Stratford College - Iris Yearbook (Danville, VA)

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LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT We, the Sophomore College Class of 1940, being of sound minds--though Weill never be able to prove it-decidedly unsound bodies after the wearying bouts and sleepless nights of Chaucer, Beowulf, and tennis-do hereby sadly and solemnly take cognizance of the fact that we have worn out our welcome at Stratford and must soon be drifting elsewhere. Before folding our intellectual tents and silently moving on across the horizon, however, we find it expedient to dispose of a few of our treasured belongings to the rem- nant of this year's student body. First of all, Barbara would like to leave to her rival faction, Mary Fazel, a big bottle of Sweet Shop guaranteed to cure any case of graduation blues. Spilly Purdum with much weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth relinquishes her captainship of the Blues to Anne Watson, while Anne Simpson has decided that she'll leave her textbooks to Leah Taylor. That takes courage. lf you find Beppy Gallaher and Pan Stevens dissolved in a salt mist it's all because of their kiddies which they have agreed to put out for adoption. Faith undying, Edie Bond unclasps her little Blue Book from her heart and lays it reverently at Booksie's feet. lf you happen to run across Carolyn Smith in the future and see her smoked glasses, better stop to console her for she's left those divine peepers to Jean Gibbons. The better to see you with, my dear! Mary Hunter's theory of perpetual motion, exemplified by her pendulematic right foot, she leaves to the Biology class to mull over. Peggy Rodnick leaves her statuesque form to Venus in the auditorium. We have often seen them admiring each other and that's what We call real art lovers! Carolyn Perkinson declares she'll have nothing more to do with Wills, but that's rather doubtful at the present. Little Turner leaves her gorgeous auburn locks to Louise Emerson, who has tried hard enough! Corbetti's poetic ability she has willed to Edna St. Vincent Whatsis. Make a note of that. We'll want to remember when we see the noted one's poems get betterer and bettercr. , Caroline Sanders and Anne Hagerty were nabbed just as they came out of the grocery store and they agreed at once to leave Jevie Evans and Jesse Benton to Lois Williams and Gloria. Peggy Lou's contagious giggle that borders on the very brink of hysteria during the quiet moments, she has given to Ingles. May it live long and prosper! Cassie Parr and Strothers bestow their bund spirit upon Sarah Thorpe and Boots Bralley. Pearl Kotlier has a couple of high C's all wrapped up to present to Catherine Oakes, while Frances Walters puts her V. P. I. jacket on the very capable shoulders of Elsie Garvin. We nabbed Julia Carter sidling down the main stairs and she Whispered that she had just willed her blond tresses to Betty B. Maynard in case B. B. ever wants a variety. With an eye peeled for Mrs. Cook, Julia disappeared around the corner and Virginia Ames stopped in passing to reveal that she wished her sincerity to the Chamber of Commerce. Which leaves us with practically nothing except twenty-seven hearts full of grati- tude to our sponsor, Miss Anne Martin, the faculty members who have endured with us, and the school that we shall love and remember always. Signed and sealed this Hrst day of June in the year of our Lord and our Gradua- tion, 1940. HELISNE.

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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.

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