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

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' E i , flea 'JB-E eGQeN:-fe--e-- fl?-.1.4.':::a::1ffi-L-:L e g, ,-e I g R, ,..., . i -.- paddle title at Hampton Creek, in competition with Leah Peltz, Dorothy Teese and Blanche Pittman. Elizabeth Rogers and Vera. Tilman were tight rope walkers, and Betty Kincaid dived off a forty foot tower on a mule. Virginia Mayo, Mildred Meeks, Margaret Mclieen and Dawn McDaniel were known as the four sensational trapeze artists. They flew through the air like graceful birds the cxcitd throng looked on with their mouths open a.nd their eyes closed. I strolled down to the beach to get a change of scenery. Allan J ones, famous artist, was painting Elizabeth XVQ-iss, popular model in Helen Honick's million dollar dress Shoppe. VVay up over the Atlantic ocean, a man dropped from the wing of an air- plane and floated down beneath his spreading parachute as twenty thousand people gasped and inarvelled at his nerve. Some lady said that it was Jack Cur- tis, daredevil of the ether, making his 300th parachute jump. Before long I tired of Atlantic City and h-eaded for the metropolis by freight. I met a couple of other bums in my private box car. They were both hid behind a bale of untamed whiskers and fI'd never have guessed it was Spindler Krause and Roy Muse, traveling for experience. An empty stomach was their only experience so far, they said. I got a job on a cattle boat when my train. hit New York. I was surprised to find so many of my old schoolmates on this boat. Apollon Orphanidys was leader of an orchestra called the Bovine Syiicopatorsf' Ralph Baker, Richard I-Iebble and James Henkel play-ed the saxophones, while Slater Holland, William Gleason and Fred Nevin played trumpets. James Rich beat the drums and Robert Scull would ha.ve played the piano if the ship had not forgotten to bring one. I wondered why th-ere was a jazz orchestra on a cattle boat. I learned that music kept the cows contented. Edwin Thomas, a former bull fighter, was ship veterinarian. Andrew Abbitt was the salty skipper of th-e cowboat. Joe Siegrist, first mate on the boat, pointed an island out to me a.nd re- marked that Russwyn Otis was living there alone. She was gathering material for her next novel, which she was going to name Robinson Crusoe Did It- VVhy Can't I? Our first stop was an island named Harpersville. George Blanchard and VVinthrop Gay were battling for possession of the island. Perry Breon, Charles Barclay, Walter Barry and John Deal were fighting for Gay, and Donald Del- linger, Robert Etheridge, Vincent Foretich and Lyman Haney were battling for Blanchard. Vilillard Schreck, the wittiest boy in our graduating class, was making a fortune in the taxi business on the island. Edwin Pharr and Billy Powell were his chauffeurs. Sherwood Spivey was war advisor to Gay, and planned all attacks on Blanchard. Frances Ames and Jane Bowen were representing a jewelry firm on the island, patiently awaiting a king to be declared so they could sell him a. crown. The cows began getting restless-so we pulled anchor and headed for South Africa. We turned on our radio and heard Ethel and Melva. Nelson, the Syll- t23l

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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

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I N I - 1- copathig crooners of the air, 'Fhey inade the cosvs mannck-so ive threiv the radio overboard. Uncle Sam had a track team in South Africa making a tour. John Keat was coach and he had his wife, Dena Jensen, along with him. Anne Seney was the only girl athlete to represent the American team. Frank Thompson, Ranny Tucker, Dan VVelch, John XViley and Mason IVil.kins were outstanding track stars. Morton Spigel was man-agcr and George Soar was ballyhoo man, in charge of all advertising. A searching party was hunting for Aimee Ashburn and Norma Burroughs, two aviatrix, who had become lost while on a non-stop flight from Tokyo to Thirty-fourth street and VVashington avenue. I deserted the cattle boat because it kept me awake all day, and bummed my way to Russia. Amanda Dyke, Lucille Eastman, Velta Furman, Ella Eyfc and Myrl Gray were nurses in a large Russian hospital-which was doing a rushin' busin Josephine Lassiter, Betty Page Gary, Louise Gildner and Mabelle Lamb were teaching English in Russian schools. lf entered a hair cutting establislnnent owned by Sadye Kinland, Zelda Kramer and Martha Wlard. They were nearly starved because business was so bad. They said the people over in Russia thought that the Five Year Plan must have meant they needed a haircut only every five years. I met King Ruben and Queen Edwards and they invited me to dinner. The king called in his entertaining talent to perform for me. Nancy Parker, Margaret Gunter and Anne Dudley danced a new tango called the VViggle Vifoggle Waltz.', They were a scre-am-in fact the king was screaming for them to leave before they had finished. Senora Peters gave a red hot recital in which she imitated Olga Sand- burg, Julia Sheldon and Alice Shockley, who were a.ll fighting for the hand of a Russian nobleman. ll bade farewell to the king and queen and headed for Egypt. Wil.lia1n Vtfinstead was the big Sphinx there. He had a large harem and some of his wives were Reva Shreaves, Majorie Jones, Alice Hutchins and Ellen Eppard. He was working overtime trying to pay up his back alimony to Phyliss Allen, Lorene Allmond and Gertrude Calf, who had left him a year before. I sailed for China in a schooner. Ihre anchored in the Vlfhangpoo and I was a.lmost knocked down the minute I reached shore by a Chinanian trying to sell me an Elizabeth NVa,tts washing machine. I entered a cafe and saw Katie Kurzer, Sarah Goldberg and Sadye Good- man. They said they were running the cafe for American tourists. They told. me that the intelligent members of our class were missionaries over in Manchuria. Imagine Sarah Scammon and Dorothy Satchell missionaries! I caught an. oil tanker heading across the Pacific for America. I picked up an old, newspaper and read about Frances Price, Blanche Pittman a.nd Edith Carter winning scholarships to study abroad. ' The sun was shining hot, and I began to think that this old universe of ours xvasnft so large after alh I29l