Dunbar High School - Dunbarian Yearbook (Lynchburg, VA)

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19 Together we gather Registration December ee March Our last appearance Chorus Athletics Band TUESDAY 15 '54 Dunbarian Senior Day April Try -out on our Commencement speakers Prom Graduation Senior Sponso November Our production Little Miss Somebody February Collegiate exams

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has made the grade as a model. She is currently modeling shoes in a well known shoe store. ALVALAZ HALE is accompanist for the “Golden Throat Singers,” a trio consisting of PATRICIA GILLS, DORIS SHEL- TON and CORRINE ANDERSON. WILLIE GREEN, along with his helper, HARRY HILL, has just been paid for his new book, “Benefits of Sleep.” It starts: “Having had some experience in the art, I feel well qualified,” etc. As a lady inventor, BARBARA KING has made good, having invented an electric toothbrush. Just hold it and turn it on—that’s all there is to it. It’s guaranteed not to damage your teeth (for a while, anyway). ROBERT TUCKER, the man who designs butions, has received an award for his outstanding work in designing a new baseball. The players praise the product and say the new ball is easier to keep up with since it is square and doesn’t roll as far or as fast as the old style. ROBERT FULLER and RALPH EARLY are top ranking gridiron men. Fuller won an award for kicking. ROBERT PENICK has been in the dentistry field and has sold his car. (It fell apart when he stopped for a corner.) JAMES NORFLEET is a Spanish teacher at Madison High School; JUNE PARRISH is the school’s secretary. EDWARD JACKSON has been in the army fourteen years and is rated with other M.P.S.’s (Mighty Poor Soldier.) LANGSTON WALKER is starting to tour Lynchburg in an effort to gain publicity. His accompanist?—-JANICE ROBINSON, who plays every song in the same key and without music. (Who needs music to play for Langston?) MELVIN JONES and AUDREY LEE have started a grocery store; they also have a restaurant on one corner and Audrey does the cooking. WILBUR FRANKLIN is one of the greatest horse doc- tors of his time. (At the rate he kills them, he’]l soon be out of work.) LAWRENCE SPENCER is an artist in England and he uses crayons to color his art work (some artist) TOMMY TAPLEY, who earns his bread as a brick layer, plans to construct a home for himself: he wants a brick roof. (I wonder.) BARBARA WHITE is an interpretative dancer on contract at the “Stalk Club.” SAMUEL GLOVER is doing all right as a meat packer (better known as a cattle mortician). His hired assistants are: SHIRLEY COLEMAN, YVONNE ANDREWS and CAROLYN TAY- LOR. Well, as the haze covers the crystal ball, the last thing to be seen is a hand reaching down into a basketball] goal to push in another two points. No wonder, it’s (yours truly) “Stan the Man” Smith. Hasta la vista! Standly Smith, Class Prophet

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“1954 Class Will” My friends, I have called you to assemble here as a solemn duty that you, the heirs and assigns of my respected client, the class of 1954, may hear her last will and testament which, as her legal advisor, I drew as directed by her immediately prior to her passing from our presence. It was her intention and would have been her great pleasure to present you personally with these tokens of her esteem, but finding her possessions were even more extensive and valuable than she had thought, it was impossible. Because of this, if any slight discrepancies or apparent injustices or partialities should appear to you in the distribution of the effects, we trust you will pardon it and realize it was caused not by exhaustion of her brain, never over-robust. I shall appreciate your courteous attention while I disclose this duly attested will. We, the class of 1954, in the town of Lynchburg, and the state of Virginia, being in as good a mental condition as usual, do hereby make this, our last will and testament, rendering void and of no avail any former will or wills that may have been previously made by us during a period of temporary optimism. Although, being as psychologically complex as befits a senior class, we consist of separate and distinct entities. And in this manner do we dispose of our possessions: Mildred Coles bequeaths her small hips to Yvonne Jones. Oh! What a gift. Yvonne Andrews.wills her quietness.to Shirley Turner. Nice of her, isn’t it? Elizabeth Stone gives her position on the Majorette Squad to Dorothy Gentry. A’very.good position, Dorothy. Gladys Tweedy leaves her quietness to Shirley Grey. Barbara Pannell bestows her cuteness upon Ruth Nowlin. . Janette’ Lee wills her height, to Bertha Payne. Lelia Smith bequeaths her beautiful hands to Evelyn Miller, and Selena Green gives her hair style to Dorothy Carter. Wayland Mitchell bestows his position on the Student Council to George Harris. Stanley Smith bestows his height on Beverly Anderson. Susie Kimbrough gives her eyes to Mil- dred Jenerson. Emmie Greene wills her.position on the Chorus to Joyce Haskins. Beverly Sorrell relinquishes his.position as tackle on the football team to Norvell Jackson. Tom Evans wills his track ability to. James Allen. Helen Camm leaves her position as ‘Miss Dunbar’’»to“Loretta McCory. Elaine Thornhill wills her coolness to Gloria Scott. Alvalaz Hale bestows her eyes on Carol Jean Brown. Collene Anderson wills her sweetheart, Hayes Banks, to Joyce Haskins: DeLois Mosley leaves Mickey to Alice Franklin for one semester, she says. Shirley Claxton bequeaths her posi- tion as editor-in-chief of the Chronicle to Samuel Franklin. Last but not least, to our principal and teachers, we give and bequeath a sense of relief that we have at last graduated, pleasant memories of our five years together, and a feeling of pride in any great deeds or noteworthy achievements that our future may contain, realizing that such glories— if any—will be as a result of their example and counsel.