Bedford High School - Peaks Yearbook (Bedford, VA)

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Junior lads OFFICERS SHERRILL COLEMAN : F a. ‘ j ; : : President Ke ONES aaa ee ee a etc. tao Vice-President Davip DRAPER ee re ene ee YSCCTELary-L.reasirenr First row, left to right: Willie Ruth Bays, Hannah Rusher, Marion Scott, Phyllis Faribault, Mary Lydia Lyle, Helen Saken, Katherine Bandy, Dorothy Wilkes, Rachel Hardy, Marilyn Miller, Helen Padgett. Second row, left to right: Evelyn Zimmerman, Helen Creasy, Edna Long, Mary Jane Burnette, Lois Gibbs, Louise Holland, Mary Gertrude Arthur, Elizabeth Teass, Rachel Abbott, Virginia Bell, Doris Burks, Marianna Schubert, Mary Elliott. Third row, left to right: Hayden Smith, Harold Kennedy, Annie Witt, Edna Kirby, Charlotte Gray, Fred Conner, Estelle Foy, Jean Latimer, Mary Willie Watson, David Draper, J. S. Meador, Griffin Hardy, Jack Hicks. Fourth row, left to right: Paul Drumheller, Ted Cook, Sherrill Coleman, Billy Padgett, Raymond Karnes, Clifton Overstreet, Jimmie Synan, Clyde Morgan, Gamiel Draper, Edward Holdren, William Jennings, James Teass, Kyle Jones, Mr. Thomas.

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Clas 4 SH isto ry--Co nlinued Heck, Rebecca Saunders, Dorothy Thomas, Christine Key, Frances Scott, Mary Eliza- beth Dooley, Louise Hicks, and Dorothy Hopkins. Miss Bibb certainly did have a time trying to keep Ed Sutherland, who took the part of a dignified millionaire, from snapping his fingers every time he said a word wrong. Eddie Laura Kennedy was supposed to fall flat on her face in one scene, but she just couldn’t do it without hurting her—dignity. So Mary Burks undertook to show her how, but she fell just once too often. We were the first class to have the advantages cf a commercial department, and a number of our class took some of these subjects. Sammie and Mildred Wilkerson ought to really know shorthand if they were studying it all the time they seemed to be. Wasn’t it queer that Betty Thomason always had a sore finger on the day of a typing test? To go back to the graded school—didn’t Hunter Smith use to tease Dan Bower about his affection for Rachel Lockard when we were in the fourth grade? You couldn’t blame Dan, however, when you think how pretty she looked as a fairy in the seventh grade play. There were nine of our class in Miss Tate’s room that year, and some of them really distinguished themselves. It was that year that we disccvered what a good Negro actor John Turner was, and that Louise Hicks showed the skill as “room house- keeper” that later won her the Home Economics Medal. I believe Jean Mayhew was the class artist. We had a fine time and plenty of excitement on our picnic that year in Mrs. Steele’s room. There was an old chimney near the picnic grounds, and Watts Gills and Hugh Mackey risked their necks in knocking it down. When Douglas Lester was in the seventh grade, he had a fondness for knocking on the doors of the lower grade rooms and then disappearing. Miss Bessie Coppedge cured him of that habit, however, when she made him come in the third grade and sit down. We will never think of Basil Padgett without his motorcycle or Gordon Lazenby without his lunch. Gordon used to eat before school, at lunch time, after school, and sometimes in between times. Do you remember what a funny mistake Frank Johnson made down at Randolph- Macon Woman’s College? He’s been down there to Latin Tournaments so many times that it does look as if he would know his way around, but he went up the wrong steps and landed in the girls’ dormitory. Weren’t the debates in English Class fun? What happened to Lois Coffey when she got up to say hers? She couldn’t seem to see anyone but one person back in the corner. Mary Elizabeth Dooley used to have a time trying to make Bill Catlin stop pulling her hair. She always told him that she was going to tell Miss Bibb if he didn’t stop, but she never did. Though we may not have realized it at the time, those schooldays were the happiest days of our lives. We may forget the lessons we learned, but we’ll always remember the teachers we knew and the friends we made. Jean DELANEY, Class Historian.

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eC op Wormer OFFICERS Maurice O'DONOHOE 02) ee De ee Se oe sigcere Kitty Nasu x : : eave F 4 : : ; Vice-President JANE) SMITHS e101, ( 0 i ie eo meee Oty ALBERT HAYGARD . , : : ‘ ; ; : : . Treasurer First row: Emily O’Donohoe, Jacqueline Overstreet, Doris Carter, Dorothy Overstreet, Isabel Key, Anne Johnson, Dorothy McClintock, Mae Ballard, Elizabeth Merritt, Jean DeWitt, Mary Ann Moorman, Marie Winton, Sarah Ballard, Marguerite Terry. Second row: Thelma Overstreet, Helen Zimmerman, Mildred Stafford, Jane Smith, Lois Reynolds, Elsie Atkinson, Anita Atkinson, Frances Wright, Ethel Rusher, Madeline Leftwich, Irene Powell, Lois Robinson, Mary Kessler, Dorothy Pugh, Lucy Holland, Catherine Nash, Dorothy Watson, Willie Meadow. Third row: Frances Thomas, Dellia Belle Coffey, Nelma Stiff, Ruth Stone, Lucy Key, Anne Haygard, Lillie Updike, Regina Cheek, Bobbie Scott, J. D. Smith, George T. Parker, Harry B. Maupin, Donald Wade, Maurice O’Donohoe, Quincy Heck, Jack Robinson, Wallace Jennings, Hubert Roberts, James Chryssikos, Irwin Bornstein. Fourth row: Nina Rowlett, Marilyn Hudson, Billy Fizer, Frank Karnes, Cyril Cousart, John Byrne, Cleo Simpkins, Reginald Powers, Dean Wilkerson, Bobbie Wright, Tommy Martin, Jack Hicks, Laurence Kropff, Lewis Wilks, John Clifton, Page Powers, Lewis Zimmerman, Nelson Johnson, Jimmie Guy Hopkins, Clarence Whorley, Thomas Carneal.