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

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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

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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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SecTIon 15. ‘To Miss Conyers we will a number of basketballs that are not split or lopsided. SecTION 16. To Mr. Tucker we will a trailer to bring home the raccoons he kills on his hunting trips. SecTION 17. ‘To Mr. Perdue we will a whole case of chewing gum so that he will not annoy other teachers by asking for it. SecTION 18. To Mr. Hollingsworth we will other excellent teams that will win state honors. ARTICLE II] Section I. ‘To the Juniors we will a more successful advertising campaign than ours. SECTION 2. To the Ninth Grade we will the pleasure of entertaining the Seniors in 1948. Section 3. “To the Eighth Grade we will a determination to have four more years of successful work. ARTICLE IV Section |. To the Commercial Club we will a group of members who will attend meetings. SecTION 2. To the Home Economics Club we will a new cottage to go with the new stove and the new refrigerator. SecTION 3. ‘To the.Library Club we will a record that says: “Straighten up your chairs and tables, put all magazines away, and come and get your library slips.” ARTICLE V SEcTION 1. ‘To the Boys’ Football team we will the ability to beat Glen Allen SECTION 2. ‘To the Girls’ Basketball team we will our efficient coach and a group of tall, athletic girls. SecTION 3. ‘To the Boys’ Basketball team we will an even greater success than that attained by this year’s group of players. We do hereby affix our seal to this document, on this the sixth day of June in the year of our Lord, one thousand nine hundred and forty-seven. Betty Lou Farrow, Testatoyr. The following have consented to act as witnesses: KILROY RICHARD he eflector