Park View High School - Leaves of Memory Yearbook (South Hill, VA)

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Drama 62 Is WELL CAST DRAMA ' 62, starring the eighty-four graduating seniors, features a cast of five hundred eighty-one students. This cast ranges in talent and experience from vet- eran actors and actresses with four pre- vious years of experience at Park View to the fresh, new talent enrolled in September. The eighty-four seniors have played in four other Park View dramas; therefore, they have earned their leading roles through much hard work and training. DRAMA ' 62 co-stars the one hundred ten juniors, who are already beginning to make important decisions regarding the de- velopment of their careers in the future. The one hundred thirty-two sopho- mores, with two years of experience behind them, also have substantial parts in the performance. The freshmen are just beginning to es- tablish themselves; while the eighth graders, who have the bit parts are working hard as they begin their climb up the ladder of accomplishment. To show their individuality and impor- tance, each student is pictured separately. However, although each class is a separate unit, and each person is an individual, when it comes to loyalty to Park View, it is one for all and all for Park View. At a ballgame or pep rally, the eighth graders, the seniors, the juniors, the sophomores, and the fresh- men join in to cheer the green and white to victory, and, side by side, they stand to sing Park View High School we love dearly . . .

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Seniors Receive Stage Directions I Curtain time, seniors! You have had your entrance to the stage, and now the exit. You have played your role and said your lines, so you must leave the stage to others. You will soon appear on another stage- one that is bigger, harder, and tougher. The degree of your success on that stage will be determined, to a great extent, by the manner in which you have played your part on the stage of high school life. Your scholastic record and other achievements alone will not measure your success in life, but your very attitude toward your fellow students and teachers and your reaction toward authority and - discipline go into the ingredients from which your character is molded. It is not the score, but how you play the game that counts. Shakespeare, the great student of life, speaking through Hamlet, instructs the actors who are to perform before the king thus: Acquire a temperance . . . Let dis- cretion be your tutor. Suit the action to the word, the word to the action. Overstep not modesty of nature. Let discretion be your tutor . . . Go, make you ready! At the last assembly, seniors rise and face the student body for the final time. As they prepare to leave the high school stage, they are faced with the larger chal- lenge that graduation brings. FRONT ROW: Bobby Taylor, Billy Taylor, Herbert Lee Mills, Larry Perk- inson, David Strickler. 2nd ROW: John O. Cook, Raye Hines, Emmett Williams, Eddie Lewis, Ernest Wray, Charles Jones, Steve Hines. 3rd ROW: Nell Robertson, Nancy Cassada, Jean Bullock, Betsy Taylor, Dian Boddie. 12

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Seniors Play Leading Roles The stars of DRAMA 62, the eighty four graduating seniors, take the final cur- tain call of their high school careers. The Seniors choose Jimmy Weaver to lead them as class president. Mrs. Cli- borne, Mrs. McBride, Mrs. Osbourne, and Mrs. Watson serve as class sponsors. Seniors find their last year filled with activity and preparations for the future. They plow through the College Board Exams in South Boston and participate in Career Day. To raise money, the class sponsors numerous money-maldng projects. Among them are the sale of sweatshirts, jackets, and pins, and the Sadie Hawkin ' s Dance. The Class of 62 enjoys presenting their Senior Play, Lock, Stock, and Lipstick, and they with their dates spend a delightful evening at the Peppermint Lounge on the night of the Junior-Senior Prom. Outstanding seniors represent and serve the entire student body. Carolyn Thompson reigns as Homecoming Queen; Page Taylor is crowned Miss Yearbook ; and Betsy Page Taylor becomes Miss Future Teacher . Bobby Crowder presides as S.C. A. president, and Betty Boswell edits THE LEAVES OF MEMORY. Marvin Crutchfield is elected most valuable football player, and is elected to All-district foot- ball, baseball, and basketball teams. The last few weeks are crowded with picnics, last minute tests, and Commence- ment practices. The top students scholas- tically speak on behalf of the senior class at the Graduation Exercises. Betty Boswell is Valedictorian and Wayne Wright and Beth Hylton are the Salutatorians. Graduation brings mixed emotions of accomplishment and sad farewells for sen- iors as the curtain closes on their happy high school days. They are now ready to face the new challenge of greater roles in the theater of life. Some will go to work immediately; while others will further their education in college. Senior officers; Jimmy Weaver, president; Carole Holmes, vice-president; Jo Ann Dix, secretary; Frances Walthall, treasurer; Betty Wright, reporter. )4