Stephens City High School - Newtown Pippin Yearbook (Stephens City, VA)

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Senior Cla'ss Poem THE RIVER OF LIFE Life, to me, is like a river. It's small ever flowing tributaries Run together Making a mighty stream. Once this stream has started It is much like the life of man, Making its own course Through the muddy way of life. Twelve years ago, even before, These same tributaries started Within us. Thus we set our course! Now we are wending our way Toward the mighty river of life. The first large tributary to help us, Was the starting of our formal education. This flow of knowledge was as pure And refreshing as the mountain stream. The next important tributary came with The entering of high school. This was the largest benefit To the fiow of education. Some of us may branch to higher learning, And some may find other streams To fulfill the needs and desires, As we journey down the river of life. But, regardless of the streams we choose, We have begun our lives with a Sound and full beginning. May we continue to make our lives Full and ever growing, Until the river of life itself, Ceases to flow. LORRAINE MARKER, Poetess

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Senior Class History FRESHMEN 1946-47 We began our high school careers in September 1946. There was a suffi- cient number of us to be divided into two homerooms-one sponsored by Miss Roberts with Harold Whetzel as president and the other sponsored by Miss Rudolph with Patsy Barton as president. SOPHOMORES 1947-48 Our Sophomore year found us all combined in one home-room group with Miss Rudolph as our sponsor. We elected Charles Anderson president and began planning for a busy year. Due to the introduction of a twelve-year sys- tem of education in the school, there was no Junior Class this year, and the duties of a Junior class fell to us as Sophomores. We raised money for and held the Junior-Senior Prom at the George Washington Hotel and decorated the churches of Stephens City for the Baccalaureate Sermon and Commence- ment Exercises. JUNIORS 1948-49 Our Junior year was made eventful by the fact that we got our rings which we had been looking forward to for a long time. We also began to think about and plan for our Senior year. We elected Randolph Seal as president and Miss Rudolph continued as our sponsor. SENIORS 1949-50 This year our goal is attained and we are Seniors. Our minds are full of many activities pertaining to graduation-the annual, our prom, the Senior trip and, last but not least, the graduation program when we are handed our di- plomas in one of the really big moments of a lifetime. We elected Dean Baughman president of our Senior Class and once more we were sponsored by Miss Rudolph. HAROLD WHE'rzmL, Histofrian i 1

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Senior Class Prophecy As we glance at the future, the next five or ten years, to see what the class of '50 is doing, we find a wide variety of activities. Dorothy Lamp is now happily married to Harry Clark and is success- fully managing her mother's store at Kernstown. CThanks to a background of bookkeeping in Mr. Perrault's classj Tunney Nicholson, who is a very well-known brick-layer, has also ac- quired three little mud-mixers to help him in his work. Bettie Ebersole is employed as secretary in Woodward and Lothrops of Washington, D. C. George Giles, who was expected to become manager of Newberry's, has just begun operation of his own blacksmith outfit. Nancy Ewing, head pharmacist at the Drugstore in Stephens City, is the first woman to hold this position. Betty Vonn Brill has become a figure of importance and in much demand as a public speaker. 'S'he is frequently called upon for after-dinner speeches, talks at P. T. A. meetings, and for lecturing of any kind. Maureen Hausenfluck is happily married to Kenneth Seal. By the way, they already have one little Sooner . Rebecca Loy is married and lives in Gainesboro. She is head secretary for the Carper Manufacturing Company of that city. Randolph, Baldy, Seal has risen to the position of manager at the Acme Super Market. Elizabeth Courtney is a nationally known singer, now featured as soloist with Larrick's All-Rhythm Band. Dorothy Boone is the girls' physical education instructor at James Wood High School. For the past three years, her softball team has won the state championship. Aline DeHaven is chief telephone operator at the Stephens City Ex- change. She supervises a group of 25 regular operators. Peggy Hoover, although a housewife, has also succeeded in the business world. She is head of the toy department at Montgomery Ward and Com- pany. Mary Hollar, after graduation from Mary Washington C'ollege, is teach- ing history at the James Wood High School. P. S. She is still taking an in- terest in agriculture. Lorraine Marker has opened the most modern flower shop in Winches- ter and at present is busily engaged in arranging bouquets for her own wed- ding. Ruth Grim is head nurse at Winchester Memorial Hospital, where, since 1953, the number of cases of heart failure among male patients has steadily increased. This increase has been traced to the flirty, flirty ways of the head nurse. Mary Baggerly is a famous torch singer with Freddy Himelwright's Or- chestra. They have a year's contract with station WINC and WINC-TV. As Luther Lowery is now a truck driver, it is harder than ever for the girls to keep up with him. Ernest Welch deserted his career as a painter in favor of baseball. He is now star third-baser for the New York Yankees.