Bedford High School - Peaks Yearbook (Bedford, VA)

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26 hand expert, and dictates a letter to Miss Anne Padgett, noted chemist, who is working on a formula for synthetic booze. Colonel Carlyle is sponsoring the experiment. Ah! Another couple approaches the spacious mansion; yes, it's Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Reynolds, the former Rachel Hoback, who manage Carlyle’s large estate. There seems to be another couple lounging at “Julep Hill”; it’s “Dizzy” Stanley, big league base-ball pitcher, and his fiancee, Margaret Saunders. Mr. Claiborn Arrington, local postman, tosses the paper upon the veranda; and as it falls open, we see that Barbara “Pin Up” Johnson and Harry Besosa, noted engineer, are planning a world tour along with Malcolm Dea- con, who has amassed a fortune in the laundry business, and Bill Miller, florid play boy of New York. Also on this trip are Misses Sylvia Rob- erts, Louise Beard, Doris Whorley, Lillie Belle O’Donohoe, and Eloise Luck, all professional nurses. There’s a group of teachers on board, too; namely, Miss Janet Hicks, Laura Walker, Mary G. Holland, Helen Leftwich, Marjorie Holland, and Nancy Ballard. Other graduates seen were: Doris Blankenship, Betsy Smith, Kathryn Vaughn, and Kathleen Elliott. With this last scene the vision vanished, and your humble prophet was left in peaceful slumbers. PAUL OVERSTREET, Class Prophet

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25 Class Prophecy Listen, O my children, to these words of wisdom. Listen, that ye may hear a the great divination revealed to your most humble seer by the Divine One. a he lay in docile slumber, your lowly prophet was blessed with an omnipotent power; and a rev elation of the illimitable future of the class of ‘44 was made unto this humble person through a vision. From out of the mist comes the glare of foot lights, behind which stands Willie “Bernhart” Nichols, the great American Actress, enacting the famed dagger scene from Macbeth. Ah, yes, and in the orchestra pit there’s “Kettle Drum” Marshall and his “Hot Rocke.” There are quite a number of celebrities in the audience, too, such as Ann Anderson, the Dorothy Thompson of 1954, taking notes for her column and throwing peanuts into the balcony; then there’s “Olsa” Craig just back from big- game hunting in Africa; with her is “Play Boy” Fizer, local Casonova, now divorcing his ninth wife. But wait! There’s an interruption; a voice screams, “Is there a dentist in the house?” and as Dr. Fields steps forth, a man rushes up and cries excitedly, “Come quickly, Doctor, my wife’s cutting a tooth!” As the excitement dies down, Mr. Frank Sin- atra steps into the spotlight and announces that his next wife is to be none other than Miss June Scott, famed debutante. A hush runs over the house as Miss Eunice Moore steps to the stage and pleads for funds to help the Missionaries in China, where she and her fourth husband Call preachers) are planning to carry on their good work. The scene changes and the odor of magnolias blends faintly into my lethargy. From pehence cometh this pleasant scent, you ask? Why, my children, it issues from the luxurious plantation of Colonel Carlyle, a truly ¢ great Southern gentleman. On the veranda we see Colonel Car- lyle and General J M. Bower, retired, who now runs a neighboring chicken farm, talking with Rusty Zimmerman, famed Wee enoman anil sipping mint juleps.. You guessed it, friends. The well in the back- yard doesn’t contain water. It’s rumored that Colonel Carlyle and Henry Howard are running a still in addition to their regular duties. Purely carrying on the tradition of the South, of course. The topic of conversation seems to be the next presidential election in which Wendell Willkie and Miss Julia Dooley, now Congresswoman, are running against—yes, that’s right, it’s good old F. D. R. Horrors! There’s a terrifying roar heard, and Sine ‘de-Servesky” Phillips zooms over in his newest rocket ship, followed by Major John Arthur of the Army Air Force. Colonel Carlyle calls his secretary, Miss Mary Cox, short-

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27 Class Will We, the Senior Class of Bedford High School, in this last will and testament do bequeath the items to follow to our immediate suc- cessors, the Junior Class. We deem it wise to distribute our virtues to those friends whose needs they seem best to fit—to those who will make the best use of the talents that have served us so faithfully these four years. These are our decisions, at last arrived at through very deliberate consideration. We now dispose of the following: We give and bequeath to our teachers, who have so patiently in- structed us through these years, more peaceful and restful days. Many times we have Gaaced them to worry or to become upset by playing an unnecessary prank, disobeying a rule, or by not doing the required work. Seniors top the list for that sort of thing, and we are no exception. We give and bequath to our principal, Mr. Borden, our deepest greece and devotion. May it be his joy to see each of us overcome | obstacles and achieve great success. We give and bequeath to Bedford High School as a whole our loyal spirit that the ones who follow may feel the same patriotic pride that we have experienced. We give and bequeath to the War Bulletin editor and staff all the events to come that enter our lives that they may furnish plenty of news to those who are away from home. We give and bequeath to the Junior Class as a whole Julia Dooley’s and Ann Atrlen’s knowledge with the hope that the class may be able to use it as well as they did. The following may seem but trivial bequests, but we hope that they may prove enable assets to those who receive them. May they is a continual reminder of the generosity displayed in our free and ull bestowal. i lo-our sponsors, Miss Patterson and Miss Bibb, our profound admiration as individuals as well as a group. 2. ‘To presidents of future Senior Classes, Paul Overstreet’s abil- ity to fill this office so efficiently.