Dante Central High School - Spectator Yearbook (Dante, VA)

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Pro -pile CY of thp Sonior Clo.ss ’40 iittinr in Enolioli IV cloc ' ond liotonin j • to tlip dnll Vdillp I ' iss drono of voices is ■bP; 3 innin,. : to si ' Vo ruo droi” ' duco hos Ippr back tiirnod r.i’s.Y I tkink I’ll cstcn o. i. .ink or two of sloop. non n, as ■LiddGnl 3 s I fool as if ■t- jpo on a in ' .nu., 0 I rlsncod oui tno v indo . I isw t;ip f ' lol ' ds of corn. ' tSay, Ur. Conductor ’, I said, ' ' ' diat is t}.io next stop? ' ' !|- t urn O’ doll, iiiiaoino my surprise hon ko into tho face of Hubort Steffoy, next stop would bo Ifinaas Citv so I dccid sround ind I losked to stop or 0 . day or so boforo continuing; my trip to San Froncisco, vory f o.milir ' .r and wlion i w:i3ik- w Tho station a ont so on: ed up to the w..ndow thero P:tood Harol. . Ss.ly r. Ho said ho camo to Kansas City on a hobo trio and fell in lovo wi-th a very bos.utiful and .rominont young l.ady of thp town-, Ih hs.d boon married six years. He invited mo to visit thorn for a do-y or two but I docidod tosta.y at the Shofiold Hotel , I bought a newspr.por, and when I turnod to the sports page, there w;is o. picture of Charlie Piontka, f’ ' ie roe.t Gst baseball plo- 3 er since ’Babe’ Ru ' th retired. I also no- ticed that uuford King v:as playing on the Chicago team. I wasn’t surprised because I knov; they were very talenabed. That night I decided to o to the invies and see the picture Send It By ■...ail, I rGCO.nnizod tho 1 ding- lady as i. arie Lucas, although she hod changed h..r n:n.iO. The next morning I decided to continue airplane, I arrived at the field about fiv my trip by iinu ' p : OUv time to leave. The pilot entered the ca .in and when I glanced up, who should it be standing ' there but one of my old classmotos, none other then Robert Holbrook. He new ow ed a plane and had a government job. He told on that ho and ITancy Sprol: s were r;i. ' r7:hod and lived in San oY- ' .ncis- 00 V.lien the plane arrived at the airport in S. ' .n Prancisce, I decided to go to a hotel. Toe man. ;r, to my surpri,

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r.oy T T-lbort, lie r.vo nio on- sinco I vii.s c.n old iriond. tlio bjot roonio ho ho.d. xho noxt do.y .ovoioci ov:l .:.x V. c-.xJLv bcL.utiioil, ::o I djcidod to yo G i ' htoocin end do r little oho Doing, ’. ' .lion I ontorod ioolv;orthc 5-10, ' zf otoro I ho ' .rd rDon.c- ono coll -jay nemo o.nd t’loro e d .. ' . Gillonv.n.tor ote.nding bbhind the counter, Ido told no th -t ho gemo un the hope of ovon trying to got a diplon ' ' . and had to v orh for hio liv- ing, sinco ho v;as so for aney fror.i hone. The noxt day boing S’Jinday, I decided to go to Church, for I renomborod tni Ur, Johnson ■■l ' .og ' ' o said ro v ' oro h :e.th ns , As I ontorod the chnrc ' i, bo e.ntiful oaisic floated fron the choir stall, rnd, as I glencod up, the orgo.nist sooni- d familiar and suro onouj.i it oiilod roco ' nition as the enni nao or ' ■ la, Coo . or , 1 1 T -X 4 - I-, f and v ho, to ny surprise should ho bo but the ert -dns or Harr, J .lO O ' or c silent ooronn; in bettor tho.n I thought he could, from his is torn Cl; so roc- I left the church ' nd ras slculy ■ ' salhin doun the stro- ' Y hon I noticed .a l rgo sxgn in front of the Oper.,; House rrm- ouncing to the Y;orld that t;vo, yo ng ladies v;:ro m ' Icing their debut the follovins, ni ' ht, This sounded inter sot .ns , so the noxt night .found ..lo there anxiously vnni ' or the C oor to begin. sing I v r. 3 bro thle s • dor and 3ot J- « n — t-r 1} D as ' c mor 0 th an I ex., ecte u. of sri th vo ice s like th ei rs It was ( . 1 — 1 to ly to le phono pole 1 oo: v ent ba Ick, Uh en I opened my O ' attr; set ivo young nurs e she got ]nop job thr surgeon O the hosp it S.l I only ■ had a f 3 ‘ ' 7 n ' 10 tveo v.:l’:ed out on th: vn s s pellbound. urivin. 0 rnc. oe.-an ouu it ' ' .n ' s nothing they could o olace iU -..on- lui all I loohed up in Ic the frxe of an V. .O O kJ-.-.i. uJli , Ilenrsr Ilinser e:ho u th sets me, erui ' ;o i men » -V