Botetourt High School - Post Yearbook (Gloucester, VA)

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There are forty-seven Juniors, who look forward with a sad,eweet pain to the idea of becoming Seniors. We Juniors have watched this year’s Senior class with a certain amount of pain. We don’t believe that Seniors have to be like that } but we sympathize with them any¬ how, and we are taking them on a party to prove we like them. But just the same, we, the Juniors, have solemn¬ ly resolved that next year, when we are Seniors, we will be different. We have resolved that we will not act important, but try to do important things. As individuals, we have made ether good resolutions along the same line. Stephen Thruston has resolved not to sing in public as often as Edward Fields. Margaret Lamberth has resolved not to recite like Ann Byrd Atkins, but to do quite other¬ wise and much better. Bobby ' Harper has resolved to decline the legacy of Cath¬ erine Catlett ' s friendship left him by Shields Fletcher, and will hunt up somebody fascinating who knows Latin, like Cornelia live. Minnie Robins has resolved not to be like Cecilia Clopton next year, but to pass on her boy-friends to her friends. Mary Jenkins has resolved not to try to excel the nightin¬ gale of this year’s Senior Class, Charlotte Boush. Virginia Fletcher has resolved that when she plays piano solos, they shall be very different from those Hcylo Roane plays. Margaret Foster has resolved that in preparation for being a Senior next year,she will try not to worry about Junie Robins leaving school. Frances Muse has resolved to get a figure lixe Esther Sutton, which is the solitary compliment paid the Seniors by this year ' s Junior iass. Everett Powers has resolved that, having seen the con¬ sequences of Spencer Vaughan’s habit of stealing the hearts of all the girls, that he will not fascinate more than two or three at a time. Tommy Brothers has resolved not to stop growing like Roy Nuttall did. But in addition to making these resolutions, the Junior Class proposes to be helpful,now, as they now wish last year ' s Juniors had done. To this year ' s Scphcmcres, who will bo Juniors next year, we offer the following useful tips$ Latin II, which many of you will take next year, is hard, If you take it, you ' ll have to study. We tried, but didn’t find any way out. Everett Rich will find it wise to take a seat on the third row in Junior room, if he wants tc be seen by Ada Oliver. Geometry is a good subject. It is just hard enough, and you can help each other and talk all you want. —-You’re welcome!

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There are thirty-three members in the Senior Class, which means‘that Mr. Spruill has had his troubles. SENIOR PROPHECY trust seventeen years from now (so I dream) T am Dr. Fields, plastic surgeon. My first pa¬ tient is Elsie German, who comes ‘n for a bit of face-lifting. (This is 1955, remember. ) T ; hile I am preparing for the oper¬ ation she tells me that Roy Nuttal is managing the Yankees this year, and Jeff Robins is his star pitcher and Hammond Hall has at last become an admiral. I lift her face six inches, and get to work on Esther Sutton and Cecilia Clop- who are reducing their SU- to translate Latin to August- sun Noble comes in for a face- ine Smith. Hoyle Roane T s dignMrft. I can see it s going to ty to Louise Mele. Esther be a tough jod, so I call m Sutton’s figure to Frances my nurse-assistants, Hoyle Muse. Ivy Dutton’s worries to Roane, Jeanne Kerns, and Jo sic Charles Bristow. Elsie German.3 Kerns. While we’re all working, u ” ude-Nuttall comes m, all the Senior Class, self about graduate hereby give and bequeath; Charles V iatt’s feet to FTed- bon, die Brown. Susan Noble’s abilityMstomers by a new process . + sun Noble comes m lor a i ability to loaf to Margaret T U -L . a- ' ’ Lamberth. Jeanne Kerns ' quiet-way from Hollywood. She ' s hess to Louise Mele. Cum Byra tnrilled because + S +nnrt Jach Atkins ' negro dialect to Miss an is the new Botetourt coach Margie Judith Feild’s soph- and Edith Dowling has at last Jean Ball. JUniemarried the ship yard official isticaticn to Robins’ girls to ' ' Dinky ' ” Sears Nellie Oliver’s flirting to Virginia Fletcher- shields Fletcher’s interest in News she’s been after in Newport so long. Doris Givler comes in to make appointments for Geneva Cofield and Adeline pierce, her erinC Catlett°to°Bob ' ov ££ or. partners, in that beauty-ship. SonI Hall ' s intellectual Old age xs creepins up. I ' m Catn- R ability to Kenneth Jenkins. Mary Figg’s charming person¬ ality to Martha Feild. Maroin Wroten’s unlimited knowledge to Harry Lawrence. And Edith. Dowling’s interest in Latin to Martha Fei-ld . working hard, and Judith Feild waiting to climb on the operating table, when I smell something cooking. It’s Mar¬ garet Milson over in the Bote- tonrt- e z- department. So I wake up., -■Edi w -ajcc]. . p i cm n a...

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OF THE ARE FIFTY MEMBERS 3CPHTM0RE CLASS. WHICH, SAY THEIR TEACHERS, IS IIDEFTY . ' (o v ■ £■$ SIHT- ' TYv- ' N Well, this is the last time I f ll be telling what I know about this Sophomore a class. Eith 3 exams coming on, and vacation aft r rd, I’m getting ready to p spend the Summer alone, thinking? I’ve got plenty to think about. For instance, I’ll be wondering if Laura is really on a diet, and why Kathryn Brown got the numbers mixed up on her English written lesson, Ana why Atwood Moore didn’t enjoy himself at the S.C.A. meeting, rt’s true 3 C yv ' N . ) Being a Sophomore causes funny symptoms. Take for instance atrice ;assey. Because she is a Sophomore she blushes iVerytliae that Dwphcmore made Lather K gge stop whispering. Ibw he talks she passes a new ' house that is being built.laid being a Sophomore makes Edna livens have a sore throat after every ball game. Maybe it from yelling (Tilton pitches) but...And then there’s Carmen wasn’t there....... Atwood Abore . Being a Sophomore And I’ll wonder if Jeanette seems to affect him.awfully Cooke is really getting jealous 0 ' 3dly. you notice him or if she has some other reason other day? He was awfully for looking daggers at Gertrude r . 1 • Gresham., . .And I’ll wonder a lotsomeone-- -And being a too, about how many of those kodak pictures everybody is taking are going to come out... Also I’ll wonder how many of these cameras were broken by the pictures they took. . . . laid if Ellen Thrift is going to cry this summer.... Remember, when Russel Bailey hurt his head?... But mostly I’ll be thinking about the class in general. 4 .. I watched them all school term, and thought about them. But how many of them thought about me? Especially, how ' many of them feel sorry for me?.. Think of it, to be the Father of one’s Country, and wind up looking at a Sophomore .ass r,... But it could be worse Class I... But it could be worse. y They might be Juniors. others out loud and in class, too. imagine r .Iruise Mele is affected by being a Sophomore too. Did you ever notice her chewing hum? .And then she even got excited on the 25th while watching the Achilles bus ar¬ rive at Botetourt. ' aid even Sarah Moore is getting careless. Do you suppose she knew she was walking in the road on April 25th. or was she lovesick? (y u knew lovesick people -ergot Very easily or maybe It was just because she w s a Sophomore. Being a Sophomore must be something like arind-...It makes some people affectionate and quarrelsome