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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Apr 08, 1946
Page
3
The text lists names and playful phrases about students and staff, including Bryan, Mr en oe ay, Jean, Pat, Miss Hawthorne, Ginny, Jimmy, Frank, Shirley, Dick, and Mary rd. It reads like a school diary fragment with inside jokes and misheard phrases.
A list of new library reads invites readers to explore stories from resilience to travel. Highlights include And Now to Live Again about a sixteen year old girl who breaks her back and recovers with courage, plus Burma Surgeon Returns and Knute Rockne life story.
The piece lists light lip color, spring thoughts on love, apple blossoms before a festival, and students in Room 23. It notes Miss Gordon delaying naming Jasper, Miss Hudson not wearing a senior ring, and people avoiding jokes in Mr Walker's class.
The record lists two years ago a Latin choir presented a program. Three years ago Victory Corps was organized. Five years ago a senior play Spring Dance was a great success. Eleven years ago interscholastic baseball began with a favorable start. Twenty four years ago Mr E F Clerk donated a 10 book World Book set to the school.
Ruth Pangle, a Handley senior from Stephens City, is in the Commercial Course with a love for baseball skating and hat design. Dorothy Scott known as Scottie, a ninth grade entrant now a senior, plans Stevens College and enjoys typing and sports involvement. The article also captures student opinions on the Apple Blossom Festival with playful remarks from Al Powell Mary Sencindiver Sam Brooks and others.
A lively March 28 stamp sale and school hobby talk unfold with reflections on spring, local gossip, and student hobbies. Arlington social chatter features Jody meeting Handley alumni at a drugstore and scouts pursuing a dance, while students discuss stamp collections model airplanes beekeeping and German equipment.
A reader letter by Tibba Danley from the Class of 1946 calls for cooperation to ensure the post war Nine teenth Apple Blossom Festival is a colossal success. She notes new staff, limited participation by seniors, a newly organized band, and chorus dropouts as obstacles and urges spectators from across the country to help.
Mr Browning reads a newspaper and misreads a poem about his son Neddie causing stunned reactions. The quips include a cross witty pun about Gladly the Cross I’d Bear and a misunderstanding of an 'eye bear' bathing beauty exchange.
Walter Dutton Swanson and Lawrence Winston Wallace Jr of Winchester were inducted on April 2 in Roanoke Virginia. The City Draft Board announced the induction date and names.
Detroit workers returned to full municipal bus and streetcar service as 5,200 AFL operators ended a weeklong strike, restoring public transportation across the city.
Robert Legge announces that Bicycle Division entrants for the Apple Blossom Festival parade on May 2 are now being accepted. Boys and girls may enter by returning the entry blank to fire company drivers or mailing to 370 National Avenue. The form can also be used to enter a car, float, or delivery truck by handing it to a driver at a fire company.
Entry blank for a Firemen parade dated May 2 showing spaces for name address division and signatures for official endorsement.
R Ralph Pifer president of Retail Merchants Association and head of the window decorating committee for the Apple Blossom Festival appealed to local merchants to paint storefronts and clean up. He noted strong initial response and said extra trash removal trucks will operate April 8 to 13 to clear accumulated debris.
Boyce Virginia notes Mrs Marie Peyton and her daughter from Winchester visited family Sunday. Mr Robert Creamer, moved from Inwood West Virginia to White Hall Maryland, spent the weekend with his parents in Boyce. Mr Paul Adams of Wilmington Delaware was a guest of Mr and Mrs C D Adams.
Mrs H N Copenhaver hosted guests with Mrs Lana Lanham spending time in Strasburg. Mr Joe Zombro from Cumberland Md visited Mrs Mary Lanham and family. Mrs Herbert Frazier and son Ronald visited her mother in Lynwood last week. Mrs Rebecca Creamer Mrs Leonard Peyton and Audrey Peyton joined Mr Charles Creamer visiting Mr Jess Derflinger and family Sunday. Mrs Dellinger underwent a major operation in Middletown Pa.
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