Valdosta High School - Sandspur Yearbook (Valdosta, GA)

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BOARD ADVISES SUPERINTENDENT Mr. Newbern, chairman, and Mr. Reuben Yancy, treasurer of the Board of Education, discuss financial matters as Mr. Yancy writes checks. DR. ROBERT QUATTLEBAUM 19

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 Letters, reports, trips! I wonder if we’ll get through this agenda tonight! speculates Mr. W. G. Nunn, superintendent of the Valdosta Gty Schools. Time: 6:30 p.m. Place: a school lunchroom some- where in Valdosta. Characters: nine Valdosta citi- zens. This is the setting for a performance which has been running for at least half a century and which is still presented every month. Inspired by the play’s title—Board Advise Super- intendent—the cast, members of the board of edu- cation, sometimes switch roles by serving on dif- ferent committees. And each performance has a slight- ly different plotline determined by the agenda: school problems such as school secretaries’ salaries, PTA speakers, finances for district honors programs, and letters to heads of various institutions; additions; and activities. This year one major decision has concerned the building of new stands at Cleveland Field, but the main plot as always has concerned the fates of hun- dreds of students in the city schools. 18

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 Time to go I Mr. James Kershaw, top left, sig- nals a table of students in the lunchroom at fourth period. Bobby Marshall, Marvin Brantley, and Billy Cuppct, top right, help the regular staff clean up after lunch. It's forty cents now, A1 Lee, bottom left, reminds Roger Budd. Dietitians, Mrs. J. C. Hunt and Mrs. Henry' Forrest, bottom right, plan menus and balance books. Preparing apples and cheese for lunch keeps the following workers— both students and adults—busy: Jimmy Norris, Jimmy McNeal, Edward Campbell, Bob Rutland, Dorothy Clark, Mary’ Mead, Junior Dorminey, Joyce Linahan, Ruby Smith, Gertrude Richardson, Con- selo Orr, Bobby Marshall, David Bailey, Louvenia Thompson, Billy Cuppet. 20