Onancock High School - Trident / Beacon Yearbook (Onancock, VA)

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G a ass J J ropGec ij June 1976 Dear Mrs. Richardson and Mr. Hickman, While I was working in Goldilocks ' Hair-Dying Clinic, which I own, one of my past classmates, Kevin Daley, paid me an unusual visit. Kevin is a salesman for the Bourbon Company in Frankfort, Kentucky, and he came to me with a new formula to add to hair dye, a synthetic liquor that will help absorption in hair rinses. Since Kevin and I hadn’t seen each other in ten years, we couldn ' t help but discuss our past classmates at Onancock High School. DOUG TWYFORD has purchased Cedar Island and is going to open it as a sportsman ' s paradise.” KERRY ANDERSON and LILA JACOB, whose hot-rodding abilities were greatly known, are competing to win the Indianapolis 500 this year. DONNIE WARD is at Jofins Hopkins Hospital studying his theory on flexible bones. BARBARA MELSON is now teaching shorthand at Richmond and is still having trouble with JOAN EDWARDS, her problem student. DONNIE FITCHETT is head scientist at Duke University where he is working on a permanent cure for asthma. E. T. DIZE is now manager of a health club in North Carolina whose slogan is, grow two inches in four weeks. JUDI WILLIAMS and BONNIE GODWIN have just opened the first drive-in beauty salon, located in Richmond. PETE HOPKINS, who was terribly muscular, is now the gymnastics instructor at the University of Virginia. DONNIE KILMON, who is happily married to BETSY WATSON, is now the new Game Warden for Accomack County. BROOKS AYRES, whose artistic talents are beyond belief, is drawing for the Peanuts cartoon. LINDA LILLISTON has a new strategy in the crab industry and is making her fortune in the Deep Creek Seafood Company. CAROL MOORE, who was always a whiz at science, is now professor of nuclear science at U.C.L.A. JOHNNY JOHNSON is now the top pro at the E.S.Y.C.C. and has added 54 holes to the golf course. BOBBY AYRES has secured a good office job, and LINDA SHRIEVES is an operator in the C P tele¬ phone office building. NED PERRY and PHIL LEWIS have formed the Ventures , and brought it to fame. NANCY ADKINS, BRENDA ALLEN, and DIANE PARKS are now happily married. CARSON DIGGS has become a mortician and goes by the motto: We bury you deeper, cheaper. CAROLYN HORSLEY just completed the world ' s longest biography of Shakespeare--9092 pages plus three foot-notes.

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enior Gafendar September--But I don’t feel like a Mighty Senior. Do those underclassmen really look up to us? Message of the Month: The following people have not yet had their Senior pictures taken. October--Campaign for school spirit in full swing. Establishment of our Senior privileges (like front of audito¬ rium). Saying of the Month: And they expect us to understand all this! November--Senior pictures arrive--ugh! ! Work on the annual progressed nicely??? Football ended on a happy note for us, and we began our last season of basketball. Headline of the Month: The Most Beautiful Float on the Shore. December--College Boards, applications, achievement tests, and FINALLY, Christmas vacation. Joke of the Month: Hey Juniors! Rings are here! January--Yech! Back to school and then exams (a wirty dord). Exclamation of the Month: I thought we were supposed to live it up our Senior year. February--Lull in the year with not much to do but study, although we had the great excitement of the boys ' basketball tournament. Song of the Month; Please Mr. Postman, look and see, is there a college accept¬ ance for me? March--Girls basketball tournaments was one of the main events, along with the Beta members ' excitement over their coming convention. School of the Month: Mayberry Union High--M.U.H. April--Spring fever hit for the twelfth year in a row and the baseball, softball and track teams took form. Spring vacation. Thought of the Month: ' wonder if the Juniors will come through ' . May--Year coasts to an end at an amazing rate. Invitations, name cards, caps gowns arrived and nostalgia struck as we realized the year was almost over. Book of the Month: the colossal, magnificent, great, attractive-TRIDENT! ! June--a graduation dilemma; location vs weather. Tears of joy and sadness, shouts of We’re actually finished! ! Song of the Month: Pomp and Circumstance . Sammie and Roberta 15

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Remember BRUCE ADKINS? He is presently the CBS news reporter stationed in Dienbienphu. ANN BELOTE is the head nurse of the fifth floor of the new Norfolk General Hospital, since it only has four floors. ANN BALLARD has just added to her collection the famous Pimlico horse raceway in Maryland where she can be seen racing My Friend Flicka. BRIAN CORBIN, of Corbin ' s Amplifiers, has opened a new million-dollar factory in Columbia, Ohio. BECKY CAMPBELL has opened another shopping center to add to the chain. JACKIE WATKINSON is the star in the new hit film The Tall American. ROBERTA HAMPTON, who was well-known for her artistic talents, is under contract to Walt Disney in Hollywood. MARILYN DAVIS is now secretary for the Trailway Bus Line and gets all of her tickets to and from Norfolk free. JOHN RICHARDSON, who was always quiet and shy, has just been voted the Playboy of the Year by the New York Bunny Club. TOMMY SHRIEVES, a quite successful farmer, has crossed a pig with a cow and invented that wonder animal called a POW. LINDA GUY, whose nose is like an Indian’s, is posing as Gerinomo at Sioux City in Wyoming. MIKE MURPHY has just been signed up by the Washington Redskins and is leading them to their first championship in 30 years. JOHN ED NOCK recently opened a new Mobil station directly across from Robert ' s. JOANNE CHAMBERS, who was always known for her height, has teamed up with the Harlem Globe¬ trotters. JUDY VAN KLEEF is known on the team for her shooting ability. KITTY JAMES, who was forever missing her favorite program, The Three Stooges”, has replaced Curly and is seen every night on Channel 007. LINDA BAGWELL is the first girl from the Eastern Shore to be crowned Miss Folly Creek Flounder. BECKY ROBBINS is manager of the begetable soup department of Campbell ' s Soup. SAMMIE MILES is busy working in New York on Wall Street as a C.P.A. VERONICA WILLIAMS is now operating a refreshment center named Daisy ' s. SHARON PARKS is a likely candidate for Mayor of Onancock, and LINDA DAVIS is running for Town Cop. I hope I will be able to write more often during the next ten years and give you more news of the Seniors of ' 66. Eve Russell Kevin Daley