Langston High School - Lion Yearbook (Danville, VA)

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enzbr GQSS zcers President Andrew Loundermon Vice President Phillip Stamps Recording Secretary Mary Wilson Financial Secretary Frances Clark Treasurer Richard Crews Business Manager Charles Wade Student Council Rep. Ralph Hutchins it 759 521012 CSXM Editor -in -Chief Joseph Edmonds Editor Raymond Crump Corresponding Secretary Ella Tucker Recording Secretary Dorothy Lea Business Manager Charles Tumer Managing Editor Howard Barksdale Sports Editor Linwood Davis Features Editor Rosa Gunner

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ERNESTINE WARNER Ambition: Professional Seam- stress Activities: Dramaticsg NHA: Choir. Curriculum: Practical PHILLIP WHITE Ambition: Wrestler Curriculum: Practical LEMMA M, WILSON Ambition: Secretary Activities: Dramatics: Health Club: Choir: Cheering Squad Y-Teen. Curriculum: Practical MARY ROSALYN WILSON Ambition: Stenographer Activities: NHA: Dramaticsg Y-Teen: Commercial Club: Choir. Curriculum: Commercial 3 Z

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Ghss s7i7AlS'fOIy This is your radio program Night Train being broadcast from Station IML. H. S. Danville, Virginia. Tonight this train is crowded with the Senior Class of '55 and it has almost reached its destination. It came into view in 1950 when it brought one hundred forty-six young happy boys and girls over from the Annex to Langston High and arrived at Station 8. Here we were met on the platform by Mr. Armstead and his trainmen who were Mrs. Murphy, Mrs. Banner, Mr. McDowell, Miss Ivy, Miss Langhome, Mrs. Chaney and Mrs. White. They acquainted us with the vocational studies. After we had been introduced to all at this stop the train glided on to Station 9. Here we found Mr. Armstead had left us when we were met by Mr. Paige. This was the time for us to be assigned to four different Curricula Car Sections. 1. General, 2. Practical, 3. Commercial, and 4. Academic. Each person went where they thought they could eat, sleep, and carry on without being caughtg but, this is really where the journey began. When everyone had become comfortable the train moved on to Station 10, many passengers got off to make connections for points North, East and far West. What a glorious, gorgeous, beautifully appointed Club Car we beheld when we reached Station 11. This was getting closer to our destination. This Club Car was in existence at Station 9, but we were not really too active until we reached the 11th Station. While strolling through this car we discovered a Dramatic Section. There we saw Howard Barksdale, Philip Stamps, Carrie Lewis, Richard Crews and Mary Rosalind Wilson as members. Richard Crews was being starred as Ricky Ricardo in the three-act comedy I Love Lucy. Later our attentions were drawn toward wonderfully, soft music. The music turned out to be the Choir. ln it we saw Charles Tumer, Raleigh Stamps, Charles Wade, Gleneria Keene, Rosa Gunner, Richard Crews, Ella Tucker, Melvin Thornton, Aquilla Coles, William Poindexter, Carrie Lewis and Andrew Loundermon. This was tne year or 1954 and previously Carrie Lewis had won first prize on the Omega Psi Phi Fratemity Talent Hunt. Carrie was at a later date selected to be in a Musical Contest in Washington, D.C. While in the Club Car the train sped along to Station 12. Weren't we glad when we had come to this place. It seems as if everything was waiting for us. Mr. J. H. Byrd, Jr. met us at this station. We saw spaces that had been reserved for the N. H, A. , Student Council, Cheering Squad, Student Patrol and Langstonian staff. In the N. I-L A. section we found Mary Rosalind Wilson, Kate Moore, Lemma Wilson and Barbara Motley. Gene Motley was voted into the office of President for Student Council. ln the Cheering Squad section were Florence Bigelow and Ruby Leftridge. Endeavored to cheer on to the Football championship, Willie Conway, Ralph Hutchins, Linwood Davis, Rawdon Brown, James McLaughlin, Andrew Loundermon, Reginald Graves, Richard Crews, and William Poindexter, Mary Rosalind Wilson was elected our Homecoming Queen. For the Basketball Team we cheered Charles Wade, James Hunt, and Rawdon Brown. 4 w I 1