Henry Clay High School - Slashes Yearbook (Ashland, VA)

Page 35 text:

With man kind words and a lot of patience, Mr, William Troxell brought the glee club through another very successful season. Our most important event for the spring of 1950 was the Annual Music Festival, held at Thomas Jefferson High School in Richmond, in which we received an excellent rating. A choir and the whole chorus sang at grad- uation . With the coming of fal 1 came the task of presenting the annual operetta . Thanks is due our director and to all those who helped to make this operetta a success. Our last singing performance for 1950 was the singing of carols in the Christmas assembly and at the lighting of the Community tree. 1ST ROW: Louise Mills, Lucille Mills, Peggie Eyler, Frances Muttle, Betty Lou Sykes, Ottellia Teibel, President: Pat Blair, Jean Leadbetter, Virginia Mabry, Hilda Powers, Janet Palmore, Amanda Dillon, Marie LaFoon, Louise Teibel. 2ND ROW; Margaret Myers, Mary Garland Cox, Susan Ayers, LeReve Mallory, Mary Jo Hall, Sarah Hannah, Shirley Mallory, Jerry Lee Haley, Anne Jennings, David Webb, Gwen Haley, Anne Turner, Joan Tyson, Shirley Powers, Harriet Packard. 3RD ROW: Beverly Moore, Elizabeth Bumpass, Barbara Holland, Evelyn Wall, Beverly Stone, Ruby Mallory, Dorothy Taylor, Gladys Mae Loving, Glen Brice, Otho Sledge, Michael Grieve, Nancy Webb, Jeanne Bull, Lois Attkisson. 4TH ROW: Eleanor Leistra, Audrey Peregoy, Vicki Ambrose, Mary Randolph Blunt, Mary Jane Cooke, Shirley Charlton, Dorothy Atkins, Jean Mallory, Milton Leake, Thomas Carter, Linwood Attkisson, Jimmy Vaughan, Barbara Quarles, Diana Curtis, Emma Belle Childress. 5TH ROW: Eddie Marshburn, Billy Babcock, Hatcher Wells. Herbert Cross, John Packard, Dick Bondy, Harry Griffith, A 1 Johnson, James Allen, Joe Haley, Tommy Leake. w JP Hr

Page 34 text:

TRUMPETS: Ralph Echols, John Packard, Billy Thomas, Jean Leadbetter, Jimmy Luck, Ben Vaughan. ALTO HORN: Jimmy Rideout. TROMBONES: Linwood Attkisson, Alvin Slyvia, C. J. Haley, Richard Lee Widener, Carrol Moss. TUBA: Chip Ray. OBOE: Evelyn Wall. FLUTE: Dale Maddox. PICCOLO: Virginia Mabry. CLARINETS: Margaret Meyers, Joe Haley, Shirley Wright, Arlene Henley, Ronald Spears, Barbara Quarles, Theresa Adams, Scott Wallinger, Melissa Granger, Landis Keys. SAX- APHONES: James Allen, Billy Morris Flag, James Bagby. PERCUSSION: Pat Parker, Douglas Hall, Bobby Reese. The band has completed another successful year under the capable direction of Mr. Troxell. Last spring, at the 1950 Annual Music Festival In Richmond, we received a III rating. This year we hope to do better with players of more experience and the larg- est number of elementary members that we have ever had. The elementary members will provide for a continuously large and experienced band for the coming years. When they reach high school, they will be the foundation on which the band will be built. The experience that they are now acquiring will be a val- uable asset to them in the future. The band played for the Memorial Day exercises last spring and has also played for the Randolph“Macon football games. The officers for this year are: President, John Packard; Vice- Presidents, James Allen and C.J. Holey; Secretary-Treasurer, Anita Heflin; Librarian, Jean Leadbetter; Manager, Linwood Att- kisson . Again we are looking forward to the Festival and another suc- cessful year. 30

Page 36 text:

LEFT TO RIGHT: John Packard, Linwood Attkisson, Hilda Powers, Hatcher Wells, Dick Biondo, president; Betty Lou Sykes, Pat ' Blair, Herbert Cross, Jay Webb, Shirley Stevens, Dale Maddox. Ottellia Teibel, Glen Brice. Henry Clay High School has for many years supported a Dramatic Club. This club, sponsored by the English department, has existed for the benefit of those students interested in dramatics; i.e., acting, staging, and directing. The club is composed of members who have shown outstanding ability in any of the various phases of high school dramatic productions. Every spring the Dramatic Club enters a play in the Group II, District II division of the Virginia High School League ' s annual One-Act Play Tournament. Last year ' s production was A Minuet, by Louis N. Parker. The club hopes to present a second play during the year in addition to the production for the Tournament, thus giv- ing to more students the invaluableopportunity of part- icipating in a dramatic production. 32