Big Stone Gap High School - School Bell Yearbook (Big Stone Gap, VA)

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JUNIOR CLASS ■il f Mr r - mm yobl ' 1 1 ; 1 ■ l ! M OFFICERS President MARGARET BOOHER Secretary and Treasurer MARVIN GRAHAM J. E. Body, Jr. Martin Porcha Malcolm Wax Margaret Booher Nancy Galloway Agnes Johnson Ruth Miller Nell Potter Margaret Sanders Dorothy Lane Ruth Wax Raymond Banks Leland Davis George Gilmer Harry. Meador, Jr. MEMBERS Oda Wendell Marvin Graham Charles Ray Dorothy Anderson Mary Louise Brandle Eula Giles Virginia Kelly Geraldine Noel Jeanette Reasor Irene Turner Virginia Barron Vivian Wright Neal Barnette Jack Gibson Cecil Haynes Clarence Robinette Jessie Chandler Donald Lawson James Tignor Louise Bishop Catherine Campbell Emma Horton Anne McCluen Jewell Pennington Betty Reeder Christine Whitehead Helen Chandler Martin Alvis, Jr. Dan Gilmer Linwood Holton Tommy Tucker

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SENIOR CLASS President Vice-President Secretary and Treasurer OFFICERS Tommy Cummings Edgar Callahan Georgia Salley CLASS HISTORY ' Way back about twelve years ago the old school bell rang and about fifty pupils filed into Miss Mahaffey’s first-grade room. These pupils were to form the Senior class of 1940, but only sixteen came completely through school together. In the fourth grade they were joined by Winifred Dixon from the Mendota school, and in the fifth, Chester Turner came from the Norton school. In 1935 they strutted into high school full of vim and vigor and were courageous enough to stand up under the scorn of the upper classmen. Barbara Legge joined the class in 1936 from Exeter. Through the eighth, ninth, and tenth grades the class stumbled. But they were not without honor in those hard years; they had their quota of athletes, scholars, and actors from the beginning of their high school careers. In their Junior year, they were no longer looked down upon and were almost as important as if they were Seniors already. In their Junior year, Sam Osborne entered the Class of 1940 from East Stone Gap High School. Then came September 1939 and they were Seniors! This year, 1939-40, has been a busy one with so many of the class taking part in athletics, clubs, and dramatics. The school teams will greatly miss Barbara Legge, Winifred Dixon, Doris Tilley, Ed- gar Callahan, Eddie Kilbourne, Earl Burdette, David Oldashi, Tommy Cummings, Richard Orr, Henry Lane, and Bill Moore. This year Eddie Kilbourne made All-County and All-District honors in football and was also selected on the All-Tournament teams for the county and district in basketball. Not only in athletics has this class been outstanding. They were well represented in the Beta Club, the Glee Club, and in the Band. The various plays that have been presented have used the talents of several members from this class. Although they do not claim to be the best Senior Class to finish from Big Stone Gap High School, they do rank near the top, this Senior Class of 1940!

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TENTH GRADE OFFICERS President HERMAN GILES Secretary and Treasurer ANN PAINTER Patsy Cambios Whitney Davis Jean Du Pree Nancy Galloway Virginia Honeycutt John Kelly Bill Millet MEMBERS Ronnie Morton Marion Prescott Bill Rush Katherine Williams Helen Davis Ruth De Bord John Fields Herman Giles Winston Hood Olga Maceyko Hoyt Moore Ann Painter Anna Ruth Quillen Jerome Wells Christine Whitehead