Stonewall High School - Confederate Yearbook (Clearbrook, VA)

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Our Farewell Song (Tune:—Follow The Gleam) To our classmates of Stonewall High As we sing our last adieu, Happy school days are over now And from old Stonewall we must go. Chorus: Farewell, farewell, farewell to thee As we go out all o’er the world. Farewell, farewell, farewell to thee We will miss you and Stonewall High. Our friends that we leave behind We’ll remember o’er all the years. Will you pause in the year to come And remember our farewell song. By: Catherine C. Travers 27

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The Class Poem The class of ’46, our very own, Oh, How swiftly the years have flown— Since first we entered Stonewall High. It isn’t so easy to say goodbye— To teachers, students, and classmates dear, Who filled our school days With love and cheer. As we go out in the world so gay, We’ll never forget the Maroon and Gray. The colors that kept our courage bright Throughout the day and throughout the night. A spark of love will brightly burn, As back to Stonewall our thoughts oft turn. We go out from you with our spirits high— With other brave lessons and tasks to try. But we will come back you know— So glad to come, But so sad to go. As we bid you farewell and say adieu, May the peace of God abide with you. By Mary Fishback 26

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Class Prophecy As I was sitting in one of my most exclusive dress shops in Hollywood, who should walk in but Mrs. Catrina Cline, the former Miss Catherine Travers, Avho is now playing with Van Johnson in “Bony As They Come.” While fitting her dress, Catrina told me she had just returned from a personal appearance tour, and that her last appearance was at the Stephenson Opera House on Brucetown Avenue in Clearbrook, Virginia, the home of our Stonewall High School where we graduated in 1946, twenty years ago. I was interested to hear all she had to tell me about our classmates. Phyllis and “hubby” have started a large chicken farm so they could use the excess chicken feed from Southern States. Buddy Castleman has been the football coach at Nocre Dame University for five years and his team hasn’t won a game. (Incidentally he got his experience from Coach Harper.) Nancy Lodge, who has had her fifth divorce, is at last writing her experiences in true scory magazine. It’s going around that she hopes to become editor of True uomance Magazine. Jeanne Hoover has given up house keeping to coach a girl’s Baseball Team in the new consolidated county school which has just opened. Bobby Whitmore, or the great Bob Whitmore, has taken Frank Sinitra’s place. The girls drool and swoon over his looks instead of his voice. Lillian Lockhart and her husband have just returned from a five year mis¬ sionary trip to Iwo Jirna. Kathleen Shiley and Ken have just moved into their new home on Whitmore Avenue, at Rest, Virginia. Virginia Herrell and Fred Astair just finished their last picture together. Bobby Driver, the Democratic candidate for governor of Virginia, is running against David Fahnestock who is the Republican candidate. Alfred Armel is the most eligible bachelor. He keeps breaking one girl’s heart after another. He just isn’t the marrying type. Anna Marie Clark who has been a Spanish stenographer in Cuba has now come back to the United States to keep house for an American senor. Glenvil Whitacre who is now the world’s greatest scientist has just invented the new atomic capsule. (One capsule furnishes energy for a lifetime.) Mary Fishback and her husband have gone into the furniture business. They specialize in selling baby cribs and high chairs. Curtis Wilson is now following in Bing Crosby’s footsteps in more ways than one. Crooning as well as raising enough boys for a gaseball team. Having so many customers I had to get back to my dress designing and Catrina left for home after telling me what an enjoyable evening she had had. CLASS PROPHET, Jennie Lou Miller 28