Hopewell High School - Kaleidoscope Yearbook (Hopewell, VA)

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HOPEWELL HIGH SCHOOL EARLE FREDRICK WORLEY Scientific “Earle” “Sports, sports, and still more sports.” DANTE ALOYSIUS FRATARCANGELO Elective “Frankie” “Happiness is in action.” ROBERT ALMONTE HARRISON Elective “Bobby” “Happy-Go-Lucky” ROYWELL GEORGE HERDMAN Elective “Roy” “There’s greater speech in silence than in words.”

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— THE KALEIDOSCOPE 1945 eniors DORIS BETTY TALTON Elective “Carolina” “Never too sad, never too gay, a rare girl in every way.” BETTY LOIS THOMPSON Commercial “Betty” “What personality shines through her smile!” LOIS MAE TOWNES Elective “Lois” “Nice to know wherever you go.” ISABEL SYLVIA VARTANIAN Elective “Isabel” “A true friend is forever a friend.” JANIE LUCILLE WATERS Commercial “Lucille” “A cheerful heart, a smiling face.” JOHN THOMAS WELLS Academic “John” “As merry as the day is long.” WILLIAM RICHARD WESTLAKE Academic “Dick” “With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right.” ALICE CATHERINE WILLIAMS Elective “Kitty” “A merry heart with a cheerful smile.”

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THE KALEIDOSCOPE 1945 L JLOAS As I sat in my easy chair, the sharp ring of the doorbell startled me. I immediately went to answer it, and to my surprise there stood a boy from Buck Rickman’s telegraph office, with a telegram in his hand. As 1 unfolded it, I saw it was signed by Mayor “Sonny” Enochs of Hopewell, Virginia. It stated that I was urged to attend the reunion of the graduating class of 1945. I unconsciously gazed up at the calendar and realized that it was now the year of 1958. It had been 13 years since I had graduated from Hopewell High School. The reunion was to be held in the teeming metropolis of Hopewell, Virginia, the next day. I immediately packed my things, rushed to the airport, and boarded a plane. The pilot came up and greeted me. 1 recognized him at once as Earle Worley, the famous Transcontinental Flyer. The hostess, Rotliie Nobles, informed me that she was now the wife of Earle Worley. O ur first stop was Hollywood, California. Pretty girl Carol Keener and Mrs. Fred Morene, the former Miss Bertha Crocker, MGM Studio’s leading stars, boarded the plane. As the plane was about to take off, the pilot suddenly stopped the ship. The reason was that Luggie Hutto, director of Metro Goldwyn Hutto Studios, has been de¬ layed by his latest production, “The Wolf Howls at Night,” starring Edna Rafey and Walter Sheppe. As we resumed our journey, I interested myself with the morning paper which seemed to be a special Hopewell edition according to the news items. On the front page was an article telling how a large Chicago fire had been put out by Fire Chief Fill Cuddihy, assisted by Charles Bausell, Sidney Harrison and Leo Edmondson. I turned to the sports page and 1 saw that Dante Frankie and Tommy George, ex-pro football players, had purchased the pennant winning football team, the Hopewell Devils. I also saw that the famous music teacher, Dorothy Doutt, had dislocated her jaw while on the highest note of the song “L’Accent-uate le Positive.” The noted specialist, Dr. William Broaddus was called to administer help. He was assisted by his nurses, Joyce McRae and Jean Massey. Suddenly the plane plunged into a sickening dive. The stewardess requested that everyone fasten his safety belt in order to prepare for a crash landing. Suddenly, Tony Moogalion sprang up from his seat, asking if anyone wished to take out life insurance. He shouted, “Now or never, buy your insurance from the Earl Hogarth Life Insurance Company.” Idle plane crashed into the world’s greatest engineering wonder, Tinker’s Dam, built by the world-renowned engineers, Robert Lee, Dick Westlake, and Sidney Con¬ nelly. As we dragged ourselves from the plane, Melbourne Pearson, the eminent cartoon¬ ist, casually remarked, “Tinker’s Dam isn’t worth a Tinker’s Dam, now. After a few minutes, an ambulance arrived driven by Nello Alexander. Three of the most famed nurses in the country, Alice Rusnak, Marguerite Collins, and “Monkey” Falls began administering first aid. Doris Talton, the brilliant teacher who was on the plane, suffered a serious injury consisting of a sprained eyelash. The George (Sordelett) Spatig bus line sent one of its buses driven by Agnes Harvey to take us to the train. As we arrived at the train station, the engineer, Roy- well Herdman, informed me he would take us to our destination aboard the Hopewell Reunion Special. On the train I noticed Charles Connelly, the handsome Casanova, up to his old tricks again, flirting with the Belle of Bellewood, Marion Jackson. Someone came and tapped me on the shoulder and I turned to see Thales Green, an eccentric scientist who had achieved fame through the invention of a perpetual motio n machine. Upon sitting down, I heard someone say, pointing to Bessie Leigh, “They call her the SenSen girl—she takes your breath away.” “What is that thing on her head?” I exclaimed. CProph ropueci