Taft High School - Statesman Yearbook (Cincinnati, OH)

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Let's go over and have a chat w1th our old fnend Wrllls Hall We hear that he's dorng qurte well at M G M He tells us that James Wrlburn has just recerved an academy award for hrs productron of the smash h1t The Man w1th the Stamless Steel Head' Gwen French another Taft xte IS secretary to Charles Durham who has made a fortune headrng the make up department of another large m0v1e studro We had better go see what else IS strrrlng on the Sung a Ray Ah lady luck rs w1th us We are just m trme to see Arthur LEWIS preparlng to leave the shlp to take prctures of the beautxful array of colors rn the under water caverns W1th1n the caverns we see some merma1ds Lucy Davrs, Mary Grant, Gladys Thomas, Eunice Collett, Rosle Johnson, Shlrley Sinclair, Mary Allce Robinson, Johnny Starks and Dorothea Whetstone They are rehearsmg some synchronrzed sw1mm1ng for our evenxng s entertaxnment What do we have here? Leroy Banks, bless h1s lrttle ol' heart has caught a whale We'1l have a lot of blubber tonrght Ed Byrd rs commg rn thxs d1rect1on wonder what he has on lus mxnd What's that? He IS strll S0l1C1t1Ilg ads but for hrs own paper the 'Evenrng Star frsh' He tells us that Mr Arrington IS now workmg at Crosley Freld makrng all the announcements over the P A system We had better go see what has become of the treasure hunt that Gertrude Allen has planned for some of our scavenger frxends Robert Hollrn, Ozzie Hunter Don Tyree, Allen Davls and Alfred Sullivan Here IS the 11st we have to look for one turtle egg one rusty tm can a rudder from the Lus ztanza two oysters w1th pearls one mermard w1th green and gold scales Davey jones' locker If anyone can f1nd these thrngs and brmg them back the prrze wrll be the Yukon Terrrtory Elmore Calhoun and Lessre Jordan have come to see what the excrtement rs all about and have decrded to Jorn the fun Donald Mosley and Odessa Presley want to see Davey Jones locker so they are commg along too Jaclue Cooper IS rn the sh1p's stables saddlmg up the s1lver sea horses As we mount we are cautloned to watch for electrrc eels they sure could make thxngs hot for us We check our atomrc water prstols and gallop bravely away We pass a refreshment stand rn our search for the turtle egg The proprxetor Mr Sam Skurow, bubbles Joy fully as he watches the profrts roll rn There are Marne Hull and Janice Johnson srppmg strawberry salt water whrle Roosevelt Malone demonstrates a ball pornt pen that wrrtes under water just the thxng for sendrng post cards to Noomr Dumas who was too busy to come along Mr Skurow tells us that they are fresh out of turtle eggs used them all for the breakfast crowd We remount our sxlver steeds and take off agaln We stop at the underwater theater whrch rs featurrng a great show called the Shark Capades starrmg Annle Myrlck Annle Peterson, Raymond Smith and Derry Tidmore Ken Lattrmore has made a splash hrt wrth hrs rendxtxon of M1nn1e the Mermard' The noted producers Conway and Parlzensteln have been largely responsxble for the success of the show We hear that Alonzo Walker, Jean Pope and Juamta Lee put up the money to hrre these famous men Bet lt cost them a lot of clams for that' Make room everybody here comes one of those new uramum powered submarme Cadrllacs drrven by Curing Davls He sure seems to be popular wxth the ladres because Annue Estell, Patricia Fomey, Ellza Cannon and Betty Coleman are qurte mterested Is rt Curtus or the car whxch provldes the brg attract1on9 Someone IS trymg to get our attentron from over there behmd that sunken shrp It looks lxke lretha Tumble and Delores Walker As they were r1d1ng along an electrrc eel struck therr sea horses Isn't that shock1ng7 Anyway, therr horses threw them so we w1ll have to take them back wxth us They clrmb on and as we travel along we see on our rrght a most extraordrnary brt of constructxon work The sxgn tells us that rt rs the Frrst Water wonders Sub natronal Bank The owner rs the d1st1ngurshed Charles Davus and the manager of thrs elabor ate bank 1S Wllllam Connell who IS well managed by Geraldlne Corley . . .. . - - . --. . , , . . . . . , -' - . , y ' I . .. . H . . . . .- . , , .. . . . . - . . . . . 0 . . . . ., . . . , - . . ..... . . . . . . , . . . 5 . . , . . . r r ' ' ' , -. . . . . . - - . 1 r ' . . . . . . . .. . , . . .. . , - . . . I , o ' . . . . . .. . , - . . Q ' n 0 . . . H - N - . . . . . r I 0 . . . . .. .. ., . . . . . - . ' 1 , . . . . , . . . , , . Q . . . . . , . . . c . '- ' r . - -- . .. . , . ' 0 - .. . , -

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PROPHECY OF THE CLASS OF 1956 ' come ladres and gentlemen to our thnllrng and terrrfymg spectacular Bottom of the Bottomless another rn our great ser1es of Sea It Now adventures Thrs 1S Dorman the Abbott habrt Man coming to you through the facrlrtres of WSEA the voxce of the far away water wonders It IS june 11th rn the year 2000 We have been rnvlted by Elorse Nnx to v1s1t her and her guests on her ulous shrp the St ng a Ray ' fo a crurse among the unknown depths of the water wonders The 'Stmg a Ray rs a gally colored shrp with all the convemences of an elaborate home As we come aboard we are greeted by Captarn Cahall and hrs frrst mate whose Job IS to mspect the decks and the sh1p's lockers lookmg for saxlors wrthout a deck pass Here come some of the guests now the brg s1ng1ng rage Mass Flora Barley wxth her melodlous friends Mllton Henderson Homer Shealey Mae Tevrs Richard Gayle and Marguente Flood They are watching the deck hands preparrng for our descent rnto the water wonders Our water safety expert Miss Ingles oops we mean Mrs Strtes gxves us some last mrnute rnstructrons Don't breathe too deep or you 11 srnk and be careful where you deposrt your chewrng gum The octopus covered seats are expensrve and wrth the octopus shortage these days rt rs hard to tell when we could get any more Catch the frrghtened look on John Crachlolo s face' Poor Lulu Merritt just breathed too deep Don't worry John well catch up wrth her pretty soon We are descendrng rapxdly now xt shouldnt be too long before we reach the bottom of the bottomless Meanwhrle let's look rn on the party rn the club room I wonder what brg name band Eloise has engaged for the party Well lf rt 1sn t Rebecca Chrlstran and her all grrl orchestra Some of them are the graduates of the Arlene Lawson Bertha Merchant and Patncla Penny We see that everyone IS enjoymg the party There seem to be some close twosomes such as Geraldine Nealy and Clyde Glles, Mary Manley and Larry Boylun, and last but not least Chrrstlne Dutz and her mystery man As we go out the door we glxmpse Wlllre Anderson shootrng baskets wrth a seal sk1n basketball Here come Odessa Morton Shirley Burress, Sue Warren, Rose Mane Chesnut, Marlene Burgan and Darsy Robblns everyone of them has on a frsh frn bathrng surt the color of an eel wrth flrppers and goggles to match Elon se tells us that they are gorng to put on a water ballet for us later The last trme they performed they al most lost Shirley Burress her bun got water logged and welghed so much that rt took a team of swordfrsh to haul her back home There are Wllllam McMullen and Wlllle Long makmg fnends wrth a baby octopus who rs mad because he can't come aboard There s Don Wong srttmg peacefully watchmg our 'Sea rt Now show but he won't be peaceful long because here comes Winston Fowler, Oscar Stewart, Ronald Stephens and Wlllre Ruff Looks lrke they are gomg to toss poor Don rn for a swxm A team of sk1n dxvers are ready to go out to look for poor Lulu who has not been found as yet Herbert Slned ley, Davrd Smlth, Elmer Spence and Ray Srmmons are gettrng ready to drve whlle Luther Twyman and Franl: Whig ham shout rnstructrons from the s1del1nes James Ward and Wrllram Tyus look on jealously they can't swrm Ollver Ware makes some last mxnute goggle adjustments whrle Wlllle Watson and James Waldrop run around get tmg rn everybody s way In the exclusxve Seaweed Room we fmd Annie Hampton, Clifford Hardaway Vuolet Hams and Mary Heflin enjoyrng a Seaweed Speclal' out of the machine that used to stand rn the lobby back at Taft Theodore Harrison looks on takmg notes for the new novel he IS gomg to wrrte He seems mterested rn Mattie Haugaboolr and Harriet Harper maybe they are gomg to be the heroines of thrs book Seen srttrng around takrng 111 the sea breeze are Tommy Asher and Barbara Wlngate, Donald Brock and Jean Brooks and Rosalie Williams wrth the handsomest man you ever saw Soon as we fmd out who he rs we'll let you know 'Wel ' ' ' ' ' f H 1 fab ' i - - ' r ' - ' ' ' ' , , ' ' ' f . ' I . ' . . ' s , . . . . ' . , . ' . . . , . . . . 1956 class of Taft High School: Emma Jean Bates, Marie Barnett, Gladys Berry, Glorla Jenkins, Lessie Johnson, . , . . . , -. - u e , - - . gt . , 1 - . I

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We are st1ll looklng for our turtle egg We w1ll never w1n the Yukon Terrxtory at th1s rate, especrally wrth Davey jones locker strll to be found Hamrlton Jackson runs a plant to make gold from sea water Maybe we can stop m there and 1nqu1re where we m1ght frnd these thmgs Hrs partners Yvonne Jackson and Alton Howard are standmg outside the factory They don't know about turtle eggs but they have seen the green and gold mer ma1d We won't have any trouble frndmg her because Joe Robinson has been srttrng on her lap most of the day We collect the mermard and take Joe along to see rf he won't do rn place of the rusty t1n can when somebody suggests v1s1t1ng Velma Singleton and Mary Hankerson s turtle farm We surely can get an egg there Elmore Calhoun rxdes off to see them and we head back for the Stmg a Ray We pass Manon McCullough and Catherine Walker blowrng bubbles and tryxng to catch the attentxon of some passxng flshermen A we Journey on we hear 'Men and Women of Taft Men and Women of Taft why It s Mrs Wrrght, and she strll IS selllng cop1es of the Statesman lt IS so popular that people are stlll standmg rn lme to buy It Barbara Smith Bertha Sutton and Laurene Grlmore have been waxtmg over a month for thelr copies We are nearmg the Water wonder news stand Let's buy an Evenmg Star frsh and see what IS gorng on Thrs artrcle says that Dorothy Hales and Johnnre Turner are takmg thexr annual trlp around the world thrs month Ednth Jones and Shlrley Muller are accompanymg them to keep the readers posted on thexr excltxng adventures We are sure that th1s paper w11l go far wrth Helen Taylor as the busrness manager The goss1p sectron, called 'Tattles IS wrltten by Norma Walker She says that Frances Gnssom rs gorng to qu1t her secretarxal job o be mamed thrs June and that Edrth Hamnlton rs runnrng for the Senatorshrp rn Ohro thrs year We also read that Jessie Smith IS runnlng a modelrng school rn one of the most elegant nexghborhoods of the Water wonders They are bulldlng a new hlgh school 1n that neighborhood too They are namrng lt 1n honor of Mr Paul Trrnkle who rs now Superintendent of Schools They say that Ernestlne Morris and Eleanora Kirkland are plannmg to teach there We contmue on our way back to the sh1p and we pass Betty Porter, Mlldred Qurllen, John Pugh and Mary Ratlrft who are water skung behrnd a team of sharks Wrlllam Patton, Johnnie Nelson and Paul Pierce are tryrng to learn how We see Eugene Makeupson Bob Cox, Barbara Campbell Annette Brown, Oscar Murph and Addie Edwards startmg off to go deep sea drvrng They have hlred Llllie McDaniel as their grude As we fmally reach the sh1p we are greeted wxth the good news that all of our treasures have been found Odessa Presley was able to talk her way rnto Davey jones' locker after all so rt looks lxke we'll all be takmg off for the Yukon rn the near future Our deep sea dxvers found Lulu Merrrtt She was anchored to some sea weed by John's P1 Tau Delta pxn Let's put the Strng a Ray rn reverse and head for home We have to pack for our trrp to the Yukon . l , . . , . . I y - . . D ... . 3 . . . . . . -- , . . , ., . s , , , . . . . . ,, . . . . . . . . . . .. . . , . . - I -. g I . . . . . . . , ,,. . . . . . . . 1 - t . ' u . . . . . . , ' I . . , , . .. . .. . . . . . ' I I . . . f ' I , -- . .