Robert E Lee High School - Leeway / Record Yearbook (Staunton, VA)

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Gradually, the cloud and haze began to disappear and 1 found myself in a cool, white hospital room. Not long afterwards 1 was greatly surprised to hear that Miss Virginia Brand had inquired for me. This was indeed surprising, since the last 1 had heard of her, she was doing Girl Reserve work in France. This was the end of my strange experience. Schoolmates, I hope you are all listening in tonight and that you have been brought closer together by my speech. Now, for old time’s sake I will sing one of those old songs we sang so joyously in Assembly at dear old Lee High. I shall sing the “Spanish Cavalier,” and Mr. Robert Knowles has consented to accompany me with “Solomon Levi.” I thank you.

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On one of the seven hills Pauline Parrish sat, sketching the ruins of a mag¬ nificent old building. Speeding once again on my cloud, I wondered if every member of our class had achieved fame and honor, and, as if in answer to my thought, my cloud paused and softly dropped to the rail of a steamer, on the deck of which Miss Palston, once Mary McCue, and her charming sister, Sarah, were “just traveling.” A little farther east, and T saw the green turf of Hollywood, where Frances Brown’s assurate swings were winning her honors in tennis. In the same city, tucked away in a lovely bungalow was Miss Margie King, tucking into bed seven famous little screen people, whose minds and bodies were kept healthy and natural by her spontaneous good spirits. Outside the city in a cool, high-walled convent, Miss Marie Wilson sat, quietly teaching the children sewing. In Salt Lake City, Utah, my cloud dropped down beneath the friendly shade of a tall brick building to revive me, for I was burning with the heat. There T found Wallace Hook in a business office giving dictation to Miss Louise Randol, his private secretary, about his oil wells. Gladys Hoy was giving platform speeches on the building of a landing for airplanes. My fever fled as the cloud again whisked me onward, over mountains, where I found Sam Wilson in a stout log cabin on a wooded peak, protecting the forests from fire. Over the green grazing lands we floated and paused before a huge meat-packing establishment, from which Kenneth Grim was retiring to enter his favorite business, that of florist. In a Kentucky town I found Miss Kath¬ erine Markley on a race track celebrating her engagement to the Major’s son by racing her favorite horse. My cloud was evidently wearied, and it hastened over the cotton belt so quickly that I almost missed seeing Mr. John Boyle receive his M. D. degree, as well as hearing Miss Thelma Koiner give a powerful political speech at the convention in Georgia. In New Orleans we slackened our pace and discovered Miss Elizabeth Wil¬ son teaching Latin and dancing in a huge, white columned high school. Miss Frances Ratclifife was watching her kindergarten pupils give a lovely little pageant on the cool lawn. Whirling on our way northward we stopped long enough to see Miss Emma Jane Shultz referee the final basketball game between two girls’ colleges. I wished to stay and watch but the cloud hurried on, stopping over the white dome of the Capitol long enough for me to see Miss Charlotte Taylor in the Virginia senator’s seat, with her eyes fixed admiringly on a portrait of Alfred Smith. Now, I understood why the cloud was hurring so—it wanted to get back to Staunton before dark—and what a change we found! Wide streets, beautiful buildings, and George Long’s spacious haberdashery, showing just what a wel l dressed man should wear. El wood Stover had built himself an up-to-date drug store on the very spot where his old loafing place had been—but these two were the only two left in the old hometown—so I sorrowfully drifted northward.

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Hall of Fame GIRLS Prettiest . Margaret Parker Most Athletic. Emma Jane Shultz Most Dependable. Charlotte Taylor Most Courteous. Mary McAleer Outstanding Record Work. Audrey Bowman Best School Spirit. Margie King Best Class Spirit. Charlotte Taylor Neatest . Frances Ratcliff Most Talkative. Margie King Least Talkative. Marie Wilson Biggest Grouch. Pauline Parrish Most Contented. Margie King Happiest Disposition. Margie King The Real Thinker. Charlotte Taylor Most Original. Virginia Brand Most Outstanding in Leadership. Charlotte Taylor BOYS Handsomest. Wallace Hook Most Athletic. Bernard Payne Most Dependable. Hudson Haines Most Courteous. John Boyle Outstanding in Record Work. Hudson Haines Best School Spirit. Hudson Haines Best Class Spirit. Hudson Haines Neatest. Wallace Hook Most Talkative. Bernard Payne Least Talkative. Kenneth Grim Biggest Grouch. Winston Suter Most Contented . Billy Hamilton Happiest Disposition. Bernard Payne The Real Thinker. Jack Doswell Most Original. Bernard Payne Most Outstanding in Leadership. Hudson Haines