Dunlap High School - Reflector Yearbook (Covington, VA)

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RUBY PEARL POWELL “Stuff” Basketball 2,3,4; Glee Club 1; Annual Staff 4;Mar- shall 1,2,3; Softball 2; 4-H Club 1,2,3,4; Athletic Club 1,2; Dramatics 3; Typing Club 1; “It is far better to be independent, to have a mind of your own. Make up your mind concerningwhat is right, then do it.” ROBERTA JANE WALTON “Berta” Bible Club 3; Glee Club 1; 4-H Club 4; Annual Staff 4; “Silence is golden.” RODNEY MARTELL KIRBY Rod” Basketball 1,2,3,4; Baseball 1,2,3,4; Football 1,2, 3,4; 4-H Club 1,2,3; “Never put off until tomorrow what you can put off until day after tomorrow.” SYLVIA MARIE WICKLINE “Silver” Glee Club 1,2; Typing Club 2; 4-H Club 1, 2, 3, 4; Annual Staff 4; Newspaper Staff 3; T.A.B. Club 1, 2; Maid of Honor in May Court; “Laugh and be gay.” N. DAVID WEBB “Dave” Basketball 1,2,3,4; Football 2,3,4; Baseball 2,3,4; 4-H Club 1,2,3,4; Annual Staff 4; “I’ll find a way or make it.”

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CHARLES E. SMITH “Smitty” Typing Club 1,2; Glee Club 1,2,3; One Act Play Club 2; 4-H Club 1; “A quiet mind is nobler than a crown.” GARNETT ANN MARTIN “Sally” Typing Club 2; Glee Club 1,2,3,4; 4-H Club 1,2,3 ; Craft Club 2; Annual Staff 4; “Well timed silence is more eloquent than speech.” SAMUEL LEONARD ROGERS “Sam” Football 2,3,4; Baseball 2,3,4; Basketball 1,2,3,4; 4-H Club 1,2,3,4; Firefighters 1,2,3,4; “His talk is like a stream which runs with rapid change from rocks to roses.” SHELVIE JEAN BESS “Jeanie” Editor of Paper 3; Glee Club 1,2,3; May Queen Attendant 2; Mary (Christmas Pageant) 3; Annual Staff (Will) 4; “A secret love is bad; Tis sheer ruin. ’ ’ DALLAS ANN O’CONNER “Dallo” Bible Club 3; Glee Club l,4;4-HClub 1,2,3,4; An¬ nual Staff 4; “Such a whirlpool of fun and mischief in her head.”

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Class History The 1955 senior class of Dunlap High School had its beginning early one September morning in 1944 when Gloria Brubaker, Carol Lewis, Ruby Powell, Sylvia Wickline, Charles Smith and H. B. Kersey started to attend school for the first time. Juanita Hubbard joined us in the second grade from Boy’s Home. Nancy Bostic came from White Sulphur Springs to Dunlap in the third grade. In the fourth grade, Delbert May joined us from Falling Springs. In the fifth grade, Larry Morris, Randolph Webb, Clifford Booth, Buddy Ballard, Sammy Rogers, Rodney Kirby, and Dallas O‘Connor came from Callaghan School to Dunlap. Patsy Jones, Annabelle Meadows, and Sally Martin joined us from Hunter School in the seventh grade. 1951, and we entered our freshmanyear of high school. Katherine Ail- stock and Leona Broughman came from Jeter and Earle Ray Cooke al¬ so joined us the same year. In the Sophomore Class we were joined by Jean Bess from White Sul¬ phur Springs, Bobby Nicely from Jeter, and Roberta Walton from Fal¬ ling Springs. David Webb and Darrell Martin also joined us that year making a total of twenty-seven. The high-light of our junior year was the presentation of the Junior- Senior Banquet at Reid’s Grill in Covington on April 9. We received our class rings at the banquet. The class officers of our Senior Class are Buddy Ballard-President, Annabelle Meadows-Vice President, Gloria Brubaker-S e c r e t a r y and T reasurer. Some of the main events of our senior year have been publishing our our annual, THE REFLECTOR, presenting the Senior play and last, but not least, our commencement exercises. The graduating class of 1955 ha s a record number of twenty -six graduates. Class Historian, H. B. Kersey