Coeburn High School - Reflector Yearbook (Coeburn, VA)

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DEDICATION To review briefly fifty years of progress at Coeburn High School is just to mention a few facts. In 1909, there were only two years of high school work with four graduates that year. In 1959, we have a five-year accredited high school with a senior class of ninety-three. The frame building in 1909 consisted of nine class rooms, three of which could be converted into an audi- torium by means of folding doors. Today we have modern elementary and high school buildings, complete with home economics department, gymnasium, and cafeteria. To all those persons, then, who in these fifty years have had any part in the school ' s progress, we respectfully dedicate this, the twenty-second edition of the REFLECTOR. 6

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IN MEMORIAM Dr. James Noah Hillman, a native of the Coeburn community, a gradu- ate of Gladeville College, and the College of William and Mary, was the first full time superintendent of schools in Wise County. He served in this capacity from 1909—1917, when he resigned to accept the position of Assistant Superintendent of Public Instruction in the Virginia State De- partment of Education. In 1922, he became president of Emory and Henry College, where he served until 1941, when he resigned to become execu- tive secretary of the Holston Conference of the Methodist Church. He left this position in 1944 to accept the office of Grand Secretary of the Masonic Lodge of Virginia, from which position he retired on November 6, 1958. He went to his eternal home January 8, 1959. A review of his life of service ' is an example to each member of our community, and we hope each one will accept it as a challenge to devel- op his talents to the maximum. 7