Dunlap High School - Reflector Yearbook (Covington, VA)

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Class History Our Senior class began in 1943 with Betty Wilkerson, Margaret Owens, Evelyn Hill, and Shirley Carper. The following year Rod Owens and Charles Lewis joined the class. Mary Paxton came from Boys’Home to Dunlap in the third grade. Later, in the fifth grade, Shirley Dilley, Charles Groves, Mary Gray, Barbara Moore, and Annabell Smith came from Callaghan School. Helen Perkins came from Covington the same year. Mary Baxter joined the class from Kentucky in the sixth grade; then we were joined by Bobby Drummond. When we got to the seventh grade BettySnyder, JuneCarter, ElizabethCarter, BobCooke, Julian Cooke, Bill Howard and Herndon C rosie r we re added from Hunter School. Gerald Bratton also came in thatyear from Gap Mills. In our freshman year Ray Armentrout came to the class from Falling Springs. Charles Lewis, Herndon Crosier, Bill Howard and Charles Groves left the class while we were sopho¬ mores . The year we were juniors we gave the Junior-Senior banquet at the Silver Arrow. The same year Annabell Smith, Barbara Moore, Mary Gray, Rebecca Lewis, and Bobby Drummond left the class; then Dale Bratton joined us. This year we have had, in addition, Eddie Ray Alfred and Stuart Dameron, making nineteen members in the class. Our biggest jobs this ye re the publication of our annual and production of our play. We elected class officers that we thought best leaders of our class every year throughout the four years of high school. This year they have been: June Carter, President Ray Armentrout, Vice-President Shirley Carper, Secretary and Treasurer Betty Wilkerson, Class Reporter June 9, 1954, our graduation day, is the day we have been looking forward to, yet dreading since we were freshmen. With a mixture of joy and sadness in our hearts we must say farewell to Old Dunlap. We wish to express our thanks to everyone that has made this wonderful day possible for us. Class Historian, Mary Baxter

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Will tAnd Zestament Realizing that we the class of 1954 are about to make our departure from Dunlap High School, we wish to leave the following vices and virtues of sane minds and healthy bodies, and therefore we do hereby make and declare this to be our last will and testament. ARTICLE I To Mr. R. L. Graham, our principal, we leave our many thanks for his patience, under¬ standing and helpfulness. ARTICLE II To Miss Zona Landes is left our gratitude for making this 1954 REFLECTOR a success. ARTICLE III To Miss Winnie Murdock we leave our sincere appreciation for the many things she has done for us. ARTICLE IV We bestow upon the entire faculty our mo JKjmcere thanks for their patience and guidance. V To the Juniors, along with the many responsibilities, we leave the joy of being a senior and getting to go to the football games on the bus. ARTICLE VI To the students of Dunlap High School we leave the following: Ray Armentrout wills his algebra book to Darrel Martin. Shirley Carper wills her waist line to Patsy Jones. Rod Owens wills his big feet to Mr. sJenkins. Mary Ann Paxton wills her ability to play basketball to Ruby Powell. Eddie Ray Alfred wills his football suit to David Webb. Evelyn Hill wills her long hair to Gloria Brubaker. Julian Cooke wills his patience to Miss Pansy Smith. Helen Perkins wills her quiet ways to Grace Ott. Gerald Bratton wills his troubles to anyone that wants them. Margaret Owens wills her love for government to anyone that can stand it. Mary Baxter wills her cheerleading ability to Sonia Carter. June Carter wills her ability to sell poppies to Mr. Blumling to Miss Murdock. Elizabeth Carter wills her boy friends to Fay Critzer. Shirley Dilley will§ her good nature to Martha Camden. Betty Jean Wilkerson wills her short hair to Mrs. Jenkins. Bob Cooke wills his ability to get away with mischief in class to Sammy Rogers. Stuart Dameron wills his height to Perry Vail. Dale Bratton wills his basketball ability to Delbert May. Betty Snyder wills her love for laughing to Sally Martin. Sealed and signed this 1st day of April, 1954, The Senior Class of ’54 Betty Snyder, Chief Executor.

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Class Prophecy As I was sitting alone in my study last night, I heard a harsh, croaking voice. As I looked up, there perched in the window was a raven. As I turned back to my desk the raven started talking and here is what he came up with: Two of the 1954 Seniors are working at the paper mill. Bob Cooke is chief chemist and his latest discovery is making gold out of rubber. SO WHAT? Rod Owens will spend the next fifty years at the paper mill where the machines can outrun his mouth. Doctor Shirley Dilley has just performed her first operation. Funeral arrangements for the patient are incomplete. Mary Baxter and Mary Paxton are employed at a slaughter house in Texas-they are really shooting the bull. Eddie Alfred has opened a pool-room and is really behind the eight ball. June Carter is teaching Harry Truman piano. Such a job! ! ! Ray Armentrout is starring with a pro football team, the “Greenbay Packers.” Ray is official water boy and bench warmer and is doing a really wonderful job at it. Margaret Owens, suffering from a lonely heart, has organized a “Lonely Hearts Club.” That is how she has kept in touch with her classmates. Betty Snyder is a Physical Education teacher and is treating the kids as s h e was once treated. Stuart Dameron and Julian Cooke are playing with Ringling Brothers. Stuart is the short fat guy and Julian is the heavy-weight champion. Gerald and Dale Bratton are ace fighter pilots in China, and have twenty planes to their credit. (They were all shot from under them.) Evelyn Hill is private secretary to the President of the United States and Helen Perkins is secretary to the Secretary of State. (We did have two smart ones in the class.) Elizabeth Carter has formed a one man hunting club. Good hunting, Elizabeth. Shirley Carper has settled down with a steady job as a model with “Esquire. ” Betty Wilkerson is starring with the “All American Redheads” and is going to the games in a new Cadillac. “Thus ends the revelation of the class of 1954, ” said the raven as he flew from his perch. He went out the window and I have not seen him since. As to the truth of these revelations, . . . time, the great revealer, can alone answer that. Margaret Owens, Prophet