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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1943
Page
5
June to August should be busy with work to ease labor shortages and speed victory. High school boys and girls can help in farms factories stores or at home. The call is for every student to forgo leisure and join the effort.
On Thursday the Handley Girls Cadet Corps was reviewed by Auxiliary First Class Holley of the WAACS. After reorganizing the company officers moved outside before rain paused the dismissal. Holley was pleased and impressed and gave officers pointers and suggested Lieutenant review the company next.
Boys begin track training amid wartime gas shortage forcing intra mural events. Participants from Georgia areas include Pingley Moore Pope Powell Dunn Lewis and others in events such as mile and half mile runs, sprints, jumps, javelin and relays.
The note appears as a fragmentary school item and sports mention. It references a ball game and indicates internal school activity or a local event without clear names or dates. Further readable details are unavailable in the text.
The note bunch chats about escaped dogs, romance hints, friendships, a wedding rumor, and last week of school. It references Martinsburg, Doris Dearing, Mary Ellen, Jean, Frank, Becky, Betty Barr, Marines, Henshell, Nancy, Handley songs, Eddie Levi, Apollo cadet visits, and Snoopie as they end the school term.
In 1927 Handley welcomed Snag as the new boys physical education instructor and coach. He led football 1927 28 basketball 1929 33 and has coached track since 1929. He served as cadet captain before returning when army called Little Joe.
A set of student quotes discusses vacations and work. Bessie Burinbu advocates farming, Rebecca Ebersole favors Kansas if funds allow, Prank Lay urges defense work, and Llewellyn Garret supports farm labor as ideal activities for youth.
Students remember Miss Kelley 7th Grade English and Miss Snider 6th Grade Math teaching. Miss Trick taught 8th English and coached Public Speaking. The Maroon and White yearbook mentions Latin classes failing to place in a tournament. No houses on Jefferson Street and no booth to sell war stamps are noted.
Dorothy Simmons known as Dot has earned a place at Handley with a general diploma and plans uncertain after graduation including possible marriage. Juanita Steele from Virginia Avenue aims to marry an Ambassador while studying Latin with dreams of nursing and aiding a South American diplomat. Johnny Senciadiver graduates with a general diploma and excels in basketball, plans Army Air Corps service. Rosemary Warner transfers from Indianapolis and holds a unique JH record, plans Marines after graduation. Jean Whitham graduates in June with a general diploma and aims for business college. active in Booster Club Glee Club and A Capella choir with Broadway dreams.
Gossip swirls about Carroll Morrow and Bobby Huntsberry drawing attention from girls. Jane Henshell wears a sparkler as a bicycle for two serenades. Bubbles Mowrey leads a band for the Jr Sr Prom while S O W J B F M members tally two with two discharged. Handlian bill looms for Handlians debut.
Last week Shamrocks chose Issy Larrick and Betty Duvall to captain their softball teams amid weather handicaps. Games will proceed as scheduled the first three days with Way as umpire and base setup to be announced. Local students are invited to watch the girls play, with Bill noted among spectators.
A diary style entry notes a dull weather week with hopes for exemption from classes and consideration of joining the WAACS. It mentions a big review for the WAACS and a hoped uniform and extra drill. The writer teases news from Snoopie while family matters and a dateless Saturday loom. Mary Miller receives graduation news and Doug’s pride over cousins Mary and Lou.
Anne Woolfolk and Garnetta Kern were elected two years ago, marking a milestone in local politics. The notice highlights their prior win and anticipates ongoing community involvement.
An OCR fragment notes captains of Maroons and Shamrocks concluding an unbeaten track season with top scores each game. It also mentions a personal detail about Kitty Baker three years ago and a paternal disciplinary term, but the text is fragmentary.
A reader note recalls that seven years ago the Oranges known as the Maroons won the baseball title and wishes for better luck this year for the Shamrocks.
Robert Vanderford, bedridden for 28 months with rheumatism in Knoxville, joins the war effort by collecting and selling scrap radios. He turns usable metal from the radios over to the local scrap drive to support aid efforts.
NEW YORK May 25 Young Bob Allen whose band is billed is pretty high Allen has only one fan left of his original crew.
London May 25 Sir Harry Luke Britain’s commissioner in the South Seas notes a proposed postwar haven for the axis could be Falcon Island in the Pacific a volcanic island that sinks for years and rises again with the tides.
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