Dickenson Memorial High School - Green Knight Yearbook (Clintwood, VA)

Text from Pages 1 - 88 of the 1954 volume:

IONNIE B. DE2EL MEMORIAL LIBRARY CLINTWOOD, VIRGINIA 9E3E3=; PRESENTING THE GREEN KN IGHT BY THE SENIOR CLASS OF DICKENSON MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL 1954 “Go now, my litel book” FOREWORD As we present this yearbook, we assure you that we have tried to give you a volume worthy of our high school . Of course, each group of seniors feels that it is something special, but we really have a reason to think so. We are the last and the largest graduating class of Dickenson Memorial High School. Through the years as we glance through the pages MR. JOHN CAY WOOD “In mathematics he was greater Than Tycho Brahe or Ezra Pater.” MR. PAUL SKEEN “Gentle of speech, but absolute of rule. MISS NELL PHIPPS “And strange to tell, she praticed what she preached.” We are honored to dedicate the 1954 yearbook to o u r principal, Mr. Paul Skeen, and to the senior home room teachers, Mr. John Caywood and Miss Nell Phipps. We sincerely appreciate their interest in our class and their help and guidance in its undertakings. A T I 0 1950 And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts.’ “Whatever is best administered is best.’’ PAUL W. SKEEN Principal JOHN CAYWOOD Assistant Principal EVELYN YATES Secretary B.M.H.H.S. ID 1923 IN THE GOOD OLD DAYS Left to Right, First Row: Burns Childress, Delphia Mullins Brumit, Eva Mullins Moli- nary, Maxie Speer Bookhamer, Grace Chase Clark, Orpha Yates Mullins, Zella Beverly Fleming, Beulah Mullins Robinson, Grace Nowling Mullins . Second Row: Charlie Horn , John Shortt, Hardaway Baker- dec’d. Third Row: Judy Priode , Mis s Davis - Teacher , Burns Pressley- deceased, Stuart Sutherland- deceased, Stella Artrip Burke , Stella Powers , Miss Elizabeth North- Teacher , Goldia Mullins Counts, Meta Deel, George Hayes. Fourth Row: Carl Tribitt , Edith Chase Howard, Flora Swindall Willis, Clara Moore Mullins, Helen Mullins, Maxie Selfe Mullins, Cly de Reedy, James Skeen. Fifth Row: John Greene- Prin- cipal, Bascom Damron, Jessie Kelley Sutherland, Agnes Sutherland Gilliam, Nora Whit- taker Wheatley, Guy Priode, Lacy Davis, Earl Speer, Orville Branham. Sixth Row: Adran Speer, Delbert Mullins, Harold Damron- deceased, Miss Evangeline Peters- Teacher, Jesse Slemp, Newton Hughes, Frank Kelly, Virgil Skeen, Ellsworth Mullins, Creed Horne, Jess W. Skeen, Edison Deel. Seventh Row: Left Rear: Allen Stanley, Fred Yates, Clarence Hughes, Jim McCoy, Rodolph Lockhart, Blaine Smith. Back Row: Floyd Artrip, Chase Damron, Auta Ratliff, Ernest Yates. B.M.H.S 11 19S4 “Continuous as the stars that shine And twinkle on the Milky Way.” SENIOR CIESS OEFICERS “Tomorrow we set out once more.” President Jimmy Mullins Vice-President ... E. C. Vanover Secretary Bob Raines Treasurer Douglas Mullins Reporter Jim Bob Spivey SENIORS RAYMOND ANDERSON ‘He makes a July’s day short as December.” JACQUELINE BAKER ‘Garrulous to the last.” JIMMY L. BAKER A man of all hours.” BERNARD BEVERLY ‘‘He wears the rose of youth upon him.” ELIZABETH ARLENE BROWN “And her sunny locks hang on her temples like a golden fleece.” MAE COLLEN BUCHANAN “The glass of fashion and the mold of form.” SENIORS MARSHALL THOMAS BUCHANAN How pleasant it is to have money.’ ’ CHARLES BUNCH If I could fly, I’d fly with thee! ” DONALD LEE CARTY The very pink of courtesy.’’ BYRON LEE CHILDRESS ‘He must be a first rater. CLARA CLAY CONLEY “How you do talk. MACK CONLEY A fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. SENIORS BETTY ELLEN DAVENPORT ‘I have no superflous leisure.” JOE DAVIS “A prepetual fountain of good sense RUBY KAY DAVIS ‘‘Now I know what love is.” EMERSON EUGENE DOTSON ‘‘A man of my kidney.” JO ANN DOTSON ‘‘You are the vanilla of society.” ALICE FERN FLEMING “The farmer’s daughter hath soft brown hair.” JANICE FLEMING You have a nimble wit.” LACY MILAN FLEMING ‘‘You have a glib tongue.” SENIORS MARGARET FLEMING “I’s wicked, I is! I’s mighty wicked.” ROGER MACK FLEMING “He’s sadden if a thing comes in his head.” RONALD FULLER “I’ll warrant him heart-whole.” JIM GREEAR “A great lover of the ladies.” BERTHA ANN HUGHES “Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep.’ JUANITA HUGHES “Her stature tail- hate dumpy women.” LILLIAN HUGHES “As upright as the cedar.” QUENTIN HOPSON “Nature’s own nobleman, friendly and frank.” SENIORS JACK KEITH “As round as apel was his face.” JAMES KEMPER KENDRICK “Lo , I am silent and curb my mouth.” RAY LARGE “Where there was need of any service, I was Jack at a pinch.” SIDNEY LOCKHART “A proper man as one shall see in a summer’s day.” GENE RUSH MARTIN “A big Butter and Egg man.” MARY LOUISE McCOY ‘Exceedingly well read.” DANNY MOORE “Cupid hath clapped him o’ the shoulder.” ARBUTUS MULLINS “She has two eyes so soft and brown.” SENIORS BETHEL MULLINS “And has a face like a blessing.” BETTY ANN MULLINS “Light of step and foot is she.” DOUGLAS MULLINS “His limbs are cast in manly mold. For hardy sports and contests bold.” ELBERT RAY MULLINS “A merrier man I ne’er spent an hour’s talking withal.” IMA JACQUELINE MULLINS “And forth she goeth, As jolie as a pye.” JAMES ALLISON MULLINS “Wherever he sits, there is the head of the table.” LOVADA MULLINS “For she has a tongue with a tang.” PEARL CORINE MULLINS “I don’t believe there’s no sich a person!” $[ 11011 $ ANN OWENS “For I just can’t make my eyes behave.” BOB RAINES “I have a reasonable good ear in music.” FRANKLIN RASNICK “He is straight; you can trust him.” JERLENE DEEL RATLIFF ‘She must be seen to be appreciated.” FONTILLA ROBINSON “As good-natured a soul as e’er trod on shoe of leather.” DARRELL SALYER “Now I am a hail-fellow well met with all.” HARRY SELFE “He is a right good felawe.” EDWARD ROLAND SENTER “Since Eve ate apples, much depends on dinner.” SENIORS JERRY SENTER “A tin horn politician.” BARBARA O’LEEN SILCOX “Young in limbs, in judgement old.” JAMES ROBERT SPIVEY “You’re the goods!” NOLAND CHALMER STANLEY ‘I know a hawk from a handsaw.” PATSY LEE STANLEY “As merry as the day is long.” ROYAL INES STANLEY “Ez sosshible ez a basket er kittens.” ELIZABETH CAROL SYKES “Good to be both merie and wise.” DORIS MOORE SYKES “An eye full of gentle salutation and soft response.” SENIORS JACKIE R. SYKES “A better farmer ne’er brushed dew from lawn.” SUE CAROLE TRIVITT “Where did you get those eyes so blue ? ’ ’ BILL TROUT ‘‘Thou wilt show my head to the people; it is worth showing.” REX TUCKER “That Squire of Dames ! ” E. C. VANOVER ‘--and everything handsome about him .” CLYDE WOODY WHEATLY “Here is a dear and true industrious friend.” JIMMY RAHE WRIGHT ‘‘A gentleman of the press.” GUY EUGENE YATES “A Corinthian, a lad of mettle, a good boy! ' ” “They have a king and officers of sorts.” President Jolene Yates Vice-President . Earl Beverly Secretary . . . Stacy Anderson Treasurer . . . Kenneth Bailey Reporter Rita Sykes MR. JOHN SHORT “Virtuous and wise he was, but not severe; he still remem- bered that he once was young.” KENNETH BAILEY NICK BAKER JOAN BARRETT EARL BEVERLY RALPH BEVERLY MAVIS BOWMAN DORIS CHILDRESS AILEEN CLAY VM, SALLY COX CECILIA FRENCH LOIS FULLER MACYLE GOUGE FAYE DAMRON RUBY DEEL ANNA LOU FLEMING RITA FLEMING SHIRLEY FLEMING JANICE DOTSON THRUSTON DOTSON WILLIE ANN DOTSON WILMA MOORE ALBERTA MULLINS BETTY JEAN MULLINS BETTY LOIS MULLINS BOBBY MULLINS GLEN MULLINS MARY LOUISE MULLINS McKinley mullins SHIRLEY MULLINS JUNIORS SANDRA PALMER JANET PHIPPS LESTER PHIPPS MAC PHIPPS MILLIE ANN PHIPPS SCHULTZ PRATT JUNIORS GENEVIEVE SMITH BETTY STANLEY JACKIE ANN STANLEY RITA SYKES FRANK VANOVER ELAINE WALLEN SOPHOMORE CLASS OFFICERS “Oh, oh — someone’s taken the office! ’’ President .... Dick Pattisall Vice-President . . Don Adkins Secretary .... Lynn Vanover Treasurer Reporter . Reporter . J udy Hill . Freddie Fleming . . Ronald Fleming MRS. ZULA CARTY “A perfect woman, nobly planned, to warn, to comfort, and command.’ SOPHOMORES Don Adkins Elizabeth Arrowood Cecil Baker Donald Baker Iris Faye Baker Jackie Beverly Fern Branham Elizabeth Carey Wright Carter Adina Carty Sandra Counts Ella Jean Crabtree Mae Damron Nell Deel Willis Ray Dutton Shirley Farmer Arbutus Fleming Carter Fleming Freddie Fleming Jackie Fleming SOPHOMORES Logan Fleming Peggy Sue Fleming Ronald Fleming Shirley Fleming Donald Forish Margie Hall Jim Hawkins Ruby Hibbits Judy Hill Lowell Hill Lochiel Hughes Freddie Johnson Pauline Kay Eddie Kelly Ronald Kelly Mavis Kendrick Darrel Kennedy Sally Kennedy Yvonne Kiser Phyllis Lockhart Stacy Lockhart Wade Marrow J erry Martin Don McKenzie Alice Merck George McPherson Bobby Mooney Betty Jane Mullins Billie Rose Mullins Sandra Mullins Cecil Mullins Dorse Mullins Ralph Mullins Eugene Mullins Genoa Mullins Jackie Mullins Jerry Mullins Joseph Mullins Louretta Mullins Marie Mullins SOPHOMORES SOPHOMORES Mancie Mullins Ronald Mullins Shelby Mullins Gail Neal Frances Phipps Herbert Phipps Mack Phipps Ray Phillips Ruby Rakes Charles Robinson Alva Rose Carol Rose Allene Salyers Janice Short Denver Sweeney Trula Sluss Nancy Smith Avon Stanley Don Gale Stanley Larnie Stanley SOPHOMORES Clester Strouth Roger Sutherland Joella Swindall Jimmy Sykes Mary Lea Trivitt Gale Vanover Frankie Vanover Gwindolene Vanover Kay Vanover Lynn Vanover Her schell Wells IMSMI CUSS DFMCIIS “A little rule, a little sway” President John Paul Kendrick Vice-President Naomi Whitt Secretary G. C. Stidham Treasurer Oren Yates FRESHMEN Bob Anderson Jimmy Arrowood Shirley Artrip Louella Baker Nancy Baker Bobby Beverly Nona Beverly Harold L. Boggs Jackie Boggs Paul Buchanan Phyllis Buchanan Janice Carter Wanda Case Charlie Bill Chase Vicey Ann Childress Danny Colley Betty Carol Combs Garnett Combs Janie Crabtree Sue Culbertson Patsy Damron David Lee Davis Jeanette Dingus Betty Lou Dotson FRESHMEN Clinton Dotson Mabel Lean Dotson Anna Mae Fleming Annette Fleming Betty Fleming Buford Fleming Dana Lee Fleming Harry Lee Fleming Rita Jean Fuller Barbara Ann Goins Helen June Green Robert Hibbits Joyce Ann Hill Wilma Hill Ann Hodge Harold Horton Norma Hughes Eugene Hughes Bob Hylton Denton Kendrick Paul Kendrick Clinas Kennedy Rosetta Kennedy Billie Killen FRESHMEN Mildred Kirby Roger Large Paul Lockhart David Lockhart Darrel Lowery Betty Ruth Martin Deanne Lee Martin Kennith McCowan Georgia Milon Billie Jo Moore Betty Ann Mullins Bobby Rae Mullins Charles Mullins Conrad Mullins Gaynella Mullins Joyce Mullins June Mullins Faye Mullins Paul Mullins Rachel Mullins Reasie Mullins Shelton Mullins Luther Mullins Don Newberry FRESHMEN Johnny Mack Newberry Jerleen Parrigan Jenry Benton Perry Emma Phillips Donald Phipps Thelma Pratt Norene Priode Faye Powers Giles Rasnick Eva Mae Rakes Elva Rose Rita Ratliff Jackie Robinson Carl Rose Jean Rose Virgil Rose Bill Shortt Joyce Shortt Patty Sloan Regina Sluss Gloria Stanley Lafern Stanley Lora Stanley Nona Gay Stanley FRESHMEN Mona Fay Stanley Mona Sue Stanley Rufus Stanley Jerldine Stapleton G. C . Stidham Patricia Sutherland Rosemary Tritt Dennie Vanover Roger Vanover Jimmy Wallace Jimmy Willis June Willis Sue Wright Rita Wright Naomi Whitt Oren Yates EICHTH (REDE TEACHERS MISS MARGIE JANICE ROBINSON MISS LUCILLE KELLY “A good face is a letter of recommendation. “The poetry of speech.” [ICHIII GRAVE GIRLS “My way is to begin with the beginning. First Row: Peggy Blevins, Wilma Buchanan, Patricia Baker, Shirlene Stanley, Peggy Ful- ler, Mychelle Puckett, Sue Stanley, Barbara Ramey, Gloria Jean Fleming, Theda Rasnick, Patricia Livingston, Ruby Stapleton, Sylvia Castle, Mary Lou Willis, Shirley Mullins, Jill Sutherland , Henrietta Mullins. Second Row: Betty Carol Mullins, Kathryn Fleming, Patri- cia Powers, Shirlene Kendrick, Barbara Mullins, Judy Kendrick, Nancy Adkins, Wilma Vanover, Helen Fleming, Renedia Rose, Evelyn Sue Fleming, Anna Carole Davis, Hester Hamilton, Norma Carol Martin, Linda Moore, Barbara Ann Mullins. Third Row: Marie Tate, Glenda Smith, Sue Hodge, Julia Houston, Rita Mullins, Phyllis Rose, Kay Ellison, Sue Mullins, Ellen Hardy, Louise Roberts , Mona Lee Mullins, Idalene Mullins, Elizabeth Rose, Patricia Phipps, Mrs. Stanley. Fourth Row: Ellen Edwards, Loretta Wallen, Glenda Mul- lins, Lois Bowman, Mary Sue Davis, Patsy Bise, Nina Strouth, Dolly Jane Morrow, Betty Gay Hawkins, Patricia Browning, Mary Lou Kelly, Eula Mullins, Edna Ratliff, Lorraine Sword, Anita Tickle, Sue Carol Stanley, Joyce Sexton, Mrs. Flannagan. EIGHIH GRADE BOVS “This is the way that boys begin.” First Row: Gabe Hughes, Jr., Wayne Kendrick, Roger Browning, Bobby Hamilton, Roland Mullins , J . C . Adkins , Teddy Beverly , Bruce Willis , R o y Strouth , Larry Davis , Ronald Mullins, Buddy Rife, Chad Baker , Charles Mullins , Carroll Mullins, Darrell Howell, Bobby Rakes, Carl Fleming, Charles Stanley, Jimmy Speer. Second Row: Miss Kelly, Darrell Dotson, Billy Carey, Gail Rose, Donny Smith, Fritz Estep, Danny Phillips, Benny Vanover, Donald Clay, Harold Ford, Thaddeus Baker , James Farmer , Cecil Kelly, Paul Mullins , Lowell Mullins , Harry Hillman, Paul Mullins, Charles Breder , Jr ., Harry Carpenter, Miss Robinson. Third Row: Burns McFall, Dave Puckett, Garner Buchanan, Derrick Kennedy, Jerry Cox, Earl Mullins , Bobby Rose, Donald Phipps, Raymond Robinson, Curtis Fleming, Harold Rakes, Claude Elkins, Robert Mullins, Elwood Mullins, Jimmy Mullins, John Bill Ratliff , Freddy Mullins , B u d d y Hughes, Leeburn Branham . Fourth Row; Don Mullins, George Mullins , Melvin Mullins , Fred Lee Wallen, Cruce Davis , Jimmy Parrigan , Dale Stone, Charles Stanley, Jimmy Robinson, Kelly Sutherland, Ronald Cussins, Donald Bev- erly, James Dotson, Lloyd Baker, Bobby Taylor, J. P. Senter, Ronald Edwards. ATHLETICS TROPHY CASE “The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.” FOOTBALL IN 1932 Left to Right, First Row: Lawrence Brown, Roley Phipps, Virgil Hughes, Carter Damron, Kemper Reece, Edison Ramey, Clyde Sutherland, O. D. Deel - Manager. Second Row: Bu- ford Stanley, Sam Anderson, Erman Neel, Howard Deel, Virgil Davis, Curt Anderson, Ayers Short, Mayo Agee. Third Row: Coach L. N. Dalton, Adkins, Clyde Adkins, Buford Blevins, BobPriode, Jerry Chase, George Foster Sutherland, Fred Sutherland, Corbett Phipps, Burns Mullins. “The heroes of old” Ml II T IIU 1 II 1953 “Play up! And play the game! ’’ MR. RALPH CUMMINS “The game is more than the player of the game, And the ship is more than the crew! “ MR. BERNARD DAVIS “The game’s afoot.” MIOR Wilt ‘‘There was good sport at their making” MR. NORMAN MULLINS ‘‘Life is but a game.” “Hard pounding this, gentlemen; let’s see who will pound longest.’ (IRIS ' BASKET II All t “In close fight, a champion grim” Left to Right, First Row: Iris Fay Baker, Juanita Hughes, Arlene Brown, Betty Davenport Anna Lou Fleming, Jackie Ann Stanley, Norma Gay Queen, Louella Baker. Second Row Standing: Carol Sykes , Norma Gay Hughes, Rita Sykes, Nancy Baker, Barbara Goins, Rose- mary Tritt, Phyllis Buchanan, Lillian Hughes, Coach Bernard Davis. “A team unequalled - a sportsman complete” First Row: Don Beverly - Manager, Mack Conley, Bobby Hilton, Woody Wheatly, Douglas Mullins, Dick Pattisall, Kenneth Bailey, Harold Lester, Coach Ralph Cummins. Second Row: Don Adkins, Jimmy Dingus, Harold Boggs, Ralph Beverly, Martin Hawkins, Ronald Fleming . it him r mini Yet I like the game and want to play.’ mnNm; ip the scon “ ’Tis no sport foT peasants.” MISS LILLIAN HUGHES ‘Queen rose of the rosebud garden of girls” BASEBALL Take me out to the ball game. Left to Right, First Row: Lynn Vanover, Bobby Mullins, Bobby Taylor, Jimmy Mullins, Sidney Lockhart, Donald Forish, Dean Anderson. Second Row: Standing: Ronald Fleming, Dick Pattisall, Kelly Sutherland, Kenneth Bailey, Bobby Hylton, Bobby Hibbits, Elbert Ray Mullins . Bang-whang-whang goes the drum, tootle-te-tootle the fife. MR. LUTHER LEWIS The man who has music in his soul will be most in love with the loveliest. Left to Right, First Row: Majorettes: Janet Phipps, Carol Sykes, Iris Faye Baker, Rita Sykes. Second Row: Johnny Jordon, Jimmy Branham, Betty Damron, Elizabeth Baker, Roger Vanover, Jill S u t h e r 1 a n d , Patsy Colley, Lafern Stanley. Third Row: Norene Priode , Patricia Mullins , Joyce Shortt , Barbara Mullins, Lochiel Hughes , Cecilia French, Ann Owens, Aileen Clay, Peggy Stanley. Fourth Row: Louella Baker, Barbara Silcox, Lillian Hughes, Nancy Smith, Norma Gay Queen, Betty Mullins, Phyllis Ratliff, Frankie Vanover, Lynn Raines, Billie Rose Mullins, Bob Raines - Drum Major . Fifth Row: Luther Lewis - Band Director , Henrietta Mullins , Charles Berder, John Bill Ratliff, Don Gail Stanley, Shirley Mullins, Lacy Fleming, Eddie Kelly, Rex Tucker, Paul Buchanan. ' Music, the greatest good that mortals know. “All the learned and authentic fellows.’’ “And French she spake full fair and fetisly.’’ CHfERLEAlEtS ‘‘Up with three cheers and a tiger! ” “To make sweet music, they could succeed.” Mill CLUB “And all their botany in Latin names. STUDENT COUNCIL They that govern the most make the least noise.” “News, news, news, my gossiping friends, I have wonderful news to tell. CRFFN KNIGHT STAFF “The dull duty of an editor” HI-HATTFR STAFF ADVANCED ALGEBRA “O this learning, what a thing it is! ” PLANE GEOMETRY “There is no royal road to geometry.” turn cuss ‘‘Language is the picture and counterpart of thought.” UGHIH UADI ENGLISH “Who climbs the grammar-tree distinctly knows where noun, verb, and participle grow ENGLISH I “Choice word and measured phrase, above the reach of ordinary men.” ENGLISH I “The grammarians are at variance, and the matter is still undecided.” EIGHTH GRADE MATH ‘‘What would life be without math?” ENGLISH K “Among oar literary scenes” HISTORY H “That great dust-heap called history” “Government is a device to protect man so that he may earn his bread in the sweat of his labor.” EIGHTH IM HISTORY “History, by apprising men of the past, will enable them to judge of the future.” CHEMISTRY “The most sensual and exciting of sciences. Chemistry” “The never idle work shop of nature.” TYPING I “A writer owned an asterisk.” INIRODUCTIHN TO BUSINESS ” ‘Business is business,’ the Little Man said.” MR. ELMER SMITH “Neither above nor below his business.” AGRICULTURE MRS. HELEN SMYTHERS “The domestic hearth. There only is real happiness .“ “Nothing to do but work, nothing to eat but food” home economics n “Of all occupations from which grain is secured, there is none better than agriculture, nothing more productive, nothing more worthy of a free man.” SHOP “Keep thy shop and thy shop will keep thee.” “Is there a heart that music cannot melt?” LIBRARY “A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.” CONCESSION STAND “I have no wish to waste my appetite.” MILK HID ICE CREAM COUNTER “Appetite, a universal wolf, “Just children on their way to school” MR. WALTER P. VANCE “If a man be gracious and courteous, it shows he is a citizen of the world ’ “Seeing is believing.” STUDENTS CROSSING STREET “Where there’s a girl, there’s a boy.” JANITOR Some dark deep desert, seated from the way, That knows not parching heat nor freezing cold’’ FORENSICS LITERARY CONTEST FINALISTS “I’ll play the orator.” MISS ANITA SWINDALL “Rivalry is good for mortals MRS. BESS McCOY ‘‘Touch’d with human gentleness and love.” SENIOR PLAY “A hit! A very palpable hit! ” “The play’s the thing.” “The horns of Elfland faintly blowing ' CAST THE EVE OF ST. MARK “A good play needs no epilogue.” MR. E. R. BEVERLY ‘‘Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and how they go away.” JUNIOR -SENIOR BNNOUET MAY 14, 1954 “To see, be seen, to tell, and gather tales. A deal of skimble-skamble stuff.” “A little work, a little play” LAST SENIOR CLASS OF DICKENSON MEMORIAE “That is all there is; there isn’t any more. AUTOGRAPHS Left behind as a memory for us.