Virginia High School - Virginian Yearbook (Bristol, VA)

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CLASS PROPHECY (Continued) Misses Corinne Easterly, Dorothy Montgomery, Jean Wolfe, and Mary Elizabeth Hawkins have made the semi-finals in the Twin City dancing Marathon. The winner is to be awarded a medal by President of the Fat Men ' s Club, Carl Pepper. Mr. Sid Thomas has been unanimously elected president of the Old Maids ' Federation. Other officers are vice-president, Buck Holdway — secretary, Donald Carico — treasurer, Conley Greer. Governor George MacReynolds of Virginia has appointed Kill-Me-Dead Winton Kelly as chief state executioner, with Frank Ellis as his assistant. Miss Martha Blackwell, noted Bristol beauty, attempted suicide last night in her hotel room. A note found disclosed the fact that Emmett Fields, charm- ing opera singer, had broken her heart when he entitled his latest song, The One of My Dreams . John Joe McOueen has recently been appointed to the U. S. Supreme Gourt, one of his noted colleagues being William S. Wiley, Jr. Jim Hagy has given up coaching at Pittsburg to settle down to home life with June Pendleton. Mrs. Reginald Randolph, formerly Miss Eloise Hagy, will entertain tomorrow for the newly elected members of the D. A. R.; Misses Margaret Poarch, Mary John Palmer, Spiller McCarty, and Eileen Keesee. The famous Gaut-Hicks-Holt Circus is to appear next week in a benefit per- formance. Outstanding performers will be Jewell Jessee, snake charmer; Mr. Keith Venable, hand crgan man with his dancing bears; Hubert Malone, Mary Elizabeth Simcox, and Gilmer Snapp in their renowned lasso act. . . . A take-off in grand opera, by Miss Audrey McCary, Sarah Crumley, Sue Dunlap and Sally Starke, is being highly advertised. The proceeds will go to the endowment of a home for veterans of the 1939 Senior Class of V. H. S. Page 27

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CLASS PROPHECY Recently, in twirling the dial of my most excellent Atwater Kent, I got in touch with the here-to-fore unrecorded station N. F. A. D. (Nineteen Fifty A. D.). Impressed by the program, I jotted down some of the features. Mr. George Warren, noted public speaker, was saying, Radio announcer, Ed Everett, will read for us tonight ' Money Making ' , edited by Tip Polly, Vir- ginia Riggers, and Scott Alderson respectively. Preceding the program was News of the World , with Eugene McNeil as news commentator. Some of the news items in the broadcast follow: A recent uprising led by Captain Dink Burns has been successfully quiet- ed by Sergeant Dan Drinkard. Howard White, alias The Irresistible Two Timer , has been captured by the Hick Town cop, Harry Leonard, and is to go on trial for the charge of bigamy before Chief Justice Carter Thompson. The lawyers for defense are none other than Virginia Cecil and Fain Good- pasture from the city of Bristol. Representing the state will be Bobby Bibb and Herbert Coalson. Dorothy Sue Kabler has retired from her position as the smiling advertise- ment for Colgate ' s pleasing tooth paste. James Miller seems to be doing good business at his establishment for giving alibis. Virginia King is his secretary. At a very elaborate service today at high noon. Miss Jean Woolley and Mr. John Rogers were united in the unstable bonds of Matrimony by Rev. Roy Henley. Safety Director Harry Pippin served as best man and Miss Bertha Marks, head of the Better Women ' s Society Club, served as maid of honor; music was supplied by Ruby Baker, violinist, accompanied by Betsy Ross. The church was decorated for the occasion by Miss Helen Collins, famed illustrator and decorator. Page 26

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CLASS WILL We, the graduating class of Virginia High, in the Year of Our Lord Nineteen Hundred and Thirty-nine, before leaving this institution that has endeavored to prepare us for this long journey into the unknown world, wish to submit our final will and testimony. We have made this will in five sections; they are as follows: Section 1. To the faculty that has worked so faithfully for these many years we leave our best wishes that the classes in years to come will be as good as we of ' 39. Section 2. To the junior class that may follow us we leave our sincere hopes that they will not have as much trouble in their class meetings as we have had in ours. Section 3. To our new principal, Mr. Shelburne, we leave the right to call a meeting of the senior bo ys and ask them not to bother the freshmen. Section 4. To the future classes of Virginia High we leave for their con- sideration this hope: whatever they try to do in the future we hope they will not get caught as we invariably did. Section 5. The various members of the Senior Class of ' 39 wish to make the following special considerations: I, Jim Hagy, do will my football and basket-ball ability to Dee Minnick. We, Tip Polly and Conley Greer, do will to William Henry and Bill Gobble the right to park on the other side of King Gollege. I, Mary E. Hawkins, do will to Anna Ruth Harmon one cake of Palmolive soap so that she may keep that school-boy complexion. I, Lawrence Wade, do will to John Matheny my art of handling Miss Burrow. I, Howard White, do will to Jack Lee my privilege of being chased around by Goach Baker. We, Dorothy Sue Kabler and Virginia Gecil, do will to Ann Brown and Betty Boggs the ability of spoofing Fred Hayes. We, Bobby Bibb and Fain Goodpasture, do will to Frank Goodpasture and Emory Widener the right to tell jokes and then laugh before anyone else has a chance. I, Scott Alderson, leave to anyone who thinks he can take my place the art of hollering to a certain girl on Moore Street every night. I, Keith Venable, do will to Buddy Davis my position as Mr. King ' s Wood- work Assistant. We, Jim Miller and June Pendleton, do will our art of making love in Pen ' s to any juniors who think they can carry on. Page 28