Northampton County High School - Lighthouse Yearbook (Machipongo, VA)

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1 O ' Dear Mildred, 1952 Graduation Avenue June 3, 1972 It seems a long time since we graduated from Northampton County High School. Last night I was looking through the yearbook of 1952, but whose face should greet me but Verdell Adair ' s. Didyou know that he is tamer and operator of a large dude ranch out in Wyoming? His wife Who was formerly Miss Annie Anderson is doing his book-keeping. When I visited them last year he showed me around his beautiful ranch. It seems that Sidney Harmon, who did the bricklaying for the new school back in 52 has gone to Europe to study French, German and Italian, and David Sheppard who blows a trumpet has just finished paying a $100 fine for disturbing the peace trying to play In My Solitude . Since that time he has composed another song, No Money Blues . You could never guess in a hundred years what Mildred Stewart and Franklin Brisco are doing. She is now Mrs. Brisco and t eacher at the R. G. H. School of Dancing. He is the designer of the costumes for her students, all of which are girls. Mrs. Brisco recently received an honorary degree from Yale University. Hilton Staith, who always aspired to be a doctor is now director of a hospital for crippled cats and dogs. His wife, Mrs. Mable Chapman Smith is head nur3Q. She completed her training last June after spending eight years at the Lame Brain Institute for Practical Nurses. The members of the staff are: Dr. John Powell, idio is head of the Department of Nervous Diseases of Cats, Lizzie Floyd, dietician and Willie Spady, chief cook. Across the street from Dr. Smith ' s hospital is Mr. Samuel Anderson ' s undertaking parlor. Miss Daisy Downing, is head beautician. And of course you remember Constance Fox, who was Valedictorian of our class; she once aspired to became a writer, in twenty long years she has only published two books: Titles, Gloomy Gus and Henpecked Sue . They were so incoherent and hilarious that the people who read them immediately vent insane from laughing. So she was put out of business. Charles Bell is now Rev. Bell, he is pastor of Bloomtngyale Baptist Church in Possum Creek. What ' s more the deacons of the church are, Earl Wescott, Charles Smith, Thomas Bartee and Joshua Cos ton. Rev. Bell ' s organist and choir director is Grover Watson, who graduated from the Ear Splitting School of Instrumental Music in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. Mabel Downing and Jacqueline Bartee are partners in a sewing shop. Their employees are Flossie Doughty, Winnie Harmon, Margaret Savage and Shirley Spady. Flos ale was so busy running her mouth that she sewed the zippers at the hem of the dresses and the sleeves at the side. Of course, if she had remained with the firm their businesses would ' ve been ruined,so they had to fire her. Mrs. Flossie Floyd Fisher, wife of Attorney Harvey Fisher, who took Home Economics for three long years doesn ' t know yet how to economize. Attorney Fisher is so tired of eating beans and potatoes he ' s afraid he ' ll be sprouting potatoes after one more meal. The family physician, who is Florence Simpkins, has put him on a diet. He is now weighing 220 pounds and seems to be gaining at the rate of a pound a week. Henry Allen and Bernard Jones are now owners of a large restaurant in Eat No More, Michigan. Their employees are Mildred Church, dishwasher, waitresses Shirley Johnson, Ella Upshur, Estelle Robinson and Deloris Morris. Chef Cooks are Maurice Weeks and Fred Johnscm Mr. Weeks ' speciality is snail salad and Mr. Johnson ' s is homemade rolls and buns. Dorine Scott, Betty Harmon and Dolores Onley have gone to the Old Maid ' s Rest Home in Stop In, Ga. Betty, who is a millionaire, now spends her spare time worrying over her boy friend, Silas Gates. She lost him while making all this money at the Gooseberry Jam Factory in Jam ' Em In The Jar, La. Who would ' ve thought Dorine Scott, who once weighed 98 pounds is now tipping the scales at 195 lbs. She can only leave her roan in the specially designed wheel chair. Dolores Onley has so many Prince Charmings in her past and has broken up so many hones, that Sudie Beckett, who is now Judge of Keep Your Man At H ne Court has sent¬ enced her to the Old Maid ' s Rest Home for life. Here ' s hoping no one opens up a Bachelors Rest Home anywhere nearby, or the .charming Miss Onley might start another panic. Florence Beckett, Nellie Long, Jene Weeks and Uilsie Waters are now models for Franklin Victory at the Shapless Modeling Theater in Poor Style, Minnesota. Mr. Victory, still a bachelor after all these years,is being chased by all four of his models. Feature This] 11 Franklin Victory,who was once an all star football player at Northampton County High, is designer of his models clothes. Johnson Harmon, is now an art director in Switzerland and his students are Josephine Sample, Mary Bailey, Dinah Brooks, Lucille Clayton and Anna Warren.