George Washington High School - Compass Yearbook (Alexandria, VA)

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VIVIAN COAKLEY ALE Of pensive thought and aspect pale Latin Club '54 Library Club 57 Contestants' Club, 54. '55. '56. '57 Pep Club '54. 55 Surveyor Staff '57 Art Club '55. '56 LEE S. ALLEN Hit quietness of manner belies the mischief that lies underneath ELLROY LEE ALLEN Look what the circus left in town GERTRUDE AMORKY For she is wise if I can judge of her. And fair she is. if that mine eyes be true. Secretary. Sophomore Class '55 Student Council '55 Pep Club '54. '55 Spanish Club '55 Etiquette Club '55 CORNELIA WOOLFOLK ALFRIEND Paint up all the world in a picture ROYAL BURTON ALLYN You look wise; pray correct that error Spanish Club '54. '55 Cadets '53. '34. 35. '36. '37 Chevrons Club '36. '37

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The honorable Francis Payne, whom Miss Kiracofe can remember as coming to high school in stove pipe pants, has finally decided that the school needs him no longer. He will move on with the rest of us. Then we have that helter-skelter Esther Cain who can actually do two things at once: her specialties are dramatics, music, and editing (the school paper). Then there is the one-man brain trust. Courtland Davis, and the top-man athlete. Do'Do ' Robinson. Some of the other great basketball or football heroes are Pete Wells, Puck Harvey, and Dickie Burrell. Don’t let me forget these: Robert Taylor Hatfield, the great lover of the Senior Class. Libby Shaw and Norma White with their wise-cracking, and Harold Fagehon. who feels at home on the auctioneer's platform. Marie Reynolds distinguishes herself by that Greta Garbo” expression around the hair. Mary Ellen Burke has changed an old adage to beautiful but not dumb.” What do big brown eyes remind you of? Shirley Major, of course. Margaret Petersilia with her pleasant personality is among the basketball athletes. With Evelyn Kempfer we think of her conscientious effort in everything she undertakes. Among our executives are Fritz Larkin and Jimmy Ticer who direct Senior affairs. There are still many, many more we can think of such as. Fred Astaire the Second in the person of Kenny Wood: the debaters. Anne Cowling and Vivian Ale: the cadet leader, Jeanne Spaulding: Lucile Curtis with her avoirdupois, curly headed Leslie Myers, smiling Frances Robinson, and Polly Stephenson, who denies that she rolls her eyes. With such a class so great in size, so varied in personality, a glance in the future is justified. Its combined years are two thousand, three hundred, eighty, which gives Methuselah something to worry about. Consider the wisdom that has seen so many years! Empires have risen and fallen, wars have been declared and won. fads have swept the earth since our eyes saw the light of day. With what an accumulation of experience and wisdom will it go forth into the world! The combined general average of the class is A-PIus. Where the component parts of such precocity will come to rest, only its prophet knows! Mary Jane Morrison, Historian.

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MORTON BUCKNER APPERSON. JR. A youth to fame, e'er yet to manhood known Library Club '34. 35. ‘36. 37 Press Club 37 School Pianist ‘36. ‘37 Surveyor Staff '37 Compass Staff '37 PENELOPE ANN BARTON Nature made her what she i and never made another' Cadets '35. '36. '37 Pep Club '36 Latin Club '36 I MARY ELIZABETH BALLENGER Tk only noble to be good Pep Club '33 Glee Club '33. '34 Cadets '33. '34 VIRGINIA LEE BASS Those graceful acts, those thousand decencies that daily flow from all her words and actions. Cadets '35. '36. '37 Glee Club '34. '35 Contestants' Club '36. '37 Pep Club '35. '36 Secretary. Sophomore Class Lieutenant Liwski Club '36 Assistant Typist of Compass ‘37 Business Staff of Comnass '37 MARTHA F. BARNES Her very tone is music's own. like those of morning birds One-act Plays '37 Spanish Club '36 Reading Club '37 DOROTHY RUTH BOHRAUS She hath a smiling face Pep Club '33. '34. '35. '36 Spanish Club '33. '34. '35 Knitting Club '35 Sewing Club 36 Glee Club '3 3