Longwood College - Virginian Yearbook (Farmville, VA)

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student teaching! Who ' ll ever forget the per ' ennial What way the high school — please? As our last chance at Circus was fast ap ' proaching, everyone lost herself in cooperative wcrk and under the marvelous direction of Betsy Hankins and Barbara Caskey, turned out our memorable Invention Interlude. Trains, autos, the Russian — all turned the stage into a live museum, but Caskey held the spotlight as our lovely queen. Before long we were pressing snow-white formals for June in December. Margie Sut- phin, dance chairman, earned our warmest thanks for making it a memorable evening. It was especially memorable for our honorary classman, Mary Helen Cook, who lit up the room with her smile and her diamond, and for our honor underclassman, Bobbie Assaid. Spring came, and one bright day we managed, at last, to put something over on the poor underclassmen. While they basked in the warmth of a professor ' s lecture, we basked in the warmth of the kind sun and bree2.es at the lake. Sneak Day was, indeed, all we had anticipated. Eighty voices, dulled by tears, rang out in Senior Assembly as we sang the hits and misses of our four years at Longwood. Then with final examinations behind us and our thoughts on the future, we marched into the auditorium for the last time and there, with shaking hands, received our degrees. This piece of sheepskin ended college fun and sor- row, and all the things that made those days life rather than mere existence. With mixed and rather shattered emotions, we said good-by to the darling of our hearts, Charles Hop, to our hard-working officers, and to many of our dearest friends. Although we must go, we leave behind our love and best wishes to all who have shared our college days with us. Senior fluat put inventions in style. Charlie Hop and the Seniors of ' 53 Rtfff + m +

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White, Steck, P. Brothers, Ba SENIOR OFFICERS Polly Brothers President Joanne Steck Vice President Helen Barrow Secretary Barbara White Treasurer Charlie Hop — Our sponsor man CLASS HISTORY Though you wal through a storm, Keep your chin up high. L AST, present and always, these are the words we ' ve come to live by. And now in the last of our four years, we all feel that we can walk alone with only an occasional stubbed toe, but never a fall. This year, in spite of its many vicissitudes, has been one of our most successful. Mrs. East ' ham ' s and Tippy ' s welcome home was enough to make anyone start the year with smiles. Then came capping, and we felt that we had at last reached the ultimate. We were full-fledged sen- iors. Oh, the many hours passed talking about

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MARY BETTY ABBITT Madison Heights, Virginia B.S. in Education History FRANCES GATES ANDREWS 7 [orfol , ' Virginia ' .S. in Elementary Education GWENDOLYN MAY BAIN Dmiuiddie, Virginia S. in Elementary Education MARGARET HELEN BARROW Blac stone, Virginia B.S. in Home Economics Home Economics Education ANN DAVIS BELL Blac stone, Virginia ' .S. in Elementary Education MARY EVELYN BENNETT Roc y Mount, Virginia B.S. in Music Education THE VIRGINIAN