Vidalia High School - Hobachee Yearbook (Vidalia, GA)

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C CZSS IDTOIULQCZ7 Vldalla General Hosp1tal Vldalla, GSOFb1Q Dear Earl, may ze, 1956 Here lt lS the eve of the flfteenth annlver ary of our grad uatlon from hlgh school It's too bad that you, our sen1or class PFGS1 dent can't be present at our reunlon I suppose lt IS pretty lnconven 1ent to travel all the way from the South Sea Islands to attend Most of the class w1l1 be there, but of course, there w1ll be a few who cannot be present For lnstance Aubrey New n1S 1S such a sad case! It seems that he gust never recovered when May Hlgh marr1ed Jack Hutcheson, but I suppose he's comfortable now that Enn1S Dav1s, the well known contractor, has remodeled the h1lledgev1lle san1tarmn He really d1d a good Job of lt I am told he even 1nstalled some of tnose 'thlng a ma J1gsn that J H Atk1ns nvented and they really cost But speak1ng of may Hlgh and Jack you comedy, Peck's Bad Boy After a S11 months' run now tourlng the country, break1ng all box O1f1C8 Maurlne Sheppard 1S now known on Broadway as the should see the1r new on Broadway, they are records By the way L1ll1an Russell of 1906 She subst1tutes L A Roberts for Dlamond J1. B ady nylan and Stewart won't be there e mer I saw 1n the V1dal1a Advance Qyou know that Bllly Ledford edlts 1 nowj that Judpe J L Lynn H Just sentenced the K1rkland Kouslns to slug S1ng for the summer It seems that the1r New York home lS closed and Mlaml IS too hot for th n so they dec1ded to do somethlng about lt They d1d Mark Mathews has Just been elec d ch1ef electrocutloner t San Quentin prlson After the elect1on he bought a new Rolls Royce You know, of course that Clyde McBr,de, the Republ1can 1S new nhat1ng war 1n the Nhlte House, a1ded by Ruth Saffold who also Nhates war Aary Hazel Kelly has Just been made ambassador to Arabla But the most herolc member of the class turned out to be Jlmmy Coleman, the man wno k1lled Hltler by spr1nkl1ng salt on h1s mustache The neurot1c, SXOCIC erotlc, and tommyrot1c book that Margorle Frost wrote on J1mmy'S l1fe lS well on 1ts way to becomlng a best seller Fate does do odd th1ngs For L6W1S Van Dyke 1S now the entlre board of experts on nInformat1on, Please, and lHTlOH Dykes, much to h1S surprlse, has recently been elected superlntendent of V1dal1a Hlch School Another member of our class has also become educat1on mlnded Joanne Gordon, who 1S tutor of a French famlly, reads the chlldren to sleep every nlght w1th Sans Fam1l1e But surprlse of all SHPpF1S6S to me was that Gold1e Smlth, who really wanted to be a teacher 16 known throughout Toombs County as the flrst woman mayor of V1dal1a 15 . . . . . '. K .- . . . . S .- . . . . . .. . 7 . . . - C Q . . . - w. . 0 , o . . - . ' Qi. . . . . L ' ' ' ' - -A .. . . ' , 1 X . u . . , ' -v o 7-.-. -T .-.. . I . x .. ' , . . . . ,- . . . o 0 xl I' o ,., a . . . ., 'A f I . 'lr 1..:...... V D l U . . . . .,. . as - Q . . . . . - It 'Q- . . . . o 1 o . . . -LW .. ' 0 J n . . . 'KY I I n - . . . n f , . . o v . . . - - . . . . L. . I . . . . . . . . . . o . . . . s I n ' 1 I .u . . . . - U' . . 0 ' o . . . . . . . . I . . 11 i-11 ' I . . . Y 0

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the s1de spl1tt1ng pranks ci the wltty, wordy, and worrlsome Jack Hutche son Lest lt be forvotten when 1n the good old days the JUn10TS had a treat 1nfluence 1n br1nv1n home the D1StP1Ct L1terary oup and Tay Hlgh Pattray made a touchdown w1th Aubrey New's heart the HOBACH r was begun JUH1OT ola s has now been reduced to orews var breaks out! The 3un1ors brawny, senlors very day That war far more ser1ous results and chanbes thr1ll of the Favorlte prank of every year comes a the substltuted and new teachers That's all well Great play1nL of the drama on the fateful day when and everyth1np goes dead wrong She knows all the The vrand f1H81G, set ln 1941, 1S trag1c because the once b1g a small class of S8n1OFS, and trouble 1ns1st on f1aht1nL the bralny, not 1S fun but the fear of another one sold1ers lhen the ain that of ntry1 H and good unt1l the 1n steps Mlss Grler ropes, turns the teachers 1HtO ll U tables, and tF16S tne senlors noth1nv 1S settled, and the aud1ence and even the cast Even as the Ilnal urtaln falls, the mystery 15 st1ll unraveled, doesn't know the outcome Never w1ll they be tovether a ain what w1ll happen after the last curtaln call when they are costumed in caps and gowns and each one's property 1S a dlploma? fOddly enough one sen1or, smelled h1s d1plovm.and ch1rped Nlt a1n't3 MISS Gr1er, Billy Somers, lt Just ain't T10 ITIOPS Lest we Forget 18 a vreat unwr1tten drama oi l1fe's serles of catastrophes and 1S bound to be a h1t of any season Llke many other unwr1tten plays and StOP16S of 11f6, lt conta1ns thousands of l1ttle plots, haopv and sad, wh1ch can only be remembered 1n the mlnds of those around whom lt revolved All the promlnent characters cannot oe revlewed 1n one br1ef art1cle, but the th1rtv n1ne leadlnv actors on th1s worldly stale had a supuortlnv cast only they can apprec1ate The great d1rector the lS a fate w1ll faculty commented, 'The work and everythlng 1n connect1on w1th lt memorable Joy to all of us The sequel to th1S play 1S one only can wrlte but the autnenlc background and story of Lest we Forget rema1n tne vreatest drama 1n the 11f6 of the class of 4T' Helen Davls Class Hlstorlan 14 . . . -, . . - J. - . , . . . . . r Lil 4 . . . . fr . . . Q ,, up . kj LJ CJ '- I I ' 'IN1 L r ' . -. - . - In 4 0 . . . . . o . . . - o . 1 -.- . . . . . . U. . ' ' O 1 . . 'I Q V U . . . M rr . , , . . . ' cr ..- n .3 Q . . . O . . . . a- D N . L. 0 . , . ' , -, . A . . . V . . . 1 LJ ' Q n 5, o . . . ' v . . . . . . . . A I I' Q . . A, . . Q o Q' 1..- .........-. 0 I . . . . . . . . 1 . . . .. . . 1 . . . . . . . . . .- v on , ' .L ' ' r ' N I- , , I . . . . . . 4 . . . . Q gg - - 0 . , . r U A -...1 .......1 . . . . . 7- ' U . . .

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In every class, however, there are those who 1ns1st on getting bltten by that well known bug called love Such was the fate of Jack Thompson Poor Jack! He came ho e the other n1ght not with a shampoo but a genuine poo and a hair cut wh1ch looked as 1f h1s head had been caught 1n a pencil sharpener Marg1e Wllkes met him at the door an promptly pulled the last b1t of h1s ha1r out Then there 15 the case of Earl Watklns, who 13 now Mr Carollne Fa1ne Th1s affa1r was inst1 gated by Billy Somers, the former propaganda chief at V H S who is new head of the N U T labor unlon But another k1nd of bug bit one member of the class That was the mov1e bug Evelyn McIntyre has ach1eved the position as the voice of Beauty ln Walt Disney's latest productlon, The SISBPIDE Beauty After the plcture was completed, Evelyn was elected C amor G1rl of 1956 Bobby McArthur 13 follow1ng an anny career H1s friends now know hlm as General Nuisance of the United States Army Mildred Riner, who decided that John Campbell alone was not enough, has been marrled seven tlmes already quiet V1rg1n1a Coleman would have thought that she would become a news reporter, and W1nchell's asslstant at that She says, however, that she l1kes her work, for now she 18 flnancially able to buy those expenslve cosmetlcs that bear the names of Pauline Benton and Margaret Willlford Mary Frances Yates, the g1rl w1th such pretty auburn hair, was plctured 1n their last advertlsement in Vogue I guess you wonder what became of Helen Dav1s She and Ma Brewton Cyou remember that they were such good frlends in h1gh school are still together They l1ve 1n a large colonial house on the h1ll and ra1se cats When Helen gets tempermental on a w1ndy day, cat fur can be seen for m1les around Who would have ever thought when Helen played Katherine that she would spend the rest of her life ralsing oats ingtead of sand But Mary seems perfectly happy now that she doesn't have grammar grade news to worry about Mary Frances Murchison, who never washed a d1sh ln her life, married a farmer merchant, Melvin Page H C McDerm1d, her next door ne1ghbor, runs both farms temporarily, for her husband has been con fined 1n gall because of d1sorderly conduct Last, but not least, Eulas Hall woke up and became Pastor of the First Baptlst Church at McGregor Well, now you know what your former classmates are doing You'll have to admit that they are 'l1ving w1th all their might whlle they are living Sincerely, Agnes Nelson, M D 16 . . . . d Radio also interested some of the class. No one who ever knew