Ulyss and Pearl Caine Holliman and their Descendants

The Seventh Child of Ulyss and Pearl Caine Holliman
Ralph Holliman,  Growing up, Part II
by Glenn N. Holliman, nephew

This is the second of a series on the seventh child of Ulyss and Pearl Caine Holliman.  Left, young well-dressed Ralph Holliman, around age 11 and growing fast, had his photo taken at the side of the Robert W. Daly, Sr. home,  just across the lawn from  his own house.  

Ralph proved a good student and as with his siblings, Bishop and Virginia, developed into a public speaker.  In 1938 Ralph from Irondale Junior High and Virginia from Shades Cahaba High School found themselves in the finals of a Birmingham speech contest pitched against each other!

The Birmingham News carried the following article about the contest. Note the sub headline from the  scrapbook of his sister, Virginia Holliman Cornelius.


                         

Ralph and his sister, Virginia Holliman Cornelius, were at Shades Cahaba High School in Birmingham at the same time, she two years ahead of him.  In this photo, Ralph sits on the right side on the next to the back row, just right from his future brother-in-law, Walter Cornelius.  The year is 1939.  Virginia and Walter graduated in 1940 and married in 1942.  Ralph would marry his high school sweetheart, Motie Chism in 1943 as the U.S. Army beckoned.

Next posting, the World War comes....