Hopewell High School - Kaleidoscope Yearbook (Hopewell, VA)

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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

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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 Wall Street in New York City I see Virginia Phillips and Eliz¬ abeth Dunn calmly and efficiently conducting the business of the day. Now in a quiet little church I see that Ola Lee Wicker and Lucy Josey realized their ambitions and are now beaming brides. I see a contented fisherman reclining beside a stream, his fishing pole dangling in the water and a newspaper spread on the ground before him. He is James Smith, and is looking at the picture of the football squad of one of our leading col¬ leges. In the center of the group we find the beaming face of Paris Leadbetter. An inspiring sight greets my eyes. I see a large class of graduating Seniors upon the stage of Hopewell High School. It is not this class of 1934, however, but one of several years in the future. In the audience I see Miss Martha Jamarik, who is now a successful business woman, applauding a speech in which it has been announced that the graduating class had a combined average of “A” for the four years’ work. This re¬ markable achievement is declared to be due to the excellent teaching methods of the faculty. Miss Jamarik is congratula¬ ting the teachers, but one familiar face seems to be missing. She asks someone where Mr. Smith is and the reply is “in Sweden.” On the wings of the wind my sight flies to Sweden where I see Mr. Charles W. Smith, receiving the Nobel Prize for Litera¬ ture, surrounded by fair admirers as usual. Princess Gotami bids you farewell .... and remember that the crystal never lies. —Constance Brackens. Page sixteen