Cumberland High School - Duke Yearbook (Cumberland, VA)

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was our privilege to entertain th e Seniors. With great deter- mination to be the best host and hostesses, we planned a trip to Timber Lake. What sunburns we got while swimming, what blisters from rowing boats, and what a tired but happy bunch we were when we got back to Cumberland? As Scniors, we returned to school in a quandry. There were only four of us to shoulder all the responsibilities of Seniors! True to our old standards, however, we did not give up but resolved to do big things. We furnished members for the basketball and baseball teams as we had done in previous years. We worked hard at all of our activities and made a suc- cess of all of them. First, we gave a play. This time it was a mystery called Spooky Tavern. Elizabeth Gates and Anne Davis were college girls visiting an old tavern. John Barker played the part of the owner of this tavern... Ruby Dennis fornished a touch of comedy as an old colored mammy. This class was assis- ted, in producing this play, by other high school students. Mrs. Ruby Budd was our director. We wore very proud to have the Dramatic Club from Prospect as our guest. Of still more interest was our county wide beauty con- test. Thirty-six lovely girls from every scction of Cumberland County paraded before a large audience to the beautiful strains of Clyde Duvalil's Farmville Silvcr Band. Pretty Miss Anna Lee Blanton was chosen Miss Cumberland while Misses Lucie McKenry and June Kenny ran her a close’ second and third. Mrs. Ruby Budd was the director of this contest. Another big task undertaken successfully by our small class was the publication of an annual. Elizabeth Gates served as editor-in-chief, of this annual, Ruby Demis, the efficient literary editor, Anne Davis as production editor and John Bar- ker ranking as our sports editor. Due to our class being so small, we had to have double duties. For our artistic work, Elizabeth Gates served as a most talented art editor. Anne Davis brought the production out successfully serving as Busi- ness Manager. On May Day of this year we say Elizabeth Gatos crowned queen. John Barker was the stalwart prince. Ruby Dennis the lovely maid of honor, and Anne Davis a very courtly attendant. On Saturday, May 25th, the Senior Class was honored with a seight seeing trip by the Juniors. Was ever a crowd so eager to start? We were all ready to begin our trip at that early morning hour of six o'clock - even the members of the faculty who acted as chaperones. We will overlook a few yawns that escaped a few sleepy members of our party. Before return- ing we visited Colonial Williamsburg, Yorktown, Langley Ficld, Mariners Museum, and ended our day by secing a moving picture in Richmond. oe Now, with graduation at hand, the history of the class ef 1940 does not close but is just beginning to grow. Anne Davis

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THE FIRST LINK link in our chain has been welded, A lap in our race has been run, With joys that our high school has held, The best part of our lives has begun. Toward the years that stretch onward, we're watching And wondering wnat fate holds in store, With pain in our hearts unabating Our work in this school now is ore. Dear teachers and playmates held dear, Who guided us in the past, We'll think of you often back here While bonds of true friendship hold fast. Our future holds two open pathways, One smooth, always sunny and bright, Its pleasures and joys fill the days But neter will it seale the heights. The other is long, rough and gray, Few pleasures and burdens not light. But always one Guide leads the way And shows us the path to the heights. Fach one must choose his own highway Or path or what'cr it may be, To the link in our chain which is welded, Wo'll add or be lost in the sca. Lot's elimb up the path to the top, And joys and rewards wo'll doscive, Our chain and our race we'll eomplete Our friendships and memorics proscrvce Elizabeth C. Gates