Chatham Hall - Chathamite Yearbook (Chatham, VA)

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The cause, says Hunter, is evident, lt's insufficient nourishment. Stoddard, it seems, was out talking to Ford, And when food was passed round was completely ignored Boo, chasing microbes of some form or other. Was slightly annoyed when she heard she'd recover. I had hoped for a chance at autopsy today, She explains as she packs all her knives away. Kathy, who heads Clean-Up-Charlotte Committee, Has just dashed in from that wicked city. She's got no more than a minute to stay Cause a new crime wave is on the way. Cookie's been traveling extensively, Lecturing on birds most intensively, Discussing such things as the Pelican And Who is Who in the Warbler clan. Lea, our globe-trotter inveterate, Has good-will toured each foreign state, And now with Cooke compares conditions In Egypt and France and the British Dominions. A plane lands in the yard, and excitement is keen When Rite, Sunny, and Babbott emerging are seen. They've come from New York, from a matinee Of the hit of the season, Babbotfs new play. Rite, of all actors the greatest by far, In this new play, of course, is the star, And Sunny has lent them her plane and assistance To ferry them back for an evening appearance. Hartwell we find can still never rest,' She has just been climbing Mt. Everest, And now she is wondering how long it would take To walk on her hands around Cilmore Lake. Tay's head of Red Cross Committees galore Due to training acquired in forty-four. As she rolls one more bandage, her eyes radiate Cause shc's just finished quota one thousand and eight. 26

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Pam breezes in in her own creation Mid Ohs and Ahs of admiration. As a designer, she's by far the best, In beauty and style surpassing the rest. Page settles down, and just from habit Slfetches a Norwegian wabbit. She, from it, greatly hopes to whip Something for her comic strip. Eisner's been drawing caricatures Of European Prime Ministers. And she and Page tally with content About the comic element. Society leaders, Margot and Brown, Sparing a moment from Country and Town, Enter smartly and with great style, Comparing social successes the while. Robinson's wrapped up in deep meditations Over the problems of Foreign Relations, While Congress and Roosevelt anxiously wait The Foreign Policy plan she'll formulate. Bidgood and Midge in a corner are waging A contest to see whose laugh's more engaging. ls it giggles or gufaws you find most effective Or does it depend mostly on your objective 9 M cAlpin arrives, having left Wimbledon. fYou needn't aslf. Of course, she has won., The first thing she does, much to our dismay, ls to open the window-all the way!! With her notes on the War Course in one hand Franlfie's reconstructing the war-torn land. But she's worried now to a great degree For she's somehow misplaced the lecture three. But Stoddard now falls with a groan to the floor And her face seems to us much more pale than before Our minds fill at once with a terrible fear Which leaves as we see Dr. Hunter appear. 25

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There's a noise at the doorway, and who should appear But the world-wide reporter, Mary Mateer. She was sent to report 'cause A. P. could forsee That, if wishing celebrities, here they would be. ln a helicopter, in great state, Arrive Stanley and Cal, though a trifle late. The cause of their tardiness, they explain, Was trouble with air pockets right of Spain. The whole Class is assembled except for four Who were forced to remain on their native shore Lucas edits Down Beat and cannot egress For at this very moment it's going to press. Cinny Penney is rather preoccupied Shooting Niagara Falls, on a barrel astride. She sends us her love, and regrets to say That she won't be able to make it today. At San Antonio Witt has been delayed By cadets who ever since the war have stayed. They think that her company's so animating That they won't allow any peregrinating. Sally Palmer's a sunny south advocate, Who snow, hail, and ice can not tolerate, And she says, as she baslfs in the Miami sun, A cold trip to Norway just cannot be done. Coin' to take the picture of the Senior Class. Will you group yourselves near the door, en masse? The voice, of course, belongs to Denny Who is busily getting the camera ready. The shutter is snapped, the Reunion ends, And that is the end of the prophecy, Friends. I 3 'gh ,, , 7 , f 7 1 I X .X g,!fN , A I X ','...f..f 'fgf, ,fi, f,-af.,,fSL,'2 w . ,Z h jyi: 27