Dunbar High School - Dunbarian Yearbook (Lynchburg, VA)

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Backward Glance Over Traveled Road In September, nineteen hundred and forty-nine, an eager group of Sub-Freshmen invaded Dunbar High School. For many of us this was an entirely new experience, really a beautiful dream come true. With orientation over, we found high school life somewhat different from what many of us thought. We were confronted with the problem of adjusting ourselves to this new environment, to our new teachers and to our many assignments. Officers for the.Sub-Freshman year included: President, Barbara An- derson; Vice-President, Carolyn Lewis; Secretary, Roscoe Pullen: Treas- urer, William Banks; Class Reporters, Frances Scruggs and Shirley Claxton. In.the Freshman year, the officers were: President;-Helen Cox: Vice- President, Mary Hall;.Secretary, Emmie Green: Assistant Secretary, Laur- ence Spencer; Treasurer, Shirley Claxton. As Sophomores the officers were: President, Wilbert Lewis; Vice- President, George Bradley: Secretary, Emmie Green; Assistant Secretary, Janice Robinson; Treasurer, Robert Penick: Sergeant-at-Arms, William York; Attendants for Miss Dunbar, Helen Camm and Doris Carter. In our Junior year, the officers were: President, Frank Saunders; Vice-President, Beverly Sorrell; Secretary, Emmie Green; Assistant Sec- retary, Helen Camm; Treasurer, Roscoe Pullen; Business Manager, Ray- mond Loving; Class Reporter, Helen Camm. During the short period of our visit here; many of us were outstanding in extra-curri cular activities offered here at Dunbar. The following people will leave vacant places on the band. for future interested.Dunbarians: Mildred Coles, Elizabeth Stone, Corrine Anderson, Collene Anderson, Glenda Mitchell, Gladys Tweedy, Doris Shelton, Edward Jackson, Roscoe Pullen, Eloise Pullen, Laurence Spencer, and Selena Green. Persons who will leave the chorus through graduation will be: Emmie Green, Janice Robinson, Carolyn Lewis, Janet Lee, Robert Penick, Carolyn Elliott, Jolly Minor, Vernell Brown, Delores Mosley, Frank Saun- ‘ders, George Bradley, Elizabeth Jeffries, Joan Brown, Collene Anderson, Corrine Anderson, Melvin Jones, Doris Shelton, Laurence Spencer, Jean Hubbard, Samuel Thomas, Mary Hall, Eloise Pullen, Nancy Lee, Yvonne Robinson, Alvalaz Hale, Gloria Mosley, Willie Greene, Langston Walker, Helen Camm, Marjorie McCory and Ralph Early. National Honor Society members leaving include: Carolyn Lewis, Emmie Greene, Joan Brown, Shirley Claxton, Janice Robinson, Delores Mosley, Doris Carter, and Frank Saunders. In sports, basketball, football, tennis, track, tumbling, our star ath- letes include: Frank Saunders, Thomas Evans, Joseph Pullen, George Has- kins, George Cobbins, Beverley Sorrell, William York, Wayland Mitchell, Langston Walker, Wilbur Franklin, Edward Jackson, William Early, Melvin Jones and Robert Penick. Other events which warrant honorable mention include: Carolyn Lewis, winner of Omega Oratorical contest for the year 1953-54; Helen Camm, Miss Dunbar 1953-54; Mildred Coles, Drum Major for the year 1953-54. —By Mildred Coles and Frank Saunders

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Gladys Virginia Tweedy James Langston Ward Negro History Club, Basketball, Tumbling, ViM GEA Chronicle Staff, Band. Ambition: To be success- ful in life. Ambition: To be a nurse. James Elbern Wood Band, Y.M.C.A., Intra- Mural Basketball. Ambition; To attend college. Rosa Lee York Barbara Anne White Leaky Babs Le Cercle Francais, Negro History Club, Y-Teen. Chorus, N.H.A., NARA GLP ss Wels A. Ambition: To become an interpretative Ambition: To become a dancer. nurse, William York Slitty Not shown: Clifton Clark, Barbara Hawkins Joseph Pullen. Football, Basketball, Track SY.M.G. A. N.A.A.C.P. Ambition; To be a popular singer.

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