Watertown High School - Purple Tiger Yearbook (Watertown, TN)

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CLASS MOTTO: Never acknowledge a failure until you have made your last attempt, And never make your last attempt until you have succeeded. CLASS COLORS: Gold and Purple CLASS FLOWER: Yellow Carnation CLASS POEM OF ’52 Class mater, this is the time when we must leave Dear old W. H. S. forever. It seems like only yesterday to us That we started out together. Let us think for a moment on days that are past, And then on the days yet to come. With that first command, “Be seated, please!”’ We knew our tasks had just begun. At first we thought it a hopeless case, But the teacher who taught us with all her might Said, “Cheer up, children, Just keep trying, things will be all right.” So step by step we have mounted the stairs That have led to the end of the way. And our footprints we are leaving behind us As we pass on to another day. Now what does the future hold for us? Only by time can we tell, But now with our trust in the Higher One, Teachers, Schoolmates, and all — Farewell. Peggy McClanahan ¢

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CLASS PROPHECY As I walked down one of the lower streets of New York about ten years after I graduated from Watertown High School, I saw a dingy sign over a doorway saying that here one might see Madam De Lahl, famous crystal gazer. Principally for the fun of it I turned in. The woman that met me was not different from the average crystal gazer. When she asked me what I desired to know, | gave her a puzzler. “Just tell me what my classmates of ’52 are doing,” I said with a laugh. Very seriously she motioned for me to be seated beside a dirty table, and asked me to look into a crystal ball. Pictured in the ball was the interior of the Metro- politan Opera House. In the orchestra pit I noticed my old classmates Tommy Bruce and Phyllis Patton. The curtain then rose and a beautiful singer stepped forward. Yes, it was Anita Bass. Excerpts from newspapers came before me next. One announced the marriage of Deliah Dockery and Dorothy Travis. Then I saw a large picture of Joe Reeves and under the picture the words, “Popular Senator from Tennessee.” I also saw the marriage announcement of Opal Barrett and Bettye Patterson. The next vision was that of a large office building. Over some of the doors I saw these: Myrna Boyd, School of Dancing; Corley Reynolds, Interior Decorator; Jackie Curtis, Lawyer; Bettye Stoner, Artist. Jack Wood was busy painting a portrait of Sue Walker, a prominent figure in New York social life. Next I saw the dear old high school building. Jack Malone was principal. Jackie Gill was teacher of mathematics, a subject she always loved. Beulah Patton was a French teacher and Peggy McClanahan and Eugene Huddleston were girls’ and boys’ athletic coaches. The scene then shifted to a broadcasting station. Gerald Ferguson was chief announcer. Carlene Lester, singer and Peggy Wright, accompanist, were bright radio stars, while Glen Smith and Billy Robin son were the principals of a radio feature which was fast taking the place of Amos ’n Andy. Next [ saw the offices of the New York Times. I saw Margaret Neal sitting in a chair labeled Editor. Frances Stroud was a feature writer. Martha Shores was Society Editor and Mary Ruth Snyder had a comic strip. As the picture grew fainter, I saw Nell Hearn and Lois Harden successful under- takers. Leora Truitt, Doris Lannon, Pauline Lanier, and Lola Truitt were teachers. After paying the old woman, I went out, my curiosity about my old classmates somewhat sated. Bernice Drennan Class Prophet

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Ruth Adamson David Bain Betty Barrett Jean Barrett Jimmy Bonds David Cassetty Hugh Corley Barbara Davis Sammie Dillon Ray Donnell Marie Edwards Doris Flippen Edna Gannon Mallory Guile Kenneth Harris Bobby Haynes Bob Huddleston Joyce Huddleston Carolyn Jewell