Virginia High School - Virginian Yearbook (Bristol, VA)

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iiiin’iii.; ’ ' • THE BRISTOL VIRGINIA SCHOOL BOARD Left to light: James Boyd, H. Aulick Burke, Roland Galliher, Chairman; Joseph B. An Pelt, Superintendent ot Schools; Mrs. Robert Kistner, Clerk; Mrs. a. G. Stuart, F. Blair Preston. Page 5

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for invaluable guidance and help to students, for untiring service and loyalty to the school, for inspiration and assistance as a sponsor we dedicate the 1949-50 Virginian to Miss Etta Hillman Page 4

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Kn fUemorfam Air. James Phipps was a Christian gentleman, an excellent citizen, and a friend for eighteen years to the students and teachers of drginia High School. His services for the welfare of others, his faithfulness to responsibilities assigned, his loyalty to friends and associates, and his devotion to duty stand out and manifest a man of character. Mr. Phipps taught us how to go the second mile; to know the joy of satisfaction of a job well done; he taught us how to assume the responsibility for a task assigned; he taught us how to smile under difficulties and hardships; and he taught us, in a glorious way, how to serve people and be a good neighbor. Two things were uppermost in the mind of our friend— his home and his work. These were to him happiness, contentment and satisfaction. The happiness in his work was sensed when teachers and students were warm and comfortable. The satisfaction that he realized iir his work was when the building was clean, comfortable, in order and secure. The contentment that he knew was at even-tide, as he looked back on the day, remembering the smiling faces of happy boys and girls and the pleasant and warm smiles of appreciation of kind teachers. The spirit of our good neighbor moves on out into the great eternity where he shall know greater happiness and unlimited satisfaction, for there the greatest of all teachers, Jesus, shall present him before the Lord of Hosts, and declare to our Heavenly Father: “Well done, good and faithful servant;— enter thou into the joy of the Lord.” Joseph B. Van Pelt, Superintendent of Sehools Page 6