Virginia High School - Virginian Yearbook (Bristol, VA)

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(T+3 THE VIRGINIAN ofo CLASS PROPT Continued Rosemary Rice owns a stilt factory, but on the si xtremely good lawyer. The Cumberland Street Arena is flourishing pictures ot rt Hayes, Edwin Wilson and Charles Shavis as wrestlers. I hear that Herbert Pitts is the manager of Edwin Wilson. We thought Jimmy Buchanan was going to be an auto racer but this machine shows him as a fairly prosperous Bristol business man. Our business manager, Marie Cose, must have thought highly of that job because I see her in Hotel Bristol as head hostess. Another manager in our midst, Billie Wayne Dungan, is directing the business end of Jack Emmert’s chewimg-gum factory. This machine certainly is a good one because I don ' t think I would have foreseen Mack Luttrell as a second Bob Burns, without a bazooka, of course. I see a new school in Bristol. A. H. Ingle, Earl Dishner, R. B. Ellis and Bill Zimmerman are operating it for bashful boys. Now the machine shows Gordon Shankel, manager, and Jimmy Weiler, assistant manager, of Yackum Packing Company. An opera is now showing on my machine. Mary Stoots and G. O. Harr are the leading squawkers. And while still in New York, the machine shows Ada Belle Jones in Tin Pan Alley living with the other artists, and there is Seth Hobart on Broadway — a Fred Astaire of tomorrow. The machine is returning to Bristol again where we see Larry Barker still a man-about-town ' Augusta Pepper comes to the limelight as a dramatist, but she seems to prefer home life to that of the stage. Jimmy Eversole and Dean Hodgson are collaborating on a revival. They are well-known preachers in Bristol. An operating table comes to view, Dick Cash as surgeon with Virginia Ketron, Cleo Brown and Virginia Worsham as assistants and nurses. Susan Kearfott is an active member of the State D. A. R. She is entertaining the club at her home, it seems. Anita Shipley and Helen Smith tied in the last beauty contest, so they went to Hollywood to obtain jobs but as yet they are only extras. Frances Wade, Edith Markwalter, and Josephine Jessee are active members of the Business Women ' s Club of Bristol. We have another sign: DAVIS BEAUTY SHOP BEAUTY FOR EVERYOKE EVERYONE FOR BEAUTY Virginia and Katherine Davis Mary Elizabeth Johnson and Teressa Rader are busily engaged in doing committee work for their various organizations. Stuart Groseclose is calling the square dances over WSM for the Grand Old Oprey My, my, there is Joe Jones inventing something while his wife, Olga, is managing an exclusive women ' s shop. Will you look now at that machine? There I am pounding away at the typewriter — just another court reporter. — Shirley McFern. Page 25 19 3 7

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r o THE VIRGINIAN cr o CLASS PROPHECY Ah, what have we here? It is a machine which pictures the past and the future. This is just what I need to help me with my prophecy. This machine has the appearance of a movie screen with a lot of knobs and indicators at one side of it. I am going to turn one of the knobs to year 1947 and see what I find. What! There’s a baby playing with its toes (what feet!). It looks like a Clendennen. Gee, I must have it turned back instead of forward. Now, I have it turned right and look what I see! There is Virginia Morris still talking, but it seems she is paid for it now as a stooge at WOPI. Next, I see William Johnson. He is directing the gymnastics at the Y. M. C. A. Gee! There ' s Homer Jones as a well educated floor walker. Now I hear an orchestra. Herman Classen and Clarence Kearfott are in it and by the way, the great trucker, ' ' Woodrow Fleenor, is directing them. A political speaker comes into view. Why it ' s R. B. McCulloch, Jr., as the Republican Candidate for President; he is opposing Hugh K. Pendleton, the Democratic President. I see a sign which reads: BROKEN HEARTS MENDED LOVE HOSPITAL Dorothy Sue Crumley, Director Out in the residential section I see Mary Fallin, Inez Harris and Katherine Foulk doing household chores. Ruth Brown is in Europe, traveling on the money left her by a rich uncle. Mary Comer and Ethel Sorah have husbands with whom they are walking down the street. I see that Kathleen Lewis has a position in the Superintendent’s office. Why, there is Hugh Sharrett out at the river writing poetry. My, but it is a beautiful poem ! I now turn to look at Sullins, but our only representative is Edna Davis who teaches violin. My gracious! There are Genev a Counts and Hazel Goodpasture still running around. Won’t they ever settle down to peace and quiet? Who ' s that in the Bakery giving orders to the workers? Well, I do know! It’s Bud Dunn. But now let’s see who is at our Alma Mater. There’s Mary Alice Bibb teaching French; Frances Anne Jones teaching history (by the way it’s mostly family history); Cecil Jones, the girl ' s coach and Gaines Feazell, the boys ' coach, are fussing — seems like old times; and now, we have another history teacher, Mary Elizabeth Werth, but I don’t see anyone else I know. Gosh, Bill Clendenen owns a large truck farm and who do you suppose is managing it for him- Bill Cantwell. Oh, that beautiful woman — why, it ' s Margaret Barker, the famous artists’ model, with her manager, Frank Covey, in New York. Billy Snodgrass is a teacher at King but he doesn ' t seem to have pleasant looks for anyone who can’t dance and hum proficiently. King has other members of our class as teachers — Elizabeth Kernan, Gruen McClellan and Ruth McClellan (how they like their King boys!). An antique shop is next in view, with Elizabeth Burns manager and Gladys Odum as her secretary. Smith ' s Cafe isn’t doing so well from the looks of it. I guess the reason is that Joe eats up the profits. Page 24 19 3 7

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J JUNIOR CLASS First Row: Ralph Brummet, Jack Buchanan, Martha Lady. Second Row: Bernard Jessee, Mozelle Stevens, Bobby Routh, Margaret Ryan, O. L. Hamilton, Ruby Hayden, John Carrol, Eula Marie Sumpter. Third Row: Evelyn Stant, Charles Henley, Eleanor Beachley, Kieth Hobart, Jane Leonard, Jack Wampler, Lucille Gibson, Richard Hilliard. Fourth Row: Emmett Fields, Evelyn Brown, Charles Keesling, Margaret Sharitz, Harry Stout, Rosenelle Starke, James Miller, Jewell Ellis. Fijth Row: James Hagy, Ruth Rice, Angeline Cataldo, Ellen Carlson, Katherine Foulk, Willie Cox, Vivian Hagy, Harry Ross. Sixth Row: Eloyd Jessee, Alice Rives Hammer, Betty Wayne Slaughter, Mary Ann Mitchell, Eileen Powell, Rachel Cantor, Marie Sira, Robert Lockett. OFFICERS Ralph Brummet President Jack Buchanan VicePresident Martha Lady Secretary ' Treasurer ■ . • Page 26 19 3 7