Stratford College - Iris Yearbook (Danville, VA)

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SENIOR CCDLLEGE CAROLYN SMITH DANVILLI3, VIRGINIA French Club CU, Class Decoration Committee QU, Junior-Senior Breakfast Programs QU, Founders' Day Banquet Programs CID, Printed Senior Class Year Book CZJ, Fac- ulty Lists flj, Fashion Show QZQ. GLADYS STEVENS MAIWLEWOOIJ, New JERSEY May Day Page flj, Fashion Show Model QZJ, Poster Committee for Good English NVcek QZQ. VIRGINIA STROTHER RICHMOND, VIRGINIA TrzII'vHr'r StafI flj, Dramatic Club Qlj, Interior Decoration Club QZJ, Horseback Riding Club 121, Fashion Show Model QZJ. ELIZABETH TURNER AFTON, VIRGINIA Fashion Show Model 121, Blazer Club Ql,2j, Poetry Society f1,2j, IRIS Staff QZJ, May Day CU. FRANCES WALTERS DANVILLE, VIRGINIA Basketball flj, Poetry Society f1,2j, International Relations Club QZJ, Interior Deco- ration Club CZJ, Shuffleboard fly, Ping Pong

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SOPHOMORE CLASS HISTORY And in the beginning it was September. Yea, verily, September of the year nineteen hundred and thirty-eight, when we of the class of' forty found that we had a future on our hands and decided to spend a little of it at Stratford. So all dressed up in our Sunday best we descended upon this institution like wolves on the fold, but we were met practically at the front door with a proclamation to the effect that we would have to doff our gay apparel for the more appropriate Cand less competitive-for we still feel sure our less beautiful sisters had their minds on the Sweet Shop all the timelj garb of black stockings, stocking caps and paintless profiles. Were we furious! But we took it on the chin and after a week of cruel persecution began to gain our rightful place in the sun. As chief sun beam we chose Anne Simpson Cwe thought she needed the experiencelj while her able executive assistants were Mary Hunter Edmunds, Betty Lynch, Betty Mason and Peggy Lou Futrelle. Our first conquest came at Christmas when the student body decided that it would be a treat for the public if we elected Peggy Lou as Christmas Card girl. And she must have been good because our angel from Emporia rode right into the May Court a couple of months later on the cloud of glory that arose from this choice. In March we decided it was up to us to show this school what a really good Good English was, so with Mary Hunter as head grammar-vendor we placed another star in our gleaming crown. Spring Planting Day in April was a signal not only for the flowers to burst forth with all their radiance, but for Mary Lily Purdum and Edith Bond to bloom also as our masters of ceremonies. As a grand climax to our term of rookie-ship we won the softball game hands down from the Sophs and due to Dinny Cabell's fall tennis victory and Ann Bowen's capture of the Ping-pong honors we had the privilege of swinging the silver horse-shoe around the neck of our horse-napped Traveller. Here endeth our first year at Stratford. We returned the following September at least ten years wiser and positively rippling with pride at being hailed as BIG SI-10Ts. We vowed we should make our inferiors taste the keen blade of our two edged sword and sure enough we have. October brought the first triumph of the new season when the faculty chose Anne Simpson as October Day Queen. We and nature made a solemn pact that everything would go well for her majesty and her courtiers that day and it is a matter of record that her reign at Fairystone was one of the most successful in a long line of October Days. Not only have we emerged victorious from two athletic contests-hockey and basketball, but Bowen has again brought home a nice slab of bacon wrapped around her Ping-pong paddle. And Stratford's Valentine, Julia Carter, really brought down the house, while Queen Futrelle, monarch of the May Court was lovelier than anything ever conceived by Raphael or Michaelangelo. Spilly's elevation to Captain of the Blue Team was an extremely notable feather in our cap, while Anne's continued success as class president stands as further proof of our good judgment even when we were new at the college game. And so all's over that is ours, and life burns on at Stratford, but without the inflammable characters of the outgoing sophomores. But may the future lights rise higher and higher and the flames be forever unquenchable.