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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1956
Page
7
The piece enumerates the editorial team and assistants including Mary Ruth Whitten as editor and Anne Barnhart as assistant editor with a wide roster of reporters and staff such as Heddy Barnsley Mary Lou i Sydnor Pat Royston Robin Reardon and others across the newsroom.
Editorial notes the Honor Court and Monitor Commission, chosen by the president and principal, as key school bodies. It outlines nine Honor Court members across grades nine to twelve, their duties including enforcing the Honor Pledge and evaluating laws, and six Monitor Commission members overseeing conduct, property, cafeteria order, and tasks for student government. Citizens urged to support these students.
Last Thursday the student body enjoyed an Advisory Period assembly by the band under Mr Strance. The Brass Sextet and Wood Wind Quartet played favorites including Surrey With The Fringe on Top and September Song. On Friday the Thespian Players presented six blackouts titled Meat Thursdays Car The Usual Way Bubbles Hats.
The freshman sophomore and junior classes of 1957 have elected their officers and sponsors. Freshmen: President John Merriner, vice-president Terry Plank, secretary Joyce Lake, sponsors Miss Yook and Mr Headley. Sophomore: President Regie Baker, vice-president Bill Mce Mullan, secretary Martha Rose Whitten, sponsors not yet elected. Juniors: President Paul Rhodes, vice-president Harold Madigan, secretary Susan Crisman, sponsors Miss Strader and Mr Carper.
Senior boys conducted chapel services last week with students reading selections and leading hymns. Fred Ritter read on Monday while Hedy Barnsley played piano and Billy Whitacre directed. Wednesday featured Tom Nelson reading and Fred Donica leading the hymn. Friday’s reader was Jim Scott with David Jackson as song leader and Sonny Walter on piano.
A readable fragment presents quotes from students and faculty including Litten Billie Ann George Sammy Tom Nelson and Dr Quarles. The voice hints at a school event with a quiz singing and diploma remarks and a line from Macbeth.
Three of the nation’s top athletes spoke to Handley students and demonstrated basketball and football. Wes Santee, Don Lange, and J. D. Roberts visited after classes guiding PE sessions and a public crowd watched. The trio attended the Touchdown Club Annual Banquet at James Wood last Thursday night.
At a Boys Monogram Club meeting the next year officers were chosen with Ed Grim as president, Jack Crenshaw as vice president, and Gary Anderson as secretary. Mr. Maddox congratulated the group and praised the coaching staff for three winning teams and wished the seniors luck.
Last week Miss Mccartney's room held a bird house exhibit with three judged categories. Winners included Tucker Scully, Phylis Maccubbin, Joyce Schmidt for most original. Linda Vilhofsky, Larry Jones, Jerry Kerr and Jerry Baumtwig for best child constructed. and Charles Cather, Dwight Miller, John Grove, Barry Bowman for best constructed ribbons.
The schedule lists an awards assembly on May 22 at 1 00 p m and a sewing class fashion show on May 25 at 2 30 p m The parent and student body community is invited to attend these events Exams begin May 29 and conclude June 5 with the end of exams.
Nickname Billie seeks to be a writer after birth in Winchester with interest in reading and records. Mary Ruth aims for academic language and swimming while pursuing writing as a goal. Fish, from Winchester, loves baseball hunting music and dating with ambition for broad success. Whiz from Suffolk pursues track listening to classical music and aims to be a professional writer and illustrator.
A brief profile notes Yuckley as a football fan with a favorite sport, square dancing as a pastime, and an ambition to own a black convertible, illustrating a colorful local persona.
The regular meeting elected Susie Butler president and Anne Sullivan secretary. Plans were made for the annual picnic on June 1, hosted by underclassmen for the seniors in the club.
The article lists the juniors chosen to serve as delegates for Baccalaureate and Commencement ceremonies. Named are Suzanne Carr Pat Wadsworth Kay Pugh Nancy Spurling Dorothy Daugherty Kitty Pope Joan Gavis Shirley Kelchner Elaine Sardelis Shirley Carr Anne Keller Margaret Pitcock Shirley Adams Nancy Farmer Mike Hollis Dennis Brumback Lewis Boyer David Sisler John Larrick Jack Bowen and Carter Kellas.
A multi million-dollar Nike missile plant will be dedicated in Charlotte today. Officially named the Charlotte Ordnance Missile Plant, it was converted at an estimated cost of 22 million dollars from a former National Guard depot and is operated for the government by Douglas Aircraft Co.
The Handley junior class is organizing its ring orders as the year nears its end. They also work on prom decorations for the gym and appoint junior waitresses for the Senior Banquet, including Sheila Fries Helen Sullivan Susan Stine Janet Stanley Barbara Lewis Sharon Glaize Patty Bailey Mary B Rhodes Kitty Swisher Susan Dick Mary Garland Spillman Judy Dale Carolyn Coughlin Iris DeSchon and others to serve as ushers.
Governor Averell Harriman is reported in very good condition at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center after a prostate gland operation performed yesterday by Dr. George F. Cahill. Harriman expects to stay in hospital nine to ten days and has described himself as an inactive candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination.
Firemen list smoking in a nest as the cause of a damaging two story fire in Cambridge Ohio. Fire Chief H S Calibhan said the blaze began Sunday in a house owned by Mrs Ulric Warne, started when a bird carried a smoldering cigar butt to a nest being built nearby.
Dr. L. Paul Quillen of Harrisonburg became president of the Virginia Optometric Assn Inc as the 44th annual convention concluded in Staunton. The group selected Virginia Beach as the site for the 1957 convention.
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