Mathews High School - Clipper Yearbook (Mathews, VA)

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Seniors Jean Elizabeth Adams “Jean” Marie Ann Adams “Marie” Francis Paul Blanock “Bunyan” Harry Timmons Brown “Harry” Bosalyn Bell Burroughs “Roar” Barbara Lou Callis “Bobbie Lou” William Edward Crewe, Jr. “Cruso” Maurice Allen Davis, Jr. “Allen” Louis Wellington Diggs O oo “Casonover” Helen Eden “Helen” Katherine Mae Forrest “Kitty” Mary Ann Forrest “Ann” ( 15 )

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Program Committee Left to right: Paul Bla- nock, Betty Taylor, (chairman), Lucy Hud¬ gins and Anne Green. Decorations Committee Left to right: Barbara Kemp, Louis Diggs, Re- genia Rammell. Joyce Hudgins, chairman, (not pictured). Senior Personalities (Voted for by the student body on secret ballot) Left to right, standing: Betty Taylor, Margaret Thomas, Louis Diggs, Peggy West and Rosalyn Burroughs. Seated: Paul Blanock and Wayne Taylor. In September the “47” rocked with the greet¬ ings of the sailors. The voyage was now getting well under way and this time the sailors were allowed to place orders for jewelry to be worn during the last run of the voyage. Happy day for happy sailors! Productions, programs, parties all filled our deck but we will long remember the occasion when our deck was cleared of all else but life preservers, chairs, the ole anchor and many black shiny faces! There was also a wed¬ ding aboard our ship that day and can we ever forget our kindly minister, the Rev. James Les¬ lie Hudgins? Time again passed and very swiftly now as the merry month of May came to highlight this phase of our voyage. We were nearing port and another leave was coming up but before we left the “47” again we were to play a rather prom¬ inent part in All County School Day, taking a very active part in many of the special features. And on the twenty-fourth we really made our debut into society when we gave the Junior- Senior banquet and prom. Our upper deck was no longer recognizable as such, but was converted into a lovely improvised spring garden with long banquet tables extending the whole length of our deck with a canopy of red and white streamers, baloons and roses above and “graduate” figures graced our tables. From the band stand flowed soft strains of lovely dance music. The atmosphere was indeed one of gaiety. More rocks in landing—exams. This time there were heart¬ aches as we bid a final farewell to our friends— the Seniors. Now, as Seniors, we salute the blue and white flag of the “47” for the last of the voyage. Miss Mildred Callis continued to be our pilot and Wayne Taylor took the helm as captain with Joyce Lewis as his assistant. Mr. C. G. Gibbs be¬ came our new guiding light and constant inspira¬ tion through the remaining few months that stretched ahead. We took our new places in chapel and shouldered our new responsibilities for it was we who were giving to the big ship her major officers. Among the highlights of our year were our Christmas party just before we left our ship for our last major leave, our ambition to publish the first year book in the history of our school, our presentation of the broadway comedy, “Strictly Formal,” which we staged around the first of April, the banquet and prom which the Jun¬ iors gave us, our recognition and honors re¬ ceived at the press conventions and the invi¬ tation our journalists received to join the Quill and Scroll International Journalism Honor So¬ ciety. Our voyage now was nearly at its end as we made final preparations for commencement. We were quite pleased to have the Rev. Mr. Guy Foster, a native Mathews man, to come aboard our ship to deliver our Baccalaureate sermon. Our last social event came when we were guests at a reception given by our sponsor in the cottage. The last hours of our voyage found us tense with suspense as we marched down the aisle of our dear school, through the colums of advancing junior seamen who picturesquely arranged glow¬ ing candle light to guide our final advance on our last trip to our upper deck and, a few hours later, our final retreat from the dear old ship as we launched upon the sea of life. ( 14 )

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Seniors Ann Jeannette Greene “Kee-Kee” Hubert Thompson Greene “Green Edith Kingdon Grimstead “Hula Lavalle Brooks Grinnell “Connie Joyce Faye Hudgins “Baby Joy ” James Leslie Hudgins “Gobbles Gloria June Hudgins “Junie Lucy Lorraine Hudgins “Lou Nancy Rosamond Hudgins “Nan Norma Wells Hudgins ‘Norma” Shirley Ann Hudgins “Boots” Nancy Catherine Jarvis “Nancy” ( 16 )