C H Friend High School - Chit Chat Yearbook (South Boston, VA)

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Class Poem Passing through rapid and happy years, We have all become true comrades, Having such fun and good times, Puzzling o'er long tests and hard exams, Worrying, teasing, and laughing-till Suddenly we've come, sad but glad, To our commencement timeg Leaving forever our schooldays and play To fulfill the dreams We've dreamed. But separated by years and space, We'll recall with pleasure Happy, hazy memories Of the past delights and joys of school days -Lamb Hodges.

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MARY STEWART The only way to have a friend is to be one. WILEY UMSTEAD It is not what he has, nor what he does, but what he is. FRANCES VADEN Modesty is the citadel of beauty and grace. HELEN HOPE WALKER What I have learned with pleasure I will never forget. ROBERT WALTON Here is the manliness of manhood that a man has a good reason for what he does, and has a will in doing' it. SAM WHITE Men of action are, too, the men of- thought. JANE WILKINSON Refinement creates beauty everywhere. REBECCA WILLIAMS Sincerity and truth are the basis of every virtue.

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Class History As is natural, now that we have reached the goal of all high school students, we look back over the history of our class. Our high school days started with about thirty in the class. Since that time we have lost some valuable members - Sam McCracken, Tom Lowery, Wayland owen, Katherine Terry, and Damron Owen. One of our greatest losses was Laura Waskey, a friend to all, a star basketball player, a girl who had won a permanent place in the hearts of all her classmates, a friend we will never forget. In her honor, our class presented to- the Athletic Association a plaqpe which is awarded each year to the winner of the girls' basketball tournament. These members left vacancies which have been filled by new members-Arthur Crute, Robert Walton, Dorothy Maynard, Dalton Roberson, Pearle Goodman, O. T. Grimes, and Shirley Owen. , Our class has been particularly outstanding in athletics all through our school life. Helen Hope Walker and Mary Stewart were the first, freshmen everto make varsity basketball at the high school, Becky Williams made it her second yearg, and Lamb Hodges has also added to the team. They have worked so faithfully that by their presence on the team and their perfect teamwork they have .made C. H. Friend High School famous throughout the state for girls' basketball. The boys too in basket- ball and also in football have won glory for the class. Among these are Tom King, Rawley Fuller, Allen Fuller, Robert Wal-ton, T. J. Glascock, Wiley Umstead, Charlie Smith, John Hubbard, Mervin Matze, and Arthur Crute. We are proud to have had a considerable number of our class elected to mem- bership in the National Honorary Beta Club, or what is better known in the high school as the Honor Society. These members, elected in their junior year because of high scholastic rating and school citizenship, are Oza Ridgeway, Lamb Hodges, Ver- nessa Henderson, Margaret James, Sam White, A. D. Dodd, Becky Williams, Tom King, Jane Wilkinson, Mary Godbold, and Shirley Owen. In all other fields of activity as well, the various members of our class have been outstanding. Lamb Hodges, Dorothy Maynard, and Shirley Owen entered the American Magazine contest open to all high school students this year. They submitted essays and short stories written in connection with Miss I-Ioward's senior English class, and all the Seniors are entertaining high hopes of their winning the thousand dollar prizes. Dorothy Maynard has been particularly outstanding in the field of jour- nalism, ancl through the Reporters' Club has won several prizes for her numerous ar- ticles published in the South Boston News and the Record-Advertiser. On the laurels of Oza Ridgeway and Allen Fuller have rested the dramatic reputation of the class. These two outstanding members of the Dramatic Club have taken part in numerous plays, and last year were in the cast of the play which went to Farmville State Teachers' College for the Southside Virginia Play Tournament. Our class has always had the reputation of putting off until the last minute, never worrying, and then working in a frenzy to get things done. The amazing part about it is that we generally do manage to accomplish what we set out to do. It was in our junior year that we really discovered our own possibilities as a class. When the time rolled around for our Junior-Senior banquet and dance, we were faced with the dilemma of no auditorium for the festivities, but we were one and all determined