Cradock High School - Admiral Yearbook (Portsmouth, VA)

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The efydmirczl 0 1939 CLASS PRGPHECY EIEI ET us look into the future. The scene is the class reunion in 1949. The reunion is being held in the large hotel run by Jimmy Day and his wife, Eleanor. As we enter we hear the sweet swing of Mercer Joyner's orchestra. The butler announces the guests as they enter. Phillip Duncan is now a successful truck farmer. We now hear a song from Lola and Martha Fish, singing with joyner's band. Dolores Franz is now conducting the V. P. Co. cooking school at the Gates Theatre. Here come Don Duecker and Leonard Purdy, now owners of the Pole to Pale flirlines, Im. Jimmy Buhls and Billy Lawrence, owners of the Fill Your Tank Gas Slalion, have just arrived. VVe now hear a solo from Clyde Kennedy, playing the trumpet in the orchestra. Here comes Audrey Cranheld, popular cinema star and her leading man, Floyd Light. The room is now filling. There is Flash Hofiier, pro-football player, and Virginia Wise, star comedienne, who is taking Gracie Allenis place on the radio. Geraldine Orr, who has written her third best seller, has just came in. Admiring the mural on the wall, we are not surprised to find that it was clone by Jimmy Mills and Virginia DeLoache, famous artists. Two famous dancers have just entered, Mildred Coley and Mary Williams. Telegrams of regret have been received from Elizabeth Manning, now a buyer in Paris, and Raymond Echols, who is a missionary in China. YVho is that surrounded by those autograph seekers? It is Bill Burnham, American League home run king. Doctor Thomas Comer and his colleague, Gilbert Light, have just arrived. Walter Freeman, Chief of the Forestry Service, has just arrived. Elwood Gibson, who has advanced brain surgery to such an extent, has just entered. Buddy Jenson, owner of the Freeze Ice Company, enters with Audrey Kirkman. Audrey is manager of the Bloomer Girls' base- ball team. Richard Leach, an ensign in the Navy, and Elsie Taylor, a Red Cross nurse, have just arrived with Graham Lutz, also a Navy man. The Army is represented by,Murray Kent Sylvester. Leroy Willey, a farmer in Deep Creek, has come in with Hugh Via, also a farmer. Joe VVise has just arrived. He has made a fortune in stocks. Dot Denson, who is clerking in Leggett's, Evelyn Lauer, who is married and keeping house, and Iris Hanbury, who is now half owner in the Famous Dress Shop, have just come in together. The Hoor show has just begun. Well, isn't that Norma Harrell and Marian Styron doing exhibition dancing? The next thing on the program is a solo by the famous concert violinist, Duncan George. Now entering are Edythe VVhyte, famous model, and Peggy VVar- ren, noted actress, escorted by William Etheridge, who is in the Coast Guard after attending the Acad- emy. The nursing profession is represented by Janice Sherman, Marjorie Tyson, Elsie Bogan and Lula Via. Norma Ballance, Beatrice Skinner and Shirley Cousins are school teachers. Look, there's Chrystal Gomer and her husband, David Nelson. Ted Taylor is busy taking notes. He is star reporter for the New York Timer. Carl Sawyer, now a bus driver, enters with Joe Wright, who drives a milk truck. Kenny Wright-we have often wondered what he is doing-is in the real estate business. Let's see who is in this crowd. There is Alice Bartlett, an air hostess, and Marjorie Jereme, noted dress designer. There's Emily Euler, a buyer for Blumberg's. Betty Albrecht is doing portrait painting. Leading lady in a play now running its forty-first week is Mary Wilstrup. Ida Rolls is teaching dancing for Arthur Murray. Jean Blankenship arrives, escorted by Dippy Cohen. She now clerks in his corner drug store. Here is Dot Calhoun, who retired after winning the sweep- stakes. Burnley Shiflett is now singing in the Palais Royale night club. Mary Daniel is head librarian of the Library of Congress. Plato Phillips has just arrived on the fire truck. He is now chief of the new Deep Creek Fire Department. Betty Ritter is playing on Audrey's ball team. VVho is that coming in so late? Could it be Viola Domme? Viola, who always had the motherly way, is running a boarding house for college boys. Fillmore Irwin is lecturing on f7.fl1'onamifalPhenommrz at the same college. FILLMORE IRWIN l17l 'L A A

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