Virginia Beach High School - Hurricane Yearbook (Virginia Beach, VA)

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Today, May 20, I964, will surely go down in history as one of the milestones of the atomic age. We are at the Norfolk Naval Shipyard to witness the launching of the first atomic luxury liner, designed by the world re- nowned engineer, Adrian Thompson. And look who's here to break the bottle of cham- pagne, Miss Lucy Chrisman, our first woman senator from Virginia. It has been rumored that Lucy has her cap set for playboy and man-about-town, Jack Gardner. Jack has a new kind of perfume on the market called Blurp and has made a fortune from it. The great moment has arrived. There is Miss Chrisman swinging the bottle. Gh dear! she missed and hit Captain Luedke. Yes, he's Captain now. He certainly has come a long way since his days aboard the Cavalier. He wanted to paint the ship purple in memory of those times, but John Harmon, who is the owner, said that he would stay with the more conventional color of white. At last, the Captain is revived and we can procede with the ceremonies. Wait a minute! What's all the commotion about in the crowd? Well, I should have guessed. It's that great idol of the theatre, the Barrymore of '64, Jim Standing. Gossip has it that he will soon wed Julia Vakos, who has just been voted Miss Digges Dogfood of l964. You know, of course, that Julia Digges came up with a new formula for making dogfood. Her motto is Digges, That Crazy Dogfoodf' There goes the champagne and we're off for the trial run. As we pull away from the dock, a twenty-one gun salute is fired by the Marine Rifle Squad under the command of General Kokie McCully. On our stroll around the deck, whom do we run into but Bobby Derring. Bob is dressed in purple shoes, pink pants, kelly green jacket, and plaid tie that lights up and says, Here's your chance, girls. Don't goof. Young Bob is now a real cat. As we go into the lounge, we meet Dickie Anne Woodward serving cocktails. She and her old stand-by, Blanche McDonough, who, by the way, is running around of 1954 stealing the olive out of everyone's Martini, decided to come along after Buddy Dodson and Randy Randolph left them to ioin the circus. Glancing about, we see Hamp- ton Slingluff and Nancy Waterfield. Going over to chat, we find that Nancy hasn't seen Terry McCall for three years. He has been in the Army and next month expects to be promoted to private first class. Hampton tells us that she is now married to shredded-wheat tycoo n, Charley Purrington. It begins to grow warm, so we decide to go for a dip in the pool. As we go down to change, whom do we see rushing up the steps snatching off the life preservers but T. J. Howard. It seems that his wife, the former Janice Gregory, now a millionaire oil heiress, found out that one of her 4,602 oil wells ran dry. She got so upset that she fell overboard. At the pool we talk with the lifeguard, who is one of our old friends from V. B. H., Helen Hayman. Helen is in training for a channel swim. She tells us that a lot of our old classmates are here and points out two of them, Jane and John Runk. These two decided not to marry. John is now the heavy-weight boxing champ of the world, and Jane, deciding to follow her brother in the field of sports, is taking a crack at the ping-pong title. Say, what's all the excitement around the pool? Why, it's Michael Cavelli. He dived into the pool and almost drowned. That Michael never could learn to keep his mouth shut. He is now a politician and a very good one I hear. Maybe too good. While he was on a cam- paign, his financee, Betty Lou Cornick, eloped with U. T. Brown, who was always a smooth talker. But I think that his little escapade backfired on him. Betty Lou is now a hot rod driver at Indianapolis and U. T. sits home and knits. Speaking of hot rods, did you know that Billy Bowles has cornered the market on beaver tails? As we leave the pool, we run into Bruce Murphy. Bruce, too, has made quite a name for himself as an author. He has written a sequel to the Kinsey Report and it is now on the best seller list. ff

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A little further on we slip on the deck and bump into a motley looking deckhand. Why, as l live and breath, it's Tommy Walker. Upon a careful questioning we learn that Tommy inherited his father's truck line, but being the devil-may-care rascal that he is, he squandered the entire fortune, and is now working his way from port to port in search of his wife, fortune hunter Sarah Smith, who left him when he told her that he couldn't pay for her new mink upholstered, gold chromed convertible. When we reach our room, we find the maid clean- ing. As we look, we see that it is none other than Cynthia Kirk. She tells us that her husband, James Meads, joined the Foreign Legion after she burned the toast every morning of the three years they were married. Having changed, we go up to the dining room, and who is there to show us to our table but Bobby Wood- house, the head waiter. Bob, it seems, is just bumming it tonight. In reality, he is a millionaire cattle baron, seeing how the other half lives. He asks us to come back to the kitchen and greet an old friend of ours, Sonny Halstead. Sonny is now considered to be the Betty Crocker of the cooking world. Upon returning to our place at the table, whom do we find seated next to us but the Justice of the Supreme Court, George Aldridge. George tells us that his wife, Bunny Stephan, is now taking Marie Wilson's place on the My Friend Irma show. lt's a good part for her be- cause it doesn't have too much acting. After finishing dinner, we go into the ballroom. Play- ing for us tonight is Waverley Duke and his All-Girl Orchestra. He has several of our old friends with him. There is Kim Dashiell playing the violin, Carol Lee Em- rick playing the tuba, and Jacque Beasley on the bass. Who's that singing? Bill Walker? Now, how did he get into the act? The lights dim and the floor show begins. first, we have a ballet troupe, known as Powell's Pirouetting Pixies. They are doing Swan Lake tonight. First, out comes the swan, who is none other than Bobby Powell himself, and then the hunter, Billy Hinson, leaping grace- fully onto the stage. Billy! Look out! That tree! Too late! The next act is Two Leighs and a Lash. Carol Lash balances Jim and Sonny Leigh, while they sing Forty Cups of Coffee. A real jazzy trio. And now we have the dramatic part of the show, Clavon McGrath and Jack Rainey in Don't Use the Meat Cleaver Mother, Poor Old Dad ls Hacked Enough. A very touching scene. Closing the show on this tender note, we go below deck to the gymnasium where an athletic exhibition is in progress. As we enter the gym, the shot-put event is just beginning. As the shot-putter picks up the put, we see that it is none other than Donald Faircloth. He is throw- ing a twenty-pound put tonight for the first time. He winds up-throws. Donald! You forgot to let go of it! That boy always was absentminded, but no harm done. They'll pick him up about ten decks below. There's Bill Etheridge sitting in the bleacher section. Bill made a killing on Wall Street. His wife, Susan Nel- son, is running the hundred-yard dash tonight. On the way back to our stateroom, we stop off to see the governor, the Honorable l'?J Robert Washburn. As we open the door, whom do we see sitting on his lap but Delores Manges. He explained that Dee is a little deaf and has to sit on his lap to hear. Actually, Bobby is very happily married to Jean Simmons, who is Secre- tary of State under President Robert J. Gardner. Upon rising the next morning, we find we are just off the coast of England. Going up to the above deck, we meet Larry Staunton. Larry has devised a new kind of rubber toy. He calls them Staunton's Little Stinker Toys. The rubber is gotten from a new process of scraping gum off old school desks. This idea came from the brilliant mind of Ronnie Jenkins. Ed Mott is his vice president and chief scraper. As we pull up to the London dock, we glance up the Thames River and see someone paddling down in a row boat. Looking closer we see that it is Ellis Brown, who is on a world tour. Well, this is where we disembark and go our sepa- rate ways. The trip has been great fun. We've enjoyed seeing our old friends and reminiscing of the good old days at V. B. H. S. Bon Voyage!! by Clavon McGrath