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

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CLASS OFFICERS President HERMAN Giles Secretary and Treasurer JiMMiE BROADWATER SENIOR CLASS HISTORY Tense moments on the football field or in Track, joyful rivalry on the basket- ball court, seconds before a debate, sleepless nights before exams, happy class- room experiences, and little get-togethers .... High school life with all its heartaches and joys has been ours. But this chapter of our youth is closing for us, to be reopened only in memory. Yes, in the quietness of the night while the rain gently falls, we will remember. It isn ' t altogether the grades or books, club meetings or basketball tournaments that have been important to us. Our four years in Big Stone High have meant this to us, but oh, so much more! Laboring in unison for common goals has taught us much. Then, too, the association with teachers who have taken a personal interest in what we do and the formation of friendships with boys and girls of our generation who will be leaders of to- morrow, will help us to remember our high school days. B. S. G. hours are a part of the youth we will always want to re-live and which will become more dear as the years pass. But what of our future lives! We, as Seniors, know that our high school life has only been the prelude to larger and more important experiences. Psy- chologists tell us that too much dreaming is not good. But just as the founders of our great nation dreamed of a government “of the people, by the people, and for the people”, so we must see in the future the self-government of ourselves such that we will be worthy citizens of this heritage. Some will continue their studies in college and some will not, but in whatever capacity we are serving we must hitch our wagon to a star and aspire for better things. Yes, a chapter in our life is being closed, but we can be confident that we will find a better sequel to it in the future.

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SENIORS Marian Prescott “But to see her was to love her.” Glee Club 1, 2, 3; Home Economics Club 1. Bill Rush “His thoughts were roots that firmly gripped the granite truth.” Beta Club 2, 3, 4; Safety Patrol 4. Judy Taylor “The eyes of conscience testing every stroke.” Glee Club 1, 2, 3, 4; Home Economics Club 2, 3, 4; Band 2, 3, 4: Band Sponsor 4; Safety Patrol 2: “Spring Fever’’ 4. Charles Watts “I find earth not grey, but rosy.” Safety Patrol 4; Glee Club 1, 2, 3; Track 3. Jerome Wells “Fresh and free and frank.” Safety Patrol 2, 3; Glee Club 2, 3, 4. Katherine Williams “The quiet mind is richer than a crown ... Beta Club 3, 4; Glee Club 2, 3, 4; Safety Patrol 2.

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JUNIORS President PENELOPE NOEL Secretary and Treasure r Betty Sue Wade Marvin Barker John Allen Beverly Jo Booher Joseph Boy Douglass C. Cochran Ruhy DeBord John Dixon Doris Fletcher Emogene Fletcher Winston Giles MEMBERS Mary Katherine Hamilton Letcher A. Hill Virginia Johnson Julia Ann Kelly Kenneth Kite Patty Lynn Lacy Keith Lane Robert Meador Peggy Pennington Andrew Reeder Jr. Robert Sanders Jr. Wilma Jean Simms Lorene Smitherman Jean Stuart Lois Jean Tolbert Lillian Tolbert Betty Alice Tucker Mildred Wells Lucille Whited Tom Witt