Stonewall High School - Confederate Yearbook (Clearbrook, VA)

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Class Prophecy As I was walking down the street one day who should I meet but my old friend Dorothy Rennie. As women are always prone to gossip, we two were no exception. We talked about what some of our former class-mates of the Senior Class of 1945 were doing but, as much as we both get around, there were some we just didn’t know about. Wanting to see them all again, we decided to call a class reunion and the date set was for April 6, 1994. When we all gathered together that day, we certainly were a happy crowd,, and I managed to find out precisely what each one was doing. Imagine my surprise when I learned that Hildren Blandford was a hermit in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. Lynn Carpenter had become head mandolin player with the Smokey Moun¬ tain Boys. He is getting more education by going to night school. Howard Cai-per is still a single, good-looking lawyer with slightly graying hair. He is also still indulging in his old hobby, that of dating a blond. Eugene Funkhouser is now our most famous member and was unable to at¬ tend because of the press of his duties in running for President of the United States on the Republican ticket. His party is boosting the campaign by selling purple Funkhouser buttons. Bobby Gibbs followed a circus to Mexico and there married a Mexican cook. He is rolling in fat from the food his wife cooks and now has three children, “Lolita”, “Rosita” and “Conchita.” Jimmie Hutton has become Prosecuting Attorney of New York State, and incidentally sprouts a Dewey-style moustache. Helen Goi’don is now Attorney Hutton’s private secretary. Douglas O’Connell has taken Miss Cochran’s place giving music lessons at dear old Stonewall High. Glenvil Whitacre, having started as office boy, is now publisher of the Wash¬ ington Post. Dorothy Rennie has succeeded Mary Hayworth in writing “Advice to the Love Lorn Column” in the Washington Post. Gertrude Stump takes Frances Perkins place as Secretary of Labor. Mary Catherine Williams plays center field for the professional “Stephenson Polecats” Softball team, which has the odds to win this year’s World Series. Eugene Funkhouser became fascinated with Dorothy Owens’ purple sweaters and they are now happily married. Catherine Golightly eloped with “Smithy” Dorsey and now lives in a small cabin in Tennessee. Hazel Bageant is auditioning for a place as a soprano singer in the Metro¬ politan Opera Company. Of course, she has been trying for 25 years. Remember how Mary Ellen Nethers held the office of Vice-President in most activities at school? Well, now she is Vice-President of a Physical Education Board Mary Catherine White is Aviatrix with the Transcontinental Air Ways. Signed: Hazel Bageant, Class Prophet

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Class Will Knowing that our scholastic days are fast fading, we the class of nineteen hundred forty-five of Stonewall High School, of the town of Clearbrook, State of Virginia, U. S. A., do summon you to our presence on this solemn occasion to list to this proclamation, our last will and testament. We leave our collected physical and abstract possessions to those whom we deem fitting recipients. We do bequeath to the understated the following: To David Fahnestock, Eugene Funkhouser leaves the role of most prominent Republican. Catherine Golightly and Hildren Blandford leave to Catherine Travers and Curtis Wilson their extensive knowledge of the art of flirting. To Mildred Williams, Mary White leaves her artistic ability. Helen Gordon leaves her quiet disposition to Kathleen Shiley. Jennie Lou Miller, Lillian Lockhart and Anna Marie Clark are to receive Dorothy Owens’ unerring belief in Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny. To Nancy Lodge, Mary Fishback and Betty Martin the Senior girls leave their combined good looks. To Jeanne Hoover, Mary Catherine Williams leaves her athletic abilities. To Harold Dawson, Douglas O’Connell leaves his smooth dancing tendencies. To Bobby Driver, Jimmie Hutton leaves all the chewing gum that is stuck under the library tables. To Phyliss McDonald, Glenvil Whitacre leaves his superb spelling ability. Hazel Bageant leaves her hard earned nick-name “Luanda,” to Virginia Herrell. Mary Ellen Nethers leaves to next year’s annualeditor tons and tons of work and responsibility. To a future Senior Dorothy Rennie leaves the sacred trust of ringing the class bell on time. Howard Carper leaves to Alfred Armel his pet excuse “I’ve got too much to do.” To William Castleman, Lynn Carpenter leaves his Sunday round-house pitch. Bobby Gibbs leaves his collection of corny jokes to Mae Fries and Bobby Whitmore. We appoint as executor of this document, Mr. Harper, who shall give bond that he will endeavor to carry out faithfully our last requests. As we depart this life, we, the class of nineteen hundred and forty-five, do hereby set our hand and seal this 7th day of June, in the year of our Lord, Nineteen Hundred and forty-five. Signed: Class Testator Howard Carper

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Who ' s Who Best All Around Mary Ellen Nethers Eugene Funkhouser Best Looking Douglas O’Connell Dorothy Rennie Most Studious Helen Gordon James Hutton Biggest Flirt Hildren Blandford Catherine Golightly