Bedford High School - Peaks Yearbook (Bedford, VA)

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Senior Play OUKSO AR TSSwWERE YOUNG AND GAY, Presented by)......2.:.... THE C1ass OF 1955 Directed by Miss Vircinta Rurr anp Miss JosEPHINE Biss CAST SST ee cL Cl Sean ag ON ot ek a See a Dae Se snag sad is ao ahaa SR HarpEN ATKINSON RULES. EOTAVST Soe EE lace a a a Nancy JOHNSON (Crsysave Hey (OMG fe eRe SN RES WOO Ce ERA ts RN eee reg Linpa Boyer UGS USNS in: 2G oA Nya eh MS ieee ry ae re a Bitt Driscouu + Fille PAROS eile roy ey ict ne Ae a ELIZABETH Burks ESC RR a ren ernie Ua FO Rok 0th Cee Nep OVERSTREET HONOREES 5 each Grin ane Soa eRe ge nas eke, ae THELMA Epwarps TCR Vil CCl Seen eA eR AE 9 Saeco Me a AR cee, dh eh ta Da.uas PINION ENG RPTBREND o.3 ec Fo Sine aE ORR AGE a Neti ct a Cart WELLS inlW eek? Tle: I kelevees: Oooils Dae een eee ee a rr HELEN Nance SE eelnLs AU Taper pene Cet mins nr eRe ANT Se Se WR, ANNE DENTON COM LCL. Vo Vato mn ee ete er een. char, He Gar. Be ac ok ee EUGENE RYDER WY DYSS Re ex, 5 alattec, eek ee Race ae nr ee ee Betty Bow Linc PC reSc meine tt rare ene OM ek Me nave Shh wh a ddaty aa Betty Ray LazEnBy ah Bays awe eee MEGS old CoS 8 20 a SN EL a JACQUELINE HarPER NOR ICUteL erlang OTOL Kets Mere Mia ce © REY A c.g evans eal ANNE JOHNSON VT CLO We CElCat Chama cat eer sect ee ee ta ee), Oe aes Sut Ray OVERSTREET by NOPSIS SOF (PEAY Midst tender admonitions from Mrs. Skinner and hilarious comments from her husband, Cornelia Otis Skinner and Emily Kimbrough, two American college girls of the 1920’s, set sail for Paris. Emily and Cornelia play to pose as suave cosmopolitans on the trip; but while Cornelia is por- traying a woman in black, Emily is rushing around putting cookies in the lifeboats. Leo and Dick, handsome Harvard medical students, attempt to take care of these astonishing girls; but they find almost more than they can handle when Cornelia gets the measles just as the ship docks in France. This paves the way for the girls’ experiences in France, which include Cornelia’s rather trying times with an exploding gas meter and a temperamental French actor. Fortunately, Cornelia’s parents arrive just in time to dispose of the actor and all the other troubles.

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Class Will and Testament We, the graduating class of 1955, do hereby declare this to be our last will and testament wherein we make these final bequests to the students and faculty of Bedford High School. To the faculty, which has so patiently instructed us through the years, we leave our deepest love and respect. To Mr. Borden, our principal, we bequeath our wholehearted admiration and appreciation for the help he has given us in solving the problems that we have faced during our school life. To the student body as a whole, we leave the high standards of citizenship, sportsmanship, and scholarship which we have strived to maintain during our high school days. To the class of ’56 we bequeath the following items: 1. The honor of wearing caps and gowns next June. 2. The glory of appearing in the senior play. 3. Our two senior home rooms, 22 and 25, which we shall fore hold sacred in our memory. 4. Our admiration of Shakespeare, along with our extraordinary gift for interpreting him properly. 5. Our seats in assembly, of which we are so proud. 6. The tremendous task of making enough money to go on a senior trip. We also make the following individual bequests: I, Elizabeth Burks, do leave my scholarly abilities to whomever may attain them. I, Jimmy Marsh, do wish to leave my title of “ Most Conceited” to Bill Dooley, hoping he will pass it on to whomever may deserve it. I, Ray Overstreet, leave my great Latin vocabulary to Andrew Hudson. I, Anne Denton, with Eugene Ryder’s permission, leave our title of ‘‘ Biggest Case” to Curtiss Merritt and Barbara Simpkins. I, L. D. Lynch, leave my seat in government, where I catch up on my sleep, to anyone who needs it. I, Bill Driscoll, leave my record in track to Tom Kennedy. My physique I leave to Ippy Johnson. I, Phyllis Saferight, do leave my title of ‘Quietest” to Gail Pollard. I, Betty Ray Lazenby, leave my athletic ability to Sue Nance. I, Betty Ruth Bowling, do bequeath my forgetfulness to Peggy Wood. I, Mary Lois Hardy, leave my culinary arts to Ann Snead. I, Linda Boyer, leave my musical talents to Louise Vaughan. I, William Eubank, do will my ability to moan and groan over assignments to Jimmy Hopkins. We, the class of ’55, declare the above to be our last will and testament and do hereby afhx our names to it. Testator LoutsE FizER

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Class Prophecy Have you, the readers of this prophecy, ever been to the mysterious land where the snake enchanter, Alladin and his lamp, and the genu originated? I just returned from that land, India, to tell the most fantastic adventure I have ever experienced. Six months ago I was on my annual vacation in India. Walking along a city street, I suddenly saw a small child falling from a tree. I rushed to her, picked her up and carried her inside the nearest building, which was large and weird. I was met at the door by an old lady, and I quickly told her about the accident. Together we came to the conclusion that her little grand-daughter was merely frightened from the fall. The old lady told me she was Mrs. Yun, the queen of India, and she insisted that she repay me for what I had done. I followed her into a candle-lit room and she presented me with the most magnificent maroon rug I had ever seen. I didn’t believe her when she stated, “This is a magic carpet that will take you anyplace you wish.” Seeing my doubts she added, “Why don’t you let it take you to see each of your classmates, since you say you haven’t seen many of them since the night of graduation, June 3, 1955. After much persuading I sat upon the carpet, and away I flew. As I floated over Bedford High School’s athletic field, I noticed Peggy Hopkins, the girls’ physical education instructor, teaching the freshman class the fundamentals of soccer; it looked as if they were having the same success we did when we were freshmen. Miss Janie Garraghty and Mrs. Jacqueline Harper Dooley, elementary teachers, were leading their children to the high school to see a movie pertaining to their studies. Floating over the high tree tops, I found L. D. Lynch, who was supposed to be the county sanitation engineer, snoozing under the shade of a big maple tree! On down town my magic carpet speeded. Instantly I recognized Doris Crawford Croft sobbing over another of her father’s demolished cars. She had just smashed it against a telephone pole on West Main Street. Doris kept books for her father at Lake Motors, until this accident. I bought a Bedford Democrat and from it learned the vocations of many of my classmates. Joy Mae Wilkerson was a successful office manager of the Southern Flavoring Company. Thelma Edwards was a nurse in a Richmond hospital. The state cooking award had been presented to Mary Lois Hardy by the President of the United States. Jimmy Marsh and Ned Overstreet were soon to begin their electrical engineering careers at the General Electric Plant in Roanoke. Racing through the sky toward Lynchburg, I noticed a store with a big sign—‘‘Buy Tonight; Buy at Saferight.” The name Saferight rang a bell; and as I passed the store, Phyllis Saferight, partnership owner with her Dad, was busily gathering groceries for Shirley Leftwich, a stenographer for one of Bedford’s prominent lawyers. Margaret Lemon was also in the store, telling the gossip she heard during her day as a telephone operator. As I was cruising past a large window of E. C. Glass High School, I saw Betty Ruth Bowling applying the knowledge she had obtained at Longwood College. She was rapidly typing a letter, with the aid of a dictaphone, to Joanne Burnette of Daytona Beach, Florida, to see if she would appear on the Glass Variety Show. Miss Burnette was the vocalist at one of Daytona’s aristocratic hotels. Miss Louise Fizer and Miss Alice Haynes became secretaries for Craddock-Terry Shoe Company immediately after they graduated from Phillip’s Secretarial College. Someone told me that both of these girls are so tired of seeing and hearing about shoes that they often go to work barefooted! Circling into North Carolina, I saw Berkley Comer on a hillside near Charlotte. He was carrying a huge sack of herbs on his back. Several days later I saw in the paper that Berkley was an expert hair dyer, and that he uses the herbs to make special dyes. At the present time he is a blond. In Raleigh County Carl Wells and Harden Atkinson have adjoining farms. As my carpet silently swept over them I heard them discussing whether to thrash or to combine their wheat for the oncoming year. Crossing over Myrtle Beach, I noticed Mer- maid Nancy Johnson teaching swimming to some pupils on vacation there. Nancy is a recreational leader in vacation resorts each summer. Betty Ray Lazenby, medical secretary for Dr. Billy Driscoll, is making a study of peaches in Georgia. Her adviser there is an expert on the subject, and she reports that she never knew there was so much to learn about “peaches”! As I neared New York I wondered how many of the seniors went back there to live after our senior trip. Curiosity got the best of me; I bought a New York paper to glance through it and see if any of our class was mentioned. I was astonished to find that Anne Johnson, still not knowing French well, had opened the Mademoi- selle Angele Dress Shop. Gene Ryder, chief engineer at Radio City, was