Broadway High School - Memories Yearbook (Broadway, VA)

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’39 History ’50 It is a cool morning in early June as we file through the door, up the steps and into the familiar senior room. This is the time of the year we have waited for, and the day we have long dreamed about. In September of last year a group of thirty-seven students at¬ tained the name and now the highest position of seniors of the class of 1950. Each of us is thinking of the future and reminiscing in the past. Perhaps we are con¬ templating how difficult it will be to leave our beloved classmates and our high school. But, yet we are thinking what a wonderful future we have ahead at college, on a farm, or building that little dream house. Then our thoughts wander back to almost eleven years ago when nine of the present seniors invaded the first grade. They were: Betty Sue Hoover, Glenn Will, Wanda Hinkle, Gerald Orebaugh, Mary Kathryn Fulk, Jay Crider, Dorothy Ann Early, Eleanor Williams and Alva Phillips, all proud and happy little youngsters. We can imagine how Mr. Hillyard, our principal, also looks back to remember that he began his first year of principalling at B. H. S. that same year. The way the time ilew through the elementary years probably even surprised us. We remember that Anna Lucy Phillips, Ruby Showalter, Johnnie Huffman, Justin Halterman, and I della Mongold joined our class during the course of the grades. Then suddenly we found ourselves getting ready for the freshman year of high school and most important we were almost grown up. The next fall as the curtain rose on our high school life we found ourselves getting ad¬ justed to routines very different from anything we had ever known. During our freshman year different members of our class participated in the various activities offered, such as basketball, different clubs, and representatives on the Communi-K and Reflector staffs. Many times we would recall old friends that had left the class and welcome the new students who were mounting the stairs with the aim of reaching the top also. Among those we welcomed in that year were: Dolly Armentrout, Charles Blosser, Betty McWilliams, all from Lacey Springs,—Norma Dove from Pennsylvania—Joyce Lantz, Nancy Trumbo, Russell Wittig, Jr. from Cootes Store,—Alma Lee Puffins, Wanda Good, Janalee Sheetz, Louise Roller, Louise Strickler, from Tenth Legion,—Joy Ande s from New Market,—and Dorothy June Biller from Timberville. The year of ’46-’47 was spent very quietly but the next year, being sophomores, we began to be recognized by the upper classmen as a vital part of Broadway High School. We must not fail to mention the new members of our class joining us as sophomores. They were Ray Billhimer and James Clutteur. Probably the first big event in our high school life was the junior class play, “The Hoosier Schoolmaster.” Then to climax the junior year we were host to the seniors of ' 49 for a banquet. Members joining the class that year were: Thella Smith and Richard Hettinger from Bergton, Howard Kline from Timberville, Edwin Turner, and Jimmy Rhodes. The past school year, our senior year, will probably always he treasured as the happiest and most exciting year of our lives. The first memorable event that year was the joyous trip to Charlottesville for the G. W. University vs. University of Va. football game. Our chaperones were: Miss Trumbo, Mr. Hillyard, and Mr. Whitmore. hi the early part of January we assumed the responsibility for the publication of our annual, and also the Communi-K Staff was stiff working hard on publishing our school events in a more and more interesting way. During the latter part of February and the earlier days of March we worked together as a team preparing our senior play, “Take Your Medicine” that was given on March 10, Miss May and Miss Trumbo directing In April also we received a most treasured possession, our class rings. Then came Senior Day, the day when we were officially recognized as seniors. We were all anxious for the program to be enjoyed by everyone. We cannot forget the fun we had planning the trip to Washington, D. C., which we were able to take in the first part of May. We must not forget that two new members joined our class this year. They were Martha Drum from Ohio and Flo Long. Now as the bell rings, our minds flash back to the present and we reafize that today the routine of high school life will be ended for us; for today is the day of graduation. Only yesterday, June 4th we became dignified long enough to be inspired by a fine message to carry with us through life at the “Sermon to Seniors.” Tonight we will come back to Broadway Lligh School for the last time as just plain seniors. Tonight we will receive our diplomas and become the graduates of 1950. Mary Kathryn Fulk Dorothy Ann Early

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FLOWER Red Carnation COLORS Gray and Crimson MOTTO We build the ladder by which we rise. Junior Class Officers HOYT RIDDLE . President DONNIE MOOMAW . Vice-President MARY CATHERINE DELLINGER . Secretary WALTER CARR Treasurer