St Annes School - Synopsis Yearbook (Charlottesville, VA)

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INTRODUCTION .i-Q IF YOU happen to have read another book about Christopher Robin, you may remember that he once had a swan for the swan had Christopher Robin, I don't know whichj and that he used to call this swan Pooh. That was a long time ago, and when we said good-bye, we took the name with us, as we didn't think the swan would want it any more. Well, when Senior Class said that they would like an ex- citing name all to themselves, Christopher Robin said at once, without stopping to think, that they were Winnie-the-Pooh. And they were. So, as I have explained the Pooh part, I will now explain the rest of it. You can't be in Charlottesville for long without going to St. Anne's. There are some people who begin St. Annels at the beginning, called WAYIN, and go through as quickly as they can to the one called WAYOUT fwhich we think is also called GRADUATION, but we aren't sure because we haven't quite come to it yetj, but the nicest people are never able to leave altogether and somehow find themselves coming back over and over. Some of them come back for Alumnae Meetings or for GRADUATION. Some you never meet again, but, you see, whenever some one of them thinks of the Enchanted Place at Greenway Rise, she is really coming back. At least, that is the way it is with Winnie-the-Pooh. And Winnie-the-Pooh, as I've already told you, is Senior Class. He will leave in 1952, but he will never be gone completely. We canlt quite tell why. We did know once, but we have for- gotten . . . I had written as far as this when Piglet Ca Freshman this year-don't you re- member?J looked up and said in his squeaky voice, What about Me?,' My dear Piglet, I said, the whole book is about you. So it is about Pooh, he squeaked. You see what it is. He is jealous because he thinks Pooh is having a Grand In- troduction all to himself. Pooh is the favorite, of course, therels no denying that, but Piglet comes in for a good many things which Pooh misses. And now all the others are saying, What about Us? So perhaps the best thing to do is to stop writing Introductions and get on with the book. 'l7l

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FACULTY There are lots and lots of people who are always asking things Like Dates and Pounds-and-Ounces and the names of funny things, And the answer's either Sixpence or A Hundred Inches Long, And I know they'll think me silly if I get the answer wrong. Mrs. Randolph and Miss Coleman can, and do, ask anything, Like, Who was Jeremiah? or Can you prove a ,phone can ring?' With book reports for Mrs. Boaz, and many outlines, too, Our knowledge of the English lang. just grew and Grew and GREW! 9 At St. Anne's one remembers all her history quite distinctly- It's taught by that triumvirate of Waddell, Lonergan, and Hinckley. Mrs. Duke and Mrs. Hankins know formulas galore, And when you think youlve learned them all-they'll always have One More . . . Miss Gibson rules the study hall, and really rules it well, And it surely isn't her fault if book-larnin, H doesn't jell! There's Caesar and Cicero, there's Truman and Taxes- Mrs. Clemons knows the state of things from bomb to swords and axes. Mesdames Parlier and Podtiaguine keep us in a francais stew, While Mrs. Kelley and del Greco man the mighty Lower Crew , Mrs. Walker and Mrs. Lowdon command the home front now- That's how-come the tidyf? D rooms and super-special chow. Of bugs and birds, of mice and men-Mrs. Snoddy knows them all, Her classroom is a jumbled home for all that creep and crawl. A cold? A pain? A Feverish Brain? Go see Miss Gibbs-quick, quick! If pills and drops and shots won't cure, Hadacol will do the trick . . . Miss Pritchett guides the draw-ma group-oh, my, how they emote! fMiss Keith, the athlete of them all, would rather row a boatj Miss Hall has got a fella, Mrs. Prettyman has too . . . Ain't it sickening? It warbles, it chirps, it bangs on the keys, as if someone's being slain, But we know, even so, that 'tis only a student of Alford or of Payne. For every man there's a woman, and vice versa, I hear tell: At S. A. S. we've choice of three: Messers. Donovan, Makielski, and Goodsell. Seiora teaches Spanish, gives us letters, plays for dance, Mrs. Neibel, if you want Miz R., tells if you have a chance. Mrs. Powell kept the books, but then she had to leave- We're glad the others havenltz that would surely make us grieve! ISI