Hopewell High School - Kaleidoscope Yearbook (Hopewell, VA)

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Nancy Rogers . Co-Editor Jan Nicholson . Co-Editor Susan Patterson . Co-Editors’ Assistant Ellen Gilliam . Business Manager Diane Helder. Business Manager’s Assistant Betsy Boss.Circulation Manager Brenda Hoover.Circulation Manager Phyllis Spivey . Features Editor Mike Cyckevic .Features Editor Patsy Peach . Features Assistant Diane Podlewski.Classes Editor Douglas Franks . Classes Editor Linda Scott.Classes Editor Carol Farnsworth . Classes Assistant Margaret Moore . Athletics Editor Gwyn Garrett . Athletics Editor Cindy Pritchard.Athletics Assistant Mary Etta Eyler.Organizations Editor Jimmy Williams . Organizations Editor Debbie Belch . Organizations Assistant Janet Frazier.Activities Editor Cheryl Abernathy.Activities Editor Betty Glass .Activities Assistant Emmett Holland . Photographer Don Thomas.Photographer’s Assistant Malvin M. Utleye.Faculty Advisor Gon en s Five decades of progress in . . . Features . 6 Administration and Faculty. 30 Classes . 54 Athletics .132 Organizations .172 Activities .190 Advertisements .210 4

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Within these pages is recorded one year at Hopewell High School. This year is special to us for it marks a half cent ury of educational advancement. What have these past fifty years meant? To us they have meant progress and pride. Both of these are exemplified in this edition of The Kaleidoscope. In this the 1 Golden Anniversary Year of Hopewell High School, we hope The Kaleidoscope will enable you to look at the past with pride which will help you meet the present and prepare for the future. 3 Your Co-Editors Nancy Rogers Jan Nicholson

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Hopewell High School’s graduates have increased from two in 1917 to 178 in 196If. Accordingly it has been neces¬ sary to increase the size of our school building. In 1915 a combined elementary and high school was built behind the First Christian Church. The first year showed an enrollment of 800. This numoer increased steadily. The “B” Village Y.M.C.A. at Fourth Avenue was pur¬ chased in 1921 for use as a high school. In 1925, ten years after the occupation of the first school, the building we now know as our high school was occupied. The Home Eco¬ nomics Cottage was built in 1939 and the gymnasium in 191 + 9 . The Library, Commerce, and Science Building was added in 1958. The growth of The Kaleidoscope is parallel to that of our school. The first edition was published in 1929. The first Co-Editors were Mary Winston, now Mrs. Mary Gill¬ iam, and George Ruffin. Mrs. Gilliam also gave The Kaleidoscope its name. The first Kaleidoscope did not re¬ semble the yearbook we have today. In fact it was not a yearbook, but a literary magazine. This monthly publica¬ tion contained few pictures, only essays and poems. The May edition contained the pictures of the Seniors and possi¬ bly a record of the football team’s scores. In 1935 the book, which had gained a hard cover, was published in May only, thus making it truly an annual. Through the years has evolved a Kaleidscope of which we may be proud.