Hopewell High School - Kaleidoscope Yearbook (Hopewell, VA)

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CLASS PROPHECY—Continued news correspondent for the Associated Press, and at her side Lena Tew, who covers the society angle. Now I seem to be in a fashionable studio in some large city. Miss Johnny Helms, brilliant interior decorator is showing some plans to a young bride and groom, Mr. and Mrs. Art Brown. Before her marriage Mrs. Brown was Miss Elsie Alderson of Hopewell, Virginia. In a large auditorium I see Pete Hapstak directing his or¬ chestra with the utmost ease and assurance. Among the musi¬ cians we find Sam Shanko, Marjorie George, Rudolph Heretick, Margaret Guinn and Donald Atwater. In a flash I see Hollywood Boulevard stretched before me. A languorous lady is coming out of an exclusive gown shop when a battery of news cameramen dash up to her. She is Miss Vir¬ ginia Peeples, Samuel Goldwyn’s newest and greatest discovery, whose last picture, “Men I Have Loved,” established her fame as the screen’s most alluring vamp. In a tea room just off the boulevard Miss Maudie Franklin is jotting down notes for her personality column in the Movie Magazine. Now I see two men busily working in an ultra-modern chem¬ ical laboratory. They are Ligon Jones and Homer Lee Krout, famous chemists and inventors of the marvelous new energy and intelligence ray which supplies these valuable assets to those lacking them, and is especially designed for high school students. Their stenographers, Dorothy Alderson and Virginia Davis are taking care of the rush of fan mail. I see inside a luxurious beauty shop. Miss Maria Guile is waving Gertrude Shelton’s hair while Gertrude tells her about the dashing young man who is taking her to dinner that evening. The Capitol at Washington comes before my eyes and I see Verna Via and Velma Gilbert climbing the steps to the U. S. Pat¬ ent Bureau. They wear a smug look on their faces and the reason for this is the fact that they have invented an erasure key for typewriters. A group of men now came walking down the street, talking earnestly together. Albert Jones and Keith Kelly, City En¬ gineers of Hopewell, Virginia, are explaining to Fred Ameen and Royal Smith, enthusiastic young aviators, their plans for improving the city airport. fage fourteen

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CLASS PROPHECY—Continued famous surgeon, Dr. Hazel E. Leedy. She is dictating an article to her private secretary, Miss Ursula Martin, explaining the method of sewing up the human heart. Just then Miss Thelma Krausse, brilliant young actress, enters and demonstrates her famous smile that can break the human heart again. But in a flash we have crossed the ocean and see the bright lights of New York’s great white way. One of the larger signs blazes forth “Eleanor Gray, Back From Conquest of Europe.” Just then that lovely dancer, herself, steps from her limousine and enters the theatre. Still more bright lights, but this time we are at Madison Square Garden. A wrestling bout has just been completed and the new heavyweight champion, Manuel Tso urounis, is waving to the excited fans. Three men, shouting wildly, climb into the ring. They are friends of the champ, Charles Minor, Francis Dereski, and William Benton. The lights fade and I see a private landing field on Long Island. It is a bright sunny day and Pat Davis, the holder of the men’s endurance record, has alighted from a solo flight and is walking across the field with one of the season’s newest debutantes, Miss Eleanor Woody. I see a quiet mission school in the mountains of Virginia. Two sober young ladies, Lucille IJanchey and Jeanette Peeples, are teaching salvation to the needy. Now I see inside the law offices of that brilliant attorney, Sol Goodman. He is surrounded by his hard-working but de¬ voted stenographers, Fannie Whitley, Pauline Vaughn, Ruth Gunn and Manchie Balle. A huge ocean liner is pulling out of New York harbor, and on th e dock I see Marie Ruffin with her husband, a graduate of Annapolis, starting on a honeymoon around the world. New York’s skyscrapers loom before my eyes. In one of the offices I see the new president of the Western Union, Rich¬ ard Powers, dictating a letter to his private secretary, Sarah Davis. I see flags of all nations waving in colorful confusions, huge crowds of people, and bands marching. It is the opening of an¬ other series of Olympic games. Among the entrants from the U. S. I see Josephine Sordelette, Margaret Chiarky, Jack Pascoe and Roy Bishop. Mingling with the crowd is Nettie Bridges, Page thirteen

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CLASS PROPHECY—Continued In the municipal building nearby I see Miss Annie Hapstak, the new head of the city welfare department, working busily at her desk. « Through the distance I view the beautiful campus of some college. Cecelia Janosik and Elpie Economon, physical educa¬ tion instructors, are taking their classes for a hike. Dr. Palmer Edwards, Professor of Mathematics, is an invited guest on the trip. Bright lights again flash on, and I seem to be in a gay night club. A number of young men, accompanied by charming ladies, are grouped together and seem to be having a party. They are Raymond Caricofe, Bill Merner, Clarence Wells and Theodore Dudley, and they certainly are enjoying themselves. Miss Len- nie Bear has just entertained with a “blues” song while Miss Annaleene Drake did a novelty dance. The lights fade and a great hospital looms before me. Sev¬ eral nurses are just coming off duty. As they approach I see Ruthcille Craven, Elizabeth Sellars, Lucy Harrup and Eliza¬ beth Hoffman. Their eyes seem to be roving in the direction of a handsome young doctor just leaving. IPs wonderful to see girls so interested in their work. The scene fades and the offices of the New York Times springs into view. We see two of our friends there, working happily. Miss Mary Harrison is an energetic girl reporter while Carl Whittington has just been promoted to the position of cir¬ culation manager. Again I see Hopewell in the years to come. At the City Point Club Miss Catherine Belch, swimming instructor, is giving lessons to Miss Marjorie Boettcher, manager of Woolworth’s Five-and-Ten Cent store, who is enjoying an afternoon off. Down at the Hopewell airport Miss Billy Green is embarking on a flight to New York, from which place she will fly to London to spend the summer with a titled English sportswoman. Now I seem to be inside a large automobile factory in De¬ troit. George Lee is designing an automobile that makes the old-fashioned stream-lined cars of 1934 look slow. This model has an automatic steering attachment, and its possibilities are unlimited for moonlight drives. The driver is thus enabled to take two girls out at the same time and slight neither. Amid the confusion and turmoil of a busy broker’s office on Page fifteen