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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1937
Page
9
A series of daily club and practice sessions listed for the week. Includes Shamrock and Orange Basketball Practice, Girl's Glee Club, Assembly, Executive Council, Boy's Glee Club, and Band Practice with days Tuesday through Friday.
An editorial urges students to improve study habits and strive for higher grades. It notes sighs and groans over report cards, acknowledges some fail to reach potential, and calls for renewed effort to last through the upcoming term.
Last Friday afternoon the junior play Love In Bloom captivated audiences with strong performances. Margaret Jane Athey and Pete Himelright stood out in natural roles, supported by a cast including Aunt Judith Willie Mae Brumback Mollie Elethia Jones Cynthia and others under Professor Warren and Lawrence Miller.
A compact catalog of periodical names and associated staff authors including Back Country Gentlemen with Bobby Campbell, Esquire with Gus Cahill, Life with Kitty Baker, American Boy with Lori Dunlap, American Girl with Shirley Wil, Woman's Home Companion with Dick Kern, Good Housekeeping with Margaret Bean, Vogue with Jane Dick, Screen Play with Ann Browne, Look with Dana Nelson. The collection reads like a staff byline index from a mid 20th century magazine archive.
A collection of song and dance titles credited to various performers and authors, including Dick Kern Willy Cather Louise Miller Shamrock team Bobby Green Pete Himelright Woods Twins Handley Glee Club Lucille Spill man Pauline Garber Billy Boy Paul Hunter Bubblie Mowery Ruth Pape and others. The items suggest a theater or school program with musical numbers and performers.
A collection of school gossip and student notices about holidays, upcoming exams, and performances. Mentions include Kenneth Heine's Handley Home Thrift Unit, junior and senior class antics, birthdays, a planned book by Shirley Williams, and questions about Ford tires and a Sophomore being nicknamed Halo.
An assortment of humorous word definitions chants and verses. The piece includes quirky exchanges about ethics a joke about a Hudson and lines from a poem on rhymes. It ends with a tombstone inscription read by a black boy on a cemetery visit.
A fragment from a college page taunts students with questions about blue ears, a diamond ring, garden hoses, shop purchases for Martinsburg girls, and a freshman sophomores prank. It hints at a class president and a wind taken from the sail in 12th History, noting mischief among junior and senior students.
The Greens and Oranges prepare for their first game Tuesday afternoon after lengthy practice. Probable lineups include Shamrocks Gordette Schenck and Shirley Williams, with captains Janet Largent and Kitty Baker leading the teams.
Oranges opened their basketball season with a 21 to 11 victory in a week’s early game. Miss Larrick’s advisee group presented a program in assembly four years ago.
A boy muses aloud that the man is not dead but merely at rest, adding that the man only fools himself. The remark captures a line of skeptical humor as a casual exchange.
The senior class president called a meeting to decide timing for a dance. The group chose to hold the dance after Christmas. Two committees were formed a play committee and a dance committee. As usual no refreshments were served and the meeting adjourned.
A humorous verse describing overzealous grooming and cleaning products used in a misguided attempt to attract a girl named Suzy A. The narrator boasts about washing hair with Drano brushing teeth with Bon Ami and using household cleaners to pr etend romance, ending with a wink to suitors.
In a hallway scene a narrator munches a Mr. Goodbar while overhearing comments about lipstick dresses and social plans. Snippets reveal gossip about dances and a student’s missed lessons amid casual talk on a hot movie and free comedy.
The Sophomore class held its second meeting in the upstairs study hall on Thursday December 2. John Knight presided as president while Dorothy Hawthorne was elected secretary and treasurer. No further business was transacted.
Rev Peter Marshall of New York Avenue Presbyterian Church Washington spoke on the morals of the generation to students. He illustrated his point with the story of a forest ranger who protected a village from contamination.
The Virginia Legislative Act Council met in Richmond and finished work on major recommendations for Governor Peery and the General Assembly to be submitted when they convene January 12. Senate Chairman John S. Battle said changes were made to earlier reports but details remain undisclosed as drafting continues.
Three meetings of division school superintendents are set for this week in Richmond. Topics include school budget for the next biennium, expansion of federal vocational funds, free textbooks, transportation and fire safety, and updated accounting systems. Sessions are at Williamsburg, the University of Virginia, and Wytheville.
The weekend traffic toll surpassed 100 with at least 114 deaths across states including Texas 16 and Michigan 11. Virginians lost four lives raising December toll to five with victims Bailey Lewis Samuel Gunnels Ollie Lorg and W Healer. A separate incident saw James B Thomas drown after his car plunged into the Potomac River.
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