Thomas Dale High School - Reflector Yearbook (Chester, VA)

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structor at Thomas Dale High School. Someone said that Anne became so at- tached to math in her high school days that she just could not give it up. Here comes “Deedle’”” Hill whom I have not seen in years. I heard that she was back in Chester to receive her M.R.S. degree. The president of our Alumni Society, Kaki Mi tchell, who has just com- pleted her 30th post-graduate course at Thomas Dale, is announcing that dinner is served. As we go into the dining room, I see four of the instructors from Columbia University who were in school with me. ‘They are Georgia Payton, Doris Jacobs, Edith Williams, and Ralph Wray—true scholars, these four. Sam Wall, the millionaire playboy, is seated at the table with me. Sam sbows me the pills he takes for his acid stomach. “They are manufactured by the Zimmerman-Womack Company. I never thought that Floyd and Kenneth would have such a prosperous business. Fendall Vaughan, famous Broadway actor. is here with Joanne Baylis, who stars with him in the new Broadway hit, ““The Ice Man Wenteth’, which was written by Jack Flippo, our modern Shakespeare. Jerry Hynst and Joe Davis are seated next to my table. Jerry is coaching his twentieth year at Thomas Dale and Joe has been principal for fifteen years. Marjorie Frederick and Jean Motto, style models for the renowned stylist, Earl Dale, are sitting with Jerry and Joe. Martha Zappulla and Janet Pence have a radio show over Station S-L-U-R-P called “Ingrid Igglestine’s In-Laws.” I listen to it every day in the candy shop. Bobby Picardat, who teaches art in Richmond, is still mourning over the loss of his assistant, Marie Birdsong, although it has been ten years since she left him to marry her childhood sweetheart. Dorothy Dunford and Dorothy Donohue, famous dancing team, entertain us with some of the numbers from their newest show, “Till the Clouds Come Over.” Ann Dodge has with her a manuscript of the book she is writing. It is en- titled “Government Made Easy”, and it really is quite interesting. Anne plans to send it to the Sherman-Cersley Publishing Company owned by Jean Sherman and Kathleen Cersley. Jack Williams, Chester barber, tells me that Charles Minetree is caterer for this Alumni dinner with the help of Louise Penny, noted dietician. Marvin Foster and Carl Chandler, inventors who have, for years, been trying to improve on Edison’s electric light tell me that they have discovered a sensa- tional process of burning water in worn-out light bulbs. A far cry from Edison's genius, I should say! Physicist Nancy Ellison is going to give a speech on “The Value of Motors” at the Chester Mosque tomorrow night. Oh, here are the last entertainers on the program—Why, it’s Marie Allen and Wesley Perkinson giving impersonations of the 1947 ‘Thomas Dale Faculty. Once more, with pleasant memories of old and dear friendships still fresh in my mind, I turn in at the door of my candy shop. In the back where I have my rooms, I remove my lovely hat, but I do not wince this time, for it is now as much a part of me as are the day’s memories. BARBARA ANN DAUGHTREY. meme eflector

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lass Prophecy HURRIEDLY fasten my new hat on my graying hair and survey the results in the mirror. I wince slightly as I think of the price I paid for this newest creation of the world famous milliner, Ann Boyd. But it has been so long since I have spent the sparse profits from my candy shop on any luxury and I do need a new hat for the Thomas Dale Alumni Meeting of 1977. All of my famous classmates will be there and I would not want them to think that I am a failure. I walk rapidly to the Hotel Chester where the meeting is to be held and I enter the crowded lobby. ‘There, greeting everyone, is Dr. Nelson Bennett, well- known Richmond minister, and with him is the President of the United States, Stuart Holmes, who left Washington to run its own business while he came to the meeting. Coming toward me is Clara Bury who just won the “Miss Chester” title for the tenth consecutive time and with her is Eugene McCook, Centralia’s Am- bassador to Chester. Eugene and the popular Congressman Lemuel Grammar are attempting to start a Good-Neighbor Policy between Chester and Centralia. Seated in the lobby, I see Jimmy Moorefield and Shirley Clarke, famous in- ventors of the Clarkefield Comfort Chair which can be adjusted to any relaxing position. Could the eccentric millionaire the crowd is talking about be “Dumbo” Neatrour? ‘They say he lights his cigars with million dollar bills. Peggy Cogbill and Julia Palmer, missionaries to Piney Branch, have just arrived. My, they look just as young as they did when we were in school. Why, look who is sitting across from me! It is Mr. and Mrs. Mickey Curtis. Someone said that Betty Lou gave up an opportunity to run for the Chester Senate to become Mrs. Curtis. Speaking of Curtis’s, I hear that Catherine Curtis has made millions off her new book, “Silence is Golden”’. Oh, here comes the famous Hollywood director, Ernest Eastman, with all of my classmates whose pictures he directs. George Carnahan, the greatest screen lover since Valentino, is accompanied by his enchanting co-star, Alice Chenery, whom her fans, have nick-named “The Gasp”. I remember their last picture, “A Bush Grows in Chester’. It was simply wonderful. William Bottoms played the part of the villian and Jimmy Woolard was the kind uncle. Another ex- cellent picture was “A Journey For Herkimer” starring the child prodigy, “Chip” Warthan, youngest son of Mrs. Vivian Sasser Warthan. ‘There are some stunt girls with Ernest too—Frances Judd, Eileen Wilson, and Carol Humphries. ‘Their agility is due, no doubt, to basketball practice in their school days. Here comes the charming Anne Gallier. Anne, much to the amazement of all of us, followed the teaching profession and she is now a mathematics in- “The Reflector.

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lass Will k, the Senior Class of “Thomas Dale High School, in the year of our Lord, nineteen hundred and forty- seven, being of sound mind and memory, do hereby | draw up and publish this, our Last Will and ‘Vesta- ment, to-wit: ARTICLE I SECTION |. ‘To Mr. E. S. H. Greene, our superintendent, we bequeath a continued supply of efficient teachers for Chesterfield County. SEcTION 2. To Mr. Fred D. Thompson, our principal, we bequeath enough space for him to have an office, a recep- tron room, and a place for filing cabinets. ARTICLE II SECTION |. To Miss Williams we will a trailer, big as her heart, to carry the teachers to Petersburg on Friday afternoons. SECTION 2. ‘To Miss Park we will a set of government books that are all of the same edition. SECTION 3. To Mrs. Smart we will three sections of Senior English so that the classes will not be so large. SecTIon 4. To Mrs. Casey we will an apartment, so that her housing prob- lem will be solved. SECTION 5. ‘To Miss Hudson we will a new tractor for use on her Rappa- hannock River farm. SECTION 6. ‘To Mrs. Crump we will a group of spectators who will yell en- thusiastically at games. SecTION 7. “To Miss Gooch we will the new Buck Rogers code book to go with her Buck Rogers ring. SECTION 8. “To Miss Wright we will a home room in the new building. SECTION 9. “To Miss Prochazka we will a line of people in the cafeteria who will have the correct change. SECTION 10. “To Miss Chappell we will more small classes like her Short- hand II. SECTION 11. ‘To Mrs. Brumble we will an assistant to review all the new books for the Science department. SecTion 12. “To Miss Spencer we will a new supply of frogs so she will not be compelled to use the ones that have already been dissected. SECTION vc. “To Miss Pickhardt we will a complete set of boomerang pencils which will fly back to the desk when someone takes them. SecTIoN 14. To Mrs. Britton we will more girls interested in Home Economics. “The Reflector