New Kent High School - Iliad / Cavalier Yearbook (New Kent, VA)

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HISTORY Upon arriving at school in September, 1952, to enter the first grade, we were all met by our teacher, Mrs. Edwards. Mrs. Inez Kirby was our substitute for most of the year. Fourteen pupils of that class are graduating in June. They are Charlene Cobb, Dean Frame, Dorothy Kirby, Frances McCormick, Susan Lindsay, Anne Pomeroy, Natalie Gregory, Virginia Philbates, Frances Thompson, Jeffrey Richmond, Shields Dalrymple, Emmett White, Marshall Philbates, and James Davis. As we look back on our grade school days, we see that it was there that we ob¬ tained the foundation for our high school work. Our elementary teachers were Mrs. Eunice Walls and Mrs. Alice Fisher in the second grade; Mrs. Cecil Orange in the third grade; Miss Mary Christian in the fourth grade; Mrs. Gladys Upp and Mrs. Phoebe Taylor in the fifth grade; Mrs. Gertrude Robbins in the sixth grade; and Mrs. Alice Fisher and Mrs. Elizabeth Davis in the seventh grade. We will always remem¬ ber and thank them for starting us along our way. Having reached the level of eighth grade in 1959, we thought that we had been at New Kent long enough to have the right to high school privileges. But as the cus¬ tom is, we were to be left aside to age a year. A great part of our aging process consisted of learning to form very straight lines and marching, marching, marching. Once the eighth grade was behind us, new doors were opened to the class. We were permitted to have parties after football and basketball games to raise funds for the far-off day when we would honor seniors with the Junior-Senior Prom. In our junior year we discovered that there was acting talent hidden in our ranks. We presented our very successful play, REST ASSURED, under the direction of Mrs. Lois Richmond. Other highlights were the Junior-Senior Prom with its theme Under the Magnolias, and getting our class rings. At last the year which, twelve years ago, was beyond the gates of our first- grade imagination is here; we are seniors. There are twenty of us, including Theresa Tomlin who joined us this year. Highlights of this year include our play, GREAT CAESAR’S GHOST; our trip to New York; and Graduation Day! 18

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LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT I, Charlene Cobb, will my ability to spend my time in West Point to Sandra Priddy. I, Buddy Dalrymple, will my love of sports to anyone who wants to stop doing home¬ work so that he may go to night practice. I, Gloria Couch, will my love for cheerleading to the cheerleaders. I, James Davis, will my ability to run to my brother Johnny Davis. I, Dean Frame, will my love for the Newport News Apprentice School to Sandra Priddy and Carol Stuck. I, Natalie Gregory, will my love for talking to Linwood Gregory. I, Mary Lou Hannabass, will my ability have a neat, orderly notebook to Susie. Hannabass. I, Dorothy Kirby, will my love for softball to Myrtle Douglas. I, Susan Lindsay, will my ability to turn red while listening to jokes at the lunch table to Vin Davis. I, Frances McCormick, will my ability to chew gum in school without being caught to Brenda Swindell. I, David Moody, will my ability to make touchdowns to Milton Armandt. I, Marshall Philbates, will my love for Math IV to Milton Armandt. I, Virginia Philbates, will my love for music and 4-H to Temple Wilson. I, Anne Pomeroy, will my ability to wear high heels and still be shorter than every¬ body to Courtney Pomeroy. I, Jeff Richmond, will my football locker to Taylor Moore. I, Frances Thompson, will my love for white Fords to Nancy Sheppard. I, Theresa Tomlin, will my love for shorthand to Ethel Timberlake. I, Harry Ward, will my love for West Virginia to Dickie Mapp. I, Emmett White, will my ability to do my homework in history class to Wayne Cheatham. 17

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JUNIOR CLASS OFFICERS President - Nancy Shepperd; Vice-President - Diane Adams; Secretary - Joanne Ward; Treasurer - Sandra Priddy; Reporter - Carol Stuck. JUNIOR CLASS Diane Adams Robert Anerton Ruth Ann Ayers Carolyn Belvin Ronald Browning Farron Davis 19