Hampton High School - Krabba Yearbook (Hampton, VA)

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CLASS HISTORY 949 In September of 1945 a group of enthusiastic and ambitious boys and girls passed through the halls of Hampton High School for the first time as students. Little did we realize that on the knowledge we absorbed during the next three years may be based our future success in life. For many of us, the first big impression of high school was the football season- we cheered enthusiastically, filled with pride for the Red and White. After the welcome break of the Christmas holidays, we settled down to prepare ourselves for the tests that would advance us a half step in our high school lives. After this first proof that we were becoming slowly but surely educated, we used our newly acquired Grabber sprit to support the basketball team. The rush and excitement of the school play made it seem as though summer came all at once, and we began our summer vacation. We rc-entered school in the fall of 1946, with a new feeling of pride for even though we were still being looked down upon by our upper classmen, we finally had someone to whom we could feel superior. Football and basketball brought back welcome thrills and excitement after which we submerged ourselves in study for exams. Before we knew what was happening, summer was here and our Sophomore days were completed. The importance of being a junior brought encouragement to us in September of 1947. We were feeling more and more like old-timers around school during the football and basketball seasons. The junior class elected the following officers: Bruce Capps, Presidentg Dick Offringa, Vice-President, Sylvia Bodie, Secretary, and Ruth Mingee, Treasurer. Then time drew near for the junior-Senior Prom, and soon it was something to look back on with pleasure. Summer came, and we left school with a feeling of awe as we realized that wc would return as Seniors. i28l'

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ALLEN, SHARON LANE Also-- BENNETT, VIRGINIA EVELYN ZBRITE, CHARLES WILSON COATES, JOE FRANKLIN DOOD, ROBERT JOSEPH . EDMONDS, THOMAS BRUCE FRANCIS, JEAN ELIZABETH GRINDER, RICHARD HANSON, JR. HILTY, DONALD PHILLIP HOUSTON, BENNIE B. LYNDE, SALLY ANNE PARR, RUSSELL FRANCIS PENCOLA, PATRICK A., JR. ROGERS, RICHARD LUTHER ROBERTSON, JOHN DONALD SAUNDERS, WALTER HoovER SELEY, TUCKER JARRETT SMILEY, MACLYN DAVIS VASSAR, ROBERT BLAIR A WHIPPLE, LLOYD FRANCIS, JR. WOODLAND, THORNTON WILLIAM, JR. 4271

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Our awe was not lessened when we returned to school that fall. Our lives were busier then as we began to take part in more extracurricular activities. Some of us settled down to double our efforts at studying with thoughts of further education, while others settled back to wrangle our way through the last year with the least amount of effort. However, our senior year was particularly important because the Hampton High School football team won the State Championship after a decisive game with Newport News High School. The Hampton High School band won much earned honors that year, and the Krabba Highlight was becoming a bigger and better newspaper. As soon as basketball was behind us, the Senior class chose the following oflicers: Eugene Hays, Presidentg Andy Becouvarakis, Vice-President, Viola Loraine Barba, Secretaryg and Joyce Ann Jones, Treasurer. Then came the hustle and bustle of preparations for the Junior-Senior Prom, exams and graduation. As our days in high school came to an end, we reviewed the triumphs and failures in our high school education. With mixed emotions, we took our last exams and witnessed the graduation ceremonies, and as we leave Hampton High School for the last time as students, we are impressed more and more with the importance and need for a better and finer education. JOAN VALENTINE, Historian. i29l