Bedford High School - Peaks Yearbook (Bedford, VA)

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HISTORY OF CLASS OF 1937 (Continued) DECEMBER] 16551935: Lloyd Carter enlightened the English class today to the fact that the two sides of Hawthorne’s character are inside and outside. JANUARY 15, 1936. A dog show was given at activity today. I was glad to be able to enjoy one pro- gram without straining my ears to hear over the sound of Geraldine Gillaspie’s chewing gum. MAY 30, 1937. Have just gotten home from the Baccalaureate sermon and am beginning to realize that all good things come to an end. Our Senior year will always stand out in our memory, so many things have happened. We have had our bad luck along with our good. The baseball, basketball and football teams were hit hard by the measles, mumps and flu. Mildred Padgett, Jack Carter, and Beth Dooley were unfortunate in having hospital experiences. The Senior play is one of the high spots of the year. Even now I marvel how Gorden Deacon stayed still long enough to act the part of a dead Indian. Fred Turner surprised us too by not being tardy in his entrance as he is to school. Special praise is due Mary E. Logwood, Esther Chappelle and Jennings Stiff for their work on the posters. Our class has been lucky to have three such artists as these. The Literary Society has been a profitable organization, due largely to the efforts of the program chairman, Louise Parks. A big event of the year was the picnic held at Phillips Cottage at Timberlake. Here we found that some of the members of our class need a course in keeping a boat upright. We suggest that Owen Keeler and Bill Anderson take lessons in rowing from Ralph Saunders and Walter Arrington. The log fires in the living room seemed to attract Louise Lockard, Garland Kidd and Ruth Wright who cooked marshmallows by the dozen. The History of our class would be incomplete without some mention of our “High-Y Club,” especially of the picnic when the boys got contrary and didn’t come; of the Latin banquet when Jimmie May and Reva Meador held Court on Mt. Olympus; of the High School debate when Esther Chappelle explained all about how the soldier boys of the World War hit back at their officers by putting cooties in their beds. Many funny things happened in our classes which we will remember after we have forgotten all about the composition of an electron or the habits of an amoeba or the usefullness of a gerund. We are not apt to forget the day in Chemistry when in order to heat the lab Archie Noell put alcohol on the table and set it on fire. Edward Karnes came to his rescue by spitting on the fire to put it out, which provoked Mr. Partlow who had provided sand for such emergencies. Neither will we forget G. D. Hopkins volunteering an answer in history, Lewis Robertson continually embarrassing Jane Hardy by winking at her, Margaret Thomas always scrapping with Tom Dooley and Billy Parker, Early Stanley making announcements loud enough to be heard by every member in the room and Eileen Brent and Mrs. Eliot agreeing on the pronunciation of the French word for mister. Last but not least, our pride and joy is our annual. It is seven years since Bedford High School produced an annual so we are particularly excited over ours. What my diary has meant in bringing back recollections of my other school years, I am sure the annual will do for this, my Senior year. Our Editor-in-Chief, Owen Keeler, has walked around for weeks with a high powered camera concealed in his pocket snapping pictures of anything and anybody. The annual will no doubt be an eyeful. It it is a truthful picture it will show a group of girls and boys who love Bedford High School, who have been very happy working and playing here together during the past years, and who look forward eagerly to lives that will reflect nothing but high credit of their school. ELEANOR HICKS, Class Historian.

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HISTORY OF CLASS OF 1937 (Continued) NOVEMBER 18, 1932. Hoorah for Miss Tate’s room! We tide Mrs. Steele’s section of the seventh grade in the volley ball contest today, even if they did shoot the most goals yesterday. Although Kathleen Powers and Mildred Padgett are new pupils they were loyal rooters for Mrs. Steele’s room. Rooters or no rooters, here’s hoping that Miss Tate’s room breaks the tie. SEPTEMBER 10, 1933. What a red letter day this will always be! We entered the High School building to find the Sophomore girls waiting to paint our faces with lipstick. All of us lost our identity but when the roll was called we heard the following girls’ names that were new to us—Frances Lazenby, Louise Parks, Reva Meador, Beth Dooley, Janie Holdren, Geraldine Forbes, Virginia Key, Margaret Thomas, Mary E. Logwood, Early Stanley, Esther Chappelle. When school was dismissed today we saw the boys of our class going through the belt line. The new members, Lloyd Carter, Jack Coleman and Archie Noell were among them. SEPTEMBER 12, 1933. After much wandering the majority of the freshmen reached the proper classes even if they were 20 minutes late. We are not accustomed to so many teachers and so many rooms but are thankful for our registration card giving names of classes and rooms in which they are held. We are still unable to connect names with faces because the expressions of the faces change with the daily application of lipstick. OGd OBERS 75 91923 Oh! how excited we are planning for the Soph-Freshman party. As usual the girls are discussing what they shall wear and the boys are trying to decide who they shall take. I wonder if Janie will go with David? We hear that he has a pair of long pants for the occasion. NOVEMBER SS 19303 Girls’ Basketball team played Moneta today. Who could hope to win on Friday the 13th? After the game we attended the beauty contest and were proud that the Fresh- man class had as its representative Geraldine Forbes. OCTOBER 12, 1934. The addition of Garland Kidd, Ralph Saunders, Tom Dooley, Billie Parker, and Jimmie May to our class makes us realize how much more fun we can have at our parties and picnics since we have an equal number of boys and girls. JANUARY 10, 1934. The halls were cold again today due to the fact that Watty and Mealy were sitting on one radiator and Tom and Mary on the other. FEBRUARY 16, 1934. FIRE! FIRE! FIRE! All due to Frances Lazenby trying to boil tea towels without water. The alarm was turned in by Mr. Painter who complains of Home Ec. because fumes from fruit cakes cooking make him hungry. MARCH 3, 1934. Checker tournament draws to a close with Jimmy May champion in Mr. Partlow’s room. Evidently Jimmie got some training at New London Academy before entering Bedford High School. MAY 24, 1934. Again Virginia Key upsets the room, this time it was not by walking down the aisles and rolling her eyes, but asking Miss Parker to return her appendix. SEP TEMBER 5 2b234- The student body assembled in the Auditorium and Mr. Borden seated us by classes. Among our group were Eileen Brent, G. D. Hopkins, Louise Lockard, Ruth Wright, Walter Arrington, Geraldine Gillaspie and Fred Turner, who were not with us in our Sophomore year.

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