Meriwether Lewis High School - Pioneer Yearbook (Ivy, VA)

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O Juniors! What a year! We had two new members to join us that year. Allen Dunn was from over near Ivy., He had dark eyes and hair and always liked to have a good time. Russell Ray was another who joined us that year. Russell has real blond curly hair and big blue eyes. He is always telling things to make us and the teachers laugh. He has added a lot to our class the two years he has been with us. We enjoyed ourselves very much going on the Junior and Senior picnic with the Seniors and also on the trip to Washington with them. The next year was our final step. We had all longed for and looked forward to our Senior year. We were very glad to have Freddie Frazier to join our class and to graduate with us. Freddie is a good-natured boy and has very quiet ways. Miss Whitted was our Senior teacher. We were very pleased to have her for our Senior year and we will never forget all the good things she has done for us. We know we will miss being with her in our ,future years. There is not long before we will all part, but I hope someday we will meet again and talk about what good times we had at M. L. S. We want to thank all the teachers that have taught us for what they have done to help us for I am sure the things they have taught us will be a great help in whatever we undertake in the future. A There you have it, the history of the Seniors of '5l. Joyce Hicks Historian 19

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The sixth grade found us a group of very happy-go-lucky children. No one joined our class again, but we still had a wonderful time together. Barbara Breeden, a small girl with blonde hair and blue eyes greeted us at the door of Miss Dunn's room. Barbara had come all the way from Stanardsville to join our group and we were very proud to have her with us. We found out she was the Principal's dau-ghter and she warned us to be very good. We found Barbara a big asset to our basketball team as well as an excellent student. Mr. Breeden was our new Principal that year and all of us thought the world of him. He loved to tease everyone and give them all kinds of nicknames. That year no one could decide whether we were grade or high school students, for we were in the middle of them both. We finally reached high school. You should have heard us shout as we enter- ed the door of the Freshman room. By now we had to get out of our childish ways and act like young ladies and gentlemen for we had to set good examples for the smaller children. Our first day we were all mixed up. We had been used to having just one teacher, but now we had four or five different ones. It seemed like all we did was change classes. By the time we got used to one class and teacher the bell would ring for us to go to another. This year six new members joined our group and increased the number greatly. They all were from the big towns of Free Union and Boonesville. Katherine Carr, one of them came from Boonesville. Katherine was the cute little girl with pretty brown hair and eyes. She was full of giggles and funny things to say all the time. She will also be remembered for artistic talents. James Yowell, the bashful boy with dark blond hairlis also one of the group from Boonesville. James is one member of our class who never got in a hurry. Jean Burruss another of the group has long blonde curls, her nice personality brought her plenty of friends especially of the opposite sex. Georgie Roach. the tall blonde who wears glasses also joined us that year. She was bashful at first, but has changed since she joined us that year. 'We have also heard that Georgie is very susceptible to spoiling. Phyllis Herring, one of the Boonesville girls, has pretty coal black wavy hair. She has added plenty of life and laughs to our class. Ann Wood, is the jolliest of all the crowd from Boonesville. She always has a big smile on her face. Julian Via, the bear hunter of our class also joined us this year from Boonesville. He is tall with dark hair and always ready with a tall tale about some of his bear hunts. Toward the end of the year, we were used to our class changing and our new classmates who had joined us that year. The next year found us as Sophomores. We were all very happy to meet again for nine more months of school. Dorothy Morris joined us that year. Dorothy had pretty dark hair and sparkling eyes. We were very proud to have her with us. 18

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Class Prophecy One warm spring night in late May, I dropped in a chair, exhausted from a hard day's work at the office. One of my office assistants had been sick and naturally Mr. Rockfish decided to catch up on all of his back correspondence that day, so I had double duty. I picked up my magazine to finish a stony I had started reading but somehow I couldn't get interested in the story and found my- self thinking back over the ten years since our class had graduated. Before very long my magazine had fallen to the floor and I was asleep and dreaming. It seemed all the members of the Class of '51 from Meriwether Lewis my old alma mater, were working for one man, whose name was Mr. R. T. Rockfish. Mr. Rockfish, by the way, was the husband of Miss Whitted, our home room teacher back at M. L. S. Mr. Rockfish, as the name suggests, had a large home and all that goes with it--including the money. He also owned a clothing factory, which employed a great many people. On the door of the main office was painted, William Morris, Manager: Lewis Harmon, Assistant Manager. They were doing agreat job with this factory. In fact, instead of drearning of the latest fashions from Paris, the girls were willing to give their right hand for one of those Morris and Harmon creations. As well as I remember, William--or Peter as he was known in those days--always had an eye for ladies' clothes. Anne Wood, Phyllis Herring, and Georgie Roach were three of the buyers for the factory, but Phyllis was thinking of quitting and getting married. Anne was already married but enjoyed the work so much that she persuaded her husband to let her continue her job. Among the secretaries for the factory, I found Mary Ann Gibson and the bookkeeper was Joyce Hicks. Joyce was still spending her spare moments hitting home runs, and keeping the basketball court occupied. She was coaching a team of her own on her spare nights. The factory sponsored a weekly program on television and, of course, Russell Ray was the announcer. The script was written by Aleyce Price, who had been to New York and taken a course in writing scripts of all kinds. In the home of Mr. Rockfish, there were many people working. Among them were a beautician, nurse, dietition, chaffeurs, and private teachers. Dorothy Morris was the beautician and everyone had the latest hair styles-- except her. Her husband was rather conservative and refused to let her dye her hair purple and have it styled in the who done it manner. Z0