Taylor County High School - Sampler Yearbook (Perry, FL)

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TELEGRAMS OF REGRET Last night, as 1 sat thinking of the class reunions we hope to enjoy together in the future, I found myself imagining the result if, at some given date, say ten years from now, every member of the class should be too busy to attend the reunion. But, I thought, how interesting if on the morning of the reunion each absentee sent a telegram in which was stated the sender occupation and reason for absence. I became so engrossed in the idea that I even pictured to myself the exact wording of the tele grams the various people would send. Would you like to hear them? Keeping a pet shop. Specialize in Boa constrictors and pet coons... Signed: Floyd Falany Having a dancing school. Taylors Toddling Toe Twirps. I just can't teach them to stand straight. Signed: Annette Taylor Always did like high society, but we never thought of being a Pullman conductor to get it. Signed: John Puckett and Jerrel Robertson We are now owners of Doc's Market and as we stay open day and night we can't possibly come. Signed: Calvin and Joan Touchton Too busy sampling tobacco at Sauls' Tobacco Corporation. This gives us the chance to try all brands. Samplers: Ralph Parker, John Courtney, Billy Heartsfield, Thomas Edwards. Signed: Edwin Sauls Just won Miss Taylor County beauty contest. Will be busy signing contract for Hollywood. Signed: Lida Collins We are now touring Africa in search of diamonds . One sure way of getting one. Signed: Imogene Parker and Mary Kay Wood Have retired and am living at the famous resort Keaton Beach . Fish as a hobby and they're biting good now. Signed: Wayne Howell Leading trumpet player of the Taylor original ALL GIRL orchestra. Performance tonight. Signed: Clifford Burns Am President of Tall Females Club. (?) In conference with Ex-President, Shirley Lawson. Signed: Marilyn Bryant We are secret service workers for F. B. 1... Busy chasing men. . . . Signed: Shirley Sharer and Eleanor Tedder Civil engineer. Clearing Tide Swamp to shorten trip to Perry. Signed: Mac Stokes Leading dramatic soprano Metropolitan Star. Performing tonight with Bob Holley. Signed: June Brunson Am astronomer, studying the heavens at seashore (Keaton) with beautiful girl Assistant (George Ann Holmes Signed: Dean Watts Am a farmer. Raise Tobacco for Sauls Tobacco Corporation. Big conference with Mr. Lucky Strike. (Hort Gibson) Signed: Drexel Agner In a rest home. Our days in T. C. H. S. were too much for us. Leading quiet lives. Signed: Julia Baxter, Louzetta Slaughter, Betty King Teaching Charles Atlas course at Foley. PARTIN'S PICK UP FOR PUNY MEN. Signed: Joe Partin Have no time for small town business. Am a famous psychiatrist. Signed: Sandra Rogovin Heard of the South Seas? Well, I'm here! Busy learning to hula. Signed: Jimmy Adams Concert Pianist. Carnegie Hall will never be the same again as I have a concert there tonight. My capable manager is Patricia Hicks. Signed: Willa Bird Finally am going to State. Where there's a will there's a way. Am coaching Taylor's team. Signed: Eston Hendry Running an acrobatic side show in Ringling Brothers-Taylor Hi's Twisting Tumblers. Signed: Mary Lucile Dekle and Georgianne Carter Am posing in Jantzen sweaters and swimsuits. Love that photographer. He thinks I'm cute! Signed: Dean Beaty Am busy painting Empire State Building pink. Have dead line to meet Signed: Earl McGuire Just opened my new DoLittles Get-Little Reducing Salon. Waiting for the big rush. Signed: Helen Padgett Now in the roaring business of giving Toni's to French poodles. Am getting richer than Rockefeller ever dared. Signed: Lou Ellen Whiddon Am All Star football player at Georgia Tech. Have a game tonight. Signed: Paul Fouche Busy posing for Before and After ad's. Signed: Mary Jean English and Sara St. John Simply can't leave my staff of secretaries (Joyce Attaway, Jackie DuBose, Virginia Jackson and Kathryn Grantham). Signed: Harry Odom Am taking care of Van Edith McHargue’s famous race horses. Signed: Vivian Moore Sara's Secluded Sackers have managed to have the first no score basketball Season in history. Assistant is the all time Bessie Palmer. Signed: Sara Sapp Am starring in my latest play, Milkman Blues . It is at Pete Sheffield's Broadway Theater. Signed: Catherine Landry Running Franklin's Drugstore. Assisted by Tommy Williams and Curtis Jackson, regular soda jerks. Signed: Brady Franklin In the middle of a very important business transaction—selling my mind to Tommy Stalans for half-price. Signed: Rachel Sadler In the hospital with an acute attack of giggles. Under care of Molly McLeod, the discoverer of Hadacol-Cure All medicine. Signed: Hu Ida Mixon Busy at the old drudge—spring housecleaning. Signed: Janice Franklin and Rodell Faulkner

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RODELL (FENDER) FAULKNER The smallest good deed is better than the grandest good intentions. LOU ELLEN WHIDDON What care I when I can lie and rest, kill time and take life at its very best. F. H. A. 52, '53; Glee Club '54; D. S. Club '54; Senior Favorite ’54. ELEANOR TEDDER Live, laugh, and love-- there'll come a time when you can't. Basketball '51, '52, '53, ’54; Volleyball ’52; Band '52, ’53, '54; Senior Favor- ite '54; Softball '51, '52, •53, '54; 4-H Club '51, '52, '53; Annual Staff ’53; Beta Club '54; Taylor Hi-Lites ’53; Office Assistant '54; Cheerleader '52, ’53, '54; F. H. A. '52, '53, '54. 21

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Wdt and TJeitament We, the Senior Class of 1954, having nothing of material value to leave to anyone, do hereby will our bad habits and best wishes to the future SENIORS of Taylor County High School. As a class, we leave to the— Principal: A large ammonia coke to enable him to survive the dreary days without us. Faculty: The straight A average of the senior class. Juniors: Our cancelled hotel reservations at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, D. C. Sophomores: The electricity bill for our many nights of study. Freshmen: Our cherished dreams of a new high school. As individuals, we bequeath the following: I, Jimmie Adams, leave my extreme height to Kenneth Lawson. I, Joyce Attaway, will my tallness to Mary Ann Blume. I, Drexel Agncr, will my ability to grow tall and to stay out of trouble to Herbert Hendry. I, Joan Albritton, leave my ability to get married and keep it a secret for months to all engaged couples of T. C. H. S. I, Julia Baxter, will my ability to be a son-man woman to my beloved cousin, Betty Jean Parker. I, Clifford,Burns, will my blonde, curly locks to Bob Logan. I Dean Beaty, will my fickle heart and ability to have go- d times to Tommy Nell Lyons. I, John Courtney, will my fast-running to anyone who needs it. I, Willa Bird, do hereby bequeath to my sister, Paula, my share of the use of our car--providing she gives up her career as a driving instructor. I, Thomas Edwards, will my ability to stay away from work to Harold Reddick. I, June Brunson, will my size 12 gym suit and my ability to make A's in gym to Gerry Parnell. I, Buddy Toy, will my ability to beat the bass drum to some poor critter who has just lost his mind. I, Marilyn Bryant, will my ability to .keep a secret to Anne Faircloth. May she uphold it as I have. I, Paul Fouche, will my place in the hall during homeroom to Connie Summerall. I, Georgianne Carter, will my many facial expressions to Frances Mills. I, Brady Franklin, will my ability to grow a beard to Claude Hart, for he needs it. I, Lida Collins, will my ability to make 100 on an Algebra II test to Marjorie Sadler. I, Hoot Gibson, do will my ability to give Mohawk haircuts to John Morgan. I, Billie English, will my Spot Reducing Pills to Nena No la. I, Billy Heartsfield, will my nickname Moose to Wayne Strickland. I, Lucy Dekle, will my ability, not just to get in trouble, but to stay in trouble, to Lynette Linton and Anne Faircloth. I, Eston Hendry, will my ability to play basketball to Jimmy Underwood. I, Jackie DuBose, do hereby will my ability to get along with Mr. Weaver to Macky Williams. I, Bob Holley, will my title, The Dog to anyone who can fit it, suggestion—Elmer Coker. I, Ruth Edmonson, will my seat in Bert's car to Carol Carter. I, Wayne Howell, do will my blond hair to Joe Burroughs. I, Rodell Faulkner, will my privilege of coming to school only two periods a day to Sidney Swain. I, Bert Kuhn, will my jeep to my brother, Wayne. May he enjoy those cold mornings driving from Boyd as much as I did. I, Janice Franklin, will my boisterous ways to Dob Watts. I, Tommy Williams, wUl my reputation of going stag to all the dances but still managing to have a partner for every dance to all the stag going boys.