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

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NINTH GRADE NINTH GRADE

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TENTH GRADE MEMBERS Glen Allen Buddy Carmody L. C. Coughlin Bill Fletcher J. R. Gibson Jimmie Graham Charles Grubb, Jr. Bob Hill Edwin Hill Bill Holland Van Holton William Masters Claude McConnell Roy Orr Glenn Robinette Wallace Rush Robert Salley Woodrow Sanders Harry Trent Harry Wallace Kenneth Wells Benton Williams Harold Wright Harry Jones Lois Ashe Betty Lou Banner Kathleen Callahan Betty Lou Collier Dorothy Collier Opal Collier Wilma Jean Collier Anita Colvard Ruth Colvard Ruth Davis Louise Dulaney Helen Edens Vivien Edwards Ruth Messer Virginia Quillen Mildred Simms Rosalie Wright Louise Vance

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THE NINTH GRADE At work or at play, the ninth grade class of 1942 gave the best they had and that is an honest man ' s creed: .nothing more could be asked or wished for. It was in a way saddening to see the roll of this class change from sixty-two at the beginning of school to forty-nine at the end of the year. In most cases, however, those leaving school had a reasonable excuse for doing so. Bernard King, Phillip Oldashi, and Conley Barker put patriotism before education. Their school careers were thus ended in order that they might take their places in the defense work now in progress all over the nation. Although athletic talent fell a bit short in the ninth grade this year, musical talent was well- represented. Helen Burdette, Jean Wampler, Eula Mae Kelly, Delilah Gilmer, Mary Akens, Mary Ann Kyle. Hazel Saunders. Patsy Petterson, Wilma Sturgill. Betty Ann Body, and Audrey Donaldson offered melody to the Glee Club. On the varsity sports docket there were only two ninth graders listed, Helen Burdette in girls’ basketball and Dewey Stallard in football and basketball. Perhaps so far as specific items and individual personalities go, the 1942 Ninth Grade will leave little to the school as a whole: but to the class it will leave a memory and many influences which even Time cannot erase. Good will, close fellowship, principles of cooperation which come naturally as a result of classroom association, will live with us forever. THE EIGHTH GRADE O wad some Pow’c the giftie gie us To see oursels as ithers see us.” The eighth grade this year began with a membership of sixty-four. We have lost some of our members, however, and at present, the class consists of twenty-nine girls and twenty-three boys. As a group, we are representative of the usual “green horns’’ entering high school. It is rumored, however, that we have to add our grades together at the end of the month in order to pass. This, let us emphasize is merely a rumor. Of course we have had our difficulties in becoming adjusted to high school life, but we hope to become one of the best classes Big Stone Gap High School has yet had, and shall endeavor to contribute much to our school before we leave. The class has made a very good beginning in sports this year. Two of our members. Earnest Jessee and Edward Sizemore, lettered in football. The eighth grade girls contributed their share to basketball: Jo DeBord, Lenoir Jackson, and Peggy Akens went out for the girls basketball team. Della Mae Trent was assistant manager of the team. Our class has the best school spirit of any previous eighth grade. Over ninety-five per cent of the class attended football games regularly and gave its loyal support to the team. The eighth grade also contributed much talent to the band. The following are members: Jerry Potter, Elizabeth Anne DuPre, Beecher Holland, Della Mae Trent, and Murel Blanton.