St Annes School - Synopsis Yearbook (Charlottesville, VA)

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Senior Class Officers PAT BUSH ................... Presidenl ANDREA WALLACE . . Vice-President Secretary Jovan TSENG ..... ...... T reasurer MRS. -I. A. WADDELI.. . . . .S7mn.mr SENIOR HISTORY IN THE near future a group of girls are going to walk down the aisle to receive their diplomas. These girls will probably be calm, dignified, and refined to the Nlh degree. Now you, if anyone, Miss Cochran, know that this is not their normal appearance. This could range anywhere from two eyes and a nose peering out from the wrong bed in the wrong room at 2 A.M. to a wet flash followed by a glass of water during a particularly strenuous water fight. They have asked you to be their graduation speaker. What can you say to this class whom you have known ever since Gigi first entered your office seven Septembers ago? I'm writing this section of the letter in the small hope of helping you a little. I realize that you, if anyone, would remember their trials and tribulations, but in case you lost your little black book with all their endeavors, here are some characteristics, glorious and otherwise, as I can remember them. The first memorable happening took place in May of '46, that month of flowers, sunshine, and ax work. You told Andy, an efficient seventh grader then, to go down and clean the chapel. An hour later Miss Coleman, found her in the middle of a completely flooded chapel holding a broom and sweeping the water back and forth. Clzaracterz'slz'r No. 7: Dogged determination in the face of great odds. Their Freshman year found them just about like most Freshmen. They weren't the neatest of classes, but what they lacked in room order they made up in their compulsory attempts to clean up the campus. Miss Coleman was their house-mother, and, due to thin walls and loud voices, she quite often heard her name used in vain. This was the group that kept the school supported. What with Miss Coleman's fines for clothes left in the wrong places any time, or the right place too long CMonday,s washing still hanging in the bathroom Fridayj, being outside in the rain without coats or inside in the halls with0ut g lights on in rooms when girls out of same, etc., etc., they were always forking over. Characterzklzk No. 2: Absolute dependability as a continuous source of income for the school. The Freshman-Sophomore dance is the big event of those two years. That year Fishburne was the lucky school, only they didn't look at it that way. Two buses were coming to the dance but only one showed up, the other had bribed the bus driver to take them to the movies. The dance was patterned after the Junior-Senior Open House. Until that year, and since then, the dances have been like the Iunior-Senior Prom. 'Nuf said. i sl 11 I

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FACULTY DIRECTORY AUGUSTA L. BLUE RANDOLPH QMRS. THOMAS JEFFERSON, VJ Headmislress B.A., Bryn Mawr, M.A. University of Virginia CATHERINE O. COLEMAN Dean, Bible, Director cy' Remedial Reading B.A., Sweet Briar College, M.A., Mills College, Graduate Work, Universities of Iowa, Indiana, Virginia VELMA M. BOAZ CMRS. WILLIAM, English B.A., Randolph-Macon Woman's Collegeg Graduate Work, University of Virginia JEANNIE CLEMONS CMRS. HARRYD Latin Smith College, Nanking Language School DOROTHY COLTRANE Choral Work, Piano B. Music, Cincinnati Conservatory of Music LAURA DEL GRECO fMRS. ARNOLD, Intermediate Department B.S., New York University, University of Virginia DOROTHY DONELSON Piano, Dance B.A., Music, University of North Carolina HERBERT A. DONOVAN QTHE REVERENDD Chaplain B.D., Virginia Theological Seminary g M.A., Liberia College, Temple University, Columbia University fBard Collegej MARY WHITE DUKE fMRS. CAMMANN, Mathematic: B.A., Converse College, Graduate Work, Columbia University, University of Virginia VIvIAN GIBBS Registered .Nurse University of Virginia Hospital JUDITH C. GIBSON Librarian Drexler School of Library Science FRANCES C. HANIcINs CMRS. J. GJ Mathematics B.S., Farmville State Teachers' College ELIZABETH V. HOLMES HENNEMAN CMRS. RIGI-IARD HJ Art Appreciation A.B., College of Charleston ELIZABETH HART KELLEY Art, Intermediate Department Farmville State Teachers' College, Special Work, University of Virginia N VIRGINIA H. KI-:NNAN fMRS. E. VICTOR, Houremother, Senior Dormitory Stanford University, Ph.B. University of Chicago, Graduate Work, University of Virginia ' JUNE KIMEROUGH Physical Education B.A., University of Alabama, M.A., University of Alabama VIRGINIA KING Remedial Reading B.A., University of Rochesterg Graduate Work, State Teachers' College, Courtland, New York, University of Virginia ROSEMARY LONERGAN Hirtoy B.A., Wellesley, M.A., Columbia University GERTRUDE D. PARLIER French B.A., Barnardg Graduate Work, University of Virginia - OLGA PODTIAGUINE fMRS. MICHAEL, French Undergraduate Work, Odessa, Russiag M.A., University of Virginia MARIA J. POMARES Spanish Instituto de Prevision y Reformes Socialesg Graduate Work, University of Virginia NANCY R. POWELL CMRS. R. DJ Bookkeeper B.A., Middlebury College ELIZABETH PRITGHETT Dramatics University of Virginia MARTHA C. QUAM CMRS. LOUISE Hirtogr , B.A., University of Coloradog Graduate Work, University of Colorado A PATRICIA C. SIMONS QMRS. M. A., JRJ Secretary Hollins College, Graduate, Katharine Gibbs School K VIRGINIA C. SNODDY CMRS. LELANDD Science B.S., University of Kentuckyg M.A., University of Californiag Graduate Work, University of Chicago PAULINE SOUBAS Art Jefferson School of Fine and Applied Art MARY G. WADDELL fMRS. J. AJ English, Histogw B.A., Randolph-Macon Woman's Collegeg M.A., University of Virginia ANNE G. WALKER Dormitogv Director FRANCOISE C. YoE CMRS. JOHN HJ Secretayr 'I10lf

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That spring you taught a small group of die-hards what the sign Do Not Walk on the Grassi' meant. After spending one whole Saturday planting grass between the two dorms, they knew. You were right, that Freshman class stuck to the path. This was the year they started having those meetings for which they became quite famous. It has been said that even if things have been going beautifully for years, don't get on a pedestal, some one will come along and knock you off. This class was destined to knock the teachers off theirs. After years of brilliant students they thought they could teach anyone-then came the class of '51. Not that this class wasn,t outstanding. Why, one of them made a 20 in Bible for a six-week period-the lowest grade ever given in St. Anne's. At graduation every year you gave out a medal to the smartest in the class. The sixth grade got a medal, the seventh grade got a medal-every grade got a medal except the Freshman. Thus ended a notorious year. The Sophomore year began with a slight rooming problem but after four votings for fightingsj the class settled down to a friendly '48-'49. You lived under them, but from the noises, you must have often wondered if they were going to remain over your room. A floor is just so strong! Teddy went all out for exercises that year. In fact, she flung herself around so strenuously she knocked down the plaster in Miss Gibson's room. Characteristic No. 3: Great energy in everything they do. Picnics are only held from June to August, but nobody told the Sophomores that. They could be found on the coldest of days sitting around a wastebasket toasting marshmallows. They knew what to do in case of fire, though, as room eight proved one Sunday night when they mistook light bell for a fire drill and, in absolute silence, followed the fire drill regulations while everyone else turned off their lights and went to bed. ' Characteristic No. 4: Unswerving in the face of duty. Suite 8 and 9 had the only shower in the school fthere are tubs in the other roomsj, so it was very much in demand. The shower curtain wasn't always used and the result was a rather wet floor. No one really gave much thought to where the water went until Mrs. Walker decided to clean out the light in the student lounge, just below 8 and 9. When she unscrewed the light covering and tilted it, she got rather wet. That suite had a little meeting, and after you told them that the water had made the electric wires under them a definite fire hazard and that they couldnit be fixed until spring vacation, eight girls were smelling smoke every time they turned around. Characteristic No. 5: High imagination. The two successes of the Sophomore year were the radio program they put on and the Sophomore Skit-breakfast at S. A. S. Both were well done and well acted, but the rehearsals! . . .For this is the class who never had anything ready an hour before they did it, but they could always be counted on to come up with something spectacular. This time they did get a medal at the end of the year. Wisdom seemed to be coming with age. The junior year consisted of hard work and mid-night parties. There was the night a rather plump Junior suite changed with a slimmer suite of Seniors just before light-bell and, in being checked, werenit caught. This offended the Seniors immensely because they thought the teacher could certainly tell between the big bulges the juniors made and their slim little bumps. ' Y Characteristic No. 6: They are not always what they seem. Miss Coleman once told the Junior Bible class that if they tilted their chairs once more they would have to sit on the floor. The next time she had their class, she found all the Juniors on the floor lying on pillows, blankets,xetc. Characteristic No. 7: Anticipation of the future. Their skit wasnit too good that year, but they made up for it when they put on the junior-Senior Prom. Many a person has said it was the best theyid seen in some time-and there's no doubt about it, it was good. A junior saved the day at graduation. When the Seniors were filing out in all dignity the victrola playing Pomp and Circumstancew suddenly quit, but Boots calmly sat down at the piano and played the Seniors out. Everyone agreed that she was better than the record, even if she didnit know all of it. The beginning is the prettiest part anyway. Characteristic No. 8: Cool-headedness in emergencies Cusuallyl. Well, Miss Cochran, that brings me up to this year. Ilve tried to bring back a picture of the class as a whole but, according to plain arithmetic, The whole is the sum of its parts. There are twenty-two parts to this class and each one has something to do with why this particular class is what it is. Some of them have changed this year, some havenlt, but underneath they are still the same girls who planted the grass, toasted marshmallows, or put on the successful Prom. I will try to describe each of these parts as we under- classmen see them, knowing that you will want to know them as they are now as well as they have been. This, Miss Cochran, is the Senior Class. .- rl 12 l'