James Monroe High School - Echo Yearbook (Fredericksburg, VA)

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SENIOR CLASS TAYLOR FITZHUGH TURNER, JR. “Fite” “Are you sure” RUTH REBECCA YAXOW “Rufus” “Oh heavens” SENIOR ADVISORS MRS. MILDRED L. CHICK MISS MILDRED LAPSLEY MISS NANCY M. SON DDES Class Advisor Class Advisor Annual Advisor Nineteen

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SENIOR CLASS MARY LOUISE STO ' J ' T EVELYN SUE STRAUGHAN JOHNNY MASON SURLES “Mari Inn “ Tue ” Sonny” “Oh well, that ' s life” “Danka Schoen” ‘ Live fast, die young, and have a good-looking corpse” ARTHUR JOSEPH SWEENEY, JR. “ Budroe” “Yo” GERALD EDWARD TALLEY “fSkibo” “Great Day” GLORIA STUART TOEPFER “Glo” “Good Cow” Eighteen

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PROPHECY OF THE CLASS OF ’52 Just the other day, enroute home from work in my Elsmobile, that new automobile created and manufactured by the Gary Ellis Motor Co. of Detroit, 1 chanced to switch on my TV set to channel 113, and picked up that super- scooper lady newscaster, Miss Jeanette Carter. Miss Carter’s news was of such immensity that 1 want you all to hear it. She said: “Good evening, Mr. and Mrs. America—and all of Texas, too. All the great news today, June 21, 1968, comes directly from America’s oldest and busiest city, Fredericksburg, Virginia, and that’s only natural since that ' s where all the great people live. “Mr. Donald Snellings, owner, trainer, and rider of the great horse, ‘Bubblebath,’ has again won the Interplanetary Derby. Congratulations, Mr. Snellings. “Miss Emily Grace Morrison, chief pharmicist of the People’s Drug Stores, has just discovered the cure for the common cold—stay in bed all year! But Dr. George Calamos disagrees with Miss Morrison, stating that the cold bug is so widespread that humans will contract it no matter where they are! “The United States Olympic teams have just returned from Jupiter, the site of the 1968 Olympiad, victorious again! The hero of this year ' s games was America’s John Hall who won both the pentathon and declathon. Mr. Hall ' s biggest feat was his twenty-two foot pole vault! “Big news! The Chas. Dowling-Pcrry Holcomb Construction Co. has just completed the first New York to Paris bridge! The messeurs Dowling and Holcomb are now working on plans for a round-the-world highway! “Renowned actress, Mary Stott, fresh from a rousing triumph in ‘The Dessert Fox,’ has been cast in the lead of MGM’s newest picture, ' Across the Wide Rappahannock. ’ “Comedian Buddy Sweeney has just been signed by NBC for the first continuous I V show ever to be produced. Sweeney is to be sponsored by the Surles Men’s Fashions Shops. “Miss Peggy Pitts, top X-ray technician for the Mayo Clinic, made big news today by announcing her revolutionary new invention—an x-ray machine that registers exactly what, if anything, is wrong with any patient x-rayed. Miss Pitts gives much credit to her two hard-working secretaries, Joyce Quann and Catherine Shelton. “Admiral John Britton, who once swore he wasn’t going to make the navy his career, yesterday dispersed the old rumor that a sailor has a ‘girl in every port’ saying, ‘I haven’t got a gal in South Afghanistan. ' The reason: population—all male! “The fast growing planet, Saturn, got another boost today when the Armstrong, Limerick, and Searles Department Store chain announced its in¬ tention to build twenty large stores there. The owners of this chain, the Misses Beulah Armstrong, Peggy Limerick, and Isabell Searles, were once salesgirls in the Fredericksburg 5c and 10c store. “When Miss Ruth Yanow, wealthy hotel owner, heard of this plan, she promptly vowed that she would build ten hotels on Saturn. Not to be outdone, this Yanow! “Right here on Earth, Mr. Gerald Talley has just completed the last of his great ice cream factory-stores. Mr. Talley now boasts an ice cream plant in every country on Earth, although he confesses his concession isn’t faring too well in Iceland! “And now it’s time for a word from our sponsor, the Jones’ Steel Wool Co. Friends, is your steel wool too soft? If so, you need Jones’ steel wool, direct from the mills of Charles Jones, located in the Fredericksburg Barber Shop. Jones’ steel wool is the best because it’s nature’s own. Don’t take less, get the best. Buy Jones’. And now, here again is your favorite and mine, Miss Jeanette Carter!’ Hello again, and back to the news of the day. Miss Patricia Snellings has just been appointed professor of English and histories at Mary Washington College. Miss Snellings, you know, has written several books on these subjects. At the same time, Miss Patricia Smith was appointed director of T iventy