C H Friend High School - Chit Chat Yearbook (South Boston, VA)

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your sixth husband as long as you want him. I have here a contract with our new South Boston baseball team the Wrap pers, for any promising young pitcher. Dalton Roberson bids. Dalton,,we wish yoii all the luck in the world, and expect you to make a brilliant success. For anyogne who so desires, here is a ticket to New York, and an invitation to spend a week with the Vanderbilts. .Shirley Owen bids. Shirley, I am sure you will know your way around, and please don't come back and highhat us, u Our next gift is a baby grand piano, which has a lovely tune. Lamb Hodges bids. i Lamb, now that you have this, you can play Rachmaninoff's Prelude for Allen any time he wants it. Here we have a theater with as many ushers as possible. Becky bids. Becky, now you have a theatre to go to any time, and you won't always have the same usher. Here isa kind of food which helps thin people to build themselves up. Mar- garet Reaves b1dS. Margaret, since you are so delicate and underweight, maybe if you start eating this carefully prepared baby food, and follow the directions exactly, you'1l stop being our class beanpole. Y 1 We next have this pair of curling irons, especially prepared for people whose hair can't take a permanent. Vernessa bids. Vernessa, as long as your straight hair is such a problem, maybe these curling irons will prove a blessing. This is an- invitation for some talented young pianist to play in a concert at the Mosque in Richmond. 'Gwendolyn bids. Gwendolyn, here is your chance. If you make good, you may have a job for life. ' Here is a scholarship to Oxford University, for anyoneiwho desires to study. Pearl Goodman bids. Pearl, if you study as 'hard there as you did in high school, I am sure we shall all be mighty proud of you. This, my friends, is a subscription to that favorite of gentlemen's magazines, the Esquire. Charlie Smith bids. Charlie, as you always look so much like Robert Taylor in your new clothes, here is something to keep you posted on all the latest styles several months in advance. ' This beautiful doll was the mascot of the boys of the school. Dooney Hubbard bids. Dooney, you may profit by this quite a bit, as you can pretend she is someone else, and learn thefundamentals of love. This pair of boxing gloves was once used by Joe Louis. Maybe somebody here has an ambition to become a great boxer. Tom King bids. Tom, maybe you will need these when Jane starts throwing the rolling pin. This bottle of hair grower is said to work marvels with short hair. Margaret James bids. Margaret, have faith, and the lotion 'will do the work on your short tresses. Here is a lovely Elgin watch, guaranteed to keep perfect time. Dorothy May- nard bids. Dorothy, maybe this will help you to get to your engagements on time. Next I have here a little red engagement book. Eugene Motley bids. Eugene, you are right, you need it to keep your dates straight. This is a skipping rope, which anyone should have who wants to exercise regu- larly. Robert Walton bids. Robert, when you go off to college next fall, we .expect you to be a great football hero. Use this regularly all summer to keep in good form. I have left here a 'beautiful picture of the class of 1938. No bids, please. I shall keep it myself to remember this lovely class. , MARY STEWART.

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Giftorian Ladies and gentlemen, we have here some old relics and treasured gifts of the class of 1938 of C. H. Friend High School. These gifts are valued very highly, and we hopeyou will bid on them all. . Now here is a nice gift for anyone. This cup is atrophy for a person with a brilliant political mind. Sam White bids. Sold to the gentleman over there. Mr. White, we hope you will receive many more trophies in the future. We next have here an invitation from the Metropolitan Opera House to any- one in C. H. Friend High School who can hit a high C. Oza Ridgeway bids. Sold to te lady at the right. Miss Ridgeway, we have heard your beautiful voice on the radio and in other places, and I know that you will make the grade. Attention, friends! See this beautiful high-powered Ford? It's guaranteed to cruise along at the speed of 200 miles an hour. Whoever makes the first bid may have it. Arthur Crute bids. Sold to the gentleman standing. Mr. Crute, I can guar- antee that this car will satisfy you thoroughly, if you promise to be content without trying to exceed 200 -miles an 'hour. - Next, folks, we have here a medal won by Tom King in the 1937 track meet. Jane Wilkinson bids. Jane, we have heard so much about your collection of old Tom Ki'ng relics, and I certainly do hope that this will complete it, so that your search may end. We next have here a little lamb tied by a string. This will make someone a fine souvenir. Allen bids. Well, Allen, you have Lamb on a string now. See that you keep her there, as she might slip away. A I have here two volumes on How to-Make People Believe They are Dumb. They are guaranteed to teach what the title implies. O. T. Grimes and Mary Godbold bid. O. T., you and Mary study these books carefully, so that you won't always be the only dumb ones in the class. But for goodness sake, wait until you get away from here before you start arguing over which is the dumber. I next find here a deed to a tennis court, which will be given to any sucker who will manage it. Ike Satteriield and Mervin Matze bid simultaneously. Ike, I hope you and lviervln may continue to gyp people intopaying a dollar for playing an entire sea- son, so here's luck to you. This, ladies and gentlemen, is a handy book to keep. It tells all about how to make excuses to get out of something you don't want to do. T. J. bids. T. J., I hope this will continue your ability to get around people you know, as well as you have done Miss Mottley. We have here a dictaphone which records important matters which shouldn't be forgotten. Rawley Fuller bids. Rawley, carry this with you all the time, and you'll never have to remember a thing for yourself. Our next display is a beautiful R. C. A. radio. W. S. Crenshaw bids. W. S., I will let you have this radio on condition that you let it play for at least two weeks before you tear it apart. We next have this gardenia garden, for sale to anyone who likes flowers. Wiley bids. Wiley, now that you own this garden, you can send Frances fiowers every day, instead of Just at Easter. We have here a bed and an excuse for being late to school every day. Helen Hope bids. Helen Hope bids. Helen Hope, now you can sleep to your heart's content, and still nave an excuse for being late. The next article to be sold is this book entitled How to Keep a Husband. Frances Vaden bids. Frances, study this well, and you will know how to keep even

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Grumbler Today is another beautiful spring day 'we might all enjoy if we didn't have to stay lcooped up in an old hot stuffy schoolroom all afternoon. The heat is so bad that it is too hot to sleep and impossible to study. We find it nearly unbearable to stafy away from the baseball park during school hours, and if I may say so we are about the only ones not there-15,000 paid admissions last year. The ,Saturday school invention is a hectic one. There is barely any way to escape, except by skipping. If you get as little as one -demerit a week you have to go. It is even worse than those awful grammar school days. Another thing is that ,it grows on you-nothing sudden. The tardy rule is impossible to observe. Why, it doesn't allow five minutes for that extra saucer of ice cream or a measly hour to celebrate the fortune you might just have inherited from your uncle. In the minds of the faculty there is simply no excuse for being tardy. The fickle temperaments of our faculty increase each year you stay with them. It is like trying to satisfy a mother-in-law to keep up all the home work and that never-to-be-forgotten memory work of Shakespeare's plays-and that Triginometry- we never know heads from tails fMiss Lacy will testify to thisi. The effect of the presence of a cowbell is evident every single time it rings. The students start running as if the mad bull was right at their heels. This is very appalling, -but the cowbell for the end of school causes something worse than a riot- you are lucky to come out safe and sound. The football players were getting in some good practice too, during those two minutes after the cowbell. You wouldn't think the faculty would object to that, now would you? But they took that privilege away from us too, -and .made us -do all of our tackling and blocking out on the football field. The Seniors last year might think they caught it hard in exams, but they didn't know the half of it. We have to take all our exams. Some day I hope those tem!-I peramental teachers will realize how they shortened our days by subjecting us to that worst of all instruments of torture, known as examinations. A How times have changed! Now, when I entered high school I found much to my .sorrw that the student body had ample time in recreation period and between class- es to initiate me. Now that I have grown to the estate of the initiator, I find that we don't have time even for thinking of how we would like to initiate the freshmen, much less for any action. Freshmen are so obstreperous that they need that training which I received when I was a freshman. I have to my -credit a first fdo I hear a challengeifl, the first in history to 'be chosen Grumbler and Salutatorian of a C. H. Friend High School graduating class. Personally I would like to look into the minds of those who elected me to these duties to find out what they really think of me. They are such a. contrast that'I can't un- ravel what possessed the class to elect me to both. We must admit that much I have said is, to put it mildly, prevarication and exaggeration, and that all of us have sincerely enjoyed our stay in the high school. We have been taught to be so indispensable there that 'we wonder how the school will continue to function when we are gone. Our greatest source of grumbling is the fact that we shall never have a chance to continue our education in the new school which is going to be so beautiful and inspiring, and which everybody else is looking forward to with so much pleasure. Well, anyway, George Washington and other great men went to school in log cabins. But now comes the most important point we can think of now-we are on our own and therefore must find a place for ourselves in a confused and muddled world. A. D. DODD.