Leesburg High School - Ketoctin Yearbook (Leesburg, VA)

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SENIOR CLASS As I lay in my bed one night, my thoughts re- turned to the day when I entered Leesburg High School. Soon I entered into the golden palaces of Dreamlandg I saw Wallace Furr, now playing guard for the Los Angeles Rams, discussing plays with the head coach, Raymond Kirkpatrick. Checring Wallace on were Shirley Fishback, and james Crosen, as usual. The crowd was going wild as james Carnes came across the goal line scoring another touchdown for the Los Angeles team. As I left the football game and walked to the bus station in Los Angeles, I met Barbara Allison, the former Barbara Kitts, going grocery shopping, She told me that she and George had just made a trip around the world! Since I had plenty of time to spare when l reached the bus station, I decided I would go in- to the coffee shop. I was very much surprised to see Barbara Newton as a hostess there. She has really come a long way from the Laurel Brigade Inn in Leesburg. While waiting for my order to come, I picked up a magazine and was very happy to find that Lois Myers was the new editor. When I opened the cover, I noticed that Beverly Martin was the Art editor and had as her assistant Anne Baum- gardner. One of the professional models was Frances Day who was modeling suits and coats. I heard the announcement over the loudspeaker that the bus for New York City was now being loaded. I bought my ticket and recognized the driver as Harold Sensabaugh. He said he was in business with his brother, Emory. I found myself a seat on the bus and made my- self as comfortable as I could for the long ride ahead. I saw a familiar figure coming toward me and as she got closer, I recognized her as Anne Church. She said that she was a telephone opera- tor at Leesburg, but she was on her vacation right now. Time passed very quickly and we were now in Chicago. Since we had a thirty-minute stop here, I decided to look around the town. I noticed on a bulletin board in the bus station that the 'kMiss America contest was being held in At- lantic City. I looked down the list of names and found that Anne Moss was competing as Miss Virginia and Evelyn Cockrell was Miss Wash- ington. D. C. Both of these girls were top con- tenders in the contest. I got back on the bus, bough myself a newspa- per and returned to my seat. As I sat reading my paper, a very familiar name came into view. Tam Birchfield was now the editor of The Evening Star and on her staff of typists were Tommy

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SENIOR CLASS HISTORY FRANCES: Nancy, do you remember the fall of 1941 when we started at L. H. S.? NANCY: How well I remember that first year! Miss Dillon met us at the door of the first grade room with the promise that we'd be reading and writing our names before very long. FRANCES: Yes, and I recall how I en- vied Beverlyis long finger curls. Barbara, Bertha Rae and your little pigtails got their start that year. NANCY: Mrs. Simpson carried us through the next two years, and if I remember cor- rectly Henry joined us in the second grade. Didn't you and Anne leave us in the third grade? FRANCES: Yes, Anne went to Ashburn and I went to Lucketts. What happened after we left? NANCY: Well, all went smoothly in the fourth grade under Miss Stoneburner. Ann Moss and Teddy came from Mountain Gap to join our group study of Virginia with Mrs. Urcell Bradfield. FRANCES: Excuse me, but havenit I heard you say before that you had a lot of excitement the next year? Don't for- get to tell me about it. NANCY: Oh, yes, that year we were di- vided for the first time. Some of our gang went along with Miss Willie Smith on that awful day of division and the rest stayed with Miss Clemens. FRANCES: Oh, the excitement. NANCY: Yes, Miss Clemens changed her name to Mrs. Kline at Christmastime. But we weren't sorry, because we liked Mr. Kline so well. FRANCES: Did you get back together in the.seventh grade? NANCY: Yes, Mrs. Ruth Bradfield kept us together and Shirley came from Hamil- ton to graduate with us the first time. FRANCES: Now this is where I fit into the picture again. Our dreams of high school finally came true when we came from Lucketts, Ashburn, Sterling and Wa- terford to join Leesburg. We had all grad- uated too, and were ready to begin our high school career as the class of ,53. NANCY: Anne Church came back that year and brought Tam, editor of the Chat- terbox, with her. You brought James Carnes, class president, with you and Lois came from Waterford to become editor of the Ketoctin. FRANCES: Remember how the freshmen initiated us that year? Oh well, we Fixed the eighth grade the next year. But most important was that we spent those hrst three years, as eighth graders, Freshmen and Sophomores, getting to know each other. NANCY: Then came that wonderful, hard-working Junior year. Didnit we have loads of fun presenting the Talent Show, selling Christmas Cards and having danc- es to make money for the Prom? FRANCES: But more fun than that was decorating the auditorium and then at- tending the One-and-Only P R O M. Wasn't it a good idea to decorate with Oriental Gardens as a theme? NANCY: Oh yes, we really have some artistic-minded people in our class, don't we? And it was fun decorating for grad- uation. FRANCES: And now Nancy, we've final- ly made it! It seems impossible that we're working on the annual, but here we are! NANCY: Yes, we have been like one big happy family. I 7

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PROPHECY Hummer, and Betty Jordan. I happened to glance at the sports page where the pictures of Teddy Dodd and Gibson Kline ap- peared as outstanding basketball athletesl' of our day. I saw on the society page that Patricia De- Courcy was again traveling in Europe. On the front page appeared a picture of that great big handsome Indiana farmer who had won First Grand National Prize in raising the best corn. It was none other than my old classmate, Henry Dyke Bishop. As the bus speeded down the dual highway, I caught a glimpse of Louis Etcher, Elwood Cross. and John Minor fishing in a babbling brook. Clif- ford Fling was there testing mud for his universal- ly-known laboratory. The bus stopped for passengers and Nancy Lonardelli, that Philadelphia lawyer, was among the crowd. We talked, and she told me about the big concert in town that was featuring Elwood Kern and his 'flive Bombers. She said, in the course of her conversation, that Nancy Rhoads is now a nurse. Frances Carnes is also in the nursing field. Peggy Poland and Edith Shufli are secretaries now. Nancy started talking to me about an Air Force sergeant. named Beatrice Mock, who was now serving her country, and about Julia Fletch- er, an Air Line hostess for the Eastern Air Lines. As the bus pulled to a halt, I saw that a large crowd was gathering around two overturned auto- mobiles, while the Chief of Police, Richard Fiske, was trying to find out what had happened. Phyllis Newton, now Mrs. Vanderbuilt, had crashed into Betty Graham Lawson. Phyllis was wearing a very expensive fur coat that her husband had given her, I arrived in New York City full of pep and en- ergy. Betty Clemens was standing on the plat- form waiting for the g'Navy to return. Walking through the crowd, I recognized our class' Future Farmer of America, Henry Stow- ers. He said he was planning a new wheat-break- ing record this year, he had made a startling dis- covery in wheat raising. Having reached my destination, I walked up the street where a gigantic poster hung from a window in Times Square of a campaign manager for the Republican Party, james Schulz. In the distance, I heard a sound coming toward me from out of nowhere. Instantly I sat up in bed and tried to recapture the wonderful dream I had had of my classmates back in dear ol' Lees- burg High School. Barbara Munday Alben The name rang in the still silent morning. I jumped out of bed, for I heard my husband calling for his breakfast.