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

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SENIOR PERSONALITIES Most Talented: JOYCE QUANN and BUDDY SWEENEY Best Athletes: SUE STRAUGHAN and JOHN HALL, Most Cheerful: DEBRA HOLLIBAUGH and TAYLOR TURNER Most Intelligent: EMILY MORRISON and PERRY HOLCOMB Best Dancers: SUE STRAUGHAN and BUDDY SWEENEY Most Likely To Succeed: RINDA LU GRUBBS and BOBBY GOOLRICK Most Popular: PEGGY PITTS and JOHN HALL Most Romantic: PEGGY PITTS and CHARLES DOWLING Most Sophisticated: MARY STOTT and BILL SCHRIER Most Witty: JEANETTE CARTER and TAYLOR TURNER Most Versatile: DEBRA HOLLIBAUGH and PERRY HOLCOMB Best Dressed: RUTH ENGLISH and CHARLES DOWLING Best Looking: CATHERINE SHELTON and JOHN HALL Best Personality: JOYCE QUANN and JOHN HALL Twenty-Four

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AXX STEPHENS and ANNE SHELTON bequeath their secretarial abilities to GARNETTE PAYXE and MAR.JOKIE GARNETT. MARY STOTT bequeaths her title of “most sophisticated” to INDIA LINDSTROM. SUE STRAUGHAN bequeaths all her many duties in the athletic department to CAROL KESEL. We hope Carl does as fine a job as Sue did. RUTH YANOW bequeaths her love for talking anytime and anywhere to BETTY McGINNISS. JOHN BRITTON bequeaths all his many girl friends (which HE says he never had) to JAMES CARTER ROWE. GEORGE CAL AMOS bequeaths his willingness to exert himself to BILLY WILKERSON. CHARLES DOWLING bequeaths his ability to preside over matters of importance to the class, above the noise of the seniors, to next year’s senior class president. GARY ELLIS bequeaths his love for hot-rods to WILSON EMBREY. Here’s hoping he, too, thinks more of cars than women. BOBBY GOOLRICK bequeaths his ability to get up at 8:45, and still be on time when school takes up at 8:50, to RICHARD CLOE. JOHN HALL bequeaths his athletic ability to CHARLES LEONARD. Hope Charles wins some trophies as a result of this ability. GERALD HART bequeaths his ability to get Bobby Goolrick in “dutch” to JACK APPER- SON, so Jack can practice on JOHN W ILLIS. PERRY HOLCOMB bequeaths his presidency of the S. C. A. to next year’s president in the hope that he will also guide the students wisely. CHARLES JONES bequeaths his membership in the Bachelors’ Club to MAC QUANN. Don’t let those gals make you lose your membership. BILL SCHRIER bequeaths his tremendous lieighth to LARRY SNIDER, with the hope that Larry will someday be as tall as BILL CORNELL and they can lose their title of “Mutt and Jeff.” WIRT SHELTON bequeaths his clever remarks, especially in English class, to PETIE TAXSILL. DONNIE SXELLIXGS bequeaths his one-hundred-and-one excuses for not having his home¬ work to LLOYD SULLIVAN. We hope they’ll come in handy! JOHNNY SURLES bequeaths his ability to charm the female population to ERNEST DONAHOE. We bet he’ll be a real “Don Juan!” BUDDY SWEENEY bequeaths his musical talents to SUE FREEMAN. GERALD TALLEY bequeaths his love for the senior home room to anyone who wants to occupy it for succeeding years. TAYLOR TURNER bequeaths his witty remarks and a laugh for every occasion to JOHN GOOLRICK. DEBRA HOLL1BAUGH bequeaths all the fun, (and a few headaches) she had while writing this will of the Class of 1952, to the lucky person who has the honor of writing next year’s class will. Executed on this second day of June in the year of our Lord, nineteen-hundred and fifty-two. Witnessed by: Joyce Monroe Signed: Joyce Quann Debra L. Hollibaugli Sue Straughan T wenty-Three

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SENIOR CLASS PLAY On December 7 the senior class presented their annual play. This year the class enacted Meet Corliss Archer, under the direction of Mrs. Pat Combs. The cast was composed of the following seniors: Gerald Hart, Dexter; Pat Snellings, Corliss; Perry Holcomb, Mr. Archer; Emily Morrison, Mrs. Archer; Bobby Goolrick, Mr. Franklin; Sue Straughan, Mrs. Franklin; Mary Stott, Cousin Agnes; Peggy Pitts, Mildred; Norma Mitchell, Betty Camp: John Britton, doctor; Ruth Yanow, nurse; Debra Holibaugh, maid. T wenty-Five