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

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SENIORS Curtis Roma Wall lie ' s patient, energetic and ready to serve, Has determination and a touch of reserve. Carlene Sue Webb A pleasant smile and a heart of gold, The highest ideals she doth uphold. Phyllis Jean Webb Her voice is low; her intentions sweet; She ' s gentle, dainty, and petite. Lemuel Edgar Whitlock Cheerful, jolly, reserved and kind, A boy like Edgar is hard to find. Nell Evelyn Wray Her manners are fine, and her outlook is gay; It would certainly be nice to find more that way. Christine Dovie W ' rigiit U’hy should she he serious and coy. When laughter fills her life with joy ' ' ' Phil “ Sleepy ' Ev Chris '

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SENIORS James Conley Stone He ' s a real Romeo zvho has a Juliet: A mathematical brain will zvin her yet. Gordon Elliott Stone He ' s laughing, witty, athletic, too. irithout Gordon what would we do? Virginia Elizabeth Stone She ' s petite, blonde, gentle and sweet — A nice combination, and hard to beat. Wilbert Leland Stone This is a fellow who ' ll some day go far; His ability to draw is ' way above par. Elsie Bryant Thomasson She has winning ways and an active brain; That Elsie will win her way is very plain. James Marshall Thomasson A better student is hard to find; Rivers of knowledge pass through his mind. Snake Gord “ Shorty” Link” “Thommy” Jimmy” [ 24 ]

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LOOKING BACKWARD The lawyer is puzzled about a case brought to him. He begins looking through his library in search of reference books. As he draws out several law books, his attention is attracted to four bright books in the corner — they are his high school year books of long ago — Timber Tints, ’ 5, ’ 6, ’47 and 48. The law case is forgotten. He takes the four books and seats himself comfortably in his armchair. He turns the books over fondly and, finally, opens Timber Tints, ' 4 . He looks across the years and sees many things of his half-forgotten youth. The memories dance across his brain and play their parts again. He lights his pipe and gives himself up to the enjoyment of the scenes. He sees a group of about seventy-five freshmen walking up the long steps and through the friendly doors of dear old Bassett High. There are Mrs. Divers, Misses Lipscomb and Pace greeting them. Ts, the freshmen are being divided into sections and several are scrambling to get into the group with their chums. Soon each is adjust ed and happy with his classmates. At times the sections are meeting together with Alarie Collier as class president. They are at one time voting on class colors, flowers and motto; at another they are planning a party. Once they are all together at a picnic at the ball park. The lawyer sees himself running in the games and enjoying the good food. In the spring, he is out for May Day; he is wdnding the May Pole and watching the crowning of the queen. I’he lawyer is happy in being a school boy again, moving to classes, listening to Mr. Hoover over the sound system, hobnobbing through the halls and stopping at the drug- stores for a coke and a chat with his schoolmates. He joyfully ' turns to Timber Tints, ’ 6, and glances through the pictures of his class- mates. Seven fellow students and Mrs. Divers are missing; there are only sixty-nine of the sophomores with the sponsors. Misses Lipscomb and Pace. He is soon at the class meeting where Garnett Hancock presides while “Smokey” Pegram takes notes. The class is entering into more activities — some are selling magazines in the magazine cam- paign ' many are busy in athletic games. Seven of the sophomore boys, including himself, are on the Boys’ arsity Basketball Team and two of the girls are on the Girls’ Varsity. The lawyer is taking part in a basketball game again in the gymnasium; he feels the thrills as he puts the ball in the basket and hears the cheers! In the spring, he is on the baseball diamond enjoying, wdth several of his classmates, many exciting games. As he turns to Timber Tints, ’47, he notes only sixty-one returning as juniors in the fall of ’46; among them Edd Jones, back from the service in the Lh S. Navy. As they move to their classes, they are greeted by several new faculty members: Misses Thel- magene Kessinger and Mary Elizabeth Bassett and Coach Lemons. At the first class meeting the class elects “Smokey” Pegram, president; Sue Webb, vice president; Pat Philpott, treasurer, and Hugh Draper, secretary. Football for the first time is the active game of the fall season. Coach Lemons is leading thirteen of the junior class in the squad to the football field. How hard they do play! What a fight they give their opponents at home and abroad, though they win only two victories against five defeats! As the lawyer, so engrossed, turns the pages of Timber Tints, ’46, he sees the girls in blue and white throwing basketball goals in the gymnasium; six of them are his class- mates. A little later he is among the seven from his class on the Boys’ Varsity, who are putting up a brave fight for the game. He hears the shouts of the cheerleaders, and the voices of his classmates, Mary Campbell, Pat, Lucy Lee and Emily, rise above the others with “Rah! Rah! Rah! Bengals!” d’he lawyer comes back to earth again as he sees twelve studious members of his class join the Beta Club. He sighs, then laughs, as he says, “I could have been a Beta member, too, if I had not been so mischievous. But the fun I had at Bassett High was great!” Not only does he see his class busy in Beta Club work, but on the Bell staff, in the Student Council, the Dramatic Club, the Literary Society, the Pep Squad and other activities. Leland Stone wins the county prize for his drawing, “Lena the Hyena.” He [ 26 ] i