Crewe High School - Railroader Yearbook (Crewe, VA)

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©nttlblazer 1951-1952 CREWE HIGH SCHOOL Crewe, Virginia Special Edition AT THE TYPEWRITERS: Freddie Stables; Jeff Davis, Sports Editor. STANDING: Mrs. Hutcherson, Adviser; Bobby Pratt; John Young Nicholson, Associate Editor and Beta President; Johnson Willis, Associate Editor; Ruth Bryan Robertson, Editor-in-Chief and Beta Secretary-Treasurer; Nancy Anderson, Sports Editor; Greta Young, Club Reporter; Ann Jennings, Trash Can Editor. NOT SHOWN: Buddy Fisher, Circulation Manager and Beta-Vice President STAFF REVIEWS BETA CLUB HISTORY IN CREWE HIGH The Crewe Beta Club, organized by Mr. Harwood in 1945, received its charter January 23, 1946. The Club started with fourteen members under the sponsorship of Miss Mary Janet Smith. The next year with Mrs. Lucille Hod- nett as their sponsor, the sixteen Beta Club members presented a special pro¬ gram for assembly and sent ten delegates to the State Beta Convention. In 1948, the Beta Club had increased in number to twenty-one. That year Mrs. Hutcherson became its sponsor. The members prepared boxes for school chil¬ dren in war devastated countries, gave an assembly program, and again sent dele¬ gates to the State Convention. Similar activities were engaged in during the 1949 term. A Queen of Hearts program high-lighted the 1950 activities. The major activity of 1951 and 1952 has been to publish The Trailblazer, the Crewe High School newspaper. In 1951, the Club gave a mimeoscope to the Business Education Department, for use in mimeographing the paper. Although the membership of the Club is small this year due partly to the de¬ crease in enrollment in high school and the small Senior Class, the boys outnumber the girls for the first time in the history of the Club in Crewe High. The Beta Club hopes to become a banner member of National Beta this year and have it’s picture in the Journal. Both S.I.P.A. and Beta Conventions are being held at the same time, so it will be nec¬ essary for members to choose according to their interest. IMPROVEMENTS MADE IN COVERAGE AND FORM OF CURRENT TRAILBLAZER C.H.S. students approve the new one- page (front and back) Trailblazer being published each Friday as news coverage has been better and more up-to-the- minute. In previous years, The Trailblazer consisted of several pages, published every other Friday, for which the students paid five cents. In September, 1951, in keeping with suggestions received at S.I.P.A. , The T railblazer took the new form and arrange¬ ments were made whereby the cost of paper could be paid for out of Activity Fees and each student in the eighth grade and high school given a copy. Page Sponsor - THE CREWE CHRONICLE 9

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LET OUR SCHOOL SPIRIT RULE THE RAILROADER STAFF ENDEAVORS TO PORTRAY THE SPIRIT OF CREWE HIGH SCHOOL SITTING: Ann Jennings, Photographer ; Bobby Atkinson, Treasurer ; Jeff Davis, Editor ; Barbara Benedict, Circulation Manager; Nancy Anderson, Assistant Advertising Manager; Henry Holt Crittenden, Associate Editor ; John Young Nichol¬ son, Photographer ; Johnson Willis, Associate Editor. STANDING: Ruth Bryan Robertson, Photographer ; Miss Fitzgerald and Mrs. Hagberg, Advisers. NOT SHOWN: Buddy Fisher, Advertising Manager. This year, we, as members of The Railroader Staff, have endeavored to put into pictures our school song. Through these pictures we hope to bring back to you in later years the memories of our school days at C. H. S. This volume of The Railroader is not just one or two person ' s work but the combined efforts of every member of the Staff and its advisers, Mrs. Hagberg and Miss Fitzgerald, whose un¬ tiring efforts we shall never forget. Wewouldgive special credit to Photographer Francis Reid who took a great many of the pictures before he left for the Service. And to Kay Crittenden, 1951 Railroader Editor, we are especially grateful—for the creditsaccruing from her book, as well as the many excellent pictures she herself took for us. And now as this school year ends, we bid farewell to the many true, staunch friends we have made here. In the years to come may we leisurely review good times and happy days of 1951 -52 through this edition of our Railroader. Editor 8

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ULllliill.UllJBLAiUM AROUND THE TABLE CLOCKWISE, STARTING IN FRONT; Ann Jennings, Carolyn Crannis, Christine Roop, Nancy Anderson, Greta Young, Henry Crittenden, Barbara Benedict. STANDING: Ruth Bryan Robertson, Dickie Calhoun, Bobby Pratt, and Dickie Page. Library Club Activities CLUB OFFICERS Barbara Benedict Ann Jennings Nancy Anderson Franklin Martin President . Vice-President Secretary. Treasurer. Franklin Martin, our faithful treasurer counts money for library pins. Miss Fitzgerald ' s first duty in the morn ing is fixing the newspaper. Faculty drinks punch while looking at new books. A few of Mrs. Bass ' s third graders who won the Book Week prize. Dickie clowns as members prepare for teachers ' tea. Page Sponsor THE NATIONAL BANK OF CREWE Elementary grades exhibit Book Week displays.