Hopewell High School - Kaleidoscope Yearbook (Hopewell, VA)

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35 CLASS PROPHECY—Continued against a suit brought by Miss Annie Gilliam and Miss Radie Ennis. The plaintiffs say they were induced by flattery of the owners to buy their wares. Oddity in the News—A cruiser called “The Good Ship Hopewell,” last night collided with another ship “Miss Peters¬ burg.” Neither boat was damaged, but it provided a thrill for the passengers. Among these were Miss Willie Simms, Senator Edna Earle McIntyre and that well known orchestra leader, Allen Boone. This is Walt Winchell closing and still waiting for Ben Ber- nie to pull a new joke, remember Winched and Cleartone. Ladies and Gentlemen: This concludes our broadcast for this evening—tune in tomorrow at 12:30 and hear the program of the “Ruth Weds and Thelma Long, School of Business”—this pro¬ gram includes speeches by two of the instructors, Miss Audrey Poland and Miss Pauline Quicke. Until tomorrow, this is Fred Gray bidding you ad good-night. —FRED GRAY. MiMiiiMiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiMiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiMmiMmiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiim i it 11111111111111111111111111111 ■ 1111 m 111111111111111111111ii Page fifteen

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35 CLASS PROPHECY—Continued TENNIS! Claiborne Tucker won the National Tennis meet today by eliminating Harry Vaughan! Miss Margaret Jacobs won the women’s singles by elimi¬ nating Vondra Bogese and Helen Marks. Lillian Massey cap¬ tured the double title. The mixed doubles crown was captured by Miss Kate Peter¬ son and Mr. Sam Wicker. FLASH! Two new pieces of literature are just coming off the press of Herman Harris and Company, “The Successful Busi¬ ness Woman”, by Anna Belle Toney, Josephine Whitby, and Dorothy Slocum; and the other, a book of poetry by our favorite, Harry Tush. FLASH! New York.—The world tour of those four melody maidens, Josephine Carmany, Mrs. Henry Rawlings (formerly Miss Christine Moore), Miss Melva Morris, and Miss Alice Bald¬ win, came to a close when they arrived here today. FLASH! New York.—The Democratic National Convention ended today after a bitter fight between Braxton Garrett, James Gross and Willard Cannady in a compromise suggested by that versatile Miss Theresa Padgett. FLASH! Horace Cooper, partner in the firm of Clark and Cooper, reports that his partner, Wallace Clark, has eloped with his secretary, Miss Marie Pesko. EXTRA FLASH! Lester Books, well known inventor and his assistant, Aired Wallace, have invented a perpetual motion machine. This report comes from Mrs. Wallace, formerly Miss Thelma Elliott. FLASH! The case between Myrabelle Holloway and Mrs. Alvin Jolly (formerly Miss Louise Altman) for the alienation of Mr. Jolly’s affections, bringing such social leaders as Billie Foster and Margaret Wood to court as witnesses, was dismissed by Judge Ernest Turnes today for unstated reasons! Elizabeth Barnard and Hugh Holdforth defended Miss Holloway. FLASH! When New York’s best lawyer, Toomer Garrow, argued today before Judge Gladys Bowers, he argued for and against two old schoolmates. He defended Miss Rachel Via and Miss Lucille Forbes, owners of a fashionable millinery shop, Page fourteen imimiiHHii

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Hopewell High School Ten Years Ago and Now OME OF US will no doubt remember the old High School building of Hopewell as it looked a decade ago, just a “shanty” or “Shanty Town.” The strategic location of City Point far up a navi¬ gable river and out of danger from attack from the sea, made it an ideal location for the manufacture of ammu¬ nition in time of war. The DuPont Company took advantage thereof and established here an immense ammunition plant at the beginning of the great World War. As a result the City of Hopewell and all its thousands of shanties, including school houses, sprang up, we might say, just as mushrooms over night. After the Armistice the population of Hopewell dwindled to a mere fraction of its war time maximum. However, a few years later our city assumed another aspect of prosperity when the Tubize Artificial Silk Company took over the DuPont works here for the purpose of making rayon. The shanties began to be occupied again and the school population grew from year to year. Hopewell High School was housed in a shanty-like struc¬ ture located then between Third and Fourth Avenues in North “B” Village. It was there the “above the knee skirted” and “stocking roller” flapper studied and “flapped” with the “hair-varnished” cake eaters. It so on became evident that the old high school building was not adequate for Hopewell’s rapidly growing school population. The high school body had grown out of his ragged and patched breeches and clamored for “long- ies,” and so the good City Fathers finally took pity on the poor kid and appropriated funds for the new high school building as we see it now. Great improvements are being made at the present time by means of relief work both inside and outside the building. Grading and landscaping the school surroundings is practically finished. An athletic field, destined to be one of the best in the state, is now under construction. We hope that the old green-painted board fence surrounding the field and now marring the picture will be removed and replaced with a brick wall, carrying out the Page sixteen