Lovingston High School - Cycle Yearbook (Lovingston, VA)

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REBA FITZPATRICK LEA Hollins College Columbia University University of Virginia Appreciation Of the whole of the Senior Class of 193 6, I think I have the highest honor of them all. For my character sketch is of our home room teacher, Mrs. Lea. Miss Reba is rather small. She is about five feet three and one-half inches tall and weighs about 130 pounds. Her hair is dark brown and her eyes are brown. She is a good sport, grand teacher, and loved by every pupil in school. The whole Senior Class has treated her like she is a pupil, too. She shares our joys, our sorrows, our victory, our defeat, and she struggles through the hard spots with us as we work on for our last great moment. We have many jokes on her. But I won’t begin to tell them all. She wears her glasses far down on her nose and peeps at you over them. In one of our math, classes about three years ago, Miss Reba came rushing in, up in the air, because she could not find her glasses. Every one in class looked at her sort of funny and laughed. She hurried out to look in all of the rooms she had taught in, thinking maybe they were there. She came back and still no glasses. One member of the class said through fits of laughter, Mrs. Lea, you have your glasses on.” Sure enough, there were her glasses pushed up on her forehead. We all love her and to some she is Mrs. Lea. To others, Miss Reba. But to me she will always be Aunt Reba, one of the best teachers I’ve ever been to. Tompkins Strother.

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Tike K acu O. O. ATTO Winkler Academy Newman, III. Austin College Effingham, Ill. Special Studies U. S. Weather Bureau LINDA BERREY WHITEHEAD State Teachers College Harrisonburg, Va. University of Virginia LILA SOMERVILLE Randolph-Macon Woman’s College University of Virginia LILLIAN W. ROBERTS Seaford High S. Del. Blackstone College University of Virginia MRS. LENA A. LARKE St. Paul’s Seminary State Teachers College Harrisonburg, Va. University of Virginia SALLIE D. MAUPIN State Teachers College Harrisonburg, Va. University of Virginia HENRIETTA STEVENS KATIE EVANS MITCHELL WILKERSON Lynchburg College Farmville State College State Teachers College Farmville, Va. Davis and Elkins College LOUISE DUVAL POWELL State Teachers College Farmville, Va. University of Virginia ALICE F. WILLIAMS Chase City High School State Teachers College Farmville, Va. FRANCES LACKEY Mary Baldwin College George Washington University University of Virginia LUCY SPENCER Lovingston High School Librarian (Not Pictured) CYNTHIA RODES State Teachers College Harrisonburg, Va. University of Virginia

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fiL§§ ropnecy The Seniors of 1936 decided to visit a nearby gypsy camp. Upon arriving we were surrounded by a group of smiling gypsies. We were immediately shown to the magic tent of Zuleka, the gypsy queen. She asked, Have you the silver to cross my palm with?” Everyone shouted, Yes, yes.” Gazing at the palm of the nearest who happened to be Elizabeth Yuille, Zuleka began: Ah! I see a large hospital. I see you as head nurse in this hospital. But no—only for a few years. Then you will marry an orchestra leader. You will be very happy.” Now,” turning to Katherine Horsley, you will study law though you will never practice to any great extent. You will fall desperately in love with a dark-haired man. Three times you will be divorced but your fourth marriage will be very happy.” Ah! Who is this smiling girl?” she exclaimed, turning to Ellen Johnson. You will be the sole owner of a large hot-dog stand. Your business will prosper.” Then turning to Juliet Redd, Harriet Spencer and Tompkins Strother who stood arm in arm, she gasped, You will all three marry shortly after school closes—if not before.” I see a Chop Suey joint in Chinatown. Within I see a fat Chinaman. As his better half” I see a girl named Lois Puckett.” I see a large crowd of girls huddling around some one. Let me look closer—I see Charlie Powell as the center of attraction.” After carefully observing the palms of Frances Ponton, Louise Miller and Mabel Stevens, Zuleka concluded that they would all be happy old maids. Now I see a water mill,” the gypsy queen continued. Within I see someone grinding corn—Ah! ’Tis Raymond Harlow.” I see Mary Ellyne Kidd as one of America’s great poets in the future.” I see R. T. Gleason as manager of the Cubs baseball team in the future. George Norvelle will catch for the same team, though later he will be sold to the Tigers.” Now I see Lee Farrar as an ace pilot in a future war. He will be taken captive but will escape to Ethiopia where he will live the rest of his days.” Ah! I see a great crowd of people listening attentively to a great musician. As I look closer I find the musician to be Worth Roberts.” I see Catherine Tyree as a great Metropolitan Opera star.” Now I see two young gentlemen—Aubrey Connelly and Bruce Anderson—in charge of a matrimonial bureau in New York City.” Gazing into Malcolm Woodson’s hand, Zuleka exclaimed, You will some day be a criminal lawyer. Most of your clients will be women.” Carro and Sadie Gunter will marry Siamese twins. The husbands will be tall, charming and handsome.” I see Rebecca Spencer operating a beauty parlor in a well-known city. She will be very successful in giving permanent waves to good-looking men.” I see Genoa Parrish as a contestant in an Atlantic City beauty contest.” Oh! I see Florrie Ewers teaching school in a one-room school up in the mountains. She will marry one of her pupils.” I think Lillian Wright will marry a boy by the name of Louis in the future. The two will live happily with a dog and cat.” Ah! Now I see a great movie actress. Why ’tis Beatrice Simpson. Beatrice will be very popular with a horde of fans.” I see Louise Simpson as secretary to a very rich man. Her work may be touched with romance. She will be very happy.” I see Mary Proffitt as head barber in a barber shop in New Jersey.” Cora Lynch will marry a farmer and settle down to a life of raising chickens, ducks, pigs, and probably children.” I see that Ruby Witt will take a business course. She will become an efficient stenographer.” Somewhat awed by Zuleka’s queer prophecies, we returned to school and began our lessons. Only the future can tell how true Zuleka’s foresight is.