John D Bassett High School - Timber Tints Yearbook (Bassett, VA)

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The Timber Tints cf 1936 Senior Class History My High School Diary : September, 1932 — Umph, but don ' t we think we are “great ! We are now Freshmen, and this year marks the beginning of our high school career. We have forty-one in our class, twenty-one girls and twenty boys. I wonder how many of them will be in the graduating class in 1936 — Today we elected officers. Roy Stone was elected president. How “time is fleeing. Examinations are now over, and some of our classmates have failed to return ; among them is our president, Roy Stone. This leaves his duties to rest on the vice president, Margaret Halbrook. Now every one is busy working on the May Day Program. Margaret Halbrook and Galilee Smith are pages, and other participants are : May Plybon, Sunshine Jones, Anita Yeaman, Louise Smith, Georgia Philpott, and Helen Philpott. We are now patiently waiting and wondering what the play, “College Hobo,’’ will be like, but we will soon find out. Galilee Smith and Margaret Halbrook have parts in this play, which is creating so much excitement. This is the last day of our Freshman year. The majority of our class passed, but much to our sorrow some were left behind. September, 1933 — We are now back in school again, prepared to initiate” the “rats of this year. There are only twenty-seven sophomores, nine boys and eighteen girls. Again the girls outnumber the boys. What a job it is organizing our clubs and classes ! Leonard Via was elected as the president of our Sophomore Class. Wc have two Home Economics Clubs. Galilee Smith is the president of one of the clubs, and Anita Yeaman is the secretary-treasurer of the other. Now the old year is coming to an end and A. L. Philpott has sent us this invitation to join him in celebrating New Year’s Eve : Father Time is in a hurry to usher the N ezv Year in, If you want to help him, be at A. L. Philpott’s when he begins For around the zvorld he must go before the New Year is born; Be there at eight, for he won ' t wait, for he must be through before New Year ' s morn. Of course, a goodly number of the sophomores were there when Father Time arrived. We are now through with our examinations, and, as a whole, our class grades and averages are good. Only a few of our members have dropped out, and a few new ones have come in. Again the Seniors are having a play, and their tal ent was not sufficient, so they have again sought out our talented class member, Galilee Smith, to be in the play, “Girl Shy.” Our school year has come to a close with the majority of our class advancing proudly to the Junior Class. ( Twelve )

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LOUISE SMITH “ Not exactly afraid of work , but rather Not be intimately associated with it.” Vice President, Home Economics Club, ’33; Treasurer, Sophomore Class, ’34; Basket Ball, ’33, ’34; Dramatic Club, ' 35, ’36; Home Econom- ics Club, ’35; Literary Society, ’35, ' 36; Hikers’ Club, ’36; Associate Editor-in-Chief, Annual. MARTHA STONE To worry little , to study less Is my idea of happiness.” Literary Society, ’35; Dramatic Club, ’35; Hikers’ Club, ’36; Home Economics Club, ’35. LEONARD VIA “ There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.” President, Sophomore Class; President, Junior Class; Literary Society, ’35; Dramatic Club, ’35; Treasurer, Senior Class; Treasurer, Annual; Busi- ness Manager, Newspaper. ANITA YEAMAN “ Ever calm and dignified Efficiency personified.” Secretary, Sophomore Class, ’33; Treasurer, Home Economics Club, ’32, ’33; Treasurer, Dramatic Club, ’35; Secretary and Treasurer, Hikers’ Club, ’36; Reporter, Senior Class; As- sistant Campaign Manager, Annual; Home Economics Club, ’35; Literary Society, ’35. ( Eleven J

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September, ip?- — We entered school today as excited as the children who are entering for the first time, because we are in the same home-room as the Seniors. There are fourteen girls and ten boys, and we have some new members added to our class. The new members are: Evelyn Snead, Martha Stone, Robert LeFever and John Snead. We have elected officers, and Leonard Via is our president. Pins! Pins ! All the Juniors are talking about the Junior pins. It seems that there are some who aren ' t pleased and others who are more than pleased. 1 ime is rapidly taking its course ; the examinations are over, and the plans for the banquet are nearing completion. Today a new member, Pressley Howard, came into our class. Our banquet was a great success. Leonard Via was toastmaster, and the other members of the Junior Class, who spoke during the evening, were: Galilee Smith, Margaret Halbrook, Robert LeFever, Anita Yeaman, and A. L. Philpott. Our Junior Year has come to a close and, altogether, we consider it our best year in high school. September, 1933 — We entered school this morning more excited than ever before, because we are the Seniors, and we feel our “superiority,” and in every- thing we want to show our “seniority.” There are five boys and eleven girls. Our new members are Frances Lowery, from Georgia, and Wilson Ingram. We elected officers, and Galilee Smith was voted president with a very efficient group of officers. We organized a Hikers Club today. The two officers are: Sunshine Jones, presi- dent, and Anita Yeaman, secretary and treasurer. Our editor-in-chief of the annual chose her staff members today. We are having a very heated discussion now about our Senior rings. It seems that we can’t come to any decision. The Seniors have decided to sponsor a school paper this year. The name is ' Fcssor Hoover ' s Gang. The Seniors on the staff are : Editor-in-Chief, Georgie Philpott ; Assistant Editor, Pressley Howard ; Assistant Editor, Leonard Via, and Senior Reporter, Anita Yeaman. The Seniors met today and decided that Leonard Via would be Valedictorian ; Georgia Philpott, Salutatorian ; Anita Yeaman, Historian; A. L. Philpott, Framer of Last Will and Testament; May Plybon, Poet, and Pressley Howard, Prophet. The important question which is now at hand is the selection of the invitations. The Junior-Senior Banquet was a fete which was greatly enjoyed by all of the seniors. Today marks the close of our high school career which we all mark as the most important year of our lives, and today as “our day of all days.” — Anita Yeaman. ( Thirteen )