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

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enioz CLla C tcets Jack Kirk Ray Graham President Secretary and Treasurer We look back without regret to our humble beginning when thirteen — two boys and eleven girls — of our present class of twenty-seven shared dread and enthusiasm during our first days at school. Twelve years — how endless that time seemed in September 1 934. Now the years have passed leaving behind an indeliable trail of memories. September 1945, we began our senior year without Steve Delceg. Jerry Potter, John Ed Morris and Jim Quillen, four members of our class who had entered the U. S. Army during the summer. With Tency Collier as our class president, the Seniors brought forth qualities of industry, responsibility and leadership developed in previous years as underclassmen. October brought Charles Grubb, Jr., and Jack Kirk to our class from the Army Air Forces. We received our class rings and displayed them with tremendous satisfaction. October also brought football games, cheering sections and cokes afterwards. January 1946, while we were struggling through exams. Tency and Bill Buckles chose wedding bells and withdrew from our group. Jack Kirk was entrusted with the responsibility of guiding us through the remainder of the year. Edwin Hill and Harry Trent came back from the war to join our class at mid-term. Betty Campbell Brooks and Mary Akens Rutherford pushed aside their marital re- sponsibilities to complete this year with us. In February we wrote copy and took pictures to meet the deadline of March the first for the School Bell. With March Qme a feeling of finality as we prepared for our senior play. The last few weeks held much to remember, the Junior-Senior reception, planning and attending practices for our final exercises, addressing invitations, and at last, receiving our diplomas, which symbolized the completion of our high school course. What was begun is finished and now we start anew. We look back over our school days only with the thought of learning from the past to build a better future.

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SENIORS Doris Williams Modest, sympathetic, and sociable are synonymous with Doris. Glee Club 3. Lucille Williams Lucille’s keen observations and in- fectious laughter enable us to share in her merriment. Glee Club 3, 4; Basketball 1; School Bell Staff 4; “Mama’s Baby Boy”. Bill Wright Loyalty is Bill’s most predominant quality; he is recognized as a leading tenor in the Glee Club. Glee Club 3, 4: Fire Fighters 3, 4.

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itniot I dHflL x i Ik Wi 1 w i I i JL |4« m S J | Jr . X ' -7 1 Ml l - First row: June Davis, Pearl Morelock. Clarine Pate. Joneva Kite, Bonnie Salyer, Wilma Hall. Irene Wil- liams, Evelyn Trent, Ruth Barnett. Billie Sue Scroggs. Second row: Ellen Pennington, Sarah Collier, Faye Smith, Mae B. Stone. Joan Kilbourne. Dorothy Edwards, Virginia Davidson, Peggy Fletcher. Monette Giles, Daphene Deal. Miss Dingus. Third row: Paul Tucker, Helen Maxfield, Georgia Beverly, Mildred Marcum, Lillian Fleenor, June Hopkins, Peggy Akens. Joanne Barnett, Sue Books, Bobby Williams. Fourth row: Billy Nave. Sam Collier. Ernest Jessee, Horace Cacmody. Claude Pennington, David Olinger, James Slemp. Glenn Wendell, Jim True, Eugene Kilbourne. Toby White. What do we remember about our Junior year? Long to be remembered is Miss Dingus ' quiet understanding and sound counsel. We were glad to have Sue Books, Pearl Morelock, Evelyn Trent, Billie Sue Scroggs and Billy Nave as new members of our class. Horace “Buddy” Carmody and Ernest Jessee who had returned from the U. S. Army joined us at mid-term. Some Juniors prominent in school activities were David Olinger, class president and assistant business manager of the School Bell; Bonnie Salyer, class vice-president; June Hopkins, class secretary and treasurer and assistant editor of the School Bell: Toby White and Bobby Williams, captain and co- captain of the Safety Patrol. Looking forward to publishing our. yearbook, we swelled our treasury with funds from a magazine campaign conducted in February. Our number one social event was the Junior-Senior reception held in the gym in April. In May as we made the daisy chain to use in the final exercises, we realized that we now faced the challenge of our senior year.