Buckingham Central High School - Buccaneer Yearbook (Buckingham, VA)

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Miss D'Ella Rainey is now teaching art at Mary Washington College at Fredericksburg. Another member of our class who entered the teaching profession is Miss Evelyn Seay, now teaching the first grade at Dillwyn Virginia. Mr. Bobby Tapscott, a successful agricultural engineer of South Carolina, had with him his recent bride, and Mr. and Mrs. Ben Word, Jr. came up from their Virginia Dairy Farm to be present at this reunion. Lieutenants Raymond Jamerson, Beverly Price, Cale Harvey and Clarence Phaup have recently been promoted for their distinquiched service in the air corps in the U. S. army. Mr. Eugene Davis, pilot of one of our great air liners, was present in the company of a charming young lady from Enonville, Miss Betty Jean Jones. She hed with her a friend, Miss Odelle Dunevant, secretary for a large business concern in Philadelphia. Mr. Harold Snoddy, Mr. Richard Gary, Mr. Frank Harris and Mr. Ivan Davis have recently received medals for their distinguished service as telephone operators in the rescue of the passengers and crew of the Roosevelt ship. Other members from our class who are telephone operators are: Miss Frances Kidd, Miss Lela Clabo, Miss Frances LeSue- ur, and Miss Frances Simmons. All of these are located at various points in the state of Virginia. Miss Nellie Maxey and Miss Mary Emma Tapscott have just received their B. A. degrees from University of Richmond. Later in the evening Miss Virginia Elcan, and Miss Mary Apperson, now home economic teachers in the State of Ohio, Miss Ruby Crews, and Miss Geraldine Flood, secretaries in the same state, sang a quartet, our old school song, Here's to Dear Old Central . During the evening the class was largely entertained by moving from table to table and discussing their good old school days and raising a general racket as they had always done when together. Couples danced to the strains of Billy Spencer's orchestra with William Snoddy playing the saxaphone; Calvin Blackwell, at the piano; Hay Baber, playing a guitar; Rufus Oliver, playing bass fiddle; and Junius Oliver playing the trombone. The motion was made and carried that the class of 1941 from the Buckingham Central High School have at least one reunion every five years throughout their lives. Mary Apperson Virginia Elcan rae

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CLASS PROPHECY SPECIAL TO THE NEW YORK TIMES, June 6, 1946 A reunion of the Senior Class of 1941 of the Buckingham Central High School took place last evening at the Biltmore Hotel. In the receiving line were the officers: Mr. Carl Rosen, president, now agricultural teacher at Buckingham Central High School, Buckingham, Virginia; Miss Elinor Purvis, vice-president, now private secretary to the Governor of Virginia; Miss Dorothy Gillispie, secretary, now commercial teacher at Buckingham Central High School; and Mr. John Griffin, treasurer, now treasurer of Buckingham County. The other members of the class were welcomed by these four. Then everyone was at once happy by the witty remarks of Mr. Dan Senger, now professor at Covington High School, Covington, Virginia; of Dr. Richard Morgan, head surgeon in the University Hospital at Charlottesville, Virginia; of Mr. Tom Fitzgerald, electrical engineer at Richmond, Virginia; of Mr. Anderson Panton, band leader at Cincinnati, Ohio; of Miss Violet Lowe, now teaching in North Carolina. We also felt the sweet dignity of Miss Mamie Garland, now Latin teacher in the state of ‘Jest Virginia; Miss Edna Smith, nurse in the St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Richmond, Virginia; Misses Grace and Pauline McCraw, both now secretaries in their hone town, Dillwyn, Virginia; ijiss Martha Spencer, now Home Demonstration agent of Buckingham County; Miss Mable Wilkerson, a stenographer in a large business concern in Washington D. C. and Miss Gladys Moss, secretary in the clerk's office at Buckingham, Virginia. We also enjoyed the good humor and fun of Mr. Kendrick Garrett and Mr. Lacy Rush, farmers in Buckingham County and of Mr. John Emert, pastor of the Dillwyn Baptist Church, Dillwyn, Virginia. All the members of the class were present and everyone was interested in what the past ten years had done for the others. Miss Florence Guthrie, an outstanding member of the class, is now a music teacher at Madison College at Harrison- burg, Virginia, while Miss Dorothy Rush is now head nurse in the Johnson Willis Hospital in Richmond, Virginia. Four other members of the class have entered the medical world. These are: Miss Nancy Rushing, head nurse at St. Luke's Hospital in Richmond, Virginia; Miss Maggie Dunevant, supervisor at the Memorial Hospital in the same city; Miss Zanie Trent, head nurse in a Detroit Hospital; and Miss Maude Jones, supervisor at the Southside Hospital at Farmville, Virginia. fiss Christine Johnson is now head secretary of a large business concern of Chicago; Miss Celia Llewellyn is secretary for the Virginia Public Service Company at Charlottesville, Virginia; and Miss Virginia Llewellyn is now on leave of absence from her position as stenographer for one of the Virginia senators. These three were happy to renew their old friendship. Miss Leota Senger is commercial teacher at Farmville, Virginia; Miss Frances Adcock is secretary for a large business concern at Roanoke, Virginia; and Miss Gertrude Chariton is secretary of Quinn Marshall Company at Lynchburg, Virginia. 20

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CLASS WILL We the Senior Class of Nineteen hundred and forty one, of Buckingham Central High School, State of Virginia, being of sound mind and good judgment, do make and declare this our last Will and Testament. To the faculty of B. C. H. S., we leave our deepest sympathy for their task during the years to come - that is, if the other classes are as troublesome as we were. To the Juniors we leave the privilege of being Seniors next year and our Senior English textbooks. To our underclassmen we leave the green grass, shrubs, and trees that we hope will some day be found on our lawn. I, D'Ella Rainey, do will and bequeath my acting ability to Beulah Rozell. We, Rufus and Junius Oliver, do will and bequeath our red hair to John Oliver and Tom Grigg. I, Edna Smith, do will and bequeath my knowledge of chemistry to Marietta Baird. We, Maude Jones and Celia Llewellyn, do will and bequeath our neatness to Mary Strausburg. I, Frances Kidd, to will and bequeath my sunny smile to Pearl LeSueur. I, Gertrude Charlton, do will and bequeath my black hair to Molly Winston Pearson. I, Christine Johnson, do will and bequeath my ability as a softball player to Winnie Davis. We, Cale Harvey and Elinor Purvis, do will and bequeath our high school romance to Nancy Agee and T. J. Bailey. I, Lacy Rush, do will and bequeath my long-occupied seat in English to Orson Gillispie I, Mary Emma Tapscott, do will and bequeath my spelling ability to Ruby Stowe. I, Ella Spencer, do will and bequeath my place on the honor roll to Ethel Kitchen. We, Richard Morgan and Ben Word Jr. de will and bequeath our ability to make chemistry experiments to Laurel Rigney and Iris Davis. I, Violet Lowe, do will and bequeath my Mae West figure to Doris Word. I, Evelyn Seay, do will and bequeath my make-up to Catherine Beatty. I, William Snoddy, do will and bequeath my ability in activities to Thornhill (Baby) Snoddy. I, Mable Wilkerson, do will and bequeath my good sportsmanship to Christine Cunningham, 22