Suffolk High School - Peanut Yearbook (Suffolk, VA)

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GLEAMS FROM UNDERCLASS LIFE Mrs. X.- — Nearly all of the competition in Suffolk High was carried on between the home rooms, whether it was in scholastic averages, tardies, absences, member¬ ship in Athletic Association, winning Senate Awards, or anything else, wasn’t it? Mr. N. — Yes, and this was true in the whole school because the home room plan was carried out in the entire six-year high school. Mrs. X . — To begin with there was our “baby grade,” the seventh grade. Mr. N . — You forget, there were four home rooms in the seventh grade and only two of them, the 7 As, could be called baby grades.” Mrs. N. — Well, I mean, they were our beginners! When they graduated from Grammar School, Langford Jones led his class while Bettie Ball Lummis was salutatorian. Mr. N . — And Bettie Ball was quite a star in the Junior Dramatic Club production, wasn’t she ? Mrs. N . — Another dramatic star was Elizabeth Howell. Mr. N. — The eighth grade was a real class, not only in activities but also in number. When it came over from the Jefferson building it was composed of seventy- four pupils.

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8B Baines, Edward Holton, .Jaek Privott, Rawls Barrett, Frank Holland, Thelma Pruden, Brooks Bateman. Sheldon Hudson, Sabrah Rhea, Harry Boothe, James Kelley, Mary Emma Riddick, Florine Briggs, Alma Kivett, Elvin Sadler, Antha Brinkley, A. D. Laderburg, Gertrude Shaw, Virginia Brinkley, Stith Miller, Henry Skinner, C. G. Brown. Pryor Murden, Charles Spiers, Leslie Byrd, Virginia Norfleet, William Stallings, Moody Cross, Marion Oliver, Lawrence Stone, Doris Daughtrey, Lemuel Parker, Owen Sutton, Dorothy Dixon, Franees Pierce, C. C., Jr. Volper, Violet Dozier, Marvin Phillips, John Walls, Antoinette Ellis, Mildred Pierce, Ruth Warrington, Elsie Ellis, Woodrow Piland, Genevieve Weaver, Ruby Evans, Gilmer Pond, Alice Wyatt, Zenobia Greene, Mildred Haslctt, Thornton Powell, John [23] White, Massie Briggs Wilson, Charles

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home room. Mr. X. —In the four home rooms of the eighth grade nearly every phase of school life was represented. The elass as a whole had a high scholastic standing. It excelled in dramatic talent because there were in it Dorothy Howell, William Henry Cox, and— Mrs. N. —And Valla Nimmo and Emmaline Rawles. I recall, too, that they had two skilled tap dancers, Dorothy Sutton and Mildred Greene, in their class. Mr. X. —And as for athletics, all I have to do is to remember that A. I). Brinkley, “Beck ’ Norfleet, and C. G. Skinner were members of that class. Mrs. X. —The class also had a champion chalk-thrower, Florine Riddick. Mr. X. —And then comes that Freshman elass. That, too, was made up of four home rooms, whereas the tenth grade had three and the Juniors and Seniors had only two each. Mrs. X. —That Freshman Class wasn’t such a “green” one since it led in the scholarship records. Mr. X. —Yes, in one of those home rooms only one subject was failed during the term. Mrs. X .—They had not only an excellent scholastic record to be proud of, but also some athletes such as C. P. Holland, Fred Pollard, and Allison Sadler. Garland Jones, Glazier Piland, Elmo Howell. Curtis Johnson, C. B. Pond, LeClaire Holton, Louise Smith, Thelma Brothers, Frances Wilson, Frances Johnson, Aubert Nimmo, and Sara Parker were all stars in the Junior Dramatic Club production. Mr. X. —Well, how about those Sophs? Mrs. X. —Oh, that was a real class. Lula Windley was in that class and it was she who won the first year Latin medal. Mr. X. —Yes, and Jimmie Bullock, our school clown, was a Sophomore in ’80 when he made all-state end. Mrs. X. —Speaking of athletes reminds me that the star quarterback, Joe Russell, was in that class and, also, Walton Brinkley. Mr. X.- —Willie Jordan was another Sophomore, and do you remember how well she debated? Mrs. X. —I certainly do, and I also remember that Fcrdie Johnston was their president. Even though he was witty, he coidd be as serious as any one. yir. X .—And the Sophomore elass had its share of clowns, namely, Bill Withers, Wallace Riddick, Red” Riddick, Jimmy McLemore, and Jimmy Bullock.