Powhatan High School - Big Chief Yearbook (Powhatan, VA)

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CLASS PROPHECY George Sheller, the famous doctor, and I are on our way to Europe to super¬ vise the establishment of a new hospital. As 1 look over the ship’s register, I see Betty Montgomery’s name there. Naturally, I decide to look her up as we had been good friends in high school. I find her lounging in a deck chair. We begin discussing old times and exchanging gossip about our school friends. She is going to London to sing the leading role in the opera “Madam Butterfly.” This is a command performance before the King and Queen. She tells me that Sammy Parker and Charles Dunkley have made quite a name for themselves as head of a large construction firm. Starting out young on that cabin really helped them! Wintree Anderson is doing their bookkeeping. Sammy had some trouble with the law not very long ago., but with the aid of the famous attorney, Marion Mann, he came out on top. f had come from Virginia to New York by plane. Evelyn Hubbard was travel¬ ing on the same plane to take her vacation. She had been secretary to the com¬ monwealth attorney of Powhatan County for several years. Flossie Spicer is stewardess on our plane, somehow the air pockets seem to keep her awake. As Betty and I continued to talk, I told her about my sight-seeing trip around New York while waiting for my boat to leave. 1 couldn’t resist going to see James, as I passed the Pennington Motor Bike Company. He told me that he wouldn’t have been able to start his company without the backing of the bank of which Howard Bowles is president. It is the same one from which he at one time sent out calendars. David Haurand is cashier there. Suddenly to our great delight and surprise who should walk up but Millieent Payne and Dot Worsham. Millieent says that after leaving high school she studied science, but that now she has settled down to housekeeping. She and her hus¬ band are on a belated honeymoon. Dot, who is now a star newspaper reporter, is going over to get a first hand account of the basketball, spelling and shorthand contests between various nations. Beulah Moyer is to compete in the basketball contests, Steve Messenger in the spelling contest, and Dorothy Owen in the shorthand contest. It is getting cool on deck so we retire to our staterooms. A magazine with a familiar face on the cover attracts my attention. It looks like one of my old class¬ mates, but to be sure I read the article. I am right, it is James Hubbard, who is now singing with Sunshine Sue. As I look through the magazine I see a large advertisement: “Percy’s Poultry Is the Best. Percy Webb seems to have carried on very well in his chosen profes¬ sion. Wallace Moyer’s advertisement takes a whole page. “Wallace’s Grain Makes the Best Flour. It seems that everyone is making bread since Wallace has started to farm. As I continue reading the magazine, I come upon an article on child psychology written by Ann Webb, the famous teacher and lecturer. The fashion section also attracts my attention. I see the styles have gotten shorter again thanks to many economy-wise style designers (like Mary Pickles). I close the magazine and turn to read my mail that was sent to the boat. There’s a letter from Barbara Adams. She says that she is married now and teaching dancing in her spare time. Also she tells me of my other classmates. Phyllis Wells is married to Dennis and is living in California. Lawrence Brad¬ shaw has gotten to be head of the Powhatan Highway Commission. Joe Wor¬ sham, algebra teacher at Powhatan, is getting along fine. Herbert Bowles is married and living in one of the cabins at Plain View. He is manager of the Greyhound Bus lines. There is Elsie Schroeder, who is dean of an exclusive girls’ school at Powhatan, and Virginia Bodie, who has a nursing school there. The rest of my trip is uneventful, but memories of high school life keep coming back as I think of the things I have just learned about my high school friends. 4 28 )¥-

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THE LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT ( Continued ) I, Herbert Bowles, leave my curly black hair to PI cover Berry. The girls really go for it, Hoover. I, Howard Bowles, leave my shy ways to N. B. Goodwyn. I, Lawrence Bradshaw, leave my precious possessions—the junior girls to next year’s senior class. I, Charles Dunkley, leave my ability to teach bookkeeping to Wesley Wor¬ sham. If you use my method the students will learn. Virginia did. I, David Haurand, leave my ability to drive the tractor to Marshall Lipscomb. Marshall, take my advice and don’t look back of you when the tractor is in 5th gear. I, James Hubbard, leave my ability to get ads for the annual to Evelyn Mae Brown. It takes work, Evelyn. I, Steve Messenger, leave my good looks to Herbert Bell. They help when it is the question of girls. I, Stuart Moyer, leave my height to Tommy Farris. Tommy, if you will just get fat along with growing taller, you’ll be O.K. I, Wallace Moyer, leave my ability to be a safety patrol to Helen Sprouse. I hope you won’t have too hard a job! I, Sammy Parker, leave my ability of making speeches to Eileen Weakley. Eileen, if you don’t think about it too much, you will be O.K. I, James Pennington, leave my motor bike to H. H. Webb. You can use it if if your car breaks down. I, Percy Webb, leave my motor bike to Charlotte Firebaugh. Charlotte, I hope your Pop thinks it is safe for you, he didn’t think it was safe for me. I, Joe Worsham, leave my ability to leave the speed cop on route 60 to Jim Jervey. It isn’t a good thing to do, though. I, George Sheller, leave ail my books to George Wright. You had better try studying them sometimes. We, the Senior Class of 1948, leave to the faculty all the amazing knowledge and startling information that we have furnished them in our examination papers from time to time. To the Junior Class, we will our Senior dignity. May they uphold it with all seriousness and gravity, as we have done. To the Sophomore Class, we will our undying school spirit and loyalty. To the 8th grade, we leave all the worries and troubles of upper classmen. May they live through it! 4 { 27

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