Galax High School, Class of 1928-1930

Contributed by Judy Alley

subject: Galax High School, Class of 1928
source: family photograph

Members of the class:
Georgia Vaughan
Madeline Cornett
Wavie Wilson
Eilene Ward
Virginia McCarty
Beatrice Messer (Mrs Roy Poage Nunn Sr)
Helen Jones
Virginia Witherow (Mrs Earl Nuckolls)
Thelma Collier (Mrs Sam Hampton)
Marguerite Phipps
Fay Higgins
Dora Dobyns
Vivian Dalton
Ruth Busic
Mary Ruth Bishop
Glenn Phipps
Sam Boyer
Willard Stoneman
Robert Caldwell

Note: if anyone can provide additional information about one of the people listed above, please contact me. I am trying to identify the spouses. I have a photograph of this class sitting on the front steps of the old Galax High School building.

Subject: Galax High School Class of 1930
source: Galax Gazette
printed 1930, reprinted 1950

The cast for the Galax High School senior play, "The College Hobo" to be given soon, is as follows: Mr. Sims, Clinton Osborne; Sally Sims (Mr. Sim's daughter), Frances James; Hobo (a star football player), James Hortenstine; Patricia (Hobo's sister) , Dorothy Dobyns; Fritzy, Bess and Ellen (attractive co-eds), Nannie Lee Porter, Carrie Lineberry, and Irene Nuckolls, Adolphus (a college freshman), J. J. Davis; Prof. Crockett, Reid Calloway; Miss Weaver (kitchen matron), Lacona Diamond; Marvin Marshall, Rom Hawks; cousin Susie Johnson, Euna Lee Martin; Johnnie Johnson, Herman Hurt. Stage directors: E. S. Lundy and Wilbur Jennings.

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