Bladensburg Junior High School - Highlights Yearbook (Bladensburg, MD)

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PRO: HBCY A11 graduates of Bladensburg Junior High School living in California held a class reunion during the summer of 1959. During a discussion of the wonderful and rapid advances in science, we decided we would like to take a trip back to Metropolitan Washington to see how these modern changes had affected the communities in which we had grown up. After several weeks of preparation, our party boarded the Commuters' Space Mobile, and in two hours we were in the heart of Washington! Before we left,'we decided that it would be appropriate for each member of our party to have a secretary to keep a record of every minute of our exciting trip. Among these secretaries were Shirley Hynson, Mary Melson, Judy Corwin, Alice Porterfield, margaret Leizear, and Kay Woodson. Carolyn Johnston typed the final copies of the happenings of our trip, which we hope to treasure the rest of our lives. Sally Bright filed all these records for us. ' . As we arrived at the capital, we were welcomed by some of our class- mates who were newspaper reporters and photographers. We were glad to see reporters Karen Rasmussen, Nancy Rogers, and Janice Robison. Photogra- phers Dixie Lee Quinn and Gae Robinson took many pictures of us. In sixty seconds our Space Mobile took us to the University of Mery- land. The teachers there to greet us were Dean Doris Poole, Betty Price, Joann Carl, Patsy Barber, June Hickerson, and Carol Beckner. A few of the students offered us the key to the college; among these students were Dickey Maxwell, James Bryan, Lauren McNeil, and Mhry Townsley. As we toured the heart of Maryland, we saw the new Prince George's Hospital built by the government. We were greeted by Catherine Neilson, head nurse. The other nurses in charge were Mary Alice Windle, Theresa Belange, Penny Keefer, Helen Mallery, Delores McNeil, Dorothy Lovell, Marjorie Robins, Betty Joan Pippert, Charlotte Limerick, Jean Cook, Dorothy Sampson, and Louise Palazzo. While passing the laboratory, we saw Evelyn Porterfield and Lorena Hauser studying some new chemicals. We talked to Dootors Frederick Beane, Marlene Gordon, Esther Smith, Carol Zimmerman, and Jane Hartley. About a mile from the hospital, we noticed a modern dog and cat hospital. We really heard a lot of barking and meowing because veterina- rians Evelyn Thien, Ronald Geist, and Solveig Lauritzen were out to lunch. We spent a few enjoyable minutes watching Frances MEyhew, who was a most efficient trainer of the dogs. Helen Thompson was one of her helpers. During our stay in Washington, D. 0., we visited the'new museum, one of the United States' mOSt beautiful buildings. Shirley Henderson won fame drawing the plans for the building. It took many engineers to build this, but most of the credit was given to James Connelly, the head meson; civil engineer, Ronald Palmer; and assistant engineers, Jack Woodruff, Billy Anderson, and Erich Fronck. We were escorted through the museum by Sammy Golway. After leaving the museum, we visited the Federal Building. Our guide said it was planned by the finest engineers John Newland, Charles walker, and Victor Love. eAs we reached the sixth floor, our guide left us with Ralph Shoemaker, the secret F. B. I. agent. We listened to him giving orders to his assistant, Jerry Criscuolo. Our party thought that no trip would be complete until we visited Woodward and Lothrop's 1959 Fashion Show. Joy Hurt, Betty Dearstine and Anna Libernini were modeling slick evening apparel; Jean Birch and Kay