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

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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

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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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JUNIOR CLASS HISTORY On a bright September morning in the year nineteen hundred forty-two there enrolled in the Big Stone Gap High School a group of thirty seven students knows as the Juniors. From the brightest of the bright they selected the officers to enact the drama of the coming but now past year. From the beginning of the year it was the ambition of every Junior in school to make their class the most talked of class in school. Their ambition seems to have been realized for the first time in the eleven years which they have spent in climbing to their position as Juniors. They have been praised as a class in which every member takes part in all class activities. This class, due to their representation in the many school activities, can not be praised as one that takes part in class activities alone. On the football field there were five letter men from this room, Douglass Cochran, L. A. Hill, John Beverly, Marvin Barker, and Andrew Reeder. These same athletes with the exception of Marvin Barker reported for basketball. Peggy Pennington, a star forward for two years, and Rubye DeBord, the little fighting guard, answered the call of Coach Barker for basket- ball girls from the Junior room. The scholastic ability of this class was shown by a fifty per cent enrollment of the class as Beta Club members. Even with a record such as this the Juniors were not content, but gave their talents to the Glee Club, Safety Patrol, and the School Bell Staff, We, the Junior class of ' 42, feel that under the leadership of Miss Lora Dingus that our class has been one of Big Stone Gap High School’s most successful Junior classes and hope that we may be as successful in the coming year as SENIORS. THE TENTH GRADE We realize that the whole is made up of its parts and we feel that the tenth grade is an important part of the whole that constitutes Big Stone Gap High School. We are a large class in number and our scholastic record shows that we have not failed to do our work. As yet we have discovered few geniuses, b ut we have the abilities of the average person. Our class has already learned the necessity of individual attainment and as a consequence the class is represented in each of the fields of the curriculum. In football we are represented by Buddy Carmody, L. C. Coughlin, J. R. Gibson, Charles Grubb, Jimmie Graham, Edwin Hill, Bob Hill, Van Holton, Harry Trent, and Glenn Robinette. We are represented in basketball by three boys and three girls. They are Betty Lou Banner, Louise Vance, Betty Lou Collier, Buddy Carmody, Edwin Hill, and Van Holton. Those receiving letters are Betty Lou Banner, Louise Vance, and Buddy Carmody, We are represented in track by Harry Trent, Edwin Hill, Robert Salley, Kenneth Wells, Bob Hill, Glenn Robinette, and Harry Jones. Several members of our class belong to the band. They are Mildred Simms, Kathleen Callahan, Rosalie Wright, Betty Lou Banner, L. C. Coughlin, William Masters, and Harold Wright. The Tenth grade feels that its past record can be improved and each member is determined to do his utmost so that when our class graduates in 1944, parents, teachers, an friends will be proud of us and hopeful for a future that will be the better for our endeavors.