Glass High School - Crest Yearbook (Lynchburg, VA)

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FACULTY SNAPS 1. Bargain basement keeper. 2. Ring dance plans? 3. Checking and collecting. 4. Helping the Rembrandts. 5. Ready—1, 2, 3 6. Beehive of our school. 7. Money! Money! 8. Reducers’ aids.

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Senior Class History A senior in high school has accomplished something. He has solved many mysteries for him- self in the realms of learning. He has almost completed a high school education and is now ready for more difficult goals. Not only has he grown mentally, but he has strengthened his character, improved his special talents, and made lasting friendships. His scholastic ‘achievements may be found on his report cards and these will be very important to his employer or a college registrar, but this history is a record of a very different sort, one that is important only to the ‘individual— dances, special awards, clubs, and all of the little things Jie will remember as constituting his last year in high school. During the summer, July 16-22, the Boys’ and Girls’ State Conferences were held at V. P. I. Representatives to Boys’ State were Jim Massie, Preston Wade, and Norman Harris. Girls’ State delegates were Margaret Dowdy, Minnie Rainey, and Mary Wilson Burnette. Senior Day was held October 20th and the election of Louis Stinnett as king and Peggy Car- wile as queen was announced at the Senior Assembly which was based on the “wonder medicine” Hadacol. Randolph-Macon Woman's College Banquet Hall was the scene of the Senior Banquet and Dance which took place on December 19. Dr. W. E. Fusselle was the guest speaker for this occasion. Seniors greatly distinguished themselves in contests during the early spring. anes Dowdy won first place in the school in the American Legion Constitution Contest and second i the district. Jean Marie Harris, Pollyanna Martin, and Janice Odor won first, second, and hice places respectively in the U. D. C. competition on Jeb Stuart. The High Times, now edited by Bill Perkins, received first place award in the Quill and Scroll contest for last year’s issues. The Critic won a rating of medalist at Columbia University for the May ’50 issue, edited by Sarah Kuniz unsky and Mary Wilson Burnette, and the October ‘50 issue, edited by Mary Wilson Burnette. Senior representatives for Glass in the Forensic Meet were: spelling, red Cyrus; reading, Norman Harris; girls’ public speaking, Mary Wilson Burnette; boys’ public spez aking, Bobby Giles. The Old Lady Shows Her Medals, Glass entry in the state play festival, received a rating of distinction in the district and state competitions. There were four seniors in the cast. In the creative writing contest at the University of Virginia, poems by Esther Gorman and Nina Eve Abrahams, an essay by Mary’ Wilson Burnette and short stories by Richard West and Mary Lynn Whitten were entered, Members of the Senior Class were very active in athletics this year. Johnny Palmer and Jimmy Wade were co-captains of the football team which received the Western District crown. All of the first team players with one exception were seniors, The basketball team, captained by Louis Stinnett, also won the Western District title. The girls’ basketball team received a champion rating, too, in the city league. Four members of the first team were seniors. Esther - Gorman was head cheerleader this year and ten of the twelve members of the squad were seniors The music department sent Janice White, Lowell Thompson and Gerould Ward to the all-state chorus in Danville. Massie Johns m was the only senior to attend the all state band in Martinsville. Working hard and always in the background has been the business department, providing typists for the publications, business managers for school projects, and workers in the lunchroom. Kenneth Cole was the chief accountant for the high school fund and Billy Keesee, chief accountant for the cafeteria. The Student Council Bunny Hop was held March 21 and Margaret Dowdy, president of the organization, was elected Miss Bunny Hop. She was also voted the best citizen in the Senior Class in an earlier election. A hop at the Y. W. C. A., sponsored by the Senior Y-Teens, was given March 30 for the benefit of the senior treasury. Jimmy Robertson and Philip Snead were the Hi-Y delegates to the Youth and Government Conference held in Richmond, April 6th and 7th. The Hi-Y and the Y-Teens, together, sponsored a Christmas dance and a pre-Easter worship service. Thirty members of the class were named to the National Honor Society at assembly on April 5 Jim Massie was chosen first in the four-fold rating; and Jean Marie Harris, first in scholastic average. May 4th was the date of the senior play Best Foot Forward. All parts in the production and all other work for the presentation of the play were carried on by committees made up of seniors. Commencement exercises were held on June 11th at the City Stadium and the usual com- mencement dance followed, providing a fitting end for the scholastic and social lives of the Senior Class of °51. For some of these seniors, graduation will mean jobs; for others, college. But what- ever the future, it means that they will be starting once more as beginners. —Mary WIxLson BuRNETTE. [ 14 ]