Bedford High School - Peaks Yearbook (Bedford, VA)

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26 ’h3 HALL OF FAME ’43 ORD EASTWOOD ANDERSON—Most Likely to Succeed, Most Attractive, Most Athletic, Best All Around. DICK SYNAN-—Jolliest, Wittiest, Best Dressed, Most Musical. CLAUDE REYNOLDS—Biggest Flirt,-Biggest Talker. BILLY ENGLISH—Most Talented Artist. FRITZ COLEMAN—Sweetest, Most Courteous. CHARLES RUCKER—Best Physique, Best Looking. AUBREY GIBBS—Most Studious. SMITTY SMITH—Laziest. FRANK KARNES—Most Bashtul. ANNETTE KEELER—Most Likely to Succeed, Most studious. MARY STEWART GILLS—Best Looking, Most At- tractive. MARY o GILES and GHAREES RUCKER Biggest Case. HILDA BENNETT—Biggest Flirt, Most Musical, Big- gest Talker. MARY HANNAH KENNEDY—Best Figure, Most Tal- ented Artist. BF TTY PERROW—Best Dressed. HELLEN WATSON—Most Athletic. I. AURA LEE TERRY—Laziest. LUCILLE HATCHER—Most Bashful. BE THO HURT==Wattest MARIE ENGLISH—Best All Around, Sweetest, Most Courteous, Jolliest.

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28 HISTORY OF THE CLASS Oe FE ER, STE On September 8, 1932, eleven years ago, an important event took place. We, the pupils of the class of °43, then a somewhat frightened and bewildered group, all dressed up spic and span, were starting school. How- ever, in no time at all, it seemed, we had outgrown the BABY RAY PRIM- IR and we had become too old to play “Drop the Handkerchief” and “Fly Little Birdie, Fly Fly Away.’ We were growing up! Why, in Miss Bessie’s room we were even old enough to make our first real public appearance in the play, “Peter Rabbit.” Hilda was starred as the frisky Peter himself, and those in the cast supporting her included the rabbits Eastwood, Fritz, Billy, R. P., and Dicky. The vegetables making up the rabbit’s diet were carrots, Edith, Nina Lee, Ada, Mary Stewart, Annette, Betty Ann, Kathryn Slusher, and Lucille Zimmerman. We must not forget beets, Eloise Powers and Marie English. In Miss Jane Grey’s room we fe't as though we had acquired an entire liberal arts education when we actually learned the name of every state and its capital. But school we remember was by no means all work when we think back to the 5th grade picnic at the fair grounds. We have been making a mistake attributing the color of Hilda's, Frances’, and Mary Stewart’s hair to peroxide. It really dates back to that scuffle at the picnic when we squeezed lemon juice all over each other. In between times of learning to recite the 100 counties of Virginia, and such, in the seventh grade we had plenty of laughs. Do you remember the time that public speaker, Billy English, recited a poem in such a sing song that the whole class practically got hysterics and Mrs. Steele went into the closet to keep us from seeing her laughing? One day we were convinced that we had a genius in our midst when Beth and Mrs. Steele were the only two who got the same answer to one of those terrible problems. However, Annette proved to the world that they were both wrong. Then there was the time when Betty Ann and Hannah absolutely shocked the modesty of the other girls by wearing a dab of lip- stick. The graded school editorial :taff of the newspaper learned how to eet out of written lessons by becoming overwhelmed with their literary work, At the Academy similar tricks were practiced by Nancy and Dot