Sumner High School - Echo Yearbook (Greensboro, NC)

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CLASS PROPHECY - oi it n As you know, I have been Fashion Editor of Vogue Maga¬ zine for the past three years. I have just returned from a round the world trip on the Pan American Constellation and decided I would run by to see some of my old friends in Sumner. Well, I left La Guardia Field on April 30 and to my a- mazement, I found that Byron Stevenson was the pilot of the Constellation”, and Virginia Bell was air hostess. I spent four days in London visiting the fashion shops and there I found Irene Gray, of all people, a designer of fash¬ ions who has caused even the Paris designers to watch her progress with envy® While waiting in the hotel lobby one night in London, I looked at a very dignified man seated beside me with that preoccupied air of a scholar® I noticed he was strangely familiar. I saw that he was reading RECENT SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERIES which assured me that it was Billy Lewis. He now heads the Science Department at Oxford University® After seven days in India I flew to China and there had tea with the Generalissimo and Madame Chiang Kai Shek© In the conversation Madam Chiang Kai Shek was telling me about her interest in the Mission Schools and mentioned Dorothy Newman of our class and said she was doing a wonderful job bringing light and hope into the lives of those Chinese children. I spent several days in Manila. I learned that Sidney Pope is Chief of Staff at the Manila General Hospital ® He is doing a wonderful job in combatting malaria. We left Manila and flew to Okinawa for a few hours® We were met at the airport by none other than Col, Charles Austin who is in charge of the U. S. troops on the island. His wife is the former Betty Sharpe. We paused for short stops at Guam, Wake, and Midway Islands, then flew to Hono¬ lulu, Among the group to place leis around our necks when we arrived was Marie Gamble with some of her young students® Marie told me that Emma Short is in charge of the U e S« Schools in the Hawaiian Islands We were entertained in the palatial home of Mr and Mrs, Robert Baker who control vast interests in the pine® apple industry. Mrs. Baker is the former Dolores Cain® From Honolulu we flew directly to San Francisco© As we glided over the Golden Gate Bridge we noticed the neon signs.advertising the Crescent Night Club . We learned that it was owned by Dicky Mooney® At this swanky night