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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1950
Page
5
Students recall the Handley High Senior Prom with Virginians band performances elegant decor and a moonlit ambiance. The Commencement featured Vivace Club solo and choir pieces, award ceremonies, a Color Guard gift, diplomas, and multiple scholarships and honors.
Three newly elected juniors Bette Davis Inez Miller and Marily Ham burger were initiated into the Booster Club at Mary Martha Eisenberg home. After the ceremony guests enjoyed punch cake and nuts and viewed former members Dorothy Eisenberg and Bette May Kersey.
Handley High School announces Mrs. Hohannas will depart next year and Snuffy Taylor will replace her. Taylor will teach all commercial subjects and join the faculty.
Trash fish, deemed suitable only for oil and fertilizer, fetch about one cent per pound in New England markets as officials assess supply and demand dynamics affecting fish waste valuation and industry uses.
A student recalls the school year at Handley, highlights editing the school paper as a special moment, thanks helpers, and offers good wishes to the next Editor of the Junior Evening Star.
On Sunday June 4 at eight o clock the Baccalaureate Sermon to the Graduates was held in the Handley High School Auditorium. Rev William Archer Wright, President of the Winchester Ministerial Association, presided. The program featured invocations, glee club songs, two a cappella numbers and a sermon by Rev Joseph B McAllister from the Catholic University of America.
On June 10 the annual Handley cemetery march occurred as the last day of school. Attendees carried flowers to lay on graves and a brief devotional service followed the assembly.
The message announces the approaching marriage of Mr. Thompson to Miss Hazel McDan around early July, noting the engagement and confirming the betrothal date.
Mr and Mrs Thompson of Culpeper Virginia plan to reside in Winchester this coming fall after being evacuated from Mary Washington College. The note mentions their relocation and upcoming residence details.
Under a star filled sky and by the sea the Juniors and Seniors and their dates danced to Lester Arnold's Orchestra. Intermission featured the Moonbeam Album as Charles Robertson and Mary Martha Eisenberg sang Racing With the Moon followed by a quartet and Donnie Hartley reading a tribute to the Seniors.
The Rotary Club annual banquet for the Senior Class was held last Thursday with 84 seniors attending. Mr Browning introduced Mr Quarles who presented class leaders and watches from Hodgson & Brown to two seniors. The program concluded with the class song written by three members.
Awards were given in the Thursday assembly to district and inter district champions. Football letters were awarded to seniors including Glenn La Vecchia Al Lazazzera Pat Barr Doug Cochran Fritz Briggs Loring Burkhart Richard Boxwell Co Captain Donald Grove Co Captain Eugene Dicks and Ronnie Binner.
Handley School celebrated a broad awards day with multiple senior letters in track football and basketball. Notable honorees include seniors Glenn LaVecchia Bob Anderson Henry Hawkins and 3 letter men Manuel Sempeles Jimmy Blackburn and Gilbert Streit along with band and girls monogram club recipients.
Nine year old Lamont Huntly arrived at City Hospital with a three inch sparkplug embedded in his forehead near the right eye. Doctors removed it in an operation of about one and a third hours. The sparkplug had lodged half an inch into the skull after being tossed by a schoolmate over a box of crackers. The patient was reported in fair condition.
Police court cases heard by Judge John Rice include several drunk and disorderly charges with fines and costs. Names and addresses appear with offenses and amounts, along with a speeding case and multiple drink related penalties. The report mentions instruments for detecting atomic explosions and lists seismographs, microbarographs, and Geiger counters as methods.
Virginia hunters should monitor June weather to gauge fall quail bags. I T Quinn, executive director of the Commission of Game and Inland Fisheries, says June is the key hatch period and extreme conditions can cause nesting failures. He notes quail are a crop of the land and climate greatly affects their production.
The average age of the United States population was 29.8 years as of July 1, 1949.
There is only one statue of the Queen and it stands in a niche above a Fleet Street chemist's shop. The Treasury Department states a Government Series G bond may be attached for debt.
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