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

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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

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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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water follies show. ln her spare time Torchy coaches a basketball team, and led Florida to her first championship. We saw Pinky Turner at the water follies and she was as pretty as ever. As you know she had won the Miss Florida contest, the Miss America contest, and just recently was chosen Mrs. America. CThat's our May Queen for youj. lt was hard to leave Florida with its white sand and glorious sunshine, but we still had many places to go. VVe boarded our plane and began to climb skyward. This time we were heading North to Michigan. After several hours we made a stop in Ohio. Here we saw Ruth Ann Pamenter. She told us that she had one of the largest knitting ships in the country and supplied all the wool for the Sem. We left Ohio and a few hours later we were circling to land in Michigan. As we came down over Lake Erie we saw Caralyn Burgess and Bob sailing leisurely through 'the blue water without a care in the world. Soon those lucky two became just a white speck in the distance as we glided in for a landing at Detroit. NNe went to see l?'hyd. Powers and Bob. Phyd. was very glad to see us, but was sorry that we could not meet Bob. It seems that he ate some of Phyd's special cake and has been in the hospital for two weeks. NNe commented on her dress and she told us that she bought it at Roz. I.Jemery's dress shop. X'Ve dropped in on Roz and we were amazed at her unique store. All the latest Paris creations could be had for a very low price. Nancy Gotschaw was her buyer, and had gotten beautiful clothes for her from all over the world. XVe understand that Sue Cruikshank is running a stud farm CTally Hob and has some of the most beautiful horses in the country. Her' farm has acres and acres of long green grass, and several clear blue lakes. lt is truly a horses paradise. After saying goodby to everyone in Michigan we were on our way. Our next stop was the big city of Chicago. Wlho should we bump into here but Spiz, She was line and told us that she was being' nursemaid to grandma. COh Boyd CSl1e does a little racket busting on the side.D Spiz told us that Lehmer and .lean Steller were teaching school in the Nebraska sandhills. Wihat a school that must be. Later in the evening we boarded our Constellation for the trip to Texas. The moon shone brightly through our windows and we were soon lulled to sleep by the endless drone of the engines. The next morning we circled San Antoine and slid quickly down to earth. VVC were greeted by a loud NVHOOPEH which almost blew us back to Michigan. It was none other than Betty Stacev. She told us that she was secretary to Tom Tycoon, the big Texas oil man. She said that she was planning to marry him soon and raise some little Texas tvcoons. After spending several days in Texas. we were once again soaring through the blue sky with Los Angeles as our destination. Before long the waters of the Pacihc came into view and the city of Los Angeles lay below us. After landing we went straight to the hotel. That evening we saw Betty Ann Jeffers, who is now editor of a. large fashion magazine. She was interviewing many of the famous stars, and told us that she just loved California. NNe were surprised to see Carol Benas so far from home, but she told us that New York had gotten too cold for her and she had come Wfest. She was married and has three darling children. ' Carol drove us to the airport and we boarded our plane for one more stop before re- turning home. Oregon was our destination this time, and when we arrived we went to see Peggy Conlin and Bill. They had a log cabin complete with moose heads, a bear rug, and a nice big tire place. X'Ve hated to leave such a cozy cabin, but knew we must be getting home. That night we took off for Maine. We flew all night and arrived there in the morning. XM' decided right there and then that we needed a good vacation and the ideal place would he -lean M'cCatTrey's ski lodge. XN'e called ,lean and she said she had plenty of room for us. She said she hoped that we wouldu't mind a little noise as Tony Martin would have the next room and he liked to sing There's No Tomorrow in the morning. VVe hurriedly assured her that we would never be that tired. XYe alifeetionately said goodby to our great silver plane which had carried us thousands of miles through the blue sky and brought us safely back to earth, and hurried to jump into our big soft bed. Love, ,func Tlezendorf Georgia Medley