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History of the Sophomore Class of Blakely
.... High School ....
On the 15th day of September,!
1916, Doris Roberts, Amzie Jones, j
Evelyn Cohen, Wilma Owen, Hallie
Beckham, Ruth Hammond, Emmie:
Loyless, Petrona Underwood, Melvin |
Middleton and Elton Spence came,
tripping into the little red school i
house late. As the girls, with their
braided hair tied with beautiful cal
ico strings, and the barefoot boys:
with turned up pantaloons and torn!
brim hats, marched dolefully into
the school room, they were joyful-;
ly greeted by the smiling teacher;
(Mrs. Emmett Freeman), who with
a scornful look spanked poor Mel
vin and Elton right then and there:
and made the sobbing girls bring |
her a bunch of flowers every day ■
for a week, besides staying in every |
recess for the same length o’ time.
And the very first day Amzie Jones i
cried to go home and see “mamma.’’,
So that is the way they started off i
the long journey of school life. They |
sat through the first year without
moving and entered the second grade |
chock full o’ knowledge.
This time Mrs. Nettie B. Coachman:
was governor, and Miss Mabie Mc-
Lendon hopped out of the skies and
luckily floated into our hands on a
pillar of cloud. The second and
third years went along just fine with
Mrs. Coachman as teacher, and what
do you reckon happened? Why, Miss
Minnie Clarke deserted her own :
class and joined ours on account of!
the numerous handsome boys (Elton.
Spence in special view).
The following year, which was the;
fourth, Mrs. W. C. Cox taught our;
brilliant little class, and with a clap!
,of thunder Miss Carolyn Fryer fell
to our floor with a hard thud, ask
ing admittance. She was welcomed
by all and flirted the rest of the
year, not with one, but with all the
boys.
We entered the fifth grade with
flying colors and went fine for two
weeks. But then the trouble start-;
ed. 13 girls found they could not’
get along, so sued for alimony and ■
we were separated for one whole;
year, Mrs. N. B. Coachman being
one teacher and Miss Mary Lou
Folds the other. But when Septem-!
her, 1921, came, we came back to-:
gether and Mrs. Herman Smith ledj
us through one year of trials and'
tribulations. Here Margaret Her
ring joined us.
We went into the sixth grade like’
air eagle, going slowly and cautious
ly, but we came out like a donkey,
going 50 miles an hour.
When we entered the 7th grade
the girls got tired of the boys
again and sent them to toil in the
depths below, supervised by Miss
Beulah Crow. The girls took it
easy, led by Miss Annie Moore Grier,
and came out with high honors
and with three more girls added to
our list, Adelle Bridges, Zeffie White
and Belle Hayes. But during the
time we were in the seventh grade
our first great blow came to us.
We lost Sarah Cox, one of our most
beloved and friendly girls. This
grieved us very much, but we kept
up with our studies and passed.
So the boys and girls joined hands,
the boys having accumulated Jeffy
Jernigan, the class sheik, and burst
into High School like a new born
chick.
Miss Lucy Donalson guarded us
this year like a cat guards her kit
tens, and Billie Westbrook, Fill Yar
brough, John Deal, Frances Strick
land, Edith Smith and Lottie Mae
Hall stayed back in order to be old
enough to marry when they grad
uated.
So the old year went on. Every
body passed and we came to Mr.
Mangham, who greeted us with a
broad grin, but a hidden tear. With
him were Theo Williams, the class
heart-breaker, Ernest Sessions, Eric
Lee, Charlie Allen, the class sissy,
and Dutch Barksdale, the class tea
hound, accompanied by Rosa Chand
ler, Jewel Anderson and Fred Davis
Dußose. We went through a hap
py year and every one passed with
an average of 100.
Then we took a peek at Miss
Ella and she gave us a look cf
scorn which made us shake and
shudder. After we regained courage 1
we stole in quietly and passed with
out her ever knowing it. Our last
year brought with it both sunshine
and rain. Carolyn Fryer ran away
with a travelling slesman and did
nothing less than marry him.
Mrs. Abernathy put up with us
through the eleventh grade and the
remaining graduated: Wilma Owen,
first honor; Jefferson Jernigan, sec
ond; Petrona Underwood, booby
prize, which was a teething ring.
Terr years later, while looking
over the class roll, which I had saved
for so long, I traced up all those 1
could and found them to be as
follows:
Jewel Anderson —Ferocious wild
woman in Barnum-Bailey cirdlis.
Hallie Beckham —Mrs. Jeffy .Terni
gan, a fine housewife.
Adelle Bridges—Grand opera sing
er going all over the world.
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Adelaide Carmichael —Leading lady
in Ziegfield Follies.
Rosa Chandler—World’s greatest I
evangelist.
Minnie Clarke —Teaching algebra j
at Bancroft.
Evelyn 1 Cohen—America’s moat
perfect woman.
Fred Davis Dußose —World’s ama-i
teur golf champion.
Carolyn Fryer—Grass widow, hav-|
ing had five divorces.
Lottie Mae Hall —Book agent sell
ing bibles.
Ruth Hammond —State senator. I
Dorothy Hayes—-“ Miss America," ■
getting ready to attend international
beauty contest.
Margaret Herring—Peddling pat-
ent medicine.
Amzie Jones —Prim old maid living
in Kalamazoo.
Emmie Loyless—Serving 3 months!
term in penitentiary for beating her
husband.
Mabie McLendon —Went crazy on
the subject of men.
Frances Strickland —Fat woman of
550 lbs. in Ringling Bros. Circus.
Edith Smith —Died of heart failure
from being disappointed in love.
Petrona Underwood —Famous com
edian.
Zeffie White —Proprietor of beauty
parlor.
Belle Hayes—Snake charmer.
Doris Roberts—Traffic cop iir city
of Blakely.
Charlie Allen —Famous daredevil.
Wm. Barksdale —Pastor of First
Holiness church, Hilton, Ga.
John Deal —Blakely barber.
Jeffy Jernigan—Noted attorney.
Melvin Middleton—Parked at Mil
ledgeville (imagine the rest).
Ernest Sessions —Leading the Mid
night Revelers (dance orchestra).
Elton Spence—Multimillionaire in
New 1 York.
Theo W’illiams —Still pursuing a
wife.
Billie Westbrook —Dealing in cos-;
fins, tombstones, etc.
Fill Yarbrough—Sexton of Arling-j
ton cemetery.
Eric Lee —Keeper of the zoo and '
monkey trainer.
1 also found a list of the B. H. S..
high school teachers and found them
to be:
Miss Una Jones —Died of starva-|
tion trying to reduce.
Mr. McKenzie Mangham—Preach-I
ing evolution in Africa.
Miss Ella Jones —Just signed a 25
year contract to teach Latin in B.
H. S.
Mrs. Abernathy—A great designer
in Paris.
Mr. McCarty—Teaching Algebra
in a school for the Insane.
"The Signal Tower,” greater pic
ture than “The Storm." at the Sen
eca Theatre Friday night. Don’t miss
It.
Bethel Bajlisl Sunday Scliool
...CONVENTION...
TO BE HELD AT
ARLINGTON BAPTIST CHURCH
Arlington, Ga. r June 12, 1925
PLEASE SEE THAT YOUR SCHOOL IS REPRESENTED
PROGRAM
SONG LEADER D. C. MORGAN
9:00 A. M. Devotional B. B. Sheppard
9:15 Special Song Male Quartette
9:25 Welcome Address H. M. Melton
9:35 Building a Great Surrday School R. H. Ferrell
10:20 Song.
10:30 S. S. Worker Preparing for His Work .... R. E. Zachert
11:00 Sunday School Echoes G. W. Andrews
11:45 Appoint Committees.
11:55 Report of Sunday School.
12:30 Lunch.
1:30 P. M. Devotional E. L. Smith
1:45 What Teacher Training Has Meant to
Me Mrs. H. M. Melton
2:10 Report of Our Field Worker Miss Guillebeau
2:?0 Special Song Blakely Sunday School
2:40 Business.
2:50 Round Table Discussion.
3:30 S. S. Evangelism J. C. Grimes
4:00 Adjourn.
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