Waynesboro High School - Skyline Yearbook (Waynesboro, VA)

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Mm WW W Senior Prophecy “Mr. Jordan, Mr. Jordan. Where are you?” “ Be patient, daughter, you’ll have a long time up here; I’ve been waiting for you.” “But how did you know that I was coming now?” “Well . . . you always drove a little recklessly and ...” “Oh! . . . well, since I’m here, where do I go?” “Well, it will be quite a while before you are given your duties. Is there anything in particular you would like to do meanwhile?” “Could I ... I mean would it be all right for me to go down to earth for just one more day to see my old friends?” “That’s what they all want, but I’m afraid we can ' t let you go. However, if you would like to look down on earth and see what your friends are doing, you may. Have you any particular one in mind?” “Well, Mr. Jordan, do you think you could show me some of the kids I went to school with? How about my senior class ? ” “Let’s see ... I believe you graduated ten years ago in 1948, didn’t you?” “Yes, and a lot has happened since then. I haven ' t seen some of my old friends for years.” “All right ... I know where most of them are, so if you are ready, we’ll go.” “Stop, Mr. Jordan. I think I see some one I know. Oh, yes, it’s Milnes Austin. Looks like he is the manager of the ‘U-Slip-Up’ Banana Plantation and seems to be in his seventh heaven.” “I wonder if Nina McGann still owns the Wayne Beauty Salon . . . yes, there she is and Joyce Cooke and Helen Louise Anderson are her chief operators.” “Donald Beverage, you remember him, is tourist guide in New York, using up all the energy he saved during those expressionless days at W. H. S.” “Remember ‘Miss Fishburne of ’47’? Well, Joan Hanger has just been crowned ‘Miss Canada of ’58.’ Due to Ronny’s influence, of course.” “Look, there’s where I worked one summer. Wonder how Wayne Brockenbrough, now graduated from W. L., is making out as editor of the Waynesboro News-Virginian? I see that Marianne Shumate is society editor for this great publication.” “One of my messengers reported the other day that Jean Birdsong was working with the F. B. I. So she is; she seems to be in charge of Detective Tomes, who has so much trouble keeping himself out of trouble down on earth.” “Peggy Lamb and Fred have been happily married for seven years now. As proof of their happiness, their home is filled with the patter of little feet. Now that we are on the scene, I see their next door neighbors are Betty McCambridge and ‘Dee.’ Seems Betty and Peggy still have their old partnership, even if it has enlarged.” “ By the way, Pickford Kennedy is principal of W. H. S. That’s where you went to school, isn’t it?” “Yes, I wonder if he ever learned to stand for the school song?” “And there is ‘Spider’ Wright; didn’t you know him? He is a star of the ‘Thin-Man’ movies. He wasn’t satis¬ fied to be just a basketball hero, as in his high school ‘daze’.” “What happened to all the kids that left Waynesboro?” “Well, now let’s see if I can remember . . . Mary Lee Stinespring has gone back to Florida, to see all the alligators. They have boys there, too, they say.” “And Janice Sandridge has gone back to Crozet to look after all the boys she talked about at W. H. S.” “Babe Hintze was in your class, too, wasn’t she? She is now head of the Navy Nurses. She just loves to look after all those ‘Blue Jackets’.” • “I don’t have to ask what happened to Phil Buchanan. He’s the band leader who started ’way back in his high school days as maestro and has just completed a success¬ ful season at the Waldorf-Astoria. It’s no longer ‘Swing and sway with Sammy Kaye’ but ‘Dance and thrill with Maestro Phil.’ Oh! by the way, you know Phil’s newest discovery, Macon Brown, don’t you? He’s the crooner who wears a bow-tie and sings so completely like Vaughn Monroe that people of the older generation are apt to forget that ‘Frankie’ and Vaughn ever existed.” “I’m so glad to see that Tessis Neofitis finally got back to Brooklyn. She is head cheerleader for the Dodgers and now she can yell for them to her heart’s delight. George Baker, also with the Dodgers, has been promoted from bat boy to official home plate duster.” “What is Arthur Hodge doing down there in the Ringling Brothers Circus?” “He is developing the voice he failed to develop at W. H. S. by being a barker at the circus.” “Well, Ann Taylor has stopped working at Courtney’s Food Center, and her position has been filled by another of Mr. Brondoli’s D. E. students.” “From what I hear, things in Washington, D. C., are still humming. Her Honor, Jackie Quesenbery is the first woman judge in the U. S. Supreme Court. I see she’s not only controlling the nation but her temper as well.” “I heard before I left that Ed Haney had retired as head of the Haney Drug Stores. I guess Margaret Wool- ford, his favorite soda jerk, has been giving him too many banana splits and sundaes. I see that Dorothy Bryant has taken Ed’s place as manager.” “Ann Greaver’s dream of Fil and that Radford apart¬ ment came true. As they say, ‘All things come to those who wait.’ ” “I see Walter Thompson still has his curly hair, even if he did have to open his own beauty shoppe.” “There’s Janet Altice. I thought she had an offer to star in the new ballet, ‘Up, Up and Away,’ for Pro¬ ducer Jack Fisher.” “She did, but she didn’t want her marriage ruined by a career. It’s a pity, too . . . her co-star would have been Bill Maney.” “Oh! he is the new dancing sensation who kept all his dancing talents so well hidden in his high school days, isn’t he?” “What is Gene Baber doing?” “He has just made his second ‘journey’ into Waynes¬ boro from the backwoods with his wife, Doris. They buy food twice a year because they have just discovered that they can’t live on love all the time.” “Don’t tell me that’s Ruby Arnold, still dating under¬ classmen. At last she has finally graduated from W. H. S. and is going to the University of Virginia where there are under ‘glass’ men, too.” “What has become of Ralph Wagner since I saw him last?” “He now owns the major share in the ‘Aldridge- Wagner Baby-Sitters, Inc.’ ” “I see the sign on the door says: ‘Leonard Aldridge, general manager, and Leroy Turner, business manager’.” “I see that Peggy Moyer has a partnership with Russell Coffey in ‘Bars’. They have just remodeled their establishment.” “As for Diane Ricks and Eddie, they finally got married and are sending their children to Ruth Maier’s kindergarten, who makes sure they get the proper train¬ ing on how to govern the student body at W. H. S.” “From what I can see, Mary Pratt still wears beautiful clothes. She designs them at her shop in Paris. There’s Irma Fitzpatrick working with Mary. She must be in charge of the advertising department.” “Well, well . . . what do you know? There’s Robert Pleasants combining business with pleasure . . .” “Yes, he now has his own pool hall, which he has successfully operated for eight years.” “Flora Larsen has stopped singing ‘Put That Ring on My Finger,’ after four years. She’s now married and has a daily column, ‘Advice to the Lovelorn,’ in the (Continued on page 60)

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Best Looking Cutest i Senior Who’s Who Diane Ricks Phil Buchanan Most Studious Janet Knicely Powell Foster Most Likely to Succeed Ruth Maier Bill Maney Neatest Helen Kinser Leo Cloutier Most Athletic Lois Furr Milnes Austin Elly Saunders Massis Wright Biggest Flirts Candy Dobbs Tommy Lotts Most Sophisticated Ann Greaver Chuck Hutton Most Popular Jean Birdsong Paul Dorsett Best Personality Dorothy Davis Wayne Brockenbrough

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Last Will and Testament of the SENIOR CLASS OF WAYNESBORO HIGH SCHOOL Filed: June 7, 1948 State of Virginia County of Augusta Waynesboro, Virginia