The Key West citizen., 1952-10-23
CONCH
CHOWDER
BY RAYMER

There's nothing like looking over
an old high school or college year
book. for laughs. for mixed
memories. and for making the
locker feel age creeping UP and
not like a re-rompered child,
either. Night before last Jeanne
Skewis and ! went over to Winston
Jones house where he had
kindly stored about 500 books
of mine. We wanted to get some
for the writing group which meets
at Jeanne's and Skis house next
Wednesday (you are invited if
interested). We struggled out with
several crates and promised to get
the other half dozen later. On top
OF one collection, there was an old
annual of "The Tiger" my high.
school annual when / was a junior
and the essay writer on ''the Lit
erary Team" In looking over the
serious-faced group who self-con.
sciously posed, / howled at the
hair-dos. BIS didn't wear crew
cuts in those days, and girls had
gone in for odd bobbed hair which
called for fluffs on the side, beau
catcher bangs, not like Mamie Els.
enhower's but more like Horsetail
Falls. AS for me, the deceptive pie.
ture from front view looks as if ]
had the same hair style as the 9TH
ers, but actually a long plume OF
hair hung down my back because
my grandparents refused to let me
get the locks out. The following
year after rebellion that lasted for
months, ! did become a shorn lamb
alter much bleating and blatting,
The cARTooNIsT of those
days were being influenced by John
Held Jr. the man who drew long
| limbed gals with rolled garters and
drugstore cowboys with sheikish
Ieers. But the cartoonist for the ath-
Iletic section Of our annual seemed
| to be addicted to pulpy, bulgy
models, the kind who grunt and
groan in the wrestlers ring. As for
the girls basketball team who play
ed boys .rules then, the full wide
boomers, middy-blouses and shoes
had not yet been replaced tthat
came two years laterl by shorts,
| 7 shirts and low cut sneakers.
ANOTHER department was
called personals. 1t was sup
posed to be humorous. Names Of
the faculty and Of classmates were
used IN jokes that must have
pre.dated Joe MilIer's collection.
Samples: Miss Sutton in English
class, Order, please" Voice from
rear OF room, Ham and eggs. I"
Passerby, "Have wfeck?' Bob
Haines, mo thanks, just had one. "
III don't remember this Haines
character but he must have been
the boy who read about how to
be q wit in ten lessons and took
| five. The other Joke" attributed to
him: Professor Ackley in physics
class: ''What did Archimedes dis
cover when he was taking his
bathgt Hines Dirt" And oh the
blush Of il! Jean Osmond: why
Dorothy, how could you tell such
q big yarn? I'm surprised. "
Dorothy Raymer: "You needn'I
be. I ate string beans for dinner. +"
Next year l became Personals
Editor. i am afraid there was
room for but no improvement,
HoMEFR0NT NEWS: Bob
Prints, noted pianist seen strolllng
on Duval 81. Bob Youmans. lawyer.
singer wants 10 get in touch with
him. Collie Claude Is improved,
thank you. .Pretty-as-a-Valentlne
Mary Anne Murphy, Margaret
IForesman's niece from North
Miami sat II out at the Citizen
/ yesterday afternoon and the entire
composing room were discorn'
| posed. I'm off to Miami today
10 get ye mechanical ear checked.
Hope | don't set caught away
from home in the hurricane whici
al this writing is AVS miles south
Of here. and the Naval Station
has declared Hurricane Condition
Number Three. the alert when
loose gear ahould be checked and
all shelters readied just in case,
lin = veteran of five storms and
| they still are frightening. Canned
goods. candles or oil lamps ard
plenty of water in containers
should be collected In case the
power goes off. That and baiten
down the matches and STAY IN
DOORS IN A SAFE PLACE
where flying debris cam
touch you, is the best pEecaution.
tive seen roofs. limbs of trees,
bricks and signs sall thrungh The
air with ease. and AFTER one hlg
storm found a tsso-hy four driven
into = telephone pole.
Sehool P. r. A. made Mrs. Watson
an honorary hfe member of III
Executive Beard of their group n
recognisios ct her tireless service
ard wiling cooperation shFpugA TIE
years. Mrs. WatSon IL uow a p r.