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

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Vireinlaaa Foreword For the first time in four long, weary years peace has been restored to the world. A peaceful world — free from fear, free from suffering, and free from aggression. The feeling of security has invaded the people of the world, enabling them to speak, think, and act normally. Our own nation is proving itself worthy of the brave men of the past centuries “who here gave their lives that that nation might live.” Again we are indebted to human lives that were sacrificed for us. Let us resolve that the world, because of us and through our own efforts, will be a better one— a peaceful one — as Goci in His creation intended. L Loperty of The Library of

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The Timber Tints OF Nineteen Hundred and Forty-Six THE ANNUAL PUBLICATION BY The Senior Class OF BASSETT HIGH SCHOOL

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Dedication E. Carl Hoover, Jr. Roy Eugene McGhee Charles Edgar Jarrett James William Wagoner James Thomas Ramsey Robert Ralph Ingram James Samuel Ferguson With hearts full of respect and admiration, we dedicate this annual as a memorial to those former students of Bassett High School who fought so bravely and to those who died so valiantly on the many battle- fields throughout the world. It is our hope that this dedication will in some way be a tribute to those who died. V