Triplett High School - Cavaliers Yearbook (Mount Jackson, VA)

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15 wrong As the class of 1954 sees its high school years end it is not without regret that it prepares to be welcomed into the com pany of high school graduates The ascent to this climax of our school years has been long, but filled with pleasures and many rich experiences To mention all of them would be impossible, to list a few is to sub ordinate perhaps the most important of all The closl association with our teachers and the accumulation of knowledge we have gained from them the contacts with our friends and fellow classmates basketball games, school parties,Jun1or and Senior plays,May Da the pride we feel when we sing our nAlma later these have been made the past four years the most memorable of our life Remembering is the privilege of a senior, and as we look at the familiar halls, classrooms and books, we recall the deep rooted memories of our years Under the leadership of sponsors Miss houser we Buchanan, Reporter class Mr our class organized our freshman class Vice President Don Secretary Dorothy Newland, Treasurer Jean Click, and Betty Newland completed our officers In our sophomore Luther Sim ons sponsor and James Hodges president led That year Jean Click was Vice President, Secretary Bobby LeDane, Treasurer Melvin Polk and Reporter Virginia Emswiler Mr Waldo Bowers had the honor of putting up with us in our junior year Officers were President Ralph Bauserman, Vice President Melvin Polk, Secretary Frankie Funkhouser, Treasurer Dorothy Newland and Reporter Sherrill Massie In our senior year Ralph Bauserman was Paaeldehbd as president and Mr Roy Lutz served as our sponsor. Vice-President Gertrude Bally Treasurer-Melvin Polkg Sergeant-at-arms-Glenn Weatherholtz, The Daisy Chain, which we, the responsibility of the Juniors, is not green but a reverend tradition. We have come to that day which -Dorothy Newlandg Secretary- Reporter- Virginia Emswilerg seniors consider the biggest just a rope of white and marks the beginning of a new phase of our life. The scroll of parchment in our hand is our ticket to tommorrow, Not the parchment itself but what it repre- sents is our standard. It is the reward for our climb up the mountain. Proud to be a part of Triplett we the class of '54 eagerly look ahead. Gratefully and a bit sadly we close this page of our memory book, but before us looms a vision of clean white pages which the years to come will fill, Dorothy Newland sg, l : : . Q . ll- Elizabeth Kagey and mrs. Ruth Tisinger and President Frankie Funk-

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Smqeffv Jackson, V rg rla lno 5 1974 Tze Jacktofn Trloxne vablished a special edltlon May 51, 1974 in honor of the 26th anniversary of the Triplett class of '54 These are a few of the feature artlcles as were printed by the editor, Virglnia Emswller I obtalned my copy from Garry Ruperts' news stand Barbara Procter, the former Barbara Wagner, who was the May Queen of '54 is patiently ralsing three little May Queens of her own If they're as qute as she was they might make it Mavis Steadman, the P H D from West Virginia, who is an authorlty on child rais ng, fav a lec lre to HF rly lOCO mohhers at tl local A last Friday nlght 4 l a B 1 ' Grocery In adlcw a nev sectlon to his fast expanslon o he store since Mr Bowers took over th 1954 Alvin Rlnker and Bob LeDane are still tr l 1 over the country lavl a o tlm being hacnelo 3 1 lov r o the wlld, Ralph Bausermdn, was flnally tamed by the krmy After ten years in th fW3Pq dols he is expecting to be promoted to a P 1 C Martha Bowers is Superintendent of nurses at the Shenandoah county Memorial Hospital according to word recently received Feeders Supply Company Inc ,un er the able management of Marvin Gordon Jr , had expanded to all fifty states and Canada upon last reports Willard Lutz is practicing law in Edinburg with his brothers in the firm of Lutz, Lutz, and Lutz Dick hoomaw continues to run his store and raise his family He has changed little in 20 years Fern Craig is spending her time happily rearing her slx boys Dorothy Newland is teaching high school in Arlington Surprising ly she is still unmarried Gert ude Ball is the prlvate secretary of the honorable Glenn Weatnerholtz, U S Senator from Virginia Majors Donald Sager and Melvin Polk are the only career men in the service from that class Sherrill Vassie, old maid English teacher of the new consolidated Triolett High, is enjoying a visit at the homes of Misses Pat Kagey 'fb 2 '4 l' .. T' -. . ... - l. e.- , H 1 5 v .' ' -. , , I . . . . O O . Y o - 1 0 E ' I C 0 ' ' A.. . . 1 3 9 J -, 'TEL L f V 'ffffi ' .1 LC I ,Lau . 1-v : ,,, '-s , ,., r 0 Jll l fr ofcrs .c. f U . growtng supermarket duvlng the past year. This was the third ' I' L- .' A 4. .Lf.. g u: . . . qv, J ,. C-tl, .L- ' - x -N.. ,. .fm 1 ,, - f- Lf Y. U A -ALJ U 0.4 ,V ' ., . ll. . 1, A - 1 Tae O .L La X C v W . 4 g I 4 ', -- X J- 9 fa 4 5 1 l'O O , I . , . .. , ' Q O O . , O I I A Q 1 O O . u L I O r . . I' 0 O - O Al ' A