Richlands High School - Reminiscences Yearbook (Richlands, VA)

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BOUK III SENIOR FEATURES

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Q Freshman ,Class Oscar Perkins ...... ' ...,,..........,........... President Ann Fletcher ....................... ...,.................... V ice President Peggy Warner ........................... .......... ....... .... J ...................... ........ S e c 1 etary and Treasurer Colors Orchid and Green Flower Violet Motto-Not finished but begun MEMBERSHIP Cunningham, James Fleming, Bill Jessee, Johnny Martin, Roy Niswonder, Ervin Reynolds, Johnny Roland, Harold Steele, Jackie Whited, Bob Wise, Charles Beavers: Dexter Bragg, Clyde Cyphers, Dorsel Dalton, Byrd Elswick, Shields Ferrell, Clyde Fields, Bill Griflith, Warren Griflith, Walter Hagy, Thomas Harris, Thurman Horton, Jack Mathena, Richard Phipps, Joe Steele, A. G. Jr. Vance, Marvin lvlullins, Douglas Fulcher, Bill Ball, Arthur Bandy, Clarence Deskins, Marvin Fleming, Tandy Francis, Thurmond Gilrnon, Luther Hampton, Wynn Hardin, Dawson Hawkins, Cecil Justice, Alfred McKenny, Harry Lee Mathena, Charles 20 Maynard, Harold Newberry, Earnest Patrick, Homer Allen, Jeanne Ball, Vernell Bandy, Sara Barrett, Mildred Beall, Mai Beaven Brewster, Carrie Frances Bucklin, Juanita Chapin, Virginia Compton, Helen Cruise, Kathleen Drysdale, Billie Bertha Fields, Lois Gray, Anita Gray, Lila Dean Halloway, Gladys Harris, Betty Joyce, Tiny Kirkwood, Dorothy Meadows, Dorothy Newton, Jane Shell, Kathleen Shouse, Ruth Vance, Dorothy Viola Van Dyke, Elizabeth Warner, Filomena Warner, Peggy Coe, Helen Durham, Myrtle Fields, Dorothy Griflith, Mildred Harris, Dorothy Lambert, Nell McCoy, Magclaline Robinson, Catherine Whitt, Evalyn Simmons, Trumann Lundy, Frances

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THE CLASS CALENDAR Spring is the time of all green and growing things, fresh and verdant in their newf ness to all life. What more fitting, then, than that the Freshman, in this green time of his life, should enter school? The March winds and the April showers were very necessary to the building of the shoots of knowledge in the Freshman mind. And so, we so green and fresh in our dewy innocence, received at this time the first seeds of knowledge and felt the first pull of the plow and the cultivator in this spring of our career. But the March winds and the April showers brought forth an abundance of May flowers, and the Summertime came upon us almost before we knew, so delightfully did the one season blend into the other. We found the skies so much bluer and more inspiring, and the sun shone more warmly about us. We had stuck our heads high enough to see nearly as much of it as we imagined we could. We held our heads very high and we kept the stalks that supported them very straight. They were not yet very heavy with their accumulation of wisdom, and so did not droop with the weight. But our flowers were unfolding little by little. We were slowly but surely coming out into the light -of the day. But verily, in school life, even as in Nature, Leaves have their time to fall, and flowers to wither, and the autumn of our days came as soon as we were ready. Very brilliant was our foliage that year, very rich our fruitage, as the little buds of the Freshman year, grown into the flowers of Sophomore development, became the richer, more necessary and more satisfying fruit of autumn. It was indeed the harvest of all our early planting-the reaping of results of all our dreams and hopes and efforts. The glow of our radiant knowledge flushed the whole year with mellowness of sunset splendor. And it brought with it the glad Thanksgiving of November-thankful that we would soon be Seniors and that we had been able to achieve so much. But even this stage passed on into eternityg the fruit was all gathered and stored away in our memories, and with the snows of all the past in hoary wisdom upon our heads, we welcome the approach of Winter. The flowers have long decayed, as we outgrew them, and the seeds of the new life to be were stored away beneath the soil of our understanding, ready, at the call of the coming Spring, to put forth their new shoots and push forth into the new world. Rugged in our young manhood and woman' hood, clad in spotless snow and frost protecting the yet immature germs of developing life from the blighting atmosphere, we stand at the end of our course. 22