Axton High School - Axtonian Yearbook (Axton, VA)

 - Class of 1946

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who’s Who in the Senior Class KEY TO WHO’S WHO IN THE SENIOR CLASS — (1) Most intellectual: Wells, Craig’. (2) Quietest: Burgess, Dillon. (3) Best Looking: Wagner, Holland. (4) Valedictorian, Craig; Salutatorian, Earles. (5) D.A.R. Good Citizen, Wyatt. (6) Wittiest: Kendall, Davis. (7) Most athletic: La ' wrence, Burchell. (8) Most popular and best dressed; Lawrence, Hol- land. (9) Most serviceable: Wilson, Craig. (10) Best-all-round, Craig. (11) V.L.L. debaters: Wagner, Elliott, Wyatt, Craig, Earles, Kendall. (12) Best-all-round boy, Wagner.

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THE AXTONIAN another time they are on the campus with colorful flags flying and Virginia Holland is being crowned Victory Queen by Mr. Saville. A high light of the junior year occurs on an April day. There is a clear reflection of each junior drawing on a gold band with onyx setting — the 1946 class ring. He has the proud assurance that he will be a senior the next year ! But the mirror of time does not show all juniors becoming seniors. Marshall Newton enters the navy. Carleen Matthews, Gertrude and Marjorie Joyce, Gloria Wyatt, Juanita Gillispie and Magdaline Wilson go to work in the summer and do not return. Katherine Moss continues as a junior. This year one sees reflected well organized intra-mural athletics. Every member of this class is active on some team. The outstanding social scene is a school bus, loaded with seniors and juniors happy with laughter and song, wending its way to Fairystone Park where the juniors and their sponsor serve a delightful picnic lunch in a pavilion. After games are played by the lake with one another and the “gnats”, all return home for pleasant dreams. Alas ! only twenty seniors are to be seen on the front seats of the auditorium in the fall of 1945 ! One of these, Clore Eggleston, soon leaves for Martinsville ; and in the spring of 1946, another, Betty Jean Whitfield, quits to join the matrimonial ranks. In the senior year there are many pictures, for World War II is over and peace-time activities are resumed. There is a play, “Don’t Take My Penny”, in which all seniors take part, being staged to an appreciative audience in early December. Intra-mural athletics and literary contests are frequent. Inter-school baseball is resumed in the spring. Six Sen- iors debate on compulsory military training, the question of the Virginia High School League; one enters the state poetry reading contest. Educational moving pictures as part of the curriculum are enjoyed. On April 27, the District S. C. A. of which James Wagner is vice-president, is enter- tained by the Axton S. C. A. of which Mabel Earles is president. It is pleasant to review the visiting students enjoying the lovely Axton campus, the lunch room and attractive programs presented by the District Association. Members of class ’46 are doing their part as hosts. A party of thirteen are at University of Virginia, May 2-3. Seven of these are Axton seniors and their sponor. They are busy with the V.H.L. contests and entertainments. Though the party brings back no championships to Axton, most of them rate superior. The farewell entertainment of the juniors to the seniors one evening in May is a jolly frolic. All are gay as they drive up the winding roads bordered with blooming laurel to Fairy Stone Park. They enjoy boating and swimming until driven into the pavilion by a storm. Then wiener roasting and games occupy them until the moo n comes out and they start for home. But the most triumphant scene recorded for members of class ’46 occurs when, on June 3, they extend their hand for those sheepskins won by four years of work, amidst the applause of hundreds of interested friends. Then there are partings ! The mirror re- flects no more. The history of class ’46 is ended. Pauline Wyatt Historian Page Fifteen



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THE A X T 0 N I A N Last Will and Testament E, enlightened and dignified members of the Senior Class of Axton High School, located in Henry County, Virginia, being sound in mind and body, realize that our high school life is fast coming to an end and so we desire to make known our last bequests. We have received valuable benefits which will prepare us better for the battle of life; and, being unselfish by nature, we, therefore, will and bequeath our most valuable treasures and possessions, enumerated below, to those most deserving to receive them. To our principal, we leave our sincere appreciation, deepest respect, loyalty and an eter- nal memory picture of us as we appear when receiving our diplomas. To our beloved sponsor. Miss Norvell, we leave the friendship of the entire class and a screened-in volleyball court, so softball won’t interfere with the games she coaches. To Mrs. Barker, a permanent library assistant to take over when she is out. To Miss Clarke, a new 1946 book on the drawing of cartoons and a larger bulletin board to put them on. To Miss Lumsden, a nice big wastebasket like the one in the senior room. To Mrs. 0. W. Hairfield, a correspondence course in piano, so that she may keep on with her “hit parade” programs next year. To Mrs. Bryan, a traveling grocery store, so she will not need to overload her car when shopping for the cafeteria. To the junior class, we will the privilege of being the next successful senior class of Axton High. To the sophomores, we leave our dignified ways and studious habits that they may be- come experienced upper classmen. To the freshmen, we will the happy and tolerant attitudes of the senior class, as we think they may need them to surmount the difficulties of their future years in high school. Our individual bequests are as follows : I, Mabel Earles, leave to Norman Cassada the largest desk in the senior room in order that he may have room for his feet. I, Louise Davis, leave some of my extra weight to Peggy Billings. I, Wilbert Haley, will my bashful ways to George Barker and Mack Mc- Daniel. I, Dorothy Dillon, leave my talents in writing poetry to Gertrude Watkins. I, Arthur Toler, leave my policy of “getting by without labor” to L. C. Hankins. I, Marvin Kendall, leave my flirting habits to Ralph Wright and Charles Manning. I, Elizabeth Johnston, leave Martha Holland a large alarm clock, so she can meet the bus on time. I, Doris Elliott, leave Beatrice Burnette one thousand sheets of stationery on which to con- tinue writing her many boy friends. I, Ramey Burgess, leave my quietness to Melvin Jones, so that he can calm down and study when he becomes a senior. I, Clifton Wells, leave some of my mental gifts to Billy Lawrence and Jasper Hankins as they may need them on exams next year. I, Pauline Wyatt, leave to Evelyn Hall a four-leaf clover to bring her good luck at Mount Airy. L Joanne Craig, leave Charlie Agee a brand new car with the hopes it will get better treatment than “Little Willie” has had. I, Henry Eggles- ton, leave Mae Ashby a seventh grade boy friend. I, Virginia Holland, leave my good dis- position to Cleo Martin. I, Louise Davis, leave Mildred Holland the cast off my sprained ankle. It may be needed if she plays strenuous basketball next year. I, Sheila Burchell, leave my “tom boy” clothes to Katherine Moss. I, James Wagner, leave Dillard Gravely my weakness for brunettes and pretty automobles. I, Gerald Wilson, leave my mechanical habits to Julian Compton and Cyrial Ray Jones. I, Coleman Lawrence, leave to Lyne Starl- ing my popularity with the ladies. We, the senior class of 1946, do charge the junior class to faithfully execute this last will and testament, which is to become effective on the night of our graduation. Signed, Witnesses : RAMEY BURGESS Besse N. Barker Testator. Jean Clarke Mary Bryan May 1, 1946. Page Seventeen

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