Honaker High School - Torch Yearbook (Honaker, VA)

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CLASS PROPHECY By MARTHA DENNEY AND BETTY BARKER It was the night of February 19, 1965, that we two maternal women, Mrs. Thomas Barker, the former Betty Cook, and Mrs. Walter Taylor, the former Martha Denney, decided to spend the night together while our husbands were guarding the atomic fuel dispenser constructed by the famous electronic engineer, Ted Jackson. Just as we were crawling into bed, after a hard night of changing diapers and fixing formulas for our twins, we were startled by the ring- ing of the doorbell of our new home designed by Bobby Eall. We wearily dragged ourselves from our beds, pressed the buttons which opened the door of our home, and beheld our new postman, Harvey Hale. Slowly opening a spacegram which he handed us, we were at once wide awake as our gaze fell upon the words, ‘‘Dying, moon, and Mrs. Won- dell White.” Remembering that Mrs. White, the former Shirley Breed- ing, had gone to the moon with her two maids, Anna Jean Lockhart and Phyllis Hubbard, we decided that she was very ill and needed the aid of her former classmates. So without reading the message thoroughly, we hastened to charter a space plane, collect a few clothes, our twins, and their governesses, Josephine Bostic and Lola Peck. Our pilot was Cap- tain Raymond Conley; the Stewardesses were old friends, Betty Compton and Ilene Breedlove. Our first stop was Honaker, Virginia, the new capital of the U. S. Landing in the Capital City on Drugstore Avenue, we saw Tommy Tay- lor, the mayor, who directed us to Fair Mount to the White House to get the U. S. President, Harold Hart, and his secretary, Peggy Miller. We hurried to the Supreme Court Building on Railroad Avenue and found Edsel Miller, Chief Justice, trving a case between Sue Fletcher, a beau- ticlan, and Frances Crabtree, a world famous ballet dancer. Also Evelyn Plaster, Frances’ assistant, and Delano Compton, senator fighting for women’s rights from the Hawaiian Islands were there. Deciding to visit the old school site, we found Dorothy Honaker, Senator from the Virgin Islands, Violet Johnson and Peggy Grace, rep- resentatives from Alaska, and Carl Steele, U. S. Secretary of Atomic Energy. Flying over the Mississippi River, we spetted another plane, signaled the pilot, Freddy Smith, and told him in space code about our journey. He and his passengers, Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Miller, Mrs. Miller the former Nancy Fletcher, returning from a honeymoon taken at the home of Danny Dye in Antartica, went with us.

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SHIRLEY VANCE BILLIE SUE VANDYKE “Snipper”’ ES le Motto: Live fast, love hard, Motto: Look for a silver and die young. lining. Ambition: Nurse. Ambition: Be successful in any field I choose. WONDELL WHITE “Windell” Motto: We cannot expect to live without anxi- ety, but we can learn to put it to our own good use. DAvID WILSON “Squire” Motto: Love your neighbor but don’t let your wife know it. . Ambition: Governor of Ambition: Mechanical en- Virginia. gineer. RR eee a ee SONNY WYATT “Sonny” | Motto: Love and be loved. To see the | | Not Pictured BILLY KEENE world. CLASS MOTTO: Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom; and with all thy getting get understanding. CLASS COLORS: Pink and Black. GCUOASS» FLOW RR aPinksCarnation: CLASS WILL: We, the Senior Class of 1956, being of sound mind, do hereby declare this to be our last will and testament. We solemnly will and bequeath our sponsors, our home rooms, and our senior subjects to the lowly Juniors. | Seniors

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In Hollywood at the home ect David Wilson, inventor of the Whiz Brain atomic bookkeeping device, we found Anne Shrader, a famous actress, and Mr. White, her producing agent. Taking Mr. White with us, we didn’t stop again until we entered London, England — there to get the Queen, Billie Sue VanDyke, the ladies-in-waiting, Anna Mae Honaker and Ann Owens, and six of our very famous classmates, Sally Alice Davis and Bill Saylor, world famous dancing and singing duet, Shirley Vance, renowned comedienne, Doro- thy Chambers and Sue Ball, the Guaranteed Laugh twins, and Jerry Ray, the world’s smallest midget. Landing in Moscow, we found Ralph Strouth, Communist Party Boss, who had completely reorganized Russia and Wilma Deel, his secretary, conferring with Gaynelle Monk, U. S. Ambassador to Russia. Next we flew into Formosa and headed for the new UN Building to get Carolyn Boyd, President of the General Assembly, Jim Horton, Rep- resentative from Antartica, Lorene Roman, Secretary-General, and Ro- berta Perkins, Secretary of International Space Lines. Landing in Ceylon, we hurried to the home of Mrs. Dorothy Vance, who was chosen as the International Mother of 1965. We found her and her maid, Dorothy Sharp, busily carrying out orders given by Dr. John Lee McGraw to erase the splotches from her thirteen young Vances suffering from measles. Hurrying into Yugoslavia we went to the new International Court of Justice to get Ira Owens, Chief Justice, Edmund King, Associate Justice, and Gladys Roman, court stenographer. Ira told us that he recently saw Kyle Matney, coach of the Internaticnal Stampeders, his private secretary, Janice Miller, and his trainer, Sonny Wyatt. Starting on the last lap of our journey, we gathered the remainder of our classmates in Greenland — Rev. Eugene Randall, Drs. Billy Keen and Ralph Girten, their nurses, Lcra Gay Ray and Frances Sample, who had been recovering from space sickness. Taking all these we headed for the moon. Landing on Highland Peak, we saw Mrs. White sitting by a new grave. Mr. White, glad to see his wife alive, heard her story and related it to us. When we two women heard that we had made this tremendous jcurney to the aid of only a Persian kitty, Filibuster, we threw ourselves on the ground and prepared to take some much needed rest while the remainder of our class- mates boarded their planes and sailed toward the earth to pursue their various occupations.