Big Island High School - Islander Yearbook (Big Island, VA)

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Ml Of 7, avne First Row, left to right: Most Popular, Mary Parks, Jack Trevey; Best Athletes, Mildred Burks, Bobby Spence; Neatest, Barbara McNeely, Clarence Sligh; Most Co-operative, Ethel Wilson, James Cox; Most Conceited, Mary Parks, Jack Trevey. Second Row; Wittiest, Mildred Burks, Bobby Spence; Most Dignified, Mary Parks, James Cox; Biggest Flirts, Mildred Burks, Jack Trevey; Best Looking, Ethel Wilson, Jack Trevey; Most Ambitious, Mary Parks, Jack Trevey. Third Row: Best All Around, Mary Parks, Bobby Spence; Most Courteous, Ethel Wilson, James Cox; Smartest, Mary Parks, Jack Trevey; Friendliest, Rachel Arrington, Bobby Spence; Most Likely to Succeed, Mary Parks, Jack Trevey. Fourth Row: Most In Love, Ethel Wilson, Bobby Spence; Biggest Gossips, Betty Hudson, Clarence Sligh; Best Dressed, Barbara McNeely, Jack Trevey; Most Studious, Mary Parks, Jack Trevey; Best Actors, Mary Parks, Bobby Spence.

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Class Pic If is now the year 1961 . We - Mary Parks and Rachel Arrington - have been touring Europe for four years, having decided after college to travel before settling down. As we go into the ancient Spanish castle, we hear the guides whispering about a gypsy fortune teller in a nearby cave. Think- ing that this gypsy could perhaps tell us something of our high school classmates, we hire horses and ride to the cave. The gypsy, in typical garb, invites us in. Sitting before her crystal ball, she soon begins to talk slowly. She sees a copper mining company in South America; the signal is given for releasing a dynamite charge, and there comes a shout from Engineer Spence, Shoot it a mile! This expression he remembers from playing Wilbur Maxwell in school plays. As this vision passes, another comes into view, Captain Bobby Collier is in his latest rocket ship ready for another flight to Mars. In his rocket, he also has one of his inventions - a car that runs without an engine. Captain Collier makes regular flights to Mars and between flights helps Mr. Griggs, whom he has now persuaded to re- pair rocket ships rather than automobiles. As Bobby ' s rocket ship takes off, the vision fades and in its place the gypsy sees a naval base, but she is not inte rested in the base, for she is looking into the home of one of the sailors. This sailor ' s wife is none other than Bobby Noel, for after graduation, Barbara was happily married to Seaman Andrew Smith, and now cares for her home and two girls, Navy style . Now the gypsy tells us of an airplane that has just landed at La Guardia Field. What ' s so inter- esting about an ordinary airplane? weask, and the gypsy tells us that the little stewardess we see giggling is none other than Mildred Burks. It seems that Mildred joined the WAVES afterschool, but after several years of service, decided to become an airline stewardess. As Mildred and the pilot of the plane drive off in a sleek convertible, we learn that he is the Fred Overstreet we used to hear so much about. We are moch disturbed by the noise of a plane doing acrobatics just outside the cave, and learn to our surprise that it is Sabre-Jet Cox — James is now a captain in the Air Force. Re- turning to the business at hand, we find the gypsy still peering into the magic ball, and she tells us of Big Island ' s new Riverside Hospital, whose brilliant chief surgeon is Dr. John Trevey. Jack as he was known in his high school days, is still a bachelor. It seems that he just never could make up his mind which of the college girls he dated in high school it would be. The crystal ball becomes cloudy, but just for a moment, and the gypsy tells us of Norma Smith and Ethel Wilson, whoarenow the hap- pily married Mesdames Curtis Johnson and Dewey Fifer, respectively. Barbara McNeely, who was voted the best-dressed girl in the senior class, is seen by the gypsy as she comes out on the Powers ' Modeling Studio stage in New York, wearing a wedding gown that is a Paris Original. She will be using it in the near future in her own wedding, when she will marry one of New York ' s most promin- ent lawyers. After hearing all this we just sit and think of the many accomplishments of our fellow classmates. To our surprise, we are told that Betty Hudson is now an executive secretary for the Du- Pont Company in Richmond, where she went after graduation to attend business school and make her home. We were curious to hear about Ida Manley, who, we find, has finally decided on Bob as a mate . Very much satisfied that so many of our classmates have turned out so well in life, we thank the gypsy and bid her farewell. We board our ship, the Queen Mary, for home. As we are relaxing on deck, we hear a familiar peal of laughter. Yes, it is Clarence Sligh! How we remember his part- icular laugh from high school days! We turn to view Admiral Sligh and Captain Bobby Patterson, ad- miring the pretty girls on deck. Finally tearing themselves away from these interesting sights, they tell us that they decided to make a career of the Navy. My, how distinguished has been this Class of ' 51 ! we sigh as we lean back in our deck chairs to dream of what the future holds in store for us! Class Prophets Rachel Arrington Mary Parks

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1 . Atta Boy, Spence ! 2. Not that bad, is it? 3. Signals! One-two! 4. Class count-three four ! 5. Seniors attend U. Va. -G. Washington game, Sept. ' 50. 6. Wha 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 hoppen? 7. Parade - Boys ' and Girls ' State-V.P.I. Summer ' 50. 8. Three grads of the class of 1890. 9. O Sole Mio ! 10. Trevey atop Rockefeller center. 11. Help! Little Red men! ( Shock of His Life ). 12. Honorable Senior President 13. Hold that pose, Ethel and Bobby! 14. It ' s a pass! 15. Batter up! 16. The Big Three .