Manchester High School - Memoir Yearbook (Richmond, VA)

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lt's that big hunk of a man, Forrest jolly. I thought he had settled down to married life. We buy a paper and glancing through the pages, we see where that famous novelty dancing team, Doris Wright and Garland Canada, are t o u ri n g the country thrilling the audiences with their superb dance routines. The opera house is our next stop. We take our seats as the curtain rises. Who is that singing? Why, that's Hilda Protzman! What a beautiful young lady she has become. After the curtain falls, we go back stage to see her. She tells us that she is to be married in a month to Kenneth Savedge. He's the boy who used to be the ladies' man of our class. As we are leaving, Ann Jolly and Broaddus Hey come through the door. He is Dr. Hey now and one of New York's best surgeons. Ann is his nurse and chief assistant. Things have certainly changed since '43. We learn that Harry Lane Finally married Virginia Hammond. We know she is happy. Helen Hiles and her wonderful family are living in the same apartment house with Harry and Virginia. We leave the opera house and hail a cab. When the driver steps out to open the door for us, we are really startled, for there stands Thomas Suttler. He married Virginia Hender- son, and they have two children. just imagine that! Thomas says that Tuck Atkinson owns the cab company he is driving for and that he and Shirley Fricke are to be married next month. And to our surprise, Ewell Flippo, Doctor of Divinity, is to marry them. Laura Dunn, we find out from Thomas, has gone into dress designing and is a famous designer now. She designs ,clothes for Countess Uldine Booker. a We get out of the cab at the hotel and who should be waiting to see us but Gene Winfree. She is just as tiny as 'she was and very dainty. It seems that Gene is a model. She tells us that Betty Lou Smith is a beauty operator in Hollywood and that Annie Werne and Joyce Harris have become famous movie actresses. Gene says that Katherine Williams is now a famous actress on the stage. Remember how well she used to act back in '4-3? Our stay in New York has been quite enlightening, but where is the remainder of our classmates? Since we must find out, let's go into Madam Viking's. Well, there sits Violet King, gazing into a crystal ball. She says the ball reveals that Jacqueline Gillie is now entertaining millions as a vocalist for Glenn Miller. Mary Lee Snellings is a hat designer in Paris. Wonder if she designed all of those topsy, turvy hats the women are wearing now? Gertha Goins and Gloria Firesheets are air hostesses on that famous Eastern Air Liner from New York to Miami. Mae Donner's tea shop in Richmond, is a very well known eating place. Charlene Walsh, who used to be quite an athlete, is now a physical and health education director of the Y. W. C. A. in Tallahassee, Florida. Well, as our trip ends and we head for home, we can't help thinking what a success our senior class of 1943 has made. It seems that there is an ever- lasting peace!

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PROPHECY Looking into the future there is war, but somewhere beyond that strife there is an everlasting peace. We, the senior class, have attempted to look into that future to picture our- selves in the year 1955. First we go to the Stork Club in New York. As we go in, everyone is dancing to the music of, yes, it's those Kings of Jazz, Raymond Ferguson and Raymond Graves. VVe take our szats just as a beautiful girl, Joyce Poarch, starts crooning a love song. Say, this looks like a family affair, there's Nettie Mae Davis doing a danc- ing specialty. Remember how that foursome used to hang together back in '43? Leaving the night club, we center our interest on the El Paso Theatre located on Broadway, starring Veronica Brook and Robert Tyler in The Ever- lasting Peace. We enter as the feature begins and gasp in amazement when we find the leading roles to be played by Gloria Butler and Bobby Williams. Remember how they used to fuss and scrap at school in '43? My, they have turned out to be a lovely pair! A As we leave the theatre and enter a subway, we find ourselves being pushed and shoved around. We glance up and there in the conductor's seat sits Stanley Woodfin, all grins. During our conversation with him we discover that he and Elizabeth Winn are to be married soon. Remember how they arrived late for school every morning? We visit Roy Grubb and his wife, Christine Wilkinson, in a beautiful apartment down town. Roy is ex- pecting to ride his horse in the Ken- tucky Derby next year. Good luck, Roy! You know it seems funny about Clarine Wilkinson and Sidney Chalk- ley being separated from Roy and Christine, but they seem to be doing fine with their lovely set of twins. Stuart Baltz, who used to run around with that group, is no longer with them now, for he is in the farm business. We get off the subway and decide to go sight seeing. just as we step on the bus, we bump into that one and only Ellen Chadwick. We have seats together and have an Old Memories talk. It seems that Ellen is a private secretary for that famous lawyer, Raymond Wilkinson, in New York. She boards with Grace Crouch and Twila Smith, who are also secre- taries for a Real Estate Business. Remember how well they got along in commercial work? Ruby Pinkleton, who used to be with that crowd, mar- ried one of those sailors who used to be around. Just imagine that! Alice Seay and Decatur Miller are engaged to be married. Decatur is half-owner of a circus in which Alice is a stunt motorcyclist. Norman Wood, who used to attend to all of our senior business, is at last a lawyer. It seems that he and Audrey Britton are engaged. Doesn't that make history for you? Do you remember how quiet Belver Richie used to be? Well, she is an advertising agent for the Lowman Company, and she and Raymond hardly used to speak to each other. My, how people change. We hear a newspaper boy yelling the headlines at the top of his voice.

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Last Will and Testament We, the Senior Class of 1943, being of sound mind and body and knowing that from this place we shall soon depart and tread the unknown paths of life, do hereby will and declare this to be our last will and testament. Realizing that our valuable property should fall into appreciative hands, we do hereby declare the following to be the lawful and rightful heirs. ARTICLE I SECTION I.-We do will to the faculty our appreciation for their willingness to help us in the past four years. SECTION II.-We do will to Miss Ball a sensible senior class. SECTION III.--We do will to Miss Terry a better English class. SECTION IV.-We do will to Miss White a reservation in an old ladies' home and enough crochet thread to finish her bed spread. SECTION V.-We do will to Mrs. Tompkins a rationing book for demerits. SECTION VI.-We do will to Miss McDaniel an answer book to End the answers when she can't work a problem in mathematics. SECTION VIl.+We do will to Mr. Grubb a hot blast heater to keep him from getting cold. SECTION VIII.-We do will to Miss Woodson an English class with no saboteurs. SECTION IX.-We do will to Miss Ligon a bushel of carrots to keep her from having night blindness. SECTION X.-We do will to Mr. Williams another dependent so he won't have to go to the army. SECTION XI.-We do will to Miss Thornton a loud speaker so that she may be heard from a distance. SECTION XII.-We do will to Miss Hughes the home economics cottage to spend her honeymoon in SECTION XIII.-We do will to Miss Blankenship a larger pocketbook and desk drawers. SECTION XIV.-We do will to Mr. Reid a lie-detector to determine between the truth and that which is not the truth, SECTION XV.-We do will to Uncle Frank a stoker and water pump that will work. SECTION XVI.-We do will to the maid, Inez, a vacuum cleaner. ARTICLE II SECTION I.-We do will to the Junior Class our dignity, poise, and privileges. SECTION II.-We do will to the Sophomore Class our ability to do things. SECTION III.-We do will to the Freshman Class all the knowledge we have consumed in the past ARTICLE III SECTION l.-I, Tuck Atkinson, do will my six-foot frame and Zoot suits to Mr. Reid. SECTION II.-I, Stuart Baltz, do will my quiet disposition to Monroe Richardson. SECTION III.-I, Uldine Booker, do will my slender shape to Elizabeth Wyrick. SECTION IV.-I, Audrey Britton, do will my ability to keep quiet to Audrey Griggs. SECTION V.-I, Gloria Butler, do will my bashfulness to Audrey Reese. SECTION VI.-I, Garland Canada, do will my curly hair to Earl Tyler. SECTION VII.-I, Ellen Chadwick, do will my creative ability to Jackie Parker. SECTION VIII.-I, Sidney Chalkley, do will my left curve to Clinton Pemberton. SECTION IX.-I, Grace Crouch, do will to Jewel Pinkleton, my knowledge of shorthand so that when she takes shorthand she will get all A's. SECTION X.-I, Nettie Mae Davis, do will my naturally curly hair to Jean Mitchell. SECTION XI.-I, Mae Donner, do will my ability to boss people to Helen Miller. SECTION XII.-I, Laura Dunn, do will my privilege to stay in the office to Billy Blackwell. SECTION XIII.-I, Raymond Ferguson, do will my 1A card to Mr. A. L. Williams. SECTION XIV.-I, Gloria Firesheets, do will my short hair to Helen Miller. SECTION XV.-I, Ewell Flippo, do will my clumsiness to Emmett Dyer. SECTION XVI.-I, Shirley Fricke, do will my big feet to Mary Ellen Walker. SECTION XVII.-I, Jacquline Gillie, do will my shortness to Goldie Chadwick. SECTION XVIII.-I, Gertha Goins, do will my blonde hair to Mildred Fears. SECTION XIX.-I, Roy Grubb, do will my ability to ride a horse to Jackie Parker. four years.