Essex High School - Odyssey Yearbook (Tappahannock, VA)

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ScnMX Sup llatW£4, Best All-Round Jean Dandridge Roger Brown Best Liked Bettye McGuire William Lee Most Studious Delores Washington Delaney Wright Most Business-Like Jacquelyn Roane Joseph Pendleton Most Attractive Joyce Gaines John Oneal Most Athletic Jean Dandridge Willie Blagmon. Most Talented Ruby Young James Gaines Most Sophisticated Johnnie Fortune Roger Brown jUwyicai Most Humorous Dorothy Golden Moses Epps The Quietest From Here to Eternity The Clock Every Night In the Week Crying in the Chapel Tipping In Why? Oh Why? My Song Dragnet I Couldn’t Sleep a Wink Last Night Strange Sensation You’re a Part of Me Here In My Heart Money Honey Cr y Loveliest Night In The Year Somewhere Along the Way - Entering Essex High Arriving at School on time Home Assignment Failed in a Subject L ate f or class Did I fail in English? Alma Mater Wanted in the Office Studying for Test Leaving for work or College • E.C.H.S. O ur love for Essex Buying graduation Necessities Failing to Graduate Graduation Night Finding a job after Graduation

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CUuk Sony Tune: Believe Me If All Those. . . O Essex dear, Our pride and joy. We pay thee our homage today, For the worth of thy teaching, Thy joy and care, And the good we ' ve known long the way, We thank thee, we bless thee, we pray for the years, That will glorify God and our race, We ' ll love thee forever and ne ' er shall forget. How we labored for our true reward. O Essex dear you were stern but true. And there ' s nothing that we shall do, To reflect on your name, dear School of ours, The school of our years and hours, We shall think of you with pride always, And keep you exalted high. And will always remember the days gone by, And the teachings of old Essex High. — Jacquelyn Roane Jean Holmes Dear Old Essex, Source of Wisdom From your fountain the stream of knowledge flows Here we’ve played, and here we’ve labored Many a lesson we have learned We have solved the many problems That the years have placed before us As we’ve trod the path of wisdom Pressing onward to our goal We have passed o ' er hill and valley Through the plain, over rough terrain Now we will leave your halls forever Chanting still our sweet refrain Hail Essex, our Queen! As we speed along life’s pathway To the land of greater promise Where the others sing your praises We shall take our place beside them Writing yet a brighter chapter Adding ever to your greatness --Jean Dandridge Joyce Gaines

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We, the Class of 1955, of the Essex County High School, do hereby make and declare this to be our last will and testament in form and manner as follows: To the School, we leave the examples we have set as worthy scholars and blameless stu- dents. To the Community at large, we bequeath the influence we have been for the honorable and the better things of life; our interest in music, in community programs and in charitable drives. To the Faculty, we leave our highest respect and indebted love. To the Junior Class, we bestow our richest treasures, our senior dignity, our ex- celling wit, our superlative brilliancy, our charming manners, our favor with the teachers, our excellent grades and our triumphant exit as the most outstanding class this school has ever had. To the Sophomore Class, we leave two more years of hard work, for we believe that it was hard work that enabled us to reach our goal. To the Freshman Class, we leave our fearlessness to tackle the job at hand and the courage to push forward. The Class of 1955, not willing to leave all of our possessions, take with us the most valuable of all, our love for ECHS. --Johnnie Mae Fortune Emma Hoskins