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

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Shakespeare in the Robert Daizovi production of the “Greatest Spear”. This picture will also star John Anderson as Hitler and Albert Huband as Tarzan. Although the production appears a rather “mixed-up” affair to me, Hollywood reporter Ethel Johnson, says it is better than anything previously seen except a Repub ican majority in both houses! Over at the RKO lot, Terry Teeple, Wilton Birdsong, and Jackie Jones, the screen’s newest and most thrilling triangle lovers, have finished their latest pic- ture “Shall We Die Now?” Pin-up model, Mabel Lovelace, says after you have seen it, you have no other alternative. Oh! Now my cloud is floating over another continent. It is South America, a land of thrills and adventure. In fact, right now a very odd-looking female dressed in snow boots and a Lathing suit is attempting to scale the Andes Mountains, while carrying a pair of skis and an umbrella. Goodness, it’s Agnes Temple, still trying to find out what you have to do to get your picture in the paper! Down below me, sailing on the smooth blue waters of the Pacific are Jean Ramsey and Connie Adams who are eagerly awaiting the first launching of their sub-submarine. Jean and Connie claim it will not only run under water but when it strikes the ocean bottom it will keep straight down through the earth. The only hitch is they haven’t yet figured out how to get it back on top of the water again. Just over beyond the Andes, in the deep jungle of Brazil, a neon sign which reads “Bradshaw’s Barbecue, Clothing Store, Pool Room and Library” proves to me that Vernon and Floyd Bradshaw are succeeding in bringing civilization to the natives who are too lazy to come and get it. About two hundred miles away, on the outskirts of this great wilderness, Dorothy Davis, famed animal trainer, is attempting to remove the tonsils from a screaming jaguar, who really doesn’t like the idea at all. “Dot” has almost as much courage as Kenneth Zimmerman who is in Rio de Janeiro getting source material for his new comic strip “Little Awful Andre and the Falling Cocoanut”. I had often heard of the heating facilities down below the earth, but when I became an angel I thought I’d be out of it all. I should have thought twice because it’s so hot up here over this torrid area that I’m obliged to move to a cooler climate. It is about time for me to leave, anyhow, so let’s take one quick look at France. ‘There we find stylists Theodocia Morris, Carl Morris, and Lula Partin who after twenty years of arguing have finally persuaded the French that their bathing suits aren’t suitable for wear. It seems to me that if they have managed to keep them up for twenty years, they might as well continue to wear them. But now, I must really depart, for my halo, which is size ten and much too big for me, has begun to slip down over my eyes and I fear that if I do ot begin my journey upward, I may never reach those golden gates of which I am so fond. So to you, my good friends, I say “adieu”, but to my little white cloud I can only say, “Sail away, the Heavens await us!” ANNE ROCK. Ther. eflector

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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.

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Class Will E, the Senior Class of Thomas Dale High School, being of sound back and deranged mind, do hereby make and publish this, our Last Will and ‘Testament, revoking all other wills heretofore made by us. ARTICLE [ Sincmion Il, They iMbe, JE. S. al. Greene, our superintendent, we be- queath a large apartment for his teachers who commute daily from Richmond, Petersburg, and Colonial Heights. SECTION 2. ‘To Mr. Thompson, our principal, we will a new bell system which will not have to be repaired at frequent intervals. ARTICLE II SecTION |. “Yo Miss Park we will a homeroom whose members will answer the roll when their own names are called, not two names later. SECTION 2. To Miss Williams we will ten large signs which will read, ‘Please don’t stand in the hall’’. SECTION 3. “To Mrs. Smart we will a class that will be more appreciative of “Plain living and high thinking’. SECTION 4. “To Miss Hudson we will the relief of not having to work with a senior math class. SECTION 5. ‘To Mrs. Casey we will a jet plane for transportation to school. SECTION 6. ‘To Mrs. Crump we will another efficient staff for the Journal. SECTION 7. “To Mrs. Ware we will many happy years of married life. SECTION 8. ‘To Miss Prochazka we will ten long fingernails with which to pick up change in the cafeteria. SECTION 9. ‘To Miss Knight we will a class that will be interested in the history, politics, and culture of Russia. SecTION 10. To Miss Brown we will a set of typewriters so equipped that the first key struck will shout, ““Throw away your chewing gum!” Section Il. To Miss Hoggard we will a physics class that will accept the established laws of science without argument. Section 12. To Miss Spencer we will a whole plate of fried frog’s legs with the hope that she doesn’t get sick just looking at them. SEcTION 13. To Miss Pickhardt we will a set of red lights for each of the library tables to warn those who persist in talking. Section 14. To Miss Doub we will a study group who can remember where their assigned desks are. SecTION 15. ‘To Miss Conyers we will another successtul basketball team which will again bring honor to ‘T. D. Section 16. To Mr. Tucker we will a coon dog that will be as good as “Rusty”. “Yhe Retle ctor