Chilhowie High School - Chilvalee Yearbook (Chilhowie, VA)

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Class Hist OPL) In September, 1946, four long years ago, ninety-six unfamiliar students entered the front door of Chilhowie High School. Why were these students entering high school? To learn the knowledge of wisdom which was to be se¬ cured in the following years. These students were unfamiliar with the way the high school system works because they had been accustomed to the one teacher method used in grammar school. Mr. C.P. Price welcomed the large group of freshmen and wished us the best of luck in high school. Our class sponsors were Miss Elizabeth Love and Miss Emma Troxel. The first year of high school was very difficult for us because we had to learn the rules and laws by which we were to proceed in the next four years to come. In September of 1947 when we returned to the halls of old C.H.S. we were starting into another year of hard school. Although we had lost several students there were still about 60 students that returned. We were under the leadership of Mrs. Carter Tyler and Mrs. Herbert Catron that year. Mr. C.P. Price was our principal, with Mr. D.L. Stanphill in the athletic department. We were honored to have a sophomore chosen as football queen. She was Bureda Little. Our Junior Year was a little easier because we were getting familiar with the ways of high school. Our new Principal was Mr. G.E. Copenhaver who had taken the place of Mr. C.P. Price. Our class president was Betty Little and our sponosrs were Miss Helen Reeves and Miss Amanda Bowman. The high¬ light of the year was our Junior and Senior Banquet and Prom. In September of 1949 there were 40 seniors who enrolled in the class. We elected as President Mary Virginia St. John and our sponsor was Mr. Galen Drewry. Our home room mothers, Mrs. M.M. Duncan and Mrs. Larry Brown, gave us a party and we all enjoyed it very much. The party was on December 27, 1949. Mr. G.W. Kiser is our coach this year. We will always remember our stay at old C.H.S. as a pleasant and inter¬ esting one. In the years to come always remember our old Alma Mater and above all to be honest and fair in the game of life. By TOMMY TILSON

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BEST PERSONALITY Mary Virginia St. John Jack Walton MOST LIKELY TO SUCCEED Margaret Wagner Jim Wilkinson BIGGEST NUISANCE Joan Roland Eddie Hill s tniot » lO s MOST POPULAR Mary Lillian Childress J.D. Love BEST DRESSED Mary Sue Stamper Maurice Duncan BIGGEST BABIES Freda Heath Gene Kelly Bonham MOST ATHLETIC Kathleen Peake Bill Buchanan BEST LOOKING Bureda Little Jimmy Stamper

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Betty Ann Brown - Betty is now t itle holder of the “Miss America” of 1 950. Gene Kelly Bonham - Gene Kelly is now the Supervisor of the county agents for the states of Virginia and North Carolina. George Blevins - George is now the principal of the Cleghorn Valley Inter¬ mediate School. Lee Bryant - Lee now owns his own super service garage on Lee Hiway at Adwolf, across from the new school. Mary Lillian Childress - Mary Lillian is now Superintendent of Nurses at the college of medicine, Richmond, Va. Bill Dixon Buchanan - Bill is now commander in chief of the armed forces in Italy. Earl Dolinger - Earl is now playing in New York City with the Famous all girl choir. Maurice Duncan - Maurice is now a prominent Boston Attorney. It is rumored that he will run for D.A. Eddie Hill - Eddie Hill is now super salesman for the “Little Wonder” bath tub cleanser. Gene Moser - Gene is now title holder of the world’s “Foremost Trick Shot Pool Shooter” Garney Powers - Garney now owns and operates southwest Virginia’s biggest trucking lines. Jimmie Stamper - Jimmy Stamper struck oil on his farm in Cleghorn and has gone to Florida to purchase a new home. Tommy Tilson - Tommy now owns the biggest plantation in any southern state and starting his own tobacco company. Bobby Joe Walker - Robert is now running Tennessee’s biggest gambling concession ever known in the state. Jack Walton - Jack now has a big orchard and has settled down in married life and is raising his own football team. Jim Wilkinson - Jim is now teaching Spanish at Chilhowie High in the place of his pal, Mr. Drewry, who is sick. J.D. Love - J.D. is now running the Chilhowie Amusement Center. He works pretty hard. Ha. Cecil Taylor - Cecil is now honorary Mayor of Tattlebranch, Va. He is also chief exterminator of polecats. Carolyn Daly - Carolyn is now leading a very happy home life with her six kids and husband. Marie Dolinger - Marie is the Dean of Women at the University of North Carolina Nursing School.