at 5:30, April 1, 1946. My family had come to meet me in their new Fly-Hiesl motor bus, the newest air-traveling sedan out, which was manufactured by Roy Vick and sold by Kay Ilalsell. Though my parents were unusually glad to see me after an absence of fifteen years, 1 was too interested in the arrival of a mail plane to not ce them. I did notice, however, a familiar face in the crowd and recognized it, when the plane landed, as that of Bonnie, who was waiting for the pilot, my old friend Bennie Griffin. 1 motored up-town and landed on the roof field of Hotel Batts. My former classmate, Billy, had been quite successful, rising from bell-boy to owner of the biggest hotel in the city. Our suburban home was in Harvey, where John P. Barron was mayor and operator of the school subway, but I had decided to stay in the city for a few days to attend the Hoodoo-Yarmouth game, the respective coaches on each side being Melvin McNeelcy and Ralph Gomez. When I registered, I recognized the clerk, Andrew Anderson, who told me that Charles Ferguson, originator of the theory of heterocHlamy- deous electricity, was also back for a visit to the old home town. Frank Zubik, the elevator boy, took me to my room and introduced me to the floor maids, Estelle Armstrong, Winnie Clary, Nettie Nedhalek. and Ethel Mangis, who had received their positions because their basketball training enabled them to throw the towels on a rack above the reach of the hotel guests who wished to cut off the embroidery. On my way to the Vitasmell movie, owned by William Scoates, where Nina Bess Astin and Frank McGee were being starred in “The Sailor Goes Home,” I passed the Rawls and Konecny Grocery, headquarters for W. S. Johnson’s Kraft Limburger Agency. After the show, in which Bal- lard Harris and James Orms, accompanied by Mary Martha Black at the piano, were the features of the vaudeville, I went to the Moore and Tardy Department Store, controlled by those giants of finance who were for- mer classmates of mine. They called their entire staff, including Betty Syptak, private secretary; Ruth Smith, salesgirl at the cosmetic counter: Kenneth Buchanan, head of the “Ladies’ Lingerie Department”; Mary Beth Walker and Ruby Pritchett, models; John M. Barron, night watch- man; and Edilweiss Schultz and Aline King, bookkeepers. W hen I left Moore and Tardy Co., Inc., I was arrested by Bob Cloud, the speed cop, right in front of the Repass and Wilcox Garage. Morris was famous as the best tire-changer in three states.

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