Hopewell High School - Kaleidoscope Yearbook (Hopewell, VA)

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THE KALEIDOSCOPE 1945 (3 tome (Room (Presidents SENIOR PRESIDENTS Johnnie Lastovica, Patsy Morris, Sydney Connelly, Homer Eliades, Sonny Enochs JUNIOR PRESIDENTS Keith Hardy, Elsie Chapman, Arty Shelby, Jimmy Mason SOPHOMORE PRESIDENTS Sam Richeson, Patricia Ricks, Durwood Barco, Evelyn Baker, Aphrodite Hnarakis FRESHMAN PRESIDENT Jean Roberts EIGHTH GRADE PRESIDENTS Hurley Crocker, Glenn Krumel, Glenn Ledford, Billie Beachamp, Jimmy Morris, Evelyn Moore, Belle Glass, Nancy Hardy

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HOPEWELL HIGH SCHOOL “That’s one of the outstanding hats designed by the famous hat designer, Libby Crichton,” was the answer. At our next stop, four of the world’s most noted scientists boarded the train. They were Johnnie Lastovica, Ida Abrams, Barbara Furr, and Isabelle Vartanion. Following them, Frankie Olson got on the train assisted by John Wells, librarian of the John Randolph Wells Library in Hopewell. Frankie had been given the title, Miss Bubble Gum of 1958. They were followed by two dress designers, Marie Hole and Tudie Pope. Glancing out of the train window, I saw the Barbara Hudson Beauty Salon. The chief hair dresser was “Tut” Connelly. Arlene Herdman, now an Army wife, was sitting opposite me, laughing as usual. I heard Virginia LaFoon, Estelle Morris, and Louise Minor discussing their new stenographic jobs at Dorothy Sale’s “Tonight or Never” lipstick factory. Margaret Pearson, who invented the new reversible Kleenex, was talking to Bobby Henry, reputed basketball coach. Bernice Aldridge and her new heart throb, William Gates, were sitting in a dark, secluded, cozy corner, carefully eating Jean Holsclaw’s famous Coleslaw and reading about Elizabeth Opocensky, the Navy’s newest pin-up girl. Doris Ellis hurried down the aisle to the women’s drinking fountain. Doris was now State Supervisor of Physical Education of Virginia. Then 1 noticed Anna Lastovica, famous nurse, husily attending to her two patients, Richard Gleason and Wiley Eavey, both noted inventors. They had been hurt while working on their new invention which was so secret, even they didn’t know what it was. As the train drew into Petersburg, one of the suburbs of Hopewell, we began gathering up our baggage and preparing to get off. After a few minutes, the train drew to a stop in Hopewell’s Main Street Station. Fay Lewis’s brass band was playing as we stepped down from the platform. The whole town was celebrating the arrival of the class of ’45 . Robert Harrison, principal of Hopewell High School, drove us to the west wing of the school, which had been designed by Gus Hnarakis. Lucille Waters, Catherine Williams, and Myrtice Swindell, all commercial teachers at Hopewell High School, met us. The party had already begun. Evelyn Butterworth and Alma Reid, local business¬ women, were standing in the hall admiring the paintings of Marie Garrett. Nancy Ellis and Frances Garfmkel, co-owners of Hopewell’s leading department store, were listen¬ ing to Irving Sacra’s singing. He was accompanied by Robert Barnett with his guitar. The rooms were artistically decorated by the interior decorator, Helen Sapon. Juanita Balderson had just arrived from North Carolina, where she had been serving as a foreign missionary. Louise Bailey arrived in the new helicopter her husband had just given her. Neil Hall, owner of the A. Q. Grocery Stores, and his bookkeeper, Reba Barber, were drinking some of Kathryne Case’s “Kikapoo Cola.” V ilford Leach was reading his own book titled, “Love in a Dixie Cup.” Elpie Doulis and Jane Croom, noted orators, were busily arguing concerning Thelma Dooley’s marriage. David Ameen, now a commissioned officer in the Army, was busily engaged in admiring Betty Thompson and Thalia Eliades, two Power’s models drinking “Lime and Coca Cola.” Edith Birchett and her Corn Cobblers were playing while Lois Townes was singing the new hit song, “Me and You in an Igloo.” Vivian Connelly, coach of the basketball team of Hopewell, arrived in her B-98. At 4 A.M., as I staggered to my bed, my thoughts wandered back to the good times and good friends I had in the class of ’45. So I closed my thoughts for the day, and so I close this prophecy, saying “Here’s to the class of ‘45.” Doris Ellis David Ameen Joyce McRae Wilford Leach

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HOPEWELL HIGH SCHOOL How S emors Teachers—MRS. PARSON, MRS. BEANE Absalon, Annie Baker, Jack Barton, Johnnie Birchett, Louise Boocks, Fred Boothe, Jackie Burney, Alvah Collins, Melva Connelly, Crawley Connelly, Dorcas Bail, Ruby Dereski, Stanley Doutt, Betty Eliades, Homer Elmore, Pauline Fayed, Charlena Hancock, Mary Lee Hobbs, Wilma Hotchkiss, Richard Joyce, Ruth Karabedian, Margaret Knott, Bishop Layne, Robert Lewis, Jean McCulley, Johnny McQuage, Lance Morris, Patsy Nedlock, Doris Pelter, Doris Price, Bruce Robertson, Marjorie Rowland, Herbert Sheallv, Dorothy Shelton, Jean Spratley, Robert Temple, Irene Vanko, Vera Wilkes, Tommy Wilson, Neil Wilson, Sally Wray, Forrest