Clarke County High School - Talon Yearbook (Berryville, VA)

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1. Posing for a picture. 2. Three cheers! 3. What do I see? 4. Two sugar lumps. 5. Now, “Cup”! 6. A Little Girl Scout. 7. Carter’s little pigtails. 8. Smile at the birdie! 9. Could this be Danny? 10. Shy. 11. Looking for some- thing? 12. Sweet enough to eat. 13. Two little sisters. 14. Who? Me??? 15. Look at my bow-tie! 16. Our little blonde. 17. Waiting for a ride. 18. Back in yesteryears. 19. What do you say? 20. A little princess. 21. So young and innocent. 22. Waiting for a playmate. 23. School Days! 24. As sweet as sugar. 25. Isn’t Frances cute? 26. What did I do? 27. What? No curls? 28. My unruly hair! 29. Ready for a check over. 30. A cutie with long hair. 31. Bundled up for a nice little walk. 32. Cute as a button. 33. Sister and brother in their own little world.

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OIlaHa Btatnrg It doesn’t seem possible that twelve whole years have gone by since September in 1940 when our class started to school. Although we were very much scattered in the beginning we have all joined together to make the largest, and we think, the best class that has yet graduated from C. C. H. S. We started out as two separate classes, one in Boyce and the other in Berryville. Wilson Bowles, Eleanor Myers, R. B. Pyle, Sam Minghini and Billy Buckner started in the first grade at Boyce. During the early grades they were joined by Arthur Corbin, Betty Ridgeway, Jean Sipe, Frances Thomas, Margaret Hausenfluck, Mildred Lanham, Alice Lofton, Bobby Shiley, Doris Belford, Margaret Carroll, Carter Conley, Peggy Coulson, and Grethel Smallwood who had started at Millwood and White Post Schools. In the seventh grade they were joined by Betty Journell from Winchester. The class from Berryville started out in the first grade as Billy Renner, John Ashby, Freddy Drury, Bessie Mar- low, Charlotte Breeden, Mildred Brown, Greta Foltz, Joyce Gilman, Alice Kennan, Louise Marcus, and Ann Hardesty. In the second grade Rozier Feltner from Middleburg; Wesley Shaffer from Upperville; Eddie Lake, Robert Moore and Eugene Singhas from Gaylord; Joan Canter, Anne Kerns and Tommy Galloway from private schools and Betty Marlowe from Riverside School became members of our class. In the third grade Thelma King from Boyce joined us. At the beginning of the fourth grade we received as n3w classmates, Anne Rosenberry, Tommy McCarty, Rat- cliffe Bell and Audrey Saunders from Pine Grove; Harry Elliott and Mitchell Heironimus from Glendale; Preston Pitta from Riverside and Arthur Breeden. The next year Barbara Morris came from Boyce to join our class. In the seventh grade our male population increased greatly when Marshall Longerbeam, Donald Braithwaite, Danny Clemons, Billy Feagans, Clyde Holland and Raymond Lee joined our class. The eighth and ninth grades brought two more ad- ditions, Patsy Carpenter from Handley and Peggy Anne voi Pippin from Lynchburg. The tenth grade brought us all together into one group. That year also, brought us Eddie Robinson from Stephens City. In our Junior year Jack Flynn joined us. That year everyone co-operated and worked hard in order to make our prom for the seniors of 1951 a big success. Our class was completed when in our senior year we were joined by Doris Ladd and Flora Lee von Pippin. Audrey Saunders who had left us in the eighth grade also returned to graduate with us. The highlights of our senior year included the football game at Charlottesville, where we were the guests of the University of Virginia, the big thrill of receiving our school rings, and our senior play which was a great achieve- ment. Other outstanding events were the election of town and county honorary officers who took charge for a day, and the parade and reception which climaxed the Junior Woman’s Club “Build Freedom With Youth” projec t. We also enjoyed the very educational trip to Washington in the spring and the wonderful prom which was given in our honor. Last, but not least, we look forward to Baccalaureate Service and to the night we will walk up the hill to re- ceive our diplomas on that long to be remembered Graduation Day. The pleasant memories of our days at C. C. H. S. will long be cherished by every senior of the Class of ’52. —ANN HARDESTY

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Ollaaa fropljprg It was such a nice warm spring day that I could hardly keep my eyes open in study hall. I nodded twice and that is the last I remember. I seemed to be drifting into space. Suddenly I realize that the buildings around me are very familiar, but yet there is something different about them. As I wal k down the street I see a familar figure dressed in the uniform of a county nurse, whom I recognize to be Alice Lofton. I realize that I am now fifteen years in the future. “How are you?” I ask, “I am not surprised to see that you are county nurse. What has become of our class mem- bers?” “Well,” she replies, “I am keeping up with quite a few of them. I read in the paper the other day that Mildred Brown is a famous organist and director of music in St. John The Divine,” the most famous cathedral in the United States. 1 wrote to Patsy Carpenter and congratulated her on her painting which won recognition at the Metropolitan Museum of Fine Arts in New York in 1966. Anne Kerns is the chief telephone operator in Jacksonville, Florida and Anne Rosenberry is married to Beverly Peyton and holds a government secretarial job. Thelma is very happily married to Major Archie Jones, and is holding a job in Winchester as telephone operator while he is away.” “What became of Louise Marcus and Joan Canter?” I ask breathlessly. “Louise,” she said, “is now, believe it or not, personal secretary to the Secretary of State. Joan’s musical talent has led her to a successful career as concert pianist in Carnegie Hall.” In amazed surprise at this conversation I quickly bid Alice goodby and continue on my way. As I turn to cross the street, someone runs right into me. I knew no one but my sister Peggy could do it, and so it was. She greets me with a cheer as she helps me up from my comfortable position in the street. I then ask her about some of our old classmates. “Well,” she says with a wink, “Audrey Saunders is an executive secretary now in Washington, and Frances Thomas is a typist with the Washington Evening Post. I heard from Greta Foltz the other day and she just made a hit on “Songs For Sale” as a well known composer of popular music. By the way, Joyce Gilman is thoroughly enjoy- ing her position as Captain in the Marines.” “What about Margaret Hausenfluck?” I ask. “Well,” Peggy continued, “she is head secretary in the F. B. I. Buil ding. Betty Journell is being transferred as head nurse in the Winchester Memorial Hospital to Johns Hopkins Hos- pital in Baltimore. It certainly is a coincidence that Barbara Morris is a nurse at Johns Hopkins also. Grethel Small- wood is telephone operator in Front Royal.” “What about Betty Ridgeway and Jean Sipe?” I ask. “you know they were as close to each other as two peas in a pod.” “Betty,” she replies, “is a star on the All American Girls’ basketball team. It seems to me that Jean is secretary in the F. B. I. work. “Did Ann Hardesty decorate her own ranch style house on the Pennsylvania turn pike? You know that that is what she always wanted to do.” “Yes,” Peggy smiled, “and is it a beauty!” “By the way, Peggy Coulson is a secretary now, and Charlotte Breeden is very well pleased with her beauty shop which is known all over Washington, D. C. Eleanor Myers is coach at Madison College and does she love it; It seems to me that Betty Lou Marlowe is personal secretary for the mayor of Charles Town and the wife of Raymond Carper. Alice Kennan is a good housewife to Noah Stillions. I don’t guess you’ve heard the exciting news about Doris Ladd; she is now secretary to the Governor of Virginia. I was talking to Bessie Marlow the other day. She is a well known commercial course instructor in Harrisonburg. Bessie saw Mildred Lanham and she said that Mildred was a telephone operator in Winchester. Doris Belford is a secretary in a government office in Washington and Mar- garet Carroll is one of the best secretaries Senator Byrd ever had. Carter Conley is an outstanding faculty member of William and Mary College. “How is the world treating you?” I ask. — 30 —