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

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George Prentiss Ferguson is a stolid, slow-moving chap, who will never display either speed or animation. He can be trusted implicitly never to hurry. He has found his proper position in life early. He is a plumber's assistant—the one who goes back for the monkey wrench and can't find it. Henry Joseph D’Aquilla has an athletic body and a lethargic mind. He likes to sit and watch things. His calm disposition, combined with his ingrained inertness, make him the ideal type for a sports promoter. He keeps a racing stable. He had a race track built up the side of a house, keeps a stable of racing snails, lies back in a hammock, and gazes at the cool gray stone of the track, as his faithful snails crawl on and up to victory. Sylvester John D'Aquilla is a splendid example of perfect self-control. He never stutters or stammers, never hesitates for a word, has no complexes and no bad habits of any kind. He can talk very rapidly. His enunciation is so pertect that he seems to take the syllables out of a word, dust them off, and put them back again. And his pronunciation! He can say Tschaikowsky, ” nuance, the names of the members of the Russian Choir, adieu, and Saint Saens, without mislaying a consonant or misplacing a vowel. He had been awarded a gold medal by the International Acad- emy for the Preservation of Speech as the World's most redoubtable radio announcer. Marilyn Rega Flaccomio, a social leader, is the wife of Basil Bates, the stock- broker. She is noted for her lavish and charming hospitality, particularly to visiting celebrities, having recently entertained the Prince of Wales, the King of Senegambia, and Ronell Pierce. Because of her delicate beauty, she has been painted by Van Dyck, Rembrandt, and Michaelangelo. Wendell Bowen Beverly is now the head of Beverly's Better Businesses, which is a chain of groceries. He has gotten so prosperous that he has hired a dance hall girl to count his money. Club: United Food Sellers of America. Gwendolyn Ann Stuart: Not having an ambitious mind and being of the quiet type, Gwen is now a house-wife. William Fredrick Martens is a Rear Admiral. He is a naval officer and target- shooting expert. He won the battle of Puget Sound and Hudson Bay in the last war between Daylight-Saving-Timers and Anti-Daylight-Saving Timers. He is noted for his inability to learn to swim and his skill in singing sea chanteys. It is believed that because of his remarkable radio broadcasts on Deep Sea Navigation Beyond the Rockies, he will receive a promotion being made a Force Admiral. Geraldine Cage is a composite type, with no inhibitions and few ideas, and she loves publicity. She has a good strong voice, can sing two entire songs without losing the tune and doesn't mind doing anything, no matter how silly, so long as she is well paid for it.

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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.

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Norman Carter has been honorably discharged from the army and is now a Fuller Brush salesman. His brushes have made him a small fortune and he is content with life. Margaret Pearl Walker is a nervous, inquisitive type. She is a reporter and, be- cause of her intense interest in everybody's business and her cast-iron nerve which enables her to penetrate where she is not wanted, without embarrassment, she is an excellent one. She is a national celebrity known as Polly Pry of the Graphic News. She is so alert that she interviews a criminal while he is committing the crime and gets tomorrows news last week. Bobby Gene Priest is an interesting case. An overdeveloped imagination and an underdeveloped digestion are producing a wonderful result--the ability to concoct the weirdest tales at practically a minute’s notice. He has become a real estate sales- man, selling Florida lots by the gross to the inhabitants of Labrador, and igloos to the dwellers of the Sahara. I see Ted Denstel amid a yelling throng, under powerful lights. His hand is being held high by a worried-looking gentleman. He is being hailed as the world's heavyweight champion in the Colosseum at Rome, now the International Stock Exchange. Charles Alvin Plitt has become a writer. He is the author of two of the six worst sellers on the market and will soon have another finished. He has become quite famous. Edward Walker, because he always liked good associates, has become a conduc- tor on the Broadway Limited. He meets many distinguished people like Marilyn Monroe, Jane Russell, and Ike himself. Club: Modern Conductors. In the years to come I see H. L. Stutzman as an astronomer, comfortably re- clining on some tropical beach and dreamily gazing at the stars with his beautiful assistant. He howls at the moon and dreams of the day he can go to Mars. Nelda Elaine Sumrall is a charming type, domestic and capable, but with a slight inferiority complex, due to the unfortunate fact that once she received only sec- ond prize in an international bread-baking contest. She has grown fat as the result of eating her own cooking, but she will always be cheerful and a model housekeeper. Cania Celeste Hutson has become an usher in a big movie theatre. It was the only way she could see the shows. She probably enjoys the picture the twentieth time she sees it as well as the first. Bessie Marguerite Tillery is the sixtieth President of the United States of Dogpatch. She has been active in politics since infancy and is especially noted for her unique foreign policy. It has not yet been made public and probably never will be. Charles Ellis Sturgeon has become a major in the array. He spends most of his spare time trying to persuade Phyllis to join the WACs. Hobby: Shooting Pigeons.