Andrew Lewis High School - Pioneer Yearbook (Salem, VA)

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Published by the Students of Andrew Lewis High School, Salem, V irginia Scenes in the Staff Room showing various phases of the work in progress r . V

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ScANLAND Tobey Green Harmon Weaver Hearing Beckner Robertson Clyde R. Turner, Adviser The Pioneer THE STAFF Lois Wilfong. Editor-in-Chief Robert A. Vest. Business Manager Editorial Staff Murrill Scanland Phyllis Bagley Betty Phillips Joyce Beckner Frank Walthall Mary Beth Watson Ca rolyn Moore Norma Perdue Barbara Stevens Photographers Bob Carlton Mac Green Harry Hock Circulation Margaret HarmonI „ , t qp Managers James 1 obey] 6 Ann Obenshain Earlene Kimmerling Frances Miller Sports Broaddus Chewning Lucetta Woodruff Advertising Louis Weaver. Manager Mary Louise Hearing Owen McDaniel Alpheus White William Gentry Jean Logan Virginia Morris Jane Barger Robert Ayers Secretaries Margaret Robertson Edith Scott Typists Mary Wright Dorcas Lofland Margaret Thomas i rgin i a Moore, Mary Goodwin, Katherine McElroy, Assistant Advisers in Circulation , Bookkeeping and Finance

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Scene from the Andrew Lewis Library where students daily spend their vacant periods in reference work and general reading A Panoramic View Few commencement speakers have had the chance to address a class when peace, security, and the things men live for have been at such a premium as at the present hour. On every hand we see crumbling all the things that men have worked and struggled for in the past two thousand years, and it is only natural that much of our faith in established things be shaken. At such a time, it is not only a pleasant occupation, but one which should help restore that wan¬ ing faith, to think about the historic good any society—no matter what its size—has been able to effect. Our nation is yet a democracy. We still enjoy—more than any other country in the world- freedom of speech, of press, and of religion. We are thankful for these blessings: thankful that the wish expressed by Lord Berkeley, Governor of Virginia in 1670, has not yet come true: “Thank God;’’ he said,“ there are no free schools nor printing: and I hope we shall not have, these hundred years.” For many years our country and our state have enjoyed political, religious and intellectual freedom. And as residents of Salem, and of Roanoke County, as much interested in the affairs of the world as any other American community, and much more vital in their operation than many, it is