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

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As I was going through some old school relics, I found this diary containing an amusing history that revealed many class secrets. Dear Diary, September 1940-forty-three little, timid boys and girls are entering Oak Hill School for their first time. Mrs. Kate Burch is our teacher and she sings a lullaby to us daily as she tries to sing us to sleep. Dear Diary, In 1941, the same innocent children enter the second grade. Miss Persaline O'Brian is our teacher. We shall never forget her sweet caress, for whenever we are troubled or hurt by something she holds us in her arms and our tears turn into smiles. Dear Diary, September 1942, we join Miss Helen Morgan in the third grade. We havelout- grown some of our baby ways, however, her patient guidance is gratefully accepted by each of us. Dear Diary, September 1945, Miss Lessie Chandler is our teacher. Two new classmates join us this year, Edward Compton and Watkins Elliott. Our first class picnic takes place this year. Dear Diary, September 1944, we are entering into the fifth grade under the direction of our same faithful teacher of the previous year, one who loves us enough to have the desire to dedicate another year of her work with us, Miss Lessie Chandler. There are fifty-three of us. May 1945 was a difficult month for us due to changing teachers so much because of the illness of Miss Chandler. Dear Diary, September 1945, we enter the sixth grade with Mrs. Guy Whitehurst. Bobby Godsey and Sidney Clark join us this year. The big event this year is our class picnic which is to be held at Oxford Park in May. Dear Diary, September 1946, Mrs. Raymond Lowery is our teacher. We are going to visit Raleigh this year and see all the sights of our Capital City. Dear Diary, September 1947, brings us joy for this is our first year upstairs in the building. It makes us feel so grownup to be with those of our superiors. Mrs. Leslie Blackwell is our homeroom teacher this year, however, we are also under the direction of Mrs. Eugene Puryear, Mrs. S. M. Watkins, Mrs. A. R. Currin, Mr. Eugene Puryear and Mr. S. R. Murray. Nancy Overby received a hearty welcome when she came to join us this year for we had only eight girls with fourteen boys at the time of her arrival.

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Dear Diary, September 1948, is probably the beginning of one of the most important of our school years, for now we are freshmen in high school. I wish you could picture this class as I visualize it now, when it first enters this hall of learning. Our eyes turn toward graduation but many with one consent have begun to make excuses. The first says, I am in poor health, therefore I cannot graduate. The second says, I am needed to work at home, therefore I cannot graduate. A third says, I am dull and cannot learn. I pray thee have me excused. And still another says, I am going to be married and, therefore, I need not graduate. So, thus has our class decreased in number until the whole number at the end of the year is nineteen. Dear Diary, With the coming of September 1949, those who were lucky enough to pass the great disaster of final examinations in the Spring before received the name of Sophomores. Mrs. Stover Long is our advisor this year. Dear Diary, It is the fourth day of September 1950, a calm, peaceful, autumn day, radiant with the sunshine of hope, cheer, and joyous promise that we the juniors come forth. Our class officers this year are: President, Frances Wilkinson, Vice-President, Eunice Roysterg Secretary and Treasurer, Eleanor Pittard. Our junior play entitled, The Antics of Andrew, went off splendidly under the direction of Miss Betsy Boney, our homeroom teacher. Among our tasks this year was that of the junior-Senior Banquet. It was enjoyed tremendously by each person who attended. Dear Diary, The long looked for year has finally arrived and we take the position of dignified Seniors. Does it not seem hard to realize that we, the class of '52, confronting you in all its strength and beauty, with its wealth of experience written on its features, was ever a class of Freshmen with nothing in their brains but nonsense? That class of Freshmen is now a class of thoughtful Seniors. Our advisor this year is Mrs. S. M. Watkins. Our officers include: President, Frances Wilkinson, Vice-President, Charles Hart, Secretary and Treasurer, Eleanor Pittard. Our Senior Play, Bolts and Nuts, was presented in February. The juniors gave us a beautiful banquet in the Spring. It was enjoyed by all. Whom do we wish to thank? Our parents, who have striven to give us as many advantages as they could, our teachers, who have labored so faithfully with us during these twelve years, and all others who have succeeded at last in fitting us to meet 1ife's problems.