Woodville High School - Ramblers Reveille Yearbook (Woodville, MS)

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The theme was Good-by and Good Luck. This left many things to be remembered in the future years. Last but not least comes our Senior year, the most important year of all. With 31 dignified seniors our membership now stands as: Joyce Anderson, Garland Ann Beard, Wendell Beverly, Gerry Cage, Norman Carter, Mark Curry, Henry D’Aquilla, Sylvester D'Aquilla, Ted Denstel, Prentiss Ferguson, Marilyn Flaccomio, Emile Habig, Celeste Hutson, Brandon Inman, Clyde Leake, Billy Martens, Ted Nowell, Charles Alvin Plitt, Martha Jane Pogue, Bobby Priest, Gwen Stuart, Charles Sturgeon, H. L. Stutzman, John E. Thomas, Bessie Tillery, ThomasA. Waddell, Edward Walker, Pearl Walker, Junior David, Nelda Summrall, and Sylvia Ann Evans. Our sponsors are Mrs. Nolan McCraine and Coach George Gonda. With their constant guidance and support we hope to give a senior play and plan a senior trip that will always be remembered. SETTLEMENT The period settlement is not easy to describe. Nothing remains for long but it appears that the memories of Woodville School will always remain with us. Some of us have chosen our future work, but most of us are still undecided. We have many heartaches and many precious memories as we come to the close of our high school career. We all realize how true are the words of our motto, Not finished - just begun. Celeste Hutson Garland Ann Beard Nelda Sumrall Class Prophecy Class of 1954-1955 ten years from now: James Ted Nowell is a member of the Academy of Arts and Sciences, president of the Perfection Film Company, which turns out three hundred sixty-five ten-reel films each year, one per day. In his employ are heroines in the world of beauty, the most shapely bathing girls, and the bravest heroes. Among his best known films are Oroastus, a Greek Epic, and The Multiplication Tables, a problem play. Hobby: making money. Clubs: Film Fanatics; Fade-Out and Close-Up Society. Hubert Mark Curry is a famous inventor. He is married to Mary Moneybags, daughter of the multimillionaire, T. Goofus Moneybags. Has invented over one thousand laborsaving devices, all of which are blessings to humanity.

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Class History The history of the class of '55 can be divided into three parts: Discovery, Exploration, and Settlement. DISCOVERY The discovery of the class of 1955 was an accident. Twelve years ago, early one morn- ing on the 3rd of September, 1943, the second day of school, the faculty of Woodville Elementary School was hurrying down the halls, busily preparing for the work of the coming year. Suddenly they caught a glimpse of something new and strange. Just inside the front door, huddled together in mute embarrassment and anxiety, were the members of what became the class of 1955. To the casual eye they seemed merely an ordinary group of scared little first graders, armed with pencils, book sacks and lunch boxes. But at that time neither they nor their teachers knew that they would receive the reputation as the worst class in school. EXPLORATION Time flew by rapidly. How can we ever forget Miss Dooley, Mrs. Sessions, Miss Smith, Mrs. Lotta, Miss Sarah or any of the other teachers who labored so diligently to teach us the three R's? At last we reached a goal. Thirty eight excited eighth graders received certif- icates of graduation from the Woodville Elementary School. The next year we entered high School as green freshmen We had a new superintendent and several new teachers. Highlights of our freshman year were Freshman Day and the parties arranged by our sponsor, Miss Betty Jo Denson. We were always taking the wrong turn, finding ourselves in the wrong classroom and arriving at class half an hour later. Because of our skill in acquiring the customs of the school, we were renamed Sophomores and the process was called by a native name promotion . Remembering the scorn with which we had been regarded we now adopted the same attitude toward the incoming Freshmen. We had as our sponsor. Miss Pearl Lewis. For the first time we were allowed to elect some subjects, so we were not all in the same classes. Then came our Junior year. It was one of the most exciting years in our memories. We had a lot of hard work but all was fun. Our sponsors were Mrs. Bob Hartness and Mr. Jessie Reed. They helped us establish a junior store, which netted a fine profit. They also assisted us with our Junior Play entitled The Perfect Idiot. ” After much planning and consideration we finally accomplished our goal, a Junior-Senior Prom and Banquet.

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Among the best-known products of his agile brain are: Rest-well mattresses for oyster beds, Boomerang collar buttons guaranteed to return to the hand that lost them, Inde- structible leads for silver pencils, and exercises for reducing one's income tax. Hobby: reading detective stories and trying to solve the mysteries. Club: Amalgamated Tinkers. Thomas Arnold Waddell is the owner and manager of the huge chain of restaurants known all over the world as the Eat and Run Restaurants. He is self made and prides himself on his rise from proprietor of a hot dog stand on South Street to owner of one hundred plate glass white front restaurants. He is married to Glenda Gayle, the champion pan-cake flopper of the state. Hobby: analyzing hash. Club: United Restaurant Keepers of the World. John Edward Thomas is an orchestra leader and composer of distinction. He is married to Joan Trillalotta, leading soprano of the Cosmopolitan Opera Company. For the last five years he has been the leader of the Phildiscordant Orchestra and the Air Force Band. Composer of The Third Floor Suite, “ Concerto in A Flat, and Air for the Saxophone and the Tuba. Hobby; raising Airdales, as they remind him of his musicians. Clubs: The Independent Order of Piccolo Players; The Conductor's Club. Clyde Brandon Leake is not a modern type. He is persevering, not easily discour- aged, and never gives up. He finds it hard to fit into the life of today, but one great opening awaits him. In this great age of endurance contests, he is the champion of champions by simply making up his mind what he wants to do and doing it. He has become America's champion pole sitter, non-stop aviator, radio listener, marathon dancer, bicycle rider, pretzel eater, and mammy singer. He is the world's undisputed channel swimmer as, once dropped in, he swims back and forth until his manager remembers to come and fish him out. Albert Brandon Inman, a rare type, is of great interest to a psychiatrist. He has a double complex. As a result, his reactions range from blackest despair to sitting on top of the world. He starts a thing in one mood and finishes in another. The result is always confusing and sometimes deplorable. His vocation is, of necessity, one not bound by rule or reason, a sort of combination steeplejack and deep-sea diver, as it were. He is something in which stability, good judgment, open-mindedness, and lack of prejudice are unessential. He is a baseball umpire and a referee of foot- ball games. James Emil Habig, three times Governor of the state of Angola, is the leader of the new Progressive party. His motto is All for one and that one me. He was candidate for the Presidency last year and defeated by one vote, cast by his campaign manager. Unmarried. Clubs: Mystic Morons; Governor's League; and Knights of Festivity.