John D Bassett High School - Timber Tints Yearbook (Bassett, VA)

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SENIORS Bobby Vernon George Wade Paul Wampler Stella Walthall Bobby Webb Gene Webb Rhona Weinstein Edna Wood

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SENIORS Rachel Spencer Yancey Stafford Ann Stone Burin Stone Doretha Stone Ellis Stone Mary Ruth Stone Robert Stout Larry Thomasson Mary Ann Thomasson June Turner Peggy Thomasson 4 n } •

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PROPHECY They told me I must prophesy; that should be the work of a sage, but I, a fool more than a sage, will try to reveal your future in our next imaginary age. Standing on the corner of something new — but in 1959 it is a streamlined avenue — whom should I see but Nancy Byrd with some gigolo trying to let everyone know that she has inherited enough money to get herself a beau. Smiling sweetly she passes on. Looking across the wide avenue a humorous sight meets my eyes, Mary June Moore running a beauty stand. Beside her stand is the new Radium Theater owned by Eugene Hodges. Stopping at the theater I hear roars and hisses. It is Jessie Hill and Ralph Nash making their screen debut in Love and Kisses, and oh, I do want to see that heart- stirring drama performed on the stage featuring Stella Walthall and Nancy Martin in Act Your Age.” Passing a very stately marble building I met a small, well-dressed woman whom you all know as June Turner, who from many hearts takes thorns. She ' s famously known as an authority on Advice to Lovelorn. Doretha Stone waits patiently in her office for a love test ( not a blood test) to find out which of her boy friends she loves best. Suddenly I hear a terrible yell — it ' s Bobby Prillaman, the great comedian that can ' t last; for now he has fallen and his leg is in a cast. Oh well with Romaine Simpson as his nurse— don ' t be stingy Bobby no leg is worse than no purse. While contemplating Bobby ' s condition, I suddenly hear poppings and smackings and my what a sight! It is Rebecca Adams and June Grogan competing for fastest chewing gum queen. Deciding I better get away from Bassett before I go com- pletely berserk, I go in the station and buy a ticket for Collinsville, the city about eight miles from here. I sit by a very friendly girl who tells me she is Mrs. Dalmation, the wife of a deceased multi-multi-millionaire. We become very friendly and since we have beauty parlor appointments for the same Beauty Salon ( it is the new Orchids Beauty Salon), she for a manicure and I to get my hair fixed, we go together. This is my first time to visit the new beauty shop and I am completely bewildered to find that Juanita Bennett is the attendant there. Before I have time for introductions Juanita is about to smother Mrs. Dalmation with affections. (You know we were always an affectionate class! ! ) I just stand and goggle when I learn that Mrs. Dalmation is the former Miss Rhona Weinstein. Before there is time for more ado I am rushed in to fill my ap- pointment. The hair styler, oh, I can’t believe it, but it is true, for there before me is Monsieur Ross with a little black mustache and a cultivated French accent. But of course women of our day and age couldn ' t be really chic if we didn ' t have men hair stylers, could we? Rhona is waiting outside my booth and asks me to accompany her to the new Science Hall to hear a Chemistry lecture. I always liked Chemistry so I readily agree. For two hours I am bored by Professor Paul Wampler telling of his new invention the atom smasher which if not watched carefully would completely disintegrate the smasher and if watched too carefully the person watching would undergo a physical and chemical change as our teacher of many years ago. Coach Lemons, used to tell us. Rhona and I had planned to attend a football game but we had to go first and get Rhona’s car, a ' 59 ford con- vertible. At the garage we are met by the General Superin- tendent Burin Stone who said he would bring the car out at once and this he did. We started off at a very rapid pace and behind us we heard a siren. With a dejected air, Rhona pulls to the curb. State Trooper, Junior Jones, gets chickenhearted when he sees who we are and we escape a ticket. We finally arrive at the field where the Green Devil Varsity (coached by George Wade) and the Black Dragons (coached by Junior Lawson) are about to get under way. Each side are very sure of themselves as they boast such famous coaches, but the game ends 6-6. Wearily we make our way across the street to Bonnie’s Grill where Margaret Byrd cheerfully serves us sandwiches and cokes. We start towards home but we will never get there for Rhona must stop tnd see a new business concern. It is an unsmearable lipstick factory owned by Harold Haynes. We find Nancy Dodson in an office pounding on the type- writer and evidently she isn’t the only one who likes the product for we find Dot Bennett working there as an as- sistant superintendent and in another spot we find Ida Lee Meade. So it must be a very good product. We start peacefully on again and what should we have but a flat tire. We walk to a house a little way up the road taking time only long enough to fuss at a couple of kids for putting nails in the road. The door is opened by the former Mildred Foley (I can ' t remember who they are all married to ) . Mildred has as her guest overnight Harold Scarborough, the great prize fighter, and very willingly ( it seems from all outward appearances) he agrees to fix our flat and I as in the days of long ago and being a gad about (a New York Gossip Strip) I suggest that we women catch up on our gossip. Did you know that Douglas Martin is teaching History IV back at Dear Ole Bassett Hi. And that Nellie Joyce is half owner of the famous dress shop for Exclusive Women, and I saw in the paper where Ralph Mason is a partner in that outstanding law firm Green and Green and of course you have heard about Joyce N. Johnson having to help support her husband by designing bathing suits for plump women. Isn ' t it wonderful that Etholine Sink after working al l these years as a model has finally achieved her goal, Miss America of 59 and Mary Ann, you remember Mary Ann Thomasson, Woman’s Private Detective (unable to find a man she has decided to trace one). Edna Wood is really showing her brain as greatest Mathematician known and Larry Thomasson has got brains too, as President of the Better Farmers Association. Opal Roberson, get a load of this will you, inventing a new kind of powder which you b ow on. I heard she wasn ' t getting rich very fast because all you have to do is blow and it comes off the same way, (Whew it must be light as hydrogen) and did you know that Alice Jefferson tiring of wasting her time is now ha ' r styler for men only. Bobby Oliver, the dear old boy as Miss Norvell, one of his English teachers, used to say, is owner of the Youth Center. Unable to stand the thought of getting old he has joined a youth group. Can you believe that Ann Stone has written a new book on Why Should Women Learn to Cook? Poor Annie Mae is looking for a job for she is married now and will become domesticated. Betty Helms is assistant to the President of the Atomic Studios, and dear, dear Annabel Gusler has written a new book which is just simply famous on How to Keep From Being an Old Maid. Speaking of being famous, Eddie Bassett is too. He makes all those improvements on the airplane and what do you think of Louise Foster coaching gjrls in basketball when her girls still have one more foot- ball game this season. Betsy Smith, Secretary of Labor — I knew she must have something in mind for all that hard studying and Peggy Thomasson, she was formerly, is married and now buying economy size garments. Who would have thought that Ezra Dalton would be a minister? I ' ve heard that his favorite from the Bible — especially when he is broke is — If God Wills It, It Must be Thus and Edith Fulcher and Mary Ruth Stone after working for Women ' s Rights are known as first women legislators. Mary Pedigo has gone to the deepest jungles of Africa as a Missionary. Yancy Stafford crooning Beautiful Dreamer in Holly- wood while Ruth Howell tickles the ivories and Robert Stout modern composer of love songs. Bill McDonald writes dreamy music to go with those magic words Robert composes. Thomas Martin, State Champion at billiards and shooting pool and Ellis Stone is America ' s greatest acrobat and clown. Bobby and Gene Webb are well known as drum majors in the United States Band. Virginia Mullins, an efficient bookkeeper, and Frances Shelton, dietitian at Bassett High School. Everybody knows that Darrow Jarrett is one woman’s man and Thelma Cassady and Mary Ruth Stone reporters for the newspapers The Star” and The Moon” respectively. Our tire has been fixed ages ago but we gossip on; when suddenly we hear a low exclamation of surprise, Harold reads from the Society Column where Rachel Spencer is getting married way out in Calamazoo Canyon — imagine such a thing? Oh, gracious 1 can ' t believe it, but if I don’t get to the twins they ' ll find me first and goodness I gotta go. Written by — - Myrtle Nolen