West Point High School - Point Yearbook (West Point, VA)

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Participate In H. S. Government Student government in a mod- ified form was introduced in the West Point High School in 1915 and in December, 1918, the Stu- dent Council was established. '1'oday the organization is known as the Student Cooperative As- sociation headed by the Student Council. The duties of the Stu- dent Council are to propose plans for student participation in advancing the best interests of the school, and to advise stu- dents whose work and conduct are not in keeping with the spirit and purpose of the organi- zation. Under the S. C. A. func- tion these student committees: Recreation, Health and Welfare, Building and Grounds, Assem- bly and the Safety Patrol. A different type of organiza- tion existed when student par- ticipation was introduced in 1915. Grade students as well as the members of the high school department were included. The officers of the first organization were Adelaide Leigh, Girls' Stu- dent Representative, Thomas Pumphrey, Boys' Representa- tive, Frances Bland and Liv- ingston De Farges, Grade I Cap- tains, Elizabeth Chandler and Charles Bagby, Grade II Cap- tains, Catherine Pumphrey and Joseph Sohm, Grade III Cap- tains, Mary Emerson and Ed- ward Topping, Grade IV Cap- Hudson, Evans, B. Dyson, Robertson, J. Dyson, Anderson and Westmoreland tains, Stella Sohm and Clarence Wolfe, Grade V Captains, Clara Aumack and William Moore, Grade VI Captains, Meade Feild and Thomas Cheatham, Grade VII Captains, Virginia Farin- holt and Edmund Henshaw, Grade VIII Captains, Eloise Brown and Sam Puller, Grade' IX Captains, Mary Burke and Patrick Robinson, Grade X Cap- tains, and Mary Hudson and Richard Bullard, Grade XI Cap- tains. The officers for the past scs- sion were William Robertson, President, Barbara Dyson, Vice- president, and Doris Anderson, Secretary. Margaret E v a n s, Bynum Westmoreland, Jack Dy- son and Mary Montague Hudson served as class representatives to relay ideas back and forth I INSTALLATION OF NEW COUNCIL Page 8 between thc Council and the class. The Student Association sent delegates to both the state and district S. C. A. meetings. Mr. Humphreys served as program director of the district meeting and Miss Branch, William Rob- ertson and Barbara Dyson were members of the program com- mittee. Sidney Newton has been named vice-president of the Richmond District S. C. A. for the year 1949-50. On May 25, the Council held installation services for the stu- dents chosen to direct S. C. A. activities for the session 1949- 1950. The new officers are: El- vira Fary, President, Donald Dickerson, Vice-president and John Hasty, Secretary. In the induction of these ofii- cers the students participated in the following ceremony: Processional, New and Retir- ing Ofiicers. Song, God of Our Fathers, Assembly. Talk, Vijlliam Robertson, Re- tiring President. Song, The S. C. A., Assem- bly. Installation of New Officers by Retiring Officers. Talk, Elvira Fary, New Presi- dent. Reading, S. C. A. Obligation, Assembly led by the President. Recessional, New Ofiicers.

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Faculty K Continued from Page 61 the West Virginia Institute of Technology. During World War II, Mr. Haynes served as a pilot in the United States Army Air Force. lk I It MR. JOHN KoLcUM teaches English, acts as guidance direc- tor, and assists in coaching ath- letics. Born in Milwaukee, Wis- consin, Mr. Kolcum had lived in several other States before com- ing to Virginia. He attended the College of William and Mary, the University of Richmond and Western Reserve University. Mr. Kolcum served as Ensign in the United States Navy during World War II. 1 1 ll Miss DOROTHY SHIPMAN is librarian of our school. Miss S h i p m a n was educated at Averett College and George Washington University. Before coming to West Point she had served as librarian at Averett College and in the library at the College of William and Mary. Miss Shipman is a member of the American Library Associa- tion. il Ill l Miss JANE STAPLES instructs in Home Economics and directs Girls' Physical Education. Miss Staples is from Harrisonburg and is a graduate of Madison College. Miss Staples is a mem- ber of the American and Vir- ginia Home Economics Associa- tions. i 1 U Miss MARGARET THOMPSON, of Charlottesville, teaches General Science, Biology and Chemistry. Miss Thompson was a student at Westhampton College and later at the University of Virginia from which she received her Bachelor's degree in 1948. l I ll MR. E. M. WARE instructs vet- in agricultural subjects. in Washington, D. C., Mr. had lived in several Vir- towns before coming to Point. Mr. Ware received crans Born Ware ginia West his B. S. degree from V. P. I. and has since studied at the Uni- versity of Maryland. He was Top row, left to right: Haynes, Kolcum, Shiprrwm Bottom row, left to right: Staples, Thompson, Ware formerly employed as a market- ing research analyst for the U. S. Department of Agriculture. During World War II he served as a First Lieutenant in the Marine Corps. O ll U MR. W. E. GARBER has been Superintendent of the Schools of West Point and King William County since 1923. Recently he has been appointed Superinten- dent of the new , - Division of King i and Queen and King William Counties. Mr. Garber was born in King William County and received his early education in the county public schools. He has a B. S. degree from the College of Wil- - liam and Mary and a Master's degree from the University of Virginia. He has also done graduate work at Peabody Col- lege in Nashville, Tennessee. Before becoming Superintendent of King William County Schools, Mr. Garber was principal of high schools in King William County for two years and prin- cipal of Driver High School in Nansemond County for a like period. School History Several private schools were established in the,town of West Point in the second half of the last century. According to Mrs. Mary New Lipscomb in Recollections of Early West Point, Mrs. Lainia Couch taught possibly the earliest of these schools. For a number of years, begin- ning in 1886, Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Broaddus, formerly of Caro- line County, conducted private schools in West Point. The Broadduses held school at vari- ous times in several different buildings-in the house on Main Street, between Eleventh and Twelfth, now occupied by Mr. Wm. Hudson, in Ware Cottage on Eleventh Streetg in the large house no longer standing at the corner of Fourteenth and Lee: in the Owen house on the corner of Main and Second, and in the Terminal Hotel, which stood on First Street between Main and Lee. The Broadduses first had a girls' school, then a boys' mili- tary school, and again a girls' school known as the West Point Female Seminary. In the early twentieth century, the Broaddus family sold the school to a Mr. Bethel, who operated it for a short time for both boys and girls, first on the Hill and later at Ware Cottage. Page 7

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A,.' C' 'A A 1 .1121 ,QHQ ,L-J Q ?-tw Q - il in 'I 0 f 1 N -, f- '1 ' ,f . gi g Pl i, 1 ' lla' F.. 1 ' T' West Point, virginia, June 11, 1949 Graduates Read To Tackl World Twenty-three Students Receive Their High School Diplomas SIXTEEN BOYS AND GIRLS OF GROUP STARTED EDUCATION IN THE WEST POINT SCHOOL Move Along To Higher Classes The twenty-three members of the Class of 1949 received their high school diplomas on Friday evening, June 10, in the High School auditorium. Sixteen of the boys and girls had begun school in Miss Corr's first grade in the West Point Elementary School. In the second grade they had spent 'another year with Miss Corr and had then ad- vanced through the other ele- mentary grades taught by Miss Cornelia Hogg, Miss Bland, Miss Cleasby, Miss Elizabeth Hogg and Miss Reynolds. They had all entered high school to- gether in the fall of 1944. In high school their home room teachers were Mrs. Geyer, Miss Boyer, Mrs. Cluverius and Miss Branch. During their school days the following persons had served as pricipals of the Various Principals Are Recalled school: Mr. Norton, Mr. Van Pelt, Mr. Meredith and Mr. Humphreys. The other seven members of the class had entered at varying times during the intervening years. Some had come from King William County Schools, several from King and Queen, and some from different schools in Virginia and other states. Page 9