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

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BOYS’ BASKETBALL The Big Stone boys had a very successful season. Winning twelve games and losing nine, the season was more impressive than figures show. The team lost six of the nine games by one to four-point margins. The undefeated Emory and Henry Freshman Team defeated Big Stone Gap by only one point. A victory over Norton brought the Buccaneers an invitation to the District Tournament at Marion. There they were defeated in the first game by William Byrd High School of Roanoke, 40-36. In the Wise County Tournament, they won over Wise to advance to the semi-finals where Flat Gap beat them 27-17. Hoyt Moore and Eddie Kilbourne made the All-Tournament Team. Kilbourne was also picked for the All-District Team. Coach Barker will lose five boys by graduation: Captain Callahan, Kilbourne, Oldashi, Cummings, and Burdette.

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CLASS WILL We, the Senior Class of 1940, being of sound mind, strong body, and above average mentality, do hereby, declare this to be our last will and testament, to be executed in the following order: Article I 1. To dear old Big Stone Gap we leave our everlasting good will and loyalty. 2. To the faculty, we give our deepest respect and thanks for their assistance to and patience with us. 3. To Mr. Wood, our janitor, we leave our chewed chewing gum, scraps of paper, and thanks for his good predictions of football scores. 4. To the Juniors we leave our desks with the hope they will occupy them only one year. 5. To the Eighth Grade we leave a map so they won’t get lost in changing classes.- Article II 1. Eddie Kilbourne bequeaths his athletic ability to Neal Barnette. 2. Barbara Legge leaves her good looks to Ruth Miller. 3. Helen Gilley leaves her art for jerking sodas to Jeanette Reasor and Irene Turner, as they are always at the drug store anyhow. 4. Ayres Spangler wills his berth on the Junior Varsity to J. E. Body. 5. Bill Moore leaves his speedy track laurels to Linwood Holton. 6. Eloise Morton bequeaths her boy friend to Nancy Galloway. 7. Doris Tilley leaves her weight ticket to Patsy Cambios. 8. Earl Burdette wills his ability to trim flowers to Mr. Horne. 9. Chester Turner leaves his sleek appearance to John Stone. 10. Winifred Dixon and Della Bloomer leave their gift of quietness to Ann Painter and Jean DuPree. 11. Tommy Cummings wills his leadership to Herman Giles. 12. Edgar Callahan leaves his blush to Cecil Haynes. 13. Georgia Salley leaves her dependability to Margaret Booher. 14. Sam Osbourne leaves his scholastic ability to John Kelly. 15. Virginia David wills her M. R. S. degree to Vivian Wright. 16. David Oldashi leaves his horse-laugh to Marvin Graham. 17. Henry Lane leaves all his “rights to mischief’’ to Jack Gibson. 18. June Rush leaves her ability to play the piano to Ronnie Morton. 19. Richard Orr bequeaths his “Health and Safety” book to Martin Alvis. In witness hereof, we, the Senior Class of 1940, do hereby set our seal, this, the thirty-first day of May, nineteen hundred forty. SENIOR CLASS OF 1940 ALUMNI The Big Stone Gap High School Alumni Association was organised in 1908 by Prof. R. P. Sheppe, and has developed into one of the largest and most active organizations of high school alumni in South- west Virginia. Nearly seven hundred graduates, in almost every state in the Union, make up its membership. Each year it has been customary for the alumni to entertain the graduating class with a banquet, and for the last few years, dancing has been added. The Association has contributed to the improvement of equipment of the school, to athletics, and to the band. In 1939, it was decided to place in the library a book or set of books as a memorial to each graduate who died that year. The purpose of the Association is to keep alive the interest of the graduates in their school and to cooperate in every way with the school ' s progress.