Richlands High School - Reminiscences Yearbook (Richlands, VA)

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Stafford Compton “Stag’’ Great talkers are like leaky Vessels; everything runs out of them. Ambition: Vacation. Hobby: Hunting. IftS Harold Cox The way to have nothing is to give nothing. Ambition: To fly. Hobby: Drawing. Loretta Cox “Ret” Men have sight; women insight. Ambition: Beautician. Hobby: Collecting pictures Harry Curley “Cicero” Love is like a piece of gold — Hard to get and hard to hold. Ambition: To marry a rich widow. Hobby; The cinema. Gaynelle Dawson “Gay” Too low they build who build below the skies. Ambition: Secretary. Hobby: Deciphering code. Paul Crouse “Snout” They also serve who only stand and wait. Ambition: Engineer. Hobby: Hunting. Mary Pearl Davis “Minnie Pearl” Life is a jest, and all things show it; I thought so once, and now I know it. Ambition: Teacher. Hobby: Collecting souve¬ nirs. Frances Deskins “Frank” To have friends one must first be one. Ambition: Secretary. Hobby: Reading. Elizabeth Dye “Libby” Dream away sorrow; live away happiness. Ambition: To leave Rich- lands. Hobby: Collecting snap¬ shots. Charles Eagle “Buzzard” My silence is my speech. Ambition: A more at¬ tractive cognomen. Hobby: Loafing.

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Hershal Boyd “Hersb” The truly Valiant dare everything except doing any other body an in¬ jury. Ambition: Success Hobby: Radio IS Hoye Lee Brown 1 like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. Ambition: Flying Hobby: Doodling Nathan Brown Let us then be up and doing. Ambition: Successful Jack-of-all-trades. Hobby: Music; Taxi¬ dermy. Corrine Christian “Corky” Of all those arts in wh ' ch the wise excel, Nature ' s chief master piece is writing well. Ambition: Teacher. Hobby: Reading. Lettye Jean Cleva “Letty Mae” Laugh and the world laughs with you, Weep and you weep alone. Ambition: Nursing. Hobby: Doing impression¬ istic drawings. Paxton Bucklen “Pax” The more we sutdy the more we discover our ignorance. Ambition: Coach. Hobby: Sports. Victor Christian. Jr. “Chris” If thou lovest life then don ' t waste time, for that is the stuff of which life is made. Ambition: Mining En¬ gineer. Hobby: Racing. Billie Ruth Cole They talk most who have the least to say. Ambition: Business Wo¬ man. Hobby: Entertaining Bob.’ Cretta Fay Cole “Critter” Choose rather to want less than to have more. Ambition: Private Secre¬ tary. Hobby: Collecting Crystal John L. Coleman envy no man that knows more than myself, but pity them that know less. Ambition: Engineer. Hobby: Poetry.

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Doris Eller “Dimples” A little learning is a dan¬ gerous thing. Ambition: Improve my dancing. Hobby: Collecting letters. Howard Dean Elswick “Sonny” (Stink) Good cheer is no hinder- ance to a good life. Ambition: Get along with women. Hobby: Music. Ronny Elswick “Handsome” Tell me with whom thou art found, and I will tell you who thou art. Ambition; Leading man in Hollywood. Hobby: Music. Amarette Gilbert “Bangs” The first step to know¬ ledge is to know that we are ignorant. Ambition: Marry a King. Hobby: Dreaming. Vernon Harrison “Crock” Ambition can creep as well as soar. Ambition: Engineer. Hobby: Hunting. Peggy Flanary “Peg” He alone has lost the art to live who cannot win new friends. Ambition: A certain some¬ one. Hobby: Dancing. Harvey Griffith, Jr. “Gizmo” The winds and the waves are always on the side of the abl est navigators. Ambition: Mechanic. Hobby: Flirting. Harvey Helmandollar. Jr. If a man is worth know¬ ing at all, he is worth knowing well. Ambition: Politics. Hobby: Loafing. Clintwood Hobbs, Jr. “Hobbs” Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appear¬ ance. Ambition: U. S. Senate. Hobby: Arguing. Eugene Horton “Hotlips” There’s none so homely but loves a looking glass. Ambition: Punctuality in English IV. Hobby: Gin rummy.