Varina High School - Varinian Yearbook (Richmond, VA)

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Sflllllll CLHSS HISTURU Well here s the nught l ve been wautung for But strangely enough l don t want to leave Our class has been through so much together Under the guudance of our eughth grade homeroom teachers, Muss Motley, Mrs Newton and Mrs Hockaday we became a part of hugh school and once we had obtauned our lockers we felt that we were really on our way The thungs we learned un Mr Shearer s math class! When we entered the audutoruum durung the furst part of our freshman year we were munus two of our fruends, Marue Toney and Raymond de Kazan who had gone to other schools lnutuatuon was frughtenungat furst, but such funl Remember how they bound up Anne Ames s mouth for talkung? And Ann Aducks was proposed to by Wulluam Heathl We really led Mrs Chrustuan and Muss Sheetz a merry chase Those crazy square dances Muss Sheetz taught us at our class party! Ronnue Sutton was our presudent We breezed merruly unto our sophomore year under the guudance of Mrs Fraser and Mr Green and wuth Gerald Gorden as presudent We welcomed Dorus Kung unto the crowd that year Our class treasure was well under way but rememberung that the Junuor Senuor dance was over a year away we blew ut on one last flung, our sophomore party Wuth S2 50 we started the lunuor year Our Yankee Loyal Moore entered wuth us Buddy Weus was our presudent and Mrs Hockaday and Mr Green, Sponsors Thungs really began to happen When several of us were made Beta Club members we thought we had really arruved but that was only the begunnungl At Chrustmas we receuved our class rungs Early un l953, we started work on our Junuor Senuor Prom The theme was Aprul Showers We the gym There was a hugh umbrella un the center of the ceulung that was supposed to shower confettu on the senuors Saturday nught at the dance all the lunuors wauted theur eyes glued to the ceulung but nothung happened A luttle dusappountment here and there was not enough to dampen our enthusuam though We consudered that dance the best ever anyway Some of us began work on Varuna s furst prunted newspaper whuch took all awards at the SIPA conventuon un Lexungton We knew that ut would be our task to keep up uts standards Funally we became senuors Thus year really has been the fullest and most excutung of all Ronnue us agaun our presudent Our new sponsors, Muss Bok and Muss Bousseau both have brought new udeas We ve changed several thungs thus year We ve abolushed unutuatuon and chosen standarduzed commencement unvutatuons Our class members take an actuve part un school lufe Geraldune and Aluce head the newspaper and annual Woody us co captaun of the football team andWulluam us Co captaun of the basketball team Wulluam has also been suburban league hugh scorer for two years Annue and Charlotte captaun the gurls basketball team Betty us the furst gurl SCA presudent un eught years Betty Baltumore Wrught, who surprused us all by gettung marrued last Chrustmas Eve, us head cheerleader Duamond rungs seem to be quute the style Ann Saunders, Ellen Walls, Joyce Powell Shurley Bugg and Parsy Chuldress are all proudly wearung theurs 9 u - u ' - u ' , . . I I . . I . . , . . . . I . . . . . . . I g I . . - . , . ' ' ' ll ll ' . . , . ' I . i . . I . . worked until late Friday night and Saturday afternoon throwing raindrops over the rafters in . . I . I . . . I . . I I . . . . , . . , . . . . , . . , . . . . . . . . . , . I . I .

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Ann Saunders v 5X Buddy Wexs UUH UUUHGER UEHHS Anme Mae Crosby Charlotte Blon Betty Walls Ronme Sutton Ahce Cabe Betty Lee Gatlxn Betty Balumore Shlrley Bugg Betty Stnckler Joyce Dxckerson Pat T111man Anne Ames Skeeter W11I1ams 'ffibifii Patsey Ch11dress F 1 Woody mcks ROSS and Ruby Norman Ellen wans

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Lnfe Wnth Father , our senlor play, was a bug success, Jean finally learned how sat on Sherwnn s lap and Buddy stormed around whsle Ruby calmed hum nn her not very logncal, but qunte charming manner In the end, we dnscovered that those hours and hours af practnce had really been worth whsle We never could have done It without Mass Bok though Well, these last few weeks will never be forgotten There have been conventions and meetlngs and partnes Then fmal exams, class day and baccalaurate all leadmg up to tomght So manyofus seem to be crylng l guess lt s happmess as well as that feelmg that we hate to leave Varlna They say you get out of something what you put into lt We ve done our best and worked hard We can be proud to say we re Varnmans N.. OUR SENIORS OFFICERS LEFT TO RIGHT Charlotte Blon treasurer Loyal Moore vtce presrdent Ron me Sutton presldent and Geraldrne Algner secretary 1 O