Richlands High School - Reminiscences Yearbook (Richlands, VA)

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CLASS HISTORY, 1939 Four years ago! But inlretrospect it seems more like four months. How true is the saying tempus fugit. We have worked as a group to promote cooperation, mold character, and to help improve the future citizenship of our town and community. In September of 1934 we approached the threshold of our Freshman year with great anticipation. Most Freshmen look forward to high school days as a time of fun and enjoyment. Did some one suggest studying? Not we. After a delightful three months vacation we returned as Si1ly Soph- mores, and upon returning we made new acquaintances and friends. In try- ing to increase our knowledge we gave a colored minstrel, which came off with a bang. The Iunior Class was considered an organization, through the election of class officers. It was organized until some one began to filibuster, and how! We were able to participate in the social whirl-wind. This was due to the organization of the Sub-Deb Club. But to our minds the grandest of all is the Senior year. The height of dignity, without being dignified, might describe the present Senior Class. Our main purpose thus far is to produce an Annual that will be treasured by eachland every member of the class. It has a much deeper meaning because it was the goal toward which two who lost their lives strove. This emptiness over the loss of the two grand personages is one that can never be filled. Out of thirty-eight Seniors, eleven started out in the Primer to-gether. That, my dear children, was eleven years ago, in 1928. We shall look forward to the class of the year 1938-39 with the same anticipation as that evidenced upon entering high school. We are an appreciative group to all those who made these four memorable years possible. Happy sailing to the Class of '38-'39. ll

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IN MEMOBIAM we-- To know them was to love them. Eddie and Otis are no longer in our midst-and yet-wherever we are, they are there. Their cheerful dispositions, friendly manners, and happy smiles are painted on our hearts in glowing colors that time cannot erase. They are missed by all with whom they came in Contact and they shall never be forgotten. Into my heart's treasury I slipped a coin. That time cannot take Nor thief purloin: O! better than the minting Of a gold-crowned king ls the sate-kept memory Of a lovely thing. 1 OTIS ZEIGLER September 30, 1921 . . . February 17, 1939 EDDIE IEWELL April 2, 1922 ..... February 14, 1939 10

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CLASS PROPI-IECY Finally. the most outstanding and long awaited event of the century has presented itself to Richlands. Celebrities and joy-seekers are all directing their paths toward the modern, young metropolis, which has, for the past ten years, been laboriously preparing for this most gala of all festive affairs. Practically every highway and byway, whether celestial, aquatic, or tel- luric, is concentrating its flow of itinerants in the direction of Richlands. Most people, arriving by any of the principal highways may be found comfortably riding in their Aeolian Coach: that luxurious new automotive contrivance designed by Stuart Compton. While others, craving still more speed, have taken to the air, where they find themselves at the mercy of aviatrix, Vivian Allen. The visitors, after registering at the city hall with Beulah Altizer, secretary to the Superin- tendent of Public Affairs. Therrnon Brown, proceeded to the municipal auditorium where Mayor Harold McGlothlin made the welcoming address. Following this address the group was conducted to the Industrial Building, the plans which were especially drafted by Iimmie Warner. Charlie Patton, in charge of the building, personally conducted a tour of the display, making particular notice of Benny Hale's combination cansopener, egg-beater, and screw-driver. After returning to the municipal auditorium where Jimmie Deen gave a lecture on mental telepathy, followed by an address on destiny, the crowd was dismissed for sectional conference. 4 From the auditorium the group was transported for a tour of Richlands in the city bus line, owned by Clair Ellis and Frank Steele, and operated by Henry Steele and Charlie Whittaker, who have just received their operators license after ten years suspension. A group of teachers, including Vernie Wilson. Frances McGuire, Audry Patrick, and Edythe Lambert, desirous of furthering their educational interests. are surrounding a novel occupant. Dick Francis, who accidentally boarded the wrong bus on the way to work. Continuing the tour in the direction of the business center, the people can catch glimpses of the many business concerns, offices, and public buildings. The funeral parlor of Avery Tolliver is situated just one block from the Richlands Municipal Hospital and next door to the General Morgue where Gene Charles, M. D., is kept busy with emergency cases. Assisting her are Frances Goodwin, Fannie Lou Kennedy, Lee Elswick, and Katheryne Barnette, all reg- istered nurses. Iust down the street is the beauty parlor of Claudine Robinson and Bula Blankenship. where, as a special attraction, the owners have secured for one week the services of Ora Dalton, chic hairdresser from Paris. 1-it this point we hear from a reporter of the Oncely-a-Weekly, leannette, who informs us that the biggest football game of the season is going to be played in the new Fruit Howl Stadium. We turn our tracks toward this stadium for reserved seats but finding the -game under way we purchase our tickets and enter. We no more than find seats until the kickoff is made. Near us is seated Christine tBugl Smith and Martha Huddleston, the pace-setters of fashion, dressed in very costly and beautiful attire. At this time the band, under the supervision of Herbert Iackson. strikes up the Organ Grinder's Swing , in which we hear a delightful Oboe solo. At the same time manager I. P. Shockey, Ir. rushes out on the field with a water-bucket. followed by coach Robert lessee, to aid an injured player who is removed shortly in the am- bulance to a First Aid Station operated by Dorothy McG1oth1in and lane Gardner Lipford. -V We are aided in leaving the stadium by our agrarian congressman Dahnman Shouse, who introduces us to the radio comedian over WHY. Alline Altizer. The class statistician, Ieannette Hankins, approaches us and announces that the tenth annual reunion of the class of '39 has been unanimously attended with unprecedented success. By Herbert lackson 12