Hampton High School - Krabba Yearbook (Hampton, VA)

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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

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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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-iso LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT We the Senior Class of 1949, being of sound mind and body, dodeclare this our last will and testament, and hope you will enjoy the privilege and accomplishments, that we leave you, as much as we have. . - . 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48. l Bill Gibbons leaves-or does he? Bob CI'll jump in everyonej Gorjup leaves his track shoes to Reid Cutler. Eloise Anderson leaves her sentimental ways to Nancy Routten. Phyllis Acker and Geraldine Minnerly leave the D. E. Club minus two good members. George Hayes leaves to take over The Grey Hound Lines . Jean Baker leaves the Honor Society, at last! Gene Hays leaves his impressive school record to The Cat . Loraine Barba leaves to become a NACA along with Stu. Marshall Hearn leaves as quietly as he came. Jean Beavers leaves walking home. Eddie Holloway leaves his trumpet to Lloyd Hicks. Janice Breaux leaves her voice to haunt the halls of ole H. H. S. Harold Jennings leaves his most prized possession-Faith Ann. Betty Brockley leaves the honor roll. So what! Herbert Johnson leaves many happy years behind. Eula Cole leaves trying to get music out of her clarinet. Richard Jones leaves holding Faye's hand. Frances Cooper leaves in the direction of Taylorls Book Store. Bill fGay Lordj Lamkin leaves to take up his athletic corner at the Apprentice School. Betty Council and Peggy Keithley leave to enroll in Newport News High School. Tommy Lewis leaves to join our other Hampton Great at William and Mary. Lou Cunningham leaves with Bobby. Larry Lambert leaves to take over the MayHower.,' Jackie Dederick leaves her hair to Margaret Rhea. George QJolsonJ Messick leaves singing Mammy. Betty Denby leaves holding Bobby Stacey's hand. Hotie Mitchell leaves the VM Club minus a good member. Virginia Ehly leaves with her arm in a sling. What a ring! Sidney Moore leaves his football career to BoonF, Joyce Folkes leaves her baton to Toni Bloxom. Bobby Pittman leaves to become the local Icke man V' Betty Foster and Jackie Keithley leave for the Old Point National Bank. They known where the money is! Walter Raines leaves his brains to Little Beechumf' Jean Francis leaves Chemistry saying, Experience is the best teacher? Art Ream leaves-or are he and Jackie still in the corner? Charlotte Franklin leaves her ability to play the piano to Jean Zherback. Billy Renn leaves like all good preacher's sons. Claudine Hartman, Ann Holt, Etta Rector, and Jane Van Gorder leave the girls' basketball team to Jackie Riley. Dick Rogers leaves walking-or is he tip-toeing? Mary Hathaway leaves Mrs. Stevens in peace again. Walter Saunders ............................. this can't be! Veronica Haughey leaves Hampton for Phoebus. V Henry Schwartz leaves to become our next Einstein. Mae Hoppe just leaves at last. Rodney Smith leaves Bruce Capps without an assistant. Sara Hudgins leaves with Bob Gorjup still a few feet ahead. Mac Smiley leaves Hampton minus a good athlete. Faye Jones leaves the assembly committee to Mrs. Cameron.