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

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Class P rophecy .| ERHAPS you may think it strange that I, one of the world’s greatest circus acrobats and trapeze flyers, should in this year of 1970 be established and ordained a full-fledged angel up beyond the golden gates of heaven. But heed me, my friends, for these words I speak hold naught but truth, and it is with this truth that Iam able to cast my eyes on the whole of earth and its inhabitants. The terrific force by which I am now driven parts the white cloud upon which I sit, and permits my eyes to wander downward. I behold a great tower with five golden figures set atop it—yes, it is the famous ‘Tait University, established in honor of that great gentleman, Robert Tait, A.B., D.C., B.C., who so faithfully served his country through the invention of the world’s most lasting and deadly rat poison, the “Pansy”. Upon peering more intently, I discover that there are not five but four golden figures perched upon the tower. ‘The fifth figure is that of Jerry Tunstall in person who is busy shining the remaining four. I now rearrange my halo, thus causing my cloud to float swiftly eastward until I behold the capital of the United States. Seated in his new Deisel heli- copter, which runs on the power generated by a piece of bubble gum, and which was invented by Fred Jouget, is the President of the United States, Rodney Wells, At the wheel of this contraption is the pompous figure of the President’s chauffeur, Donald Johnson. Donald obtained this coveted position through the recommendation of Geraldine Hadder, the late Duchess of Bellwood Manor. But this is enough of the capital, so let’s travel to the city of New York. Waverly Martin’s newly invented twenty-eight-way stretch rubber girdle has created a minor sensation in spite of the fact that seamstresses, Dorothy Gay and Ramona Kelly, claim it takes more rubber to make than a raft. It is here that I also behold Florine Ammons and Mary Jane Jackson, sensational dancers in the Leech Club. Their arrangement of The Lost Chord vs. The Last Dance was a smashing success in more ways than one! Let’s pass on to the Museum of Fine Arts and take a look at Harold Jinkins’ latest surrealistic creation, commonly called “Halli-Tosis’. It consists of a clothes-pin with two frog legs and half an eye on it. Modern art, they say—well, I am indeed glad I am up here and out of it all—or am I? Could this white thing coming toward me possibly be an airplane? Yes, it is and it’s being driven by that daring flyer, Nell Brooks! Now back to earth. Say, there’s Jean Bryant and her five little Nugents! I hear she’s coaching them to be great American basketball players. “Take a look at Yankee Stadium. Barbara Ellison is pitching for our Yankees in their eighteenth undefeated year! Edith Merritt, I hear, just had a heated argument with Leo over who should manage the Chester Cubs. ‘There’s Jake Williams, too, who has recently been appointed official score keeper for the Lower Slobovia fishing team, Pardon me now for just a minute while I get out my telescope and “specs”. “The Reflector.

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Robert Bradley, Royall Bailey, and Herbert Bennett, helped to achieve these honors. During this year, we also published the Junior Journal, which demanded more hard work. Days came and went, as days will do, and we had grown, we felt, in wisdom if not in stature. And at last came the hoped for, prayed for, dreamed of time— Senior year. After a carefree vacation, we eagerly entered school as dignified Seniors. Under the supervision of Miss Park and Miss Williams, we ac- complished many tasks. Our Senior officers, who were elected at the close of our Junior year, were: Royal Bailey, President; Cleveland Martin, Vice-President; Anne Rock, ‘Treasurer; and Wilton Birdsong, Secretary. During this year, we had difficulty in keeping a class president. After our president, Royall Bailey, transferred to another school, Cleveland Martin, our vice-president, became president, with Rodney Wells, vice-president. During the Christmas holidays, Cleveland Martin was married and Rodney Wells served as our president for the remainder of the year. Everyone had a delightful time at the reception given by the Tenth Grade in honor of the Senior Class, dancing to the delightful music of the Southern Serenaders’ Orchestra. The figure, in which members of both classes took part, was done beautifully. This year, many members of our class worked faithfully during the Curtis Campaign. Miss Park’s homeroom was in the lead with Jake Williams as head salesman. The point system, which was introduced in our Sophomore year, enabled us to see many Seniors wearing monograms before the end of the year. Robert Tait, Rodney Wells, Jake Williams, Jean Ann Bryant, Edith Merritt, Dorothy Adams, Nell Brooks, Wilton Birdsong, Jane Johnson, Roy Collie, and Albert Huband are the members of our class who are wearing the point system mono- grams now. This year Mrs. Betty Bibb Ware directed our class play, They Did Away With Uncle. Jake Williams, Albert Huband, Theodocia Morris, Robert Tait, Florine Ammons, Betty Jean Hitt, Connie Adams, Marion Reid, Marjorie Payton, Catherine Goyne, and Randolph Kientz gave an outstanding performance in this play. Later on in the year our Senior Class undertook the difficult task of editing the Reflector. With Miss Williams and Mr. Thompson as faculty advisors, we produced our cherished yearbook! So, as we come to the end of our sojourn here, it is with reluctance and sorrow that we take leave of the friends and pleasures we have shared. The inspiring words ‘“. . . Now, voyager, sail thou forth to seek and hayek by Walt Whitman, challenge advancement in our lives. We will go forth, but we shall often recall our happy days of training at Thomas Dale. : JANE JOHNSON, Class Historian. SOLVE etlector

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New York is so crowded I can scarcely distinguish the people from the window dummies. In fact, is that a dummy or Robert Bradley I see? Oh! It’s Robert a'l right, giving away pamphlets on “The Value of Education.” There is Dorothy Adams, too. She has become immensely wealthy since she discovered how to make snow out of left-over bread crusts. “These bread crusts are specially prepared by the Moore-DesChamps Crust Factory, managed by Stanley Moore and Davey DesChamps. Fifth Avenue, too, has become quite a place since Shirley Smith, Mary Moore, and Patricia Warren established their pastry shop featuring pastries so prepared that they can be made into adorable hats if warmed before shaping. Next door to their shop stands the Chester Culture Club Building. Looking in, we find Jane Johnson busily typing her new book written in honor of General Roy Collie and his associate, Lieutenant Billy Collie, commanders of the Eighth Army of Centralia. Only four yards away in a quiet little office, James Ragland and Jimmy Moorefield, authors of the “Advice to the Lovelorn Column”, are trying hard to find an answer to one of the questions submitted to them. It seems that heiress Betty Jean Hitt wants to know how to make a success out of marriage—without a husband! Professors John Paeplow and Charles Fisher are offering their advice concerning the question, but since they work only in the field of taxidermy, they are finding it a bit difficult to be of help. A little farther away, on the seven hundred and twentieth floor of his luxurious mansion, billionaire Randolph Kientz relaxes and thinks over the day’s problems. His personal maids, Emily Blick, Alice King, and Wilda Langster, have drawn up a petition and are preparing to quit the household on the grounds that a salary of one dollar and forty cents a week is hardly enough to live on. In addition to this worry, airplane manufacturer, Bernard Anderson, has sued him for twenty thousand dollars and Randolph is unable to recall in which bank his one thousand dollar bills are deposited! Speaking of money, in 1956 Nellie Minetree, Marjorie Payton and Donna Staples pooled their resources and bought the North Pole at a bargain sale for $5.98. After fourteen years of freezing, they sold it back to its original owner, James Congdon, for half price. Now they have moved to the Sahara Desert! Over at the United Nations Conference, the United States Secretary of State, Graham Bruce, is busy trying to find out which delegate “made off” with the atomic bomb last night; while on the other side of the room, our first woman representative to China, Marion Reid, is trying to persuade Spanish Professor Miners Rapalee that “ain’t” is a good English word! Now my cloud is moving westward and below me appears Bush Ranch, owned and operated by Winston Bush. Catherine Goyne, noted bareback rider, is performing her new no-hands, no-feet, dare-devil stunt while riding astride a bucking pinto. Pardon me—she’s no longer astride and now it’s ‘“no-horse’’, too! Say, there comes that airplane and Nell Brooks again. Oh-my-goodness, she has taken a piece off my cloud! Hey, Saint Peter, throw me down a spare—quick! Phew! Here we are—already in Hollywood! Herbert Benett has recently taken over Clark Gable’s position as king of the movies, and will soon be seen as “The Reflector.