Oak Hill High School - Oak Leaf Yearbook (Virgilina, VA)

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LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT We, the Senior Class of nineteen hundred and forty-nine, on the eve of graduation do hereby make this our last will and testament. To you, the incoming Freshman Class, we leave all our optimism and self-assurance and the patience to do your work through the four years of high school life. We also leave you Honor it is one of the fundamental principles of life. To you, Sophomores, our sister class, we bequeath our studious qualities and our Courage- mental and moral courage as well as physical courage. Juniors, we leave you all our privileges, our intellectual attainments, and the happiness and hopes of a Senior. We also leave you ambition to live a life of worthy purpose and accomplish- lllellt. To you, the faculty and officers of administration, we bequeath our ories we have of our years in high school and for the efforts you have as a class and as individuals. To you also we leave our patience, to be senior classes. gratitude for the mem- made to help us, both used on the incoming training from the care- And to you, Alma Mater, goes om' loyalty and the gratitude for our free thoughtlessness of our freshman year to the more appreciative attitude of today. Junior Eakes leaves his ability to play basketball to Ryland Harris. To Ruby Parham, Peggy leaves her joy in playing and her ability to play basketball. Barbara Ann bequeaths her height to Evelyn Blackwell. Mary Lou bequeaths her blond hair to Adell Blackwell. Mary Faulkner bequeaths her dignity to Eunice Royster. Lizzie bequeaths her personality to Edna Hart. Albert leaves his know-all attitude to Burley Adcock. Nancy bequeaths her ability to get on the good side of teachers to Emma Hart. Frances bequeaths her talents to Lucille Nelson. Beth bequeaths her ability as official mischief-maker to Clara Duncan. Violette bequeaths her good behavior in class to Beth Iones. Ray bequeaths his honor as best-dressed boy Laddie Clark. Dorothy bequeaths her ability to get married to Gracie Williamson. Ursula bequeaths her popularity to Ruth Norwood. Caroline bequeaths her ambition to Gertrude Yancey. Sig-:med on this the twenty-sixth day of May, one thousand, nine hundred forty-nine, A. D., at Oak ill High School, Virgilina, Virginia. Mary Faulkner Wilkinson -- Testator. Senior Superlatives Most Studious - Prettiest Girl - Most Handsome Boy Best Dressed ----- - - - Best Athlete -- - Frances Hart Ray Royster Mary Lou Young R. L. Eakes, Ir. Barbara Ann Smart Ray Royster Peggy Wood R. L. Eakes, Ir. Most Popular -- Biggest Eater ----- Biggest Flirt ----- Most Dignified - Ursula Frazier R. L. Eakes, Ir. Nancy Wood Albert Vaughan Nancy Wood Albert Vaughan Mary F. Wilkinson R. L. Eakes, Ir. Silliest --- Ursula Frazier Quietest --- Mary Lou Young Ray Royster Albert Vaughan Best Personality Lizzie Yancey Most Humorous --- Beth Royster R. L. Eakes, Ir. R. L. Eakes, Ir. Best Sport --- Caroline Cannady Cutest --- Ursula Frazier Albert Vaughan Ray Royster - 'lit 10 lik-- Best-all-around Friendliest ---- Violette Blackwell Dorothy I. Harris

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CLASS POEM Let Us Admit It Let us admit it fairly as high school Seniors should: We've had no end of lessons and they've done us no end of good, We entered as timid Freshmen, we leave as graduates bold, And we find it hard to realize the knowledge our young heads hold. We've had our foolish notions knocked higher than Franklin's kite, Our minds have been made over, and we know it served us right. We've spent four years in labor hard to prove the fact once more That life is quite confused and two and two are seldom four. We're crammed to the brim with learning, and now we must turn it to use, And if one of us is a failure, he hasn't a single excuse. The more we work and the less we talk the better result we shall get For we've had four years of training, it may make us successes yet. Let us admit it fairly as high school Seniors should: We're proud of Oak Hill High, it's done us a lot of good. 7 Class Poet -- Frances Hart Class History In early September, 1937, we, the 1949 graduates, began our schooljourney. Approximately fifty frightened students were soothed by Mrs. Pattie Morrow, a patient, child-loving teacher. That year was filled with many new experiences for all of us. During our second year we were under the direction of Miss Persa.lineO'Brian. It was this year that we learned the purpose of school. We gainedtwo of our present students that year, Na- ncy and Peggy Wood. Our years of grammar school seemed to pass rapidly. As we traveled from grade to grade we lost a number of students, yet we gained a few. In the sixth and seventh grades Violette Black- well, Frances Hart, Barbara Ann Smart, Carolina Cannady, and Ray Royster joined us. High School, at last we,ve gained you. It seems that four years ago on a certain September morning, a number of forms were observed sneaking in the direction of high school. During the first month of this year we suffered much inconvinience because of our unfamiliarity with the high school rules. Often we entered the wrong room and arrived at the classroom a half hour late. Because of this we had to pay heavy penalties, but by Thanksgivingwe had become familiar with the rooms and were in the right place at the right time. The curtain fell on our Freshman year with only a few casualties. As another school year sprang upon us, we were renamed Sophomores. That year we had many different things to attract our interests. Clizbs, athletics, foreign language, and other grown-up activities were met. When we reached the eleventh grade, we were very conceited because we were Juniors. We had a great deal of excitement that year - probably the outstandingthing being the Junior-Senior Banquet. By the time we had gone through the eleventh grade, we began to realize that we might fin- ish high school some time. And now we come to the fourth and greatest year in the history of our class. This, our last year, has in many ways been our best year. There have been parties, ball games, picnics, and other entertainments for us. We have enjoyed it all, even the bad part. Now that we have reached the climax of high school, which is graduation, we are able to see in the distance broader horizons than we have ever dreamed of seeing. It is with heavy hearts that we leave our numerous friends and teachers here at Oak Hill. May we all with strength of purpose and character have success in our future attempts. May we never forget the ideals and principles that have been instilled in us while attending Oak Hill School. Beth Royster -- Historian -'Gt 9 99'-

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Class Prophecy Your Nose Knows When your fortune phrenologists read, They felt all the bumps on your head - Which was tiresome and made you so weary That the happiest fortune seemed dreary. By cards, by handwriting, or trances, You may learn of your next circumstances. But I have a new method astounding. That is very old system confounding. Did you know that the shape of your noses Your minds and your future discloses? just to prove that my powers are ample I shall give you a wonderful sample. I glance thus at your faces all glowing, And straightway your future l'm knowing. Ere many years Beth will be A solemn Doctor of Philosophy, And in a manner haughty shall expound Her wisdom and her theories profound. Dorothy, a girl of charm and grace, Whose virtues are reflected in her face Will live in peace and plenty all her life, A housekeeper de luxe and happy wife. Ray, always up in the air, Who loves to take chances and perils to dare, Will very soon be a world-famed aviator, As noted as Lindbergh, perhaps even greater. Our friend, Mary Lou, has a very small voice, But great big emotions and diction quite choic So she'll be a radio crooner some day, And sob all her troubles in either away. A plumber working overtime, With charges huge and nerve sublime, Albert's future plain I see, A very wealthy man he'll be. Not fond, herself, of overwork, She can't endure that others shirk So Barbara Ann will run with glee A great Employment Agency. 9 Junior likes to speculate And takes his fun in tempting fate, So he'll become the reckless joker. A very lucky Wall Street broker. - -'if ll 23 - 6