Big Island High School - Islander Yearbook (Big Island, VA)

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(junior Class Beatrice Burks Kitty Harris Betsy Branch Doris Burks Fred Bechmann Roland Burford Shelby Collier Esther Dawson

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Class Prophecy After completing the tour , Barbara and I were going to dine. On the way we encountered another of our classmates, Edward Sanderson. He was in town for a National cattle convention. His ranch is second to none in size, value, and quality of stock. He has never been able to get a complete count of his cattle, his acre- age is so tremendous, taking in 1 3 of the state of Texas. He told us of his wife, the former Donna Spence, another of our classmates, who owns and operates the International Spence ' s Meat Packers Corporation, which alone packs enough meat daily to supply all of the United States, plus England and France. In addition to this her company supplies Africa, Australia, Alaska and part of the South Sea Islands. Their brand of beef comes from Sanderson ' s Ranch. While talking with Ed, it was suggested that he accompany us to dinner. Readily agreeing we entered what used to be Putney ' s Grocery. It has been remodeled and enlarged into a beautiful and famous restaurant owned and operated by o n e of our classmates, Irvin Putney. Though the food is rather expensive we managed to get a free meal, since we were recognized and welcomed by the proprietor himself. After returning from dinner I purchased a Big Island Gazette, a daily newspaper. While reading the paper I noticed that James Vess ' s television program has been voted the top variety show for the year . While James rehearses for the shows his wife stays home and cares for their two boys. A sample of his entertainment which gained him this high honor was a basketball dribbling exhi- bition put on by Wayne Wilson, a former classmate of ours. He is presently captain of the Charlemont Blue Jays , the number one Professional Team of the Nation. In completion of my tour of Big Island I was invited to attend an enormous and elegant banquet given by a well known society lady of Big Island, none other than Janet Camden another member of our class. The banquet was given in honor of the 1957 gradua- tion class . I will go back to Paris feeling very happy that I have been able to meet some of my good friends and see how successful they have been in life . Prophet Patsy Arthur

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junior Class n Robert Inge Ronnie Ross Ernest Manley Nancy Ramsey John R . Rusher Steve T omlinson Jerry T revey Wilmer Woodfin Donald Taylor