Talladega High School - Tallala Yearbook (Talladega, AL)

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CLASS PROPHECY Zip! We're off! Through the stratosphere we whiz. The'power and speed of our great atomic rocket ls tre-men-dous. Just as I am sitting down for a little snooze before my arrival, I feel a slap on my back. It is none other than my ole' fellow classmate Raymond Tapley. Tap is the sole-owner of this rocket. He is very glad they have finally invented a ship capable of letting him move about comfort- ably. He invites me to inspect his air castle. We walk now into a most luxurious lounge equipped with a complete soda fountain. As I look at the soda fountain, I am reminded of Julia Davis, a gal who ate all the time, or if she wasn't eating she was hungry. Tap tells me she is the official taster on his rocket. He also tells me he has conveniences for every type person-solitude for sleepers, music for mad-men. He now takes me into a room entitled Owens Ominipotent Orchestra . I think this must be the place for mad-men. The sounds that bellow forth from the three-hundred piece band are worse than the groans of the Senior Class of '46 over the Macbeth test. Lanford Owens is the director of the day. Elizabeth Owens stays near by to hand him a Standback if he happens to get a headache from the tumult. As I look about I see Vernelle Forbes sitting the're grinning as she used to do. She plays the cymbals with a device used by the foot. In the orchestra, too, are Betty Bowden, the bass-horn player, Joe Davis, the bazooka player, and Essie Phillips, the Sweet Trumpet player. The singer for this organization, if it may be called such, is none other than Betty Hutton Parsons. We ask her why she is carrying a log of wood and a can of kerosene. She reminds us that she is a torch singer. As the band strikes up we see Pauline McGlon doing a most peculiar step-the camel walk, Tap says that Virginia Winchester is the dance instructor here and this is her favorite step. As we leave this sound-proof room we walk into a room entitled Williams World for Weary Wan- derers . The strains of music creeping forth are extremely different from that across the hall. I can un- derstand why Martha Williams has chosen this profession. She was always such a quiet reserved person. The people around the room are sitting with such strange looks on their faces that I ask why they are doing so. Tap tells me that Alfred Mitchell has taught them to sleep with their eyes open, as he used to do. I notice that Kathleen Philips, Ethel Mae Freeman, and ldell Robertson are in the orchestra. They, too, are asleep. Martha punches them when they are supposed to blow and they blow their tops when they are awakened. The theme song is Sloppy Lagoon. I recognize Mary Lou Whitman, Wynette Wallace, and Betty Jo Martin at the window. They are instructed not to let any sun-light awaken the sleepy people. ' Tap continues to show me this Buggy. We walk now into the library. Billy Hamlin is the librarian. I always knew Billy was the intellectual type. I see Betty Jean Ingram sitting there reading Christine Cooper's latest book, A Dollar or I'lI Holler. Mary Malone, star of women's track, is studying a course by Charles Atlas titled Ouch, My Achirzg Back . lalso see Carlyle Patterson, the noted politician, reading How to Influence Friends and Win PeopIe . Sitting over in the corner reading is Jane Ellen Gaines. She has the greatest collard and rutabaga farm in the United States. Janie is looking sorta green but we guess it is her daily farm menue that has colored her thus. We walk on to the observatory. There sits none other than Harry Clyott, the greatest hog-caller known. This surprises us because it used to be a wolf call he gave. Also Gene Luker is sitting observing. Gene has invented the cutest strings for June bugs. Prentice Jackson, the most promising inventor of the day, concocted the one and only Sneeze, Snort, and Sriore Preventor . Well, here is Mary Noble Hall. She has established in the most remote corner of the world a clinic called Haven for Tubercular Monkeys . We recommend her for the Thorne Award. Frances Thorne is quite a well-to-do financier. She bestows a prize onthe great world contributors each year. Hugh Harrington is seen looking very interested in some mechanical device. He puts the bumps on bobby pins. We move on into the recreational room. We sit down and watch the newsreel. We see Jimmy Brown- low and Evelyn Carpenter, the famous animal trainers at work. In the same circus are Joan Bryant and Elise Canter, the charming bare-back riders. Virginia Corby, Ruby Knight, and Nan Durden have made a name for themselves as tight-rope walkers. But the greatest feature of all is Ruby Nell King and Mary Liz Nabors on the trapeze. An added attraction. is James Linn, the sword swallower, he is the only man who can tickle his gizzord without cracking a smile. Charlotte Evans is flashed on the screen Her skill in bubble-dancing is amazing.

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FRANCES THORNE Glee Club 4, 3 Iresident of GI eeClub 4 WILLIAM FRANCIS THURMAN Bond 4, 3, 2, I Student Bond Director 4 Wl1o's Who 4 Closs Muscion 4 ELIZABETH WALDROP Glee Club 3, 2 F. H. A. I WYNETTE FAYE WALLACE F. H. A. 4, 3, 2 F. H. A. Vice President 4 F. H. A. Secretory-Treczsurer 3 F. H. A. Reporter 2 Honor Society 4, 3 ROBERT EUGENE WEAVER Footboll 4, 3, 2, I All-Stote 3 Bcxsketbctll 4, 3, 2, I Alternote Cciptoin 3 Co-Coptoin 4 T Club 4, 3, 2 Trock 4, 3 Sergecint-ot-Arrns 4, 3 MARY LOU WHITMAN F. H. A. 4, 3, 2 Glee Club I MARTHA WILLIAMS Bond I Glee Club 2, I Vice President of Glee Club 2 Closs Testotor 4 MARY ALICE WILLIAMS Glee Club 4, 3 VIRGINIA MAE WINCHESTER Treasurer ot Glee Club 3 Glee Club 4, 3, 2 Stoll Aid 4 Bc-nd 4, 3, 2 Who's Wlto 4 SUE WRIGHT Honor Society 4, 3 Fovorite 2 Bond 2, I President of Clciss I Se-cretcxry of Bond 2 Secretory of Closs 2 Cheerleader 4, 3 Treasurer of Clciss 3 Heod Cheerleoder 4 Lotin Club 3, 2, I Annuol Stott 4 Clwoirmon of U. S. O. Stott 3 Victory Gordens I Secretory of Victory Gordens I Glee Club 2 Student Service Council 4 Closs Poet 4 OBA LOUISE WYATT Honor Society 4, 3 Secretory of Honor Society 4 Tronsferred from Brontley, Alobomo NO PICTURES: WILLIAM ARTHUR TOWNSEND In Service JAMES VVILLIS LINN BILLY HAMLIN LANFORD G. OWNES Returned from Service E. A MCWILLIAMS Returned from Service HARRY FLOWERS Returned from Service 41

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The scene changes to the nation's capital. Margaret Foster, the greatest woman in politics, is giving strict orders to a room full of men. Also congresswoman, Doris Poole, is teaching the First Lady the techiniques of strutting. We recognize William Thur man spinning down the streets of Washington in his super de luxe garbage truck. Bobby Weaver rides with him to drink the dregs out of all empty bot- tles. Betty Gray, wife of Secretary of Treasury, sees that they are paid well because of their friendly school days together. The scene flashes to Holywood. There onthe beach of her palatial estate, basks Elmarie Cox in the California Sun. She has made a name for herself in pictures. Her coach is Geraldine Kimbrough. We walk on now to another corner of the room. We see a modern beauty salon run by Monsieur H. Pitts. Horace's slogan is Make You or Break You. As I look about the salon, I see Jackie and Joyce Stringer, ioint owners of a great asaphetida company. Also there is Sue Wright, great auctionneress, having a manicure. Down the corridor come three strikingly dressed women. I learn they are the style-makers of N. Y., having studied in gay Paree. As they swing closer to me, I discover they are Elizabeth Waldrop, Florence Freeman, and Mary Alice Williams. We walk into the dining room. Here sits Ellen Rutledge at the organ giving a beautiful rendition. Tap says she has been working for years to find the Lost Chord . I am beginning to think that this rocket has every convenience. There is a stand here in the corri- dor with a barker yelling the merits of Pair's Portion for Pitiful Puppies . Margaret Pair is really getting rich off this. Also on the stand is some pully candy with the label PhiIlips' and Malone's Cavity Filler. Ruth and Mary happened upon the recipe in a chemistry experiment. Well, We're lit! Here we rest in Europe. Quite an eventful trip, wasn't it? Martha Anne Jenkins Class Prophet CLASS POEM OF 1946 Talladega High Schocl, we bid you now farewell. We have stayed with you for quite a lengthy spell. As the Class of '46 we hate to leave you now, But to the'Class of '47 our virtues we do endow. We have helped make some records of various kinds, And garnered some knowledge to strengthen our minds. We have furnished seven players to our football team- Each opponent finding it a very bad dream. The world is waiting for us, this we know, And leaving T. H. S. is an awful blow. We've worked a lot and we've played some, too. We'll miss our school, we're telling you. For four years we've worked with a goal in view, To receive our diplomas as all Seniors do. You, T. H. S., are the finest and the best. The Class of '46 is ready for any test. Sue Wright, Class Poet CLASS SONG We will miss you dear old T. H. 5. Tho' we may wander for away, We will ever try to gain success, Tho' we strive from day to day. Dear teachers, you have been our friends, You have watched us come and go, To us your efforts always bend, That we may better grow. Words-Virginia Corby Music-William Thurman