William Byrd High School - Black Swan Yearbook (Vinton, VA)

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,,,,...-- ffffgfrui '- w.....s-.. jFifreentiJ flEl1itiun Gather around all you lucky Byrd students as you hear one ofthe greatest stories of history ever revealed. No, it's not about Columbus nor Napoleon-itls a human interest story about your brothers, sisters, cousins and friends. It's about your school, This year is an anniversary for the BLAUQ SXYAN Annual. The volume that you hold in your hands is the fifteenth edition of Life at Byrd. The picture that you see before you is one showing the covers of fourteen of our well-planned books. The members of the annual staff spent many toilsome hours planning this edition. We have tried to prepare something that you will enjoy now and treasure in the days to come when you are old and ffrav U C' I ' Now find a nice easy chair and relax. joy, we hope, is in store for you. 'Xs all great stories begin, Once upon a time in 1934, our annual was changed from the Roamvfn to the Black Swan. This was done when the name of the school was changed from Vinton High School to William Byrd High School. This was a fitting name for our year book as YVillia1n Byrd, for whom the school wasinamed,was always immaculately dressed, usually in black. His friends frequently called him The Black Swan. .iFortp:QEigbt im '

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zditatinn School days are best remembered by those things that are pleasant and those people who have helped to imake them so. Ours has been made so by one whose wise counsel and sympathetic understanding Will forever endear her to those of us whose faltering steps she made more pleasant and profitable. Now, as our paths separate we pay tribute to one who since 1944 has been not only an excellent administrator and teacher but much more-A Genuine Friend. With thankful and sincere hearts we dedicate this Fifteenth Volume of the BLACK SWAN to Mrs. Virginia Green. Blank Swan

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