Rustburg High School - Owl Yearbook (Rustburg, VA)

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Charles Frederick Keesee Route Two Rustburg, Virginia Hilda Belle Lee Route Two Gladys, Virginia Annie Octavia Loftin Route Two Lynchburg, Virginia Judith Kay Martin Route Two Rustburg, Virginia Johnnie JaDene Snow 3447 Campbell Avenue Lynchburg, Virginia Billy Hoskins Staples 5 King Street Lynchburg, Virginia The first big event of the year was the Farm Show, and our girls and boys walked off with a good share of the prizes. Then came the Bazaar, and our representative, Bill Staples, won the title of King, after a rather hectic evening of fighting for votes, Just before Thanksgiving we presented the Senior Play entitled ‘‘Happy Days,’’ and it was a big success, What would we have done if it hadn't been for Louis, who so ably stepped into the leading part almost at the last minute! Then came the Christmas Season, and we played ‘ ‘Peanut’’ instead of the usual ‘‘Pollyanna,”’ Wasn't it fun finding out who had been sneaking gifts to us all during the week? By the time Senior Day arrived, the lower classmen were really worried about what their penalties might be, but we were only out to let everyone know who was in the Senior Class,

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v, VS Te oe ts a 7 at Margaret Elizabeth Blankinship Rustburg, Virginia Gordon Hunter Coleman, Jr, Route Two Rustburg, Virginia Louis Eugene Cowart Route One Rustburg, Virginia Lucy Ann Dalton Route One Rustburg, Virginia James Bennett Driskill Route Two Gladys, Virginia Kathleen Marie Elliott Route One, Box 32 Rustburg, Virginia Time passed rapidly, and in September, 1953, there were only fifteen of us left to form the Junior Class, headed by Hilda Lee as President, Mrs, Annie Martin was our Adviser, and we soon grew to depend on her to solve the many problems confronting us, This was the year we had waited for--the year we received our class rings, And what fun we had in getting into grease paint for our first big production, the Junior Play, Late in the spring we had fun enter- taining the Senior Class, and later in helping them to complete their Commencement plans, Although we were having lots of fun along with hard work, we were looking forward to our own Senior days with hopes and dreams, By the time the next September rolled around, we started our Senior year with eighteen enrolled, and chose Freddie Keesee to be our President, It didn’t take us long to realize that we would be the first class to graduate from the new high school, and it seems that we started planning for that day even before classes had started.

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Dale Vidalia Talley Mary Ida Talley Christine Elizabeth Trent Barbara Ann Tweedy Route Two Route Two Route One Rustburg, Virginia Rustburg, Virginia Rustburg, Virginia Rustburg, Virginia Paul Pollard Wingfield Phyllis Ann Wooldridge Route Two Route One Rustburg, Virginia Rustburg, Virginia Then came the question of the long and the short of it--evening gowns, that is, What shall we wear on Class Night? That remains to be seen! And the day we selected invitations and cards for graduation--we're almost through with our high school days, Remember the day that averages were announced, and we came up with not one, but two Valedictorians, Hilda Lee and Barbara Tweedy! Then we began to realize that time really was passing quickly, Before we know it, we will be going our separate ways, and we must begin some serious thinking on what we are to do when that time comes, As we look back over the senior year, we remember the many little things which made life happy for us--the time Ben modeled Judy’s Christmas gift, the day the locks were put on the hall lockers, the Friday night dances, term papers to be typed, basketball and baseball, the senior trip, the entertainment given us by the Sophomore Class, pages of layout for the Annual, the arrival of our long-awaited caps and gowns--and Commencement,