Stratford College - Iris Yearbook (Danville, VA)

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Senior flu!! History is Tllll llil ---- ry Upon receiving their orders for September, 1939, five eager, young enlistees reported for duty at Stratford. With Gene Ray in com- mand, assisted by Jean Yarboro, Carter Boat- wright, Isabel Lewis, and Addie Stanley, much was accomplished by these members of a squad. The lirst medal came on October Day when we marched off the field with the winning banner. Our status increased the next year with Jean Boze, Virginia Marshall, and Marion lvleloney as new supporters. The third year Barbara Anne Beasley, Anita Lou Davenson, Suzy Leitch, Mary Pickett, and Faith Liberman, were added to the roll call. Finally promoted to Senior Rank in our last round of training, we had many eventful times. Our enlistment had now become a large com- pany. The new recruits from Virginia were Jean Trevvett, Barbara Reich, Joyce Evans, and hlae Murray, Tar Heels of North Carolina, Camilla Ray, and Priscilla Nlitchellg from New York, Carolyn Cunningham, Gloria Gersh, Nlildred Miro, and Pat O'Connor, and sunny Florida, Jane-Arthur Etheridge. Bob Anne Beasley was honorably made all- star commander-in-chief, and ably assisted on her staff by hilary Pickett, Virginia Nlarshall, Jean Trevvett, and Mae Murray. November quickly rolled around and Bob Anne and Isabel Lewis admirably represented our ability by giving toasts at the Founders' Day Banquet. Joyce Evans played tricks on us and Jane-Arthur Etheridge turned into an old maid in the fall play, Quality Streetf' We were proud to have Marion Meloney as the lovely Madonna of the annual Christmas Nativity. Virginia Nlarshall and Isabel Lewis also had parts in this traditional pageant. When we returned after the holidays we were pleased to find two new volunteers, lvlarjorie Wyatt and Anne Wilson. Good English week adorned us with new awards when Isabel Lewis' poster ranked highest, Jane-Arthur Etheridge received first honors in the English Contest, and our tags, of wings keeping Good English Flying, were honorably mentioned. VVe seniors went all out for the annual hlagazine Contest and came up as class winner, with Gene Ray meriting individual honors. Spring came and we sponsored the traditional Spring Planting Day. Our dramatists became sophisticated in, The Opera, one of the spring plays. Our own Barbara Reich was chosen to be Maid of Honor in the May Court, and three more beauties, Marion Meloney, Virginia Marshall, and Gene Ray, were also in the court. Our training has now come to an end, and we must try our new-found wings for stronger and better things for this world. Happy Landing! Senior Hall Prepheey As the immortal poet, Shakespeare, once put it- All the worldb' cz Jtage And all the 'men and women merely players: They have their exit! and their entrancerj And one man in hir time play: many pczrtr, Hir act: being reaeu ages. We, the members of the Senior Hall, Class of '43, have just finished an act and now are ready C307 to make another entrance-this time into the world. Let us look forward to the year, 1953, and see what we will be doing then. Anita Lou Davenson is now married to Dougie and they have just bought a larger estate to make more room for ':Nita's col- lection of Dougie's pictures. Joyce Evans is now Blacksburg's most well- known track star. She got her training run- ning after Mac back in '43.

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F011 1943 f 1w SENIOR HALL ANNE WILSON Anne Oh, I'm going home for the Week-endu MARJORIE WYATT L'Blu:hy,' Oh, I'm just bashfuln JEAN YARBORO Yardbirdu You know Qfiipping her handj 1293

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F03 1943 Virginia Marshall is the star in the new radio show, W'hy Don't You Do Right P co- starring John Murray, The Victor Mature of 7S3'7? Mariori Nleloney is married to WVarren, New York's most eminent surgeon. Marion spends her spare time designing pink and blue operat- ing gowns for her husband. Gloria Gersh has started her own Letters to the Lonely bureau. If we remember cor- rectly, she made an excellent start back at Stratford. Mary Picket, after many years of struggle, has finally advanced from sweetheart of Cl1icago's public enemy no. 2 to wife of public enemy no. If' Carter Boatwright has given up her dancing career to marry Russell Newton, her old fiame of '43. She is now engrossed in designing her own home on her new lake at Dan's Hill. Jean Boze, this year, was awarded a cup for having attended more midwinters at William and Mary than anyone else. Isabel Lewis' horse, ':Stratford,,' has just won the Kentucky Derby. It was trained on her private estate at Darlington, S. C. Mae Murray has remained in Danville and is now the wife of Mr. Fuller. A strange coin- cidence is that Mr. Fuller is now working with the Brush Company of the same name. Jacqueline Brill is still living in New York City but now has her own apartment and is Saks' top designer of long-tailed shirts for girls. Gene Ray, now Mrs. john Minor, was re- cently elected president of the Alumnae Asso- ciation and is doing all in her power to further the Student Activity Bill. Priscilla Mitchell has turned her Greens- boro estate into a U. S. O. center for the men stationed at the air base there. Co-working with her is Carolyn Cunningham who is in charge of enlisting the entertainment of the men's favorite movie stars. The men are sur- prised to find that more actors than actresses are appearing on their programs. jean Yarboro, lier husband and her two children have recently moved to a new pent C31l house on Riverside Drive. Her husband in a statement to the press said, I owe my success to my wife. Faith Liberman is this year entering VVelles- ley as a freshman, Latin having been omitted from the entrance requirements for the first time. Addie Stanley, now one of Stratford's alumnae, annually awards the Stanley cup to the student who has attended Stratford the greatest number of years. Barbara Reich, now Nlrs. VVelly Goddin, is the owner of one of Richmond's most exclusive woman's shops. Rumor has it that Barbara designs for Nirs. Roosevelt, who incidentally is still in the W'hite House. Mildred Miro is now ofiicially head of the publicity department of Holy Cross. Even back in '43 the general opinion was that this would be her career. Jane-Arthur Etheridge has just published her most successful collection of verse, Mem- ories of Stratford. We are unable to judge this work fairly as we have read only two of the six volumes. Pat O'Connor has recently discovered an injection making possible the painless removal of tonsils. She used her own experience at the Danville Memorial Hospital as a basis for her research. The numerous and seemingly pointless questions that Camilla Ray asked during her year at Stratford have finally been turned to a useful purpose. Cootie is now managing an information booth at the Naval Training Station at Norfolk. Anne Wilson is making a lecture tour through South America lecturing on How to Speak Spanish and as her most efficient secretary we find Margery W'yatt. jean Trevvett, now treasurer of the W. D.- U. A. CWives of the Duke University Alumnaej seems to be just as efficient balancing the books of this organization as she was for the Senior Hall Class in 1943. Susan Leitch and Bob Anne Beasley, having discovered their writing ability while doing the Senior Class Prophecy, believe that they will be among the world's most noted humorists. The rest of the world, however, has its doubts.