Newport News High School - Anchor Yearbook (Newport News, VA)

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x 'F'F'c BEAEGN f ,..4?q:., , -2- 2 f .1 I - -2 l' I ELIZABETH FRANKLIN WATTS Literary Club '29, '30, '31, '32, Beacon Staff '29, '30, Staff -of Rip Van Winkle , Little Old New York, Houseparty, Legend of Sleepy Hollow, The Royal Family , Senior Staff, Debate Team '32, Office Force '32, National Thespians. ANNE ELIZABETH WEISS Girls' Athletics '28, '29, '30, Latin Club '28, '29, Class Officer '28, Home Room Offices, Student Council '29, '30, Rip Van Winkle , French Club '30, '31, Office Staff '31, Sesqui Pageant, Staff of The Royal Family. DANIEL B. WELCH Home Room Offices, Student Council '31, Basketball '29, '30, '32, '32, Junior Football Team '31. JOHN WILEY, Jr. Student Council '28, '29, '30, Home Room Offices, Latin Club '29, '30, Rip Van Win- kle , Spanish Club '30, '31, '32, Staff of Queen's Husband , Little Old New York , Housepa.rty, Senior Skit and Senior Plays, Sesqui Pageant, Triangular Reading Contest '32, Literary Club '32, Cast of The Royal Family , Math Club '32, VIRGINIA WILLIAMS Rip Van Winkle , Type Certificate '31. WILLIAM ROBERT WINSTEAD Home Room Offices, French Club '28, '29, Student Council '29, Rip Van Winkle , Bea- con Staff '30, '31, Sesqui Pageant, Tennis Team '32, Triangular Debate Team '32, Lit- erary Club '32, Math Club '32, E251

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- l ' N b N ,- A Vagabond's Dream By Lee Dickinson It is 1950-believe it or not. I have just returned from a wonderful vaga- bond journey around the world. I either saw or heard something about every member of the June 1932 graduating class. My first destination was Atlantic City, and the first person 'l' bumped into was Fay Priddy, rolling a baby carriage with twine down lille boardwalk. 'We talked over old times and then I walked over to a museum which had statues of famous people. The very first statue I came to was a inodernistic one of Mary Lewis and Marthella liiarston, the two dancing sisters, who had gained fame and fortune in lValt-er Satchellls theatre near Lower Gloucester, I read -an inscription beneath the statue olf!Catherine Dunbar, Susie Dickinson, Evelyn Clifton and Edna Daniel, famous fefinale quartet. 'lt said: Catherine sang tenor, Susie sang soprano, Evelyn gang contralto and Edna sang terrible. Virginia iVil- lianms and Bernice XVright owned the museum. I s-aw a rocket that had been shot to Mare and back carr fino' I-Iarr f Saver 7 a D 5 D 7 IValter Smith and Alfred Monfalcone, three world famous scientists. Their feat was made remarkable by the fact that all three had left the hospital-the Eastern State hospital-to in-ake this trip. Very soon I reached the :steel pier and went to see a. minstrel. I sat down right beside XValthall Rogers, who was taking a vacation from the stage in New York City. The female impersonator in the niinstrel wats plenty hot, and strange as it may seem-it was Edgerton 'Evanis, our old classmate, who used to tickle the ivories. ' l' went back stage to see Edgerton and he took me to -the end men's dressing room. There were Lindsay Bigger and Stuart Grubb, end men in the minstrel, and I hadn't even recognized them on the stage. I asked them 'chow come and they told me they were always at the end of their classes back in high school and thought they should make good in this game. I went over to another theatre on the pier, wher-e I saw the niftiest chorus of girls. There were Rose Johnson, Ann Hundley, Ethel J anik, Agnc:-1 Eiehel- berger and Eisther Cutler. They could sure shake a mean limb. Elwood Seybold, famous actor, was the headliner. He imper-sonated Spen- cer Plinnnier giving Farm Relief-you see, Spencer was President of the United States John Munnikhuysen was master of ceremonies. He introduced the cracked quart-et composed of Hugh Lipscomb, Robert MacDonald, Raymond Michie and Edward Millner. The quartet was .supposed to stand on a cake of ice and sing a. song called ln Sunny South -but they got cold feet and walked out on the show. Elwood Seybold told me he had seen James Boutchard and Mary Diggs in the audience one day. They were 'on their honeymoon. A circus was progressing at the end of the pier-so I took a look. Lawrence Pullen was doing the strong man act-pushing little ducks overboard. Irene Fiseh gave an aquatic demonstration. She had recently won. the world 'S dog Il7l