Southern Virginia University - Maid of the Mountains Yearbook (Buena Vista, VA)

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Alice Codling is pinch-hitter for the Dodgers whenever she is free from olympic training, and really brings in the spectators. XNe ran into Ann Mathews, who is as pretty as ever. She has been offered many movie and television contracts, but told us that she was still trying to make up her mind. The next morning we took a taxi to the airport, but found we were an hour early. While watching the planes at the hugh held who should we see but june Dezentlorf and jean Lewisy in the uniforms of Pan American yVorld Airways hostesses. VVe overheard ,lean excitedly telling about her latest trip to Rio and how she was grounded at the University of Virginia by some mysterious chemical fog. june was raving about her latest adventure in Paris and bow it ended in a catastrophe this time when she dropped her French book in the Seine River and she was lost for five days. CShe still can't speak a word of French.j June told us about many of our former classmates whom she had seen in Paris. Janet Hopkins has given up beachcombing in New -lersey in favor of beachcombing on the ltiveria. She has also made quite a proht by knitting Bikini bathing! suits and selling them to the French sirens. ' ' Marty Manchester is top buyer for Gartinkels in Tfaris,ttand spends all her spare time teaching the Frenchmen how to do the shag. Margot Sheehan is a very successful perfume buyer. tS'hc has invented a new perfume of her own called Su1vez-Moi Ou Bien which is selling for hfty dollars an ounce. Freida Noble was taking a post-graduate course in Paris when she niet a traveling Texan and decide to get married. They are living on the Riveria next door to Aly Khan. I .As you know Marjorie Rieber married Jack Mitchell and they went to the Rivcria for their honeymoon. However they saw so many future prospects for their funeral home they decided to stay right there and open up shop. , lNe were glafl to hear that Margaret Garrou is one of the most promising artists in Italy. Many of her paintings are being displayed at the International Art Fair in Rome. Janet Pctte was in Paris for the fashion show, as sheis now one'of Harry t'onover's top models. She has been chosen The Girl NVC Like to Photograph Best by a group of fashion cameramen. just then we heard our tlight announced and boarded our plane for New Jersey. As it was almost dinner time we landed, we decided to go and see ,lean Proctor in hopes that she would have something cooking. NWC were not disappointed. ,lean was hne and asked us to stav for dinner. She served us some delicious mul'igan st-ew, which we understand. is one of her specialities. Jean Baker is teaching kindergarten and has become so successful that she is opening a school of her own. . Beverly Newhall is secretary to Monsieur Dnclos, French delegate to the U. N. He picked her for this trusted position because she was the only person he knew that could type Ptlltl take shorthand in French and never make a mistake. XN'e ran into Betty Oschwald and she told us that she was working in Best's and liked it very much. She is saving her money for a trip to South America. Betty Newham married Ted -lube and they have two darling little girls. Betty has already started teaching them the Athenian cheers and songs, so they can take up where Betty left off when they are old enough to go to the Sem. NVQ: decided to take a swim at Ocean t'ity before leaving for l.'hiIadell1l1i11 lllC llCXl morning. XfVho should we see there but Joanne Richardson and .lndy l-lineline operating their ulta-modern pop corn stand on the boardwalk. They told us that they were making so much money that they were opening another one in Atlantic City soon. The next morning we were on our way to Philadelphia. The Iirst familar person we saw was Ginny Kratz. She was coming out of a double feature starring Lash LaRue with her two children. Ginny was married three years ago and is very happy. Pat Lawson is now a successful buyer for a large store in Philadelphia and has just returned from Hawaii. lt is rumored that she is going to marry a millionaire and live in the land of orchids and balmy breezes. Kay Self has just returned from a cruise around the world on the Illf' Dc lirunra. She visited Dottie Lazenby, who is selling creams and lotions in Alaska. Nancy Powell has a toy hospital and mends all kinds of torn animals. The only trouble is that she won't return the animals to the poor children as she just can't resist playing with them herself.

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enior ass Qnroplzecy Dear Pop, XVe have just completed our trip around the United States gathering news. of our classmates of 1950, and thought you would like to know what everyone has been doing. VVe left the airport at Montreal on May 25, 1955 and landed in Boston a few hours later. W'hi1c we were having lunch at the Statler, who should we see but Mary van Sand- ford and ,lohnny with their four children. Their children were adorable, and seemed extremely intelligentg but what can one expect after having graduated from ,foan Tit1ey's nursey school. We decided to run over to .loans and were happy to see that she had made such wonderful progress. lfler children were in such good health, which was a great tribute to her nurse, janet llell, who could do anything from removing splinters to appendix. XN'e spent the night in Boston and the next morning saw Donna Davis. She is married now and is very happy. She rushes home from work every night to fix her hus- band some dinner, but always ends up by calling Mary Van to come to the rescue when her cake falls through the oven or the soup boils over. Before long we were winging our way to Connecticut. VYe stopped in Hartford and while walking down the street we saw a huge sign saying Kel1er's Automatic Laundry. XM: went inside and saw Nancy Keller busily bending over a Bendix. She was working to send her five children to George School. VVe turned around and saw another familar figure with a big basket of laundry. lt was Nancy Amos, of all people. She told us that she was happily married and was one of Nancy's best customers as she had just had triplets. Georgia Medley is going to the University of Connecticut, but every weekend you will find her heading South. She told us that she plans to he married soon, but we coulr1n't hnd out who the lucky man would bc. That afternoon we boarded our Constellation bound for New York. Upon landing at l.a Guardia held we went straight to the NK'a1dorf. VVe were greeted by the VVa1dorf's tirst woman manager, jackie 1.udlam. 1Nhile talking to her we learned that Jackie's hus- band was the owner of the 11Yaldorf and had started a chain of hotels all over the world. She also told us that there were a group of Sem. girls having a good ole hen party in room 27, so we rushed upstairs. lt was so good to see everybody again. VVe had a gossip session just like the ones at the Sem. Nan Poole had married Bill soon after graduation and they were living in a peut house overlooking New York. Another Beta girl there was Diane Dixon. She had married Dick and they were having a wonderful time in New York. Nancy Ahl, who is president of the Killum Advertising agency soon joined the party. She had risen to fame by her great discovery of Ratso , the most effective mice killer known to man. Lou Shy, who's only grown one inch since we last saw her, is married to lid, and is the proud Mother of four boys. She has been busy training them to swim in the olympics. Leaving the XN'aldorf we ran into Nancy Heilman who was showing a friend from tfermany the sights of New York. 1'Ve stopped by Lord X 'l'ay1or's to chat with Barbara Palma who is top executive there. Through her guidance she has made Lord X 'l'aylor's the number one store in the world. Another person of high position in the merchandising world is Anna Mae Bloxham, She told us that she was leaving for Paris this week to sponsor a fashion show there. That evening we attended the opening of a new musical starring Margaret Jensen, who is said to be another Marilyn Miller. During intermission we saw manv of our old class- mates. Among them was Ollie Lagergrcn, now Mrs Ronald Galione, and the proud mother of three children. Vtfe talked to Jeanne Bearss who told us that she was getting married next week. She had pust finished a record-breaking season as the star in Ioan of Arc. Nanci lvfcllonald and lloris Butti were also in town for the opening, and we noticed that Doris looked a little tired. NVe learned that 'Doris had been nursing Tommy Manville back to health, wlnle Nanci held his hand and kept his temperature up to 1050. ,lean Hyatt and Jane Thompson are very successful school teachers. ffean has her own school now, wlnle ,lane is still trying to teach home economics at 1Nest Point. 1K'e also saw Gloria Dillon, now manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers. She is making plans to win the pennant in 1970 when her sons will be old enough to comprise the infield.

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Caroline Nichols is teaching riding at a junior College., Many of the.girls won first prizes at Madison Square Garden this year because of Nickeys excellent instruction. XVe heard that Marjorie Ammon, who has been traveling around the world for the past two years decided to get married. She says that traveling is fun, but there's nothing like a home and a husband, Loretta Marshall has always wanted to be a sozial worker and it didn't take her long to reach her ambition. Because of her many good accomplishments, she has been voted President of the h'h'lOI'l'tCIl'S Club of America. Barbara lfooks has become quite an artist and many of hcr pictures are on exhibit at the National Art Gallery in Vtiasltingtou. 'l'hat afternoon we left for Baltimore, Maryland, where we saw Beverly Talbot. is married to that certain guy front Lafayette. .loan Cropper is working for her father 111 Berlin, Maryland. but spends a lot of time in Baltimore, jean Bonnar is a very successful interior decorator, and has been asked by the l'resident to redecorate the X'Ylnte House. .lean told us that she had recently see Gloria Walker, who was running for hrst woman congressman from Maryland, VN'hile we were in Annapolis we saw .lean Rogers. She has been teaching Kinder- garten, but has decided to give that up and marry into the Navy mstead. As we took off from Annapolis enroute to Lexington, Virginia, we noticed a house- boat anchored in the Chesapeake Bay. As we came closer we saw someone who looked an awful lot like Galen Snell hanging bell bottom trousers on the clothes line. But of course Galen always did like boats. Wie soon landed in NVashington to refuel and we were surprised to see Joanne Culbert- son at the airport. She told us that she was married to a wonderful lieutenant in the Army, and had a little boy two years old. Lillian l7orbes is also living in NfX'ashington. Her husband is a famous lawyer and just recently was appointed to the Supreme court. liefore long we had left Xkashington in the distance and the familar Blue Ridge Mountains rose below ns. Looking out of the window we saw Anite Butler picking apples in her orchard, lt still looks as if nobody has been able to get her out of Virginia. Vile landed in Lexington and saw that it hadn't changed a bit in five years. As we were passing by V. N. l. we saw a familiar figure sitting in front of a little bungalow. As you can guess it was ,loy il-lardy. lt seems as if she just couldn't leave V. M. I. so she married that certain second classman who is now the Commander of V. M. I. We learned from ,loy that l'hyliss Topping had become a nurse at the V. M. l. hospital and had married one of the patients. That afternoon we went to a -concert by the V. M. l'. glee club. Their singing was better than ever before but that is natural as Betty Lou Roden is head director. CNO re- tlection on 'ADO Do D. lieverly Downey is now teaching kindergarten in 'Buena Vista and is planning to open her own school soon. Helen l.illis is coaching the V. 'l'. l. football team and she hopes to have a team made up of her own boys soon. Kitty Unfuennois has been an :treheologist for the past hve years but she has found nothing but old confederate money. Hut at long last we heard that she had discovered the Lost llutchman gold mine. VVe hated to say goodby to old familiar Lexington but we wanted to be in XVest Virginia by that evening. Wihen we landed in Charleston we decided to see Sue Kent. She was fine and told us that she had been touring the country as top star in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. Sue told us that Zelda Alderson had stayed in Bluefield as secretary to a top executive but a year ago she decided not to keep Al waiting any longer and they were married. Lorainne Xlcfann didn't waste any of her time with a career but was married and now has three bouncing boys, Vile were happy to bc on our way again as our next stop was sunny Florida. X-Ve stopped in North Carolina to refucl and we saw Margaret Stoner-inber nt the airport. She had been secretary to Mr, Vanderbilt for a number of years and finally married him. They were leaving on a second honeymoon that day. Once again we were air-borne. VVe arrived in Jacksonville a 'few l1ot1rs later. VVe stopped in to sec l'orchy 'lhompson and she gave us tickets to the opening of her new