W C Stripling High School - Yellow Jacket Yearbook (Fort Worth, TX)

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W Lucile Hale, the telephone operator, called us at eight o'clock to go to Coney Island with Louise Hartman, dress designer for Elizabeth Delaney's Dress Shop The first person we saw when we got out there was Hugh Kelley, one of the Life Savers. We stopped in the car right in the middle of the road to talk to Hugh and-Oh! we felt a big jar. Frances Sutton and Louise Dickenson, owners of The Eat Shop had bumped into us. A poncce man, LaVaughn Giddings, came up to see if any damage had been done, and as there wasn't any, he let us go on. We went over to The Eat Shop and were served by Juanita Robinson. The Eat Shop Dancers entertained. You would never guess who they were-Martha Volkel, Dorothy Conkling, Isabel Robertson, and Leola Ramfield! Louise Trammell accompanied by Bur- nace Eddings played for their dance. We brought a paper to read ,until it got cooler and read that William Mitchell and Herman McKinley were ready to stage the Heavyweight Championship Fight. We went to look the side shows over and were' attracted by someone yelling Look! Listen! We recognized Joe Story as the someone : so we went in and there was Anna Ruth Ogden as, the strongest woman on Ameri- can soils. Next to the i'Strong Woman was a Hot Dog Stand run by Jack Paris and Everett Grant. When we got back to the hotel there was a telegram informing us that Preston would make his debut in Washington, D C., as Hamlet the next night and as we wanted to see the play, we rushed to the station. Since we were a little early, we went to by some magazines. Jim Trapp was the Maga- zine man I He sold us a book by Pauline Colton called 'Pointers for Dancers. We saw Bessie Albright, the great botanist, leaving for California. Our con- versation was interrupted by, Washington, D. C., and all points south. The train caller was no one but Twink Pendery. Just then a trained pulled in and we saw that the engineer was our old friend Billy Bob Burroughs. Guess who got off the train? Mary Louise Van Vleck. She is one of the chorus girls in the newest shows Then we got on the train. We looked around and saw Stella Bates. She said she had just returned from Europe. Wasn't she lucky? Finally, when we reached Washington, D C., James Cross, Preston's director met us. We enjoyed our ride to the hotel very much. We passed a gorgeous home, which was so beautiful that we could not help remarking about it. We learned from James that it was Effie Cardwell's home. We rested until time for the show. The theater was quite beautiful. We saw Allen Spach, owner of the play house, coming in, Crowds thronged in the doors. The lights went out and a hush fell over the audience. The play had begun! At the end of the play, the house resounded with the audience's vigorous applause. Th next morning, Earle, we read the account of the play, and in the criticism it said that Preston was the most successful actor in years. As we glanced over the ads for the shows, we saw that the Bermingham Twins were being starred as tap dancers. - Just think, Earle, that is everyone in our class. It seems great to think all this happened in such a short time. lsn't this letter a mess? Each of us took turns writing because we knew you would want to hear about everything. We'll write again, Earle, real soon. Give Pem Jr., our love, and tell your husband we're mighty proud of our senator.. Lots of love, Clara and Mary. Page 2 8 ' 4

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. 'ju tir- G ...A . CLASS PROPHECY OF '28 A Ney York City, September l, 1938. Dear Earle.Marie: New York at lastl After our long iourney from Texas we were glad to arrive at our destination. The first welcome we had was Hey, Taxi? We looked and there stood Guy Pranks. Feature thatl We immediately got in his taxi and said, To the best hotel. We arrived at the hotel and whom do you suppose we saw? Allen Gwynne, the day clerk. He was very surprised to see us and told us that Bill Cranz was pilot of a transatlantic liner. Of course we wanted to go sight-seeing, but at present we were con- cerned only with clothes. Allen directed us to a smart Fifth Avenue Shop. XVe went to select afternoon dresses and were waited on by Bonnie Wade. She said, You must get some lingerie here. We have a very fine buyer. He is, by the way, Claude Nay. Well, that hit like a thunderbolt, Earle. Can you feature Claude a lingerie man? After all these delightful surprises, we needed something to revive us? so we headed for a tea shop. We came upon an oriental one called the BUL- LARD TEA SHOP. We, of course, didn't associate the name with Dallas, but she was the owner. She came and talked to us and told us where quite a few of our old school-mates were. She told us that Mr. and Mrs. Ed White, CDot Landrumj were in the other night for tea. They are quite happy and have three children. Maurine Stokes has turned out to be an insurance sales- woman and has actually sold somebody CFrances Smithj some insurance. After a delightful chat with Dallas, we left the shop. Just as we reached the street, a fire-wagon came tearing down the street. And there whom do you suppose we saw hanging on the back end? 'Speck' Mahan, of course. He waved wildly to us. Right after the fire wagon came an ambulance driving like mad. Burford Scaling was the driver, and he was fairly airing it out. After the excitement died down our attention was attracted by a very novel sign. It had been designed by Norma Lou McKenzie and was adver- tising Nichols' Pickles . fYou remember Jane who was in our Botany class, don't you?j We started back to the hotel, but on the way we saw the fashionable Henderson, Hughes Beauty Shop. We Went in and guess who was running it? Velma and Mary Margaret. They gave us their best operators, Mary Stal- lard and Pauline Graves. Mary told us to be sure to get the latest book, Why Everyone Should Read The Master Key by Ann Evarts Taylor. We had dinner with Ruth Sears, a society girl, and she told us that Cayloma had become famous almost over night on account of her invention, Stay-Blonde. Chester Dalby is mayor of New York, and Douhitt Norman is an automobile saleswoman. She said, too, that Ab and Ferdie are going to make the White Sox this year. We went to a show after dinner to see Dorothy Ann Furnas and Jack Holland in 'AWe're from Texas. Perry Leonard, Music Professor at Col- umbia, and Mary Elizabeth Bonner, gym instructor at a high school, sat in front of us. Mary Elizabeth said that Eleanor Arrington, Margaret Barron, and Bess Crawford were running the A, B, C, Bookshop at Detroit. We Went back to the hotel and when the icewater we sent for arrived. we were surprised to see that C. C. Colton was the bell-hop. Page Z7 4 A

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sEN1oR CLASS WILL We, the members of the class of l928, Stripling High School, being of sound mind and realizing the uncertainty of life and certainty of death, do make and declare this our last will and testament-fnaming the Juniors our sole heirs. Teantsy King, after much urging, has consented to leave his great height to one who needs it very much, Ed Miller. Twink Pendery leaves his slow, easy manner of speaking to John Dallas Thompson. Claude Nay would like for M. C. Knott to have his high, shrill voice. Douthitt Norman leaves her right to be skinny to Rubye Knight. Cayloma Hemsell leaves her dark flowing locks to R. L. Boswell, C. C. Colton leaves his superfluous weight to Robert Horton. NVilliam Cranz leaves his right to go without grease on his hair to William Manning. Ferdie Johnson wants Marshall Cone to take his place in the subs. Mary Bowers leaves her short hair to Christine Weldon. Billy Bob Burroughs leaves his sober-sidedness to Gene Pendery. Bessie Allbright leaves her right to flunk all Math tests to Lucile Tipton. We leave to all the Juniors the scents of the chemistry lab. CSignedj The Seniors of '28. CWitnessedj Mrs. Myres fe YE CLASSE HISTORYE GF 1928 Longe years ago, we, the Seniore Classe of 1928, entered highe schoole. We were timide freshmenewihs 1924. We simplye idolized the Seniors. At the beginninge of 1925 we were the conceited Sophomores who looke upone the Freshmene as childrene. Aftere anothere yeare of struggling with oure Page 2 9 F if