Cumberland High School - Duke Yearbook (Cumberland, VA)

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Working to Make the Grade TOP RIGHT: By using a team effort Alaric Gust practices batting, Benjamin Hubbard pitching, Alvin Witcher field- ing, and Charles Jackson catching, at baseball practice. ABOVE LEFT: Coach Will Robinson and parent, Mr. Mar- shall Smith watch the JV Dukes improve their skills on practice field. ABOVE RIGHT: Jerome Carrington equipped with bats and glove runs to the practice field. 1978-’79 put the JV Dukes at bat for another season of baseball. After a slow start we, like most of the teams at CHS started to win games. Our confidence grew with our batting averages; the number of errors made de- creased as did the other team’s scores. It took a lot of stamina, patience and endurance, but we kept on working, hopefully we'll make the grade to reach our ultimate goal—varsity base- ball players. 24 ——— ee FRONT ROW: Floyd Langhorne, Floyd Jones, Tommy Latham, Alvin Witcher, Jay White, Terry Jackson, Linwood Shores. SECOND ROW: Eddie Trent, Charles Jackson, Howard Johnson, Del Johnson, David Frazier, Alaric Gust. THIRD ROW: John Jones, Benjamin Hubbard, Curtis James, Johnnie Asal, Ricky Smith, Bernard Jones, Jerome Carrington.

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. e wKETT. S LEFT CORNER: Wanda Thompson prepares a throw to second base. CENTER: Standing—Barbara “Pete’’ Moore, Denise “Crip” Shores, Mary “Mook” Langhorne, Janet “JB’’ Bowles, Robin Eames, Linda “Fat Cat’ Midkiff. Kneeling—Connie “Runt” Speas, Alease “Kitty” Blanton, Rita “Tally” Taliferro, Wanda “Pud’’ Thompson, Barbara lj DUKETTLS) Liggon, Jame “Pokey” Bowles, Susan Honebein, Irma “Squirt” Trent. RIGHT CORNER: Irma Trent pitches the ball for someone to hit while Denise Shores and Connie Speas wait for the hit. Barbara Lig- gon prepares for a hit against Randolph Henry in the scrimmage game. Randolph Henry won the game. ABOVE: Linda Midkiff is up to bat and awaits the pitch from Alease Blanton which could be a strike. This would be great if it was a game and not practice. LEFT: To close for comfort says Connie Speas while she ducks out of the way of a throw to second base. 23

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