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

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1 7 Hll UR Sllllll IS C? C7 7 C7 Y ev- -Na FIRST ROW: Anne Willard, Nancy Prasse, Norma Skinner. h SECOND ROW: Carole Kesel, Charlotte Walker, Patricia McGee, Dulcy Houston, Theolviassey, Barbara Brist. THIRD ROW: Cromer Smith, Bobby Dameron, Barbara Meredith, Jane Black, Betsy Castle, Charles Leonard, Martha Kimball, Betty Jo Stanley. NOT PICTURED: Phyllis Limerick. Sl lun VW cnss Miss Betty Jean Smith Mr. Jesse H. Parker i

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MASS HISllllil Four years ago, eighty-four members of our class entered the former James Monroe High School as freshmen. ln our heads there was a mixed feeling of joy and uncertainty. ln our hearts we hoped to become a class of which our high school would always be proud. At the beginning of our first year, we elected Carole Kesel as our president, Jack Chewning as vice-president, Nancy Wilkerson as secretary, and Jack Wilhour as treasurer. Under the guidance of our World History teacher, Miss Emeline Stearns, we won firstplace in the National Ten Biggest Events ofthe Year contest. Barbara Meredith and Theo Massey were chosen to represent the Freshman Class in the Virginia Latin Tournament. Susan Hallberg was champion of the Archery Tournament and Dulcy Houston received the Most Valuable Player Award in hockey. For our Sophomore Class officers we chose Charles Leonard as president, Nancy Prasse as vice-president, and Barbara Meredith as secretary-treasurer. During the previous year, we had lost four of our members, and our class now numbered eighty. Two of our classmates, Jane Black and Joyce Russell, received honorable mention in the Future Scientists of America contest and the Virginia Wildlife essay contest, respectively. Having gained more confidence, we began our Junior year with eighty class members. ln November, we moved into the new high school building as proud and happy upperclassmen. For our officers we selected Mitty Cowan as president, Charles Leonard as vice-president, Charlotte Walker as secretary, and Betsy Castle as treasurer. Leavelle Billingsley won second place in the state dressmaking contest of the Daughters of the American Revolution . ln foren- sics, Jack Chewning was the state winner in poetry reading, and Danny Russler won second placein prose reading. Jane Black won first place at the Virginia Junior Academy of Science with her project exhibit, and this also won second place in the Future Scientists of America contest. The Most Valuable Player Award in football and the lncentive Award in track were presented to Ducky Estes and Jerome Sale, respectively. ln the latter part of the year, Our class was saddened by the death of Mr. Guy Brown, the Superintendent of Frederickshurg's public school system for twenty-three years. This loss was deeplyfelt throughout James Monroe. However, Mr. Hook and Mr. Gordon have efficiently carried on his work. At the last of the year, Nancy Prasse, Jane Black, Mitty Cowan and Bobby Dameron were selected to represent our school at Girls and Boys State during the summer of l953. Last came our Senior year, the most important and successful of all. Bobby Dameron was elected president of our Senior Class, which now numbered seventy-six. The other class officers were: vice-president, Jack Wilhour, secretary, Nancy Prasse, and treasurer, Danny Russler. Two members of our class, Leavelle Billingsley and Charles Leonard, were chosen Homecoming Queen and King. Charles also received the Most Valuable Player Award in football. Betsy Castle, the editor of the Annual of the Class of l954, worked with endless patience to produce the best Monroe Echo ever published. Our own class president, Bobby Dameron, was ap- pointed captain of one of the two teams for the magazine drive, and Barbara Meredith served as Business Manager of the drive. Our Senior Play, One Foot in Heaven , which was produced in December, was a great success. Jack 'Chewning won first place in the American Legion Oratorical Contest, and the Daughters of the American Revolution Citizenship Award was presented to Jane Black. Martha Kimball was chosen as the Key Club Sweetheart., and Pat McGee won second place in the local WRVA-University of Richmond scholarship quiz. The class trip was a sightseeing tour of Washington, D.C. in February. Yet to come were the Junior and Senior Proms, the Senior Farewell Assembly, Sneak Day, and Commencement. We know that we shall always look back on our high school years as years of happiness and hard work, and we hope we have been a class of which James Monroe will always be proud. Theo Massey Z6

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FWD f M-Q.. IIIASS llllllllllilil :ff N Q F 4 This is station WXYZ, bringing you one of the greatestevents ofthe year. Tonight we are broad- ' A' casting from the nation's most historic city, Fred- ,- W ericksburg, Virginia, where some of the most out- K ,5 - standing men and women of the universe are gath- , ered to celebrate the 25th anniversary of their ' I' ' high school graduation. There is quite a crowd of people milling around the platform, but I will try - to pick out a few of them, and tell you what they ,,.:5 1 have done for the past twenty-five years. , vu ,.,. 4. 'Af-'tg y 9 MR. CLI PPY CLOE, famous owner and coach - S 2.-:yq.gg3'.g9egr'g, . , . 1. J... f'-922::?:Sit.:iikf3.v!'i of the Washington Zebras, was seen dining today y at Eddie Mac's with MISS BETSY CASTLE. MISS y CASTLE will tonight take the opportunity to re- rl viewthe book Five Dimensional Figures in Spher- ical Triqonometry, by DR. C. G. Hostnik, one of her former teachers. At this time, she will state her reasons for disagreeing with his principles. Two of the sports notables who are in attendance, are MR. BENNY WIGGINTON, and MR. BUCK O'BRIEN, who will represent the U. S. in the Spring Olympics. MISS CAROLE KESEL, head of the Department of Physical Education at Vassar, is bringing along her fa- mous five-foot trophy, which was presented to her by the Interplanetary GirI's Athletic Association. MR. JACK CHEWNING, the famous orator, who has been known to sway great masses of people, is sched- uled to deliver a speech at this meeting, which will raise the roof. MISS THEO MASSEY, the latest blushing sensation of Broadway, is bringing with her, her husband the Arch- bishop. MR. BILLY ABRAMS, President of the Universe Bank, plans to announce tonight that he is prepared to lend ten million solar credits to MR. DONALD DODD, for the purpose ofestablishing an Inter-Spatial Business School. MISS BARBARA MEREDITH, author of the famous book, How To Be An Indiviclualist And Like It, will be dinin at her own private table in a remote corner of the room. MSR. CHARLES LEONARD, who personally supervised the laying of each steel girder in the new Earth-to-Nep- tune bridge, will be sitting close by to see that MISS .MEREDITH does not get lost. One of the most noted names in medical history is that of DR. DANIEL RUSSLER, who discovered how to regenerate teeth. DR. RUSSLER will be here tonight, along with his nurse-secretary, MISS JACKIE LEWIS. MISS ANGIE VENTURA, of Venus and Saturn, recently arrived in her red hardtop convertible space ship. MISS BARBARA BRIST, who was class giftorian twenty-five years ago, will again give out gifts, but this time, they will be supplied by her millionaire husband. The magnificent feast at the banquet tonight was prepared by MISS ANNE WILLARD. MR. CAROL MARKHAM is presenting each library in Fredericksburg with an autographed copy of his new unabridged dictionary. MR. LARRY SNIDER, noted Wall Street Financier, is giving ten shares of stock in the United Galaxy Steel Company, to each of the guests. MISS JEAN REYNOLDS, and MISS HELEN PERRY, his private secretaries, will personally distribute these shares. MISS JO ANN RICKERSON, educator, and respected child psycologist, will offer advice to any worried parents during this meeting. MISS BARBARA GOULDMAN, head of the school board, has announced that she is notin favor of MR. JOHN CALAMOS' policy of allowing teen-age drivers to race on his tracks. In the midst of a great crowd are MR. JEROME SALE, and MR. KENNETH HARDING, coaches at Notre Dame and Georgia Tech, respectively. MR. SALE seems to be a bit embarrassed. Z8