Wythe High School - Echo Yearbook (Wytheville, VA)

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glass 'rap Ziecy Note: There is a buzzing sound. Scene-Law Office. Taylor: Yes? Voice: There's a young lady here to see you - Miss Frances Veneziana. Taylor: Yes, I know her quite well: send her in. lFrances Veneziana enters.l Venzie: Why, hello, Frances. l read your advertisement in the Enterprise that you and Bobby started a law office, so I thought l'd drop in. Still working for a Thomas firm, I see. Taylor: Yes, I guess so. Gosh. I haven't seen you for so long. What are you doing these days? Venzie: I'm still waiting for Pete to finish high school. Taylor: How's the shoe shop business now? Venzie: Oh, still a bunch of heels. I'm manager now, and if Pete ever gets out of high school. we're thinking about going into partnership. Sole owners, you know. Taylor: Say, what ever happened to all those boys that used to run around with Pete? Venzie: You mean, Bud and Chicken and some of the others? Taylor: Yes, what ever became of them? Venzie: I heard that Bud Anderson has opened a dry- cleaning establishment in Max Meadows. Taylor: Isn't that nice, or is it Neese? Well, how about Chicken? Venzie: Oh, Chicken's at West Point playing football, and I hear Miss McNeil is coaching him on the sidelines. Taylor: And Donald Warden and Roy Meredith - What about them? Venzie: It seems Donald is still Hoping around. Taylor: I bet Roy made good at his passing in college, didn't he? Venzie: From what I hear he's passing at the wrong things. Did you know that Doc Callahan got Doctor Otey's place at Central, and from what I hear, he's not so good. lt seems that he's forever getting the wrong Stultz in his prescriptions. Oh, guess what? Taylor: What? Venzie: Elections came up last month and Little Shorty Bowman defeated little Jack Poole for the State Legislature. It must have been a tough break for somebody. Taylor: Do you know who's principal at Wytheville High now? Venzie: Yes, I heard. Helen Houseman, the -secretary, stopped me on the street today. None other than the Honorable Dolores Habackl Taylor: I meant to tell you. Tom Shrader came in this morning to get the deed for his old Bachelors' Home. He told me he had two new members, Lonely Latney Harris and Heartache Harlan Gilman. Venzie: That reminds me of the Sixty-One Club. It seems that Swanson Hurst, Harrison Allison, Hoover Rodgers, and S. B. Grubb were walking down the street and walked into the Poolroom Cafeteria and now all they do is shoot a bunch of bull. Well, getting back to business, how are you getting along here? Taylor: Pretty well. One of our old friends came in to day lor her third divorce. Venzie: Really? Who was it? Taylor: Why, Mary Pat Tuggle, of course. Venzie: And have you heard about her old friend, Jane Smith? Taylor: No, I don't think I have. Venzie: Well, I heard she's busy writing a play for Broadway. Taylor: Writing a play, eh? What's the title? Venzie: by the Life of Jackie Rhew starring Al Jolson. And y I heard that Loraine Mathews and Louise wa , Anderson are assistant managers at Crest. Taylor: Well, that's nothing. My brother Moose ,Taylor, who is manager of Newberry's now, told me that he had just appointed Kathleen Pattison and Louise Sawyers as floor walkers. Venzie: Did Tootie Harris ever get promoted at Leggett's? Taylor: Why, no. I forgot to tell you that he's ianitor at Newberry's. He said he thought that he would be better over there with the glassware. Venzie: Changing the subiect, how about all those gruesome twosomes in our graduating class? I guess most of them are happily married by now. Taylor: Yes, Juanita Akers and Donald Umberger, and L. O. Grinnell and Doris Hull are married. Venzie: How about Aileen Kabrich and Corky Acher? Taylor: Oh, she ditched him for Sonny Lowder: Corky was a little too tall. Venzie: Speaking of Sonny, I heard his old friend, Lloyd Lindamood, who has started his International Airlines, flew Elizabeth Anderson, Jewell Edmonds, Betty Ryan and Made- line Helvey to Paris to hear Art Clippard's band playing The Lost Concert, starring that great sousaphone player, Richard Shupe. Taylor: Speaking about a band, did you know that Dayne Umberger finally married Jennie Lou Hurst? Venzie: Hurstl That reminds me of Bill Grubb. His undertaking business is so bad that he had to run over someone to bring it up. Taylor: Good heavensl Whom did he hit? Venzie: Betsy Kincer. Taylor: Venzie: Taylor: Venzie Taylor: Why, what's she doing back in Wytheville? Oh, her tent wore out at V. P. I. Did you know Lois Blair became a Powers model? Well, more power to her. Yes, and I hear Bertha Crockett and Kay Turpin are figuring out some new angles for Lois's clothes. Venzie: Speaking of power reminds me that Charles and Lindy Dunford are District Managers of the Appalachian Power Company. Taylor: That's where you work with wires and poles, isn't it? It must be awfully dangerous. Venzie: Oh, it is. Why, iust the other day Lindy ran into a pole-cot.

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glass frojbliecy Taylor: Myl People certainly get around. Even Ella Frances Williams and Alma Clemons are working. They've opened a beauty-parlor in Pulaski. Venzie: I iust love the way they get into people's hair. Taylor: Come to think of it, Jean Walters and Jean Layne have started their ballet school in New York, and Elene Frazier graduates in June with an A. B. ten degree. Venzie: A. B. Ten degree? Taylor: Yes. Art of Ballet in ten easy lessons. I guess you knew that Melita Simmerman and HorsefIy Suthers are spending their honeymoon in New York. The only thing she's worried about now is house flies. Venzie: Whatever became of her friends, Evelyn Milgrim and- Mary Frances Williams? Taylor: They're physical ed instructors at the University of Max Meadows. Venzie: Universities? That makes me think of Jake Suthers. He's coaching at the University of Miami. Taylor: Why did he go there? Venzie: It seems Page Smith's health got so bad that the doctor put her on an orange iuice diet, and Jake went down to see what he could get out of the orange bowl. Taylor: Mariorie Dean Umberger, alias Tressler in Action, is teaching English at W. H. S. now. Venzie: Yes, I know. James Shrader was telling me he finally passed one English test after his struggle for the past ten years. I guess you know Eva Akers is teaching com- mercials? Taylor: Her - a commercial teacher? Venzie: Yes, since they were running a little Short- handed, they hired her. Taylor: Gosh, lots of our friends stayed in Wytheville. Venzie: Not all of them. I heard Jack Wine has been in China for some time. Taylor: Oh, yes. l think he's doing some sort of mis- sionary work there, but the main reason he went was he heard that the women were still binding their feet to make them smaller, and he thought maybe it would help him, but he's not there now. Venzie: Taylor: least that's Venzie: Taylor: miral Jack Venzie: Taylor: Venzie: Taylor: Venzie: scientist, an What do you mean? Oh, he's on his way back to the States, or at what his wife, Daisy Mae'Semones, told me. How's he traveling? By plane? No, by boat. Rates are cheaper because Ad- Bradbery is bringing him. Jack Bradbery? An admiral in the navy? Yes, he's traveling around quite a lot too. Has he really? Where has he been? France, Italy - practically all over Europe. Italy. That's where Donald Scott, the great d his two assistants, Doris Seagle and Betsy Keg- Iey, are working on another of his great products in the world of science. Taylor: this time? Venzie: Taylor: Venzie: Taylor: VenZie: to have my How excitingl What did he invent or discover Jet-propelled B. B.'s. They'll make history. Yes, Wytheville High has some brilliant students. Ohl Myl What time is it, Frances? lt's still early yet. lt's 4:40. That late? My heavensl I have ,an appointment picture taken at the Take It or Leave It Studio. By the way, who owns that place? Taylor: Why Schaffer Hilton, our old class mate. Who else? Venzie: Well, I must be going now. Take care of your- self. Taylor: I will and do come back when you have a few extra minutes to chat. Venzie: Oh, well. It was really nice to see you. I wish I could have stayed longer, but I really must be going now. Taylor: Be sure and come to see me -the next time you are in town. hlenzie: I surely will. 'Bye now. Taylor: 'Byel x