Windsor High School - Duke Yearbook (Windsor, VA)

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E 45 .f l ff -' -' .-i 1'-'1i:-f-we ' a , Atlanta, Georgia, December 17, 1944. Dear john Henry: I guess you thought I had waited until the last minute to write, but I stay busy all the time trying to get enough for my family to eat and to wear. Since I wrote last year, I have been married to a widow with eight children. Rather an undertaking for a man of my ageg but the young girls are so different from what they were when you and I were boys that I prefer the widow and all her little folks to what this fast age is producing. I would like very much to see you, and if ever you come to Georgia, drop 1n to see us. I still remain, Your friend, Norman Bland. jlillr. anh mrs. jjazuh Bunk annnunze the mm-tinge nf their Daughter 'iilsie Pauline to Zllitzlguglg Zliee ,Saunherea Fuuemher the tmentg-ninth, nineteen lgunhreh fnrtg-fnur Qinrfnlk, 'igirginia E271

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Ny E- 1 f O i1,SHADUWi'lesiasa :- f 123 ff 19: .. 1'-.3'1.: F:i 4 ifggi NOTICE. NOW is the time to learn to DANCE! DANCING LESSONS given DAILY 9 A. M. to 3 P. M. Phone 20658 or call at 305 East Main, MARY LAWRENCE PROFESSIONAL DANCING TEACHER Colosse, Virginia, Deo. 11, 1944. Dear John Henry, It just crossed my mind a few minutes ago that I had not written to you this yearg so I will take- the few minutes I have now and write. I think my husband and I are the happiest people in the world. He does not have to work unless he wants to because Curtis Jenkins is now running our farm for us, and he is one of the smartest men I ever saw. This goes to prove 1hat an educated man makes the best farmer. He says tell you Hello I think he would like very much to see you because he often speaks of what you and he used to do at old Windsor High School. It is time to start supper and I must stop. The same old girl, Syvilla. WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH OFFICE Norfolk, Virginia, Dec. 30, 1944 Am leaving for China on the next boat going as a missionary pray for me. Signed - Fletcher Carr I26l

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45 hi-tjnih-In - '-', L x IV -'I' Z -- 3.- -.2 ,- gs- -A':' , ff.:-f':,: .-Q Washington, D. C., Dec. 24, 1944. Dear John, Just a few lines to let you know we haven 't forgotten you. We 've bummed around at many things, but like our present occupation better than anything vve've tried yet. We found one day in a back alley, a poor old sick Italian. We took him home and made him comfortable until his death a few days later. In token of his appreciation, he willed us his monkey and grinding organ, and S127 he said he had made in the last two weeks. We decided that was pretty good business, so we adopted his profession. I tell you this is a great life, no worry, no work, and sights to be seen--the monkey does the work and collects the bills, too. No girl in pants for us! VVe're free and you bet your sweet life, we'll stay free. Do you ever see Fitzhugh? We would like to see you and him very much. l hope we'll run up on you some time. Your old friends, Bruce and Marvin. P. S. We ,re enclosing a newspaper clipping that will probably be of interest to you. STUDENT LOST HER MIND Williamsburg, Va., Dec. 5, 1944- Quite a stir was created in college here yesterday when one of the students be- came mentally unbalanced and had to be taken to the asylum. Her name, it was learned, was Miss Eula Persons of Wind- sor, Virginia, who had been teaching in the public schools of the Tidewater sec- tion for twenty years. She had come here to take a special teacher's course that has just been put on. It was thought at first that hard study had produced mental strain. However, her room mate and close friend told a reporter that for sometime, she had seemed very much worried over the fact that she had never married. and prospect of continued teaching-after twenty years of that nerve-racking experience. Her roommate claimed that she talked incessantly of that, and attributes her mental break-down to worry over that rather than hard study. Friends were notified, and after seeing Miss Persons, they hoped that a complete rest would effect her recovery. I23l