Prince Edward Academy - Cavalier Yearbook (Farmville, VA)

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DIANA WALKER wills her nifty typewriter to anyone who can type without a space bar. SALLY WATKINS wills her proficient management of anything to David Hay. BARBARA JEAN YEATTS wills her broken fingers from volleyball to the lab. CONNIE ALLEN leaves her sense of humor to Bruce Noel. PARKIE WHITE wills his car payments to anyone with a steady income. JOHN WHITEMAN leaves his copy of Red-heads and their Tempers to George Clements. KATHERINE YANCEY wills her poetical ability to the Focus. JIMMY SCOTT wills his organ to Anne Marie Pearson. JANICE BRUCE wills her nurses uniform to Walter McKay. The above possessions can be legally claimed by the fortunate heirs only under the condition that they use their inheritance to further the honor, glory, and good fun of Prince Edward Academy. PROPHECY OF THE CLASS OF 1964 The Year 1984 Scene opens--Burt Hanbury is sitting on the sofa reading a newspaper. Bell rings---Celia Carter comes from off stage to answer door. Tom Brooks: Well, howdy! Celia: What a happy surprise! Come right in my little ole humble S200,000.00 mansion. Burt, Burt, come see who's here. fBurt rises, puts paper down and comes to door.J Burt: If it isn't my old P.E.A. colleagues--Mr. gl Mrs. Scott and Mr. 81 Mrs. Brooks! Jimmy Scott: How are you this evening, Senator B. B.? Burt: Fine, fine--you ladies have a seat on my superfine golden silk sofa, which Imight add was a gift from old Barry up in D. C. Tom: Mighty nice, mighty nice. Celia: How are things back in Farrnville? Mary B. Newman: Well, different from when you left but still the same to us. The college has grown up to Grove and down to Main. Patsy Morton: And P.E.A. has four new buildings, thanks to your most generous husband. Burt: It was the least I could do to send the old school a couple hundred grand and besides, I get tax deductions on charity funds. Celia: Speaking ofthe Academy, remember the good old days? It's been a long time. By the way, Patsy, have you heard from any of the cheerleaders? Patsy: Well, you know I'm teaching second grade at the Academy and Peggy Gee is teaching in the Upper School. Oh! Judy Baldwin is working in the foreign embassy in France. Mary B.: Carolyn's giving organ lessons at Longwood now. Tom: I hear Betty Booker Smith is a commercial artist for Good Housekeeping. Burt: How about the rest of the gang? Mary B.: Since I've been working in the office at Longwood, I've run into quite a few of them. Ann Vickers Bruce is head of the language department now and Dione Simonini took her father's place as head of the English Department. Jimmy: Mary Molnar is head librarian and Betty J o Gates runs the History Department. Rebecca Paulson is head of Home Economics. Burt: My, but we have a lot of HEADS in our class. Patsy: Isn't one of the Gilliams the official infirmary nurse? Mary B.: Kay is. Celia: Didn't I hear something about May teaching algebra at P.E.A.? Jimmy: Yes, she took Nliss Porter's place. Celia: I'll fix us a few drinks. CCelia excuses herself and leaves room.J Tom: Oh, Burt, excuse me-- Senator, I hear that Danny Simpson is making plans to sell out Buffalo Shook Company to Doug Fitzgerald. Simpson has twenty some secretaries working full time to keep the business going. Mabel Thorpe and Anita Campbell are the head sec- retaries there. Burt: Hasn't anyone gotten married? Patsy: Well, Tom and I are married and Mary B. and Jimmy are married. Burt: Huh!!! ' Jimmy: ,iiz ,Ageeveryonegezgpected,Waygne Falls and Diana Walker are married with five kids. Mary B.:QlifJI3h'at's nothing,'Nancy Druein apd Boohave nine. Patsy: 'You know that Linda Stokes and Bobby got married, Iguess. Burt: I flew to Hawaii for the weekend and who should I see greeting the passengers but Polly Moore. 'CCelia re-enters with tray of drinks.J Burt: --and I stayed at the Blue Hawaii which is the mostexpensive. To my surprise I found that Theo Leduc is the Assistant Manager there. , X A Celia: fgervingi drinks.J You'll never guess who was teaching go1f les'sons, at the- Blue Hawaiigl n 34 X

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Garrett. WAYNE GEE wills his abilities in shop class to Tommy Pinelli. KAY GILLIAM leaves her fun at confusing the teachers with May to Tommy Nixon. MAY GILLIAM leaves her fun at confusing the teachers with Kay to Jimmy Nixon. BETTY JO GATES wills her beautiful voice to Shorty Osborn. LLOYD JOHNSON wills his guitar to Johnny Noel. VICKY MARTIN leaves her job in V.B.'s store to Ruth Doyne. DOTTIE JONES leaves her last minute worries Cabout Englishj in homeroom to Steve Brooks. BEVERLY MACDONALD leaves her hair color book to Delores Abbitt. MARY MOLNAR wills her love for rock and roll to Winston.Stuart. JUNE LANCASTER wills her study habits to Jamie Fleetwood. PATSY MORTON wills her air-tight thermos to Bill Garland. JIMMY PUTNEY wills his hidden harmonica talents to Columbia Records. THEO LEDUC leaves his morning cruises with Mr. McCool to Julie Vale. POLLY MOORE leaves her morning conversations with Charles to Patty Hay and J. J. Gay. BILLY GILLS leaves all his undone homework to Glen Abernathy. CGlen will have to carry a trunk instead of his book-baglb HAROLD HARRIS wills his fun in Physics to next year's class. PEGGY HODGES leaves P.E.A. to become an olympic sleigh-rider. MARILYN GRESHAM wills her ability to be punctual to Anne Mull. BURT HANBURY leaves his 'blade of grass' theory to any person f?j who will believe him. MARTHA LEA HUBBARD wills her trips to Crewe to Del Hutch Watkins. EYELYN HANNA leaves her photographic abilities to Candid Camera. GLZEN MORRIS wills his masculine charm to Billy Dickerson. CHUCK PATTESON wills his blushing smile and 1-:nightly manners to Tom Fulcher. HARRY JONES wills his collegiate hair cut to Billy Wright. WILLIAM GOIN wills his gift for quietness to Dupuy Sears. REBECCA PAULSON wills her love of shorthand to Eddie Kromer. . PATSY NELSON leaves her job as Mrs. Dahl's homeroom secretary to the next volunteer f'?J. RAY NE VEL leaves his headaches over short desks to William Robertson. ' SAM PUTNEY wills his slightly liberal political theories to Lucy Putney for obvious reasons. MARY B. NEWMAN leaves an autographed picture of Jimmy Scott to Debra Mason. SUE REECE leaves her typing ability to all of Mrs. Moore's and Mrs. Myers' over-worked pupils ALICE SHOWALTER wills her quiet manner and winning ways to Danny Andrews. REBECCA SMITH leaves her shoulder length hair to Dama Carol Dowdy. DIANE SIMONINI wills her dramatic ability to Carl Eubank. MARGARET STOMBOCK leaves her petiteness to G. W. Lewis. ROBERT JENKINS wills his Radio-Press Award to Alex Skidmore. DANNY SIMPSON would leave his old green plimp, but it would break his heart. LINDA STOKES leaves Murphy to the football team and keeps Bobby for herself. MABEL THORPE leaves her friendly Phys. Ed. fights with Mrs. Southall to Anne Gray Brooks. BETTY BOOKER SMITH wills ther ballet talents to,HEarl Lamberth. 33

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fl .2 I Glenn Morris and Billy Gills. And you'll never guess who was taking golf lessons there-- Barbara Jean Yeatts. She is the Social Director. , K ' , Tom: Speaking of coincidences, on the way up, Scott's Opel conked out so I caught a bus into Lynchburg which was driven by one of our classmates, William Goin. He directed me to go to the Bagby, Nevel, Gee Speed Shop. Yep, Bill Bagby, Ray Nevel and Wayne Gee run the biggest service center in Lynchburg. While Wayne was driving me back to the Opel, he told me that they had just set up Harold Harris's Chevy. They say his is the fastest on the Stock Car track. Burt: How about old Chuck Patteson? Did he ever finish school? Mary B.: Yeah, he finished about seven or eight years ago and took over his father's practice 7 t in Farmville. He married Peggy as expected. Patsy: I went in there just the other day and was greeted at the door by Avon Covington, his secretary. Isat down inthe chair and while Chuck was checking my teeth, he was assisted by his nurse, Marilyn Gresham. Celia: Are the Daiquiris still together? Jimmy: Why certainly, we are under contract to play in Miami all this winter. Parkie White, our bass player, has been nominated for the Nobel Award for music, and Jimmy Putney still plays the saxwith us in his spare time from his regular job as research physicist in partner- ship with his cousin, Sam Putney, U. Va. Tom: Remember the captain of the football team, Robert Jenkins? He and Sammy Coleman have combined farms and now own the largest dairy farm in Rice. Mary B.: Oh, you'll never guess who's writing books now! Celia: I read about that. Isn't Lloyd Johnson's book on the best seller list now? Patsy: I saw Alice Showalter downtown the other day and she said he writes a book every two months. She's his stenographer now. Tom: Speaking of best sellers, Katherine Yancey's book Care Of The Hair just reached its climax. Jimmy: It really is great to get together and talk about the old days. Oh, Burt, I know you haven't forgotten Harry Jones. He is now the Juvenile Judge of Prince Edward County. KSpills his drinkl Ooops, sorry, Burt. Burt: Oh, no worry, we have the carpets changed every month--pure mink of course. The man who installs it is a big tycoon up in New York. Celia: He said he married Connie Allen a few years ago and now they've got two sets of twins. Mary B.: That's nothing, Iheard Martha Lea Hubbard and Mac had triplets. Jimmy: We've been visited by Janice Bruce. Burt: What is Janice doing now? Jimmy: She's a welfare worker in Farmville now. ' Tom: Did you see where Sally Watkins is in the Congo as a missionary? She's living at the hospital where Rebecca Smith is head nurse and June Lancaster is a biological researcher. Patsy: Remember Tone DeMuth who wanted to be a Forest Ranger? Well, he's got lots of forests to oversee now, the whole Congo. Mary B.: The Army is there also. Patsy Nelson was just awarded the Fourth Star Commander Award in the WACs. She is really working above and beyond the call of duty. Celia: You'll never guess who I saw last week when our 310,000 French poodle, Fifi, got stolen. I went to the F.B.I. and ran into several of our classmates. Sue Reese was the typist and behind her sat Belle Chappell working on an I.B.M. machine. While I explained the loss of Fifi, with the diamond collar, who should I hear roaring with laughter but Evelyn Hanna. She's secretary to Bill Doss. He runs the F.B.I. now, you know. 1 Torn: I was in Leggett's last week noticing the new stock of clothes and found out that Vicky Martin was the buyer for the company. When Iwent upstairs to pay my bill, Dottie Jones -A and Eugenia Covington were working in the office, in charge of customer accounts. Then i on my way out, I saw Peggy Hodges. She's working part time there. Jimmy: You knew that Rene Fishburne is medical technologist at the Medical College of Virginia, didn't you? Celia: Why yes, I remember reading in the paper about her discovering a pill for the prevention, I ' of leukemia. Mary B.: They say ,Billy Floyd and Sally Brown helped her a lot. You know they're science Amajors. ' Celiaz' When.Rene discovered the cause, Billy and Sally perfected the cure. Jimmy: They say whenthe pillwas given out it took Trooper John Whitman to keep things orderly if and Carol Ann. Carwile 8: Aurelia Covington to keep the files straight in the office. Patsy: Well, Tom and I were there and guess who we bumped into? Burt: .Who?u , if H ' . ' Patsy: Beverly McDonald' and Margaret Stombock. 'They're professional hair stylists. They Q ' have a fancy shop' in Richmond. - j Burt: 'Let's get our coats. I'm'going to take you all downtown for dinner. Reservations won't be necessary as I own the controlling interest'in,se,veral of the best restaurants in town. Celia: That sounds fine, Burt, and we can find out what happened to the rest of the gang. im ,