Bedford High School - Peaks Yearbook (Bedford, VA)

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23 Miss Hannah read to the class notes which she had found them writing to J. T. Meadows. Our class history really begins when we entered high school, as it was then that the seventh grade from the Academy and the seventh grade from Bedford Elementary school were reunited. As freshmen we became members of the Glee Club, Newspaper Club, Torch-Y, Airplane, Camera, and Science Club, and later Boys and Girls Hi-Y. Some of our boys were on football, baseball, and basket- ball squads. ‘There was also a girls basketball team. When we were in Miss Saunders’ homeroom, we presented fashion show in which Julia, Janet, Margaret, and Ann Arlen took part. Mr. Painter’s homeroom gave a play pertaining to “Manners.” In our sophomore year a new girl named Willie Lee entered our class. She astonished us by talking like a college graduate rather than like a transfer from Huddleston Hi. In September of our Junior year the B. H. S. girls were all aflutter over the nine Puerto Ricans who entered the school. The boys of our class were very jealous of the attentions shown Harry Besosa, be only Puerto Rican who was a Junior. During our Junior and Senior years clubs and most sports were sacrificed in order to concentrate more time and attention upon physical education. The health period was lengthened to 55 minutes and the whole program reorganized under the leadership of Miss Parker and Mr. Painter. Our work progressed so nicely that when the state representa- tive visited our school we had cause to be proud of his findings. When we entered our Senior year we welcomed two members to the faculty—Miss Claytor as teacher of Home Economics, and Miss Kiley, our new commercial teacher. In January ’44 Mr. Painter was called to the armed forces, and Mr. Allen took over his work at the beginning of the second semester. At the beginning of our Senior year we were asked to vote for the girl who would best represent our class in Washington if she were chosen by the D. A. R. You guessed it—Billy Miller received the most votes! Frank Massie came to school one morning boasting that he had put out a big fire near his home. Later we learned that the whole fire de- partment had been there to assist him. The way E. L. has been going around singing all the time you would think that he was trying ih he a second Sinatra. We wonder if

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22 Class Hisiory Eleven years ago last fall we started to school. That was a happy moment for most ae us, as it made us feel quite “grown-up.” However, the thoughts of eleven long years of hard work ahead were almost fright- ening to ones so young. Now looking back—those years have been very Shae and well—not too hard. There are certain incidents in our school life which we should like to recall to your memory. Surely you haven’t forgotten Janet's love for Tom resulting in Tom’s name being carved on all fie apple trees around the Hick’s hore or Mary Cox’s staying in for chewing gum. Miss Bessie wrote on the board “I must chew gum in school,” Anal told Mary to copy it. Little did Miss Bessie realize That she had left out the word not—until Mary had written the sentence one hundred times. It was also Miss Bessie who had Tom dance every morning for our entertain- ment. He was so bashful that he turned his back to us. June got her dancing practice on the side doing the “pickanniny shinny” at recess. The plays we gave in the first, second, and third grades afforded quite a bit of interes and excitement. We played the dashing roles of fairies, elves, birds, and vegetables. An annual event of the graded school, in which we found great pleasure, was going to the fair. Don’t you remember how we saved our nickles and dimes for weeks in order to be able to ride on the hobby- horses, ferris wheel and the like—to say nothing of taking in all the side shows. Our class was divided in the fourth grade, and all the children liv- ing outside the corporation were transferred to Liberty Academy, the new elementary school for the pupils of central district. Those of us who were sent to the Academy found conditions quite different. We heard much about the new curriculum and found that along with it went more freedom, fewer rules, no home work, and many clubs. The Glee Club, of which many of us were members, went to Lynchburg and gave a radio program— —which we considered very pro- fessional. May Day at Liberty Academy was looked forward to with a great deal of pleasure, because about the first of April we started practicing for it and we did n’t have many lessons. In the fifth grade, the girls were very much embarrassed when

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24 June and Mary Garland will like him half as well as they do their be- loved Frank. One day Miss Ida caught James Phillips, Jimmy Bower, and Gene Fizer playing volley ball in her homeroom at recess. You should have seen them scrubbing walls that afternoon after school. One cold snowy day, Malcolm, Lester, Jimmy, and Gene put Mar- garet and Barbara out on the roof at noon recess. Even this didn't cool them enough to quiet them. E We all know that Ann Arlen didn’t eat any supper the night of the play. Even then it is very surprising that she could eat as much as she did on the stage. - If you have noticed the way Laura has gone around day dreaming you know that she is in love, but it seems that she could have found someone nearer her age than the preacher. Speaking of love affairs, we have had plenty of them: Lillie Belle and J. S., Rachel and Ralph, Kathleen and Hugh, Marjorie and Jimmy, Betsy and Ralph, and Eunice and Paul. James Henry came to school every morning claiming that he had to study bookkeeping. Could it have been that he was interested in Virginia? Alma and Doris certainly were interested in Holy Cross basketball team, and we all understand the reason they were so anxious to have a second game. There are two events that we aren't likely to forget. One is the Halloween Party, the first all-school party to be held in high school. We recommend that it become an annual event. The other is the Ju- nior-Senior Party, which was so much enjoyed by all. As our high school years come to an end we recall other memorable happenings, such as, our trips to Natural Bridge, Timber Lake, and the County Lake. We shall probably forget some of the things we learned, but we shall always remember and cherish the memories of the friends we made and the teachers who have been our guides and our friends. ANNE PADGETT and MARIE ZIMMERMAN, Class Historians