Fairfax Hall High School - Chain and Anchors Yearbook (Waynesboro, VA)

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1920 SBSBEBREBRBBES Fair Facts ssssessseseewss 1921 Last of all, we asked Ouija about our youngster senior, Emmie Portman, “Ouija, are you very, very tired, too very tired to tell us what the fates have in store for Emmie?”’ Ouija is still working madly; the letters just skim over the board. This is what Ouija prophesied: That Emmie would take a wonderful trip to Europe soon and study in Paris to become a costume designer; then come back to New York, where most of the others have eventually landed, and establish a business there. After that Emmie wou!d have her heart’s desire—her one-room house by a little brook, and it would be something new and original in architecture for which Emmie would be highly commended. Then she would fall in love with a New Yorker named ! Ouija was tired! he could say no more. Our futures were told—each one a glorious one. It was the end of a gay, joyous party with Outja, and we said goodbye to each other, believing faithfully in Ouija and hoping all to see each other again. Ouija didn’t tell us whether we would ever meet. We all hoped it though and looked forward to the great day when we could come together again and tell whether our fortunes really had come true. “Ourja, little Ouija, they’re the futures held for us.” —By the PROPHET. SSS 3 SSeS ESS SSS 3 e G 7 BX 2. oes SPER os PIR = ay HOR YS

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1920 BBRBRBRRBK Fair Facts SIIB 1921 decorate her own cozy home. She would have a balanced, even future, but people would not admire her less or be less proud of her. When she should become a staid married lady, she would enter into all social and political science courses and even start a club for “The Appreciation of Art in Your Family.” Yes, she would do great work and would finally be elected to the “House of Fame” in Vanity Fair and would have her pictures in all the Sunday supplements of the New York Times, in appreciation of her betterment of society. O Blows! But who is next! Our dear little Daisy asked Ouija, with the aid of Frances Fagan, what he could do for her. Daisy will be our prima ballerina and will no doubt join the Russian Ballet and be Adolph Bolur’s partner, herself. Yes, Daisy’s future was already mapped out for her when she came to Fairfax Hall. Daisy would always live in New York City with her sister who would be her guiding angel, protect- ing her from the men who “vamp,” and she would help her design her ballet cos- tumes, etc. Daisy would make all she could of her dancing and practically live for it. She would be successful and be loved by all, and New York would flock to see her at the Winter Garden. Daisy would do our Senior Class justice enough in winning her laurels. Then Daisy asked Ouija about Fran Fagan’s future. “Ouija, Ouija, tell us Fran’s future.” Yes, even though Ouija was rather tired jumping about so fast on the board to tell all the spirits said, he saved a great future for Fran. She will leave school and lead the single life of luxury for a time, her hobby being raising blue-ribbon Airdales. Then of course Dwight will come along and ask [fran to marry him. She, with her usual “pomplacency,” (the words of a poet fit her to a T) will calmly say, “yes.” They'll live on a beautiful country place outside of Webster Grove, Missouri, and play tennis, golf, and swim together, raise blue- ribbon Airdales—having a good time all around—Yes, they'll live happily ever after, and Fran will always be the beautiful, smiling blonde. Then Ouija, always gracious Ouija, prophesied for our dancing queen, Helen Schoene, a brilliant future, brilliant not only because of her talent, but also because she would shine brilliantly before the footlights, for Helen will lead the stage life, too. Her greatest ambition always was to be a dancer; and as the saying goes, ‘Where there’s a will, there’s a way.” So Elelen will study in Chi- cago and in New York under fine teachers and will finish in the Denishawn School. Then she'll come out via the Midnight Frolics or the Winter Garden Roof. Will the world be dazzled by our stunning Helen? Yea! and Ouija hints at Cinema, which must mean that she may eventually join the “movies.” There will be many a box of candy and flowers awaiting her at the green-room door after a successful night in the Follies. It is a gay life in store for Helen, and she’ll make it all it should be.

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1920 REBVBRBBCEBEEG aie Facts SSsewees 1921 Last Will and Testament of Senior Class JO HART ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW WuenrEAs this joyous, yet tearful, day has come when we can toss aside our thumb-worn books and stepping forth from our protecting boarding-school walls follow at will the beckoning finger of life and adventure, be it, therefore, Resolved, That we, the graduating class of 1921 of Fairfax Hall, flattering ourselves on being of sane and thoughtful minds, have thought proper to make our last will and testament, separating us from all our misfortunes and responsi- bilities, bestowing same upon our successors, that is to say: We, the Class of 1921, do give, devise and dispose of all our property, except that which we consider necessary for our own use and happiness, in the following manner: We give to the Junior Class all our Senior privileges, which we had so hoped to get ; our responsibilities, which we feel sure will bow down each of them, even the most frivolus ones. To one-half of the Freshmen we can think of nothing dearer to our hearts to leave than our brilliant records in athletics and classes, hoping that they will not be jealous when we leave to the other half our unfailing success in giggling and chattering like 5-year-olds in chapel. For the entire student body and long-suffering faculty, we have nothing of value to leave, but we can only plead that they deem it fit to erect a monument to our precious memory. The following girls can keep quiet no longer—let them speak: I, Frances Fagan, do hereby will and bequeath my seat in chapel to Miss Raymond, since she seems to have such an unusually hard time finding one. To Georgia Lyons I leave my bottle of peroxide, hoping that she may find it 5D 7 y 5D » as successful as I have. After much thought, I have decided to will my single room to the long-suf- fering Elizabeth Gibson,