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G ass J J rop£ecy The year is 1966, the state, California. We are sitting thinking of our High School Days and remem¬ bering all the silly frivolous things we used to do. Last night, we attended the Alumni Ball, which was held in the honor of our class, where we served as hostesses. The first guests to arrive were Audrey Humphrey and Christopher Simmons, those two old love birds. Christopher is the leading mortician at Lynchburg, Virginia. Edward Mendes is also a mortician at Charleston, West Virginia. The next guests who came with eager anticipation for the reunion were Hattie Taylor and Edna Sim¬ mons who are doing splendid work as stenographers for the W. T. Grant Company in Charleston, West Virginia. It seems as if quite a few talented members of your class have moved to the state of Massachusetts. Marion Batts and Lucille Fonville, those two inseparable friends, are surgical nurses at Payne Memorial Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts. Annie Carter is another talented stenographer who is now living in Springfield, Massachusetts and is employed with the MacFadden Publications Incorporated. Doris Lofton was completely surrounded by classmates looking at a hair style she created herself. As you know, she is a beautician and barber in her own salon in Lynn, Massachusetts. Her assistants are Thelma Foye and Fannie Spellman, who will represent her at the World Congress of Beauticians, which will be held in Berne, Switzerland next month. Also living in that state is Gloria Williams, who is happily married and a civic leader in the city of Westfield, Massachusetts. Janey Meadows informed us that she was head nurse at Fauldner Institute, at Rolkins Hospital in Salt Lake City, Utah. Ernest Bennett is a noted teacher of Structural Engineering at Rose Polytechnic Institute in Terre Haute, Indiana, In our hometown, New Bern, we find that Egeria Carter is Superintendent of nurses at Good Shepherd Hospital. Laura Armstrong is also a nurse there. Also remaining in our hometown is Melvin Pickett. Matilda Jones is a beautician in Brooklyn, New York. Dorothy Harvey is the private secretary for the Vice President of Russell Sage College, Troy, New York. Barbara Best is a nurse in Detroit, Michigan, where she works for the Johonn Riechter Clinic. Dollie White is a teacher at Reid Elementary School in Memphis, Tennessee. Charles Spivey, who is a First Lieutenant in the Air Force is stationed in Birmingham, Alabama. Betty Smith is a stenographer for Hohne and Company, Newark, New Jersey. Estella Murphey, a corporal in the Waves, is stationed in Providence, Rhode Island, and looks real dreamy since she lost a lot of weight. Eleanor Banks is a newspaper reporter for the Minneapolis Daily Mirror at Minneapolis, Minnesota, where she is the Society Editor. William Dove is an instructor at M.I.T. in the School of Engineering. Eugenia Hickman is happily married. Her home is the show place of Long Island. Doris Hicks is teaching voice in the Julliard School of Music in New York. Annie Daniels is a reporter on the New York Herald Tribune. Phillip Wiggins is doing social work in Houston, Texas. Shirley Riggs, an interior decorator at Atlanta, Georgia, planned the decorations for this lavish and colorful wingding. Joyce Copper, a surgical nurse at St. James Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, received praises for the miraculous recovery of one of her patients. Albert Hukins, is a Vocational Instructor at A. and T. College, Greensboro. Also, living in that town is Miriam Bell, who is an instructor in the nursing school, and also the author of the newly published The Advantages of Nursing as a Career. Shirley Benton is a telephone operator in Chicago, Illinois where she received a citation for her quick thinking which saved thirty lives. James Hatch is an interpreter with the French Legation at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. Lois Melton, a foreign correspondent for the Associated Press in London, has been visiting some friends in Akron, Ohio recently.

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CLASS PROPHECY CONTINUED Barbara Payton who has her own Pharmacy, the largest in Cincinnati, Ohio, was one of the prettiest girls present. Charles Nelson, who is an applied Sociologist in Miami, Florida, is studying for his Masters Degree at Columbia University. Ellen Pugh, a typist at Birchbrook Incorporated, resides in Seattle, Washington, Mary Rhodes is an extremely efficient typist for Ebony Magazine. Robert Vails is teaching commer¬ cial education at Howard University, Washington, D.C. Our class celebrity. Flora Madison, a famous model, was exquisitely clad in a Robinson Original. Dr. Jessie Daves has her dental clinic in Washington, D.C. Wilbur Williams, who received his doctorate in Social Studies at Yale, is now special advisor in the Department of Health Education and Welfare in the nation ' s capital. Lillian Robinson, who studied at the National Academy-of Design in New York, is now a famous designer and the creator of Robinson Originals. Her studio is located in Pasadena, California. Charlene White, a famous lawyer, who tried and convicted the suspect in the famous Harrell Case, is practicing law in Sacramento, California. Everyone danced until the wee hours of the morning and enjoyed delicious and exotic refreshments. Now the crowd seems to be leaving, but we plan to meet again in 1967. See you then! Prophetess: Mary Rhodes Witnesses: Lillian Robinson Shirley Benton Charlene White Ellen Pugh Doris Lofton Our ship has finally reached the shore, We ' ve met at the Barber pier. Tune: O Happy Home (Methodist Hymn) We each shall venture and labor To find our hidden fates. Ready to leave forever more The spot we hold so dear. And as we part from this harbor - The captain and the mates - Dear Barber High Thou art loved the dearest. But it has come time When we must bid farewell To our instructors who have guided us well. We ' ll always honor and cherish you. We know not what the future holds, Or what our chance shall be. But we shall strive to reach our goal In this land of the brave and free. Soon we will venture Out into our various fields Into every known part of the world But wherever we wander We will always remember Our dear ole high school days at Barber So here ' s to you parents and friends, Classmates and teachers, true! High. May we prove unto the end, Our great love for you. Jessie Mae Annette Daves Miriam Bell