Warren Easton High School - Eagle Yearbook (New Orleans, LA)

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JOHN A. WEICAND, JR. JOHN WESLEY WELTY HUGH MARTIN WILLIAMS LOUIS BEARD WILLIAMS CHARLES FREDERICK WOODCOCK LAWRENCE LEE ZARRILLI REUBEN ALLNUTT ZARRILLI CARL LOUIS ZECH JOSEPH ZITO

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bro JOHN ALEXANDER THOMAS, JR ATTILIO PASIIAL TORRE ROY OCTAVE TRAHAN CHARLES TUSA FRANK W. VALLS EDWARD JOSEPH VILLERE OSWALD WILLIAM VIOSCA .IIISTUS WILLIAM VOCKE HARRY SOLAND VORHABEN

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J fo Prophecy of the Class of January, 1931 By TlLDEN LANDRY. Historian .-,Q, - The scene is a penthouse studio on the roof of a 56-story apartment build- ing in New Orleans in 1951. The room. is quite dark except for two glowing cigarette-ends which mark the position of someone seated at either side of the large studio window. There is comparatively little air trafic outside, for it is very late: only an occasional dirigible liner coming in from the tropics, a few mail planes and, of course, the ever-present hundreds of the little two- seaters affected by the high school students, floating around up there on the sixth cruising level where flying is permitted with hands off the controls. In the distance the giant searchlights of the airports weave patterns of powerful beams in the sky. Through the window we can see, there atop the Hotel lllontague. the biggest electric sign in the South. which by a strange coin- cidence bears the name of another of our old friends: it says Schell Gasoline. There is a movement at one side of the windowg a tiny light is switched on and we can see someone's hand turning the dial beneath it. .4 smoothly resonant voice with an NBC accent breaks the stillness: --- comes to you through the courtesy of the Carroll Stahl Sausage Company, makers of Better Quality Sausage from Dignitied Pigs, from thi- studio's of the Southern Network in Gretna, the Brooklyn of the South. Your announcer is Clifford Joseph Prados, and we take you now across the mighty Mississippi to the new 17-million dollar Silverman Theatre, where you will hear the Silverman Grand Orchestra playing the overture under the direc- tion of Rudy Geoffray, followed by the stage show. with the inimitable Sum- ter Lallande, mastering the ceremonies. Here they are. A voice interrupts from the opposite side of the window. Choke it, Boom. They'll be having another of those saxophone solos by Fred Tuberville that bring dry sobs to the old larynx. I am not in the mood. No, donit turn on the television. We'll only see Billy Kingfs Scandals of 1951 and we've seen 'em before. And never mind turning on the news. Wllat care we if the Wickershani committee has postponed its report again? 'l'hey'ri: been doing it ever since . . . since . . . well, it must have been about the time we graduated from high school-when was that? Nineteen thirty-one. Say, you and 1 are getting old, do you know it, Boom? That's twenty years ago. Good old days, those were. Remember the wild yarns I used to write for the Old Gold and Purple about you usually had green eyes. Sure there me, though. Marrried another guy. that was the year of the Business thought the bottom was out of the going to the dogs . . . so they gave and your gang? Remember the heroines was a reason. She made a Steve out of Three other guys, in fact. Well . . . Depression, remember, when everybody universe and the whole darn world was us our diplomas and turned us loose on gli li.:vf,..,,