Luther Foster High School - Bulldog Yearbook (Blackstone, VA)

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Administration Felicitations To The Class of 1957 Let your aims be worthy Your aspirations high Your designs wise And your purpose steadfast. Conamore. MRS. SALLIE B. COLEMAN MISS GRETA CAUTHERN, Assistant Secretary - VERNON CLARK, Assistant Principal After having received the necessary and basic elements for your future well-being, it is both logical and sound judgement that you apply these fundamentals to everyday situations in which you find yourselves. The realization of the importance of an elementary background and venturing ahead in quest of ad¬ ditional knowledge and understanding should reap for you the greatest of benefits. Successfully yours, Vernon Clark

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Admin istration To the seniors of 1957 J. B. WOODSON, Principal Dear Friends: Again, we come to the parting of the ways. And, again, it is time to extend what we sometimes consider final good wishes, congratulations and last-minute admonitions. Certainly for me a last-min¬ ute admonition seems desirable. It grows out of a soul-deep urge which I find myself unable to ignore. As much as I should like to say to you that your high school achievements will assure a successful future - as much as I should like to let optimism be the dominant thought in these last words to you as your principal - I still find myself constrained to offer a work of caution even at this hour. Your high school graduation represents an achievement for which you have reasons to be justifiably proud. Mastery of the subject-matter involved in the various courses taken is undoubtedly an indication that you do possess many of the basic skills and abilities necessary to success. Further study and further mastery of skills and techniques should be relatively easy - and certainly possible. My final admonition to you, however, has to do with attitudes of the spirit rather than accomplishments of the mind. In the days that lie ahead, I think you will need more and more to concentrate on the development of spiritual strength and the maintenance of emotional balance. You are going out into a world that is pregnant with distractions, delusive appeals, selfish proposals, prejudices, bitter feelings and confusing ideologies. In the midst of these influences, you will most certainly find yourselves often confused and perplexed. At times even your faith in mankind may be shaken to the depths. Therefore, you will be needing an abundance of faith and also an ever-increasing power of endurance. Where will i t come from? I hardly need add that it must come from within. Briefly, let me suggest that you rely on yourselves and on the Divine guidance of the One who possesses all power - and who will bountifully bestow same upon you if you are in receptive mood. In Quietness and in Confidence Shall be your Strength. (See Isaiah 30:15) With very best wishes, Your principal, James B. Woodson

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w w. Annual Staff Left to right: Shirley Dobbins, Assistant Business Manager; Inez Harris, Typist; Shirley Peace, Co-Editor; Arretha Hill, Typist; Barbara Sallard, Advertiser; Frank Tucker, Business Manager; Laura Ward, Advertiser; Ruth Dyson, Advertiser; Margaret Parham, Co-Editor; Harriet Williams, Typist. Left to right: Karen Carter, Photographer; Morris Stewart and Robert Branch, Artists; Beatrice Harris and Robert Allen, Photographers.