Montvale High School - Echo Yearbook (Montvale, VA)

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Daily Happenings In 1959 Good morning everyone, this is your news reporter, Jack Buttram bringing you the latest news and the news behind the news. The famous lecturer and author. Miss Jennie Lee Dooley, will visit her home country of Bedford to deliver a lecture on The Improvement of the Wild Dandelion.” Miss Dooly has just written a book entitled ' The Fundamentals of Trigonometry.” Mr. E. Ernest Orange, the silver tongued orator, just went into a citrus shipping firm partnership with his brother in Florida. The company is Orange and Orange.” Miss Betty Jean Vaughan has just bought another tobacco farm in North Carolina. Miss Vaughan is also the senior partner in the cigar firm that manufactures Hokey Smokes.” A new five and dime store opened in Bedford today under the capable management of Miss Odelle Witt. Mr. Fiomer Richards, the world renowned physicist, when asked what he thought of the interplanatory system of travel said, Yes.” Miss Elsie Graham of the department of English at the University of Virginia has just finished and published a short thesis on The Importance of the Subjunctive Ad¬ jective in Modern English.” M’selle Vera Lam, the parisian dress designer, has just opened her new dress salon on Eifth Avenue. The salon is called Vera’s.” Mr. Jimmy Luck, the rich Goose Creek Valley farmer, has just designed a new eighteen wheel tractor with a separate brake pedal and speedometer for each wheel. Miss Maybelle Carter is a facial specialist and models Never Eade” cosmetics. The famous stage actress. Miss Evelyn Karnes, who first starred as Malvina” in a Montvale Fligh School production ten years ago, has just been handed the leading role in the Broadway hit, Evelyn Comes Home.” Miss Lois Hutchens has just replaced Miss Rainey as Home Ec. teacher at M. H. S. Miss Rainey retired to get married. Mr. Muriel King has just been promoted to general manager of the Greyhound Bus System, Lynchburg Division. Miss Louise Burnette was recently received as an airline hostess for Eastern Air Lines. Miss Catherine Mattox is the typical homemaker. She finally landed Warren. The former Miss Irene Overstreet, now Mrs. Alfred Overstreet, has quite a job on her hands keeping house and helping Alfred with his busses. Air Force Captain Malcolm Stone made a formal statement to the press today that he and three other men will attempt a trip to Mars. Miss Mildred Dooley was appointed Secretary in the county clerk’s office. We wish her luck. Miss Billie Jean Hamm is taking a vacation now and is doing research work at William and Mary. She is a baby specialist at Johns Hopkins Hospital. On the side lines she has a used Ford business. Mr. Norvell Lumsden, now the senior stockholder in the Blue Ridge Stone Corpora¬ tion, has just announced he will introduce a new system of getting rocks out of the quarry. The system involves jet propulsion. And that’s the top of the news as it looks from here. Until we meet again, this is Jack Buttram, who makes a living as a news commentator, saying Goodnight and Good Luck. Jack Buttram 15

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Class Will We the Forty-Niners” leave, in parting, some of our most treasured possessions—those of talent, nicknames, and characteristics, —Although the memories of said possessions will live forever em¬ bedded in the heart of every Forty-Niner.” We leave these possessions in sincere hope that the receivers will respond in the proper manner and perhaps feel a tiny bit proud that we, in our last hours as students of M.H.S., have remembered them in our will. To the Eighth Grade we leave our headache over classes. To the Sophomores we leave our well conducted class meetings. To the Juniors we leave the Lab.” and the Senior privileges that we didn’t have. To the Faculty we leave our talents that were never used in class. Jack Buttram hopes that Tommy Berry will drive the fire truck as carefully as he did. Maybelle Carter leaves her long blonde hair and dignified air to Gladys McGuire. Louise Burnette leaves her interior decorating ability to the next Senior Home Ec. Class. Muriel King leaves his jolly manner and Santa Claus suit to Pascal Rose. Malcolm Stone leaves his ability to excel in all things to Don Fuqua. Irene Overstreet leaves Alfred her heart. Catherine Mattox wishes for Jeannette Franklin to have her tiny hands. Vera Lam leaves her boy friends to Betty Jane Nester. Jimmy Luck leaves his love for Agriculture and his southern drawl to Albert Hartberger. Jennie Lee Dooley leaves her nickname Legs” to Marion Smith. Billie Jean Hamm leaves her nickname Bill” to Beulah” (Beulah Carter, that is). Ernest Orange hopes that Garland Holland will be as quiet and easy going as he was. Betty Jean Vaughan and Elsie Graham leave the many secrets they shared in Phys. Ed. class still untold. Lois Hutchens leaves the student body her friendly attitude, enablying her to get along with every one. Norvell Lumsden leaves his imitations of Luigi” and the Bowery Boys” to Donald Waldron. Homer Richards leaves the basketball team his false front teeth in case of a rough game. Odelle Witt leaves her review of Saturday night dates to Peggy Stiff. Evelyn Karnes leaves Wade Hiner to Mary Frances Miller. Mildred Dooley wishes for Elizabeth Creasy to have her gentle feminine ways. We the class of 1949 being sound of mind do solemnly set our hand and seal to this our last will and testament on the 5th day of June of the year 1949. Signed: Sally” Elsie Graham

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